Words of Almighty God of the Last Days

The truth is the reality of all positive things. It can be a person’s life and the direction in which they walk; it can allow one to cast off their corrupt disposition, to come to fear God and shun evil, to become one who submits to God, who is up to standard as a created being, and whom God loves and finds acceptable. … As the truth is people’s ready aid and provision, and can be their life, they should treat the truth as the most precious thing. This is because they must rely on the truth to live, to come to satisfy God’s requirements, to come to fear Him and shun evil, and to find within their daily life the path of practice and grasp the principles of practice, achieving submission to God; people must also rely on the truth to cast off their corrupt disposition, to become one who is saved and a created being who is up to standard.

—The Word, Vol. 4. Exposing Antichrists. Item Ten: They Despise the Truth, Brazenly Flout Principles, and Ignore the Arrangements of God’s House (Part Seven)

God has bestowed His life, all that He is and has, on man, so that he can live it out, so that he can take all that He is and has, and the truths He has bestowed on man, and turn them into his life direction and goal, so that he can live according to His words, and make His words his life. In this way, could it not be said that God has bestowed His life freely on man so that it could become his life? (It could.) So what is it that people get from God? His expectations? His promises? Or what? What people get from God is not an empty word, it is God’s life! At the same time that God grants people life, His only requirement of them is that they make His life their own and live it out. When God sees you’ve lived out this life, He will be gratified; this is His only requirement. So, what people gain from God is something priceless, but at the same time that He grants them the priceless thing, He gets nothing. The greatest beneficiary is man; man reaps the greatest harvest, and man is the greatest beneficiary. At the same time that people accept God’s words as their life, they understand the truth and have principles and a foundation for conducting themselves, so they have a direction for their life path. They are not misled or bound by Satan any longer, nor are they misled or exploited by evil people any longer; they are no longer polluted or enticed by evil trends. They live free and liberated between heaven and earth; they are able to truly live under God’s dominion, and are never again brutalized by any evil or dark force. That is to say, as a person lives out this kind of life, they no longer suffer pain, and they have no difficulties; they live happily, free and easy. They have a normal relationship with God; they do not rebel against Him, nor resist Him. They truly submit under His sovereignty, inside and out they live in a way that is perfectly justified, they have the truth and humanity, and they become humans worthy of the name.

—The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Man Is the Greatest Beneficiary of God’s Management Plan

When people accept the words of God as their life, they also enter into the reality of God’s words, and are able to regard and think about questions using the truth, and resolve issues using the truth. Once people have resolved their various notions and misunderstandings about God, they can then immediately improve their relationship with God while at the same time pave their road toward life entry. When people achieve such changes, what becomes of their relationship with God? It becomes one of created beings and Creator. In relationships at this level, there is no competition, no testing, and very little rebellion; people are much more submissive, understanding, worshipful, loyal, and honest toward God, and they truly fear God.

—The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Only by Resolving One’s Notions Can One Embark on the Right Track of Belief in God (1)

When God’s words take root in your heart, you will be able to practice the truth. As you live out some realities of God’s words, you will see external matters with great penetration and clarity. You will have an accurate assessment, understanding, and discernment of evil trends, the way of survival of humankind, your own marriage and family, various interpersonal relationships, and all kinds of people, events, and things. Where does this accurate understanding, assessment, and discernment come from? It comes from God’s words. The source is God’s words—it’s because you have received the provision of God’s words. And what is the path? You gain experience with God’s words, become able to experience the truth, and gain from God the wisdom to discern good and evil and the ability to understand evil trends. Most importantly, what else do you gain? (Life.) To say you gain life is just doctrine. What else do you gain? By having experiences with various people, events, and things, you come to see how God orchestrates everything; and to see what God’s intentions are in various people, events, and things; and to see what God’s disposition is, what God’s wisdom is, and what His way and principles of doing things are; and also to see the wisdom in how God treats different kinds of people—you must see these things to know the Creator.

—God’s Fellowship

When people experience until the day that their outlook on life and the meaning and basis of their existence have entirely changed, that is, they have been transformed to their very bones and have become someone else, is this not incredible? This is a great change, an earth-shattering change. You reach a point where it doesn’t matter to you whether you have fame, status, wealth, pleasures, or power and glory of the world—you can let go of them all easily. Only then can you be considered to have the likeness of a human being. Those who will ultimately be made complete by God are a group such as this; they live for the truth, live for God, and live for that which is just. This is the likeness of a true human being.

—The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Part Three

When people truly know God, understand the truth, and gain the truth, their worldview and outlook on life undergo real change, following which, a real change also occurs in their life disposition. When people have the correct life goals, are able to pursue the truth, and conduct themselves according to the truth, when they submit absolutely to God and live by His words, when they feel grounded and brightened in the depths of their hearts, and their hearts are free of darkness, and when they can live entirely free and liberated in God’s presence, only then do they obtain a true human life, and only such people are those who possess the truth and humanity. In addition, all the truths that you have understood and gained have come from God’s words and from God Himself. Only when you gain the approval of God Most High—the Creator, and He says that you are a created being that is up to standard, and that you are living out human likeness, will your life be most meaningful. Having God’s approval means that you have gained the truth, and that you are someone who possesses the truth and humanity. In today’s world that is dominated by Satan, and for at least thousands of years of history, who among all of humanity has obtained a true human life? No one. Because people have been profoundly corrupted by Satan, and live by the philosophies of Satan, and everything they do is antagonistic to God, and their every utterance and theory is born of the corruption of Satan, and in direct opposition to God’s words, they are thus precisely the types who oppose God. If they do not accept God’s salvation, they shall be plunged into perdition and destruction, with no life to speak of at all. They pursue fame and gain, seek to be some great or renowned individual, and hope to “have their names passed down for generations to come,” and to be “famous throughout all history.” These are devilish words, and utterly untenable. Every great or renowned figure is, in fact, the ilk of Satan, and has long been plunged into the eighteenth level of hell for punishment, never to be reincarnated. When corrupt mankind venerates these people, and accepts their devilish words and their fallacies, corrupt mankind becomes the victim of devils and Satan. Created beings should worship the Creator. This is perfectly natural and justified, because only God is the truth, and God controls the heavens and earth and everything, and holds sovereignty over all. If people do not believe in God and do not submit to God, they cannot gain the truth. If you live in accordance with God’s words, then in the depths of your heart, you will feel brightened and grounded, and you will also enjoy an incomparable sweetness. When this happens, you will have truly obtained life.

—The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. How to Know Man’s Nature

Once people gain the truth, their point of view toward things will completely transform, aligning perfectly with God’s words and becoming compatible with God. When this point is reached, they will no longer rebel against God, and God will no longer chastise or judge them, nor will He detest them. This is because they will no longer be enemies of God, and they will no longer stand in opposition to God, and so God will have truly and rightfully become the Creator of His created beings. People will have returned under God’s dominion, and God will enjoy the worship, submission, and fear from people that He ought to have. In this way, everything will fall naturally into place. … When you are able to conduct yourself according to God’s words, and have understood and grasped the truth principles, this means you know how to conduct yourself, and have become a true human being. This is the foundation for conducting oneself; only people like this live out a life of value, only they are worthy of living, and only they should not die.

—The Word, Vol. 6. On the Pursuit of the Truth. How to Pursue the Truth (8)

If a person takes the truth reality as their life, how will that manifest? First of all, they will be able to submit to God, and to live out human likeness; they will be an honest person, someone whose life disposition has changed. There are several characteristics of change in life disposition. The first characteristic is being able to submit to things that are right and conform to the truth. No matter who offers an opinion, whether they are old or young, whether you are able to get along with them or not, whether you know them or not, whether you are familiar with them or not, whether your relationship with them is good or bad, so long as what they say is right, conforms to the truth, and is beneficial to the work of God’s house, you will be able to listen to, adopt, and accept it, without being influenced by any other factors. To be able to accept and submit to things that are right and conform to the truth is the first characteristic. The second characteristic is being able to seek the truth when something happens; it is not only about being able to accept the truth, it is also about practicing the truth, and not handling matters based on your own will. No matter what happens to you, you will be able to seek when you cannot see things clearly, and look at how to act and practice in a way that conforms to the truth principles and satisfies God’s requirements. The third characteristic is being able to consider God’s intentions no matter what issue you face, and rebel against the flesh to achieve submission to God. You will be able to consider God’s intentions no matter what duty you are performing. You will be able to perform your duty according to God’s requirements. Whatever requirements God has for this duty, you will be able to act according to those requirements while performing it, and act in order to satisfy God. You must grasp this principle, and you must also perform your duty responsibly and devotedly. That is what it means to consider God’s intentions. If you do not know how to consider God’s intentions or satisfy God in a certain matter, then you must seek. You should compare yourselves to these three characteristics of dispositional change, and look to see if you possess these characteristics or not. If you have practical experience and paths of practice in these three areas, then you will be handling matters with principles.

—The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Only by Practicing the Truth Can One Cast Off the Shackles of Corrupt Dispositions

Once the truth has become your life, if you see anyone blaspheming God, not fearing God, being perfunctory while doing their duty, or disrupting and disturbing the church’s work, you will be able to treat them according to the truth principles, discerning those who ought to be discerned, and exposing those who ought to be exposed. If the truth has not become your life, and you still live within your satanic dispositions, then when you see evil people and devils causing disruptions and disturbances to the work of the church, you will turn a blind eye and a deaf ear, and ignore it, without feeling any reproach from your conscience. You will even think that no matter who causes disturbances to the work of the church, it has nothing to do with you. Regardless of how much the work of the church and the interests of the house of God are harmed, you won’t care or ask about it, or feel any reproach from your conscience. In that case, you are a person who has no conscience or reason, a disbeliever, a laborer. You eat what is God’s, drink what is God’s, and enjoy all that comes from God, yet feel that any harm that comes to the interests of the house of God has nothing to do with you—this makes you a traitor who sides with outsiders at the expense of your own, the type of thing that bites the hand that feeds it. If you do not safeguard the interests of the house of God, are you even human? You are a demon that has infiltrated the church. You feign belief in God, pretend to be one of God’s chosen people, and want to freeload in God’s house—you do not resemble a human being, and you are clearly a disbeliever. Those who truly believe in God, even if they have yet to gain the truth and life, at the very least will take God’s side in their speech and actions; at the very least, they will not stand idly by when they see the interests of the house of God being harmed. If they try to ignore it, their conscience will feel reproached and ill at ease, and they will say to themselves, “I can’t just sit by and do nothing. I must stand up and say something, I must fulfill my responsibility. I must come forward to expose and stop this evil deed, to safeguard the interests of the house of God from harm, and to ensure the church life is not disturbed.” If the truth has become your life in your heart, then you will not only have this courage and determination, but you will also be capable of seeing through this matter. Moreover, you will be able to fulfill your due share of responsibility for God’s work and for the interests of His house, and in this way, your duty will be fulfilled. If you can treat your duty as your own responsibility and obligation, and as God’s commission, and feel that only in this way are you living up to your own conscience and not letting God down, will you not then be living out the integrity and dignity of normal humanity? Your deeds and behavior will be the “fearing God and shunning evil” that God speaks of. You will be practicing the essence of these words and living out their reality. When the truth becomes a person’s life, they are then able to live out these realities.

—The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Part Three

If one can satisfy God while doing one’s duty, is principled in their words and actions, and enter the reality of all aspects of the truth, then they are a person who is perfected by God. It can be said that the work and words of God have completely achieved their effect on them, that God’s words have become their life, they have obtained the truth, and that they are able to live in accordance with God’s words. After this, the nature of their flesh—that is, the original foundation of their existence—will shake apart and collapse. Only after people possess God’s words as their life will they become new people. If the words of God become people’s life, if the vision of God’s work, His exposure and requirements of humanity, and the standards for human life that God requires people to meet become their life, if people live according to these words and truths, then they are perfected by the words of God. Such people are reborn and have become new people through God’s words. This is the path by which Peter pursued the truth. This is the path of being perfected. Peter was perfected by God’s words, he gained life from the words of God, the truth expressed by God became his life, and only then did he become a person who obtained the truth.

—The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. How to Walk the Path of Peter

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