1Ⅴ We need to be constituted with and spread the highest truth of God’s eternal economy by using the Life-studies and the Recovery Version with the footnotes; they are for life ministering, for truth releasing, and for opening up the books of the Bible—Job 10:13; cf. Eph. 3:9:
2一 主的恢复乃是恢复真理的亮光;今天地上最急切需要的,就是今时代的真理:
2A The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of the light of the truth; the most urgent need on the earth today is the truth of this age:
31 The Life-studies with the Recovery Version and all the footnotes are the most prevailing key to open up the Bible to us; they are not to replace the Bible but to bring people into the Bible—Acts 8:26-39.
42 We must consider the text of the Recovery Version with the footnotes and the Life-studies as a textbook for prayerful studying; if we merely read them in a light way, we will only receive some temporary nourishment and inspiration; however, when what we read becomes the truth in our enlightened memory, it becomes a constant and eternal nourishment to us—Psa. 119:130.
53 The intention and goal of the Life-study messages are to “open up the mine” of the truth of the Bible for us to dig out the treasures; “I have published many things that need your spending years to get into”—The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision,” p. 316.
6二 今天,为着主的恢复,我们必须负起责任,传布翻译出来、得着解释并解明的神圣真理:
6B Today we must bear the responsibility for spreading the translated, interpreted, and understood divine truths for the Lord’s recovery:
71 The proper understanding of the Bible has been collected in our writings in order for us to study, learn, and spread the divine truths; the Recovery Version and the accompanying footnotes are the “crystallization” of the understanding of the divine revelation which the saints everywhere have attained to in the past two thousand years.
82 The Lord has given us these precious truths for us to spread them not only to Christians but even to the unbelievers; what the Lord needs today is for thousands of His dear saints who love Him, who live to Him, and who know nothing but His recovery to take one way to spread the same truths to make them the faithful and prudent slaves to serve food to the Lord’s people at the proper time; then we will fulfill the commission of the Lord’s recovery—2 Cor. 5:14-15; Matt. 24:45.
93 The increase of the church depends on the spread of the truth; only the truth can subdue and gain people; from now on we all should spend time to learn the truth of God’s eternal economy and minister Christ to others for the multiplication and spread of the church—Acts 6:7; 12:24; 19:20.
18Further Reading: CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision,” chs. 9-13; Life-study of Ezra, msg. 5; Life-study of Nehemiah, msgs. 3, 5