神的建造是神心头的愿望，也是神救恩的目标
说到神心头的愿望，神是满了感觉的，祂有祂的喜悦。神心头的愿望乃是一个建造，就是祂团体的彰显，这也是神救恩的目标。神救恩的目标是一个建造（出二五8，太十六18，彼前二2～5）。
以弗所二章是整卷出埃及记的缩影。那时人死在罪中，在世界的权势之下，劳苦却没有意义。主预备使徒摩西，预表基督，藉逾越节带以色列人出埃及，来到旷野这分别的地方，吃吗哪，以神圣的元素重新构成，并喝被击打的磐石所流出的活水，目标乃是为着建造帐幕，就是神的居所。
以弗所二章说，我们原是死在过犯并罪之中，顺着空中掌权者的首领，在世上没有指望，没有神。然而神富于怜悯，因祂爱我们的大爱，竟然在我们因过犯死了的时候，便叫我们一同与基督活过来。祂拯救了我们，使我们得以进入三一神。这救恩的目标就是圣殿以及神的居所。神拯救我们乃是为着建造。
神的建造乃是在团体的身体里彰显神作生命
神的建造乃是在团体的身体里彰显神作生命（弗二21～22，四15～16，启四2～3，二一11，18上）。就着非常真实的意义来说，整本圣经深奥的启示，可用两个辞来总结。一个辞是生命，就是基督作为那灵。第二个辞是建造，就是基督作到我们的里面。基督作为赐生命的灵，作到我们里面，所产生的就是建造。
建造一辞，按我们的用法，乃是三一神团体的彰显。我们要在实际上成为神建造的一部分，就必须在构成上是团体的。我们不能再单独脱节，留在个人主义里面。我们也许聚集在一起，但按里面的构成却不是团体的，还是觉得有距离，彼此生疏。我们若更多在生命里得救，就会凭生命的感觉知道，自己不是完整的实体，乃是一个团体的一部分。我们一离开其他的肢体，就无法生活。我们之所以被变化，乃是为这团体的彰显。
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God’s Building – Eph. 2:21-22
God’s Building Is God’s Heart Desire and the Goal of God’s Salvation
When it comes to God’s heart desire, God is full of feelings and has His pleasure. God’s heart desire is a building, which is His corporate expression, which is also the goal of God’s salvation. The goal of God’s salvation is a building (Exo. 25:8, Matt. 16:18, 1 Pet. 2:2-5).
Ephesians 2 chapter is a microcosm of the entire book of Exodus. At that time, man was dead in sin and under the power of the world, and his labor was meaningless. The Lord prepared the apostle Moses, a type of Christ, to bring Israelis out of Egypt through the Passover to a separated place of the wilderness. Israelis ate manna in order to reconstitute them with divine elements, and drank the living water flowing from the smitten rock. The purpose of doing these was to build-up the tabernacle, God’s dwelling place.
Ephesians chapter 2 says that we were dead in our trespasses and sins, following the prince of the power of the air, having no hope and without God in the world. However, God is so merciful that because of His great love for us, He made us alive together with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. He saved us for us to enter into the Triune God. The purpose of this salvation is the temple and the dwelling place of God. God saving us is for the building.
God’s building is the expression of God as life in the corporate body (Eph. 2:21-22, 4:15-16, Rev. 4:2-3, 21:11, 18a). In a very real sense, the profound revelation of the entire Bible can be summarized in two words: one is life, which is Christ as the Spirit. The second is building, which is Christ being wrought into us. When Christ, as the life-giving Spirit, works into us, what is produced is the building.
The word “building”, according to our usage, is the corporate expression of the Triune God. In order for us to be a part of God’s building in reality, we must be corporate in the constitution. We can no longer separate ourselves and remain in individualism. We may be gathered together, but according to our internal constitute, we are not a corporation. We still feel distant and unfamiliar with each other. If we are saved more in life, we will know by the sense of life that we are not a complete entity but part of a corporation. We cannot live without other members. The reason why we are transformed is for the expression of this corporation.