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.

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 refers to the real things revealed in the New Testament concerning Christ and the church according to God's New Testament economy—1 Tim. 3:15.

D.　The truth is the revelation of the living God and His economy, His heart's desire.

E.　Truth denotes all the realities of the divine conomy as the content of the divine revelation, conveyed and disclosed by the holy Word:

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—John 17:17.

5.　The contents of the faith, which

II.　The function of the truth:

A.　The truth sets us free—John 8:32.

B.　The truth sanctifies us—John 17:17.

III.　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 reavealed in God's Word.

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.

C.　The full knowledge of the truth is a thorough apprehension of the truth, a full acknowledgement and appreciation of the reality of all the spiritual and divine things that we have received through faith.

IV.　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:

1.　We need to take in the Word and let the Word be organically assimilated into our entire being—Col. 3:16.

2.　The intrinsic element of the divine revelation must be wrought and constituted into our being.

B.　In order to carry out the vision of God's economy, we need to be constituted with the truth of the New Testament ministry.

C.　Since the kind of church we build up depends on the kind of truth we teach, there is a desperate need of the living truth to produce the church, to help the church exist, and to build up the church—1 Tim. 3:15.

D.　The greatest need we must meet is to bring the saints in the Lord's recovery into the truth to carry the recovery on.

V.　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.

B.　The truth gets into us through our mentality, our understanding:

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 truth retained in our memory should be the revelation we have received—Gal. 1:16; Eph. 3:5, 8.

D.　The revelation we have received should become ur experience—Phil. 3:8-10.

VI.　Some conditions for being constituted with the truth:

A.　Loving the truth—2 Thes. 2:10.

B.　Buying the truth—Prov. 23:23.

C.　Obeying the truth—1 Pet. 1:22.

D.　Being diligent—2 Tim. 2:15.

VII.　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.

B.　We will know how to present the truth to others, cutting straight the word of the truth—2 Tim. 2:15.

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.