«　WEEK 3　DAY 2　»

　　1 Tim. 2:3-4 This is good and acceptable in the sight of our Savior God, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

　　2 Thes. 2:13 But we ought to thank God always concerning you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

　　[According to 1 Timothy 2:4] God desires all men to have two things: salvation and the full knowledge of the truth. In the past we took care of salvation, but we neglected the full knowledge of the truth. Notice that, according to the Greek, this verse does not say that men should come simply to the knowledge of the truth, but to the full knowledge of the truth. To have the full knowledge of the truth is to fully know the truth. To know the truth in this way is a safeguard. (CWWL, 1978, vol. 3, “Truth Messages,” pp. 294-295)

　　The very salvation that is the goal of God’s eternal selection is in two things: in sanctification of the Spirit and also in belief of the truth [cf. 2 Thes. 2:13].

　　To be sanctified in the belief, in the faith, of the truth is very subjective. Faith is the reaction, the substantiation, of the unseen scenery (the truth). Now we not only have the knowledge of the truth but also the faith of the truth. We have the reaction to the truth we have come to know objectively…. When we learn these truths and we hear these truths, we will have the hearing of faith (Gal. 3:2, 5). The scenery (truth) and the seeing (faith) are objective to the camera (us). But when the light (the Spirit) brings the scenery to the film (our spirit) within the camera, both the seeing and the scenery become subjective to it. When the light brings the scenery to the film, there is a click within the camera. That “click” within us, which brings the scenery of the truth into our spirit, is faith. This is the faith of the truth.

　　Now we not only have the truth as some objective scenery, but we have the faith of the truth. In this faith of the truth we are being saved. Our daily salvation is in this faith, in this reaction, to the scenery of the truth. We all are short of the vision that comes from the faith of the truth…. All the problems come from the shortage of a clear and adequate vision. The Bible may be…veiled to us in the same way that it was veiled to many of the Jews when they read the Old Testament (2 Cor. 3:15)…. All the leading ones in the churches bear a great responsibility, and I do believe that all of us will be held responsible for the churches at the judgment seat. In light of the judgment seat, we need to be in fear and trembling that we would delay the saints or veil them in any way. We need to expose the truth to the saints and minister the proper truth, the proper scenery, into them. The Lord may ask us at the judgment seat, “As a leader in the church, were you taking the veils away from My people? Did you bring them to the best scenery in My divine revelation of the sixty-six books of the Bible?” If the Lord would check with us in such a way, what would we say?

　　First, we need the knowledge of the truth. We need someone to speak the truth. Romans 10:17 tells us, “Faith comes out of hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.” We have to preach, to speak, the word. This preaching, this speaking, of the word produces the hearing, and the hearing will produce the reaction within others. This reaction is the “click” of faith impressing whatever you speak into the spirit of the ones you are speaking to….We all need to be delivered from skating on the surface of the divine truth, and we need to cooperate with the Lord by laboring together with Him to dive into the depths of the truth of His marvelous New Testament economy. (CWWL, 1985, vol. 3, “Elders’ Training, Book 6: The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul’s Epistles,” pp. 539-541)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1985, vol. 3, “Elders’ Training, Book 6: The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul’s Epistles,” ch. 8