GENERAL SUBJECT:
THE FOUR GREAT PILLARS IN THE LORD’S RECOVERY
Message One
The First Great Pillar—the Truth
Scripture Reading: 1 John 1:5-6; John 17:17; 18:37; 1 Tim. 2:4; 3:15; 2 Tim. 2:15
I. The Lord’s recovery is mainly founded upon four pillars: truth, life, the church, and the gospel—Eph. 1:13; 4:18; 5:21-23, 29, 32.
II. The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of the light of the truth—1 John 1:5-6:
A. Truth is the shining of light, the expression of the divine light—John 8:12, 32; 1 John 1:5-6.
B. Truth is the issue of light; knowledge without light is doctrine, but knowledge full of light is truth.
C. The truth shall set us free; there is light in the truth, and when we receive the light, we are set free—John 8:32.
III. 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:
A. 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.
B. 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.
C. The truth in the recovery is the consummation of the truth of the past nineteen centuries—2 Tim. 2:2.
IV. 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:
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.
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.
C. The solid truth that is constituted into us becomes in us a constant and long-term nourishment—4:6.
D. If the truth is wrought into us and constituted into our being, we will be able to protect the interests of the riches of God’s divinity and the attainments of His consummation—Rev. 21:12a, 17.
E. The Lord’s word, His truth, is in the Bible, but the Bible needs the proper interpretation—2 Tim. 2:15.
F. We have to pay the price to learn the truths—Prov. 23:23.
G. The truth is absolute in itself, and we must be absolute for the truth— 2 John 1-2, 4; 3 John 3-4, 7-8.
H. The standard of the Lord’s recovery depends upon the standard of the truth we put out; the truths will be the measure and the standard—John 18:37.
