THE THIRD PART: 24 CRUCIAL LINES IN THE BIBLE
Truth
Message Ten
Being Constituted with the Divine Truth
Scripture Reading: 1 John 1:5-6; 5:20; John 17:17; 18:37; 1 Tim. 2:4; 3:15; 2 Tim. 2:2, 15
I. The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of the light of the truth—1 John 1:5-6: (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
A. Truth is the shining of light, the expression of the divine light—v. 5. (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
B. The truths as revealed in the Scriptures have been lost, missed, misunderstood, misinterpreted, and wrongly applied throughout the ages; hence, there is the need of the Lord’s recovery—John 17:17: (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
1. The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of the divine truths as revealed in the holy Scriptures, the holy Word of God—2 Tim. 3:16. (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
2. The goal of the Lord’s recovery is to recover the reality, life, livingness, strength, power, and impact of the matters revealed in the Scriptures. (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
C. In His recovery the Lord is moving on by His word, by the truth—Eph. 1:13; Col. 1:5; 1 Tim. 2:4: (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
1. In the recovery the truths from Matthew to Revelation have been recovered by the Lord—1 John 5:20. (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
2. The truth in the recovery is the consummation of the truth of the past nineteen centuries—2 Tim. 2:2. (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
II. We need to have the truth wrought into us and constituted into our being—1 John 1:8; 2:4; 2 John 1-2; 3 John 3-4: (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
A. To be constituted with the truth is to have the intrinsic element of the divine revelation wrought into us to become our constituent, our intrinsic being, our organic constitution. (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
B. The kind of church we build up depends on the kind of truth we teach; thus, there is a desperate need of the living truth to produce the church, to help the church to exist, and to build up the church—1 Tim. 3:15. (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
III. We need Ezras to teach the people, to educate them, and to constitute them with the heavenly truths—Ezra 7:10-12, 21; Neh. 8: (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
A. The greatest need we must meet is to bring the saints in the Lord’s recovery into the truth to carry the recovery on—2 Tim. 2:2, 15: (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
B. The main responsibility of the elders is to teach the saints with the truths—1 Tim. 3:2; 5:17; Titus 1:9: (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
1. It would be unseemly for an elder to make decisions and expect the saints to follow them but not visit the saints with the truths. (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
2. The real eldership is not to exercise authority; the real eldership is to visit the saints and to shepherd them, feed them, and take care of them by speaking to them concerning the truths—1 Tim. 3:2; 5:17. (2003 ITERO-F, msg. 2)
IV. To be constituted with the truth is to be constituted with Christ as the testimony of God and the living word of God so that we may become the testimony of Christ for the fulfillment of the economy of God—John 14:6a; 17:17; Rev. 1:9; 1 Tim. 3:15-16a: (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)
A. The law is a type of Christ as God’s Word and God’s testimony, God’s expression; when we let the word of Christ dwell in us richly, we become the testimony of Christ for His expression—John 1:1, 18; Rev. 19:13; Col. 3:16: (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)
B. Christ Himself is God’s real and living law, the Word of God, the breath of God, and the expression of God—2 Tim. 3:16-17. (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)
C. By pray-reading the Word, we breathe God’s element into us, being infused with what God is to cause us to live Christ and become the living expression of God—Eph. 6:17-18; John 17:17. (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)
D. Through our daily reading of the divine Word, the word of God works within us, and the Spirit, through the word, spontaneously dispenses God’s nature with His element into our being, causing us to be constituted with God—6:63. (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)
V. To be constituted with the truth of the living word of God is to be transfused with the thought of God, with the considerations of God, and with all that God is, making us God’s reproduction to be God’s testimony—Neh. 8:1; 13:30a: (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)
A. We need to be constituted with the truth of the living word of God so that we can be instructed, governed, ruled, and controlled by the word of God to live under the government of God and in the economy of God—Deut. 17:18-20; 2 Pet. 1:12, 19-21; 2 Cor. 10:5; 2 John 2, 4; cf. Heb. 1:2-3. (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)
B. Once the truth gets into us through our understanding, it remains in our memory, and then we retain the truth in our memory, causing us to have an accumulation of the truth—Col. 3:16; cf. Rom. 8:6; Eph. 4:23. (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)
C. After the truth gets into our memory, it becomes a constant and long-term source of nourishment—Psa. 119:15-16, 48-49. (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)
D. All the saints in the Lord’s recovery should be trained in the divine revelation of the truths in the Holy Scriptures—2 Tim. 2:2, 15: (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)
1. Nearly all the crucial revelations in the Bible have been covered in the ministry of Brother Nee and Brother Lee; we should pay our attention to these pure and healthy things and not waste our time collecting “poisonous gourds”—2 Kings 4:38-41. (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)
2. The Life-studies and the Recovery Version open up the Bible, release the riches of the Bible, and bring us under the governing and controlling vision of the economy of God for the building up of the church as the house of God—Neh. 8:8, 13; 1 Tim. 1:3-4; Acts 26:18-19. (2008 ICSC, msg. 4)