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The pursuit of receiving salvation is no simple matter; it requires understanding many truths, practicing the truth gradually. In this way, one’s faith will be cultivated bit by bit, and their doubts and misunderstandings about God will become fewer and fewer. As their doubts and misunderstandings about God diminish, their faith increases, and when faced with situations they’ll be able to seek the truth. When they understand the truth, they’ll be able to practice the truth, they’ll have fewer and fewer negative and passive things, have more positive and good things, and the times when they’re able to practice the truth and submit to God will increase. This is having the truth reality.

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When a person has true faith, understands the truth, has the ability to discern, can rely on God to overcome the flesh, has the capacity to overcome sin, can stand firm in their witness, has true submission to God, can suffer and pay a price for the sake of practicing the truth, can loyally do their duty, and has the resolve to pursue the truth and seek being made perfect, this indicates continuous improvement. In this way, one can embark on the path of pursuing the truth and being made perfect. No circumstance or difficulty will be able to overwhelm such a person or stop them from following God. This is a person who is most blessed by God, a person whom God hopes to gain.

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Only by Practicing the Truth and Submitting to God Can One Achieve a Change in Disposition