约贰2 爱你们是因真理的缘故，这真理存在我们里面，也必永远与我们同在。

　　提前四6 你将这些事提醒弟兄们，便是基督耶稣的好执事，在信仰的话，并你向来所紧紧跟随善美教训的话上，得了喂养。

　　许多圣徒和我们聚会多年了，但他们还没有进入主恢复中基本的内在元素。……多年来我参加（基督教）崇拜，听道，上主日学，但几乎没有什么东西进入我里面。当然，有些圣经故事和传统基督教的作法，的确进入我里面……；但是没有真理，没有生命，没有灵，也没有实际进入我里面。……我们都必须承认，一年又一年，许多圣徒和我们一同聚会，但今天你把他们核对一下，会发现没有多少神圣启示的内在元素真正作到并构成到他们里面。不仅在生命的事上，就是在真理的事上，也没有太多内在的元素作到圣徒里面。我的确担心，我们中间没有太多人能充分地陈明某些真理（CWWL一九八四年第二册，三九六页）。

　　2 John 2 For the sake of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever.

　　1 Tim. 4:6 If you lay these things before the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, being nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have closely followed.

　　A number of the saints have been meeting with us for years and years, but they still have not gotten into the basic intrinsic element of the Lord’s recovery…. For many years I attended the [Christian] services, heard the sermons, and went to Sunday school, but nearly nothing got into me. However, something of the Bible stories and of the traditional Christian practices surely got into me…. Actually, no truth, no life, no Spirit, and no reality ever got into me….We all have to admit that a good number of saints have been meeting with us year after year, yet if you check with them today, you would discover that not much intrinsic element of the divine revelation has been really wrought and constituted into their being. Not only in the matter of life but even more in the matter of the truth, not much intrinsic element has been wrought into the saints. I am really concerned that not many among us can present particular truths in an adequate way. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision,” pp. 307-308)

　　你必须钻研恢复本带注解并生命读经的信息。要在真理上得建立，不是一项容易的工作。你必须研读经文和每一个注解。若是可能，查考串珠也有帮助。然后你需要研读生命读经的信息。你进入这些信息，不可以像阅读报纸或参考书一样。你必须把恢复本的经文带着注解并生命读经的信息，当作教科书。因着这是我的著作，我晓得它的性质。我和你们交通这事，是要让你们晓得我们的书撰写的方式。倘若你仅仅轻率地阅读，你无法进入其中。你必须把它们当作教科书来研读。

　　倘若你仅仅读生命读经，你只会得着暂时的滋养。那对你只会成为一种灵感。灵感好像空中的蒸气。但是当我们所读的在我们里面成为真理，这种滋养便永远存留。我所得着的并非总是灵感，像蒸气一样。我从主所得着的常是扎实的真理，因此它留在我里面，一直滋养我。你必须有真理。要真理进入你里面，唯一的路是经过你的思考。那样它就留在你的记忆里。如果你不明白，真理就无法进入你里面。……如果真理进入你的记忆里，它就成了常时、长期的滋养。这样，你就有真理的储存，你就是一个常时在滋养之下的人。到那时候你就晓得如何向别人陈明真理，不是仅仅激发或激动人，而是使人扎实，得着真理的构成。

　　虽然滋养的结果是永远的，但滋养的本身只是暂时存留。然而，一旦把真理构成到人里面，真理会永远存留，而真理的存留就是它的供应。我们最终的需要乃是这种带着真理的教育，这是真正扎实、活泼、存在的东西。我们需要这个。不要盼望一夜成功，好像制造人造花的工厂，一夜之间生产出许多花朵来。在真正的苗圃或花园种植花草，需要时间。不要以为我们能作快速的工作。也许你以为在两年之内，召会会增加许多人。然而，这些人也许多半是空洞的。这是洋菇式的发展。我们必须借生命并借真理渐渐长大的路，来照顾召会（CWWL一九八四年第二册，四○二至四○三、四三一至四三二页）。

　　参读：约翰一书生命读经，第五、七、九至十一、十七至十八、二十二、二十八、三十二篇；真理信息，第一至二、五章。

　　You must dive into the Recovery Version with the footnotes and the Life-study messages. It is not an easy task to be built up in the truth. You must study the text and every footnote. If possible, it is helpful to take care of the cross references. Then you need to study the Life-study messages. You need to get into these messages not like you are reading a newspaper or a reference book. You must consider the text of the Recovery Version with the footnotes and the Life-study messages as a textbook. Because this is my work, I know the nature of it. I am fellowshipping this with you to let you know the way our publications were written. If you merely read them in a light way, you cannot get into them. You must study them as a textbook.

　　If you merely read the Life-studies, you will receive only a temporary nourishment. That will become only a kind of inspiration to you. An inspiration is like a vapor in the air. When what we read becomes a truth in our being, this nourishment remains forever. What I have received is not all the time inspiration, like a vapor. What I have received from the Lord is always the solid truth, so it remains in me, nourishing me all the time. You must have the truth. The only way for the truth to get into you is through your mentality. Then it remains in your memory. If you do not understand, the truth cannot get into you….If the truth gets into your memory, it becomes a constant and long-term nourishment. Then you have an accumulation of the truth, and you are a person continually under the constant nourishment. You will then know how to present the truth to others, not merely to inspire them or to stir them up but to make them solid and constituted with the truth.

　　While the issue of nourishment is forever, the nourishment itself remains only temporarily. Once the truth has been constituted into someone, however, it will remain there forever, and its remaining is its supply. Our need for the long run is this kind of education with the truth, which is really something solid, living, and existing. We need this. Do not expect to have an overnight success, which is like a factory making artificial flowers. Overnight you can produce many flowers, but in a genuine nursery or garden it takes time to grow flowers….You may have the thought that within two years a great number of people will be added to the church. Most of these people, however, may be empty. This is mushrooming. We must take care of the church in a way of growing gradually by life and by truth. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision,” pp. 312-313, 336)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of 1 John, msgs. 5, 7, 9-11, 17-18, 22, 28, 32; CWWL, 1978, vol. 3, “Truth Messages,” chs. 1-2, 5