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  • It's coming. We know in the year two thousand,

  • the Lord will take us into the kingdom of heaven.

  • Following Brother Lin and walking the path he led,

  • will make us overcomers and we will be raptured!

  • Now it seems that we don't know God's voice,

  • nor do we accept what the Spirit says to the churches.

  • How can we hope to receive God's new name?

  • How can we be the Philadelphia Church, be raptured before Him?

  • Only God's words are truth. Only God's words can be man's life.

  • Man's word, no matter how pleasant it is, is not the truth.

  • And man's spiritual theory,

  • no matter how profound it is, can't purify or change man,

  • which can only deceive and corrupt us, and harm.

  • Men used by God are not God incarnate,

  • and don't have the divine substance or the truth and life,

  • so they're unable to do God's work of saving man.

  • Men used by God can only assist with God's work, which is their duty as a man.

  • But religious leaders, though respected, are not those who are used by God.

  • Only Christ is the truth, the way, and the life.

  • This is because Christ has divine substance,

  • and He does God's work on behalf of God.

  • It's only Christ who can perfect man and save man.

  • Worshiping man, praising man, obeying man is the same thing as betraying God!

  • Only accepting the judgment and chastisement from Christ

  • and attaining perfection

  • is truly being raptured into the kingdom of heaven.

  • Just those who accept Almighty God's judgment and chastisement

  • are made overcomers.

  • And they'll have a place in the kingdom of heaven.

  • Hallelujah! (Amen!)

  • Brothers and sisters, those of the Local Church are greatly blessed! (Amen!)

  • Brother Lin has delivered a message to all of us here. That's amazing!

  • Two thousand is the year that the Lord is coming to take us!

  • Amen!

  • Now then, we have been given some signs,

  • and from them we can say with some certainty.

  • The Lord is at the doors!

  • Amen!

  • We are the generation of the last days. A most blessed generation! (Amen!)

  • Each of us, in body and soul will be saved, be raptured alive!

  • Amen!

  • Hallelujah! (Amen!)

  • Brothers and sisters, the day the Lord arrives is at hand.

  • Maybe He'll return for us the day our praise reaches its peak!

  • Amen!

  • Furthermore, with the time we have left here, we have work to do.

  • We must each be an overcomer, entering into a God-man life,

  • ready for the rapture! (Amen!)

  • Brothers and sisters, Amen!

  • Amen.

  • It says in the Bible,

  • Amen!

  • If we want the Lord's promises, there's a price that we pay. (Yes, absolutely.)

  • We know that but as long as we work hard and forsake all things.

  • If we suffer for the Lord,

  • then at the right time, He will reward us and we will rule with Him!

  • Amen!

  • In the future, some of us will rule five cities at one time!

  • And some, some will rule ten of them!

  • Amen!

  • That's right! At that time, we'll be kings ruling with God!

  • Amen!

  • I heard that your daughter is evangelizing now. She's not going to college.

  • It's such a crucial time. Pursuing life will serve her well.

  • She's out of high school, so she's an adult. She wants to pursue life.

  • Because soon we will all be raptured!

  • I agree. Focus on life. (Yes!)

  • Hey, did you really just quit your job?

  • Yeah, I have all I need. I figured I should live for God.

  • What matters a lot is to pursue life.

  • It is the way to go. I don't want to miss out on the rapture!

  • You're right. If we gain life, we'll be raptured.

  • What a blessing it is! (Right.)

  • Hallelujah!

  • Amen!

  • Praise the Lord! Let us now break bread. (Amen!)

  • The year went by. The Lord never came.

  • The church has suffered a lot and so have I.

  • Few people show up. They've lost their faith.

  • For the meeting, hardly anybody came.

  • I know. The church has taken a hit. It's not just us.

  • Yes, you're right. I've been to several meetings.

  • It seems some churches are thinking of splitting.

  • Many co-workers are reflecting. They're doubting their path.

  • They're not sure if it's right.

  • Everyone has a different point of view and the debates are becoming heated.

  • They all are quite arrogant, quite conceited.

  • They're vying for power, many of them. They've started forming factions.

  • I think we may be going our separate ways.

  • During all of these years,

  • our church appears prosperous outwardly, yet we have no life entry at all.

  • Could it be that it's the Holy Spirit who's guiding our efforts?

  • Maybe not. It's just man's work.

  • Paul said that to him to live is Christ.

  • Brother Lin said "God became man that man may become God."

  • Do you think that's true? That man could be Christ, be God?

  • Is it true that's what God wants for us?

  • And why aren't we sent some confirmation?

  • Everyone desires to be Christ, to be God. Does it mean we believe?

  • I'm afraid that we've reached an impasse.

  • The people's fire was from wanting to be God-like,

  • to become as one with God and to rule with Him.

  • Do you think that's all right?

  • It seems to me that's not believing in God, but wanting power and position.

  • Do you see what I'm trying to say?

  • I have a bad feeling about all this. It seems wrong, the path I mean.

  • You said something that Paul said that to him to live was Christ.

  • Brother Lin said we can become God and Christ. We just don't have God's person.

  • I get it. This may be a problem.

  • To be honest, I'm not sure.

  • But I'm wondering why were we not raptured in 2000?

  • Did the Lord just not return? Or are we walking on the wrong path?

  • I wish I knew.

  • We've followed Brother Lin's path for so long.

  • We're not transformed at all. We've become arrogant.

  • We're more self-conceited than ever. Think about it.

  • It's worse with some.

  • Some people think they're God, and feel others should obey them.

  • They're no different from the archangel.

  • Is that pursuit in accordance with God's heart?

  • Brother Lin wasn't raptured alive. He passed away instead. Imagine…

  • That's sure a hard pill to swallow.

  • Someone like him…

  • Brother Lin devoted his life, yet didn't become an overcomer.

  • You and I, what hope do we have?

  • I feel we should keep searching the truth.

  • Yes.

  • If we can't solve these problems, well then, the church will stay empty.

  • We can't let that happen.

  • Now the time has come to settle these things.

  • Brother Lin raised the theory to try and be like Christ.

  • If that thought comes from God, shouldn't it be blessed by God?

  • Why did he die instead?

  • We should figure that out.

  • I think that's important. (Mm.)

  • For we know, if this path comes from God and is led by the Holy Spirit,

  • then it should never end up like this.

  • If it comes from Satan or from mankind, it will destroy itself in the end.

  • Zhigang, what do you think?

  • Is God revealing Himself? Will this matter show us His will?

  • I think that may be the case.

  • So then were we on the wrong path?

  • If so, we do need to seek the truth.

  • But let's keep this between us for the time being.

  • Later on, we can reveal it to others, show them the way.

  • We've done well, so why is the church suddenly empty? Who can explain it?

  • Tell me what does God want us to see?

  • What does he mean by that?

  • Everyone, I think we need to reflect.

  • Some introspection couldn't hurt. (Yes.)

  • I've been having trouble with something. It's Brother Lin.

  • Why did he die? What happened?

  • God rules over everything.

  • If He's truly guiding us to this path,

  • why did this happen?

  • How could he say such a thing?

  • Am I wrong? You disagree?

  • You're not wrong.

  • Brother Lin wasn't raptured alive.

  • No. Maybe we're on the wrong path after all.

  • We need to look harder.

  • Would God save man in order to make him God?

  • I don't know. Why have we failed? (Yes, why?)

  • It's a problem. That's not what God wants.

  • All that from God will thrive while that from man will perish. It is definite.

  • That is what the Bible says.

  • Wait a minute. I'm not sure that I agree.

  • Why are we making this so complicated?

  • What's he talking about?

  • You don't think this is important?

  • Amen.

  • Everyone, we weren't raptured. So something's not right.

  • Maybe, the message is from man, not from the Holy Spirit.

  • And yet, the Lord's promise is real.

  • Just because we weren't raptured, doesn't mean we won't ever be.

  • Amen.

  • Remember the prophecy in Revelation. Firstfruits are reaped before the harvest.

  • They'll accept the blessings of the new Jerusalem.

  • And the overcomers, they're the firstfruits. (Amen.)

  • What we do now is become overcomers. We don't give up. (Amen.)

  • We should never doubt it. (Amen.)

  • Brother Zhao's right. We should be overcomers I believe.

  • The Lord desires it, so we do it.

  • Brother Lin's made clear the path for us to pursue. We know what we must do.

  • As long as we stay on the path that we were given, we'll be overcomers. (Amen.)

  • Don't forget we have morning watch,

  • practice the vital groups in meetings,

  • and try to mingle our spirits with the Lord's.

  • We've always done this. And even so, nothing's different.

  • I agree. Yeah.

  • I don't think that we're on the right path to becoming overcomers.

  • How can you say it won't work? (Yeah!)

  • Brother Lin said if we can digest and assimilate the Lord's words,

  • and then receive the Spirit's work within,

  • through praying, studying, reciting and preaching,

  • we'll have the overcoming life.

  • And once we've achieved that, we'll succeed!

  • We'll overcome Satan! We'll overcome the world!

  • Isn't that what overcomers mean? (Amen!)

  • So if we stay on the path that Brother Lin showed us,

  • then we will finally become overcomers!

  • Then we just need to give it some more time! (Yes.)

  • I don't see the problem! (Me neither. It's true!)

  • Brother Ma! Brother Sun!

  • We've followed this path for over a decade.

  • And so far, we've achieved little.

  • There's been no confirmation from the Holy Spirit.

  • We've all learned the Bible, the verses, and that's all fine.

  • But who here's renewed?

  • Who has become an overcomer?

  • Not one of us!

  • It's true. You must agree.

  • Brother Lin was never raptured alive to be an overcomer.

  • What hope do the rest of us have? How can we expect better?

  • So what do we do about it?

  • Quiet down!

  • Everyone, we know Brother Lin died. He wasn't raptured.

  • But it doesn't prove anything. It doesn't mean we're on the wrong path.

  • We should still call on the Lord's name,

  • and read His words, exercise our minds and spirits.

  • Thus we will live out the life of God, become the overcomers in this age,

  • and be raptured alive to meet the Lord! (Amen!)

  • In this crucial time, we co-workers,

  • should sustain the brothers and sisters and strive to strengthen their faith,

  • thus we are faithful to the Lord! (Amen!)

  • Of course we're all concerned. It's normal.

  • But we should trust in the Lord and try to be hopeful. (Amen!)

  • Sorry, but I don't get it. It doesn't make sense.

  • If Brother Lin was right, then why wasn't he raptured?

  • Are you so sure if we follow this path, the same won't happen to us?

  • If it is the right path,

  • then where's the Holy Spirit? Where is His guidance?

  • And where is God's blessing?

  • Well? Brother Zhao, how do you explain it?

  • Recently, I've carefully studied the Bible prophecies for the Lord's return.

  • The thing is, they've been fulfilled.

  • So then, what does it mean? That the Lord's come back?

  • What?

  • It's just that we're not raptured. Maybe others have gone first.

  • Hmm. It could happen.

  • But if other churches get raptured,

  • does it mean that our church took the wrong path, was forsaken by the Lord?

  • Then where does the Lord appear to work?

  • Should we sit down? (Mm.)

  • This is what I think.

  • It says in Revelation,

  • In that case, in the last days,

  • God should be incarnated as the Son of man and speak to us.

  • Mm. Amen.

  • The Lord Jesus also said,

  • Therefore, we should be wise virgins, searching for God's voice.

  • Where the words of the Holy Spirit are heard, there is the voice of God,

  • and God's appearance and work.

  • Only when we hear Him and accept His works and return before His throne,

  • have we truly been raptured. (Mm.)

  • I think to be raptured

  • is to accept the incarnate Son of man and come before God.

  • That's what I think it means. (Mm.)

  • If we don't accept the Lord's return,

  • we'll be forsaken and won't be raptured. (Mm.)

  • I agree.

  • The Lord was incarnated as the Son of man to work here on earth.

  • If we want to be raptured, we have to accept the incarnate Son of man.

  • We should be wise virgins and search out God's voice.

  • If we find God and accept Him, then we're truly raptured.

  • Mm. Amen.

  • Brother Guo, the Holy Spirit shines in you.

  • Praise the Lord.

  • You explained what the "rapture" means.

  • It means the Lord comes to earth to look for us.

  • When we hear His voice, we return before Him. We are raptured.

  • Not that He stands in the air and takes us to heaven.

  • That's man's notion and imagination. We made it up.

  • Mm. Sure. According to the prophecy in Revelation,

  • the Philadelphia Church would be raptured.

  • As we know, it also says in Revelation,

  • "My new name" must mean that the Lord will have a new name when He returns.

  • The church that can hear God's voice, accept God's new name

  • is the Philadelphia Church.

  • They're the only church who're truly raptured.

  • Those who acknowledge the Lord's return are the raptured ones,

  • and the ones who will feast with Him.

  • Mm. Yes.

  • Those who can't hear Him or accept His new name, they'll be forsaken.

  • It's the enlightenment from the Holy Spirit.

  • Yes, I agree.

  • Xiangyi.

  • Yes.

  • So we've heard your testimony and read some words of Almighty God.

  • We feel we've learned a lot!

  • Thanks be to God! (Yeah.)

  • They're the important truths of knowing God and life entry. (Mm.)

  • Almighty God's word has truly opened my eyes,

  • showing me the mystery concerning the way of eternal life.

  • It's really helped to clear up my confusion. (It has.)

  • I truly see that only the incarnate Christ can grant eternal life. (Amen.)

  • Only Almighty God can save us

  • from the deception and restriction of the hypocritical Pharisees,

  • and bring us before His throne. (Amen. Yes.)

  • It is truly God's grace. (Amen.)

  • Praise God.

  • Before, I believed in the Lord nominally.

  • Actually, I followed man and took the wrong path.

  • It's true.

  • It's Almighty God's word that shows me the right direction.

  • It leads me onto the right path of belief,

  • the path of pursuing the truth to be saved.

  • Praise God.

  • Almighty God is truly the returned Jesus. I totally accept.

  • Praise God.

  • I'm willing to devote myself to spreading the kingdom gospel of Almighty God,

  • to dedicate my life.

  • Praise Almighty God!

  • Wonderful! (Yes, it is.)

  • Brother, those in the Local Church,

  • know much about the Bible and spiritual doctrine.

  • Yes.

  • The thing is they're very arrogant.

  • They won't accept the truth, without much help.

  • Right. (Mm.)

  • But through all that you have sought, Almighty God's word and our fellowship,

  • you can feel that God's word is the reality of all truth,

  • and can be sure it's God's expression, God's voice.

  • Such a quick and pure understanding

  • is only found in those who have quite a good caliber. (Yes.)

  • Since you accept Almighty God, you've already been raptured before God's throne.

  • Really?

  • If you can very eagerly eat and drink God's word, experience His work,

  • then you are attending the feast of the Lamb.

  • And you could be made overcomers before the disaster.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • What an amazing blessing! (Yes!)

  • Thanks be to God! (Praise God!)

  • Only by accepting Almighty God can you achieve this!

  • Amen. (Praise God!)

  • We've believed for so long

  • and always yearned for being caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

  • It sounds silly and it's our notion and imagination.

  • Sure.

  • We hear the truth expressed by Almighty God and luckily we awaken.

  • We feel blessed that He saved us from our imagination and showed us the way.

  • Mm. Thanks be to God.

  • If it hadn't been for your preaching,

  • testifying Almighty God's work in the last days,

  • we would've stayed in religion and lived in darkness.

  • Believing in God in religion,

  • makes it easy for us to follow men, worship men and be deceived by them.

  • Sure.

  • All the years, we were following Brother Lin. We were wrong.

  • His God-man theory is so deceptive.

  • And it has harmed our brothers and sisters so deeply.

  • Yes.

  • I'm glad that we now accept Almighty God.

  • It's His love for us and His salvation to us.

  • So we praise Almighty God.

  • We thank God. (Praise to Him.)

  • Now in our church,

  • so many others haven't accepted Almighty God's end-time work yet. (He's right.)

  • They wrongly believe that "God became man that man may become God."

  • They hope to live to be Christ and God in the future.

  • They expect to be raptured by the Lord and reign with Him.

  • They're more ambitious, more than ever, with the disposition of Satan.

  • It's tragic really. (It is.)

  • I'd like them to know of Almighty God, His gospel.

  • Wonderful!

  • I wonder if I could use your help?

  • That's great! (Praise God.)

  • We're here when you need us and glad to help.

  • Great!

  • Praise God!

  • Well then, to bring others in our church before Almighty God,

  • they first must see that their God-man theory is erroneous, as wrong as can be.

  • After that we can gradually dissect the other errors in the Local Church,

  • convincing them finally, so they will truly be awakened, (Right.)

  • and reflect on the wrong path they are walking. (Right.)

  • And then,

  • they'll truly seek and accept the work of Almighty God in the last days. (Mm.)

  • Mm.

  • I'm afraid that it won't be easy.

  • These are people who worship Brother Lin. (Mm.)

  • That's right.

  • For years now, they've read the words he wrote.

  • They believe they're experts on the Bible.

  • They're arrogant as a result, conceited.

  • So it'll take some time. Just be patient.

  • Unless you make the truth clear, they won't be convinced. (Yeah!)

  • You'd better get ready for it.

  • Almighty God's word can conquer all of humankind, (Mm.)

  • except for the absurd ones unable to know the truth.

  • There's nothing we can do for them.

  • Right.

  • We know some about your church, a couple things.

  • We know they worship man a lot and they know the Bible well.

  • It'll be difficult for them to accept the true way.

  • True. (That's right.)

  • First impressions are strong.

  • Yeah, sure.

  • Besides, since they're already familiar with the Bible,

  • they feel they know everything, quite conceited.

  • Mm.

  • It will be quite difficult for them to be raptured.

  • It can be said they're facing great danger.

  • With the disposition of the archangel,

  • how could they obey and accept the incarnate Christ?

  • Mm.

  • In my eyes, if they make it, it is a rapture in peril.

  • Everyone, we have believed in the Lord in the Local Church for a long time.

  • And we've held tight to the view "God became man that man may become God"

  • as our highest vision, haven't we?

  • All of us who belong to the Local Church

  • have tried to live to be God and Christ.

  • We want to reign side by side with God. (Yes.)

  • However, whether it is a path that's after God's heart, I have doubts.

  • Therefore, I've invited two brothers of the Church of Almighty God here.

  • They will discuss with us and help us to sort out

  • the viewpoint of "God became man that man may become God,"

  • and if it's really in accordance with God's will or the truth.

  • Ask yourself, can humans become God? And become Christ?

  • If we can answer that, just imagine, the rest is simple.

  • Go on then. Let's clear this up.

  • Yes, I'm eager as well. I want to know the answer.

  • I do too.

  • Brother Guo.

  • "God became man that man may become God"

  • is our highest vision given to us by Brother Lin.

  • You're not saying you doubt it?

  • Brother Lin taught us that and he made it pretty clear.

  • If we follow the path he showed us, we can become God and Christ.

  • There's nothing for us to doubt!

  • Brother Ma,

  • I'd like to say that I've given this a lot of thought. Just consider this.

  • I don't think this vision comes from God.

  • Because if it does,

  • we should have the confirmation from the Holy Spirit's work.

  • Amen. (Right.)

  • But in our experience, we never feel the confirmation from the Holy Spirit.

  • He's right.

  • What's more, this is important. In which case, it should be in the Bible.

  • It should be confirmed by the Lord and the Holy Spirit.

  • But there's nothing about it in the Bible. Ask yourselves why.

  • You see? How can we not have doubts then?

  • Yeah. I have to admit the God-man theory always confused me.

  • Because I've lived by it for so long,

  • yet nothing has changed, much less improved.

  • It seems it's not confirmed by the Holy Spirit.

  • I feel this view comes from man's mind, from his imagination.

  • Yes. If it's the work of the Holy Spirit,

  • then we should've seen some change and some progress after so long.

  • Right. (Yes.)

  • But there's been no growth. Instead we are arrogant, quite conceited.

  • That's right. Yes.

  • We consider ourselves spiritual, the son of God, the manifestation of God.

  • Instead of being obedient to Him,

  • we expect others to obey us and treat us as God.

  • Our disposition is more like the archangel.

  • In that sense, we're way off. (Yes.)

  • That's what the problem is. See what I mean?

  • Yeah. Honestly, when I first heard this view from Brother Lin,

  • I wondered how can man be God?

  • Later, he fellowshiped that God is a life-bestowing God.

  • He bestows His life disposition upon man, so we can become God.

  • It seemed to make sense, but after so many years,

  • tell me, what evidence have we seen?

  • We've seen no one who's truly lived out God's life disposition.

  • Even Brother Lin himself, didn't succeed in living out God's life disposition.

  • It's true.

  • So I'm convinced now that this viewpoint isn't from God.

  • It came from man. We created it, and it's our imagination. (Right.)

  • After discussing this with Brother Yang from the Church of Almighty God,

  • I felt much clearer.

  • God created man and man is man in substance.

  • Right. Amen.

  • After man's corruption, God started His management work of saving man.

  • God would finally make us ones who are after His heart, obey and worship Him.

  • Mm.

  • God presents His will so clearly and plainly.

  • He redeemed in the Age of Grace, judges, and purifies in the last days,

  • all of which is to save us from Satan's influence and corruption,

  • and make us holy, the way He intended. (Right.)

  • God won't make corrupt mankind into Gods.

  • So in that case,

  • the viewpoint that we've held for years now is from corrupt man's mind.

  • It greatly contradicts what God wanted.

  • It's a vast misinterpretation, and it seems to me that it's actually heresy!

  • Brother Guo.

  • "God became man that man may become God"

  • is the highest vision in Brother Lin's preachings. (Amen.)

  • It's true God created man. His plan is obvious. He wanted man to become God.

  • And as man didn't have God's life disposition,

  • it was easy for Satan to tempt him.

  • God saving us is to dispense His life disposition into us.

  • Tell me then, if we have God's life disposition, don't we then become God?

  • Amen!

  • That's all. Is there anything wrong?

  • Right!

  • God became man that He could dispense His life into us.

  • When we have the life of God, then we become God.

  • Am I wrong? I think not!

  • Brother Sun, it's hard to say.

  • We said it already. We've tried this without any results.

  • Right. It's true.

  • That's what we've said for a while. No results at all.

  • Everyone, that's why they're here with us. I think they'll have some answers.

  • Well we could use some.

  • Believers in your church said "God became man so that man may become God."

  • The meaning of your words is

  • that God is incarnated as a man just in order to make man God.

  • According to the viewpoint your church has held,

  • God's creating man is also to make them God.

  • Now ask yourselves, is this really what God wants?

  • We should really measure it according to God's words.

  • Yes. That's true.

  • At the creation,

  • God's words tell us clearly

  • what God created is man, living man with a spirit, who is a created being.

  • Mm. Yes.

  • And man is created to rule over all living things on the earth

  • to glorify and manifest God. (Amen.)

  • I think we need to focus more on God's word.

  • When creating man,

  • God never says that He made God, (That's right.)

  • much less that He created man in order to make him God.

  • That's true.

  • If someone misinterprets God's word, taking creating man for creating God,

  • what problem is this?

  • Is it merely distorting the facts? Misinterpreting God's word?

  • Or is there unspeakable malintent behind it?

  • We all know God is the Creator and man is His creation. (Mm.)

  • Man and God are totally different in substance.

  • Right. Yes.

  • Just as Almighty God says,

  • Amen.

  • God's word is one hundred percent the truth. (Yes.)

  • He's both faithful and honest, without any deception in Him. (Yes. Amen.)

  • So God's word is eternal truth. It is entirely without fault.

  • This is good.

  • God said He made man in His image, so He made man.

  • Why think that He made God then?

  • That's something the archangel would say,

  • because the archangel always desires to be God and to be equal.

  • Satan is a great corruptor. All it needs to do to deceive us

  • is let us misinterpret God's word and then let us follow it.

  • So we've misunderstood

  • as the words of God creating God.

  • It’s a grave resistance and blasphemy against God, a gravest offense to Him.

  • Yes.

  • If one misinterprets God's word carelessly and distorts the facts,

  • this is a serious problem.

  • It's not just a simple problem of misinterpreting God's word.

  • If that comes from Satan, it could be very grave.

  • Right!

  • So your words that

  • "God became man that man may become God" is false, illogical.

  • It's our own misinterpretation out of Satan.

  • Yes.

  • We need to see this fact clearly.

  • If one doesn't repent and holds on to this view,

  • I promise the outcome is dire. (Amen.)

  • Ah, it's blowing.

  • Thinking God's creating man is creating God is blasphemous.

  • Yes, the nature of this is serious. (It is!)

  • Everyone, what's the thing we should seek above all else?

  • We need to understand God's will.

  • What kind of result is God after,

  • when He strives to redeem and save mankind?

  • I'm asking what kind of man does God hope to make in the end?

  • It's a vision for believers. It involves the truth of God's work.

  • And the path that we choose to follow

  • must be in accordance with the word of God.

  • Never should we be deceived into following man

  • and walking the path of resisting God.

  • He's right. Right.

  • We should know by now that after mankind's corruption,

  • we lose the glory of God and the testimony to Him.

  • All that man lives out is corrupt satanic disposition. No human likeness at all.

  • We've become devils who disobey, who resist and even betray our God.

  • It's a fact.

  • In order to save mankind,

  • God was incarnated in the Age of Grace and offered Himself up

  • so that we would be redeemed.

  • Now in the Age of Kingdom,

  • God is incarnated again in order to bring judgment in the last days,

  • and express the truth that will purify and save us.

  • So then, man can gain truth and cast away all of the old corruption,

  • live out a meaningful life and enter into rest. (Right.)

  • This is what God hopes to achieve by saving mankind.

  • Amen.

  • So there's hope.

  • Shall we read the word of Almighty God?

  • Allow me. (Mm.)

  • According to the words of Almighty God,

  • we're sure that the aim of managing mankind with the three stages of work,

  • is to make a group who know God, obey God and testify God.

  • God has been incarnated twice

  • for the purpose of saving man completely from the influence of Satan,

  • so that man can attain sanctity and be of the same mind with God. (Mm.)

  • God's word has explained it quite clearly and quite thoroughly.

  • In that case, the work of God is definitely not to make man God. (Mm.)

  • From the beginning of God's management to the last days,

  • all the former saints approved by God and blessed by Him

  • are those who align with His heart.

  • Saints like Abraham and Job and Peter and so on,

  • they have God's approval and blessing as proof.

  • These people were regarded very highly and emulated

  • by other saints throughout the ages. (Mm.)

  • It's safe to say they're in the kingdom of heaven.

  • But did God say these people are God?

  • He didn't. (Mm-hm.)

  • Right. Never has God made such a claim.

  • He only said that they had the greatest faith,

  • were perfect in that they feared God and shunned all evil and knew God.

  • Clearly, this is the best we can hope for for ourselves.

  • This is why He saved us. (Right.)

  • God hopes that one day we can become like Abraham and Job,

  • and the perfected man will be like Peter who knows God.

  • Amen!

  • This is the truth. It says so right in the Bible. It can't be refuted.

  • That's right. Amen!

  • We're fortunate that the will of God has been made clear.

  • Those approved and blessed by Him

  • are the ones that He'll make complete in the end. (Right.)

  • They're the ones He'll gain in the end.

  • You see our belief in God should be based on God’s requirements.

  • Take Abraham, take Job and Peter as our examples,

  • seek truth fervently and obey God's work, and we will be perfected.

  • Amen!

  • This is the path we should take as believers.

  • Right!

  • So it's proven we weren't made for the purpose of becoming God.

  • Mm. Right.

  • In addition, this was never mentioned by Jehovah God in the Age of Law. (Mm.)

  • And yet again, Jesus didn't mention it in the Age of Grace.

  • In the Age of Kingdom, Almighty God makes it more clear for us.

  • He never said He'd make man into God.

  • Right. Yes. I agree.

  • Therefore, we can be sure

  • that your viewpoint about man becoming God did not originate from God Himself.

  • It's from man's imagination, out of Satan.

  • Right. Yes.

  • Brothers and sisters, God's disposition cannot be offended.

  • Satan wanted to be God and considered itself equal.

  • God was offended by this. Therefore, Satan was struck down in midair.

  • If man tries to become God, isn't that from Satan?

  • Isn't that the point of view of the archangel? Isn't it mankind's own desire?

  • You're right!

  • It's the truth.

  • What they say makes sense.

  • God created man so that man could glorify God and testify God.

  • God has never said He will make man into God.

  • We believed Brother Lin

  • when he said that "God created man so that man becomes God."

  • We believed them as God's own words.

  • But now it seems they were never God's words at all.

  • Yes.

  • I for one agree it makes sense to me.

  • God was incarnated, so He could save us from sin, (Right.)

  • so we can become holy and be after His heart. (Mm-hm.)

  • It's clear now that God never meant to make us God.

  • I agree. There's no doubt in my mind now.

  • It seems that the viewpoint we've held on to for years never came from God.

  • You're right. It's from man and it's from Satan. (Right.)

  • Man wanting to be God, that's man's own ambition, right? (Yes.)

  • It's the archangel's disposition!

  • I totally agree. (Yes.)

  • I can't believe that our viewpoint that we've been following for our whole lives

  • never came from God. (I know.)

  • The hard part is realizing that Brother Lin could steer us wrong.

  • I know.

  • It goes to show that man is unreliable.

  • Well, I've thought that for a while. (I've thought that too.)

  • So does this mean that we've been on the wrong path all along?

  • Yes, we took the wrong one.

  • Can you imagine?

  • How dangerous it is!

  • Brother Meng, Brother Yang. I've listened to what you've told us. I agree.

  • Praise God.

  • And the words of Almighty God are all truth, I believe. No doubt about it.

  • But what then, do we make of God's words in Genesis?

  • I don't get it.

  • Since God made man in His own image,

  • does that then mean that we have the image of God?

  • If it's true, are we man or God? Which is correct? I can't tell.

  • I can't clear it in my mind. Could you help me with it?

  • God made man in His image. We know that He said this Himself. So is it wrong?

  • Since it's in His own image that God made man,

  • it follows that we should have His image!

  • So then isn't man the same as God?

  • Tell me how that's wrong!

  • This is getting confusing.

  • This is what it says in the Bible. Then with God's image, are we God or not?

  • Now I'm not sure what to think.

  • It's true we were made in His image.

  • But is it right to say because of that we are God?

  • It seems there are differences.

  • I'm not sure. I don't think I agree.

  • Because so far, I can't think of any fervent believer who's actually become God.

  • Mm. Yes.

  • My understanding of living out God's image is that man could magnify God,

  • have a heart that reveres Him, submit to Him, worship Him and do His will.

  • Such a man must be the one in His image and who does His will.

  • Amen. Thanks be to God.

  • So uh, though he finally lives out God's image, man is man. (Right.)

  • Am I way off? That was my opinion.

  • Brother Meng, could you explain why this is if you don't mind?

  • Mm. Of course. (Thanks be to God.)

  • In Genesis, God did say to us,

  • But He didn't say that He made God in His image or likeness.

  • That God made man in His image and after His likeness

  • doesn't mean He would make man into God.

  • Yes. That's true. That's right.

  • What does He mean "image"? What do you think He's saying here?

  • I'm not sure.

  • The "image" here refers to God's disposition,

  • what God has and is, the substance of God's life, (Yes.)

  • and as well as the truth. (Mm.)

  • If man lives out the truth expressed by God,

  • this image of truth will then have God's image.

  • Yes, I think so. I agree too.

  • As we all know, God's disposition and God's life being

  • are so rich and full of truth. (Mm.)

  • What God's work manifests is very limited. (Right.)

  • So how can we claim that God's disposition and His life being,

  • can be fully summarized and put clearly by the words expressed by Him?

  • That's a good point.

  • Anyone who has experienced God's end-time work, and knows Him can confirm

  • that the truth, what God has and is expressed by God

  • are just one ten thousandth or one trillionth of God's life disposition.

  • Yes.

  • God is the Creator and the source of life for all.

  • Compared to God's real life disposition,

  • His being He expresses to us is microscopic.

  • It's merely a drop in the ocean.

  • Yes. Absolutely true. That's true.

  • Actually, we're doing well if we can live out one drop of truth in that ocean.

  • That's right. (Amen.)

  • The truth that we can live out is limited.

  • Even if we spend all our lives pursuing it,

  • we can never live out all the truth that God's capable of expressing.

  • Yes. I see.

  • This has been acknowledged by those who've experienced God's work. (Amen!)

  • Some day in the future, when God's work ends,

  • if we can live out the smallest bit of His being, a little of His image,

  • it still can't be said that we've become God.

  • It makes sense, right?

  • Because God is the Creator, the substance of His life, can't be fathomed.

  • Amen.

  • God created and governs the whole universe.

  • His life is all-inclusive and fills all things.

  • We can't describe His greatness, using the words that we have. (Yes.)

  • Yes, I agree.

  • What God has expressed in the work He does, is just a bit of what He is.

  • There's an infinite amount besides that.

  • Even if man could live out all the truth that God expresses in His work,

  • it still won't mean that man obtains God's image.

  • Amen. He's right. Yes.

  • Much less that he possesses the whole truth or gains the truth. (Right.)

  • So then, even if man lives out a bit of God's image,

  • how can we say that he becomes God?

  • It's not a possibility. (He's right. Definitely not.)

  • Therefore, that "Man has God's image and can become God" is foundless. (Right.)

  • It just doesn't compute.

  • You're right.

  • If we live out a bit of God's image through our experiencing God's work,

  • we still won't become God. (Mm.)

  • Well! Here's an example.

  • It's not exactly the same, but it still may help.

  • So there's a son and a father.

  • The son and the father look a lot alike.

  • But their characters are different, very different, and their personalities.

  • Yes. It makes sense. I agree.

  • Even though they're related,

  • it's impossible that they have the same attribute.

  • The paths they walk aren't the same either.

  • Well said. Exactly. He's right. That was good.

  • And sometimes, a man can be good but his son not as much. (Mm.)

  • They may look alike, tied by blood, but they're not the same.

  • Right! (Mm, right.)

  • In some families, the father resists God while the son obeys Him and believes.

  • That's proof enough that looking like someone and sharing a bloodline

  • doesn't mean you have the same attribute.

  • Right! Wow, that's a good way to put it. Yeah!

  • So then, even if we manage to live out a little of God's image,

  • it doesn't mean that we have the substance of His life.

  • Man can never become God. That much is clear.

  • It certainly is clear! God is abundant. (Yeah. Right.)

  • Say that we live out a little of His image, we still won't be God.

  • That's exactly it! (That's right. Right.)

  • Saints such as Abraham and Job and Peter, all bore a resounding witness.

  • They gained God's approval, and were in the kingdom of heaven. (Mm.)

  • And yet, God never claimed that they were God as well. (Mm. Right.)

  • He only says they are the one of the greatest faith,

  • the one perfected, and the one loving God.

  • They were examples.

  • Yes. Right. It's true.

  • Furthermore, God has never said that man can become God by believing.

  • The Bible tells us that the archangel wanted to be equal to God.

  • So God became offended, and then, He struck it into midair. (Yes.)

  • Therefore, whoever attempts to become God will end up being cursed by God,

  • just like the archangel. (It's true. Yes.)

  • In the past we thought that man with God's image could be God.

  • After hearing you speak,

  • it's evident that even with God's image, man cannot become God.

  • Amen! That's right. Praise God.

  • Now I'm positive

  • those who want to become God must have the disposition of the archangel.

  • Mm. Right.

  • If we stay on our current path, the consequences would be unthinkable. (Yes.)

  • In the past, we tried to be God and Christ. Do you see how wrong we were?

  • We sure were!

  • We're lucky to have had such fellowship.

  • Just now you told us

  • even if man lives out God's image, he still won't ever be God.

  • I admit that I agree.

  • By saying that man can be God as long as he lives out His image,

  • we are not referring to the God with His person as you might imagine,

  • but we are referring to the God with God's life disposition,

  • but without God's person.

  • If we live out God's image,

  • we'll become God with the life of God, only without God's person.

  • So, in that sense,

  • the viewpoint "God became man that man may become God" seems tenable.

  • Am I wrong to interpret it this way?

  • Would you mind fellowshiping about it more?

  • How can it be wrong?

  • When we live out God's image, then we can become the God with God's life,

  • only just without His person.

  • You're saying even if man lives out a bit of God's image,

  • he'll never become God.

  • Well now, we don't think so. (Amen.)

  • God is the Creator. There is only one God as opposed to many.

  • God's life substance and His disposition are unique to Him.

  • It's impossible for God to make other Gods, (Right.)

  • for what He created was mankind whom He'd save and gain finally.

  • God never claimed that He would make man God.

  • Mm. That's true. He is right.

  • Mm.

  • From Almighty God's words, it's apparent that God is unique.

  • He is the only true God, not divided into separate persons. (Right.)

  • God incarnate is God's Spirit which has assumed the flesh to work and save us.

  • The phrase "God's person" is simply false.

  • Just as the Lord Jesus said,

  • So it's confirmed then,

  • that the thought that God has different persons is fallacy and came from Satan,

  • with the intention of disrupting God's work.

  • According to what you say

  • God can be the God with His person

  • and also the God only with life disposition but without His person.

  • If so, there'd be more than one and He wouldn't be unique. (Yes.)

  • Therefore, what you're saying is polytheistic,

  • with no basis in the Bible, no accord with God's word. It's not right.

  • Yes, I do wonder that sometimes.

  • Furthermore,

  • God without His person but with life disposition doesn't even exist. (Mm.)

  • True believers in God

  • only want to be saved by Him to break free from Satan's influence

  • and thus become a man with truth and humanity. (Yes.)

  • Their goal is to satisfy God. (Yes.)

  • However, those who wish to be God are Satan, the archangel. (Yes.)

  • Those who fabricate such fallacies,

  • claiming man can be God because God became man,

  • do so on the part of Satan to sabotage God's work.

  • They are antichrists who deceive man. This is unquestionably true.

  • Right. Yes. It makes sense.

  • Their fellowship is practical and seems well-grounded.

  • God is the only true God. How could different persons exist?

  • It does follow that saying man can become God is polytheistic,

  • and goes against the Bible.

  • God incarnate does His work to save man from sin and from Satan's influence,

  • and to make them the ones after God's heart,

  • instead of making man God.

  • So then, the view that God became man that man may become God is indeed untrue.

  • That much is clear now.

  • I'm grateful for the opportunity to give this the attention it deserves.

  • Had we stayed on a wrong path, I can only imagine the consequences.

  • Oh, my Lord.

  • Brothers and sisters, even if man experiences the work of God to the end,

  • and is able to live out God's image once he's perfected,

  • he still can't become God. (Yes, I agree.)

  • Because in the beginning, God created man in His image.

  • Adam and Eve had God's glory in them. So can we say that Adam and Eve are God?

  • Right. God never says they're God. He says that they're human.

  • They did not have the truth and were corrupted by Satan.

  • The work of God's two incarnations is to save and perfect mankind,

  • and to make us the all, those with truth and humanity,

  • so we can worship Him, and obey Him and become holy people. (That's right.)

  • It's certainly not to make man God. (That is the truth.)

  • Let us read the word of Almighty God.

  • It's true.

  • So that's it then.

  • Almighty God's words tell us clearly,

  • the object of God's salvation in His six-thousand-year management work is man.

  • Yes.

  • It is because man began to resist and fell into sins after Satan's corruption.

  • That's when God began His work of salvation. (Amen.)

  • The purpose of God's saving mankind is to save us from the influence of Satan,

  • to have that corrupt disposition cast away,

  • so that we can obey and worship God as well as be after God's heart.

  • God never meant to make man God. (Yes.)

  • And He never said that He would make man God either.

  • I know. I agree with them. Yes.

  • Man's been corrupted by Satan.

  • If we can be saved by God and gain the truth,

  • become the man with the truth and humanity, and become holy,

  • then we're more than blessed. (Yes.)

  • What's the reason that we're still ambitious?

  • Why can't we just be satisfied with our salvation?

  • Isn't this Satan's disposition? The archangel's great ambition?

  • Because of its ambition to be God and to stand equal to God,

  • God struck the archangel down from heaven. (Yes.)

  • From this we can see

  • all those who strive to be God, who spread fallacies about becoming God,

  • have severely offended God's disposition and committed a heinous crime.

  • It's Satan's interruption and disturbance of God's work

  • that continues to corrupt and deceive us, to instigate us, to oppose God.

  • This is sure to be cursed by God! (Mm. Yes, right.)

  • Well... So God is unique, and there is one God.

  • There's no such thing as different persons. (Yes.)

  • Satan's really good at deception.

  • We believe in God to gain salvation free from sin, be holy. (Yes.)

  • It's a simple thought. Satan causes a lot of trouble!

  • Yes. How hateful. Indeed.

  • Satan is detestable! (It's clear.)

  • We used to say "God became man that man may become God,"

  • and we encouraged others to be God, Christ.

  • That means we're Satan's accomplice.

  • We instigated, and deceived people to contend for position with God. (Amen.)

  • We're no different from the antichrist! (Yeah.)

  • Think of it! What will happen to us? (Yes.)

  • Thank the Lord!

  • Imagine it, what if we didn't come here?

  • We would still be living in deception, desire to be God!

  • We would still be on the wrong path!

  • You're right. It's true.

  • Only Almighty God can save man from the influence of Satan

  • and show us the way to the right path.

  • In the future we should listen more to the fellowship

  • of the brothers and sisters from the Church of Almighty God. (Yes.)

  • Everyone!

  • Lord Jesus resurrected after His crucifixion. He became the life-giving Spirit!

  • Therefore the same life-giving Spirit dwells in each of us.

  • He blends with our own and they're combined!

  • So why do you say we won't become God? (Amen.)

  • Tell me, could this saying also be wrong?

  • That is what I think. Am I not right? Please fellowship about it.

  • When you say Jesus became the life-giving Spirit after He resurrected,

  • are you certain, there's basis for that?

  • Did the Lord Jesus actually say that after His resurrection?

  • If the Lord Jesus never said that, then tell me, what gives you the authority?

  • I've never heard it said Lord Jesus claimed to be the life-giving Spirit.

  • Neither has the Holy Spirit said.

  • On what basis are you saying that the Lord Jesus said He's the life-giving One?

  • Yes, that makes sense.

  • This is what the Lord Jesus said,

  • The Lord Jesus didn't say that the life-giving Spirit would come on us.

  • If it was the life-giving Spirit,

  • then why didn't He Himself say it?

  • Man insists on telling us

  • that the Holy Spirit who comes to work is the life-giving Spirit.

  • This theory was created by man. (Yes.)

  • Even if man experiences the Holy Spirit's work and gains life,

  • he still can't profess the Holy Spirit is the life-giving Spirit. (Mm.)

  • The Holy Spirit is only the Holy Spirit.

  • No matter how He works, how He saves and perfects us,

  • it is still the work of God. (Yes.)

  • Man shouldn't speak blindly, say unreasonable words,

  • lest he define the Holy Spirit, God incorrectly.

  • God incarnate does His work only to redeem and save mankind.

  • Both before and after the crucifixion,

  • the Lord Jesus had one goal, to save us, to redeem humanity. (Amen.)

  • His substance never changed. (Yes.)

  • Man brushes aside the truth and always studies and limits God.

  • This is Satan's disposition.

  • Sure. (Right.)

  • Let's look at the words of Almighty God.

  • Let's listen to the word of God. (Right.)

  • Yes.

  • From God's words we can deduce

  • that from the beginning straight through to the end,

  • God incarnate does the work of redeeming man.

  • That's right.

  • All His work is done by one Spirit and it's the Holy Spirit at work. (Amen.)

  • There's no order of priority in the work of the Holy Spirit.

  • He does God's work constantly.

  • And every stage of God's work is performed by the Holy Spirit, (Amen.)

  • and no man can partake in it.

  • Mm-hm. Yes.

  • So man should not define the Holy Spirit's work lightly,

  • saying it's the work of the Holy Spirit sometimes,

  • and that of the life-giving Spirit sometimes.

  • That's completely invalid.

  • It just doesn't make sense.

  • Right. Yes. It's true.

  • We all know the Lord Jesus' work is that of the Holy Spirit.

  • His Spirit is the Holy Spirit. No doubt about it.

  • So then, whether it's before or it's after the crucifixion,

  • we know for certain the same One does His work and that's the Holy Spirit.

  • He's right. Oh yes.

  • The Holy Spirit doesn't change. He is forever the Holy Spirit.

  • No matter how much His work may progress, He's the One who does it. (Mm.)

  • It's not that the Holy Spirit's work is just sometimes His work,

  • sometimes that of the life-giving Spirit or the Spirit of the resurrection.

  • Such a thing doesn't make sense. (Yes.)

  • The Holy Spirit is almighty and His work is comprehensive.

  • He can not only express God's voice, but also perform signs and wonders.

  • He can supply the church and bestow upon man the life and the truth,

  • save and perfect man, and lead the whole of mankind. (Yes.)

  • The Holy Spirit is omnipotent, omnipresent, and fills all things.

  • If we define Him as one or another kind of spirit by His work,

  • aren't we being ridiculous?

  • Only false prophets, antichrists and deceivers speak such nonsense.

  • Absolutely.

  • Earlier you mentioned,

  • "God's Spirit indwells in man and is mingled with their spirit to be one."

  • On what ground did you say that?

  • Did God ever say that or the Holy Spirit confirm it?

  • Has anyone's experience or testimony proven it?

  • When the Lord Jesus did His work,

  • He never said His Spirit would combine with that of man,

  • and neither did the Holy Spirit. (You're right.)

  • And it's not prophesied in the Bible either.

  • Besides, among all the saints,

  • can you name one whose spirit combined together with God's Spirit?

  • Who do you know that can bear such witness?

  • Who can say? (No one.)

  • Right. There's no one.

  • In fact, all those with life experience can attest

  • that when the Holy Spirit works on man,

  • He enlightens us to understand the truth in what God says.

  • He leads us and He moves us to experience God's word,

  • so we can know God. (Right.)

  • But the Holy Spirit will never be our life. (I see.)

  • When we speak to Him through prayer,

  • He sometimes gives us faith or grants strength.

  • Sometimes He lets us feel His presence.

  • Sometimes He reveals His words within us or shows us His will.

  • But the Holy Spirit will never be man's life. We all acknowledge that fact.

  • So now, no matter how we pray or try to commune with Him,

  • it'll never happen that our spirit is mingled with God's. (Mm.)

  • When the Holy Spirit performs His work,

  • man can understand the truth, free from Satan's influence,

  • return to God and be able to obey and worship God.

  • Then God's work of saving us will be complete. (Mm.)

  • The Holy Spirit's work will also end. (Yes.)

  • Because man will have already gained the truth as life, (Mm.)

  • and the Holy Spirit's purpose will be fulfilled. (Amen. Right. Yes, I agree.)

  • Therefore,

  • the saying "man's spirit and God's Spirit are mingled as one" is groundless.

  • That notion is created by man. (Amen.)

  • Looking back,

  • anyone who would say such a thing is indeed disturbing God's work.

  • They spread fallacies like these to deceive and disturb,

  • so that people can't understand God's will or His work.

  • So evil and wicked right? (Yes. Right. It does.)

  • Satan loves to deceive and mislead.

  • It uses its fallacy to make us want to become God.

  • That's how we got the fallacy

  • that "God became man that man may become God." (Yes.)

  • It wants to make man believe this is true. (It's right.)

  • We, God's chosen people, should guard against Satan's scheme. (Yes.)

  • It's dangerous. (Mm.)

  • Satan's deceits are blocking our path to the truth. (Yes.)

  • Without truth and discernment, man will be in for trouble. (That's right.)

  • It's clear to me now. It's a spiritual fight. (Yes.)

  • In the past, I was ignorant to this. (Yes.)

  • The Local Church always taught that we should strive to be God. (Yes.)

  • We've been on such a wrong path. (Yes.)

  • Who was it that led us down this path?

  • Furthermore, was his viewpoint from God or was it from Satan?

  • We have to choose more carefully from now on. (You're right.)

  • It's true. We were so careless before.

  • What Brother Lin said

  • "The Holy Spirit indwells us and the two spirits are mingled with each other,"

  • doesn't accord with the Holy Spirit's working principle. (Right.)

  • He told people to mingle with God, but that doesn't help us in the least bit.

  • And if you think of it,

  • it also violates the principle of communing with God in prayer. (Yes. Amen.)

  • Mankind should at least pray to and fellowship with God as a creature. (Mm.)

  • We should truly rely on and look up to Him

  • to know His will in all things so as to love and obey Him.

  • Only doing so is after God's heart. (Mm. Amen.)

  • No matter how we practice this theory of the spirits mingling,

  • we can never know or obey God completely, (Mm.)

  • much less hope to be compatible with Him. (Yes. Amen. You're right.)

  • Moreover, if we're constantly mingling,

  • it will bring about an assumption that we're God's equals,

  • which tells us that we can be God. (Mm.)

  • If we keep doing this feeling we're God's equal,

  • we'll become antichrists and archangels. (Yes. Amen. We will.)

  • So there's no way this can help us. It's harming us.

  • It's so dangerous. It's very deceptive.

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • actually, the Holy Spirit's at work. He works for our salvation.

  • And we can all experience that.

  • The Holy Spirit often illuminates us inside.

  • He helps us know truth, know God.

  • And He often admonishes, disciplines, and comforts and guides us,

  • to lead us to His presence. (Yes.)

  • Even so, He won't be our life.

  • But searches and reveals us and helps us know ourselves.

  • What the Holy Spirit does is the work of saving man.

  • This is apparent to all of us. (Mm.)

  • The essence of the Holy Spirit's work

  • never changes over the ages or in the last days.

  • So the saying concerning the mingling of two spirits

  • will never conform to God's actual works. (Sure.)

  • So far there's been no evidence

  • that anyone in the Age of Grace had his spirit mingled with God's,

  • or has lived out His image.

  • Almighty God has never said

  • that man's spirit will be mingled with God's in the last days,

  • so that they can become God alive.

  • So we can say for sure then that the statement regarding the spirits mingling

  • has no basis in God's word and comes entirely from man's notion.

  • It doesn't align with the Holy Spirit's work.

  • It comes from Satan. It's Satan's deception. (Yes…)

  • Before, we didn't grasp what work the Holy Spirit will do on us.

  • But today, it's much more clear to me and I'm grateful for that. (Mm.)

  • The Holy Spirit's aim is to guide us all to know the truth, enter into reality,

  • and to one day be holy. (You're right. Yeah.)

  • Even so, He won't be man's life.

  • Right, that won't happen.

  • So then, we all agree that the two spirits won't be mingled.

  • It's a false statement.

  • Yes. It is.

  • No wonder we've never seen any change and after all that time.

  • Mm-hm. Yes.

  • Without knowing the Holy Spirit's work and having the truth,

  • we're easily deceived. (Right.)

  • Absolutely!

  • I thought “The Holy Spirit indwells us and our two spirits became one,”

  • such a spiritual thing. (Mm.)

  • If they really did so, just think we would become God and be so blessed. (Yes.)

  • Anyway, it's quite a shock that we were deceived instead of gaining truth.

  • Yes.

  • It's scary how effective Satan is. We must always be on guard.

  • It is so scary.

  • We once tried to live Christ out and be God. We wanted to be equal to God.

  • Instead we fell in Satan's trap!

  • We did. (We sure did.)

  • We must ask God's forgiveness and pursue the truth from this point on. (Amen.)

  • Mm, praise His name.

  • Praise to God.

  • Praise the Lord. Such fellowship is helpful.

  • Those of the Local Church desperately need to hear this truth. (Amen. Yes.)

  • We've been on the wrong path. We were tricked into it.

  • God's objective is to save mankind. He never intended to make us God.

  • Yes. (That's right.)

  • Those who desire to be God, to be Christ are those who resist God.

  • This offends God's disposition and is cursed by Him.

  • Yes. They are. It offends Him.

  • We're thankful for Almighty God.

  • Were it not for His words, we would have fallen into darkness. (Yeah. Oh yes. Yes.)

  • I'm grateful for this salvation. (Amen.)

  • Praise His name! (Mm.)

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • now we know God is the Creator and that God is unique, (Yes.)

  • and we're His creations.

  • Even if we gain truth as life in the end by experiencing His work,

  • and can live the image of truth, we can never possibly become God.

  • Mm-hm. Yes. Right.

  • Let's read a bit more from the word of Almighty God. (All right. OK.)

  • Amen!

  • Almighty God's words are clear. They're easy to understand. (Right.)

  • God created the heavens and earth and all things and He also created man.

  • Amen.

  • God never says that He creates a group of Gods, large and small.

  • He only said that He created man in His image.

  • Man is still man, even if with God's image.

  • Because he was made into man with God's image. (Amen.)

  • Why does man have to distort God's words?

  • Is it wrong for God to create man in His image?

  • Clearly, man has been corrupted by Satan too deeply.

  • After God's redemption, they still desire to be God just the same. (Yes.)

  • What's more, they search through God's words to find any evidence they can

  • to support their own want. (Mm.)

  • Doesn't this sound just like the archangel?

  • Recall how the archangel became Satan.

  • Wasn't it because of its ambition to stand side by side with God?

  • Yes, it was. Yeah.

  • After it was cast into midair, it assumed dominion over the earth.

  • It proceeded to corrupt, to control and deceive us to turn us against God,

  • and to follow and worship it instead.

  • This is the result of Satan's corruption of mankind. (Yes.)

  • How does the theory "God became man that man may become God"

  • even benefit man?

  • It doesn't.

  • It only results in one thing, man's desire to be God's equal. (Mm. Yes.)

  • Those who have been deceived by this false theory become more arrogant.

  • I agree.

  • Then they want people to obey them more,

  • to obey and worship them as God to satisfy their desire. (That's true.)

  • This contradicts God's whole goal for saving mankind,

  • and goes against Him in general. (Amen.)

  • Where did this theory come from? Something so erroneous?

  • Did it come from man or originate with Satan?

  • We should be clear on that. (Mm. Yes. Yes, we do.)

  • It definitely doesn't come from the Holy Spirit, but is the work of Satan. (Amen.)

  • I think that it's safe to say that the theory regarding man becoming God

  • was born of Satan trying to deceive us,

  • which is unquestionable. (Amen.)

  • Praise His name.

  • Almighty God's word is truly practical and every bit is the truth. (Amen.)

  • It's piercing my heart and soul like a double-edged sword. Praise God.

  • What Brother Lin taught us God becoming man and man becoming God isn't right.

  • It's wrong indeed. (I see that now. Yes, so do I.)

  • His related statements in that case must also be wrong or we can assume.

  • Yes. Amen.

  • It saddens me that we've been on the wrong path all this time.

  • It's serious and it's a problem. (Yes. Amen. Now I understand.)

  • Now I must examine the path that I'm on.

  • Brother Meng, Brother Yang,

  • we have more questions and need to fellowship with you. (Mm. Yes. Sure.)

  • Almighty God's word is the key to our resolution. That is certain.

  • Amen. I think so too.

  • Well then, I want to think all this over.

  • Praise God. Yes, praise God.

  • We should meet and discuss this again.

  • Thank the Lord! (That's great.)

  • There are a few things I hope you can help with next time. (Yes, of course.)

  • Let us pray to God in earnest. (Amen.)

  • Thanks be to God, everyone. (We appreciate your fellowship.)

  • Praise God!

  • I hope to hear your sermon again. It was great.

  • Amen. Thanks be to God. This was wonderful.

  • Hallelujah! (Amen!)

  • Everyone, we have some guests today.

  • From the Church of Almighty God, we have Brother Meng, Brother Yang.

  • Thanks so much! Hello there! (Hello!)

  • Thanks God. Thank you for coming. (Praise God.)

  • Sit down.

  • This is fantastic. I can't wait to hear what they have to say.

  • Recently, we had a great meeting.

  • We learned Almighty God's work from the brothers in the Church of Almighty God.

  • We were very much edified by the end. (Yes, praise God.)

  • Also we feel re-built. (Amen.)

  • We gained more in a few days than we had all the years before. No doubt. (Amen.)

  • Never before have we heard anything like the truth expressed by Almighty God.

  • We have gained some great insight and ideas.

  • I can say they convinced me. (Yes.)

  • Almighty God's work of judgment is worth our investigation.

  • Today I've invited the brothers here

  • to testify to Almighty God's work of judgment.

  • Enjoy it!

  • Thanks to God for letting us fellowship with you.

  • Everyone, our long-awaited Lord Jesus has already returned to us.

  • He's returned as the incarnate Almighty God.

  • And the arrival of Almighty God means the Age of Grace is done.

  • The Age of Kingdom has begun.

  • Almighty God has expressed all the truth

  • that purifies, saves and perfects mankind.

  • He began the work of judgment with God's house.

  • By the end, He'll have some overcomers.

  • What God will perfect are those who are of one mind with Him.

  • He'll then bring them into His kingdom

  • to receive His eternal promise and blessing.

  • That is the overcomers will be made

  • through God's work of judgment in the last days.

  • So then, whether we're able to accept God's judgment in the last days

  • will determine whether we'll be raptured before His throne,

  • and granted entrance to His kingdom.

  • What? The Lord's returned to make a group of overcomers?

  • Impossible!

  • Brother Lin was our leader. He taught the Local Church how to be overcomers.

  • If we stick to the path he showed us, we'll surely be overcomers! (Amen!)

  • Overcomers come from the Local Church! (Amen!)

  • And the Rapture? We're going first!

  • We can enter the kingdom of heaven when the Lord's back. (Amen!)

  • You said Almighty God will do the work of judgment to make overcomers.

  • Impossible!

  • Amen! As long as we pursue according to the path Brother Lin led,

  • we'll surely become overcomers

  • and be taken into the kingdom of heaven! (Amen!)

  • Hallelujah! (Amen!)

  • Brothers and sisters, let's not argue with one another! (Right. Yeah!)

  • Arguing's a sign of arrogance and conceitedness.

  • When we search for God's appearance and His work,

  • We should treat it with reverence and seek the truth in all things. (Amen!)

  • As you know the Local Church has been desolate

  • without the work of the Holy Spirit.

  • You've heard the testimony of the Lord's return,

  • and as the church workers and leaders, you haven't sought it further,

  • but have been rude and arrogant!

  • You're the ones who revere God?

  • This is how you seek knowledge of the Lord's return?

  • Amen!

  • We long for the kingdom of heaven. We await the Lord's return. (Yes.)

  • Only one church in the world, the Church of Almighty God,

  • says the Lord has returned and has begun the judgment at the house of God.

  • Yes. Right.

  • We should try to be clever virgins with a reverence for the Lord.

  • We should investigate the work of Almighty God which is after the Lord's heart.

  • Yes. (That’s right.)

  • Ask anything you like and then we can discuss and fellowship.

  • Yes. That makes a lot of sense.

  • All right! Allow me to start.

  • You testified that God incarnate has come to do the work of judgment,

  • that is the work to make overcomers.

  • We believe the Lord Jesus will come to take His believers.

  • So how could He do the work of judgment and make overcomers? (Amen!)

  • Brother Lin was raised up and used by God.

  • He led us to be regenerated, transformed, conformed

  • and glorified to be overcomers. (Amen!)

  • We believe that we'll be raptured first! (Amen!)

  • You testified that only God can make overcomers.

  • We believe following Brother Lin and walking the path he led

  • will make us overcomers, (Amen.)

  • and we will be raptured! (Amen.)

  • Am I right or not?

  • Why don't you fellowship about that!

  • If Lord's words are constituted into us by praying, studying and preaching,

  • and through regeneration and transformation, we'll be overcomers! (Amen!)

  • When the Lord comes, we'll be taken into the kingdom of heaven!

  • As for God incarnate, we don't need Him to perfect us into overcomers.

  • If the Lord comes and doesn't rapture us into the kingdom of heaven,

  • then it's not His return!

  • We won't accept!

  • Brother Wang, we need to know what the Lord's return really means,

  • as well as what it means to be raptured, and that what work the Lord will do.

  • We can't fathom at all, so how then can we define it?

  • What if it happens Almighty God is the returned Jesus,

  • and He starts the very work of judgment at the house of God?

  • If we resist, condemn,

  • won't we become sinners just like the Pharisees who resisted Lord Jesus?

  • Even now, I'm not aware of any church or any sect

  • who says the Lord's returned to do the work of judgment in the last days.

  • The Church of Almighty God is the only one who says so.

  • So then, shouldn't we investigate it?

  • It's so important we really should discuss it.

  • We can't judge blindly. We have to be careful.

  • All right. Brother Meng, Brother Yang,

  • we'd all love to hear, so would you fellowship?

  • Brother Sun would love an answer to his question!

  • I can't wait for your profound insights.

  • I'd like to hear them too.

  • You said that the path Brother Lin led is to make overcomers

  • and if we follow the path Brother Lin led, we could be overcomers.

  • The Lord Jesus comes again to rapture the believers,

  • so He couldn't do the work of judgment to make overcomers.

  • Could you tell us what your biblical support is?

  • Where is the prophecy of the Lord Jesus testifying that?

  • Those who understand the Bible all know that

  • God makes overcomers before the disaster.

  • God incarnate descends in the last days

  • and He expresses the truth necessary for the judgment,

  • so He can make a group of overcomers.

  • The prophecy in Revelation says,

  • Amen!

  • And 1 Peter 4:17 says,

  • The Bible prophesied what the Spirit said to the churches,

  • the Philadelphia Church's rapture

  • and the judgment that begins at the house of God.

  • All this is what the Lord Jesus does when He comes again.

  • God incarnate descends secretly in the last days,

  • just to do the work of judgment beginning at God's house and make us overcomers.

  • Almighty God's utterance The Word Appears in the Flesh,

  • is what the Spirit says to the churches and is the hidden manna.

  • The name of Almighty God is God's new name.

  • The Philadelphia Church accepts the new name of God,

  • which means they are raptured.

  • All those who call on the name of Almighty God

  • and read His words throughout their daily lives,

  • are raptured before God's throne,

  • receive the judgment and purification of His words.

  • They will obtain the truth and overcome Satan to be gained and perfected by God.

  • The people are truly the overcomers.

  • It's obvious that God's own work in the last days is to make us overcomers.

  • It must be done by Him. No one else can. (Yes. Amen.)

  • I always thought that we were the Philadelphia Church

  • and that we'd be raptured first.

  • Now it seems that we don't know God's voice,

  • nor do we accept what the Spirit says to the churches.

  • How can we hope to receive God's new name?

  • How can we be the Philadelphia Church, be raptured before Him?

  • Brother Lin said overcomers come from the Local Church. How is it possible?

  • Mm, great question. How is it possible?

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • overcomers are made by God incarnate

  • as He does the work of judgment beginning at God's house in the last days.

  • It's not only in the Bible, but spelled out clearly by Almighty God.

  • Maybe we should look at the words of Almighty God.

  • I'll read it! (Great.)

  • Mm, interesting. (Mm. Yes.)

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • the true overcomers will only be made

  • through experiencing God's work of judgment.

  • In the last days, the incarnate Almighty God descends into China secretly,

  • and does the work of judgment starting at God's house.

  • Almighty God has expressed all the truth that purifies and saves us

  • to judge and reveal man's satanic nature that resists God and their true self.

  • He has revealed to man God’s righteous and holy disposition

  • and His almightiness and wisdom.

  • After experiencing the judgment, pruning and trials of God's word,

  • man has surely witnessed the truth of his ugliness and corruption from Satan,

  • man's true self, arrogant and self-conceited, full of ambition,

  • judgmental, selfish and base, crooked and crafty, shirking the truth,

  • full of false ideas about God

  • and prone to resisting and betraying Him at any time.

  • They are definitely Satan's descendants who rebel against God.

  • They're simply unworthy of living before Him or being saved by Him.

  • But they've also felt God's word is truth,

  • falling down in conviction.

  • They appreciate God's holiness and disposition,

  • which is not to be defiled or offended. They've learned this through experience.

  • These people have a real reverence for God.

  • They're able to obey Him and live by His words.

  • In the midst of God's chastisement and judgment,

  • they bear various testimonies of overcoming Satan

  • and the dark influence of the great red dragon.

  • Especially some who overcome the cruel persecution of the great red dragon.

  • All these blessed overcomers

  • are the fruits of Almighty God's judgment in the last days.

  • On Mainland China, there's a group of God's overcomers.

  • This is the ironclad proof! (Amen!)

  • Just now, you said that the path of Brother Lin would make overcomers of you.

  • Brother Lin led for many years. Tell me, are there any overcomers among you?

  • Can Brother Lin do the work of judgment starting at the house of God?

  • Is his expression the same as what the Spirit says to the churches?

  • Is it the word of judging man and purifying man?

  • Actually, Brother Lin was like us, just a corrupt man.

  • He's not God incarnate and he has no divine substance.

  • And so he can't express God's word or do the work of judging and purifying.

  • So tell me how this man can lead you to be overcomers.

  • He preached to be regenerated, transformed, conformed and glorified.

  • Now after so many years, what results have you seen?

  • No matter how closely his preachings conform to man's imagination,

  • they're still the knowledge of man and nothing else,

  • which have nothing to do with Almighty God or with His truth.

  • Also, Brother Lin didn't experience God's end-time judgment.

  • He wasn't an overcomer.

  • So how could he lead others on the path to becoming overcomers?

  • So Brother Lin's path couldn't help you be an overcomer,

  • regardless of what you told me.

  • That is against the fact of God’s work, with no proof in God’s words.

  • It's purely meant to deceive man and it's meant to resist God as well.

  • Everyone, are you still with me?

  • Yes. Absolutely. I think it makes sense. Yeah.

  • You seriously believe this guy?

  • Brother Lin was…

  • We spent years following Brother Lin's path. Where did it get us?

  • No one's an overcomer. That's a fact!

  • Right. Whether one can lead the path to become overcomers

  • should be judged by results.

  • You're right.

  • Could you tell us what the overcomer is?

  • Yes, please explain it!

  • Right. (Yes. Please.)

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • what does it mean to be an overcomer?

  • Which aspects of truth should an overcomer have?

  • Can we see that clearly? (Mm.)

  • The way mankind sees it,

  • if he can labor in work for the Lord and keep His name,

  • he'll be an overcomer in the end.

  • But that's not right at all.

  • Let's see what God has to say. He has standards on being an overcomer.

  • As chapter 14 in Revelation says,

  • Now let's see what Almighty God tells us. (Mm.)

  • Yes.

  • From the words of God we can see that

  • overcomers are those who follow the Lamb's footsteps,

  • who experience God's judgment and refinement in the last days,

  • grasp the truth and obtain knowledge of God, (Mm.)

  • who revere God and shun evil. (Amen!)

  • No matter how Christ works and speaks,

  • they will obey and be faithful to Him, no matter what.

  • Under the great red dragon’s ruthless arrest and persecution,

  • they still eat and drink God's word, performing their duty as a creature.

  • Even when they are suffering,

  • they won't complain and they're faithful till death,

  • bearing God a beautiful and true testimony.

  • These are the people made overcomers by God's work in the last days.

  • These are just the victorious male-children prophesied in the Bible.

  • I've never thought about that. Yes, they are.

  • You said that we can seek to become overcomers by following Brother Lin.

  • Then let me say,

  • you've followed him for many years,

  • listening to his biblical knowledge and theologies every day.

  • What do you know of God's work and disposition? Did he teach you?

  • Do you know the ways Satan attempts to corrupt mankind?

  • Have you seen through its evil nature and substance?

  • Do you hate the great red dragon?

  • Do you have a firm grasp on how it resists and condemns God whenever it can?

  • Do you have a true knowledge of your own satanic substance and nature?

  • Have you overcome the flesh and Satan's influence upon it?

  • Do you honestly revere and obey God while shunning the temptation of evil?

  • What do you know of God's disposition? Of His inherent disposition?

  • If God incarnate expresses the truth,

  • can you commit to obeying Him simply because you heard His voice?

  • If you don't have these realities of truth, how can you be overcomers?

  • Does that make any sense to anyone? (Mm. Yes.)

  • God incarnate has revealed all of those who don't know God.

  • The entire truth that God expresses,

  • reveals all of those who don't love the truth.

  • Those who don't accept God's work of the last days

  • are the ones who don't know God,

  • and the arrogant and self-conceited children of Satan.

  • How can those people be overcomers?

  • It's impossible. Wouldn't you say so? (I think I would. Yes.)

  • Oh, Lord, what they say is reasonable and fully convinces me.

  • The overcomers are indeed made by God's work of judgment in the last days.

  • I've spent so many years pursuing the truth

  • according to the path led by Brother Lin. So many years.

  • In doing so, I was certain that in the end I would become an overcomer.

  • It never occurred to me that it could all be untrue.

  • People lacking a firm knowledge of the truth are easily deceived.

  • How dangerous this is.

  • That's it!

  • We've tried to be overcomers. But now, we know we've made no progress at all,

  • according to the path shown us, shown us by Brother Lin.

  • Instead of having true knowledge of God or experiencing the truth of His words,

  • we're becoming more arrogant,

  • believing that we're superior in spiritual doctrine,

  • condescending to those of other beliefs.

  • In reality, we're merely talking about the doctrines of Brother Lin,

  • rather than obeying the Lord Jesus' word.

  • This is where we're wrong.

  • We're worshiping man, obeying the word of man all the time.

  • We've revered man without any reverence for God.

  • And we're ambitious in that we want to be God, be Christ.

  • Isn't that like the archangel? (Yes.)

  • Aren't we just a bunch of antichrists?

  • We're not overcomers.

  • The path led by Brother Lin doesn't make us become overcomers,

  • but rather deviates from the Lord's way.

  • In the end, overcomers are made by God's work of judgment,

  • and not at all made by man.

  • Yes. That's right. It makes so much sense. Yes. If the path Brother Lin led was really to make overcomers,

  • we should have seen some result after so many years.

  • At least he should have been one that would have been a start.

  • Mm. Right. Yes.

  • But as we know, even Brother Lin himself wasn't raptured alive.

  • So the path he led must've been the wrong one.

  • That's obvious. (It's so obvious.)

  • In the Local Church, we live a church life.

  • Regeneration, transformation, conformation and glorification,

  • these words we shout loud every day.

  • But so far, we've seen no evidence of this.

  • Surely, we don't have the Lord's words or His place in our heart.

  • We've been neglectful in caring for Him.

  • We have no patience for brothers and sisters.

  • Instead we envy them. We scheme against them, create conflict.

  • All we ever wanted is to be enthroned and to rule and become God and Christ.

  • So what do we expect? How could we be overcomers? (Yes.)

  • Obviously, man's work can't replace the work of God.

  • Man thinks they know the Bible, spiritual knowledge and doctrine,

  • but they still can't do God's work. (Amen.)

  • If we follow man to the end,

  • we'll be hypocritical and end up just like the Pharisees,

  • all arrogant and self-conceited, overbearing antichrists.

  • Even then, we think we'll be raptured into the kingdom of heaven.

  • Don't you think we're all dreaming?

  • Perhaps we are dreaming. Maybe what brother Lin said is not true.

  • Praise God.

  • You testify that only God can make overcomers, and it happens in the last days.

  • No one can replace Him.

  • You've made it so clear. I accept what you say. Thank you for that.

  • Praise God!

  • If you don't mind, could you explain some more?

  • What's the difference between God's work and the work done by man?

  • And what's the essential difference

  • that exists between God incarnate and the people used by God?

  • Please fellowship.

  • We know it's the Holy Spirit who guides these people.

  • And if they're guided by Him, it stands to reason that their work is God's work!

  • See? There's no difference!

  • It's true. How is that different?

  • I don't agree with you.

  • Because if there wasn't any difference

  • between the work of God incarnate and that of man,

  • why didn't God use man to do the redemptive work in the Age of Grace,

  • but the Lord Jesus did it Himself?

  • Mm, yes. Yeah, He did.

  • I wonder if there's some mystery.

  • Maybe we should ask Brother Meng to fellowship more about that.

  • Yes. I agree.

  • That's an important question. Thanks for asking.

  • Man must know both God's work and His substance

  • if they want to know God Himself. (Mm. Yes.)

  • If we're unable to tell God's work from the work of man,

  • and if we don't see the difference

  • between God incarnate and the man used by God,

  • we're highly prone to treat the man we admire as the man that's used by God,

  • and to treat the work of man as the work done by God.

  • We follow man but think we are following God.

  • All the while,

  • we're unaware we're straying from Him, and we offend His disposition. (Yes.)

  • For over two thousand years,

  • nobody could clearly see the difference

  • between the work and substance of God incarnate and the man God used.

  • When the last days arrive, Almighty God comes to explain it.

  • Let's read some of God's words regarding the difference

  • between the work done by God incarnate and that of man used by God.

  • Please turn to page 1315.

  • I'll read it. (Great.)

  • Amen!

  • Mm. Yes.

  • That was great! (Yeah.)

  • We understand from these words,

  • both the work of God incarnate and that of the people used by God

  • are outwardly man's working and speaking.

  • But there remain some substantial differences in their work.

  • In appearance, God incarnate is an ordinary and normal man,

  • but He is the flesh that God's Spirit wears and His substance is divine.

  • So He can directly express truth,

  • express God's righteous disposition and what God has and is.

  • He can disclose the mystery of God's management plan,

  • and open a new age and end the old age.

  • All of mankind is moving forward with the work that God's performing.

  • With God's work comes a new age as the old one ends,

  • all of mankind moves forward into that new age. (Yes.)

  • This is sufficient proof

  • that the work of God incarnate guides the entire age to progress forward.

  • However, man's work can't open a new age or end the old.

  • Also, another substantial difference

  • is that God incarnate's work and His word are expressions of divinity,

  • not mixed with human thought or logic and reasoning.

  • It's the original meaning of God's Spirit, not mixed with human will.

  • Every word God incarnate has expressed is the truth with power and authority,

  • so they can be man's life and change his disposition.

  • They can purify and perfect and save him.

  • Finally, man can be taken into good destination. (Yes. Amen.)

  • The people used by God, however, are human and not God incarnate.

  • So they can't usher in a new age or end an old age,

  • nor can they lead man in the direction of a new age.

  • Their work is unrelated to God's management.

  • Instead, they give cooperation in humanity based on God's work,

  • and fellowship about their experience.

  • This experience and knowledge represent what man has and is,

  • with man's imagination, logic, reasoning and all his lessons and so on.

  • Although most accord with the truth

  • and can bring man some support, supply and help,

  • they are not the truth and they can't be man's life.

  • Only when man's work cooperates with God's work,

  • can it result in purifying, in saving and perfecting man.

  • This is the difference

  • between the work of God incarnate and that of the man that's used by God. (Yes.)

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • this will make sense once we look at the facts of God's work and those of man.

  • When the Lord Jesus came to work,

  • He said that the kingdom of heaven was near and man should repent.

  • He did a stage of work of redeeming us,

  • ushering in the Age of Grace and ending the Age of Law.

  • So then, the new era of man began then from the Age of Grace.

  • Lord Jesus expressed His disposition of mercy and love,

  • so man could be redeemed through the sin offering.

  • Man was no longer cursed or condemned then,

  • but qualified to come before God to pray and cry out to Him,

  • and to enjoy truth and grace given him by God.

  • After Jesus finished His work and ascended into heaven,

  • His apostles carried on the work of ministering to man

  • based on the work and words of Jesus.

  • They fellowshiped about their experience and knowledge of God's word,

  • so as to guide the chosen to practice the Lord's word

  • and spread the Lord's salvation,

  • established churches and ministered to believers.

  • They cooperated with God's work according to the word of the Lord Jesus.

  • They did what He taught them which was performing man's duty.

  • The letters that they wrote and what they said

  • told us of their knowledge and experiences

  • about the word and work of the Lord Jesus.

  • They were certainly in line with truth,

  • and yet they still couldn't be seen as equal with the Lord's work and words.

  • Mm. Yes, absolutely.

  • Christ of the last days, Almighty God,

  • comes to start the Age of Kingdom and end the Age of Grace.

  • The Age of Kingdom begins with Almighty God's work as we know.

  • Almighty God has carried out the work of judgment beginning with God's house.

  • He's disclosed all the mysteries of God's six-thousand-year management plan,

  • expressed all the truth of cleansing and saving mankind,

  • revealed His holy and righteous substance to mankind,

  • and His majesty, wrath, and unoffendable disposition,

  • so as to deliver man from his corrupt disposition and from Satan's influence

  • and finally bring man to the beautiful destination. (Yes. Thank God.)

  • Almighty God's work completes God's management plan

  • and will end the entire old age.

  • All of His words will be fulfilled and met.

  • And in the end,

  • the whole of mankind will acknowledge Almighty God is the only true God

  • and see how Almighty God's words are fulfilled and end the prior age.

  • After Almighty God has made a group of overcomers,

  • all kinds of disasters will strike

  • and mankind will fall into disasters and trials.

  • And then, God will descend on a cloud from heaven,

  • and appear to people of all nations.

  • This is sufficient

  • to prove Almighty God's work in the last days is to open and end an age.

  • The work of the man used by God

  • is based on both the work and words of Almighty God,

  • so he can fellowship his knowledge of them,

  • and so he can shepherd God's chosen people,

  • and guide them through the pursuit of the truth,

  • and enter the reality of God's words.

  • He can lead them to testify publicly the gospel of the descent of the kingdom

  • to the whole world and to the whole of mankind.

  • Yes. Yes, I know this.

  • Man used by God just cooperates with God’s work

  • and performs his duty based on God's work.

  • This is how the work of God incarnate

  • mainly differs from the work of the man used by God.

  • Each of them has a specific substance that decides it. (Yes. I agree.)

  • Praise the Lord. Thanks for your help. I get it.

  • There are essential differences

  • in the work of God incarnate and the work of men used by God. (Yes.)

  • God incarnate has the ability to end one age and begin another.

  • He can directly express the truth and express what God has and is.

  • Men used by God, no matter what,

  • can't usher in an age or end the old age.

  • What they can do is to use God's word and His work as a basis

  • to share their knowledge and experience with others and perform man's duty.

  • Yes.

  • We followed Brother Lin for many years, yet he never made this clear.

  • So then, it seems that man can't express truth.

  • You're right. The difference between the two works is really remarkable!

  • Brother Lin wrote spiritual books and he spoke of many biblical theories.

  • But think about it: his work never went beyond the scope of Jesus' work.

  • He didn't end the Age of Grace, nor start the Age of Kingdom.

  • What does that say? (That's right. It's true.)

  • Brother Lin was only doing man's work. And not God's work.

  • Doesn't it seem so obvious now?

  • Only God incarnate can bring forth the Age of Kingdom

  • and purify and perfect mankind.

  • In the past we didn't know about God's work.

  • We were so impressed with Brother Lin with all his books.

  • But it's clear we were mistaken. We regarded his work as God's.

  • We blindly followed and worshiped man.

  • Thinking back on it, we were so foolish and blind.

  • Yes, we were.

  • We don't care if there's a difference

  • between God incarnate's work and the work of man used by God!

  • We don't even care if the words of Almighty God are true or not!

  • All we care about is the Lord Jesus,

  • and if He descends down on a cloud and lifts us up to the kingdom of heaven!

  • If not, I would rather go to hell than put up with this!

  • Hey! Hold on! Don't you think you sound a bit like the Pharisees?

  • Oh wow, listen to this! There're more Pharisees!

  • They don't seek truth or God's work!

  • They just want to resist and condemn it! What are they trying to prove?

  • Do they believe in the Lord or not? I think maybe they don't!

  • Brothers and sisters, I think we disrupted the brothers' fellowship.

  • Maybe we should let them continue.

  • Brothers and sisters, we just talked about

  • the work of man used by God as opposed to the work of God incarnate.

  • I think we're all clear on that.

  • Next up, another way they're different.

  • The essential difference between God incarnate and man used by God.

  • Let's read Almighty God's word and see what we can learn about the two.

  • Please listen.

  • Turn to page 1392.

  • Want me to do it? (Sure.)

  • Almighty God's words have made it clear

  • that God incarnate is God's Spirit realized in the flesh.

  • Although He has normal humanity, His substance is divinity.

  • The substance of a man used by God is human.

  • That's all he is. There's not a bit of divine substance.

  • Christ with divine substance

  • means that God's innate disposition, His righteous, holy substance,

  • what God has and what God is, His almightiness, and His wisdom of all things,

  • as well as His great authority are realized in the flesh.

  • This flesh is the one with the divine substance,

  • is the practical God who does His work of saving mankind on earth.

  • Because Christ has the divine substance,

  • His emotional state,

  • and His attitudes, viewpoints and opinions on people, events,

  • and His thoughts are all truth, all the time,

  • and the expression of His life disposition along with His holy substance.

  • Christ can completely represent God, can express God's voice,

  • God's life disposition, what He has and is in His identity,

  • and can bestow on man the truth, the way, and the life,

  • which is way beyond us, way beyond our grasp.

  • It's because Christ has complete divinity

  • that He can directly express God's word at any time or place,

  • rather than convey it like some kind of a prophet.

  • Christ only expresses truth and does God's work here in the new age.

  • He never expresses the experience of God's words.

  • Because Christ has complete divinity, He can express truth at any time

  • to supply and water and shepherd, lead the whole of mankind.

  • It's because Christ has complete divinity

  • that He can undertake the work of God. He can lead mankind and redeem them.

  • He can conquer them. He can save them and end the whole former age. (Amen.)

  • But men used by God are human in substance with no divinity, only humanity.

  • So they can only do man's work, only man's duty.

  • Although they have the enlightenment from God,

  • the perfection of the Holy Spirit,

  • they can merely assist in God's work and share their experience.

  • Most of their words accord with the truth and edify others,

  • but they're not the truth and are not on a par with God's words. (Yes.)

  • Brothers and sisters, we must be clear on this.

  • What God incarnate does is the initiation and conclusion of an age.

  • He speaks the entire truth and leads all of mankind.

  • But the men used by God or having the work of the Holy Spirit

  • are still not divine.

  • They're assisting with God's work and doing the duty of man.

  • What they express are merely the experiences and knowledge of God's words,

  • and the words in accordance with truth.

  • Also, no matter how long they work or what they say,

  • they're just fellowshiping on the experience and the knowledge of God's word.

  • They exalt and testify about God.

  • This is the essential difference between God incarnate and men used by God,

  • or the men who have the work of the Holy Spirit.

  • Yeah. We know God incarnate has the divine substance.

  • So then, His word and work is without man's notion, imagination, and logic,

  • and He directly expresses God's divine being

  • and the original meaning of God's Spirit.

  • Just like in the Age of Grace,

  • Jesus revealed the mystery of the kingdom of heaven.

  • He brought the way of repentance to man,

  • expressed the disposition of love and mercy.

  • All this is the expression of God's Spirit,

  • as well as His disposition and all that He has and is,

  • which is beyond the reach of human thinking.

  • In the last days,

  • Almighty God expresses all the truth to purify, save, and perfect man.

  • He displays all of God's holiness to us along with His righteousness,

  • and reveals all the mysteries of His management plan,

  • like the mystery of His incarnation,

  • the difference between the work of God and of man,

  • the purpose of God's management plan,

  • the inner truth of God's three stages of work,

  • the source of man's corruption,

  • how he should break free from sin and attain God's salvation,

  • the destination of man, etc.

  • What Almighty God does is the expression of the divinity,

  • and the original meaning of God's Spirit,

  • which cannot be envisioned in the mind of humankind.

  • The works, words, and disposition of God incarnate are all enough to prove

  • that the substance of God incarnate is the divine substance.

  • We must remember His identity is the unique God Himself. (Amen.)

  • And men used by God can't do the work of divinity in His stead,

  • nor can they express the original meaning of His spirit.

  • But they can only assist with the work of God to the best of their ability.

  • They express their knowledge

  • and they lead God's chosen to enter the reality of God's word,

  • testifying and serving Him as man's duty.

  • Man is able to fathom their work,

  • and all of their works are attainable in man's mind,

  • and can be reached by experience. They are what man has and is.

  • Because both God incarnate and man used by God are very different,

  • the nature of their work is different, like their substance.

  • The difference between God incarnate and man used by God

  • is the difference between God and man.

  • One is God's substance while the other is man's substance.

  • Only He with divine substance can do God's work,

  • while mankind can only do the work of man.

  • Men used by God are not God incarnate,

  • and don't have the divine substance or the truth and life,

  • so they're unable to do God's work of saving man.

  • Men used by God can only assist with God's work,

  • which is their duty as a man. (Amen!)

  • But religious leaders, though respected, are not those who are used by God.

  • It's something that believers of God need to understand.

  • Almighty God's words have made it so clear!

  • Though Christ has normal humanity, the substance of His life is divine.

  • Right. (Yes.)

  • His work and words are the direct expression of God's divinity. (Amen.)

  • Man used by God is that a man with no divinity.

  • So he can't express truth or do the work of God. (Amen.)

  • I'm so grateful. We would still be in the dark if it weren't for Almighty God.

  • He made it clear and I thank God for that.

  • Amen. Yes. Thank God.

  • Yes. Christ works and speaks not mixed with human thought, logic or rules.

  • He expresses the original meaning of God's Spirit.

  • Man's work is mixed with his own thoughts, notions and conceptions.

  • Mm. I think

  • man can't speak the truth to do God's work of judgment and make overcomers.

  • Amen.

  • Praise His name.

  • Everyone, now we understand how God's work and man's work are so different,

  • as well as how God incarnate differs substantially from man used by God.

  • But there's more.

  • We still need to determine the difference between the work of men used by God

  • and the work of religious leaders and other important figures.

  • This is also very important.

  • If we don't know the difference between God's work and the work of men,

  • or if we can't figure out the difference

  • between men used by God and hypocritical Pharisees,

  • we're likely to go astray, follow man and lose the true way.

  • Just like when the Lord Jesus came to work,

  • and the whole Jews followed the hypocritical Pharisees and forsook Lord Jesus.

  • We know Almighty God does judgment work.

  • Many religious people are deceived by the leaders of their church

  • just as the Pharisees before, lied to, bound.

  • They forsake Christ in the last days.

  • You really don't want that to happen.

  • No, we don't.

  • In order to follow God,

  • we should know the religious leaders' hypocritical substance,

  • which is like that of the Pharisees.

  • They work and serve God by their gifts and talents.

  • They treat the Bible as a textbook and decipher it with logic and reasoning.

  • What they preach is biblical knowledge and theology.

  • And what they preach and focus on is man's word in the Bible.

  • Shouldn't they exalt God's word instead? Isn't that where they should focus?

  • They use man's word to replace Lord Jesus' word, making His words ring hollow.

  • This kind of work runs contrary to God's intention.

  • This is the core of the Pharisees' resistance to God.

  • Yes. Why do they resist God? It's blasphemy. Why would they do so?

  • Religious people have always accepted the leadership of the Pharisees.

  • For many years, they believe in God, gain no truth or life.

  • All they get are some biblical knowledge and theology.

  • So then, they become arrogant, self-conceited, more contemptuous,

  • without reverence for God.

  • Gradually God loses His place in man's heart.

  • And before he knows it, man finds himself on the path of resistance to God.

  • There are many church leaders and religious figures

  • who are actually misinterpreting the Bible.

  • They attempt to spread absurd fallacies

  • which conform to people's already faulty ideas,

  • getting people controlled and deceived.

  • And as a result, people start to accept their fallacies as God's word and truth.

  • And then, things start to fall apart. (Yes.)

  • These church figures and religious leaders

  • are the very antichrists that God exposes during His end-time work of judgment.

  • Yes. It's true.

  • This is strong enough proof

  • that the work of these so-called leaders and the "great" religious figures

  • doesn't come from the Holy Spirit,

  • but is the deceit and affliction of today's Pharisees.

  • They are the ones who resist and betray God.

  • They're the ones who re-crucify Him and will end up cursed by Him.

  • Yes. It's true. They don't revere God.

  • Indeed they are.

  • Brothers and sisters, until now, some people haven't been aware.

  • They treat those people in charge of the church, the deceivers,

  • as men used by the Holy Spirit,

  • and consider what they say, all the fallacious talk,

  • as the light from the Holy Spirit and even as God's word the truth.

  • These people, they follow God by name,

  • but in substance they're worshiping humans.

  • There's no room for God inside these men.

  • They've strayed and betrayed Him blindly.

  • It's really pitiable that they do this. (Yes.)

  • This is why the religious world is eliminated and forsaken by the work of God.

  • I think he's right.

  • I must agree with that. …

  • If we can't ever discern man's work from God's work, we'll be in trouble.

  • And if we can't figure out

  • if it's the work of men used by God or the hypocritical Pharisees',

  • we'll never escape the control of antichrists

  • or the deceit of the religious deceivers. (Yes. Indeed.)

  • If we continue to follow God in this way,

  • no matter how long we work at it, it will be in vain.

  • We'll never have the chance to gain His approval.

  • Yes, it's true.

  • Let's read some more of Almighty God's words.

  • Amen.

  • Yes. It's descendants of Satan. I agree.

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • in the past we showed no discernment for the work of God and the work of man,

  • not to mention the work of the hypocritical Pharisees.

  • So we worshiped Brother Lin and regarded his work as work done by God.

  • We resisted God without knowing it. (Yes.)

  • Almighty God speaks the truth. Thank God for that!

  • He opens our spiritual eyes and shows us where we failed.

  • It's Almighty God who saves us

  • from the influence of false leaders and antichrists. (Amen.)

  • I want to thank Him with all that I am!

  • Amen. It's Almighty God. We're truly blessed.

  • Brother Yang, Brother Meng, would you like some water?

  • Here.

  • I'm grateful to God.

  • The fellowship you gave completely changed my thinking!

  • Praise God!

  • Before we had no idea

  • there was a difference between the work of God and the work of man. (Yes.)

  • So we ended up following man, worshiping man! (Yes, I agree.)

  • For years, we've all been harmed by these people. Our leaders!

  • Yes, it's so right. When the blind lead the blind, they all fall down! Isn't that correct? (Yes.)

  • The Pharisees are right in front of us. We had no idea!

  • No wonder we failed! (Yes.)

  • What should we expect?

  • It reminds me of the verse,

  • I understand the "lack of knowledge" and the "want of wisdom." (Yes.)

  • Thank Almighty God for the salvation He's brought us! (Amen.)

  • Thanks be to God. Brothers and sisters,

  • if we still can't tell who are Pharisees, false shepherds or antichrists,

  • we'll fall into darkness with great misery. (Yes!)

  • Then all the years that we've spent have been a waste of effort and all in vain.

  • Yes. Right.

  • If we continue to follow false leaders and the like,

  • there's no question we'll be cursed by God! (Yes, it's true.)

  • Praise His name. Your fellowship was quite helpful.

  • I'm sure we have much to ponder.

  • Yeah. Yes. We do.

  • In order to tell the difference between man's work and God's,

  • we should look at the nature and the underlying substance of the work. (Yes.)

  • God incarnate is in charge of ending an age, starting an age,

  • and saving us with the truth. (Amen!)

  • Men used by God, however,

  • just express the experience and knowledge of truth based on God's work

  • to supply man and aid man in doing their duty. (Yes, so true.)

  • So now, we understand this part of the truth.

  • And so, we'll never confuse the two. We can discern between them.

  • Amen. How wonderful! Amen, thank God! It's true. Praise God.

  • This is great, isn't it?

  • Brother Meng, Brother Yang. I have a question. I hope you don't mind.

  • A lot of people still believe that Brother Lin was used by God.

  • He wrote many spiritual books and released much message.

  • Those words are the way of life, a provision.

  • They have the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit,

  • like the apostles' epistles in the Bible.

  • These words were our guide and in accordance with the truth.

  • But you say that the words in accord with the truth said by men used by God

  • are not the truth.

  • So then, what exactly is the truth?

  • We're not sure. It's a bit confusing. Would you mind fellowshiping?

  • Not at all.

  • There's nothing to say!

  • It's the truth. All of it! The apostles' words help!

  • Amen. That's right.

  • Brother Lin is a man used by God.

  • Like an apostle, his words contain the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit!

  • We benefit from them greatly!

  • We believe Brother Lin's words are the truth! (Amen.)

  • There's no doubt with it!

  • That's right! Words compatible with the truth are truth!

  • It's a simple question. Discussion over!

  • Don't say such things.

  • Brother Sun,

  • Brother Meng here has talked to us about Almighty God's word.

  • And you don't seem to have listened!

  • If Brother Lin's words are all truth as you say,

  • then why are we finding so many of them are wrong?

  • Well, I'm just wondering,

  • are you really that thick or just pretending?

  • It's good enough for man's words to be in accord with the truth. (Yes.)

  • If man could express truth, he would become God!

  • No wonder you're worshiping man,

  • because for some reason you don't seek the truth!

  • Right! (Yes.)

  • We didn't get what's truth before

  • or what's the word in accordance with the truth.

  • We treated man's words, words that accord with the truth

  • or that are seemingly right as the truth. (Yes.)

  • We were deceived to follow man and we did.

  • So now we really need to learn the truth.

  • If you would, could you fellowship some more?

  • Oh yes, please! Amen, I think fellowship is a good idea.

  • Praise His name. Knowing the truth is so crucial. (Amen.)

  • It's the most crucial truth that any believer has to understand. (Amen.)

  • We wonder why words according with the truth from men used by God

  • are not the truth.

  • Before that, we need to know what the truth is.

  • Yes. He's right. That's great!

  • In that case, let's talk about the truth and there's so much to tell!

  • Amen. Thank Almighty God!

  • Everyone, please have a seat. Please be seated.

  • Amen. Praise Almighty God. I can't wait. It's so excited.

  • Everything they've said is so helpful.

  • Yes, I can't wait to hear what's next.

  • Throughout the ages, none's grasped with the meaning of the truth.

  • When the Lord Jesus came in the Age of Grace, He said,

  • Amen.

  • And yet, we still don't understand the real meaning of the truth. (It's true.)

  • Only when Christ of the last days comes,

  • is the mystery of the truth revealed to us all. (Amen.)

  • Let's see what Almighty God has to say about it.

  • Yes, that's a great idea.

  • From Almighty God's words, we can see

  • that only Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. (Amen.)

  • This is because Christ has divine substance,

  • and He does God's work on behalf of God.

  • The truth comes from God and is then expressed by Christ.

  • That's to say, all the words that are expressed by God are the truth. (Amen!)

  • This is because the truth is the substance of God's life,

  • God's disposition, what He has and is,

  • and the reality of all the positive things,

  • which is immutable and exists forever.

  • Amen. Yes, forever.

  • The words expressed by God have authority and are very powerful.

  • They can purify and perfect man.

  • They can save man and be the source of man's eternal life. (Amen!)

  • So then, all the words that are expressed by God are the whole truth.

  • God's work, His expressions, His very words, and His predestination

  • are all the truth. (Amen!)

  • All that God issues and asks man to keep,

  • and all that He requires of man and asks him to live out,

  • are truly all the reality of positive things. They're all the truth. (Amen.)

  • So then, every word that God Himself expresses has the truth within it.

  • God has expressed many truths during every stage of His work.

  • And these truths are the precious life that God chooses to bestow on man.

  • Amen.

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • What God has expressed to us during His work, twice becoming flesh

  • are the truth. (Amen!)

  • This is like the words the Lord Jesus expressed to us during the Age of Grace.

  • In those words,

  • mankind sees God's disposition, God's love, and the substance of His holiness.

  • All these are the precious truth for us to know God. (Amen!)

  • Just like Lord Jesus' love toward all of mankind, His mercy, and forbearance,

  • Lord Jesus required that mankind love God with all his heart

  • to love his neighbor, to be light and salt, and so on.

  • All these are positive things and the truth,

  • as well as the reality of life man should possess. (Yes.)

  • When Christ of the last days, Almighty God, comes,

  • He expresses all the truth of judging, purifying and perfecting man.

  • All these truths are the reality of life that man should possess

  • in the Age of Kingdom. (Amen.)

  • Christ of the last days reveals to man

  • God's disposition of righteousness, majesty, wrath, and intolerance of offense.

  • He discloses the mystery of God's management plan of saving mankind,

  • the mystery of God's three stages of work,

  • the inside truth and substance of every stage of His work,

  • and the mystery of His incarnation.

  • He reveals how God gives judgment in the last days,

  • what the kingdom of Christ is,

  • how God reveals the end of every person, rewards good and punishes evil.

  • He reveals God's righteousness,

  • what His holiness is,

  • the symbolic meaning of God's disposition and His emotions.

  • He unveils righteousness and evilness,

  • all things positive and all things negative.

  • He shows the substance and fact of man's corruption by Satan.

  • He shows the way to fear God and how to shun evil,

  • what the real human life is, how we can live out a meaningful life,

  • and how to make the most of it.

  • Almighty God has revealed all these truths and all the mysteries

  • for man to know and see,

  • so they can fear God, shun evil, obey God, and worship Him. (Amen!)

  • The truth Almighty God expresses

  • is the way of eternal life mankind should have.

  • Amen!

  • Those who agree to accept all the truth expressed by God as a way of life,

  • are people who gain the eternal life.

  • Those who refuse to accept all the truth expressed to them by God,

  • will head toward destruction.

  • So then, all the truths expressed by Almighty God in the last days,

  • are God's work of beginning an age and ending an age,

  • when the last days arrive. (Amen!)

  • Men used by God are the ones God saves and perfects.

  • Their duty in God's work that they strive to perform

  • is to assist in the work of God and to lead God's chosen people.

  • So then, their words that are in accordance with the truth,

  • are a result of the Holy Spirit's work.

  • Though they are of benefit to man, they cannot be called truth, God's word.

  • The reason for this is man's words are of his own knowledge of truth,

  • are his own point of view, and understanding, and they involve human impurity.

  • Besides, man's experience and knowledge about the truth is limited.

  • No matter how much man enters into the truth,

  • it doesn't mean he possesses the substance of the truth,

  • or completely lives out the image of the truth either. (Right.)

  • So then, even if he's lived out some realities of the truth,

  • it still stands that what he expresses is in line with the truth,

  • but can never be considered as on the same par. (Amen!)

  • Only the words expressed by the incarnate God are the truth.

  • That is to say,

  • only God has the substance of truth. Only God is the truth. (Amen!)

  • No matter how many years man has believed in God,

  • he is always as a newborn baby before Him. (Yes.)

  • He can never possibly live out the image of God.

  • So then, the men used by God and the men with the work of the Holy Spirit,

  • their words can only be viewed in line with truth,

  • and not considered the truth itself. (Amen!)

  • This is a fact that no one can deny.

  • If one considers man's words to be the truth, he's not just resisting God.

  • He's blaspheming against Him!

  • Yes. Completely blasphemous.

  • Now let's find out what Almighty God has to say. (All right.)

  • I'll read it. (Mm.)

  • Amen.

  • Thank the Lord! Today I understand what the truth means, (Yes!)

  • for Almighty God has explained the truth so thoroughly, so clearly! (Amen!)

  • Brother Lin wrote a lot of spiritual books,

  • but he didn't explain the truth clearly at all.

  • I guess, Brother Lin never understood what the truth really means.

  • Praise God.

  • Praise His name. We understand only God's words are truth.

  • Only God's words can be man's life. (Amen!)

  • And we still need to know it's because of the Holy Spirit's work and guidance

  • that men used by God have some reality, can fellowship the ways of life entering

  • and can bring people before God to make them know Him and obey Him.

  • And this is all thanks to the Holy Spirit. (Yes. It's true.)

  • However, the religious leaders without the work of the Spirit,

  • have spread some specious theories, deceitful and going against the truth.

  • To people who have no truth, they sound so reasonable.

  • They seem to tally with the truth and are accepted.

  • But after a while people realize those words are empty and lack reality.

  • They're clearly man's imaginings and they're no help.

  • Some theories are ridiculous and stand against the truth.

  • You've quoted Brother Lin a lot.

  • His theories of "God became man that man may become God"

  • and "God's Spirit and man's spirit are mingled as one"

  • were accepted by many people then.

  • But it didn't take very long and they were found ridiculous and absurd.

  • They're impractical and invalid.

  • That's right. I agree. Yes. It's true.

  • If we accept God's work and the nourishment of His word

  • and understand some truth,

  • we'll be able to see

  • that man's word falls short of the word of God and of the truth. (Amen. Yes.)

  • Man's word, no matter how pleasant it is, is not the truth. (Yes.)

  • And man's spiritual theory, no matter how profound it is,

  • can't purify or change man.

  • Especially religious figures and leaders of the church,

  • their words are specious fallacies,

  • which can only deceive and corrupt us, and harm. (Yeah.)

  • If man doesn't accept God's word and experience His work,

  • he'll never break free from the deception and the bondage

  • of all the false shepherds and the antichrists. (Yes.)

  • And he'll never escape the influence of Satan. (Amen.)

  • And so, worshiping and following man

  • is the same as resisting God and betraying Him.

  • Yes.

  • All those who follow all the false shepherds and antichrists

  • are doomed to weep and gnash their teeth when the disaster occurs. (Yes.)

  • Thank Almighty God for revealing the truth and the mystery.

  • We understand

  • there's a difference between man's word and the truth God reveals.

  • They can't even be compared.

  • Right. Yes.

  • God's word is the truth. It can purify and save man and be man's life.

  • Amen.

  • Man's word in accordance with the truth can only help man, supply him,

  • but can't ever be man's life.

  • Yes. (Yes, indeed.)

  • The fallacies of the religious leaders,

  • all the people who claim to show us the way,

  • can only deceive, corrupt us and harm us. It's the truth.

  • Yes. It's true.

  • Though I read the Bible and prayed in the Lord's name all of this time,

  • I never grasped or practiced the words of the Lord Jesus,

  • but spent all these years to follow Brother Lin.

  • In name, I believe in the Lord Jesus. But in practice, I followed Brother Lin.

  • I'm believing and following man.

  • I'm a blind guide to all of you.

  • Yes, if we refuse to follow the Lord Jesus' word,

  • but exalt and testify Brother Lin's words,

  • and even practice them as if they were the words of God,

  • aren't we just following and obeying man? (Yes!)

  • Then we're not following and believing in God! (Yes!)

  • In the past, we believed in the Lord Jesus in name,

  • but in fact we lived on man's words instead. We followed man.

  • We were truly blind and ignorant. (Yeah.)

  • No matter how respected one is or how knowledgeable,

  • he can't save or perfect men!

  • If it weren't for the salvation of Almighty God,

  • then all of us, worshipers of man,

  • would be cursed by God like the Pharisees and punished in the end. (Yes.)

  • Everyone! You're easily dissuaded!

  • Brother Lin had led us for years and it takes you a day to betray him?

  • Exactly! Look at yourselves! You'd think you could be a bit more loyal!

  • Even if the word of Almighty God is the truth, is the true way,

  • we won't accept Him unless He raptures us to the kingdom of heaven!

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • no matter what, we can't deny the Lord's name and betray Brother Lin.

  • Brother Wang, Brother Sun! What is this all about?

  • If the religious leaders and elders exalt and testify themselves

  • to make us follow them, then lead us astray, we should be opposing them!

  • Amen!

  • Especially those false shepherds, apostles, we should betray them even more!

  • Betraying them is betraying Satan! (Amen!)

  • We believers should betray Satan and return before God!

  • We'd be leaving darkness to return to light! (Amen!)

  • Those who don't intend to lead us toward the truth

  • and don't care if we obey God or not,

  • deserve to be betrayed! That's only right! (Amen!)

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • true faith in God is obeying God and following the Lamb's footsteps.

  • And we'll follow the Lamb wherever He goes. (Amen!)

  • No matter how well known or gifted,

  • if one can't bring us before the true God, but lets us worship him, what is he?

  • He is the servant of Satan! And he should be forsaken! (Amen!)

  • It's only Christ who can perfect man and save man.

  • Worshiping man, praising man, obeying man, is the same thing as betraying God!

  • Brothers and sisters, God created us. It wasn't Satan!

  • Betraying Satan is justified! (Amen!)

  • Today, when we hear the voice of God, and follow the footsteps of the Lamb,

  • we're following God and obeying God! (Amen!)

  • I don't understand.

  • Why do you insist on clinging to man's words? On obeying man? (Yes.)

  • Your rejecting God's coming is the same as being an unbeliever. (Yes.)

  • Brothers and sisters, remember God created us.

  • That is why we follow Him and obey Him. (Amen!)

  • Before, we were deceived by man and followed him instead.

  • That's because we were blind, foolish and ignorant. (Yes.)

  • Today, if Almighty God didn't bestow His mercy,

  • send these men to preach us the gospel,

  • could we return before God in the end? (Yes.)

  • After hearing the words of Almighty God

  • and the testimonies of His work of judgment in the last days,

  • we truly understand that

  • only accepting the judgment and chastisement from Christ

  • and attaining perfection,

  • is truly being raptured into the kingdom of heaven. (Amen!)

  • Just those who accept Almighty God's judgment and chastisement

  • are made overcomers.

  • And they'll have a place in the kingdom of heaven. (Amen!)

  • All those who seek the truth and accept the truth

  • should stand on the side of Almighty God,

  • and shouldn't act otherwise. (Yes!)

  • Why is it that we believe in God?

  • It's so we receive the truth and receive the life.

  • Yes.

  • Only God loves us. False shepherds have no love. Antichrists don't love.

  • All those false shepherds and antichrists do is deceive and harm us.

  • We should rise up to betray them in return. (Amen!)

  • God's sheep can hear His voice. People of God will surely return before Him.

  • Amen!

  • Only men of Satan will deny the voice of God

  • and reject His work of the last days. (Amen. Yes.)

  • All those who worship and follow man derive from Satan.

  • We must forsake all people like that.

  • Amen! I really believe it.

  • We know Almighty God's work in the last days has revealed all kinds of people.

  • Each one has a category.

  • This is proof of God's wisdom

  • and reveals that He's righteous and holy. (Amen!)

  • Thank Almighty God. All the glory be to Him!

  • That's right. Thank Almighty God. Amen.

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • so now the gospel of the kingdom's descent

  • has spread throughout Mainland China.

  • Amen!

  • Almighty God's work of judgment in the last days

  • is spreading to the whole world.

  • All of the believers who have a great love of truth and long for God

  • in every denomination and sect,

  • have all returned before the throne of God.

  • Amen!

  • This stream of return is irresistible! (Amen!)

  • Amen!

  • Just as Almighty God says,

  • Amen!

  • Amen!

  • Amen! Yes. It's so true. It's indeed God's voice.

  • Oh, Lord, you really have come back for us! Oh, thank God!

  • Amen!

  • Brothers and sisters, think of it. Today we all heard the voice of God.

  • This is truly His grace and exaltation.

  • Amen!

  • Two thousand years ago,

  • God came personally as flesh to be mankind's sin offering.

  • Amen.

  • In the last days, God becomes flesh once again.

  • He practically expresses the truth to judge and purify,

  • separates man according to kind,

  • and ends the whole age by the work of judgment. (Yes.)

  • God's work of saving mankind is so real, practical! There's no denying it!

  • Amen!

  • Rapture is wonderful.

  • Yes! It's only God who can do the work of God. (Amen!)

  • No one can fulfill the work of the plan God's made. (Amen!)

  • Now I'm sure that Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus come back for us!

  • Amen!

  • Thank God for His grace. (Amen!)

  • These days through our seeking Almighty God's word and work,

  • I've gained so very much. (Amen!)

  • Almighty God has expressed the entire truth to save mankind.

  • It's enough to prove that

  • Almighty God is the embodiment of the Spirit of truth, (Amen!)

  • the return of the Lord Jesus, (Amen!)

  • the appearance of Christ in the last days, (Yes.)

  • and even more than that is the righteous God who judges all. (Amen!)

  • All of the nations and all peoples shall hear His voice

  • and return before the throne of God.

  • Amen!

  • Also, if Almighty God didn't express the truth to save me,

  • I would be still bound and deceived by religious antichrists. It's true.

  • I would still be foolishly worshiping, obeying and following man,

  • regarding man's word as the word of God,

  • and the work of man as the work of God. (Yes.)

  • And in doing all of these things, I tried to be God. (Yeah.)

  • I was so absurd and such a fool. (Yes.)

  • Man without the truth is pitiful, ignorant and blind. (Yes.)

  • Looking back now, the path that we followed was the path of antichrists.

  • Yes. It's true.

  • I feel as if I'm at the edge of a tall cliff.

  • Below me lies the bottomless chasm. (Yes.)

  • How dangerous! (Yes. It's true.)

  • I'm in unimaginable peril.

  • Praise His name. God didn't forsake me. (Amen!)

  • But He let me hear His blessed voice,

  • and let me know His work in the last days, (Amen!)

  • so that I'm raptured before the throne of God.

  • Amen!

  • My rapture was in such great peril. (Amen! Yes.)

  • I must thank Almighty God. He's my God and He's my Lord. Thank you God!

  • Amen!

  • It's true. Yes.

  • God forgave me. He didn't punish me as He could have. (Amen.)

  • He saves me from the lies

  • and the bondage of the antichrists that could ruin me, (Amen!)

  • so that I break free from Satan's influence,

  • and am finally able to return before God's throne.

  • Amen!

  • I will thank Almighty God forever, (Amen!)

  • and repay God's love!

  • Amen!

  • Praise His name. Thank God.

  • Brother Zhao.

It's coming. We know in the year two thousand,

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