Some people don’t know how to experience God’s work and don’t know how to bring His words into the performance of their duties or into real life. They always rely on going to many gatherings to gain the truth and grow in life. However, this is unrealistic and an argument that does not hold water. Life is gained by experiencing God’s words and experiencing judgment and chastisement. Those who know how to experience His work are able, regardless of what duty they perform, to understand and practice the truth, accept being pruned, enter into the truth reality, attain change in their disposition, and be perfected by God when performing their duties. Those who are lazy and greedy for comforts are unwilling to perform duties, and do not experience God’s work when performing their duties, endlessly demanding that God’s house provide them with gatherings, sermons, and fellowshipping about the truth. As a result, after ten or twenty years of belief and after listening to countless sermons, they still have not understood the truth or gained the truth. They don’t know how to experience God’s work, don’t understand what belief in God is, and don’t know how to experience God’s word to know themselves and gain the truth and life. They are people who crave comfort and shirk their duties; therefore, they are revealed and eliminated for how they perform their duties. Now, all those people who are content to perform their duties and place importance on pursuing the truth have some life entry when performing their duties, reflect to know themselves when they reveal corruption, and when they encounter difficulties in the performance of their duties, they seek the truth and fellowship about the truth to resolve problems. Unwittingly, after several years of performing duties, they reap clear rewards, can speak of some experiential testimony, possess some knowledge of God’s work and of His disposition, and thus bring about changes in their life disposition. Currently, churches everywhere are cleansing themselves of evil people and those who are disruptive and cause disturbances. Those who remain are generally those who are able to persist in performing their duties, have a degree of loyalty, and place importance on seeking the truth to resolve problems. They are the kind of people who can stand firm in their testimony. You must learn to bring God’s words into real life and into the duties you perform, practicing them and putting them into use, and then when problems and difficulties arise, seek the truth to resolve them. Additionally, you must learn to be considerate of God’s intentions when performing your duties, and work on practicing the truth and handling things according to the principles in every matter. You must learn to practice love for God, and with a God-loving heart, be considerate of His burden, and reach the point where you can satisfy Him. Only this is someone who sincerely loves God. By practicing in this way, even if you don’t fully understand the truth, you are still able to perform your duties adequately, and not only can you resolve your perfunctoriness, but you can learn to practice love for God, submit to Him, and satisfy Him when performing your duties—this is the lesson of life entry. If you can practice the truth and act according to the principles in this way for every matter, then you are entering into the truth reality and will have life entry. No matter how busy you are performing your duties, when you have the fruits of life entry, growth in life, and can submit to God’s orchestrations and arrangements, then you will find enjoyment in performing your duties. You won’t feel weary no matter how busy you are. You will always have peace and joy in your heart and feel particularly enriched and calm. No matter what difficulty arises, when you seek the truth, the Holy Spirit will enlighten and guide you. Then you will receive God’s blessing. Furthermore, regardless of whether you are busy or not when performing your duties, it is important to engage in occasional suitable exercise and sensible fitness activities. This will promote circulation, help maintain high energy levels, and can be effective in preventing certain occupational diseases. This is highly beneficial for performing your duties well. Therefore, when performing your duties, if you are able to learn many lessons, gain an understanding of many truths, truly know God, and finally fear God and shun evil, then you will be completely aligned with His intentions. If you can attain love for God, bear witness for Him, and achieve unity of heart and will with Him, you are walking the path of being perfected by Him. This is a person who has gained God’s blessing, and it is an incredibly blessed thing! If you sincerely expend yourself for God, you will certainly receive abundant blessings from Him. Can those who do not expend themselves for God, and do not perform their duties gain the truth? Can they attain salvation? It is difficult to say. All blessings can only be gained through performing one’s duties and experiencing God’s work. It is in the course of performing one’s duties that one knows how to experience God’s work, and knows how to experience judgment and chastisement, trials and refinement, and being pruned. These are the things most worthy of being blessed. So long as a person loves the truth and pursues it, they will eventually gain the truth, change their life disposition, gain God’s approval, and become someone who is blessed by Him.

Some people do not seek the truth when things befall them in the course of their duties, always living according to their own notions and imaginings, doing things according to personal preferences, and blindly acting according to their own will. As a result, they do many things wrong and delay the work of the church. When faced with being pruned, they still do not accept the truth and continue their willful and reckless behavior. Consequently, they lose the work of the Holy Spirit and their belief in God becomes confused and shrouded in darkness. Some people are fond of fame and gain, and pursue status, busying themselves with these things without considering God’s intentions or accepting any fellowship about the truth. Eventually, they are revealed and eliminated, and fall into darkness. Some believers acknowledge God’s incarnation, yet in their hearts they still only believe in the heavenly God and in the Spirit of God. They constantly have notions about the practical God and their hearts are guarded toward Him, fearing He will grasp their true selves. They avoid God at every turn, and when they see Him, they look at Him as if He were a stranger. As a result, even after several years of belief, they have gained nothing and do not have the slightest faith in Him. They are no different from disbelievers. This is entirely because they do not pursue the truth. Some people constantly want to see the practical God. They long to please God and have Him elevate their status, so they can throw their weight around at church. As a result, due to their dishonesty, lack of frankness, constant observation of God’s countenance, and speculation about His meaning, they are spurned by Him. God no longer wishes to see people like this. What is the purpose of these people’s belief in God? With God speaking so much truth, why do they still examine Him? If they believe in God, why don’t they pursue the truth? Why are they constantly ambitious and desirous, seeking fame, gain, status, benefits and advantages? They harbor malicious motives for believing in God and people find them inscrutable. These are all behaviors of disbelievers. Strictly speaking, anyone who believes in God but cannot accept the truth is a disbeliever. Only those who pursue the truth, strive to perform their duties well, and seek to satisfy God have a sincere belief in God and are able to gain His approval.

Now, every day and year that passes in your life holds value. Where does this value lie? When a person comes before the Creator, performs their duty as a created being, and gains the truth from the Creator, they become useful in the eyes of God. Is contributing your humble efforts to God’s management plan not what makes each day of your life valuable? (Yes, it is.) This is the value of each day of life, and it is precious! If each day of your life has such value, what is a little suffering or illness when performing your duties? People should not complain. People have gained so much by being in God’s presence; they enjoy unseen grace and blessings, and unseen protection that surpass anything they can imagine and see. People have received so much—what does some minor illness matter? Isn’t that the lesson that people should learn? If, through illness, one can understand the truth, attain submission to God, and satisfy Him, isn’t that another blessing from Him? Among those making a living in the world, who doesn’t experience physical ailments? Who cares if they have an illness? No one cares, no one asks, and there is no one to provide them with assurance. Do you who perform duties in God’s house have assurance? (Yes.) All those who sincerely expend themselves for God have assurance and receive His blessings. What kind of assurance do you see and recognize? (I am no longer influenced or poisoned by the evil trends of the world; I have shunned the bullying and harm of nonbelievers, and have God’s protection and blessings in all things. I will no longer be seized or persecuted by the great red dragon. I will live in God’s house, interact with other brothers and sisters, and my heart will be peaceful, joyful, and calm. Every day, I will eat and drink God’s word and fellowship on the truth, and my heart will become brighter and brighter. After understanding the truth, my heart is particularly joyful, my spirit gains freedom and liberation, and I am no longer deceived or harmed by evil and deceitful people. Furthermore, after witnessing God’s protection and blessings, I am no longer afraid when disasters befall me; my heart feels calm and at peace. I have set aside worries about things such as whether my basic needs will be met in the future, and whether anyone will provide for me when I’m old. Living in God’s presence is truly a blessing and a joy!) What you are tasting now is limited, but after the great disaster, you will understand and see many things clearly. All of this is God’s protection and His blessing. Currently, even though you sometimes experience being pruned, and go through trials and refinement, and sometimes experience God’s judgment and chastisement, and suffer from His words, this is the suffering of attaining salvation and being perfected—it is not the same as the suffering of nonbelievers. The most important thing is that by performing your duties in God’s house, you become a useful created being and live a life of value and meaning—instead of living for the flesh and for Satan, you live for the pursuit of the truth and to satisfy God. In the course of performing your duties, you gain an understanding of many truths and of God’s intentions. This is a most precious thing. After you understand the truth, have entered into the truth reality, and have gained the truth as your life, you will be living in God’s presence, and living in the light. You are now performing your duties every day, and each day you live has its rewards and value. You have also gained the truth, and live in the presence of God. Is this having assurance? (Yes.) What is this assurance? (Not being captured by Satan.) Apart from not being captured by Satan, what is the even more crucial thing? God created you as a human being, and now you are able to perform your duty, understand His intentions, have the truth reality, follow His way, and live according to His intentions. God approves of you, and that is your assurance and guarantee that you will not be destroyed by God. Is this not your life’s capital? Without these things, are you qualified to go on living? (No.) How does one acquire this qualification? Is it not by being able to perform the duties of a created being, satisfy God’s intentions, and follow His way, as well as by gaining the truth reality, and treating God’s word as one’s life? (Yes.) Because of these things, you are able to worship Him, and in His eyes, you are an adequate created being. How can He not delight in you? Who are the people that God wants to destroy? What kind of created beings are they? (Evildoers.) Anyone who does evil is resisting God, and is hostile toward Him—they are enemies of God and will be the first to be destroyed. Antichrists who vie with God for status, disbelievers; those averse to the truth, who are hostile to God, do not pursue the truth and oppose Him to the end, and those who cannot perform their duty as created beings to any degree—these are the people God wants to destroy. Some people who do not perform their duties are disbelievers. Others, even though they perform their duties, are consistently perfunctory, are capable of doing evil and causing a disturbance, and resist and oppose God. Can such people be deemed adequate created beings in the eyes of God? (No, they cannot.) What will ultimately result in created beings which are deemed inadequate? (God will eliminate and destroy them.) Is there value in the lives of created beings which are deemed inadequate? (No.) They may think, “My life has value. I want to live. I can do good things with my life!” In the eyes of God, however, they cannot even perform their basic duty as created beings. If they cannot perform their duty adequately, is their life worth living? Is there value in their existence? If there is no value in their existence, then does God still want them? (No.) What will God do? He will eliminate them. The lighter cases will be set aside and handed over to unclean devils and evil spirits, while severe ones will receive punishment, and even more severe cases will lead to destruction.