弗三17　 使基督借着信，安家在你们心里，叫你们在爱里生根立基。

　　林前三12 然而，若有人用金、银、宝石，木、草、禾秸，在这根基上建造。

　　今天在主的恢复里，我们的工作乃是将神供应给人。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）。

　　我要请你们重新考量你们为主所作的工。你可能打开了一个区域，或带了许多人归神；但我要问你们一个问题：有多少作三一神具体化身的基督作到你所带来归神的人里面？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（撒母耳记生命读经，二四六至二四七页）。

　　Eph. 3:17 That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love.

　　1 Cor. 3:12 But if anyone builds upon the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stubble.

　　Our work in the recovery today is to minister God to people. 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).

　　I would ask you to reconsider the work you are doing for the Lord. Perhaps you have opened up a region or have brought many people to God. But I ask you this question: How much of Christ as the embodiment of the Triune God has been wrought into those whom you have brought to God? 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. Therefore, 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. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 202-203)

　　挪亚接受了启示，就相信这启示，并且实行这启示（创六22）。他实行的时候并不在意与他的先祖及同世代的人有所不同。人可能对他说，“挪亚，你在作什么？……你在说什么？你怎么说洪水要来？你建造方舟到底是什么意思？”

　　今天的原则也是一样。我们是照着圣经，跟从神的启示，来实行召会生活；然而，大多数的基督徒缺少这启示。神的启示常叫你与众不同。但以理和他三个朋友与众不同，因为他们不肯吃王的膳。保罗不同，路德马丁也不同。每一个看见了神启示的人，都与别人有所不同。启示使他与众不同。……与别人不同是好的。

　　现在我们必须来看挪亚的工作。首先，挪亚传扬义（彼后二5）。……你会看见在挪亚的日子，传扬义就是反对当时邪恶的世代。挪亚的世代是邪恶的，充满了强暴，但挪亚是个传扬义，反对一切不义、邪恶和强暴的人。他见证神的义路。

　　挪亚一面传扬义，一面也建造方舟。原则上，我们也作同样的事。……挪亚因着信，照着神的启示建造方舟（来十一7）。他并没有照着传统，或自己的观念和发明，乃是绝对照着神的启示来建造。这就是为什么我们在任何事上，都必须回到神圣言中的启示。我们必须回到神纯净的话里。

　　建造方舟是绝对与挪亚的世代相反的。挪亚反对那个时代的趋势，并“定了那世界的罪”（7）。……挪亚和他一家的工作是独特的、奇特的、奇怪的，在人眼中是不实际的。那是照着神的启示，因此是与那世代的趋势和潮流相反。你想今天的原则不也是一样么？我们所传的和我们所作的，完全是反这世代潮流的。但是赞美主，我们是在祂的流中。我们不是在这世代的潮流中；我们是照着主的启示，在流自宝座的流中（创世记生命读经，四八四至四八六页）。

　　参读：撒母耳记生命读经，第三十篇。

　　After Noah received the revelation, he believed it and practiced it (Gen. 6:22). He practiced it in a way of not caring about being different from his forefathers and from his generation. Perhaps people said to him, “Noah, what are you doing?…What are you talking about, telling us that a flood will come? What do you mean by building an ark?”

　　The principle is the same today. We are following God’s revelation that is according to the Bible in order to practice the church life; however, most Christians lack this revelation. God’s revelation will always make you different. Daniel and his three companions were different, for they refused to eat the royal food. Paul was different, and so was Martin Luther. Everyone who has seen God’s revelation is different. The revelation makes him different…It is good to be different.

　　Now we must consider Noah’s work. First, Noah worked in preaching righteousness (2 Pet. 2:5)…In Noah’s day preaching righteousness was to protest against the evil generation. His generation was evil and filled with violence, but Noah was a man who preached righteousness and protested against all the unrighteousness, evil, and violence. He testified of the righteous way of God.

　　While Noah was preaching righteousness, he was building the ark. In principle, we are doing the same thing…Noah built the ark by faith according to God’s revelation (Heb. 11:7). He did not construct it according to tradition or his own concept and invention but absolutely according to God’s revelation. This is the reason that in everything we must return to God’s revelation in His holy Word. We must come back to the pure Word of God.

　　The building of the ark was absolutely against the tide of Noah’s generation. He was against the trend of that age, and “he condemned the world” (Heb. 11:7)…The work of Noah and his family was unique, peculiar, and strange. In human eyes it was impractical. It was according to God’s revelation, and thus, it was against the trend and tide of that generation. Do you not think that the principle is the same today? What we are preaching and doing is altogether against the tide of this generation. But we praise the Lord that we are in His flow. We are not in the tide of this generation; we are in the flow from the throne according to His revelation. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 395-397)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, msg. 30