People must approach their duties and God with honest hearts. If they do, they will be people who fear God. What kind of attitude do people with honest hearts have toward God? At the very least, they have a God-fearing heart, a heart of submission to God in all things, they do not ask about blessings or misfortunes, they do not speak about conditions, they leave themselves at the mercy of God’s orchestration—these are people with honest hearts. Those who are always skeptical about God, always scrutinizing Him, always trying to strike a deal with Him—are they people with honest hearts? (No.) What resides within the hearts of such people? Deceitfulness and wickedness; they are always scrutinizing. And what is it they scrutinize? (God’s attitude toward people.) They are always scrutinizing God’s attitude toward people. What problem is this? And why do they scrutinize this? Because it involves their vital interests. In their hearts, they think to themselves, “God created these circumstances for me, He caused this to happen to me. Why did He do that? This hasn’t happened to other people—why did it have to happen to me? And what will the consequences be afterward?” These are the things they scrutinize, they scrutinize their gains and losses, blessings and misfortunes. And while scrutinizing these things, are they able to practice the truth? Are they able to submit to God? They are not. And what is the nature of the things that are produced by the ruminations of their hearts? These things are all, by nature, in consideration of their own interests, they are all for their own sakes. No matter what duty they perform, these people first scrutinize: “Will I suffer when I perform this duty? Will I have to work and travel outside often? Will I be able to eat and rest regularly? Will I keep having to get up early? What kind of people will I meet? Will I often meet unbelievers? The outside world is pretty hostile right now, if I always keep having to work and travel outside, what will I do if I’m arrested by the great red dragon?” Although they appear to accept their duties, there is deceitfulness in their hearts, they always scrutinize these things. In fact, by scrutinizing these things they are just considering their own prospects and fates, they give no thought to the interests of God’s house. And what is the outcome when people only consider their own prospects, fates, and interests? It is not easy for them to submit to God, and even when they wish to, they can’t. People who particularly value their own prospects, fates, and interests, always scrutinize whether God’s work is beneficial to their prospects, to their fates, and to them obtaining blessings. In the end, what is the outcome of their scrutiny? All they do is rebel against and oppose God. Even when they do insist on performing their duties, they do so perfunctorily, with a mood of negativity; in their hearts, they keep thinking about how to take advantage, and to not be on the losing side. Such are their motives when they perform their duties, and in this, they are trying to make a deal with God. What disposition is this? It is deceitfulness, it is a wicked disposition. This is no longer an ordinary corrupt disposition, it has escalated to wickedness. And when there is this kind of wicked disposition in a person’s heart, this is a struggle against God! You should be clear about this problem. If people always scrutinize God and try to make deals when they perform their duties, can they do their duties properly? Absolutely not. They do not worship God with their hearts, and with honesty, they do not have honest hearts, they are watching and waiting as they perform their duties, always holding back—and what is the outcome? God does not work in them, and they become muddled and confused, they don’t understand the truth principles, and they act according to their own inclinations, and always go awry. And why do they always go awry? Because their hearts are too lacking in clarity, and when things happen to them, they do not reflect on themselves, or seek the truth to find a resolution, and they insist on doing things as they wish, according to their own preferences—the result of this is that they always go awry when they perform their duties. They never think of the work of the church, nor of the interests of God’s house, they always plot for their own sakes, they always plan for their own interests, pride, and status, and not only do they perform their duties poorly, they also delay and affect the work of the church. Is this not going astray and neglecting their duties? If someone is always planning for their own interests and prospects when they perform their duty, and gives no thought to the work of the church or the interests of God’s house, then this is not performing a duty. This is opportunism, it is doing things for their own benefit and to obtain blessings for themselves. In this way, the nature behind performing their duty changes. It is just about making a deal with God, and wanting to use the performance of their duty to achieve their own goals. This way of doing things is very likely to disrupt the work of God’s house. If it only causes minor losses to the church’s work, then there is still room for redemption and they may still be given an opportunity to perform their duty, rather than being cleared out; but if it causes great losses to the church’s work and incurs the wrath of God and people alike, then they will be revealed and eliminated, with no further opportunity to perform their duty. Some people are dismissed and eliminated in this way. Why are they eliminated? Have you found the root cause? The root cause is that they always consider their own gains and losses, get carried away by their own interests, are unable to rebel against the flesh, and don’t have a submissive attitude toward God at all, so they tend to behave recklessly. They believe in God only to obtain profit, grace, and blessings, and not at all to gain the truth, so their belief in God fails. This is the root of the problem. Do you think it is unjust for them to be revealed and eliminated? It is not unjust in the slightest, it is entirely determined by their nature. Anyone who does not love the truth or pursue the truth will eventually be revealed and eliminated. But it is different for those who love the truth. When something happens to them, they first think, “How can I act in accordance with the truth? How should I act so as not to harm the interests of God’s house? What would satisfy God?” Someone who thinks this way is seeking the truth. These thoughts prove they love the truth. They do not think about their own interests first, but consider those of the house of God. They do not consider their own satisfaction; they consider whether God is satisfied. These are the thoughts and the mindset of people who love the truth, and these are the people God loves. If, when something happens to a person, they are able to practice according to the truth principles, and accept God’s scrutiny, with God behind them acting as guarantor, then they are not likely to make mistakes while performing their duty, and it will be easy for them to fulfill it in accordance with God’s will. If someone is always acting on their own initiative, and scheming, planning, and plotting for their own interests, if they do not consider the interests of God’s house or God’s intentions, and lack the slightest will to submit to God’s orchestrations and arrangements—if they lack even the will to do this—what will the final outcome be? They will frequently disrupt and disturb the church’s work. They will provoke indignation among God’s chosen people, they will be despised and detested by God’s chosen ones, and in serious cases, they will be revealed and eliminated. It is inevitable that people who always have ambitions and desires will fail and stumble. As the saying goes, “The higher the climb, the harder the fall.” What is this called? It is called being revealed. Is this not deserved? Is this kind of person worthy of sympathy? They are not. This is the eventual outcome of all those who make plans for their own personal interests. Some people say: “But I often make plans for my own personal interests. How come this hasn’t happened to me?” That is because you have not affected the church’s work, so God does not get serious with you. God does not get serious with you—is this a good thing or a bad thing? (A bad thing.) Why do you say that? (If I were to continue like this, I wouldn’t be able to obtain the work of the Holy Spirit.) That is correct. If someone does not pursue the truth and does not experience God’s work, the Holy Spirit will not work in them. This is particularly true for those people whom God does not discipline no matter what bad things they do; it is completely over for them. God certainly does not want these people; He puts them aside. If you do not pursue the truth, you do not have life. It is like those people who are always pursuing fame, gain, and status, who do not pursue the truth, who you never see practicing the truth—do people like this have any life growth? Since they do not practice the truth, they will have no life growth, no matter how many years they believe in God. There are some people who are still talking about the same things today as they were three years ago, still speaking the same words and doctrines. Those people are done for. No growth can be seen in their statures or self-knowledge. Their faith in God remains the same, and there is not the least bit of change in their life dispositions. Their misunderstandings about God have increased, and their corrupt dispositions that resist God have become more severe. Is this not more dangerous? It is indeed more dangerous, and they will certainly be eliminated.

Usually, when you experience things that relate to your duty or your corrupt dispositions, are you able to discover the issues that exist within yourselves through introspection? (I can discover them a little now. When doing my duty, I always want to be in charge and to have the final say, and I try to show off so that other people will esteem me. But after my brothers and sisters point this out to me, I reflect on myself and gain some knowledge of my arrogant nature.) You can recognize your arrogance—what about your submission to God, has that increased? Have your intention and desire to submit increased? Has your faith in God increased? (They have increased a little.) It is not workable to perform a duty without seeking the truth; when faced with problems, you must use the truth to resolve them. If you always perform your duty according to your own will and satanic philosophies, you will not only fail to resolve the problem of your revelations of corruption, but your faith in God, submission to God, and love for God will also not increase. If you do not accept the truth and do not use the truth to resolve your problems, you will never grow in life and you will never be able to resolve the problem of your corruption. What corrupt dispositions do you reveal when you perform your duty now? What human impurities remain? You must engage in frequent self-reflection to discover these issues. They cannot be known without self-examination. Sometimes it is only when you hear other people talk about their own self-knowledge that you feel that you are the same way. If you do not hear other people exposing their states, you will not be able to discover your own problems. There are many who readily listen to the experiential testimony of others precisely because they benefit from it and gain something from it. The more closely you examine and the more thoroughly you come to know your own corrupt dispositions and your own intentions and designs, the more you will be able to let go of them, and the stronger your faith for practicing the truth will become. The stronger your faith for practicing the truth becomes, the easier it will be for you to put the truth into practice. When you frequently practice the truth, you will be able to perform your duty with greater purity and more adequately. This is the process of life growth; these are the fruits of self-reflection and self-knowledge. There are some people who think that because they have listened to sermons for years and understood many words and doctrines they do not have a corrupt disposition, as if there is no need for them to self-reflect and gain self-knowledge. They always believe that these are things that only new believers have to focus on, and that believing in God for many years and possessing many good behaviors means that they have already changed, and do not have a corrupt disposition. This is a grievous misconception. If you think that you have already changed, how much of the truth can you put into practice? How many true experiential testimonies do you have? Can you talk about them? Can you bear witness for God before others? If you cannot speak about it, that proves that you do not have experiential testimony and you lack the truth reality. Could someone like you really have changed then? Are you someone who has truly repented? One cannot help but doubt this. How could someone who never self-reflects or attempts to gain self-knowledge have life entry? How could someone who never talks about self-knowledge share true experiential testimony? These things are impossible. If someone believes they have truly changed and do not need to know themselves, it can be said that this person is a hypocrite. Some people just go through the motions when performing their duties, believing that doing just enough is acceptable, that seeming passable on the surface means their duties are up to standard. This way of doing things is perfunctory, is it not? Is someone like this truly submitting to God? This kind of person performs their duty without any truth principles, content to simply carry out tasks and toil, and then they think that their duty is up to standard. In fact, they are only an adequate laborer, they are not performing their duty adequately. Those who are content with merely laboring adequately will never gain the truth, or achieve dispositional change. Anyone who doesn’t perform their duty in accordance with God’s demands, who doesn’t seek the truth principles, who keeps acting according to their own will, is merely laboring and toiling. What stage are you at now? (I am still in the laboring stage.) Most of the time you are laboring; sometimes you are able to strive toward the truth when you are performing your duty and have a little submission, but are you often like this? (No, not often.) The goal of pursuing the truth is to resolve this issue. You must endeavor to perform your duty more and more, and to labor less and less, striving to turn all of your laboring into the performance of your duty. What is the difference between laboring and performing a duty? A person who labors does whatever they want, thinking it is okay as long as they don’t resist God or offend His disposition, thinking it’s acceptable as long as they can just get by and nobody looks into it. They don’t concern themselves with gaining self-knowledge, being an honest person, doing things according to the truth principles, or submitting to God’s arrangements, and they certainly don’t concern themselves with entering the truth reality. They don’t concern themselves with any of these things. This is laboring. Laboring is incessant toiling, it is toiling like a slave does, working from morning to night, it is this kind of toiling. If you ask a laborer why they’ve been working like a horse for all these years, they’ll reply, “To receive blessings!” If you ask whether, after believing in God for so many years, their corrupt dispositions have changed at all, if they’ve received any affirmation of God’s existence, if they’ve gained any true knowledge and experience of the Creator’s orchestrations and arrangements, they have not gained any of these things, and they won’t be able to speak about any of them. They have not entered or improved with regard to any of the various indicators related to life growth and dispositional transformation. They just keep laboring without understanding what dispositional change is. Some people labor for years without changing at all. They still often become negative, complain, and reveal their corrupt dispositions when they encounter difficulties. When they are pruned they resort to arguments and quibbling, unable to accept even a bit of the truth and not submitting to God whatsoever. Ultimately, they are forbidden from performing their duties. Some people make a mess of the work when performing their duties and do not accept criticism, instead shamelessly saying they did nothing wrong and not repenting at all. And finally, when the house of God revokes their duties and sends them on their way, they leave their place of duty crying and complaining. This is how they are eliminated. This is the way in which duties thoroughly reveal people. People usually talk a good game and shout slogans loudly, but why is it that when they perform a duty they do not act as humans but become devils? This is because people who lack humanity are devils wherever they go; and without accepting the truth, they cannot stand firm anywhere. Some people often perform their duties perfunctorily, and they try to argue and reason when they are pruned. After being pruned repeatedly, they feel some desire to repent, so they start employing methods of self-restraint. In the end, however, they cannot restrain themselves, and even though they might swear oaths and curse themselves, it doesn’t help, and they still don’t resolve the problem of their perfunctoriness, nor the problem of them arguing and quibbling. Only after everyone eventually comes to detest this person and criticizes them do they finally feel forced to admit, “I do have corrupt dispositions. I want to repent but I am unable to. When I do my duty I always consider my own interests, my own pride and reputation, which causes me to rebel against God often. I want to practice the truth, but I cannot let go of my intentions and desires; I cannot rebel against them. I always want to do things according to my own will, I contrive schemes to avoid work, and I covet leisure and enjoyment. I cannot accept being pruned and I always try to argue my way out of it. I think that it’s good enough that I’ve toiled and endured hardships, so I resort to arguing and quibbling when anybody tries to prune me, feeling unconvinced at heart. I really am so difficult to handle! How should I seek the truth to resolve these problems?” They start to ponder these things. This means that they have some understanding of how people should act, as well as some reason. If a laborer starts at some point to attend to their proper work and focus on changing their disposition, and realizes that they too have corrupt dispositions, that they too are arrogant and incapable of submitting to God, and that continuing in this way will not do—when they start to think about and try to fathom these things, when they can seek the truth to face problems that they discover—will they not then begin to reverse their course? If they start to reverse their course, there is hope for them to change. But if they never intend to pursue the truth, if they lack the desire to strive for the truth and only know to toil and work, believing that finishing the work they have at hand is accomplishing their task and completing God’s commission—if they believe that exerting some effort means they’ve done their duty, without ever considering what God’s requirements are or what the truth is, or whether they are a person who submits to God, and never trying to figure out any of these things—if this is the way they approach their duty, will they be able to attain salvation? They will not. They have not embarked on the path of salvation, they have not gotten on the right track of believing in God, and they have not built a relationship with God. They are still just toiling and laboring in the house of God. God watches over and protects such people too when they labor in His house, but He does not intend to save them. God does not prune, judge, chastise, test, or refine them, He only allows them to obtain some blessings in this life, and that is all. When these people know to reflect and gain knowledge of themselves, and know the importance of practicing the truth, it means they have understood the sermons they’ve listened to and finally gotten some results. They then think, “Believing in God is so wonderful. His words really can change people! The most urgent thing now is for me to seek to obtain the truth. If I don’t focus on knowing myself or cast off my corrupt dispositions, and remain content with simply laboring, I won’t gain anything.” So, this person starts to ponder: “What corrupt dispositions do I have? How do I come to know them? Just how should I resolve these corrupt dispositions?” Their pondering on these matters touches upon understanding the truth and dispositional change, and then there is hope for their salvation. If a person can self-reflect and know themselves through their duty, seek the truth, work hard to satisfy God’s demands, and resolve their own corrupt dispositions, they have gotten on the right track of believing in God. By constantly pondering these matters and reaching for the truth, they will receive God’s enlightenment, illumination, and guidance. In this way, they will be able to accept being pruned by God, and following shortly after that they may be judged and chastised, tested and refined. God will begin His work on them, purifying and transforming them.

Some people say: “I’ve believed in God and performed my duty for many years, but I’ve never been pruned, and I haven’t received any enlightenment or illumination, much less been subjected to trials and refinement.” Is a person like this experiencing God’s work? If they are really able to experience and practice God’s words, how could they not have been enlightened or illuminated? If they often reveal their corruption, they will definitely be pruned. If they do not repent after being pruned, they surely do not have any humanity, and they are people who should be eliminated. Some people say: “I often experience being pruned, and I often receive God’s enlightenment and illumination, and gain new light.” What is going on here? (God is leading them.) Some other people say: “How come I’m not like those other people for whom everything goes smoothly? They always have God’s blessings and live like babes in the cradle, without having to weather any storms. Why am I always being tested and refined?” Is always being tested and refined a good thing or a bad thing? (It is a good thing.) It is a good thing, not a bad thing. What is God’s purpose for testing and refining people? (To enable them to come to know their corrupt dispositions.) God does not do it to torture or torment people; He does it to enable people to come to know their corrupt dispositions and see clearly the essence and true face of their corruption, and so that they can let go of their intentions and designs and achieve submission to Him. Then they are not just laboring but performing their duties. When you sincerely and formally perform the duty of a created being, your relationship with God becomes normal, effecting a reversal of your previous abnormal relationship with Him. If the relationship between you and God is that of an employee and their employer, you cannot receive salvation. If you accept God’s commission, can obey the arrangements of God’s house, and take serious responsibility for performing your duty well, your relationship with God will be normal. You will be a created being, you will be able to submit to the arrangements of the Creator, and in your heart accept God as the Savior, and you will be a target of His salvation. Your relationship with Him will be at this level. But if you are always just laboring, if no matter what commission God entrusts to you, you always perform it with a perfunctory attitude, without accepting the truth principles and without genuine submission, only knowing to toil and work, going through the motions when you do things, then you are truly a laborer. Because those who are laborers do not accept the truth, and they never undergo even the slightest amount of change, their relationship with God is forever that of employees and their employer. They will never truly submit to God, and God will not recognize them as believers or as those who are of Him. This is the consequence of them believing in God without pursuing the truth; it is decided by the path they walk. If you want to improve your relationship with God, what should you do? (Walk the path of pursuing the truth.) That’s right. You must walk the path of pursuing the truth. What should your first step be? (I must understand how to perform my duty.) Believers in God must perform a duty—this is God’s demand. Following God refers to performing one’s duty; those who believe in God without performing duties are not following God. If you want to follow God, you have to perform your duty well. What aspect of the truth should be practiced first when performing a duty? (The truth of submission.) That is correct. Some people say: “This is my duty now. I have to study hard and make some breakthroughs in learning English, and then take the TOEFL exam or get my Ph.D. in a couple of years. Then I’ll be able to distinguish myself in the secular world, or maybe do well in the house of God and in the future become a leader.” Aren’t those people just plotting for their own sakes? (Yes.) Always planning and arranging for the sake of one’s own flesh, arranging not just matters of one’s life but for after one’s death as well—this is the mindset of an unbeliever. It is normal for unbelievers to go about their days thinking this way because they do not acknowledge God’s existence, so they can only think of their flesh, and only consider their survival, like animals. However, people who believe in God read His words every day and understand the truth, so they should know the significance of performing a duty and the reason for it. They must be clear about these things, they directly relate to the path one takes in their belief in God. How one should submit to God’s work and experience God’s words to understand the truth and achieve dispositional transformation, which aspects of the truth must be attained in order to do one’s duty well and submit to God, and how people should accept God’s judgment and chastisement so that their corrupt dispositions can be cleansed—it’s even more necessary for them to understand the truth regarding these matters. This is the path one should walk in their belief in God. Only by pursuing the truth in this way can one do their duty well and receive God’s salvation. God wants to save and perfect people who pursue the truth like this. By completing His work of salvation, God wants to gain a few such individuals. If someone thinks only of how to get ahead, how to become a prominent leader, and how many people they will manage, and how many cities they might eventually rule over, these are ambitions and desires. This person is of the ilk of antichrists—all antichrists conspire to achieve these things. Is it legitimate to conspire to achieve these things? (No.) Knowing it is not legitimate, can they let go of them? (It would not be easy.) In ordinary circumstances, people act according to their own intentions to achieve their goals. In everything you do, do you act to achieve your own goals, or do you self-reflect, seek the truth, rebel against your goals and machinations, and then choose to walk the path of pursuing the truth? Just what is the correct path? (Constantly rebelling against myself and acting according to God’s demands.) What kind of person’s pursuit is capable of achieving this? Only someone with a kind heart and an honest and upright heart can achieve it. Those deceitful, intransigent, wicked people who do not love the truth cannot achieve it. Given that they know that the path they walk is not the right path—that it is Paul’s mistaken path—and that they definitely will not receive salvation, why don’t they embark on the right path? Because they cannot control themselves. This is fully decided by their nature. It is like when two people are of the same caliber, have believed in God for the same number of years, listened to the same sermons, and performed the same duties, but walk different paths. It only takes a few years before they go down separate paths and one is eliminated while the other is retained. One has an honest and upright heart, loves the truth, and walks the path of pursuing the truth. Even if someone tried to mislead this person and entice them to walk the path of evil, would they follow? They would not. They would certainly reject them. They are able to seek the truth, act according to God’s demands, and get better and better at performing their duty. But the other person is relatively wicked and deceitful. They pursue status and their ambitions are too great. No matter how one fellowships about the truth with them, they will not relinquish their pursuit of status. This is the problem of their nature. And what is the end for this person who does not accept the truth and can never relinquish status? They will be eliminated. The outcomes of these two people are clearly different. The one who is honest in their heart and pursues the truth comes to understand more and more of the truth, and with greater clarity, gradually conforming to God’s will. The one who does not pursue the truth is only capable of understanding doctrine, and cannot put it into practice. Why can’t they put it into practice? Their ambitions and desires are too great, and they cannot let go of them. In everything they do, they prioritize their own interests, ambitions, desires, fame, gain, and status. They are filled with these things, and carried away by them. When something happens to them, they satisfy their flesh and their own desires first. In all things they act according to their own desires, chasing this goal and putting the truth aside. As a result, they do not perform their duty well and make a mess of the work, and finally they are eliminated. Are these not precisely the people whom the house of God eliminates? Is there no hope for them, then? If they are able to truly repent, they can avoid being eliminated, and there will be hope for their salvation. But if their heart remains intransigent and they cling desperately to their desires, like a fierce dog holds onto a bone, then there is no hope at all that they will receive salvation. People cannot attain the truth if they do not walk the right path! Only the path of pursuing the truth is the right path. It is only by walking it that one can attain the truth. Only by pursuing the truth can one have hope of attaining God’s salvation.

The hearts of people who are deceitful and wicked brim with their personal ambitions, plans, and schemes. Are these things easy to put aside? (No.) What should you do if you still wish to perform your duty properly but cannot put these things aside? There is a path here: The nature of what you are doing must be clear to you. If something concerns the interests of God’s house, and it is of great importance, then you must not put it off, make mistakes, harm the interests of the house of God, or disturb the work of God’s house. This is the principle you should follow in performing your duty. If you want to avoid harming the interests of God’s house, you must first put aside your ambitions and desires; your interests must be compromised somewhat, they must be put aside, and you’d sooner suffer a little hardship than offend God’s disposition, which would be a red line. If you foul up the work of the church in order to satisfy your pathetic ambitions and vanity, what will be the ultimate consequence for you? You will be replaced, and may be eliminated. You will have provoked God’s disposition, and may not have any more chances to be saved. There is a limit to the number of chances that God gives people. How many chances do people get to be tested by God? This is determined according to their essence. If you make the most of the opportunities you are given, if you can let go of your own pride and vanity, and prioritize doing the church’s work well, then you have the right mindset. Your heart must be upright, neither leaning to the left nor to the right. When you have incorrect intentions, you must pray promptly and correct them. You should safeguard the interests of God’s house at critical moments and accomplish your tasks. One who does this is a correct person. If occasionally, after accomplishing something, you rush to say, “It was I who did this,” just to satisfy your vanity, that is okay. God will allow it. No matter how you might think, since you completed the task, it will be remembered by Him. Is this not fair? Because this was indeed something that you accomplished with heart and honesty; you rebelled against your own flesh and your own ambition, fulfilled your duty, and completed God’s commission without allowing the interests of His house to be harmed. God’s heart is comforted, and at the same time you feel peace and joy in your heart. This is a happiness that money cannot buy; you earned it with your sincerity. It is the result of pursuing the truth. If, afterward, you boast, “Hey, did you all know that I did this?” God will not take issue. But, during critical moments, you must uphold the baseline. You cannot provoke God’s wrath or offend His disposition. If you can abide by this, ensuring that during every critical moment you grasp that lifeline, seizing the opportunity to fulfill your duty, then there will be hope for your salvation. If in usual circumstances you are cautious, but when it comes to matters related to the truth principles—those critical moments when you need to act decisively and judiciously—you do not rein in your ambitions and desires but act however you please, making a mess of the church’s work and failing to uphold the ultimate baseline, then this will provoke God’s disposition. Does this not deserve punishment? At the very least, you must not offend God’s disposition; this is the baseline. You must know what God’s baseline is and what the baseline you should uphold is. If you uphold this baseline during crucial moments, and after fulfilling your duty you do not cause God to spurn and condemn you but instead remember and accept you, this is a good deed. God does not focus on what you think, on however self-satisfied or proud of your achievements you may be; He does not concern Himself with these things and won’t get serious with you. All that’s left is the matter of your own transformation. Because you can seize the lifeline in all situations, can act according to God’s requirements, can remain loyal and satisfy God’s heart during pivotal times, and can uphold your baseline, what does this prove? It proves that you have an attitude of submission to God. To some extent, it can be said that you have already partially satisfied God. This is how God sees it. God is righteous, is He not? (Yes.) Thus, only people who practice in this manner are the smart ones. Do not think, “This time I did not perform my duty well enough to satisfy God. There were still some flaws. Will He not accept it?” God will not nitpick about that. He will just observe whether you had a baseline when doing this task. As long as you did not overstep the baseline and you completed the task, it will be remembered by Him. If you can always seek the truth principles no matter what duty you perform or what things you do, and even in particularly difficult situations you don’t cross the baseline, then you are principled in the way you do things and the way you perform duty. It can be said that your fulfillment of duty is essentially up to standard.