Fellowship From the Brother Above – November 17, 2025 (Part Two)

So how should people enter into the truth reality? Some people say, “God has expressed so many truths that we can’t finish eating and drinking them all in our lifetime. How many years would it take to enter into all these truths? Now the great catastrophes have already descended, and there isn’t much time left to pursue the truth. Perhaps there are only one or two, or two or three years left. We haven’t believed in Almighty God for long; how many truths can we understand in this remaining time? Is there still hope for us to enter the kingdom?” Is this way of thinking correct? (No.) What is incorrect about it? (They think that attaining salvation requires experiencing all the words expressed by God, which is incorrect. This is because there is no end to the pursuit of the truth; however many years you experience, that is how many years of gains you will make. If people experience God’s work for one or two, or two or three years, then although the time is relatively short, they can meet the standard for attaining salvation as long as they can enter into some basic truth realities.) This statement is basically accurate. A person who believes they must experience all the words expressed by God to attain salvation does not know what God’s required standard is for those who are to be saved. God does not require you to fully understand and enter into all the truths He has expressed, nor does He require you to bear testimony to practicing every aspect of the truth. God has not made such requirements of man. But at the very least, what standard must people reach to attain God’s salvation? Who can explain this matter clearly? (When people pursue the truth to the point of having some basic submission and loyalty to God, they are basically up to standard in God’s eyes. But there is no end to the pursuit of the truth; even if people reach this standard, they still need to continue to pursue the truth and enter into the truth reality.) This statement is basically appropriate. God requiring people to possess the truth reality does not mean He requires them to reach the highest standard, but rather the minimum standard. That is, people must at least have basic entry into the truth, and be able to basically enter into some truth realities. So, by what basis is it determined whether a person has basic entry? It is whether you are now an honest person, whether you still lie and deceive, and whether in doing your duty you are still perfunctory, or are instead devoted, and have offered up all your strength. In addition, can you discern antichrists, evil people, and disbelievers? Can you still be misled by Satan? There is another crucial point: Do you have true submission to God? If, no matter what befalls you, you can submit—even to the things that do not accord with your notions—this is having basic submission. If you can meet these three standards—that is, you are basically an honest person and can speak the truth under normal circumstances; you show some devotion in doing your duty; and furthermore, you can achieve basic submission to God, have basic discernment of satanic evil forces, and will no longer be misled or used by Satan—then you have met God’s requirement and are qualified to enter the kingdom of heaven. Tell me, is this requirement of God a high one? (No, it is very practical.) Then can people meet it if they just make an effort? (Yes.) It can be said that this required standard is something God’s chosen people can achieve if they pursue the truth. God’s requirements for man are the most objective, the most practical, the most reasonable, and the most fair. People’s requirements for others are never absolutely fair; it is already good enough if they can come close to the truth principles. God’s requirements for man are absolutely fair, absolutely reasonable, and absolutely correct, without the slightest error. Therefore, we should believe that what God does is absolutely without error, and will never be wrong. This is the basic faith that people should possess, and it is also the truest faith.

The most crucial path for pursuing the truth is to solve the problems that arise in doing your duty. This way, you can enter into some realities and achieve some results in your pursuit of the truth. Doing your duty in a way that is up to standard is the first standard that should be achieved in pursuing the truth. The second standard is that your pursuit of the truth should reach the point where you have discernment of those who are devils and Satans like antichrists, evil people, and others, have discernment of all kinds of people, and are able to treat each type of person according to the truth principles. This is understanding the truth more deeply; it is taking a deeper step in pursuing the truth. The third standard, which is also the final step to be achieved in pursuing the truth, is being able to submit to God’s orchestrations and arrangements, and, in all the environments arranged by God, being able to learn lessons and practice the truth to bear testimony for God. A person who can do such things is one who truly submits to God. If you have met all three of these standards, you can attain salvation. Some people say, “God has expressed so many truths. If we understand some basic truths and meet these three standards, we can attain salvation. But we still don’t quite understand the truths in other aspects. When the disasters have descended, how can we enter into those truths? When can we enter into them?” How should this question be answered? In the Age of Millennial Kingdom, God will speak even more words to continue perfecting God’s chosen people. God first makes a group of overcomers before and during the catastrophes. In the Millennial Kingdom, God will continue to speak. At that time, God’s words will reign in the world. God will speak more words to lead mankind in living on earth. People’s knowledge of God will be much deeper than it is now, and the truths people gain will be much richer than they are now. Therefore, the blessings for those who can survive in the future will be immense! The difference between life in the Age of Millennial Kingdom and life in this evil world where Satans and devil kings reign is as stark as the difference between heaven and earth. Living in this world now is too hard, too painful, and too dangerous! This is because this world is too dark and evil; it is a dog-eat-dog society. What does “a dog-eat-dog society” refer to? It refers to people excluding, oppressing, exploiting, and harming one another. Satans and devil kings reign, squeezing the living space of the common people to the bare minimum. Working people shed blood and sweat, toiling just to earn enough money for food and clothing, barely scraping by. If you want to live a little better, there’s no telling how many of Satan’s temptations you have to face, how many schemes you have to resort to, or how many calculations you have to make—you might even have to pay with your life just to gain a little benefit so your material life can be a little better. Living in this society is too bitter and exhausting! Look at mainland China, where the CCP reigns. The common people work hard their whole lives but can’t afford to buy a house. Even if they buy a house, they only have the right to use the land, not ownership of it. In the end, the common people are still the proletariat. Their hard-earned money from a lifetime of toil is taken away by the CCP government just like that, and they have no place to argue their case. This world is just that evil and dark; there is no fairness to speak of. Living in this world, if you don’t believe in God and don’t have God’s protection, you will have no happiness to speak of in your entire life. Now, people who believe in God live the church life and do their duties in God’s house. By eating and drinking God’s words and understanding the truth, their life gradually grows. They submit to God, and they do their duty in a way that is up to standard. They see that they are living out some human likeness and have tasted the blessings bestowed by God. Only then do they have peace and joy in their hearts and hope in living. If people do not believe in God, they will live under Satan’s power and in darkness forever without seeing the light, living without a shred of hope. Is that not so? (It is.) So, now do you think there is meaning in believing in God and pursuing the truth? (There is.) Pursuing the truth is the most meaningful thing! So what result must pursuing the truth ultimately achieve? It must achieve knowing God, submitting to God, and loving God, finally reaching the point of submitting unto death and loving God to the utmost. In this way, you will live out the most valuable life, and you will be qualified to enjoy the blessings of the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, if one day a person truly understands and gains the truth in their pursuit of the truth, they will have knowledge of God, and true love for God will arise in their heart. They will say that loving God is most meaningful, loving God brings the most happiness, and loving God brings the most joy. A person who can say these words has reached the realm of loving God.

If people focus on pursuing the truth while doing their duties now, they will gradually be able to understand some truths, act according to principles, know what it means to submit to God and practice the truth, and be able to discern all kinds of people. Then they will taste the sweetness of gaining the truth and feel that understanding the truth is so precious! If people do not understand the truth, they will find everything difficult no matter what they encounter: They want to be honest people but cannot achieve it; they want to uphold the truth principles but cannot achieve it; and they want to fulfill their duties but are even less able to achieve it. When people understand the truth, they feel that they are living with direction; they have a path in doing their duties, and they know how to resolve any difficulties they encounter. They also know that people should pursue gaining the truth and fulfilling their duties while they live, and that only those who gain the truth and fulfill the duty of a created being live with meaning and value. When people have this understanding, they feel that they understand too little truth and have entered too shallowly into the truth. Their hearts begin to truly yearn for the truth, and they can pursue the truth with hunger and thirst. When people reach this stage in their pursuit of the truth, they feel that the truth is too precious: Nothing gained in this human world is precious; only gaining the truth is most precious. By gaining the truth, people can live out normal humanity, possess conscience and reason, and have true integrity and dignity. By gaining the truth, people can submit to God, satisfy God, and live before God. God is love, and God is light. Living before God means living in God’s love and living in the light; it means having peace and joy in your spirit, feeling that living is so happy, and being able to thank and praise God from your heart. Revelation records that the four living creatures praise God day and night without ceasing, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come” (Revelation 4:8). The four living creatures live to praise God, and they praise God without ceasing. Why can they praise God like this? It is because there is enjoyment in praising God. Therefore, the more people praise God, the more enjoyment they have in their hearts. The more they praise God, the more their spirits are utterly liberated. Thanking God every day and praising God every day—this is the spiritual life reaching its highest realm. Now we often say to give thanks in all things, and in all things, there are God’s good intentions, God’s sovereignty and arrangements, and lessons to be learned. Therefore, in all things, there is testimony that people should bear. After bearing testimony, people feel that everything God does is meaningful, especially the things God does that do not accord with their notions; these are more meaningful than things that do accord with their notions. So, when people understand the truth, is there still pain in their hearts? (No.) When people do not understand the truth and do not know God, what is most painful for them is when things befall them that do not accord with their notions and are characterized by people as bad things or misfortunes. These are things people do not like, things people think should not happen, and are precisely the things people want to get away from. But when you truly know God, you can understand God’s intentions in the things that do not accord with your notions. You can have true submission, enjoy God’s presence, live by God’s words, and bear a resounding testimony. This is truly learning your lesson. After you have learned this lesson, the things you least wanted to experience in your lifetime become the happiest, most meaningful, and most valuable things, because you can accept them from God and practice according to God’s intentions. In this way, do people still live in pain? They have no pain. Let’s look at an example. For instance, someone in the church rubs you the wrong way. You feel an aversion toward them in your heart, and are unwilling to listen to them speak or even see them. You pray to God every day, wanting to avoid them and get away from them. How should you experience this matter? Tell me, has this person been arranged by God? (Yes.) Then why don’t you accept it from God and learn your lesson? You always want to get away from this environment; this is your problem. Have you seen the news report on church life in Spain? In it, a sister shared her experiential testimony. Her husband betrayed her, and she had to raise several children alone. She hated her ex-husband very much. She said, “He made my life miserable. I will hate him for the rest of my life.” These were words from her heart; her pain was immense. After coming to believe in Almighty God, she read God’s words and saw clearly that her resentment toward her ex-husband and her own pain were all caused by her corrupt disposition, and that it was wrong for her to hate someone so much. She then forgave her ex-husband and even got along with him very harmoniously. You see, by reading God’s words and understanding the truth, this sister let go of her resentment from her heart. There was no more pain in her heart, and she felt peace and joy. After experiencing this matter, something that people want to happen to them least, her stature grew. She could view things according to God’s words and submit to God’s orchestrations and arrangements. This bad thing turned into a good thing. So, did she bear testimony for God in this matter? (Yes.) So, if people seek the truth and understand the truth in matters that they feel are most painful, what result is achieved? (Their spirits are liberated.) Then is the statement that the truth can resolve all of people’s problems practical? (It is.) Some people do not believe this statement. They say, “You say the truth can resolve all of people’s problems, but if I have no food to eat, can the truth give me food? If I have no money to spend, can the truth give me money? If I am sick and dying, can the truth save my life?” Are these words correct? (No.) Why are they incorrect? (The truth mainly resolves people’s fallacious views on things. When people can view things according to the truth, the views within them become correct, their spirits gain true freedom and liberation, and all their problems are resolved.) This is correct. The truth can bring people freedom and liberation. When people gain the truth, they live happily. If you haven’t gained the truth, can you be happy just by having money? Can you be happy just by having a harmonious family? (No.) If you haven’t gained the truth, then no matter how much your husband (or wife) loves you, you won’t be happy; your heart will still be empty and in pain. Only God’s words can bring people true happiness. If you gain God’s words and gain the truth, then even if you live in hell, your heart can praise God and will have peace and joy. Having peace and joy in your heart is the greatest happiness! Now there are many rich people in the world who eat, drink, and make merry every day, traveling all over the world. Why do some of them still feel that living is meaningless and commit suicide? Why are they unhappy despite having so much money? Because they feel spiritual emptiness, and the pain of spiritual emptiness cannot be resolved by money, love, or a wealthy life. Then what can resolve the problem of people’s emptiness? Only the truth can resolve the problem of mankind’s emptiness. I say the truth can resolve all of people’s problems, but some people still don’t believe this. After you have experienced things for ten or twenty years, you will be able to acknowledge, “This statement is so right; this statement is the truth.” If you gain the truth and enter into the truth reality, will you still feel emptiness and pain? No, all your problems will be resolved.

Now some people say, “God always requires people to pursue the truth, and He also says, ‘God wishes mankind will pursue the truth and survive.’ Could it be that if we don’t pursue the truth, we really won’t survive? Could it be that if we don’t pursue the truth, we won’t succeed in our belief in God?” These questions always exist within people, and they always have their own notions. So there are always hindrances in their pursuit of the truth, and they can never make progress in their pursuit. Once they resolve these problems, they will have vigor in pursuing the truth. So, is pursuing the truth important? (It is.) Now some people always have many problems they cannot resolve when doing their duties, and their spirits never gain liberation. How should this problem be resolved? There is only one path, which is to pursue the truth. Then what is the path of practice for pursuing the truth? It is to look for answers in God’s words no matter what difficulties befall you. If you pray to God and read God’s words, any problem can be resolved. If some problems cannot be resolved after praying once or twice, and you cannot find the corresponding words of God, then pray more and read more of God’s words. You never know when you might read a passage of God’s words that just happens to resolve your problem. You must know that your problems won’t be resolved immediately after you pray. The Holy Spirit works at His own time. Don’t be anxious; you must learn to wait. There is a verse in the Bible: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). God has a time for everything, and everything is ordained by God. You must learn to wait for God’s time. In this way, you can gain God’s enlightenment and understand God’s intentions. Then you can gain the truth and resolve your problems. Therefore, if you encounter a problem in your duty that you cannot resolve, pray to God and read God’s words. Maybe one day you will read a passage of God’s words and your problem will be resolved. Look at the experiential testimonies shared by brothers and sisters in the on-the-scene reports of church life around the world. Who among us humans could help them resolve the problems and difficulties they encountered? No one. They all resolved them themselves by reading God’s words. Therefore, no matter what problem or difficulty you encounter, pray to God and seek the truth in God’s words. When God’s time comes, God will enlighten you to understand the truth, and the problem will naturally be resolved. You must believe that the dawn light will appear. You just need to learn to seek, learn to wait, and learn to submit.