False leaders do not possess the ability to comprehend God’s words; they merely know from the literal meaning of God’s words what God has said but do not understand what truths God’s words express, what God requires of people, or what truth principles people should understand. Therefore, when they fellowship about God’s words, they just make some literal interpretations of them and give people some regulations, some rules to follow, using these to prove that they also understand God’s words and have done work. Some false leaders even think that God’s words are already clear, it’s just that people always fail to eat and drink them or put in the effort. Seeing that everyone has books of God’s words in their hands, they deem leading people to eat and drink God’s words as redundant. Therefore, when they find problems during gatherings or while doing their duties, they only send people some selected passages of God’s words, telling them things like, “Read this passage of God’s words”; “Read that passage of God’s words”; or “God’s words say this about this aspect, and that about that aspect.” They only send people selected passages of God’s words, using a persuasive manner to encourage people to read God’s words, believing that this is how to lead people to eat and drink God’s words and that they are fulfilling a leader’s responsibility. After seeing these words, people say, “I have also read these words of God; isn’t it redundant for you to gather these words for me?” However, the false leader thinks, “If I don’t send them to you, you won’t be able to find in which chapter or on which page these words are. You don’t even know under what context God spoke these words. As a leader, I should take up this responsibility, to send you God’s words anytime, anywhere.” Some false leaders, in an outpouring of love, even send someone ten to twenty passages of God’s words in a day, to demonstrate their loyalty to their work and their determination to lead people into the reality of God’s words. These words of God are sent to people, but are their problems solved? Do they fulfill the role that a leader should play? Often, they do not fulfill this role, because if people could understand these words on their own, they would not need a leader. The passages of God’s words sent by the false leaders are actually well known to those who often read God’s words, but what are people lacking? What are their difficulties and problems? It is that, when it comes to actual issues involving these truths, when faced with difficulties, people cannot see through to the essence of these problems, do not know where to start to solve them, and do not know how to enter into these truths—and false leaders do not know either. Then, have they fulfilled their responsibility in this matter? Are they competent in the work of leadership? Clearly, they have not fulfilled this responsibility. For example, when people read about being an honest person in God’s words, false leaders, because they do not know how to eat and drink God’s words and lack the caliber to comprehend and understand the truth, would say: “God’s requirements are not high. God asks us to be honest people, and being honest means speaking truthfully. Hasn’t God’s words said it all: ‘Let your communication be, Yes, yes; No, no’ (Matthew 5:37)? How clear God’s words are! Just say whatever you think in your heart; how simple is that! Why can’t you do it? God’s word is the truth, we must practice it. Not practicing is rebelling, and does God save those who rebel against Him? He does not.” Upon hearing this, people respond, “Everything you say is correct, but we still don’t know how to be honest people. Because many times, lying is involuntary, or it is something one does when they have no other choice, and there’s a reason behind it. How should this be resolved?” What would the false leader say? “Isn’t this easy to take care of? Hasn’t God’s words made it clear? Being an honest person is just like being a child; how simple is that! No matter how old you are, can’t you just be like a child? Just look at how children behave.” The listener then muses: “The main behaviors of a child are being naive and lively, jumping around, being immature, and not understanding many things. Since the leader has said so, then I shall do it this way.” The next day, this person in their thirties or forties has tied their hair into two small braids, wore a pink headband and hair clips, donned a pink shirt, shoes, and socks, dressing up entirely in pink. Upon seeing this, the leader says, “That’s right! Walk more like a child, bouncing around. Speak more innocently like a child, with eyes free of wickedness, and a smile on your face—isn’t this returning to a child’s manner? This is the demeanor of an honest person!” The leader is quite pleased, while others see this as foolish, abnormal behavior. This false leader not only failed to solve the problem but also did not know how to seek the truth principles at all, leading people down the path of absurdity. Even for the simplest truth of being an honest person, the false leader does not know how to comprehend it correctly and purely, resorting to blindly applying regulations, comprehending it so distortedly that it disgusts those who hear it. This is what false leaders do.

False leaders comprehend God’s words in all sorts of ways, coming up with various bizarre and eccentric viewpoints. They also wave the banner of practicing and following God’s words, demanding others to accept and adhere to their comprehension. In short, people like these false leaders often have a shallow and distorted comprehension of God’s words. Using a spiritual term to define it, we would say they “lack spiritual understanding.” Not only is their comprehension of God’s words distorted, but they also often demand others to follow these distorted doctrines and regulations just like them. Meanwhile, they use their distorted comprehension to condemn those who have a pure comprehension of the truth. These false leaders, lacking spiritual understanding, do not scrutinize and analyze God’s words like antichrists do. From the outside, it seems as though they approach God’s words with a subservient attitude of eating and drinking and accepting. However, due to their poor caliber and inability to comprehend God’s words, they treat God’s words as if they were a textbook, believing God’s words to follow the logic of “one plus one equals two, two plus two equals four.” They do not know that God’s words are the truth, and to enter into the reality of God’s words, one must understand what the truths spoken in God’s words refer to, and what the various states and content these truths involve are. When others comprehend God’s words in a very concrete and practical manner, they consider it superficial and not worth listening to, saying, “I understand all of it, I know everything. What you are talking about is already clearly explained in God’s words, why do you need to say it?” In fact, they are unaware that what others are discussing involves specific content related to the truths in God’s words. Because these false leaders lack spiritual understanding and do not possess the ability to comprehend God’s words, they think all truths are more or less the same, with no specific differences among the issues touched upon by the truths; they believe that despite talking endlessly about these things, they’re all essentially the same issue. This belief indicates a serious problem, and it dooms such individuals to never understanding the truth.

Now, there are individuals of good caliber and with comprehension ability who have already gained some experience of and entry into the basic words of God and possess some truth reality, but they need more specific guidance and leadership so that their entry can be finer and more detailed. Only false leaders fail to understand what the specific details of the truth refer to or why they are spoken of in such a way, thinking it is making things unnecessarily complicated or playing with words. They do not understand or know how to comprehend or experience the various aspects involved in the truth. Therefore, what they can do after becoming leaders is merely to lead people in eating and drinking the commonly fellowshipped words of God, then talk about some doctrines, and summarize some practice methods of observing regulations, and what people gain from them is merely some superficial spiritual terms and commonly spoken words and doctrines, regulations, and slogans. For those who are new believers, the preachings of false leaders might barely suffice for a year or two, but after a year or two, those who have come to understand some truths will start to discern the false leaders’ set of statements and approaches. As for those who fundamentally lack comprehension ability, no matter how false leaders preach, they feel nothing, have no awareness, and fail to realize that what these leaders are preaching is merely words and doctrines, and that what they understand are just some hollow theories, slogans, and regulations, which are not the truth at all. Based on these manifestations, can false leaders fulfill the responsibility of “leading people to eat and drink of God’s words and understand them, and to enter the reality of God’s words”? Can they fulfill this role? Can they fulfill their responsibilities? (No.) Why can’t they? What’s the key issue? (Such people lack spiritual understanding and cannot comprehend the truth.) They lack spiritual understanding and cannot comprehend the truth, yet they still want to lead others—this is utterly impossible! Expecting false leaders to guide people to understand God’s words and enter into the reality of God’s words is like trying to herd cats—it won’t happen! Take being an honest person, for example: God’s words are quite simple on this point, they’re just a few sentences, not complicated. Anyone with a bit of education knows what these words mean. But false leaders, to prove they are capable of the work and can lead people, elaborate on the basis of God’s words: “What is the significance of God’s requirement for people to be honest? It is that being an honest person is what God loves. Nonbelievers are not honest, they do not tell the truth, and what they say are all lies and deceiving words; the entire world is a great nation of falsehood. Therefore, the first thing God demands when He comes today is for people to be honest. If you are not an honest person, God will not love you; if you are not an honest person, you cannot be saved, nor can you enter the kingdom; if you are not an honest person, you cannot practice the truth, and you are certainly a deceitful person; if you are not an honest person, you are not a qualified created being.” Do you understand how to be an honest person now? (No.) After all that, it’s still not clear. New believers, upon hearing this, feel that these words are excellent, something they haven’t heard in their twenty or thirty years in religion. Some even say, “These words are powerful, every sentence deserves an ‘Amen.’ This sermon is really good, it’s truly a sermon of the Age of Kingdom!” The false leader then continues: “God asks us to be honest people, so are we honest people?” Some ponder over this: “Since God is asking us to be honest people, it means we are not yet honest people.” Some remain silent, thinking, “I consider myself quite guileless. I never fight with others, and when doing business, I dare not cheat anyone. Sometimes, if I take a small advantage, I can’t even sleep at night. Am I an honest person? I think I’m a guileless person, and doesn’t that mean the same as being an honest person?” Others say, “I naturally can’t tell lies. My face turns red whenever I say something untrue, so I must be an honest person, right?” The false leader then adds, “Regardless of whether you are an honest person, since God’s word asks us to be honest, then it is imperative for you to be an honest person. If you act according to God’s words, you are an honest person. You then break free from deceitfulness, from the bonds of Satan’s dark influence. Once you become an honest person, you enter into the truth reality, can fulfill your duties, and can submit to God.” Do you understand how to be an honest person now? (No.) Yet, some are delighted: “These words are powerful. Amen! Every sentence is correct. None of it is directly from God’s words, but all are comprehended from God’s words. This comprehension is fantastic! Why can’t I comprehend it like this? It seems this leader is truly worthy of the title, they’re really made for leadership!” People with caliber and astuteness ponder after hearing this: “You haven’t explained what an honest person is. How exactly does one be an honest person?” The false leader continues: “Being an honest person means not lying. For example, if you have committed fornication before, then you pray to God and confess how many times you’ve done it, and with whom. If you feel that you cannot see or touch God, then you must confess to the leader, clarifying everything. Frank confession is the most basic requirement of being an honest person. Additionally, it’s about speaking your heart out, not mixing falsehoods in anything. How you think about anything, what intentions you have, what corruption you reveal, whom you hate or have cursed in your heart, whom you want to harm or plot against—all should be confessed to those individuals. By doing so, you become open and candid, living in the light. This is what it means to be an honest person. An honest person must let go of their ego; they must be able to display and dissect the evilest and darkest parts of their heart.” Hearing this, do you understand now how to be an honest person? (Still no.) Even after listening, it’s only doctrines that one understands, not specific practices. With such comprehension of God’s words, false leaders lead people to eat and drink God’s words in this way, and they also fellowship in this way, thinking they understand God’s words the most, have the ability to comprehend God’s words, and can lead people into the reality of God’s words. In actuality, what they apprehend and fellowship are all just doctrines and slogans, offering no help whatsoever to those who wish to seek the truth reality and understand the truth principles. Yet, the false leaders still believe they possess great comprehension ability, have unique insights into God’s words, and are superior to ordinary people. They go around preaching these doctrines and slogans, even engaging in comparisons with others, often using these doctrines and slogans to engage in verbal spats, and even frequently using them to lecture, prune, judge, and condemn people. They think that by doing so, they are doing work, bringing God’s words into real life, and applying God’s words. Isn’t this a troublesome matter? False leaders cannot understand God’s words, they cannot lead people into the reality of God’s words. After reading God’s words, they can only fellowship some words and doctrines, and yet they go around preaching and flaunting them. In actuality, however, they do not understand any truth in God’s words. For example, they do not understand some similar spiritual terms or similar expressions, nor do they know the differences between them or how to adapt them to real situations. Aside from adhering to regulations and spouting words and doctrines, they lack a true appreciation of God’s words and do not truly practice them. Therefore, it’s clear that false leaders themselves do not understand the truth, nor are they capable of leading people to understand God’s words and enter into the truth reality. We’ve illustrated this with the example of being an honest person. False leaders, not knowing how to perceive the truth of being an honest person, resort to spouting words and doctrines and preaching slogans, misleading those fools and muddlers who lack spiritual understanding, leaving them disoriented. After listening to these words and doctrines, they especially idolize the false leaders and, after following them for several years, end up not understanding even the most basic truths, having no entry into them whatsoever. We shall conclude our fellowship on this item here.