I.　The unique goal of the apostles' work being the New Jerusalem—the ultimate goal of God's economy:

A.　According to the entire revelation of the New Testament, the unique goal of the Christian work should be the New Jerusalem.

B.　The degradation of the church is mainly due to the fact that nearly all Christian workers are distracted to take something other than the New Jerusalem as their goal.

C.　The New Jerusalem is the ultimate goal of God's eternal economy:

1.　God has only one ultimate goal—the New Jerusalem:

a.　The Bible begins with one single God.

b.　The Bible ends with a great, incorporate God—the New Jerusalem as God's enlargement, expansion, and expression.

2.　We must take the goal of God's eternal economy—the New Jerusalem—as our unique and ultimate goal:

a.　As God's co-workers we should do the work of God—1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor. 6:1; 1 Cor. 15:58; 16:10.

b.　We should regard the local churches not as the goal but as a procedure to reach God's goal—Rev. 22:16; 3:7, 12.

II.　Governed by the vision of the New Jerusalem as the greatest and ultimate sign in the Scriptures—Rev. 21:2, 9-10:

A.　Knowing the basic truth concerning the New Jerusalem:

1.　The New Jerusalem is not a physical city but an organic constitution constituted with the redeeming processed and consummated Triune God and the redeemed, transformed, and glorified tripartite men as an organism of the consummated Triune God for His eternal enlargement and expression through the glorified tripartite men.

2.　The union and mingling of all God's redeemed through all the four ages of the forefathers, the law, grace, and the kingdom with the processed and consummated Triune God.

3.　The aggregate of the result of God's work of the new creation in all the dispensations within the old creation.

4.　The spreading of the processed and consummated Triune God through His redeemed, transformed, and glorified people as His increase for His eternal purpose.

5.　The Jerusalem above—Gal. 4:26:

a.　Representing the new covenant.

b.　The mother of the believers.

c.　The city of the living God, whose Architect and Builder is God—Heb. 11:10; 12:22.

6.　The embodiment of God's complete salvation—Rev. 21:19-27; 22:1-2:

a.　God's complete salvation is a composition of God's righteousness as the base and God's life as the consummation—Rom. 5:18; 8:10.

b.　The foundation of the New Jerusalem is the righteousness of God with God's faithfulness, and the consummation is God's life with the divine nature.

c.　The entire New Jerusalem is a matter of life built on the foundation of righteousness.

B.　Seeing the vision of the New Jerusalem as a mutual dwelling place and as a universal couple:

1.　A mutual dwelling place for God and His redeemed people:

a.　According to its humanity, it is the tabernacle of God among men—-the dwelling place of God in His humanity among men on earth—Rev. 21:3.

b.　According to its divinity, it is the temple of God as the dwelling place of His redeemed elect—Rev. 21:22.

2.　A universal couple, the consummation of the divine romance:

a.　According to its humanity, it is the human wife (with the divine life and nature) of the Lamb—the redeeming God—Rev. 21:2, 9.

b.　According to its divinity, it is the divine Husband (the redeeming God in His consummated embodiment, Christ, with His human life and nature) of God's redeemed elect.

C.　Laboring for the enlargement and building up of the universal, divine-human incorporation:

1.　By begetting the believers to be the expansion of this incorporation—1 Cor. 4:15; Philem. 10.

2.　By ministering the life supply to the believers for their growth in this incorporation—1 Cor. 3:2, 6-7.

D.　Betrothing the believers to Christ to be the bride for the Bridegroom (John 3:29), the wife of the Lamb—2 Cor. 11:2; John 3:29; Rev. 19:7; 21:2, 9.