When comparing deceitfulness and insidiousness with the disposition of wickedness, their degree is relatively lighter and shallower. If the degree is shallow, then why do I mention them here? Antichrists act and speak deceitfully, inexplicably, and obscurely, making others feel that they are insidious and deceitful, and ordinary people can’t get to the truth of the matter. They act and speak deceitfully and are unable to get along with people who are guileless, honest, and who pursue the truth. Instead, they often toy with and use such people. In their total unawareness, these people are toyed with and cheated by antichrists, and even used by them. Of course, this behavior and these methods employed by antichrists are not so harmful to people. What is it that causes so much harm to people? It’s the antichrists’ wicked disposition, and it is the misleading people, the controlling people, and the oppressing people that arise from this wicked disposition that are even more severe. Antichrists always have a motivation and an intention they cannot tell others when it comes to their actions. They will never dedicate or expend anything without reason, nor will they do anything for anyone or God’s house without reason or compensation. Behind their every action and word there is a motivation, an intent, and the moment their intent and motivation are laid bare, or their ambitions and desires are ruined, they look for an opportunity to withdraw. In their hearts, they think, “It’s so not worth it to dedicate or expend myself for no reason, it’s not worth my while. One has to get something from believing in god. If one expends oneself for god without asking for a reward, then that’s just stupid.” Their logic is: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” They determine the conscience and reason, the behavior, and the good deeds normal people should possess and do as stupid and foolish. Isn’t this wicked? (Yes.) This is incredibly wicked. For instance, God’s house makes some work arrangements and provides some care for the lives of brothers and sisters who perform their duties, but antichrists obstruct them from within. What is an antichrist’s purpose in obstructing them? If the work arrangements had come from the antichrist, and knowing this, the brothers and sisters would feel a debt of gratitude to them, then the antichrist would take the lead. If brothers and sisters don’t know who made the work arrangements and think that God’s house made them, and they thank God, would the antichrist go along with this? Absolutely not. The work arrangements would stop with the antichrist and would not be implemented. It is beneficial to brothers and sisters for God’s house to issue these work arrangements, and the gospel work would expand better; this is a big thing related to God’s work, so how should those who act as leaders cooperate with it? They should do everything they can to cooperate well and implement the work. However, some antichrists obstruct it from within and do not implement the work for two years. What is the reason for this? This is Satan causing obstructions and disturbances. Some churches are disturbed and controlled by antichrists and evil people, and brothers and sisters who perform their duties are not looked after. This makes antichrists happy, and in their hearts they think, “It’s enough for me to be the beneficiary of such a wonderful thing and such tremendous benefits. How could all the brothers and sisters be the beneficiaries?” How would the brothers and sisters benefiting affect the antichrists in any way? It wouldn’t affect them at all. They would benefit, everyone would benefit, and that would be great! Think about the overall situation: You shouldn’t obstruct this, nor should you withhold it, but should implement it happily. Isn’t that normal? (Yes.) This is the duty a person should perform, and it is your responsibility. One aspect is that it costs you nothing, while another aspect is this: Doesn’t everyone wish for the gospel work to expand? (We do.) When they see brothers and sisters enjoying the grace of God, do they become jealous? What are they jealous of? Are antichrists not demons? So, why do antichrists not implement the work? It’s because they’re jealous. Do they consider that implementing the work would be beneficial to expanding gospel work? (No, they don’t.) Does it affect their interests? What does it have to do with them? It has nothing at all to do with them, yet they don’t implement it, and this is them being wicked. They are living devils and should be cursed! With such a matter that touches upon the work of God’s house and so many people who perform their duties, they don’t consider the consequences at all. If they had some sliver of good intent, they wouldn’t be able to bring themselves to do it. Why do they act this way? This is villainy, and it is wickedness. Do you do such things? If you are capable of doing such things, then you are no different from antichrists, and you are also living devils. You must not do such things! There are also some antichrists who see that there are evil people in the church who often disturb church work, who run amok in the church, but they ignore it. When they’re asked to handle such people, they demur and put off handling them. They don’t consider the interests of brothers and sisters; they think only of their own reputation not being damaged, and that’s all. They think, “I was made a leader so I must have the final say. I have absolute power and authority. If I expel whoever you say to expel, then that will show me up as being totally powerless. I must make sure the brothers and sisters know that these people are under my care and are my subordinates.” Who are they resisting? (God.) Is resisting God not being wicked? This is wickedness. Do you know what kind of thing a human being is? God gave you your breath, and if you don’t know such an important thing, then doesn’t that make you stupid? God can end your life at any time, and yet you still desperately set yourself against God—this is wicked, and you are a living devil! Therefore, one aspect is that you must pursue the truth and not follow the path of an antichrist; besides this, you must know how to discern antichrists. If you encounter an antichrist, you should observe them closely, and if you see them about to do a bad thing, then stop them immediately, and unite with brothers and sisters to expose them, dissect them, reject them, and expel them. I recently heard about several young brothers and sisters in a church coming together to oust a false leader. I say that these young people have made progress, they do not live by satanic philosophies, they can practice the truth and act according to principles, and they are much better than most people. Most people have philosophies for worldly dealings, are so deeply poisoned by Satan, and have not yet shaken off Satan’s influence. Being able to remove a false leader shows that one understands some truth and can safeguard the work of God’s house—this is a good thing. This shows that one has matured in life and can perform their duty well.

By fellowshipping on and exposing today the aspects of an antichrist’s essence of wickedness, insidiousness, and deceitfulness, as well as all their various manifestations, we see that antichrists are inherently opposed to God. Some people say, “Even though I have an antichrist’s disposition, I don’t have an antichrist’s nature essence, and I won’t ever develop to being an antichrist.” What do you think of this attitude? Even though you don’t have an antichrist’s essence, yet you have these manifestations and revelations of an antichrist, you live out that which an antichrist lives out, and you have an antichrist’s disposition, and so you are in danger of following the path of an antichrist. With status, influence, and capital, it is only a matter of time before you become an antichrist, and that’s a fact. What is My intention in saying this? I say it to ring an alarm bell for you and to tell you a fact: Once someone begins to follow the path of an antichrist, there are two possibilities. One is that you will discover it in time, change direction, reflect on yourself, repent, and become able to submit to God’s orchestrations and arrangements. This is the best possibility, and you will have hope of attaining salvation. However, if you cannot follow the path in pursuit of the truth, then once you have committed much evil and been defined as an antichrist, then the consequences do not bear thinking about. Do you understand? (Yes.) It’s good that you understand. What do I mean by this? I mean that, if you have an antichrist’s manifestations, you still have some room to maneuver and an opportunity to repent, but once you become an antichrist, then you are in danger. Therefore, when you discover that you have the manifestations of an antichrist, you should change course, seek the truth and solve this problem; do not treat the matter lightly. Otherwise, when you come to have power and opportunities, you will recklessly commit evil acts and cause disruptions and disturbances to church work. You will not be able to bear the consequences, and it will very likely impact your outcome and your destination.

Today we have clearly explained the essential difference between the wicked disposition of antichrists and the wicked disposition of ordinary people. Do you understand now? Corrupt human beings all possess a wicked disposition, and they all have the revelations and manifestations of a wicked disposition. However, the wicked disposition of ordinary people and the wicked disposition of antichrists are different. Although ordinary people have a wicked disposition, in their hearts they yearn for truth and love truth, and during the process of their faith in God and performing their duties, they are able to accept the truth. Even though the truth they can put into practice is limited, they can still practice some, and so their corrupt dispositions can gradually be purified and truly changed, and finally they are able to basically submit to God and attain salvation. Antichrists, on the other hand, don’t love the truth at all, they never accept the truth, and they never put it into practice. You should try to observe and discern according to what I say here; whether it be a church leader or worker, or an ordinary brother or sister, look to see whether they can put the truths within the scope of what they can understand into practice. For example, say someone understands a truth principle, but when it comes time to put it into practice, they don’t put it into practice at all, and they do whatever they want and act wantonly—this is wickedness and it is hard to save such a person. Some people don’t really understand the truth, but in their hearts they want to seek exactly what to do that accords with God’s intentions and conforms with the truth. In their innermost hearts, they wish not to go against the truth. Only because they don’t understand the truth do they speak and act in violation of principles, they make mistakes, and even do things that cause disruptions and disturbances—what is the nature of this? The nature of this does not pertain to doing evil; it is brought about through foolishness and ignorance. They do these things entirely because they don’t understand the truth, because they are not able to attain to the truth principles, and because, according to their notions and imaginings, they think it’s right to do those things, and so they act in that way, and God therefore determines them to be foolish and ignorant, lacking in caliber; it is not the case that they understand the truth and go against it on purpose. As for leaders and workers who always do things by their notions and imaginings and who often disrupt the work of God’s house because they don’t understand the truth, you must practice implementing supervision and restrictions, and practice fellowshipping more on the truth to solve problems. If someone’s caliber is too lacking and they cannot understand the truth principles, then it’s time to dismiss them as a false leader. If they understand the truth yet intentionally go against the truth, then they must be pruned. If they remain unable to accept the truth all the while and express no repentance, then they must be handled as an evil person, and they should be cleared out. However, the nature of antichrists is much more serious than that of evil people or false leaders, because antichrists intentionally disturb church work on purpose. Even if they understand the truth, they don’t practice it, they listen to no one, and if they do listen, they don’t accept what they hear. Even if they appear on the surface to accept it, they resist it in their innermost hearts, and when it comes time to act, they still act in accordance with their own preferences without any consideration to the interests of God’s house at all. When around other people, they speak some human words and have some human likeness, but when they act behind people’s backs, their demonic nature emerges—these are antichrists. When they gain status, some people do all manner of evil and become antichrists. Some people have no status, yet their nature essence is the same as that of antichrists—can you say they are good people? The moment they gain status, they do all manner of evil—they are antichrists.

Are there any of you who have found that you yourself are a burgeoning antichrist and feel that once you gain status, then you are guaranteed to one hundred percent be an antichrist? If so, then when others select you to be a leader, you must absolutely not allow them to select you and should say, “I abstain. Please don’t select me. If you do, then it’s all over for me.” This is called having self-awareness. Not having status is your protection. As an ordinary follower, you may never have the chance to do great evil, and the probability of you being punished could be zero. However, the moment you gain status, the probability of you committing evil is one hundred percent, as is the probability of you being punished, and then it’s all over for you, and you will have utterly destroyed any chance you may have had to attain salvation. If you have ambitions and desires, then you should hurry and pray to God, seek the truth to resolve the problem, rely on God and practice self-restraint, and do not revel in your position, and then you will be able to perform your duty normally. If you always focus on official titles and revel in your position, and you pay no attention to performing your duty, then you are a swindler and must be eliminated. When you accept a duty, don’t focus on position; you should just perform your duty well—handling matters well is more real than anything else. If you can perform your duty well, won’t you then have satisfied God? As far as you are concerned, this is the last way you can avoid doing evil. Is it a good thing or a bad thing to always be restricting you and not allowing you to gain status? (It’s a good thing.) So why do some people still strive so hard to compete for status during elections? Such people have too much ambition. It’s not normal for people to have too much ambition—they are being wicked. There are many young sisters, all of them in their twenties, who want to have an official position and love status so much. If they are not selected to be leaders, then they sulk and stop eating. Although they appear a bit childish, in terms of their determination, things will become desperately serious as they get older, and they will become experts, right? Some women hear that once upon a time a woman became empress and they feel incredibly envious, wishing they could be that woman. They don’t want to be ordinary, and in their faith in God they don’t want to be just ordinary followers. Their desires burn constantly in their hearts, and the moment a chance comes along for them to show themselves, they take it. They don’t just do some things, perform their duty, and fulfill some responsibilities with their feet planted firmly on the ground, putting their hearts into pursuing the truth. How wonderful it would be if they did! However, this kind of life can’t satisfy them, and they don’t want to live such an insipid life—this is troublesome for them. Are there any among you like this? Take for example a woman who likes to act promiscuously; no matter how good her husband is to her or how much money he has, he can never keep her heart. Some women have many children and still try to seduce men recklessly, and no man can keep an eye on them—this is being wicked. Where does this wicked energy come from? (It comes from within their nature.) And how does their nature come about? They have unclean spirits living inside them, and they are the reincarnations of unclean spirits. Although matters in the spiritual realm are complicated, no matter how complicated they are, as long as one understands the truth and can regard these matters according to God’s words, one can then have discernment, and this is known as directly penetrating the spiritual realm. When you understand the truth, you can then see things keenly and accurately, your thinking also becomes agile and clear, and your heart is brightened. If you don’t understand the truth, then your heart will always be muddled, you won’t know in your heart anything about what you’re doing, and you’ll be like an idiot, afraid of turning any which way. You’ll be afraid that you’re showing yourself off if you do more, and afraid that you’re not fulfilling your responsibilities if you don’t do it; you will always be in such a state. This is because you have too little understanding of the truth. What is the first manifestation of someone who has too little understanding of the truth? They live a mean and useless life. After being toyed with, bullied, and tossed around by antichrists, on the day they wake up, they realize how they used to run with antichrists, serving and working for them, yet still saying that the antichrists loved and were loyal to God. Only now do they see that they used all these words incorrectly. Is this not very useless? (Yes.) Why is it useless? This is brought about by them not understanding the truth and they get what they deserve! If you understand the truth, then you can have discernment of antichrists and see through them, and then you can expose and oust them. Will you then continue to be misled by them and follow them? Certainly not. Furthermore, you’ve listened to so many sermons, God’s house has watered you and cultivated you for so many years, so if you don’t understand any truth, if you can’t discern antichrists and you don’t even fulfill the responsibilities you should fulfill, and end up running with antichrists and becoming their accomplice, then doesn’t that make you useless? Are people like this not pitiful? If you nominally follow God yet you’re misled and pulled in by antichrists, you follow the path of an antichrist for several years, and you want to return but don’t have the courage to face your brothers and sisters, then isn’t that a useless way to live? No matter how upset you get, it’s no use. Whose fault is it that you don’t understand the truth? You can’t blame anyone but you.

We have fellowshipped on a total of seven various manifestations of antichrists. As for the detailed manifestations we have spoken about for each one, for the essence we have dissected, as well as the various circumstances we have talked about, none of these things have been fabricated out of thin air, but are well founded and based on facts. There is one point, however: If after you have listened to these things you simply aren’t able to match them up when you encounter real things, what does this show? First of all, it shows that you lack spiritual understanding, and even if you do have some spiritual understanding sometimes, it would only be a half-understanding, not full spiritual understanding; second, it shows that you don’t love the truth and don’t take the truth seriously; third, it shows that you are too lacking in caliber and are completely lacking in comprehension ability. I’ve said much exposing antichrists, but you haven’t understood any of it. You may think you understand it at the time, but later it becomes fuzzy, and this shows that you still haven’t understood it. Why don’t you understand? Does this bear any relation to comprehension? When I’ve explained things to this level and you still haven’t understood, this means that you are too lacking in comprehension ability and that you don’t really possess any ability to comprehend the truth. Is what I say accurate? This is how it is. There are certain people among you who have been listening to sermons for 10 or 20 years and you still don’t understand the truth. How do we explain this? There are only two possibilities: One is that you don’t have spiritual understanding, are lacking in caliber, and aren’t capable of understanding the truth; the other is that, although you have spiritual understanding, you don’t love the truth and are not interested in the truth. If one of these two possibilities applies to you, then you aren’t capable of understanding the truth. If both possibilities apply to you, then you are beyond saving, and it is hopeless. If you still can’t make an appropriate comparison with yourselves once I’m done fellowshipping and you don’t know what I mean, then what does that say about your comprehension ability? Is it not too lacking? If you were lazier, craved comfort, had no love for the truth, had personal preferences, and were distracted by external matters, these words would have less and less effect on you, and their effect would be greatly reduced—this is how it is. In actual fact, antichrists are so easy to discern. One aspect is to clarify the methods they use to do things, while another aspect is to see what their disposition is, what their direction in life and views on existence are, what their attitudes toward brothers and sisters, toward duty, toward the interests of God’s house, toward God, toward the truth, and toward positive things are, and what their principles for action are. By using these aspects you will basically be able to classify them. Will there still be any need to observe and learn about them for much longer? No. Antichrists don’t just engage in promiscuity, nor do they just oppress people. They have a satanic nature and are capable of anything. If, after listening to these sermons, you are simply unable to discern an antichrist’s disposition and cannot tell that what they’re revealing is an antichrist’s disposition, then have you understood any of them? You remember the doctrine, but you can’t match it up with anything, and when faced with the facts your doctrine is weak and ineffectual, and this proves that you haven’t understood. If you understand it at the time and later do some pray-reading, if you often fellowship on these things with brothers and sisters, you take note of and contemplate these truths, and you often pray before God, then you will gain more. However, if you crave comfort in your duty, are lax, you have no burden, and you have personal preferences, are capricious, you don’t really love the truth, you follow worldly trends, and are attracted by external matters, then you will be unable to perform your duty well. In the end, these truths that we’ve fellowshipped on will come to nothing with you, all that will be left will be words and doctrines, and that will mean that you have listened to it all for nothing. Do you listen to these fellowships again afterward? (Yes.) How many times can you listen to them? Do they have a different effect each time you listen to them? Do you contemplate them afterward? What impressions are you left with after contemplating them? As far as you’re concerned, can these sermons become the principles of practice and criteria for you to discern people and things in your life? (I can compare certain obvious dispositions and manifestations of antichrists with myself, that is, the things I say and do that are clearly intended to ensnare the hearts of others, and I’ll think of God’s words of exposure and know that the nature of my actions is to ensnare the hearts of others and that I want to achieve some purpose. However, I’m still quite lacking when it comes to discerning people, and I don’t purposefully compare God’s words with the people around me.) Tell Me, if you want to see yourself clearly, do you use a mirror or a puddle of muddy water? (A mirror.) What is the benefit of looking in a mirror? You can see yourself more clearly. Therefore, it is very limited if you can only discern yourself; you must also learn to discern others. Discerning others is not to intentionally classify them as antichrists, but rather to have principles for measuring and discerning the speech and actions of different kinds of people. This is beneficial for oneself, and in doing this one can also treat people correctly according to principles, which is beneficial for achieving harmonious cooperation when performing one’s duty with others. However, what one can achieve relying solely on knowing oneself are only limited results. You cannot focus only on knowing yourself when pursuing the truth. You must also focus on putting the truth into practice to achieve the effect of submission to God. By only focusing on one aspect, you will never achieve a complete understanding of the truth or enter into the truth reality, neither will you grow in life. This is pretty much the same as understanding only words and doctrines, and you will be unable to know God. Those who truly understand the truth can see through all things. Not only do they know themselves, but they can also discern others, and they can see through all kinds of people, events, and things. Only in this way can one perform one’s duty up to standard and be used by God.

Through fellowshipping today on the manifestations of the antichrists’ wicked disposition, what deeper and newer understandings have you come to regarding the wicked disposition? Give fellowship on this. (God, the thing that has stirred me most today is God saying that if we act like antichrists and intentionally obstruct and disturb the work of God’s house, then we are living devils. God talked about certain people who can’t stand to have anyone better than themselves, and I reflected on myself and realized that I have a particularly severe competitive spirit, and when I see that someone I perform my duty with has more strengths than me, I feel upset, and I always want to outdo them. I feel that my state is like that of the living devils God exposed, and I see that the nature of this matter is more serious than I imagined, and it frightens me. I never understood this very deeply, and now that I see just how severe this corrupt disposition of mine is, I feel very upset.) You’ve now recognized it. People’s corrupt dispositions are not as simple as a momentary revelation; there is a root cause and things to them which make it hard for you to cast them off, always controlling you, making you reveal so much corruption, unable to control yourself. People cannot explain clearly why they are like this, and they can’t control it—these are people’s dispositions. For someone to be able to clearly understand this kind of corrupt disposition is one aspect of progress. When it comes to this kind of corrupt disposition, if you can seek the truth and see through to its essence, if you can accept God’s judgment, trials, and refinement, if in so doing you can achieve a state whereby you practice the truth and truly submit to God, then this corrupt disposition can change—this is you beginning to practice the truth on the basis of understanding the truth. It is now very hard for most of you to exercise self-restraint when you reveal your corrupt dispositions, and this means you haven’t yet begun to practice the truth; the little bit you do in the performance of your duty is mostly based on personal interest, preference, and even on impetuousness, and this bears little relation to dispositional change, right? (Right.) Excellent, you felt stirred. Who else would like to speak? (After listening to God’s fellowship today, I feel greatly stirred. I used to think that wickedness meant speaking quite deceitfully, not speaking frankly and always putting up a pretense and deceiving others. Listening to God provide a dissection today of what a wicked disposition is, however, I now know that wickedness means resisting and conflicting with the truth and positive things, and that if someone conflicts with and resists the truth and positive things, then that is their wicked disposition. I used to have such a shallow understanding of wicked disposition, but now that I’ve heard God’s fellowship, I have a new understanding. Furthermore, what has shaken me quite a lot is God saying that the Canadian Film Production Team will be classified as Group B for a year. I was really shocked to hear this, and from God’s handling of this matter I can see God’s righteous disposition. I see that not a single person in that team was practicing the truth and this caused tremendous obstructions to the work of God’s house, and it really makes me angry. The people in our team have been in a similar state recently, that is, not having a burden for our duty. When our workload became lighter than before, we didn’t make clear plans for our duty and slacked off in our duty, just passing the days. Through listening to God’s fellowship today, I see that if one doesn’t practice the truth or pursue advancement in their duty, and if one isn’t serious about the truth, then God detests this kind of attitude toward performing one’s duty. I also recognize that we must treasure the time and the opportunity to perform our duty. If we don’t treasure our duty, then when the time during which God awaits us and the opportunities God gives us have been squandered, God’s wrath will issue forth at people, and it will be too late for regret.) It looks as though you need to be put under some pressure, right? (Yes.) Excellent. This is a real problem, and when you gather together you must fellowship on how to resolve this problem. You must fellowship together at regular intervals and come up with a summary and find a new plan. Every single person has a mission in this life, including Me, and if they don’t live for their mission, then there is no value to them living this life. If there is no value to you living life, then your life is worthless. Why do I say it is worthless? You will live life as a walking corpse; you will not deserve to live. If you don’t fulfill your responsibilities and accomplish your mission, then you do not deserve to enjoy everything God gives you. What does this signify? It signifies that God can take everything away from you at any moment. God can give, and God can take away—this is how it is. Actually, everyone present here now has a mission, it’s just that you all have different tasks to perform. Nonbelievers also have a mission. Their mission is to muddy the waters of this world and throw society into disorder, so that people live more and more painfully and die amidst the disasters. Your mission is to cooperate with God’s work, to spread God’s gospel and new work, while at the same time understand the truth and attain salvation—this is most joyous. Nothing in human history has been more joyous or more fortunate than this. Nothing is more important than this; this is the greatest thing in life, and it is the greatest thing in human history. If you cast off your mission and dispense with your duty and responsibilities, then your life will be without value, and living will have no meaning for you. It may be that you aren’t dead yet and you will live out the rest of your life in this world, yet living will have no meaning or value for you. Say there is one person who never heard the truth or God’s way, and one person who once knew what God’s management plan was and understood God’s way, but who in the end didn’t gain the truth or life, tell Me, with both people living in the world, would they feel the same way in their innermost hearts? (No.) Nonbelievers don’t know their mission; they have no sense of mission. You know where your mission has come from, you know that God is the Creator, the Sovereign of all things, you know that people came from God and should return to Him—knowing all this, can you still live at peace in this world? Can you still muddle along through life at your ease? No, you can’t. Since God gave you this mission, you should shoulder the responsibility for spreading the gospel, bear testimony for God to others, fulfill all the responsibilities man should fulfill, dedicate the truth you understand and your experiential testimony so that everyone can benefit, and then God will be satisfied. What people are capable of are in fact just these things. As long as you can suffer a little, pay some price, and crave comforts a little less, then you will be able to achieve these things. In this way, your outcome will be different from that of the nonbelievers, and you will be measured differently by God—this is so rare! God gives you this blessing, and if you don’t know to treasure it, then you are outrageously rebellious. Since you have chosen this path of faith in God, don’t be in two minds about it, but instead single-mindedly quieten your heart and perform your duty well. Don’t be left with regrets. Even if you can’t right now attain the stature of Peter and you can’t perform the righteous deeds of Job, then strive to perform your duty up to standard. What does “perform your duty up to standard” mean? It means to perform your duty in accordance with the truth principles and the work arrangements of God’s house, without slacking off, without harboring any hidden motives or holding anything back, but rather doing everything you can—then you will be performing your duty up to standard. God doesn’t require much from people, right? (Right.) Is this easy to achieve? This is something within the scope of humanity and you should be able to achieve it. Are there any more questions? If not, then we can end this fellowship here for today.

July 10, 2019