The utterance of My Spirit is an expression of the whole of My disposition. Is this clear to you? To be unclear on this point would be tantamount to resisting Me directly. Have you genuinely seen the importance that lies herein? Do you really know how much effort, how much energy, I expend on you? Do you really dare to lay bare what you have done and how you have behaved before Me? And you’re supposed to be My people before Me—you have no shame, much less any sense! Sooner or later, people like you will be eliminated from My house! Don’t try to flaunt your seniority, assuming that you have stood firm in your testimony to Me! Is this something that humanity is capable of doing? If nothing remained of your intentions and your goals, you would long since have struck out on a different path. Do you think I do not know how much the human heart can hold? From this time forth, in all things, you must enter into the reality of practice; merely flapping your gums, as you have done in the past, will no longer get you by. In the past, most people freeloaded under My roof; the fact that they are able to stand firm today is entirely due to the harshness of My words. Do you think I speak randomly and without purpose? Impossible! I look down upon all things from on high, and exercise dominion over all things from on high. In the same way, I have carried out My salvation upon the earth. There is never a moment when I am not watching, from My secret place, humans’ every move and everything they say and do. Humans are to Me open books: I see and know them one and all. The secret place is My dwelling place, and the entire vault of heaven is where I lie. Satan’s forces cannot reach Me, for I am overflowing with majesty, righteousness, and judgment. An ineffable mystery resides in My words. When I say these words, you become like fowls that have just been cast into water, overwhelmed with confusion, or babies who have just had a fright, seeming to know nothing, because your spirit has become numb. Why do I say that the secret place is My dwelling place? Do you know the deeper meaning of My words? Who among humans are capable of knowing Me? Who are capable of knowing Me as they know their own father and mother? Resting in My dwelling place, I observe closely: All the people on earth bustle about, “traveling around the world” and rushing back and forth, all for the sake of their destiny and their future. Not a single one, though, offers their spare energy to the building of My kingdom, not even so much as the effort it takes to draw breath. I created humans, and I have saved them many times from tribulation; however, these humans are all ingrates: Not a single one among them is able to recount My saving grace in full. It has been so many years—so many centuries—from the creation of the world down to the present day; I have worked so many signs and wonders and made so much of My wisdom manifest. Nevertheless, humans are dull-witted and numb like the mentally ill, and even sometimes like wild beasts flailing about in the forest, without the slightest intention of paying heed to My affairs. Many times, I have given humans the death sentence and condemned them to die, but My management plan cannot be altered by anyone. And therefore, in My hands, humans continue to reveal the old things to which they cling. Because of the steps of My work, I have, once again, saved you beings who were born into a big family that is degenerate, depraved, filthy, and sordid.

My plan and My work keep pressing forward without a moment’s cease. Having moved into the Age of Kingdom, and having carried you into My kingdom as My people, I will have other demands to make of you; that is to say, I will begin to proclaim to you My constitution for these times:

Since you are called My people, you should be able to glorify My name; that is, stand firm in your testimony in the midst of trials. If anyone attempts to deceive Me and conceal things from Me or engage in disreputable dealings behind My back, such people will, without exception, be expelled and removed from My house to wait for Me to deal with them. Those who have been disloyal and unfilial to Me in the past, and who now rise up to judge Me openly—they, too, will be expelled from My house. Those who are My people must constantly show consideration for My burdens as well as seek to know My words. Only people like this will I enlighten, and they will surely live under My guidance and enlightenment, never meeting with chastisement. Those who do not show consideration for My burdens, and instead concentrate on planning for their own futures—that is, those who do not aim with their actions to satisfy My heart, but rather who look for handouts—these beggar-like creatures I absolutely refuse to use, because from the time they were born, they have known nothing of what it means to show consideration for My burdens, and they are people who lack normal reason. Such people are suffering from “malnutrition” of the brain, and need to go home for some “nourishment.” I have no use for such people. Among My people, everyone will be required to regard knowing Me as an obligatory duty to be seen through to the end, like eating, dressing, and sleeping, something that one never forgets about for a moment, so that in the end, knowing Me will become as familiar as eating—something you do effortlessly, with a practiced hand. As for the words I speak, every single one must be firmly believed in and fully assimilated; there can be no perfunctory half-measures. Anyone who does not pay attention to My words will be regarded as directly resisting Me; anyone who does not eat My words, or does not seek to know them, will be regarded as not paying attention to Me, and will directly be cleared out of My house. This is because, as I have said in the past, what I want is not a great number of people, but excellence. Out of a hundred people, if only one is able to know Me through My words, then I would rather eliminate all the others to focus on enlightening and illuminating this single one. From this you can see that it is not necessarily true that greater numbers alone can manifest Me and live Me out. What I want is wheat (even though the kernels may not be full) and not tares (even when the kernels are full enough to be admired). As for those who give no regard to their pursuit, but who instead behave in a slack manner, they should leave of their own accord; I do not wish to see them anymore, lest they continue to bring disgrace to My name. Regarding what I require of My people, I will stop at these precepts for now, and will wait to make further sanctions, depending on how circumstances change.

In days past, the great majority of people thought I was the God Himself of wisdom, that I was the very God who observed the innermost hearts of humans; however, this was just superficial talk. If humans had truly known Me, they would not have presumed to leap to conclusions, but would instead have kept on trying to know Me through My words. Only when they had arrived at a stage where they truly saw My deeds would they have been worthy to call Me Wise or Wonderful. Your knowledge of Me is too shallow. Throughout the ages, so many people have served Me for so many years and have seen My deeds, genuinely gaining quite a bit of knowledge about Me. For this reason, they always used to have a submissive heart toward Me and did not dare to harbor the least intention of resisting Me, due to how difficult it is to seek out My footsteps. If My guidance were absent among these people, they would not dare to act rashly. Therefore, after living through many years of experience, they eventually generalized a portion of knowledge about Me, calling Me Wise, Wonderful, and Counselor, that My words are like a double-edged sword, that My deeds are great, astounding, and wondrous, that I am robed in majesty, that My wisdom reaches higher than the firmament, and other insights. Today, however, your knowledge of Me is merely based on the foundation they have laid, so the great majority of you—like parrots—are just mouthing the words that they have spoken. It is only because I take into account how shallow is the way in which you know Me and how poor your “education” is that I have spared you so much chastisement. Even so, the great majority of you still do not know yourselves, or think you have already met My intentions in your deeds, and for this reason have escaped judgment; or that, after having become flesh, I have completely lost track of humanity’s doings, and that for this reason you have also escaped chastisement; or that the “God” you believe in does not exist in the wide spaces of the universe, and so you have treated knowing God as a chore to be done in your spare time rather than something to hold in your hearts as a duty that must be done, using belief in God as a way of beguiling the time that otherwise would be spent in idleness. If I did not take your lack of qualifications, reason, and insights into consideration, then all of you would perish in the midst of My chastisement, wiped out from existence. Nevertheless, until My work on earth is finished, I will remain lenient to humankind. This is something you must all have knowledge of—don’t keep failing to appreciate the kindness shown to you.

February 25, 1992