I.　We need to know the work of God—the unique work in the Lord's recovery—Eph. 4:12:

A.　In the universe and in every age, God's work is absolutely the same in principle; the work He does in every age is for the same goal—to work Himself into man for the eternal, corporate expression of Himself—Gal. 4:19; Rev. 21:10-11.

B.　Throughout the ages there is only one work that God desires to do, and this unique work is to work Himself into man, making man a God-man, one who is God yet man—John 1:12-13; 3:15; 2 Pet. 1:4.

C.　The nature of God's work is the same in every age; the design, measure, and plan of God's work have never changed—He desires to work Himself into us— Eph. 3:16-21.

II.　God's unique work in the universe and throughout all the ages and generations is to work Himself in Christ into His chosen people, making Himself one with them and making them one with Him—Gal. 1:15-16; 2:20;4:19; Eph. 3:17a:

A.　God's purpose is to work Himself into us, making Himself our inward elements:

1.　This purpose is the center of the universe, and apart from this purpose theChristian life is meaningless—Rev. 4:11.

2.　The proper priority is not for us to work for God but for God to work Himself into us—Eph. 2:10; Phil. 2:13.

B.　The governing vision of the Bible is the Triune God working Himself into His chosen and redeemed people to be their life and life supply in order to saturate their entire being with the Divine Trinity—Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 4:4-6; Rev. 1:4-5; 22:1-2a:

1.　The kernel of the divine revelation is that God created us and redeemed us for the purpose of working Himself into us to be our life, our life supply, and our everything—Gen. 1:26; 2:7; Rom. 8:10b, 6, 11.

2.　The entire Bible was written according to the principle of the Triune God wrought into His redeemed people as their enjoyment, their drink, and their fountain of life and light—Psa. 36:8-9:

a.　We need to be constituted with this principle, and it must become a vision to us—Prov. 29:18a.

b.　This must be an intrinsic principle within us, governing whatever we speak, teach, and preach—Acts 26:19.

III.　The intrinsic element of our work is that we minister the building andbuilded God into others for the building up of the Body of Christ—Matt.16:18; Eph. 3:17a; 4:4, 12, 16:

A.　The goal of our work should be to minister the building and builded God into others—Matt. 16:18; Eph. 2:22; 3:17a.

B.　We need to pray that the Lord will teach us to work in the way of ministering the processed and consummated Triune God into others—2 Cor. 13:14; 1 Cor.3:9-10, 12.

C.　As we endeavor to carry out the God-ordained way in the four steps of begetting, nourishing, perfecting, and building, our work must be based upon the processed and consummated Triune God, who is building Himself into His redeemed people and building them into Him—Acts 8:4; Eph. 4:12; 1 Cor. 14:1,3-4, 12, 31.

D.　In every aspect of our work—preaching the gospel, feeding the believers, establishing churches, and perfecting the saints—the intrinsic element must be that we minister the building and builded God into others—Matt. 16:18; 24:45; Eph. 3:17a; 4:12:

1.　If we realize that God desires to work Himself into His chosen people, then the goal of our work will be to minister the building and builded God into others so that the Triune God may build Himself into their being—3:17a:

a.　The crucial matter in our work in the Lord's recovery is to minister the building and builded God—Matt. 16:18; Eph. 2:21-22; 3:17a.

b.　The God whom we worship and minister to others is the processed and consummated Triune God embodied in Christ and realized as the Spirit—Col. 2:9; John 7:39; Gal. 3:14.

c.　God is building Himself into His redeemed people in order to produce a house—the church, the Body of Christ, the enlargement of Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God realizedas the Spirit—John 14:2, 10,16-17, 20, 23.

d.　Such a revelation should become a principle that governs our understanding of God and of God's building—Prov. 29:18a; Acts 26:19.

2.　We should reconsider the work that we are doing for the Lord and ask how much of Christ as the embodiment of the Triune God has been wrought into those whom we have brought to the Lord—Gal. 4:19; Col. 1:28.

3.　We need to practice one thing—to minister the processed and consummated Triune God into others so that He may build Himself into their inner man; we need to pray that the Lord will teach us to work in this way—2 Cor. 13:14; 1 Cor. 3:9-10, 12.

4.　When we build the church with the processed and consummated Triune God, it is not actually we who are building; rather, God is building through us, using us as a means to dispense and transmit Himself into others— Acts 9:15; Eph. 3:8-9.

IV.　The unique work in the Lord's recovery is the ministry of the Spirit—2 Cor. 3:8:

A.　The ministers of the new covenant are of the Spirit; however, their work is notmerely of the Spirit—it is the ministry of the Spirit—vv. 6, 8; 4:1.

B.　We should not say that the work we are doing is merely a spiritual work;rather, the unique work in the Lord's recovery is the Spirit—3:8:

1.　The words spoken by the Lord Jesus were spirit (John 6:63); according to this principle, we can also say that the work that the Lord has given us is spirit.

2.　The work, the ministry, of the new covenant is a ministry of the Spirit, not merely a spiritual ministry—2 Cor. 3:8.

3.　When we become those who are filled with the Spirit, the words that we speak will be spirit, and the work that we do will also be spirit—Acts 2:4; Eph. 5:18.

V.　In the Lord's recovery there is only one work—the work of the one Body—4:12:

A.　The unique work in the Lord's recovery is the work of His economy, the work of the Body of Christ—1 Cor. 15:58; 16:10:

1.　We all must see the Body and do the work of the Body—Eph. 1:22-23; 2:16;4:4, 15-16.

2.　The vision of the Body must become our governing vision, and we must do the work of the Lord's recovery under this vision—Prov. 29:18a.

3.　If we see the oneness of the Body, we also see the oneness of the work, and we will be delivered out of individualistic work into the work of the Body— Eph. 4:4, 12; 1 Cor. 12:12-13; 15:58; 16:10.

B.　All the co-workers should do the same one work universally for the Body ofChrist—Rom. 12:4-5; 1 Cor. 12:12-13, 24-27; Eph. 4:12, 16:

1.　What we are doing today is not our personal work but the economy of God throughout the generations, that is, the building up of the Body of Christ—1 Tim. 1:4; Eph. 3:9; 4:12.

2.　Whatever we do in our locality or universally for other countries should be done with the realization that we are building up the Body of Christ—v. 16.