710 Only Obeying God’s Work Brings Dispositional Change
Verse 1
If you’re able to follow
the Holy Spirit’s current words
and experience God’s work,
then your disposition can change.
If you follow and seek
what the Holy Spirit says,
you are one who obeys Him;
there will be a change in you.
Pre-chorus
Men change with the Spirit’s new words.
If you cling to the past, you cannot change.
You must follow the Spirit’s guidance,
obey whatever God says.
Chorus
People cannot change their own disposition.
They must be judged and chastised,
refined and pruned by God’s words.
Only then can they achieve
obedience and faithfulness to God,
not going through the motions or fooling Him.
Verse 2
Through refinement of God’s words,
people’s dispositions change.
Being revealed and judged by God’s words,
they rash no more but become composed.
Most importantly, they submit
to God’s current words and work,
putting man’s notions aside,
and willingly submitting.
Chorus
People cannot change their own disposition.
They must be judged and chastised,
refined and pruned by God’s words.
Only then can they achieve
obedience and faithfulness to God,
not going through the motions or fooling Him.
Bridge
Before, changing meant forsaking oneself,
the discipline and suffering of flesh,
leaving behind fleshly preferences;
it’s one kind of change in disposition.
Today, all know that obeying
the current words of God
and knowing His new work
is the real marker of change.
Man’s old notions of God can then be erased
to truly know and obey God.
Only this is a true expression
of a change in disposition.
Chorus
People cannot change their own disposition.
They must be judged and chastised,
refined and pruned by God’s words.
Only then can they achieve
obedience and faithfulness to God,
not going through the motions or fooling Him.
Adapted from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. People Whose Dispositions Have Changed Are Those Who Have Entered Into the Reality of God’s Words