Gospel Movie clip "The Mystery of Godliness: The Sequel" (2) - How to Understand God Incarnate

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Even though believers have known for thousands of years,
the Lord Jesus is in fact the incarnate God,
you see no one understands it,
nor do they really understand the substance of the incarnation.
But Almighty God of the last days has come
and now this aspect of the mystery has been revealed to man.
Now what is the incarnation of God?
Amen!
God incarnate has a normal humanity, and seems like a normal person,
but He's actually God's Spirit realized in the flesh
and He has divine substance.
That's why He's the One who's able to do the work of God,
why He has the ability to express the truth,
God's disposition and His demands for mankind at any time or place.
Amen!
Lately, more people have been accepting the gospel.
That's right.
God's sheep will hear the voice of God. (Right!)
Oh, I think it's our brothers and sisters.
Let them in.
Now that all these people want to spread the gospel,
more people would accept God's work.
That's for sure! You're right!
Brother Zhen! Brother Zhen! Someone has reported you.
What did they say?
They said that there are two preachers from out of town
who've been living with you for months.
The village headman's coming to investigate and soon!
This is very bad. His son's in the police station. (Yes.)
This means he might bring the police.
Well, maybe it's not safe here.
We should just go.
Right, we're heading out now.
Wait, Brother Lin, you can stay with Elder Peng in Wulin County.
Hold on!
What is it?
I was at the committee office.
I rushed over here to tell you as soon as I heard!
I've written down Elder Peng's address.
Elder Peng is a very good man,
you can live with him for now.
Thank you!
Go! I'll see you out!
Please take some buns for the road!
Alright, we're off!
Hey! Hey there! Wait a minute.
Good morning! (Hi, how are you?)
Co-worker Guo is here, too.
Almost everyone is here. Let's begin!
Now then, my brothers,
I'm a longtime believer,
and though I knew the Lord Jesus is the incarnation of God,
I didn't know the Lord Jesus Himself
and I didn't treat the Lord Jesus as God Himself. (Right!)
When the Lord Jesus arrived a second time,
I couldn't recognize His voice
and I didn't know how to welcome the Lord. (Right.)
But now we've certainly come to the root of the problem,
and it's because we don't understand the truth about God's incarnation. (Right.)
Now I think after hearing your testimony,
it's become clear that in the last days the Lord has to become flesh
in order to perform His judgment. (I agree. Yes!)
But we don't understand the truth about the incarnation,
and we are all so easily deceived
by the rumors of the CCP and the pastors of the religious world.
We might treat God incarnate as an ordinary man
and even resist Him and blaspheme Him.
And so I want to ask you more about the incarnation.
Now what is the incarnation of God?
What is the difference between Christ and the prophets and apostles used by God?
Please explain it to me. (Right. Please.)
What is the difference?
You've raised a very important issue.
The reason believers can't accept Almighty God's work in the last days
is because of this very point!
If we don't understand the truth about the incarnation,
we may easily fall prey to the rumors
spread by the CCP and the pastors and elders of the religious world
who would lead us to believe that Almighty God is just a man
and deny that Almighty God is the incarnation of God. (Right.)
That's right. That's what we've heard!
Since you've brought up this very crucial issue today,
I think we should focus on that in our talk.
Okay.
First of all, as for what the incarnation is and what Christ is,
you could say
there's a mystery of the truth that no believer has ever understood. (Yes!)
Even though believers have known for thousands of years,
the Lord Jesus is in fact the incarnate God,
you see no one understands it,
nor do they really understand the substance of the incarnation.
But Almighty God of the last days has come
and now this aspect of the mystery has been revealed to man.
Let's read and see how Almighty God explains it. (Alright!)
Great!
Amen!
Amen! Praise God!
Let's turn to page 1390. (Okay!)
Amen!
Praise God. Let's stop here for now.
The incarnation, it means that God becomes a man?
We've never heard preaching this before.
So, in Almighty God's word, it has been made clear
God's incarnation refers to God's Spirit being realized in flesh.
God's Spirit is clothed in flesh and becomes the Son of man
to carry out His work here on earth and appear to mankind.
All of that means that God in heaven has become man,
so He can fulfill His salvation of man while working among man.
He has normal humanity and complete divinity.
From His appearance,
God's incarnation seems like an ordinary and normal man.
He obeys the normal laws of human life
and takes part in the activities of normal life.
He has normal human emotions and lives practically
while He's in the company of human beings.
From His appearance,
He doesn't seem different from us.
But the substance of the incarnate God is divinity.
He can express God's disposition, all that God is and has.
He's able to express the truth according to man's needs
and supply and save man no matter what time or place.
He can do the work of God Himself,
something that nothing else in creation is capable of.
Amen!
We know the Lord Jesus is definitely the incarnation of God, He is Christ.
From His outward appearance,
He seemed just the same as us, an ordinary normal person.
Yes! Right! Amen!
And yet the Lord Jesus could express the truth
and bring man the way of repentance.
He had the authority to pardon man of his sins and be crucified,
so He could complete mankind's redemption.
No other man has been capable of this.
Yes! Indeed.
The Lord Jesus could also perform signs and wonders.
He could calm the winds and sea,
feed five thousand with just five loaves and two fish,
resurrect the dead, and so on. (Right. That's right.)
The Lord Jesus performed many miracles and manifested a myriad of God's deeds.
Yes. Indeed.
The Lord Jesus also traveled far and wide to preach.
According to man's real needs,
He expressed the truth to supply and shepherd man,
working at any time or place,
allowing man to see how His words and work
were indeed those of the real and practical God on earth and in the flesh.
Amen!
The words and work of Lord Jesus
are a manifestation of God's life disposition and all that God has and is.
No created humans are possessed with this,
nor are they capable of reaching such achievements.
Amen!
This proves the Lord Jesus Himself is indeed the incarnate God.
Amen!
Though He has normal humanity,
His inner substance is still divine.
And so, He can utter God's voice and express the truth.
He can perform God's work with God's identity.
You see, if we were only able to see Christ's normal humanity,
we would only think to treat Him like an ordinary man,
but if we were to realize that the words expressed by Christ are the truth,
that He manifests God's disposition and all that God is and has,
and behold all of His deeds and the work of God in the flesh,
only through reaching this level
would we come to know the divine substance of Christ.
Amen!
Okay. God's incarnation is a mystery.
Yes. Indeed.
I've been reading the Bible for many years,
and even though I've heard the term "incarnation,"
sadly, I don't think I've been very clear on its true meaning.
Right.
Now, finally I understand.
God incarnate looks like us on the outside and seems ordinary, (Yes.)
but what's hidden inside Him is His divine substance,
and the divine substance of Christ cannot be understood easily.
Right, yes, indeed! That's right!
So to realize that everything Christ expresses is the truth,
and that He manifests God's life disposition,
that's not exactly an easy task. (Right.)
We must experience God's work and seek truth
if we want to make that realization! (Yeah!)
Yes, that's true!
In fact, it's very important for us believers
to know the divine substance of Christ.
Right!
If we don't recognize His divine substance,
then we might deny Christ and think He's just an ordinary man,
or we might even treat the apostles and prophets used by God,
like they were God Himself.
This is certainly no small matter!
Yes. Indeed. Of course!
Now I think we should discuss the differences
between the apostles and prophets used by God and Christ Himself.
Alright!
Thanks be to God!
Everyone is now aware that God incarnate has a normal humanity,
and seems like a normal person,
but He's actually God's Spirit realized in the flesh
and He has divine substance.
That's why He's the One who's able to do the work of God,
why He has the ability to express the truth,
God's disposition and His demands for mankind at any time or place. (Right.)
So He's the One who can judge, expose, and even curse mankind,
just like He can redeem, purify, and save man.
Amen!
The prophets and apostles are men who are used by God.
They too possess normal humanity but they lack divine substance.
That means they can only do the work of man,
that is, in God's management plan they can only fulfill human duties. (Right.)
None of them are able to express the truth,
much less do the work of God Himself.
Right. I see.
Though their preachings are endowed with the Holy Spirit's pure enlightenment
and accord with the truth,
they're not the truth itself,
they're just their experience and knowledge of God's word.
If we think about the apostles of the Age of Grace,
what they communed was only their own interpretation of the Lord Jesus' word,
testimony based in their experience of God's work.
When we look at the letters of the apostles,
we can clearly see that they were written by men,
they're all based on their personal experiences and witnessing.
Not a single word is the truth that God personally expresses.
Not a single word contains the authority and power as the Lord Jesus' word.
You see, the apostles' words and those of the Lord Jesus are vastly different.
We cannot look at them in the same light.
Amen! Yes!
But there are prophets like Isaiah and Daniel too
who were able to speak God's word!
How do you explain that?
Actually, when the prophets express God's word,
they're only conveying it because they're ordered to by God Himself.
You see, they can't express God's word,
using God's identity or using the first person.
On top of that they can't express the truth at will.
Because they're merely men that are used by God,
they're not God Himself.
They're only supposed to deliver God's word,
and still what they can deliver is very limited.
So when the prophets deliver God's word,
they make it clear that what they're speaking is the word of God
and not their own words.
Is that not the case? (Yes, it's true.)
This is very true!
When the prophets conveyed God's word,
they said "thus saith the Lord," or "The Lord spoke unto me saying."
That is indeed the case. Yes, it is the case.
This is all proof
the prophets and apostles are men who are used by God,
but they're not incarnations of God.
Right! Yeah!
God's incarnation, we can absolutely call God since He has divine substance.
The prophets and apostles have just humanity.
They lack divine substance and so they can't be called God.
So you see, this is the biggest difference
between God's incarnation and the prophets and apostles.
Now I see.
This communion made things clearer for me!
The Lord Jesus looks ordinary,
but what the Lord Jesus says is all God's word and is the truth for sure.
Amen!
His deeds are all part of God's work.
So the Lord Jesus truly does have divine substance within Him, (Yes!)
which no other human could possibly have. (Amen!)
And the apostles and prophets only have humanity
and don't possess divine substance.
Right!
They can't express any bit of truth or complete God's work.
That's a fact! Right!
And now we can distinguish things!
Only God is God, man is always man.
It's important for us to know and understand the incarnate God! (Amen!)
Thanks be to God!
I'm glad that Almighty God has explained the incarnation so clearly.
If Almighty God hadn't revealed the mystery of the incarnation
for us to understand,
we might have never discovered the truth for ourselves
or known about the incarnation.
Yes, that's right! Very true! Absolutely.
Pardon me, brothers, if I may speak.
Your testimony makes a lot of sense,
but we believe in the Lord Jesus who is God's incarnation. (Amen!)
And the Lord Jesus did God's work of redemption.
No one would deny that.
But this Almighty God you believe in cannot really be God's incarnation.
This Almighty God is nowhere in the Bible.
So then the pastors of the religious world
say that He's merely a man
and that you've been fooled.
Only the Lord Jesus, the One we believe in, is Christ, God's Son! (Amen!)
This Almighty God you believe in is just a man.
How could it be otherwise?
Right!
You say that God has been incarnated again to do His work.
That's impossible!
There's only one incarnation of God that we recognize
and He is our Savior, the Lord Jesus. (Amen!)
The One you believe in could not possibly be the incarnation of God.
The One you believe in is merely a man!
Your belief that the Lord Jesus is God's incarnation is not wrong.
But why do you choose to believe in the Lord Jesus?
Do you really think the Lord Jesus is God Himself?
You believe in the Lord Jesus
because of what's written in the Bible and the work of the Holy Spirit.
But no matter what, you haven't seen the Lord Jesus face to face.
Do you really dare to say you know the Lord Jesus?
In your belief, you're merely echoing the words of Peter
who said that the Lord Jesus is Christ, the Son of the living God.
But do you believe the Lord Jesus is the manifestation of God,
and that He's God Himself?
Do you dare say that you recognize the divine substance of Lord Jesus?
Do you dare to declare that if the Lord Jesus comes back expressing truth,
you will be able to recognize His voice?
I wouldn't dare. No.
Your belief in the Lord Jesus
amounts to nothing more than a belief in that name "the Lord Jesus."
You don't even understand the divine substance of the Lord Jesus.
If you understand it,
then why can't you distinguish the true voice of God's Spirit?
Why can't you acknowledge
that the truth expressed by Almighty God comes from God,
that it's the voice of the Holy Spirit?
Now that I've seen the way you recklessly reject the voice of God
and boldly deny the very truth which God expresses.
I am now sure that deep down in your hearts,
you don't really know God incarnate!
That's true!
If you had been born two thousand years ago,
in the age when the Lord Jesus was working,
you certainly would have joined in
along with the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees
in condemning the Lord Jesus.
Do any of you think that's not the case?
That's absolutely true.
Those chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees
had believed in the only true God for many years,
but then why couldn't they recognize the Lord Jesus?
Why did they choose to persecute Him and nail Him to the cross?
What was the big issue?
Yes. Right.
Why is it that the pastors of the religious world
fail to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit in the last days?
Why are they condemning the judgment work of Almighty God in the last days?
Let me ask you:
If you believe in God but you fail to acknowledge God's incarnation,
doesn't that make you an antichrist?
Yes!
The Pharisees back then
worked to resist and condemn the Lord Jesus, the incarnate God.
They were all antichrists and they were revealed by God's work!
That's right! Amen.
And as for the pastors and elders of the religious world
who resist and condemn the incarnate Almighty God in the last days,
they are also antichrists and are against God who are all exposed by God's work!
Amen!
Yes! That's right! Indeed they are!
We can plainly see
that the majority of pastors in the religious world
all resist and condemn the work of Almighty God in the last days.
They look upon Almighty God's work without really seeing,
and hear His words without listening.
Almighty God has delivered all truth to purify and save mankind.
He has conquered, saved, and made a group of overcomers.
The whole world will soon see the gospel of the kingdom.
It's becoming unstoppable!
So now could the pastors and leaders of the religious world
possibly not see the facts of God's work?
How can they dare to repeat something as foolish as
"Belief in Almighty God is belief in a man"?
That's right.
Thinking about all this reminds me
of how the Lord Jesus came to do His work,
how He faced so much resistance and blasphemy
from the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees who would then crucify Him.
They said belief in the Lord Jesus was belief in a mere human.
What is the big issue here?
This just goes to show
that there are many who believe in the vague God in the heavens,
but there are very few who have a real knowledge of the incarnate God.
That's right.
Why did the Lord Jesus condemn those Pharisees that resisted Him?
Because they only believed in the vague God up in heaven,
but chose to condemn and resist the incarnate God.
Amen! Yeah!
Isn't that what happened?
That's true. Right!
Yes, it's true.
Belief in God without knowledge of God can lead to resistance.
Yes!
The chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees then
clearly saw the authority and power in the Lord Jesus
through His words and His deeds.
So how could they still brazenly condemn and blaspheme against the Lord Jesus?
They all said that He cast out demons through Beelzebub to deceive man,
and then they ultimately nailed the Lord Jesus to the cross alive.
Yes. That's true.
Now what does all of this tell us?
Wasn't it because they only saw the Lord Jesus just as an ordinary man?
It's just like they said "Isn't that the Nazarene, the son of a carpenter?"
Yeah.
As far as the Pharisees were concerned,
the flesh assumed by God incarnate should've supernatural qualities.
He should be of great stature and a powerful build,
and a kingly and commanding presence.
His words should be earthshaking and deafening.
They should strike fear in the hearts of man.
If not, He can't be God.
That's how I've always thought of it, too!
Me, too! I've always thought that!
The truth is they didn't have the slightest understanding
of what the incarnation is,
and didn't seek the Lord Jesus' words and work
to find the truth and to find God's disposition and all that God is and has.
They saw Lord Jesus as an ordinary man,
judging and blaspheming against Him based on their own misconceptions.
This is all the proof while they believed in God,
they resisted Him and did not know Him.
Yes.
Very true.
And now pastors say that the One we believe in is just an ordinary human.
This isn't any different from how the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees
went out of their way to condemn the Lord Jesus and His followers.
That's right.
You see, most of the pastors in the religious world
are no different than the hypocritical Pharisees back then.
They resisted God while believing in Him. (Yes.)
They're scoundrels who acknowledge the God in the heavens
while denying the incarnate Christ Himself!
Amen!
What authority do they have
to condemn those who choose to accept and obey Christ?
What do you say to that?
Yes, that's absolutely right!
This fellowship today has been so valuable for us. (Yes.)
Before, we didn't have the slightest understanding of the incarnation
and didn't investigate the work of Almighty God in the last days. (Right!)
We just listened to the pastors and elders who said you believe in a man.
We never considered that if Almighty God really is the returned Lord Jesus.
Our resistance and condemnation
would be no different from that of the Pharisees against the Lord!
Yes!
How ignorant and foolish we have all been!
Right. Yes. That's true.
Your fellowship was really practical.
I really got a lot out of it!
Praise God!
Pardon me, but I'd like to ask another question.
On what basis can you confirm that Almighty God really is God's incarnation?
If you could, please explain this matter for us!
Yes, please tell us more!
Praise God. I'd be happy to continue our fellowship! (Okay!)
God becomes flesh once again in the last days
to deliver His word and do His work,
and He is the incarnate Almighty God. (Amen!)
Based on His appearance, Almighty God just seems like an ordinary person,
and He lives practically in the company of men,
taking part in their lives and working among them.
He expresses the truth according to man's needs
and does His work of judgment beginning from the house of God.
Amen. Yes, that's so great and wonderful!
In experiencing Almighty God's wonderful work,
we have heard Almighty God's word, heard His utterances with our own ears.
We have seen Him unveil the mysteries
of God's management plan of salvation with our own eyes,
that is, the inside story of God's three stages of work for saving man,
the purpose of God's management plan, the mystery of the incarnation,
how Satan corrupts humanity,
the truth and substance of man's corruption by Satan,
how God works to purify, perfect, and save mankind from that corruption,
the meaning and purpose behind God's judgment work,
the distinction between who God loves and who He curses,
who will be saved in the end, and who will be destroyed,
the destination of man, the end of all kinds of men,
how God's kingdom will be fully realized on earth and so on.
Almighty God has also done other things while expressing these truths.
He has judged and exposed man's satanic disposition
and his nature of resistance to God,
allowing us to see the fact of our thorough corruption
under the influence of Satan,
to see how arrogant, self-aggrandizing, treacherous, and selfish we can all be,
how we're nothing like a real man,
how unworthy we are to be in the presence of God. (That's right.)
Yet despite of all this,
God has still been incarnated,
humbly hiding and living amongst a filthy and corrupt mankind.
He has still returned, expressing the truth to judge, expose, and save man.
Amen!
We have all felt it deep within our hearts,
the substance of God's life is so kind and honorable. (Right! Yes!)
God's love for mankind is so real!
Amen!
In experiencing God's judgment through His word,
we became closely acquainted
with God's righteous, holy, unoffendable disposition,
and we felt the authority and power of Almighty God's word.
Unknowingly, reverence for Him grew in our hearts.
We began to seek the truth and our life disposition began to change over time.
Yes.
It was then that we truly came to understand
that the practical incarnate Almighty God
has expressed the entire truth to purify and to save us, (Amen!)
allowing us to rid ourselves of arrogance, of our cunning, satanic disposition
and live out the likeness of honest people.
Almighty God truly lives among man, walking amongst the churches.
Outwardly, He's just an ordinary person, (Yes.)
and yet He expresses the truth
and reveals God's righteous disposition,
all God is and has. (Amen!)
Those that follow Him and experience His work have received from Him
the truth, the way, and the life.
They see the way God works and how it's practical and very wise.
That's right.
They see how humble and lovely God is
and they find God has no arrogance,
God's disposition is holy. (Yes.)
It stands to reason
that God would possess a lofty flesh,
the kind of flesh that mankind would feel compelled to worship.
But this isn't what God did.
To save a corrupt mankind,
God clothed Himself in an ordinary flesh,
took on the image of an ordinary man,
and came down to live with us corrupt human beings.
He judges and supplies us with His words according to our practical needs.
God has been incarnated as a simple, meager man,
and has already endured a number of indignities and great suffering.
Also, He has endured the slander, condemnation,
and rejection of corrupt humanity,
as well as the persecution of the CCP government.
Despite this, God persists with remarkable patience to express the truth
and complete the salvation of mankind.
Thanks be to God!
God has suffered great torment all just to save mankind! (That's right!)
God's love of mankind is so real!
This lets us see how holy and how great God is.
Amen!
There are no words good enough to describe Him!
Amen!
Almighty God brings us closer to God.
We can be face to face with God,
so we can see Him, get to know Him,
and develop a true love for Him,
and finally receive God's perfection,
so that we can truly worship Him in pure obedience.
Amen!
Now we have all acknowledged in our hearts
that the Almighty God we believe in
is the Lord Jesus Christ returning to the flesh.
Right!
He is man but also God.
Almighty God is the one and only Creator of all things in heaven and earth!
Amen!
Thanks be to God! Praise be to God!
Yet, the pastors and elders condemn us,
thinking we put our faith in a mere human.
Now let me ask you:
Who in all of mankind is capable of speaking truth and God's voice?
No one!
Who in all of mankind
can practically fulfill the work of purifying and saving mankind?
No one!
Who among us can guide corrupted men on the path towards being perfected
into ones who truly know and obey God by experiencing His work?
No one! There's no man capable of this! No one in the world!
There's no one, not one person!
Amen!
Only Almighty God is capable of doing such practical work.
Amen!
Almighty God is the manifestation of the Savior.
Amen!
He's the real and practical God incarnate.
Amen!
Only Almighty God can save mankind and provide mankind with a good destination!
Amen!
Thanks be to God!
Thanks be to God!
Now in the last days, God's become flesh
in order to speak the truth and fulfill His work amongst men.
Yes!
From the outside, He looks like an ordinary man and not supernatural. (Yes.)
He doesn't summon the wind or make the earth tremble,
but He speaks the truth and passes His judgment in the last days (Yes.)
to purify and save man. (Amen!)
This is just like when the Lord Jesus did His work in Judea.
He still speaks in a real and practical way with man heart to heart
and does His work to shepherd man, supply man.
It's so practical that God has been incarnated to complete His work!
Amen!
Thanks be to God!
Well, we uphold the Bible.
No matter what, faith in the Lord Jesus is what we're going to support!
Oh, of course!
As well as Almighty God speaks,
unfortunately, it's not in the Bible.
Who really knows if it is God's word!
That's right.
They've just communed the truth so clearly.
How can you both still speak so absurdly?
Yes, they've just shared the truth very clearly!
That's true. Right! I agree. Yeah.
I think now I finally understand.
Only the wise virgins are able to hear the voice of God,
and the foolish virgins, no matter what, are incapable of hearing God's voice.
Right!
This is what keeps the wise virgins separated from the foolish ones.
Yes! That's right! True!
There is nothing you could do or say to help a foolish virgin.