启二一10 我在灵里，天使带我到一座高大的山，将那由神那里从天而降的圣城耶路撒冷指给我看。

　　太十六18 ……我要把我的召会建造……，阴间的门不能胜过她。

　　弗三17　 使基督借着信，安家在你们心里……。

　　新耶路撒冷是神性与人性调和在一起，成为一个实体的组成。一切的组成分子都有相同的生命、性情和构成，因此是一个团体人。这就是神成为人，并且人在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成为神。这二者—神与人，人与神—借着调和在一起而建造在一起；这就是神建造的完成和总结。我们都需要看见这异象（撒母耳记生命读经，二四四页）。

　　Rev. 21:10 And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

　　Matt. 16:18 …I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

　　Eph. 3:17 That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith…

　　The New Jerusalem is a composition of divinity and humanity blended and mingled together as one entity. All the components have the same life, nature, and constitution and thus are a corporate person. This is a matter of God becoming man and man becoming God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. These two, God and man, man and God, are built up together by being blended and mingled together. This is the completion, the consummation, of God’s building. We all need to see this vision. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, 2nd ed., p. 201)

　　神建造的异象会影响我们今日的工作。我们若看见神的建造，就不会试着帮助人更谦卑或更温柔。……我要请你们思想约伯的例子：在建立自己的纯全、正直和完全上，约伯达到了最高的成就。至终，神剥夺约伯一切的成就，为要给他看见，他唯一的需要乃是神自己。

　　大卫这合乎神心的人，曾有一次大的失败。这指明……一个人可以合乎神的心，却仍是空虚的，没有神作到他的心里。在撒下七章，神似乎是说，“大卫，你是合乎我心的人，但你需要我作到你的心里。你需要我建造到你里面，使你在生命和性情上成为我。……你必须能说，‘在我，活着就是神。’”大卫若是这样的人，就不会堕落。

　　 大卫的堕落说明一个事实，就是我们即使是合乎神心的人，若没有神作到我们里面，我们就不比别人更好。……我们若看见，神渴望将祂自己作到祂所拣选的人里面，并看见这就是我们的需要；那么，我们工作的目标就会是供应人基督，好叫三一神能将祂自己建造到他们里面。

　　的确，我们必须拯救罪人，喂养并成全圣徒；然而，最重要的事乃是要将神供应给人。我们所供应的神，不仅是建造的神，祂也是被建造的神。我们若不这样供应神，我们的工作就是木、草、禾秸（林前三12）。

　　我们若诚恳真实，就会谦卑下来，承认没有太多的三一神作到那些我们带来归神的人里面。因此，我们必须实行一件事，就是供应经过过程的三一神到人里面，使祂将祂自己建造到他们里面的人里。在我们工作的每一面—传扬福音、喂养信徒、成全圣徒，其内在的元素必须是将建造和被建造的神供应给人。我催促你们向主祷告，求祂教导你们这样作工。

　　经过过程的三一神已具体化身在基督里，并实化为终极完成的灵。这是我们所敬拜、传扬并供应给人的神。今天祂正将祂自己建造到祂所救赎的人里面，为要以祂自己为元素，并用出于他们蒙救赎并拔高之人性的东西，来产生一个家。这家就是召会，基督的身体。这家是那作为三一神具体化身，并实化为那灵之基督的扩大、扩展。我们实行神命定之路的四个步骤—生、养、成全和建造时，我们的工作必须建立在经过过程之三一神的根基上；祂正将祂自己建造到祂所拣选的人里面（撒母耳记生命读经，二四四至二四七页）。

　　参读：撒母耳记生命读经，第三十篇；一的真正立场，第六章。

　　The vision of God’s building will affect our work today. If we see God’s building, we will not try to help others to be more humble or gentle…I would ask you to consider the case of Job, a person who had the highest attainment in building up himself in integrity, uprightness, and perfection. Eventually, God stripped Job of all his attainments in order to show him that his only need was God Himself.

　　David, a man according to God’s heart, had a great failure. This indicates that…one may be according to God’s heart but still be empty, not having God wrought into his heart. In 2 Samuel 7 God seemed to be saying, “David, you are a man according to My heart, but you need Me to be wrought into your heart. You need Me to be built into your being to make you Me in life and in nature…

　　You must be able to say, ’‘To me, to live is God.’” If David had been such a person, he would not have fallen.

　　The fall of David illustrates the fact that even if we are a person according to God, if we do not have God wrought into us, we are no better than others… If we realize that God desires to work Himself into His chosen people and if we realize that this is what we all need, then the goal of our work will be to minister Christ to others so that the Triune God may build Himself into their being.

　　Yes, we need to save sinners and to feed the saints and perfect them. The crucial matter, however, is that we minister God to others. The God whom we minister is not just the building God—He is also the builded God. If we fail to minister God in this way, our work will be wood, grass, and stubble (1 Cor. 3:12).

　　If we are sincere and genuine, we will humble ourselves and confess that not very much of the Triune God has been wrought into the ones we have brought to God…We need to practice one thing—to minister the processed Triune God into others so that He may build Himself into their inner man. In every aspect of our work—preaching the gospel, feeding the believers, perfecting the saints—the intrinsic element must be that we minister the building and builded God to others. I would urge you to pray that the Lord would teach you to work in this way.

　　The processed Triune God is embodied in Christ and realized as the consummated Spirit. This is the God whom we worship, preach, and minister to others. Today He is building Himself into His redeemed people in order to produce a house with Himself as the element and also with something from their redeemed and uplifted humanity. This house is the church, the Body of Christ. This house is the enlargement, the expansion, of Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God realized as the Spirit. As we carry out the God-ordained way in the four steps of begetting, nourishing, perfecting, and building, our work must be based upon the processed Triune God, who is building Himself into His chosen people. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, 2nd ed., pp. 202-203)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, msg. 30; CWWL, 1979, vol. 2, “The Genuine Ground of Oneness,” ch. 6