In God’s work of the last days, He determines people’s outcomes based on their manifestations. Do you know what “manifestations” refers to here? You might think that manifestations refers to the corrupt dispositions that people reveal while doing things, but that is not actually what this means. Manifestations here refers to whether or not you are able to practice the truth; whether or not you are able to be loyal while performing your duty; your perspective on believing in God, your attitude toward God, your resolve to suffer hardships; your attitude toward accepting judgment, chastisement, and pruning; the number of serious transgressions that you have committed; and the extent to which you ultimately achieve repentance and transformation. All of these combined make up your manifestations. Manifestations here does not refer to how many corrupt dispositions you have revealed or how many bad things you have done, but to how many results you have gotten and how much real change you have undergone in your belief in God. If people’s outcomes were determined based on how much corruption their nature has revealed, no one could attain salvation, because human beings are all deeply corrupt, they all have a satanic nature, and they all resist God. God wants to save people who can accept the truth and submit to His work. No matter how much corruption they reveal, as long as they can ultimately accept the truth, achieve true repentance, and undergo true change, they are people who are saved by God. Some people cannot see through this and think that anyone who serves as a leader will reveal more of their corrupt dispositions, and that whoever reveals more corruption will definitely be eliminated and not be able to survive. Is this point of view correct? Although leaders reveal more corruption, if they are people who pursue the truth, then they are qualified to experience God’s judgment and chastisement, they can embark upon the path of being saved and made perfect, and they will ultimately be able to give a beautiful testimony for God. These are people who have truly changed. If people’s outcomes were determined based on how much of their corrupt disposition is revealed, then the more they served as leaders and workers, the quicker they would be revealed. If this were the case, who would dare to be a leader or a worker? Who could reach the point of being used and perfected by God? Isn’t this point of view too absurd? God mainly looks at whether people can accept and practice the truth, whether they can stand firm in their testimony, and whether they have truly changed. If people have true testimony and have undergone true change, they are people that God approves of. Some people appear to reveal little corruption on the surface, but they lack true experiential testimony, they have not truly changed, and God does not approve of them.

God determines the outcome of a person based on their manifestations and essence. Manifestations here refers to whether a person is loyal to God, whether they have love for Him, whether they practice truth, and to what extent their disposition has changed. It is based on these manifestations and their essence that God determines the outcome of a person, not on how much they reveal their corrupt disposition. If you think that God determines the outcome of a person based on how much corruption they reveal, you have misinterpreted His intentions. In fact, people have the same corrupt essence, there is just a difference in whether or not they have good or bad humanity, and in whether or not they can accept the truth. No matter how much one reveals their corrupt disposition, God knows best what lies in the depths of their heart; there is no need for you to hide it. God observes the depths of people’s hearts. Regardless of whether it is something that you do in front of or behind others, or what you want to do in your heart, all of it is laid bare before God. How could God not be aware of what people do in secret? Is this not self-delusion? In truth, no matter how deceitful a person’s nature may be, no matter how many lies a person tells, no matter how skilled they are at disguising themselves and deceiving, God knows it all like the back of His hand. God knows leaders and workers this well, so doesn’t He know His ordinary followers that well too? Some people think, “Anyone who leads is foolish and ignorant and is bringing about their own destruction, because acting as a leader inevitably makes people reveal corruption for God to see. Would there be so much corruption revealed if they didn’t do this work?” What an absurd idea! If you don’t act as a leader, will you not reveal corruption? Does not being a leader, even if you show less corruption, mean that you have attained salvation? According to this argument, are all those who do not serve as leaders the ones who can survive and be saved? Isn’t this statement too ridiculous? People who serve as leaders guide God’s chosen people to eat and drink the word of God and to experience God’s work. This requirement and standard is high, so it is inevitable that leaders will reveal some corrupt states when they first begin training. This is normal, and God does not condemn it. God not only does not condemn it, but He also enlightens, illuminates, and guides these people, and places extra burdens on them. As long as they can submit to God’s guidance and work, they will progress faster in life than ordinary people. If they are people who pursue the truth, they can embark on the path of being made perfect by God. This is the thing that is most blessed by God. Some people can’t see this, and they distort the facts. According to human understanding, no matter how much a leader changes, God will not care; He will only look at how much corruption leaders and workers reveal, and only condemn them based on this. And for those who are not leaders and workers, because they reveal little corruption, even if they do not change, God will not condemn them. Isn’t this absurd? Isn’t it blasphemy against God? If you resist God so seriously in your heart, can you be saved? You cannot be saved. God determines people’s outcomes mainly based on whether they have the truth and true testimony, and it mainly depends on whether they are people who pursue the truth. If they do pursue the truth, and they can truly repent after they are judged and chastised for committing a transgression, then as long as they do not say words or do things that blaspheme God, they will surely be capable of attaining salvation. According to your imaginings, all ordinary believers who follow God to the end can achieve salvation, and those who serve as leaders must all be eliminated. If you were asked to be a leader, you’d think that it would not be okay not to do it, but that if you were to serve as a leader, you would involuntarily reveal corruption, and that would be just like sending yourself to the guillotine. Isn’t this all caused by your misunderstandings about God? If people’s outcomes were determined based on the corruption that they reveal, no one could be saved. In that case, what would be the point of God doing the work of salvation? If this truly were the case, where would the righteousness of God be? Mankind would be unable to see God’s righteous disposition. Therefore, you have all misunderstood God’s intentions, which shows that you do not have true knowledge of God.

God determines people’s outcomes based on their manifestations, and manifestations here refers to the results of God’s work on them. I will give you an analogy: In an orchard, the owner waters and fertilizes his trees, then waits to collect their fruit. The trees that bear fruit are good trees and they are kept; those that do not are definitely not good trees and they cannot be kept. Consider this situation: A tree does bear fruit, but it also contracts a disease, and some of its bad branches need to be cut off. Do you think that this tree should be kept? It should be kept, and it will be fine once it has been pruned and treated. Consider another situation: A tree has no diseases, but it does not bear fruit—such a tree should not be kept. What does “bear fruit” mean here? It refers to God’s work achieving results. Because people have been corrupted by Satan, they will inevitably reveal their corruption in the course of experiencing God’s work, and they will inevitably commit some transgressions. However, at the same time, God’s work will achieve some results in them. If God did not care about these results, and only looked at the corrupt dispositions that people revealed, then saving people would be out of the question. The results of salvation are principally manifested in people’s performance of their duties and their practice of the truth. God looks at the results that people have attained in these areas, and then at the seriousness of their transgressions. Then He decides their outcomes, and whether or not they will remain based on a combination of these factors. For instance, some people revealed a great deal of corruption in the past, and showed an immense consideration for their flesh; they were not willing to expend themselves for God, nor did they uphold the interests of the church. However, after listening to sermons for several years, they underwent real change. They know now to strive toward the truth principles in the performance of their duties, and they achieve more and more results in their duties. They are also able to stand on God’s side in all things, and do their utmost to uphold the work of God’s house. This is what is meant by transforming one’s life disposition, and it is this transformation that God wants. Furthermore, there are some people who, whenever notions occurred to them in the past, would always spread them around, and their hearts were only satisfied when these notions had formed in other people, but now when they have some notions, they are able to pray to God, seek the truth, and be submissive without spreading their notions or doing anything to resist God. Has a transformation not occurred in them? Some people would immediately become resistant whenever they were pruned by anyone in the past; however, when that happens to them now, they are able to accept it and know themselves. Afterward, they undergo some actual transformation. Is this not a result? However, no matter how much you change, it is impossible to be completely free of transgressions, and your nature cannot be transformed completely in an instant. If someone embarks upon the right track of belief in God, and knows to seek the truth in all things, then even if they show a bit of rebellion, they will realize it at the time. After they do, they will hurry to confess and repent to God, and to change, and their state will only get better and better. They may commit the same transgression once or twice again, but not a third or fourth time. This is transformation. It’s not that this person has changed in some respect, so they no longer reveal corruption, and they no longer commit any transgressions at all. It’s not like that. This kind of transformation means that someone is able to practice more of the truth after experiencing God’s work, and put some of what God requires into practice. Such a person will commit fewer and fewer transgressions, they will reveal less and less corruption, and their episodes of rebellion will become less and less severe. From this it is clear that God’s work has achieved results; what He wants are these sorts of manifestations in people, which show that results have been achieved in them. Therefore, the way that God handles people’s outcomes or how He treats every person is completely righteous, reasonable, and fair. You only need to put all your effort into expending yourself for God, and boldly and assuredly practice the truths that you should practice, without any worries, and God will not mistreat you. Think about it: Can those who love and practice the truth be punished by God? Many people are always suspicious of God’s righteous disposition, afraid that they will still be punished even after they put the truth into practice; afraid that even if they show loyalty to God, He will not see it. Such people have no knowledge of God’s righteous disposition.

Some people become negative after being pruned; they lose all energy to perform their duties, and their loyalty disappears as well. Why is this? This problem is very serious; this is the inability to accept the truth. They do not accept the truth, partly due to their lack of knowledge of their corrupt dispositions, which leads to them not being able to accept being pruned. This is determined by their nature which is arrogant and conceited, and has no love for the truth. It is also partly due to people not understanding the significance of being pruned. They believe that being pruned means that their outcome has been determined. As a result, they mistakenly believe that if they forsake their families to expend themselves for God, and possess some loyalty to God, then they should not be pruned; and, if they are pruned, then this is not God’s love and righteousness. This kind of misunderstanding causes many people to not dare to be loyal to God. Actually, when all is said and done, it is because they are too deceitful and do not want to suffer hardships. They just want to obtain blessings the easy way. People do not understand God’s righteous disposition at all. They never believe that all of God’s actions are righteous, or that His treatment of everyone is righteous. They never seek the truth in this matter, but always make their own arguments instead. No matter what bad things a person has done, what great sins they have committed, or how much evil they have done, as long as God’s judgment and punishment befalls them, they will think that Heaven is unfair, and that God is not righteous. In the eyes of man, if God’s actions do not align with their desires, or if His actions are inconsiderate toward their feelings, then He must not be righteous. However, people never know whether their actions conform to the truth, nor do they ever realize that they rebel against and resist God in all their actions. If, no matter how people transgressed, God never pruned them or reproached them for their rebellion, but instead was calm and gentle with them, only treated them with love and patience, and allowed them to dine and enjoy things alongside Him forever, then people would never complain about God or judge Him to be unrighteous; rather, they would insincerely say that He was very righteous. Do such people know God? Can they be of one heart and mind with God? They have no inkling that when God judges and prunes humans, He wishes to purify and transform their life dispositions so that they can succeed in submitting to Him and loving Him. Such people do not believe that God is a righteous God. As long as God rebukes, exposes, and prunes people, they will become negative and weak, always complaining that God is not loving, and always grumbling that God’s judgment and chastisement of man is wrong, unable to see that this is God purifying and saving man, and not believing that God determines people’s outcomes based on their displays of repentance. They always doubt God and guard against Him, and what will be the result of this? Will they be able to submit to the work of God? Will they be able to achieve true change? This is impossible. If this state of theirs continues, it will be very dangerous, and it will be impossible for them to be purified and made perfect by God.