I

For the sake of your fate, you should seek God’s approval.

Since you acknowledge that you are a member of the house of God,

then you should bring peace of mind to God and satisfy Him in all things.

In other words, you must be principled in your actions

and conform to the truth in them.

If this is beyond you, then you shall be spurned by God

and rejected by every man.

Once you have fallen into such a predicament,

you cannot then be counted among the house of God,

which is precisely what it’s meant by not being approved of by God.

Every person, in their life of faith in God,

has done things that resist and deceive God.

Some misdeeds need not be recorded as an offense,

but some are unforgivable;

for there are many deeds that violate the administrative decrees,

which offend the disposition of God.

God exhorts you to get a better understanding

of the content of the administrative decrees

and strive to know God’s disposition.

If not, it will be hard to keep your lips sealed;

you’ll talk loosely with high-sounding talk,

and you’ll unwittingly offend God’s disposition

and fall into the darkness,

losing the presence of the Holy Spirit and the light.

II

Because you’re unprincipled in your actions,

and you do and say that which you should not,

you shall receive a fitting retribution.

You should know that though in word and in deed, you’re unprincipled,

yet God is highly principled in both.

The reason you receive retribution

is because you’ve offended God, not a person.

If, in your life, you commit many offenses against God’s disposition,

then you’re bound to become a child of hell.

If you’re an honest person and someone who acts according to principle,

then you can be a confidant of God.

If in your actions you don’t offend God’s disposition,

and seek the will of God, and have a God-fearing heart,

then your faith is up to the standard.

If in your actions you don’t offend God’s disposition,

and seek the will of God, and have a God-fearing heart,

then your faith is up to the standard.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Three Admonitions