Weekly Pursuit – Week 1 of December
Verses:
John 17:17 “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.”
Excerpts:
Both the truth and the life are the Lord Himself, but they are two different aspects of what He is. The difference is that the truth is an outward definition and explanation, and life is the inward and intrinsic content. The Lord is in us as our life, but the experience of life needs an explanation. This explanation is the truth. If we receive the Lord according to this explanation, we have life. Hence, in order to experience and enjoy the Lord as life, we must know the truth. The experience of the Lord as life is contained in the Lord as the truth. If we are not clear about the truth and do not understand or know the truth, we will have no way to enjoy the Lord as our life. For this reason we must spend an adequate amount of time to learn the truth.
We must come to the Bible to receive the truth that is in it if we want to receive and enjoy the Lord as life. The Life-studies have been published to help us enter into the depths of the letter of the Word. The Life-studies bring us into the biblical truths, from which we may receive the genuine life supply. Today the Lord’s recovery is a recovery of the truth and of life. He wants His church to know Him as the truth and to receive and enjoy Him as life. The entire content of the church must be the growth of Christ in us as truth and life. ( CWWL, 1984, vol. 5, “Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel—the Four Great Pillars in the Lord’s Recovery,” pp. 415-416)
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