启二7 那灵向众召会所说的话，凡有耳的，就应当听。得胜的，我必将神乐园中生命树的果子赐给他吃。

　　　十九7 我们要喜乐欢腾，将荣耀归与祂；因为羔羊婚娶的时候到了，新妇也自己预备好了。

　　圣经是一本说到神与人的书。在神与人之间还有第三者，就是撒但。撒但总是制造麻烦，而所有的麻烦都是混乱。主需要〔特别的〕一班人，就是得胜者，与祂成为一，好征服一切毁坏的混乱，并在祂独一建造的经纶里得胜（李文集一九九一至一九九二年第三册，三○二页）。

　　Rev. 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

　　19:7 Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.

　　The Bible is a book concerning God with man. In between God and man there is a third party, Satan. Satan always makes trouble, and all the trouble is the chaos. The Lord needs a [particular] group of people, the overcomers, who will be one with Him to conquer all the destructive chaos and triumph in His unique constructive economy. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 3, “The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation,” p. 245)

　　创世记头十章半是神对待亚当族类的人。但是在圣经中这几章之后，神就转到另一班人，……是由一位父亚伯拉罕之后裔组成的。神从亚当的族类转到亚伯拉罕的族类。……旧约说到亚当的族类，和亚伯拉罕肉身的后裔。

　　在新约经纶里，神有一个很严肃而重大的转变，转到另一班人身上。祂从亚伯拉罕照着肉体的后裔，转到亚伯拉罕照着那灵的后裔。……所有在基督里的信徒，不论他们是什么种族，都是亚伯拉罕属灵的后裔（加三7、29）。然而很可惜的是，亚伯拉罕属灵的后裔大多数也在神面前失败了。这样，神要到谁那里去，才能完成祂的定旨？

　　在圣经末了一卷书的开头，主耶稣这位大祭司行走在金灯台中间，呼召了另外一班人，就是得胜者。在启示录二、三章里，祂说了七次“得胜的”（二7、11、17、26，三5、12、21）。

　　 这是向我们这些祂的信徒，就是我们伟大的父亚伯拉罕的属灵后裔，七重的呼召。……得胜者乃是第四个族类。

　　新约时代也快要有二千年的历史。……亚当的族类有二千年，亚伯拉罕按照肉体的族类有二千年，亚伯拉罕按照那灵的族类也快要有二千年。主所需要的乃是得胜者的族类，以征服一切撒但的混乱，并在神圣的经纶中得胜。

　　启示录是一卷说到得胜者的书。……得胜的族类为神的经纶给神带来成功。我们需要来看我们今天是在哪里。……我们可能说我们是在新约里，但只是这样说并不够。我们必须是在圣经末了的十九章里，就是从启示录四章到二十二章，从宝座到新耶路撒冷，……属于得胜族类的一班人。

　　按照神的经纶，在这地上只有四个族类—亚当的族类、亚伯拉罕按照肉体的族类、亚伯拉罕按照那灵的族类以及得胜者的族类。我们应当凭信宣告，我们乃是属于得胜者的族类。

　　启示录给我们看见，没有得胜者，基督就无法回来。我们知道基督是我们的道路（约十四6上）。但从祂内心的深处，基督会告诉我们，得胜者乃是祂的路。没有基督，我们就没有路，但今天没有得胜者，基督就没有路。得胜者乃是让基督回来的路（李文集一九九一至一九九二年第三册，三○二至三○五、三一五页）。

　　参读：罗马书中的生命救恩，第七篇；得胜者，第一、六篇。

　　In the first ten and a half chapters of Genesis, God was dealing with man as the Adamic race. But after these chapters of the Bible, God shifted to another group of people... composed of the descendants of one father, Abraham. God shifted from the Adamic race to the Abrahamic race... The Old Testament covers the race of Adam and the physical descendants of Abraham.

　　In the New Testament economy, God had a serious, vital shift to another group of people. He shifted from Abraham’s descendants according to the flesh to Abraham’s descendants according to the Spirit... All the believers in Christ, regardless of their race, are the spiritual descendants of Abraham (Gal. 3:7, 29). Regretfully, however, most of the spiritual descendants of Abraham also fail God. Then to whom can God go in order to carry out His purpose?

　　At the beginning of the last book of the Bible, the Lord Jesus as the High Priest walking among the golden lampstands gives a call to another group of people, the overcomers,... “to him who overcomes”... (Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21). This is a sevenfold call to us, His believers, the spiritual descendants of our great father, Abraham... The overcomers are the fourth race.

　　The New Testament age is approaching two thousand years of history... There have been two thousand years for the Adamic race, two thousand years for the Abrahamic race according to the flesh, and almost two thousand years for the Abrahamic race according to the Spirit. What the Lord needs is the race of overcomers to conquer all the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy.

　　The book of Revelation is a book on the overcomers... The overcoming race brings in the success to God for His economy. We need to consider where we are today... We may say that we are in the New Testament, but this in itself is not adequate. We must be in the last nineteen chapters of the Bible, from Revelation 4 through 22, from the throne to the New Jerusalem,... those who belong to the overcoming race.

　　According to God’s economy, there are only four races on this earth—the race of Adam, the race of Abraham according to the flesh, the race of Abraham according to the Spirit, and the race of the overcomers. We should declare by faith that we belong to the race of the overcomers.

　　The book of Revelation shows us that without the overcomers Christ has no way to come back. We know that Christ is our way (John 14:6a). But from deep within His heart, Christ would tell us that the overcomers are His way. Without Christ we do not have a way, but today without the overcomers Christ has no way. The overcomers are the very way for Christ to come back. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 3, “The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation,” pp. 245-247, 254)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “Salvation in Life in the Book of Romans,” ch. 7; CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” chs. 1, 6