Fellowship From the Brother Above – November 25, 2025 (Part Four)

Now, let’s start answering some questions. If the brothers and sisters in the decision-making groups of various countries have any problems they cannot solve during their work, they can bring them forward, and I will fellowship with you on the path by which to resolve them.

Question 1: How should we better cultivate people?

Answer: First, you should know the principles of cultivating people. What is the first principle of cultivating people? It is to find right people to cultivate. Finding right people means finding those who love the truth and can accept the truth. Such people are right people, and these are people who pursue the truth. If you cultivate such people, it will be easy to achieve results. If the person you cultivate is not a right person, then no matter how you cultivate them, you will not achieve results. How do you discern whether someone is a right person? You can do so by looking at whether they thirst for the truth. If they tend to focus on eating and drinking God’s words, and when they hear others fellowshipping the truth, they nod and say “Amen,” and if you fellowship a key point or fellowship with illumination, they quickly write it down—such a person thirsts for the truth. If, no matter how you fellowship the truth, and no matter how practical or full of illumination your fellowship is, they have no reaction, what is the problem? It is that they don’t love the truth and are averse to the truth, or that they have no spiritual understanding or comprehension. Regardless of which it is, as long as a person has no reaction to the truth, you can basically determine that they are not a right person. Can we say this? (Yes.) Therefore, to discern whether someone is a right person: first, look at whether they like to read God’s words in their daily life. If they don’t like to read God’s words, and they feel disgusted and resistant when they see others eating and drinking God’s words, then they do not thirst for the truth and are not a right person. Second, look at whether they like listening to people fellowshipping the truth. If they don’t and if they’re uninterested when they hear others fellowshipping the truth, and even get sleepy and doze off, or simply choose not to attend gatherings or leave halfway through, then someone who behaves like this does not thirst for the truth. If they ignore anyone who fellowships the truth, and are filled with disgust and hatred toward those who always talk about eating and drinking God’s words, practicing God’s words, and acting according to principles, then their problem is even more serious. It shows that they are averse to the truth, and that they are not a right person. For these people who do not love the truth and are averse to the truth, who do not eat and drink God’s words and are unwilling to listen to people fellowshipping the truth, can you achieve results in cultivating them? (No.) Therefore, these people cannot be cultivated. You must find right people to cultivate. So, what kind of person is a right person? Such a person loves the truth. They can accept and pursue the truth, and they regard the truth as truly precious, and as being above all else. This is a right person. Although a right person may not understand much truth, they like to listen and are willing to listen when you fellowship the truth. If you point out any mistake they make, they are willing to accept what you say. If you prune them, they are also willing to accept this pruning, even if it causes them pain, and they do not feel disgust or hatred toward you. Such a person is a right person, and they should be the object of your cultivation. As long as they are a right person and can do a duty in the church, they will have many opportunities to experience God’s work, and they will grow in life continually. With everything they experience, they will progress. The more experiences they go through, the more life experience they will have, the more truth they will understand, and the faster their stature will grow. This is a natural pattern. If they don’t do a duty, their life growth will be very slow. If they spend their days in contact with nonbelievers and don’t do a duty in the church, then all they experience will be the affairs of nonbelievers. The affairs of nonbelievers do not involve the truth, so no matter how many of such experiences they go through, it will be of no use. These things cannot give a person true life experience. Only by doing one’s duty normally in the church can a person truly experience God’s work. The more you do your duty, the more experience you gain. The more experience you gain, the more truths you understand. The more truths you understand, the more you gain. Think about it: You are busy doing your duty every day. Although you have not earned a single penny in the world after keeping yourself busy for a year or two, what have you gained? (The truth.) And how did you gain the truth? Did the truth come into your heart out of thin air while you were busy? (No.) Then how do you come to understand and gain the truth while doing your duty normally? In the course of your duty, you will encounter many difficulties, and by seeking the truth to solve these problems, you gain the truth. Therefore, the time when difficulties befall you in your duty is the very time for you to gain the truth. Some people say, “I haven’t encountered many difficulties in my duty, so how can I gain the truth?” Then, are you doing your duty according to the truth principles? If you are doing your duty according to the truth principles, can you gain the truth? (Yes.) If you encounter difficulties in your duty and solve them by seeking the truth, can you gain the truth? (Yes.) If you can practice the truth in your duty, gain the enlightenment and guidance of the Holy Spirit, and achieve results in your duty, will you not also have gained the truth? (Yes.) That you have gained the truth in your duty proves that you are practicing the truth. The performance of a duty is an opportunity for people to gain the truth. If you seek the truth when you encounter problems and difficulties in your duty, you can gain the truth. If you practice to the point where you can do your duty according to principles, you can gain the truth. If you receive the enlightenment and guidance of the Holy Spirit and know how to practice the truth, you can also gain the truth. These are all paths by which to gain the truth. If you can practice according to these paths in your duty, then although you may not have earned any money, you will have experienced the enlightenment and guidance of the Holy Spirit, gained the truth, and attained salvation. Is this not more valuable than gaining any amount of money in the world? (It is.)

Regardless of a person’s intentions when they first start doing their duty—whether these be to receive blessings or to repay God’s love—what will the consequence be if they do not understand the truth? They will be prone to becoming negative. When they encounter problems and difficulties in their duty, they will become unwilling to do it and want to give it up. Is this not a negative state? (It is.) If this negative state is not resolved, they will give up their duty. However, some people do their duty for several years without becoming negative, no matter what problems or difficulties they encounter. They continue to do their duty in a positive and proactive way to satisfy God, and they strive to pursue the truth in order to do their duty well. Such people have true faith, and they understand some truth. Let me give an example. There was a brother who took up a duty in God’s house after retiring. After keeping himself busy for a while, he felt, “Attending gatherings every day to solve the brothers’ and sisters’ problems keeps me busier than when I was working! I’m retired, so how can I still be this busy? What am I so busy for?” Later, by eating and drinking God’s words, he understood God’s requirements of man. He said, “Am I not this busy in order to gain the truth in my faith? Is it not to attain salvation and be perfected?” Once he had thought this matter through, he was no longer negative in his duty. He had energy, and did not give up or retreat when encountering difficulties and problems. So what was the first thing he gained? It was true faith in God. He saw that God is saving man, and he saw that for a created being, doing a duty is experiencing God’s work and accepting God’s salvation. If a person does not do a duty, they cannot gain the truth, their corrupt disposition cannot be cast off, and they cannot attain salvation. Such a person can only go to hell and suffer punishment. Once he saw these matters clearly, he gained true faith in God, and was no longer prone to becoming negative in his duty. So, having true faith in his duty—is this not life growth? (It is.) Could he have gained such great faith if he hadn’t done a duty? (No.) Therefore, the first thing he gained from his duty was true faith. Although this is something invisible and intangible to people, his energy in his duty was particularly great, and no problem could stump him. Even when his nonbelieving family members tried to stop him from doing his duty, he chose to forsake his family in order to follow God and do his duty. This is what is meant by God’s words becoming man’s faith. So, his performance of his duty was him experiencing God’s work. Gradually, the words of God became faith, the words of God became love, and the words of God became life. This is life growth. Such a person can attain salvation and be perfected. These results are all achieved through their doing a duty. Although the performance of a duty in God’s house will not earn a person money, many people have great energy. Why is this? What do they want to gain? What they want to gain by doing their duty is not money, but rather faith, love, and life. What they want to gain is eternal life. This is ten thousand times more precious than money, and it is something that no amount of money can buy. So tell me, is it worth it for them to finally gain these things by doing their duty? (Yes.) It is so worth it! To do a duty is to experience God’s work. No matter what problems you encounter in your duty, you must seek the truth to solve them. When you solve problems, you will unknowingly come to understand the truth, and because you understand the truth, you will unknowingly become devoted to your duty, and you will have true faith in and submission to God. If you can achieve submission unto death, then you will have borne a resounding testimony for God in your duty. Therefore, the performance of a duty is the path by which to pursue the truth. If you do not do your duty properly, you have not embarked on the path of pursuing the truth. So is it important to do your duty? (Yes.) If you choose to give up your job to better do your duty, and your family does not understand and says, “For what purpose do you keep yourself so busy all day? How much money are you able to earn by keeping yourself this busy?” will you become negative when you hear this? (No.) Why not? (Because I have seen the value of pursuing the truth.) You know why you are doing your duty, and you know what the value and significance of doing your duty is. Therefore, no matter what difficulties you encounter, you will not become negative or retreat.

Question 2: Some young brothers and sisters who do duties have developed mutual feelings for each other. Although we have fellowshipped on the principles of interaction between the opposite sexes, they still fall into the temptation of the flesh. How should we handle them?

Answer: How should this matter be resolved? You should fellowship on this aspect of the truth with them thoroughly and clearly, breaking it down in detail, while also explaining the consequences clearly. Then, let them choose for themselves. How does that sound? If you have fellowshipped on the truth clearly and explained the consequences clearly, but they still insist on dating, is it appropriate for you to forcibly stop them? Can you stop them? (No.) If a person wants to pursue the truth and gain the truth, and wants to expend themselves properly for God, they will give up on looking for a partner of their own accord. Even if temptation befalls them or their family forces them to find a partner, it will be useless, right? (Right.) Therefore, this matter depends on personal choice, and no one can interfere. It is enough for you to explain the essence and consequences of this matter clearly. As for what choice they ultimately make, that is their own business. We do not force people to accept the truth. Remember, once you have fellowshipped on the relevant truths clearly, you have fulfilled your responsibility. As for who wants to find a partner, that is their own choice, and in the end, they will have to bear the consequences of their own choice. It is not that you have not fulfilled your responsibility, for you have fellowshipped what should have been fellowshipped. If they insist on walking this path, that is their own choice, and they must bear the consequences themselves. Do you understand? (Yes.) So, do you now know how to handle those who always seek to find a partner and covet the world and fleshly enjoyment? (Yes.) If they are a right person, we can patiently fellowship on the truth to help and support them. If fellowshipping on the truth with them is futile no matter how much you say, and they don’t do their duty properly and just want to pursue family, fleshly desires, and money, then you can dismiss them from their duty and find someone who sincerely expends themselves for God to do their duty instead.