Knowing the Truth, Being Absolute for the Truth, and Proclaiming the Truth in the Present Evil Age
Message One
Knowing the Truth, Being Absolute for the Truth and
for Upholding the Absoluteness of the Truth, and
Testifying to the Truth in the Present Age of the World
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
John 18:37 …Jesus answered,…For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I would testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.
1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that we might know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
Word of Appetizer
To be absolute to the truth means to set aside feelings, to ignore personal relationships, and to not stand for the self; the truth is the unique standard, and we must stand on the side of the truth to oppose ourselves; we should honor God’s truth, take the way of the truth, and not compromise the truth in any way. We should be absolute for both the objective truths and subjective truths; many crucial subjective truths have been buried, but in the Lord’s recovery these truths have been resurrected to become recovered, resurrected truths.
Spiritual Burden
We need to know the truth and be absolute for the truth, for upholding the absoluteness of the truth, and for testifying to the truth in the present evil age. Because we know the true One and the Spirit of truth and because Christ, the truth, is living in us and the Triune God is operating in us to make us God-men—the reproduction of Christ, the first God-man—we can testify to the truth.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of the divine truths as revealed in the Word of God.
In John’s writings the Greek word for truth (aletheia) denotes all the realities of the divine economy as the content of the divine revelation, conveyed and disclosed by the holy Word.
The divine truth is absolute, and we must be absolute for the truth and for upholding the absoluteness of the divine truth.
When we testify to the truth in “the age of this world,” we are one with the victorious Christ in fighting against Satan, the devil, the father of lies, “the ruler of this world,” “the god of this age” who “has blinded the thoughts of the unbelievers”.
The Experience of Life
The Lord Jesus, the Son of God, has come and has given us an understanding that we might know the genuine and real God; the divine reality, which is God Himself, has become our reality in our experience. Because Christ, the truth, is living in us and the Triune God is operating in us to make us God-men—the reproduction of Christ, the first God-man—we can testify to the truth.
Practice and Application
The divine truth is absolute, and we must be absolute for the truth and for upholding the absoluteness of the divine truth; to be absolute to the truth means to set aside feelings, to ignore personal relationships, and to not stand for the self; The truth is the unique standard, and we must stand on the side of the truth to oppose ourselves.
If we want to testify to the truth in the present age, we must obey Paul’s command in Romans 12:2: “Do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind”.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1: The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of the divine truths as revealed in the Word of God (2 Tim. 3:16).
(Please illustrate that the Lord’s recovery is the recovery of all the truths in the Bible that were lost.)
T2: The full knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4).
(Please illustrate some of the items of the truth included in the Bible.)
Day 2
T1: Understanding the meaning of truth in the Bible correctly (John 17:17; 18:37b).
(What’s the difference of the word “truth” between John’s work and the traditional and common understanding?)
T2: Truth is the Triune God and the Word of God (John 1:1, 14; 16:13; 17:17)
(Please illustrate according to the verses that truth is God, Christ, the Spirit and God’s Word.)
Day 3
T1: The truth is the unique standard (John 8:32; 2 John 2; 3 John 3).
(How can we exercise to uphold the absoluteness of the divine truth?)
T2: Truth denotes the genuineness, truthfulness, sincerity, honesty, trustworthiness, and faithfulness (Rom. 3:7; 2 Cor. 11:10; John 4:23-24).
(Please illustrate that these, of man is a human virtue and an issue of the divine reality.)
Day 4
T1: The truths in the Bible have both an objective aspect and a subjective aspect (Rom. 8:34; Col. 1:27).
(Please illustrate that all the subjective truths are linked to the Spirit and life.)
T2: God is not only the God who is high above; rather, He is in us today (Act. 17:24; 2 Pet. 1:4).
(Please illustrate that concerning God, there are objective and subjective aspects in the revelation of the Scriptures.)
Day 5
T1: This world system is composed of many ages (1 John 5:19; Rom. 12:2).
(Please illustrate that an age is the present world life, which is the opposition to and substitute of the church life.)
T2: Do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind (Eph. 4:23; Titus 3:5).
(Why did Paul tell us not to be “fashioned according to this age”?)
Day 6
T1: Being girded with the truth (Eph. 6:14).
(Please illustrate that truth in Ephesians 6:14 refers to God in Christ as reality in our living.)
T2: Testifying to the divine truth (1 John 5:20b).
(Please illustrate that we can testify to the divine truth because we are in the true One.)
