Living and Serving according to God’s Economy
concerning the Church
Message Three
The Full Knowledge of the Truth
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
1 Tim. 2:4 Who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
2 Tim. 2:2 And the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, these commit to faithful men, who will be competent to teach others also.
15 …Present yourself…an unashamed workman, cutting straight the word of the truth.
Word of Appetizer
The degradation of the church issued from the neglect of the truth; what is the goal of the Lord’s recovery?
The truths as revealed in the Scriptures have been lost, missed, misunderstood, misinterpreted, and wrongly applied throughout the ages. The goal of the Lord’s recovery is to recover the reality, life, livingness, strength, power, and impact of the matters revealed in the Bible. The Lord’s recovery today is the full recovery of the divine truths in the holy Word. The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of the light of the truth. Knowledge without light is doctrine, but knowledge full of light is truth.
Spiritual Burden
The goal of the Lord’s recovery is to recover the reality, life, livingness, strength, power, and impact of the matters revealed in the Bible. We need to have the truth wrought into us and constituted into our being.There is the desperate need of the living truth to produce the church, to help the church to exist, and to build up the church.
The Lord’s recovery is to recover the full knowledge of the truth; all the believers need to come to and be in the full knowledge of the truth. All the believers need to know, experience, and be absolute for the subjective truths.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of the light of the truth.
God desires that we “all…come to the full knowledge of the truth”; The Lord’s recovery is to recover the full knowledge of the truth. All the believers need to come to and be in the full knowledge of the truth. All the believers need to know, experience, and be absolute for the subjective truths.
The Experience of Life
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. The solid truth that is constituted into us becomes in us a constant and long-term nourishment.
When we live by the Spirit and life, we have the experience of the subjective truths; the church life is an issue of our experience of the subjective truths; when we experience the subjective truths, the church is spontaneously produced.
Practice and Application
We need to pay the price to learn the truth. The truth is absolute in itself, and we must be absolute for the truth.
All the believers need to come to and be in the full knowledge of the truth.
All the believers need to know, experience, and be absolute for the subjective truths. We need to fully know and be absolute for the highest truth.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 This life of Jesus according to [truth], reality, is the pattern in which God has placed us (John 8:32; 1 John 1:5)
(Please illustrate that we have learned Christ according to the life of the Lord Jesus.）
T2 According to the New Testament revelation, truth is the issue of light (John 8:12, 32)
(Please illustrate with experiences that the Life-studies may be just doctrine to you, or they may be truth. The difference is that when you have the knowledge with light, it is truth.)
Day 2
T1 You have an accumulation of the truth, and you are a person continually under the constant nourishment (1 Tim. 4:6; 2 Tim. 2:15)
(Please illustrate that the only way for the truth to get into you is through your mentality.）
T2 The term full knowledge does not merely mean understanding; it includes understanding and experience (1 Tim. 2:4)
(Please illustrate that all should know the truth item by item, point by point, and also know it experientially, until they have come to the full knowledge of the truth.)
Day 3
T1 Paul was an apostle not only according to the faith but also according to the full knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4; Titus 1:1-3)
(Please illustrate the difference between the faith and the full knowledge of the truth.）
T2 The Lord’s recovery today is the full recovery of the divine truths in the holy Word (1 Tim. 2:4)
(Please illustrate that in the Lord’s recovery…we learn the truth not by attending a seminary but by reading the Scriptures in a daily way.)
Day 4
T1 Every basic revelation in the Bible has two aspects: the objective aspect and the subjective aspect (1 Tim. 2:3; Eph. 4:6)
(Please illustrate that both the objective and subjective aspects of the truth are needed for the fulfillment of God’s purpose.）
T2 The subjective truths are required for the building up of the church (Eph. 1:22-23; Col. 1:18)
(Please illustrate that we live by the Spirit and in life, we have the experience of the subjective truths and therefore have the church life.)
Day 5
T1 The subjective experience of Christ (John 1:12-13; Eph. 3:16-19)
(Please illustrate that the apostle Paul prayed for us that Christ may make His home in our heart, so that we may be filled unto all the fullness of God.）
T2 The subjective truths and experiences in the Holy Scriptures (John 4:14; Rom. 8:2, 4, 14)
(Please illustrate that the subjective viewpoint truly exists in the Scriptures. This subjective viewpoint tells us over and over again that God is not only the God who is high above. Rather, He is in us today to be our breath of life, our living water, and our nutritious food.)
Day 6
T1 When we go out to contact people, we should go with the full knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4)
(Please illustrate that how we can be saturated with the divine truths in the Bible so that these precious truths will spontaneously flow out of us.）
T2 We need to preach the high gospel (Gen. 1:26; Rom. 9:21, 23)
(Please illustrate that the high truths we presented to others astonished and captured a good number among them.)
