1999春季长老
总题:为着生机建造基督的身体所需要的工作、生活异象(二)
Message Two The Way to Be Constituted with the Truth in the New Testament Ministry
Scripture Reading: 1 Tim. 5:17; 2 Tim. 2:15; Matt. 13:19, 23; Luke 24:45; Eph. 1:18
I. All the leading ones must pay the price and labor to get into the New Testament ministry—1 Tim. 5:17; 2 Tim. 2:15.
II. The best way to learn the divine truths is to study the translated and interpreted holy writings:
A. Using the Recovery Version with the footnotes and the Life-study Messages to open the entire Bible in a general way:
1. The Recovery Version and the Life-study Messages open the "mine" of the holy Word; we need to enter into the opened mine and, through our labor, dig out the treasures.
2. The Recovery Version and the Life-studies should not be read like a newspaper or a reference book; they should be studied as a textbook:
a. Mere reading of the Life-studies gives us only a temporary nourishment, an inspiration that is like a vapor in the air.
b. When what we read becomes truth in our being through the shining of the heavenly light, it becomes a constant and long-term nourishment.
c. The truth must be constituted into us through our mentality; if we do not understand, the truth cannot get into us—Matt. 13:19, 23; Luke 24:45; Eph. 1:18.
B. 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.
C. Studying the messages on the high peak of the divine revelation released between 1994 and 1997 and learning to speak the high-peak truths according to the new language of the new culture in the divine and mystical realm.
III. The way to be constituted with the truth—PSRP:
A. Pray-reading the holy Word.
B. Studying the Word in a spirit of prayer under the shining of the heavenly light with the help of the ministry publications.
C. Reciting the points of the truth according to what we have apprehended of the divine revelation.
D. Prophesying to impart the divine truths that have been constituted into us.
IV. The leading ones should lead the saints, encourage the saints, remind the saints, and even charge the saints to enter into the truth day by day:
A. We should do our best to stir up an atmosphere and to create a hunger and thirst in the saints after the Lord's truth.
B. Just as parents charge their children to eat properly, we must not only ask the saints but even charge them to keep a proper diet of the divine truths in the holy Word.