Man’s Attitude Toward God Decides His Destiny
God is a living God. When encountering things, men have different manifestations. Toward their different manifestations God has different attitudes, because he is not a puppet or air. God’s attitudes are worthy for man to know, and man should learn to know God’s disposition and understand God’s heart little by little through knowing God’s attitudes. When you understand God’s heart little by little, you will not feel it very difficult to fear God and shun evil. And when you understand God, you will not easily circumscribe God. When you no longer circumscribe God, you will not easily offend God. And without your knowing it, God will guide you to have knowledge of God, so that you will have fear of God in your heart, and you will no longer impose on God the letters, doctrines, or theories you have grasped, but seek God’s will at any time and in any thing. Thus, you will become a man after God’s heart without knowing it.
Although man cannot see or touch the work God does, yet for God’s part, God not only can perceive but also can see everyone’s deeds and everyone’s attitude toward God. This is what everyone should be clear about and should know in his heart. If you always think to yourself, “Does God know I am doing this here? Does God know I am thinking in that way? He may know, and again he may not,” if on the one hand you believe in God and follow God with such a viewpoint, and on the other hand you doubt God’s work and God’s existence like this, then you will infuriate God sooner or later, because you are already on the brink of danger. I see that some people, though having believed in God for so many years, have not gained the reality of the truth, much less understood God’s will, and they do not have any growth in their stature in life but only hold on to the few doctrines that cannot be more superficial. The reason for this is that they have never accepted the words of God’s mouth as life and never faced up to or accepted the existence of God. So, seeing such people, could God have enjoyment? Could God feel comforted in his heart? Therefore, the way of man’s believing decides his destiny. How man pursues and how man treats God, man’s attitude is of the first importance. Do not put God out of your mind and treat him as air, but always remember that the God you believe in is a living God who is real and practical. It is not that he stays in the third heaven with nothing to do, but that he searches the heart of everyone, searches the conduct of everyone and your every word and deed, and searches your manifestations and your attitude toward God at all times. No matter whether you are willing to commit yourself to God, all your deeds and your mind and thoughts are before God, being searched by God. God will constantly vary his opinion of you and his attitude toward you according to your behavior, your conduct, and your attitude. However, I want to advise some people: Do not always regard yourselves as little babies in God’s hands as if God favors you very much, as if God cannot do without you, and as if God’s attitude toward you is ever unchanging. Don’t dream! God is righteous toward everyone. He comes to do the conquering and saving work on man seriously. This is his management. He takes a serious attitude toward everyone instead of treating man as his pet and entertaining him for fun. God’s love for man is not to pamper man or to cosset man; his mercy and tolerance for man are not to be indulgent with man or give free rein to man. On the contrary, God’s love for man is loving care, is compassion and cherishment, and is the respect for life; his mercy and tolerance for man carry his expectation for man; his mercy and tolerance are the capital for mankind’s existence. God is living and God exists practically. His attitude toward man is based on principles and is by no means a regulation, and it can change. His will for mankind has been gradually altering and changing with time, with environment, and with each one’s attitude. So in your heart you should clearly and definitely know that God’s substance is ever unchanging but God’s disposition will be expressed at different times and in different situations. Maybe you do not regard a thing as very serious, and you imagine according to your notion that God should do it that way. However, in certain things he does just the opposite. When you measure God by your notion, you infuriate God already, because God will by no means do as you imagine or treat the thing as you say. So I still warn you to be careful and cautious in treating everything around you and learn to practice in everything according to the principle of walking in God’s ways—fearing God and shunning evil. In dealing with a thing concerning God’s will or God’s attitude, you must make certain of it, must fellowship with someone who understands it, and must seek seriously. Do not treat the God you believe in as a puppet—passing judgment on him at will, drawing conclusions about him at will, or treating him with disdain. During the course of God’s saving you and deciding your outcome, no matter whether he shows mercy and tolerance to you or judges and chastises you, his attitude toward you is not unchanging but depends on your attitude toward him and your knowledge of him. You should not circumscribe God as that forever because you have the knowledge or understanding of God in a certain aspect. Do not believe in a dead god, but believe in the living God. Remember it? Although some words I say are true facts and are also what you need, yet because of your present state and present stature, I do not want to make higher requirements lest your enthusiasm be dampened and you feel too desolate in your heart and feel too disappointed with God, but hope that you can walk the way ahead with a heart of loving God and a respectful attitude toward God. Do not treat the matter of believing in God casually, but treat it as the biggest thing. Lay it on your heart, link it to reality, and link it with the real life instead of just having it on your lips. This is because it is a vital thing, a thing that decides your destiny. Do not treat it as a joke or as a trifling matter! After I have spoken these words to you today, have you understood and gained anything in your heart? Do you have any questions about these words I have said?
These topics are a bit new, and there is some distance between them and your viewpoints as well as what you usually pursue and pay attention to, but I think that after you fellowship for some time, you will have a common recognition of these words I have said. Since these topics are quite new and are what you have never thought about, I hope that these words have not added any burden to you. My purpose in saying them today is not to frighten you or to deal with you by this means, but to let you know the real facts. As there is a distance between God and man after all, though man believes in God, he never understands God or knows God’s attitude, and he is not so zealous in caring about God’s attitude, but he simply believes like that and walks like that, muddling on in the matter of knowing and understanding God. So I feel it very necessary to make certain things clear to you so that you will know what kind of God the God you believe in is, what he is thinking in his heart, what attitudes he has toward various kinds of people, and how far your doing so is from his requirement and how far it is below the standard required by him. The purpose of making you know these is so that you each will have a measuring scale in your heart and know on this path what you have gained, how many things you have not gained, and what fields you have not set foot in at all. At ordinary times when you fellowship together, you only talk about some topics people often speak about, which are very narrow in scope and very shallow in content. This is at a distance from and falls short of God’s will and God’s required scope and standard for man. If you go on like this, you will surely go further and further away from God’s ways. You just take these present words of God as the object of worship and as rituals and regulations; that is all! Actually God has no place in your heart at all, and God has never gained your heart. Some people think that it is very difficult to know God. This is also true. It is indeed somewhat difficult! If people are required to do things outwardly in performing duty or to do physical work, they all will feel it very easy to believe in God, because all these are things within mankind’s ability. However, when the realm of God’s will and God’s attitude toward man is involved, it is indeed rather difficult for everyone. As it involves the matter of understanding the truth and entering into reality, of course it is rather difficult. However, when you touch the entrance and begin to enter into it, it will gradually become less and less difficult.
Treating God as God Is the Beginning of Man’s Being Able to Fear God
Just now someone asked a question: Why is it that we have more knowledge of God than Job but we do not fear God? We have mentioned a bit about it earlier, right? Actually we have talked about the substance of this problem. At that time though Job did not know God, he treated God as God and as the Ruler of the heavens and the earth and all things. He did not treat God as an enemy but worshiped him as the Creator. Why do people of today resist God so much? Why can’t they fear God? One of the reasons is that people of today have been so deeply corrupted by satan that their satanic nature has been deeply ingrained and they have become God’s enemies. So, though they believe in God and acknowledge God, they still can resist God and oppose God. This is determined by their nature. The second reason is that although people believe in God, they do not at all treat God as God, but treat God as their opposite and as their enemy, being irreconcilable with God. The reasons are just so simple. Haven’t these been mentioned a bit in our foregoing fellowship? You may ponder over them. Aren’t they the reasons for it? Though you have some knowledge of God, what is that knowledge of yours? Isn’t it what everyone generally talks about? Isn’t it what God tells you? You only know the theories and doctrines concerning this aspect, but have you tasted the real aspect of God? Do you have your own knowledge of it? Do you have a practical knowledge and understanding of it? If God did not tell you, could you know it? You know the theories concerning it, but that does not mean that you have a true knowledge of it. In a word, no matter how you know it and how much you know it, before you have a true knowledge of God, God is your enemy, and before you can treat God as God, God still stands on the opposite side of you, because you are the embodiment of satan.
When you are with Christ, you may be able to take care of his daily meals, serve him tea or water, and take care of his life, treating Christ as God seemingly. When something happens, man’s viewpoint is always contrary to God’s, and God’s viewpoint always cannot be understood or accepted by man. Although man can live in harmony with him outwardly, it does not mean that man is compatible with him. Once something happens, man’s true self of disobedience comes out. This proves that man is hostile to God. This hostility is not because God stands against man, or God intends to be hostile to man, or God places man in opposition to himself, but because in man’s subjective will and in man’s subconscious there is such substance that stands against God. Man takes whatever is from God as the object of his study, so to what comes from God or what relates to God, his first reaction is guess and suspicion, then he will immediately take an antagonistic attitude and stand against God, and right after that, he will “argue” or compete with God in a negative mood, and will even suspect whether such a God is worthy of his following. Even though his reason tells him that he should not do so, he will still make such a choice in spite of himself and will even hold it to the end “without turning back.” For example: When some people heard some rumors or slanders about God, what was their first reaction? Their first reaction was: I do not know whether the rumor is true or false, whether the thing exists or not; I should quietly observe how things go. Then they pondered: I have no way to verify this thing. Does this thing really exist? Is the rumor actually true? Though they did not show anything outwardly, they already began to doubt and already began to deny God in their hearts. What is the substance of such an attitude and viewpoint of theirs? Isn’t it betrayal? Before they encountered this thing, you could not see their viewpoint, and it seemed that they did not have any resistance against God, nor did they treat God as their enemy. But when they encountered this thing, they immediately stood on satan’s side to oppose God. What does this fact show? It shows that man is in opposition to God! It is not that God treats man as his enemy but that man’s substance in itself is hostile to God. No matter how long man has followed God or how much he has expended, no matter how man has praised God or how he has restrained himself from resisting God or even required himself to love God, man just cannot treat God as God. Isn’t this determined by man’s substance? If you treated him as God and you truly regarded him as God, could you have any doubt about him? Could you have any question mark against him in your heart? No, right? The current of this world is so evil and this mankind is so evil, but why do you have no notions about them? You yourselves are so corrupt, but why do you have no notions about yourselves? Just a few rumors and slanders have caused you to have so great notions and so many critical views about God. It shows how small your stature is! Simply a few mosquitoes and a few foul flies “humming,” you have been deceived? What kind of people are these? Do you know what God thinks of such people? God’s attitude toward such people is very clear actually, only he adopts a cold treatment—a disregarding attitude—toward them, and he is not serious with these ignorant people. Why? Because in his heart he has never intended to gain this portion of people who pledge to act against him to the end even at the cost of death and who never have an intention of seeking the way to be compatible with him. When I say this, maybe it hurts some people again. Do you want me to always hurt you like this? Whether you want or not, what I say are facts! As I always hurt you like this, always touching you on the raw, will it affect the image of the lofty god in your heart? (No.) I also don’t think it will! This is because there is no God in your heart at all. The lofty god in your heart that you defend and protect to the utmost is not God at all, but something imaginary, which never exists. So, I’d better disclose this mystery. Then won’t “the whole truth come out”? The true God is not produced by man’s imagination. I hope you all can face up to reality. Only doing so is beneficial to your knowing God.
A Kind of People Disapproved by God
In God’s heart, some people’s belief has never been approved by him. In other words, God does not acknowledge these people to be his followers, because God does not approve their belief. No matter how many years these people have followed God, their thoughts and viewpoints have never changed. They hold on to the same principles and manners of dealing with the world as unbelievers, and hold on to the same rules and beliefs of living as unbelievers. They have never accepted God’s word as life, have never believed that God’s word is the truth, and have never intended to accept God’s salvation, nor acknowledged God as their God. They only take believing in God as a hobby and only treat God as a kind of spiritual sustenance, so they disdain to know God’s disposition and God’s substance. It can be said that everything of the true God has nothing to do with them, and they do not want to care about it or bother to heed it. This is because in the depth of their heart there is a strong voice that always tells them: God is invisible and intangible, and God does not exist. They think that to know such a God is a waste of time and is to fool themselves, and it is really smart to only acknowledge him with their mouths but not to express any attitude or to take any actual action. What does God think of them? God regards them as unbelievers. Some people say, “Would unbelievers read God’s word? Would they perform duty? Could they say that they will live for God?” Usually man only sees a person’s outward manifestations but cannot see his substance, whereas God does not look at a person’s outward manifestations but only looks at his inner substance. So God takes such an attitude toward these people and gives them such a definition. To what they say, “Why did God do that? Why did God do this? I cannot understand this thing, I cannot understand that thing, this thing is discordant with my notions, that thing you have to explain to me…,” my reply is: Is it necessary to explain it to you? Does this thing have anything to do with you? Who are you? Where do you come from? Are you entitled to tell God how to act? Do you believe in him? Does he acknowledge your belief? Since your belief has nothing to do with God, what do his doings have to do with you? You do not even know your place in God’s heart, so are you qualified to talk with God?
The Words of Admonition
Hearing these words, you feel very upset, don’t you? Although you do not want to hear or accept these words, they are all facts. It is God who comes to do this stage of work, so if you do not care about God’s will or God’s attitude and do not know God’s substance and disposition, then in the end you yourselves will suffer loss. Do not blame me for speaking unpleasant words or blame me for chilling your heart by my words. What I say are all facts and are not to discourage you. No matter what I require you to do and how I require you to do it, my expectation is that you can take the right way and that you can walk in God’s ways and will not deviate from the right way. If you do not do according to God’s words or keep his ways, then undoubtedly you are disobeying God and deviating from the right way. So I feel it very necessary to make certain things clear to you, so that you can believe in a clear and distinct way and not in a muddled way, and so that you can definitely know God’s attitude and God’s will and know how God perfects men and by what means God decides men’s outcomes. If one day you fail to keep up, I can say that I have no responsibility for it, because many words I have already told you clearly. As to how you yourself treat your outcome, it is completely up to you. In treating different people’s outcomes, God has different attitudes, and he has his way of measurement and his required standard. This standard of measurement is fair to everyone. This is beyond question! So it is unnecessary for some people to be worried. Now you are relieved, right? That’s all for today. Good-bye!
God is a living God. When encountering things, men have different manifestations. Toward their different manifestations God has different attitudes, because he is not a puppet or air. God’s attitudes are worthy for man to know, and man should learn to know God’s disposition and understand God’s heart little by little through knowing God’s attitudes. When you understand God’s heart little by little, you will not feel it very difficult to fear God and shun evil. And when you understand God, you will not easily circumscribe God. When you no longer circumscribe God, you will not easily offend God. And without your knowing it, God will guide you to have knowledge of God, so that you will have fear of God in your heart, and you will no longer impose on God the letters, doctrines, or theories you have grasped, but seek God’s will at any time and in any thing. Thus, you will become a man after God’s heart without knowing it.
Although man cannot see or touch the work God does, yet for God’s part, God not only can perceive but also can see everyone’s deeds and everyone’s attitude toward God. This is what everyone should be clear about and should know in his heart. If you always think to yourself, “Does God know I am doing this here? Does God know I am thinking in that way? He may know, and again he may not,” if on the one hand you believe in God and follow God with such a viewpoint, and on the other hand you doubt God’s work and God’s existence like this, then you will infuriate God sooner or later, because you are already on the brink of danger. I see that some people, though having believed in God for so many years, have not gained the reality of the truth, much less understood God’s will, and they do not have any growth in their stature in life but only hold on to the few doctrines that cannot be more superficial. The reason for this is that they have never accepted the words of God’s mouth as life and never faced up to or accepted the existence of God. So, seeing such people, could God have enjoyment? Could God feel comforted in his heart? Therefore, the way of man’s believing decides his destiny. How man pursues and how man treats God, man’s attitude is of the first importance. Do not put God out of your mind and treat him as air, but always remember that the God you believe in is a living God who is real and practical. It is not that he stays in the third heaven with nothing to do, but that he searches the heart of everyone, searches the conduct of everyone and your every word and deed, and searches your manifestations and your attitude toward God at all times. No matter whether you are willing to commit yourself to God, all your deeds and your mind and thoughts are before God, being searched by God. God will constantly vary his opinion of you and his attitude toward you according to your behavior, your conduct, and your attitude. However, I want to advise some people: Do not always regard yourselves as little babies in God’s hands as if God favors you very much, as if God cannot do without you, and as if God’s attitude toward you is ever unchanging. Don’t dream! God is righteous toward everyone. He comes to do the conquering and saving work on man seriously. This is his management. He takes a serious attitude toward everyone instead of treating man as his pet and entertaining him for fun. God’s love for man is not to pamper man or to cosset man; his mercy and tolerance for man are not to be indulgent with man or give free rein to man. On the contrary, God’s love for man is loving care, is compassion and cherishment, and is the respect for life; his mercy and tolerance for man carry his expectation for man; his mercy and tolerance are the capital for mankind’s existence. God is living and God exists practically. His attitude toward man is based on principles and is by no means a regulation, and it can change. His will for mankind has been gradually altering and changing with time, with environment, and with each one’s attitude. So in your heart you should clearly and definitely know that God’s substance is ever unchanging but God’s disposition will be expressed at different times and in different situations. Maybe you do not regard a thing as very serious, and you imagine according to your notion that God should do it that way. However, in certain things he does just the opposite. When you measure God by your notion, you infuriate God already, because God will by no means do as you imagine or treat the thing as you say. So I still warn you to be careful and cautious in treating everything around you and learn to practice in everything according to the principle of walking in God’s ways—fearing God and shunning evil. In dealing with a thing concerning God’s will or God’s attitude, you must make certain of it, must fellowship with someone who understands it, and must seek seriously. Do not treat the God you believe in as a puppet—passing judgment on him at will, drawing conclusions about him at will, or treating him with disdain. During the course of God’s saving you and deciding your outcome, no matter whether he shows mercy and tolerance to you or judges and chastises you, his attitude toward you is not unchanging but depends on your attitude toward him and your knowledge of him. You should not circumscribe God as that forever because you have the knowledge or understanding of God in a certain aspect. Do not believe in a dead god, but believe in the living God. Remember it? Although some words I say are true facts and are also what you need, yet because of your present state and present stature, I do not want to make higher requirements lest your enthusiasm be dampened and you feel too desolate in your heart and feel too disappointed with God, but hope that you can walk the way ahead with a heart of loving God and a respectful attitude toward God. Do not treat the matter of believing in God casually, but treat it as the biggest thing. Lay it on your heart, link it to reality, and link it with the real life instead of just having it on your lips. This is because it is a vital thing, a thing that decides your destiny. Do not treat it as a joke or as a trifling matter! After I have spoken these words to you today, have you understood and gained anything in your heart? Do you have any questions about these words I have said?
These topics are a bit new, and there is some distance between them and your viewpoints as well as what you usually pursue and pay attention to, but I think that after you fellowship for some time, you will have a common recognition of these words I have said. Since these topics are quite new and are what you have never thought about, I hope that these words have not added any burden to you. My purpose in saying them today is not to frighten you or to deal with you by this means, but to let you know the real facts. As there is a distance between God and man after all, though man believes in God, he never understands God or knows God’s attitude, and he is not so zealous in caring about God’s attitude, but he simply believes like that and walks like that, muddling on in the matter of knowing and understanding God. So I feel it very necessary to make certain things clear to you so that you will know what kind of God the God you believe in is, what he is thinking in his heart, what attitudes he has toward various kinds of people, and how far your doing so is from his requirement and how far it is below the standard required by him. The purpose of making you know these is so that you each will have a measuring scale in your heart and know on this path what you have gained, how many things you have not gained, and what fields you have not set foot in at all. At ordinary times when you fellowship together, you only talk about some topics people often speak about, which are very narrow in scope and very shallow in content. This is at a distance from and falls short of God’s will and God’s required scope and standard for man. If you go on like this, you will surely go further and further away from God’s ways. You just take these present words of God as the object of worship and as rituals and regulations; that is all! Actually God has no place in your heart at all, and God has never gained your heart. Some people think that it is very difficult to know God. This is also true. It is indeed somewhat difficult! If people are required to do things outwardly in performing duty or to do physical work, they all will feel it very easy to believe in God, because all these are things within mankind’s ability. However, when the realm of God’s will and God’s attitude toward man is involved, it is indeed rather difficult for everyone. As it involves the matter of understanding the truth and entering into reality, of course it is rather difficult. However, when you touch the entrance and begin to enter into it, it will gradually become less and less difficult.
Treating God as God Is the Beginning of Man’s Being Able to Fear God
Just now someone asked a question: Why is it that we have more knowledge of God than Job but we do not fear God? We have mentioned a bit about it earlier, right? Actually we have talked about the substance of this problem. At that time though Job did not know God, he treated God as God and as the Ruler of the heavens and the earth and all things. He did not treat God as an enemy but worshiped him as the Creator. Why do people of today resist God so much? Why can’t they fear God? One of the reasons is that people of today have been so deeply corrupted by satan that their satanic nature has been deeply ingrained and they have become God’s enemies. So, though they believe in God and acknowledge God, they still can resist God and oppose God. This is determined by their nature. The second reason is that although people believe in God, they do not at all treat God as God, but treat God as their opposite and as their enemy, being irreconcilable with God. The reasons are just so simple. Haven’t these been mentioned a bit in our foregoing fellowship? You may ponder over them. Aren’t they the reasons for it? Though you have some knowledge of God, what is that knowledge of yours? Isn’t it what everyone generally talks about? Isn’t it what God tells you? You only know the theories and doctrines concerning this aspect, but have you tasted the real aspect of God? Do you have your own knowledge of it? Do you have a practical knowledge and understanding of it? If God did not tell you, could you know it? You know the theories concerning it, but that does not mean that you have a true knowledge of it. In a word, no matter how you know it and how much you know it, before you have a true knowledge of God, God is your enemy, and before you can treat God as God, God still stands on the opposite side of you, because you are the embodiment of satan.
When you are with Christ, you may be able to take care of his daily meals, serve him tea or water, and take care of his life, treating Christ as God seemingly. When something happens, man’s viewpoint is always contrary to God’s, and God’s viewpoint always cannot be understood or accepted by man. Although man can live in harmony with him outwardly, it does not mean that man is compatible with him. Once something happens, man’s true self of disobedience comes out. This proves that man is hostile to God. This hostility is not because God stands against man, or God intends to be hostile to man, or God places man in opposition to himself, but because in man’s subjective will and in man’s subconscious there is such substance that stands against God. Man takes whatever is from God as the object of his study, so to what comes from God or what relates to God, his first reaction is guess and suspicion, then he will immediately take an antagonistic attitude and stand against God, and right after that, he will “argue” or compete with God in a negative mood, and will even suspect whether such a God is worthy of his following. Even though his reason tells him that he should not do so, he will still make such a choice in spite of himself and will even hold it to the end “without turning back.” For example: When some people heard some rumors or slanders about God, what was their first reaction? Their first reaction was: I do not know whether the rumor is true or false, whether the thing exists or not; I should quietly observe how things go. Then they pondered: I have no way to verify this thing. Does this thing really exist? Is the rumor actually true? Though they did not show anything outwardly, they already began to doubt and already began to deny God in their hearts. What is the substance of such an attitude and viewpoint of theirs? Isn’t it betrayal? Before they encountered this thing, you could not see their viewpoint, and it seemed that they did not have any resistance against God, nor did they treat God as their enemy. But when they encountered this thing, they immediately stood on satan’s side to oppose God. What does this fact show? It shows that man is in opposition to God! It is not that God treats man as his enemy but that man’s substance in itself is hostile to God. No matter how long man has followed God or how much he has expended, no matter how man has praised God or how he has restrained himself from resisting God or even required himself to love God, man just cannot treat God as God. Isn’t this determined by man’s substance? If you treated him as God and you truly regarded him as God, could you have any doubt about him? Could you have any question mark against him in your heart? No, right? The current of this world is so evil and this mankind is so evil, but why do you have no notions about them? You yourselves are so corrupt, but why do you have no notions about yourselves? Just a few rumors and slanders have caused you to have so great notions and so many critical views about God. It shows how small your stature is! Simply a few mosquitoes and a few foul flies “humming,” you have been deceived? What kind of people are these? Do you know what God thinks of such people? God’s attitude toward such people is very clear actually, only he adopts a cold treatment—a disregarding attitude—toward them, and he is not serious with these ignorant people. Why? Because in his heart he has never intended to gain this portion of people who pledge to act against him to the end even at the cost of death and who never have an intention of seeking the way to be compatible with him. When I say this, maybe it hurts some people again. Do you want me to always hurt you like this? Whether you want or not, what I say are facts! As I always hurt you like this, always touching you on the raw, will it affect the image of the lofty god in your heart? (No.) I also don’t think it will! This is because there is no God in your heart at all. The lofty god in your heart that you defend and protect to the utmost is not God at all, but something imaginary, which never exists. So, I’d better disclose this mystery. Then won’t “the whole truth come out”? The true God is not produced by man’s imagination. I hope you all can face up to reality. Only doing so is beneficial to your knowing God.
A Kind of People Disapproved by God
In God’s heart, some people’s belief has never been approved by him. In other words, God does not acknowledge these people to be his followers, because God does not approve their belief. No matter how many years these people have followed God, their thoughts and viewpoints have never changed. They hold on to the same principles and manners of dealing with the world as unbelievers, and hold on to the same rules and beliefs of living as unbelievers. They have never accepted God’s word as life, have never believed that God’s word is the truth, and have never intended to accept God’s salvation, nor acknowledged God as their God. They only take believing in God as a hobby and only treat God as a kind of spiritual sustenance, so they disdain to know God’s disposition and God’s substance. It can be said that everything of the true God has nothing to do with them, and they do not want to care about it or bother to heed it. This is because in the depth of their heart there is a strong voice that always tells them: God is invisible and intangible, and God does not exist. They think that to know such a God is a waste of time and is to fool themselves, and it is really smart to only acknowledge him with their mouths but not to express any attitude or to take any actual action. What does God think of them? God regards them as unbelievers. Some people say, “Would unbelievers read God’s word? Would they perform duty? Could they say that they will live for God?” Usually man only sees a person’s outward manifestations but cannot see his substance, whereas God does not look at a person’s outward manifestations but only looks at his inner substance. So God takes such an attitude toward these people and gives them such a definition. To what they say, “Why did God do that? Why did God do this? I cannot understand this thing, I cannot understand that thing, this thing is discordant with my notions, that thing you have to explain to me…,” my reply is: Is it necessary to explain it to you? Does this thing have anything to do with you? Who are you? Where do you come from? Are you entitled to tell God how to act? Do you believe in him? Does he acknowledge your belief? Since your belief has nothing to do with God, what do his doings have to do with you? You do not even know your place in God’s heart, so are you qualified to talk with God?
The Words of Admonition
Hearing these words, you feel very upset, don’t you? Although you do not want to hear or accept these words, they are all facts. It is God who comes to do this stage of work, so if you do not care about God’s will or God’s attitude and do not know God’s substance and disposition, then in the end you yourselves will suffer loss. Do not blame me for speaking unpleasant words or blame me for chilling your heart by my words. What I say are all facts and are not to discourage you. No matter what I require you to do and how I require you to do it, my expectation is that you can take the right way and that you can walk in God’s ways and will not deviate from the right way. If you do not do according to God’s words or keep his ways, then undoubtedly you are disobeying God and deviating from the right way. So I feel it very necessary to make certain things clear to you, so that you can believe in a clear and distinct way and not in a muddled way, and so that you can definitely know God’s attitude and God’s will and know how God perfects men and by what means God decides men’s outcomes. If one day you fail to keep up, I can say that I have no responsibility for it, because many words I have already told you clearly. As to how you yourself treat your outcome, it is completely up to you. In treating different people’s outcomes, God has different attitudes, and he has his way of measurement and his required standard. This standard of measurement is fair to everyone. This is beyond question! So it is unnecessary for some people to be worried. Now you are relieved, right? That’s all for today. Good-bye!
April 29, 2014