徒十45 那些奉割礼……的信徒，因圣灵的恩赐也浇灌在外邦人身上，就都惊奇。

　　林前十二13 ……我们不拘是犹太人或希利尼人，是为奴的或自主的，都已经在一位灵里受浸，成了一个身体，且都得以喝一位灵。

　　启五9 他们唱新歌，说，你配拿书卷，配揭开它的七印，因为你曾被杀，用自己的血从各支派、各方言、各民族、各邦国中，买了人来归与神。

　　按照新约的记载，有三位显著而领头的使徒：彼得、保罗和约翰。在这三位使徒身上，我们可以看见主心头的愿望乃是要得着一个新人。

　　按照新约的记载，彼得捕鱼，聚集材料，为着召会的建造。保罗是织帐棚的（徒十八3）。他的生意是建造的生意，他的职事就是建造的职事。当约翰蒙主呼召时，他和雅各正在船上补网（太四21）。后来，约翰成了真正的补网者，借着他生命的职事，弥补召会的破口。……因此，在新约里我们看见捕鱼的职事、建造的职事和修补的职事（李文集一九七七年第三册，六六三至六六四页）。

　　Acts 10:45 And the believers who were of the circumcision…were amazed, because on the Gentiles also the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out.

　　1 Cor. 12:13 …In one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit.

　　Rev. 5:9 And they sing a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for You were slain and have purchased for God by Your blood men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

　　According to the New Testament record, there were three prominent and leading apostles: Peter, Paul, and John. With all these apostles, we can see the Lord’s heart’s desire to have the one new man.

　　According to the record of the New Testament, Peter caught the fish, gathered the materials, for the building up of the church. Paul was a tentmaker (Acts 18:3). His trade was a building trade, and his ministry was a building ministry. When John was called by the Lord, he and James were mending their nets in the boat (Matt. 4:21). Eventually, John became a real mender, mending the breakages in the church by his ministry of life…. Thus, in the New Testament we see the fishing ministry, the building ministry, and the mending ministry. (CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “The One New Man, ” pp. 522-523)

　　五旬节那天，神用彼得带进许多犹太信徒。在主的主宰权柄之下，他们许多人来自不同的文化，说不同的语言（徒二8~11）。这含示神的心愿是要聚集不同种族、不同语言的人，使他们成为一。……在行传十章，当彼得守着他祷告的时间，他得着了关于神的计划和行动的异象。彼得祷告时，无疑地是在灵里。当他在灵里，他看见了异象。使徒行传告诉我们，他“魂游象外”（十10）。……彼得在这魂游象外中，看见有一器皿降下，好像一块大布，缒在地上，里面有各样不洁净的动物〔，象征外邦人〕。

　　保罗在犹太教里比彼得更深、更强。彼得是出身于加利利的渔夫，保罗却是犹太教的学者。……虽然保罗有很强的犹太背景，他却能在林前十二章十三节告诉我们，我们“不拘是犹太人或希利尼人”，都受浸成了一个身体。在加拉太三章二十七至二十八节保罗告诉我们，凡浸入基督的，都已经穿上了基督，“没有犹太人或希利尼人。”在歌罗西三章十至十一节保罗告诉我们，在新人里犹太人和希利尼人都没有地位。……保罗受过深而强的犹太教育，他说这样的话指明他的头脑有了奇妙的更新。

　　在启示录里，约翰告诉我们，主用自己的血“从各支派、各方言、各民族、各邦国中，买了人来”（五9）。我们不该忘记，约翰也是犹太人，但这话指明，他的心思大大的被更新了。他肯定的说，基督死在十字架上，从不同的支派、方言、民族、邦国中，救赎了人。借着约翰我们也看见，众召会是金灯台（一11~12），这些金灯台要终极完成为新耶路撒冷。在金灯台和新耶路撒冷里，我们看不见民族与民族之间的不同。

　　我们能看见，我们在日常生活中的一切事上多么需要更新。……这不是调整我们的行为，乃是借着在我们心思的灵里得以更新而变化，使我们成为另一个人。每天我们都需要脱去旧人，并穿上新人。为此我们需要喝一位灵，好使我们在实际日常生活的每一面，都在我们心思的灵里得以更新（李文集一九七七年第三册，六六四至六六五、六六七、六六九、六七三至六七四页）。

　　参读：一个新人，第二、五至七章；神人，第一章；历代志生命读经，第二、四篇。

　　God used Peter to bring in many Jewish believers on the day of Pentecost. Under the Lord’s sovereignty, many of them were from different cultures and spoke different languages (Acts 2:8-11). This implied something of God’s desire to gather together different peoples with different languages into one…. In Acts 10 while Peter was keeping his hour of prayer, he received a vision concerning God’s plan and move. When Peter was praying, he was, no doubt, in the spirit. When he was in the spirit, he saw a vision. Acts tells us that “a trance came upon him” (v. 10)…. In this trance Peter saw a vessel like a great sheet descending onto the earth, in which were all manner of unclean animals [symbolizing Gentiles].

　　Paul was much deeper and stronger in Judaism than Peter was. Peter was a fisherman from Galilee, but Paul was a scholar in the Jewish religion…. Despite Paul’s strong Jewish background, he was able to tell us in 1 Corinthians 12:13 that we were all baptized into one Body, “whether Jews or Greeks.” In Galatians 3:27-28 Paul tells us that those who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ and “there cannot be Jew nor Greek.” In Colossians 3:10-11 Paul tells us that the Jew and the Greek have no place in the new man…. For Paul to speak in such a way with his deep and strong Jewish education shows the marvelous renewing in his mentality.

　　In the book of Revelation John told us that the Lord purchased by His blood “men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation” (5:9). We should not forget that John was also Jewish, but this word indicates that his mind was greatly renewed. He confirmed that Christ died on the cross to redeem men from different tribes, tongues, peoples, and nations. Through John we also see that the churches are the golden lampstands (Rev. 1:11-12), and consummately these lampstands become the New Jerusalem. In the lampstands and in the New Jerusalem we can see no differences in peoples.

　　We can see how much renewal we need in all the matters of our daily life …. This is not a matter of adjusting our behavior but a matter of being transformed by being renewed in the spirit of our mind to make us another person. Daily we need to put off the old man and put on the new man. For this we need to drink of the one Spirit so that we may be renewed in the spirit of our mind in every area of our practical, daily life. (CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “The One New Man, ” pp. 523-526, 530)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “The One New Man, ” chs. 2, 5-7; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, “The God-men, ” ch. 1; Life-study of 1 & 2 Chronicles, msgs. 2, 4