提前三9 用清洁的良心持守信仰的奥秘。

　　约贰4 我看到你的儿女，有照着我们从父所受的诫命，在真理中行事为人的，就大大欢乐。

　　假定在地上人类中间，从来没有圣经这样一本书；如果在已过二千年间，我们手中没有一本圣经，那么从主耶稣复活、升天以后，一切就都在空中，没有一件事是扎实的了。甚至与那灵有关的事也不会是扎实的。那灵是在于话。这就是何以主说，祂对我们所说的话就是灵（约六63）。主所说的话乃是扎实的灵。……在不计其数的事例中，每当人接触圣言，他们就得着那灵。我们很不容易举出一件事例，给我们看见人摸着那灵，就得着话；反而有许多事例给我们看见，人摸着话的时候，就得着那灵。这是历史。历史已经确立一个原则，就是迫切需要活的真理来产生召会，帮助召会存在，并且建造召会（CWWL一九八四年第二册，四一一至四一二页）。

　　1 Tim. 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

　　2 John 4 I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

　　Suppose that on this earth among the human race there had never been such a book as the Bible. If we had not had a Bible in our hands during the past two thousand years since the Lord Jesus resurrected and ascended to the heavens, everything would be in the air, and nothing could be solid. Even the things concerning the Spirit could not be solid. The Spirit depends upon the Word. This is why the Lord said that the words that He has spoken to us are spirit (John 6:63). The words that the Lord speaks are the solid spirit…. In innumerable instances we have seen that whenever people contact the holy Word, many times they get the Spirit, but it is hard to give an instance where people touch the Spirit and then get the Word. There are a great many instances, however, that show us that when you touch the Word, you get the Spirit. This is history. A principle has been set up through history that there is the desperate need of the living truth to produce the church, to help the church exist, and to build up the church. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision,” p. 320)

　　最有益的著作和刊物，乃是生命读经的信息和恢复本圣经的注解。我写这些东西不是为着学术研究，让人得着学位，乃是为着供应生命、释放真理并解开圣经的各卷。……主的恢复只为着恢复将经过种种过程的三一神分赐到我们里面；而活的基督、那灵、生命与召会乃是主恢复的重要内容。没有别的地方可以找出其他书籍，论到基督、那灵、生命与召会的恢复，是这么丰富，这么光照人，这么滋养人。

　　圣言本身在诗篇一百一十九篇一百三十节说，“你的言语一解开，就发出亮光。”千百万本的圣经已经分送出去，放在旅馆、家中和许多地方。今天几乎处处都能看到圣经，但有谁进入了圣经？几乎没有。许多人有圣经，但这本圣经对他们是封闭的，几乎从来没有开启过。现在主给我们一把钥匙，一个开启的工具。我认为我们的著作是开启圣言的工具。我相信你们读过生命读经信息的人都能诚实地见证，这些信息与恢复本的注解，给你们解开了圣经的某章或某卷。这不是顶替圣经，乃是带领人进入圣经。

　　基于这点，我觉得主的恢复长期在一个像美国这样拔尖，满了文化、教育、科学知识和圣经知识的国家，我们所必须应付的最大需要，乃是带领主恢复的圣徒进入真理，好带着主的恢复往前。一个国家要强盛，必须让人民接受正确的教育。

　　长期来说，我们确实必须帮助主恢复里的圣徒进入拔尖的属灵教育。……主恢复的标准在于我们所陈明之真理的标准。真理要成为衡量和标准。

　　我们需要找出一条路，带领主恢复里的圣徒，进入有关神新约经纶真理的正确教育。我们需要在两面考虑这件事—个人的一面和聚会的一面。我们必须在个人一面立好根基，作为基础，然后顾到聚会的一面（CWWL一九八四年第二册，四一二至四一五页）。

　　参读：圣经中的主观真理，第八篇。

　　The most profitable writings and publications are the Life-study messages with the footnotes of the Recovery Version. I wrote these things not for scholarly study for people to get a degree but for life ministering, for truth releasing, and for opening up the books of the Bible….The Lord’s recovery is just for the processed Triune God to be dispensed into us, and the living Christ, the Spirit, life, and the church are the crucial contents of the Lord’s recovery. There is no other place to pick up other books that are so rich, so enlightening, and so nourishing concerning the recovery of Christ, the Spirit, life, and the church.

　　The holy Word itself says in Psalm 119:130: “The opening of Your words gives light.” Millions of copies of the Bible have been distributed. They have been placed in hotels, in homes, and in many places. Nearly everywhere you go today, you find a Bible, but who has entered into the Bible? There has been nearly no entrance. Many have a copy of the Bible, but the Bible has been closed and nearly never opened. Now the Lord has given us a key, an opener. I consider our writings as the opener to open the holy Word. I believe that those of you who have read the Life-study messages can testify honestly that these messages with the footnotes of the Recovery Version have opened up a certain chapter or a certain book of the Bible to you. This is not to replace the Bible but to bring people into the Bible.

　　Based upon this, I feel that for the long run for the Lord’s recovery in such a top country as the United States, which is full of culture, education, scientific knowledge, and biblical knowledge, the greatest need we must meet is to bring the saints in the Lord’s recovery into the truth to carry on the Lord’s recovery. For a country to be strong, there is the need to bring its people into the proper education.

　　For the long run we [need] to help the saints in the Lord’s recovery to get into the top spiritual education….The standard of the Lord’s recovery depends upon the standard of the truth that we put out. The truths will be the measure and the standard.

　　We need to find a way to bring all the saints in the Lord’s recovery into a proper education of the truth concerning God’s New Testament economy. We need to consider this matter in two aspects—the personal aspect and the meeting aspect. We must have a personal way laid as a foundation for us to stand on and then go on to take care of the meeting way. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision,” pp. 320-323)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “The Subjective Truths in the Holy Scriptures,” ch. 8