BEING CONSTITUTED WITH THE TRUTH

I. The definition of the truth—1 Tim. 2:4; 3:15:

A. Truth is the shining of light, the expression of the divine light—1 John 1:5-6:
1. Truth is not merely a report, not simply words written in the Bible: it is a heavenly,
spiritual vision “televised” into our being.
2. All the divine realities as spiritual facts are contained and conveyed in the Bible; when
the Spirit as the heavenly electricity shines on the facts recorded in the Bible, they
become truth, reality—2 Cor. 4:6-7.
B. Truth means reality, denoting all the real things revealed in God’s Word, which are mainly
Christ as the embodiment of God and the church as the Body of Christ—1 Tim. 2:4.
C. Truth denotes all the realities of the divine economy as the content of the divine revelation,
conveyed and disclosed by the holy Word—1 John 1:6 and note 6:
1. God, who is light and love, incarnated to be the reality of the divine things—John 1:1, 4, 14-
17.
2. Christ, who is God incarnated and in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
as the reality of God and man, the types, figures, and shadows of the Old Testament, and of all
divine and spiritual things—John 14:6; Eph. 4:21.
3. The Spirit, who is Christ transfigured, as the reality of Christ and of the divine revelation
—1 John 5:6.
4. The Word of God as the divine revelation, which not only reveals but also conveys the
reality of God and Christ and of all the divine and spiritual things—John 17:17.
5. The contents of the faith, which are the substantial elements of what we believe, as the
reality of the full gospel revealed in the entire New Testament—1 Tim. 1:4; 2:7: Eph. 1:13.
II. The full knowledge of the truth—1 Tim. 2:4; 4:3; 2 Tim. 2:25; 3:7; Titus 1:1: __
A. Every saved person should have a full knowledge, a complete realization of the real things
revealed in God’s Word—1 Tim. 2:4 and note 2.
B. To have the full knowledge of the truth, is to realize God’s purpose in His economy and to
grow unto maturity in the spiritual life—1 Tim. 4:3 and note 3.
C. The full knowledge of the truth is a thorough apprehension of the truth, a full
acknowledgment and appreciation of the reality of all the spiritual and divine things that we
have received through faith—Titus 1:1 and note 3.
III. The truth wrought into us and constituted into our being:
A. To be constituted with the truth is to have the truth wrought into us to become our constituent, our intrinsic
being, our organic constitution.
B. Since the truth is the reality of the Triune God, (John14:6; 1 John 5:6; John 17:17), to be constituted with
the truth is to be constituted with the Triune God, who is realized by us and transfused into us through the
Word.
IV. The way to be constituted with the truth:
A. We are constituted with the truth through the Word, by the Spirit, and in the church life—
John 17:17; 16:13; 1 John 5:6; 1 Tim. 3:15:
1. If we read the Word without the Spirit, the Word is only doctrine and not the truth.
2. If we have only the Spirit without the Word, the Spirit cannot be the truth.
3. The church life is the sphere in which we can be constituted with the truth, for the church is the supporting
pillar and holding base of the truth.
B. The truth gets into us through our mentality, our understanding—Matt. 13:19, 23; Luke 24:45; Eph. 1:18; cf. 1 Pet.
2:2 and note 3:
1. If we do not understand, the truth cannot get into us.
2. 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.
 C. The best way to learn the divine truths is to study the translated and interpreted holy
writings:
1. Using the Recovery Version with the footnotes and the life-study messages to open the
entire Bible in a general way.
2. Entering into the Crystallization-studies, which lead us into the depths, the crystals, of the
holy Word, revealing the intrinsic essence of the divine revelation item by item.
3. Studying the messages on the high peak of the divine revelation released between 1994 and
1997 and learning to speak the high-peak truths.

V. The Lord’s recovery is a recovery of the truth and of life—John 18:37b; 10:10b:
A. Both the truth and life are Christ Himself, but they are two different aspects of what He is—
John 8:32, 36; 14:6; 11:25:
1. The truth is the outward definition and explanation, and life is the inward and intrinsic
content.
2. Christ is in us as our life (Col. 3:4), but the experience of life needs an explanation; this
explanation is the truth.
B. The experience of the Lord as life is contained in the Lord as the truth:
1. In order to experience the Lord as life, we must know the truth—John 8:32, 36.
2. If we are not clear about the truth and do not understand or know the truth, we will have no
way to enjoy the Lord as our life—Col. 1:5; 3:4.
C. All the truths are contained in the Bible, which has been given to us:
1. The Bible is a book of life because its entire content is truth.
2. All the knowledge contained in the Bible is in fact truth, and in this truth, life is concealed; once we
see the truth, we will spontaneously touch life.
3. We must come to the Bible to receive the truth that is in it if we want to receive and enjoy the Lord as
life: all the truths in the Bible are food for our spiritual life.
VI. The result of being constituted with the truth:
A. The solid truth that is constituted into us becomes in us a constant and long-term, nourishment—1
Tim. 4:6.
B. We will know how to present the truth to others and lead them into the enjoyment of Christ as life.
C. We will not teach differently from God’s economy—1 Tim. 1:3-4.
D. 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. Those who are constituted with the truth are a great blessing to the church.