第三週■週三

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晨興餧養

提前二4『祂願意萬人得救，並且完全認識真理。』

多一1 ～ 3『照着神選民的信仰，與合乎敬虔之真理的知識，…作神的奴僕、並耶穌基督使徒的保羅。』

保羅作使徒，不僅是照着信仰，也是照着真理的知識。信仰乃是接受神爲我們所計畫的一切、神爲我們所作成的一切、以及神所賜給我們的一切。真理的知識就是對真理的透徹領畧，對我們藉信所領受一切屬靈、神聖事物的實際，一種完全的承認並珍賞。使徒的職分，就是照着對神永遠經綸的實際，有這樣的領畧和珍賞。（聖經恢復本，多一1 註4。）

信息選讀

在提摩太前、後書中，保羅強調信徒需要完全認識真理。（提前二4，四3，提後二25，三7。）提前二章三至四節告訴我們，我們的救主神『願意萬人得救，並且完全認識真理』。真理包含在使徒的著作中；使徒們釋放並供應真理。然而，信徒多半還沒有完全認識真理。因此，關於真理的難處不在使徒的一面，乃在信徒的一面。

召會的敗落源於對真理的忽畧。今天在組織化基督教裏，許多人是在黑暗中，因爲他們缺少對真理正確的認識。…雖然保羅不是主在地上時所揀選的十二使徒之一，但聖靈向他啓示許多事。然後這些事被記載在他的十四封書信中，這些書信構成使徒教訓和新約聖經相當大的部分。（西一25。）基督信仰的基要道理不但包含主在福音書裏的教訓，也包含新約全部二十七卷書裏所陳明使徒們的教訓。（李常受文集一九八三年第三册，一四八至一四九頁。）

今天，主的恢復乃是完全恢復聖言中的神聖真理。…在主的恢復裏，我們學習真理，不是藉着讀神學院，乃是藉着天天讀聖經。保羅在提前二章四節告訴我們，神『願意萬人得救，並且完全認識真理』。要每位信徒都去讀神學院，是不可能的；但每位神的兒女，藉着每天花時間在神的話上而得以完全認識真理，是可能的。每位信徒都有性能可以完全認識真理。

聖經六十六卷書中神聖的啓示極其深奧。要照聖經內在的意義領會並解釋聖經並不容易。歷世紀以來，有各種神學派別出現，成立了許多聖經學院和神學院，並且著述了無數的聖經註釋。在大多數的聖經學院和神學院裏，學生要學習神學、歷史、地理、以及聖經希伯來文和希臘文。今天基督教神學有幾個主要的思想學派；這些思想學派全都起源於不同的研經方式，其中許多方式與神所命定照着屬靈意義的解經有所牴觸。

我們在地方召會中需要以領畧聖經屬靈意義的方式來領會聖經。在提摩太前、後書，保羅強調召會需要健康的教訓，好使每位信徒完全認識真理。…我們該照着神命定的方式研讀聖經，使我們能幫助聖徒接受健康的教訓，並且充分認識真理。（李常受文集一九八四年第一册，七一至七二頁。）

參讀：真理信息，第一章；李常受文集一九八三年第三册，竭力完全認識真理並發展技巧陳明真理，第一章；完全明白神的話，第一篇。

WEEK 3 — DAY 3

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Morning Nourishment

1 Tim. 2:4 Who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

Titus 1:1 Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God’s chosen ones and the full knowledge of the truth, which is according to godliness.

Paul was an apostle not only according to the faith but also according to the full knowledge of the truth. Faith is to receive all God has planned for us, all God has done for us, and all God has given to us. 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. Apostleship is according to such an apprehension and appreciation of the reality of God’s eternal economy. (Titus 1:1, footnote 3)

Today’s Reading

In the books of 1 and 2 Timothy, Paul emphasizes the need of the believers to come to the full knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4; 4:3; 2 Tim. 2:25; 3:7). First Timothy 2:3-4 tells us that our Savior God “desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.” The truth is contained in the writings of the apostles, who released and ministered it. However, the majority of the believers have not yet come to the full knowledge of the truth. Hence, the problem with respect to the truth lies not on the side of the apostles but on the side of the believers.

The degradation of the church issued from the neglect of the truth. Today many in organized Christianity are in darkness because they lack the proper knowledge of the truth...Although Paul was not one of the twelve apostles chosen by the Lord while He was on earth, the Holy Spirit revealed many things to him. These things were then recorded in his fourteen Epistles, which constitute a significant part of the apostles’ teaching and the New Testament (Col. 1:25). Fundamental Christian doctrine consists not only of the Lord’s teaching in the Gospels but also of the apostles’ teaching presented in all twenty-seven books of the New Testament. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 3, pp. 111-112)

The Lord’s recovery today is the full recovery of the divine truths in the holy Word...In the Lord’s recovery...we learn the truth not by attending a seminary but by reading the Scriptures in a daily way. In 1 Timothy 2:4 Paul tells us that God “desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.” It is not possible for every believer to study in a seminary, but it is possible for every child of God to come to the full knowledge of the truth by spending time in the Word every day. Every believer has the capacity to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

The divine revelation in the sixty-six books of the Bible is exceedingly profound. To understand and interpret the Bible according to its intrinsic significance is not easy. Through the centuries various schools of theology have emerged, numerous Bible institutes and seminaries have been established, and countless commentaries on the Bible have been written. In most of the Bible institutes and seminaries, students learn theology, history, geography, and biblical Hebrew and Greek. Today Christian theology has several major schools of thought. All these schools of thought arise from different ways of studying the Bible, many of which conflict with the God-ordained way of interpreting the Bible according to its spiritual significance.

We in the local churches need to understand the Bible in the way of apprehending its spiritual significance. In 1 and 2 Timothy Paul emphasizes that the churches need the healthy teaching so that every believer may come to the full knowledge of the truth...We should study the Bible according to the way ordained by God so that we may help the saints to receive the healthy teaching and know the truth in an adequate way. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 1, pp. 62-63)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1978, vol. 3, “Truth Messages,” ch. 1; CWWL, 1983, vol. 3, pp. 109-113; CWWL, 1985, vol. 4, “The Full Knowledge of the Word of God,” ch. 1