徒二六19 亚基帕王啊，我故此没有违背那从天上来的异象。

　　弗一17　 愿我们主耶稣基督的神，荣耀的父，赐给你们智慧和启示的灵，使你们充分地认识祂。

　　在这一千九百多年中，不知有多少基督徒都事奉神。……有的基督徒事奉，是照着新约福音书里的异象，就是讲耶稣地上的职事；有的人事奉神，什么异象也没有。我们要在异象里事奉神，就必须达到保罗书信的末了，又达到启示录中的七个召会、历世代、国度、新天新地以及召会的终极完成—新耶路撒冷。因此，简单地说，我们若要事奉神，就我们的异象必须是从创世记亚当的头一个异象，一路直到召会终极出现的新耶路撒冷。

　　今天我们能同心合意，因为我们只有一个异象，只有一个看法。我们都在这一个够上时代，并承继一切的异象里（时代的异象，五○至五一、五八页）。

　　Acts 26:19 Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

　　Eph. 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him.

　　During the past nineteen hundred years, countless numbers of Christians have been serving God…. Some… are serving according to the vision revealed in the New Testament Gospels, which has to do only with the earthly ministry of Jesus. Some serve without any vision at all. In order to serve God according to the up-to-date vision, we need to come up to the level of Paul’s very last Epistles. In fact, we need to come up to the level of the epistles to the seven churches in Revelation as well as the revelation that covers all the ages, including the kingdom, the new heaven and new earth, and the ultimate consummation of the church—the New Jerusalem. Simply put, in order for us to serve God today, our vision must extend all the way from the first vision of Adam in Genesis to the ultimate vision of the manifestation of the church, the New Jerusalem.

　　Today we can be in one accord because we have only one vision and one view. We are all in this up-to-date, all-inheriting vision. (The Vision of the Age, pp. 48, 54)

　　我实在相信，扫罗在往大马色的路上所看见的异象，比彼得看见的更进步。在新约关于彼得的记载里，或是他的书信里，没有一点线索给我们看见，这位三一神如何将祂自己作到我们里面，使我们成为祂的复制，众人建造一起成为基督的身体，作三一神的生机体，与祂成为一。然而在往大马色的路上，保罗看见一个异象，主对他说，“扫罗，扫罗，你为什么逼迫我？”（徒九4）这里的“我”是团体的，包括主耶稣和祂所有的信徒。虽然只是一个“我”字，异象却很大。

　　保罗看见的异象的确是深，在加拉太书一开头就说到关于神的儿子（一16）。说到神的儿子，就涉及三一神。这位三一神启示到保罗里面，使保罗成为祂的肢体，和众肢体一同构成祂的身体，与祂联成一个大的“我”。虽然保罗一开头所看见的这异象，很高、很深、很奥秘，但保罗并没有立刻尽职。乃是到行传十三章，在安提阿有几位申言者和教师，他们事奉主，禁食的时候，圣灵说，“要为我分别巴拿巴和扫罗，去作我召他们所作的工。”（1~2）这时保罗才清楚他所得着的异象，并且受差遣去完成他所领受的职事。

　　巴拿巴和保罗都是犹太人，奉差遣往外邦各地去传福音，这不是一个小可的异象。当初神仅仅差彼得去和外邦人接触，到外邦人家里。这里保罗却从主领受重大的使命—“远远地往外邦人那里去”（二二21），就是到外邦一国一国、一城一城去。这是很大的异象：“就是外邦人在基督耶稣里，借着福音得以同为后嗣，同为一个身体，并同为应许的分享者。”（弗三6）

　　主的恢复借着我们亲爱的倪柝声弟兄带进来后，他就因此成了众矢之的。一九三四年，……我告诉倪弟兄：“就是你不走这条路，我还要走这条路；我不会因你而走，也不会因你而不走。我看见这条路是主的路，这是个异象。”（时代的异象，四三至四五、五三页）

　　参读：新路实行的异象与具体步骤，第一至三篇。

　　I truly believe that the vision Saul saw on the way to Damascus was more advanced than the one Peter saw. In the New Testament records concerning Peter and in his own Epistles, we do not see any mention of the Triune God working Himself into us to make us His duplication. We do not see anything about the believers being built up into the Body of Christ to be one with the Triune God as His organism. But on the way to Damascus, Paul saw a vision. The Lord said to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” (Acts 9:4). The “Me” here is a corporate Me; it includes the Lord Jesus and all His believers. Although the word Me is a small word, it speaks of a great vision.

　　Paul’s vision was indeed profound. At the beginning of Galatians, he refers to the Son of God (1:16). When we speak of the Son of God, we have to realize that this involves the Triune God. The Triune God was revealed to Paul, and Paul became one of His members. All the members together with Paul were constituted to become His Body and were joined to Him to become an enlarged “Me.” Although the vision Paul saw at the beginning was so high and profound, he did not take up his ministry immediately. In Acts 13 a few prophets and teachers were serving the Lord and fasting together in Antioch. It was then that the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them” (v. 2). It was not until then that Paul became clear concerning the vision he had received earlier and was sent to fulfill the ministry that he had received.

　　Both Barnabas and Saul were Jews, yet they were sent to preach the gospel throughout the Gentile lands. This was not a small vision. In his own time Peter was sent only to make a brief contact with a Gentile and to visit his home. Here Paul received a serious commission: “Go, for I will send you forth far away to the Gentiles” (22:21). This means he was to go to the Gentile lands, nation by nation and city by city. This is a great vision: “That in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the Body and fellow partakers of the promise through the gospel” (Eph. 3:6).

　　The Lord’s recovery was brought to us through our dear Brother Nee. Because of this he became a target of attack. In 1934… I told Brother Nee, “Even if one day you do not take this way, I will still take this way. I am not taking this way because of you, and I will not leave this way because of you. I have seen that this is the Lord’s way. I have seen the vision.” (The Vision of the Age, pp. 42-43, 49-50)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1986, vol. 2, “Crucial Words of Leading in the Lord’s Recovery, Book 1: The Vision and Definite Steps for the Practice of the New Way,” chs. 1-3