Relevant
Words of God:
In
each period of time, God will begin new work, and in each period,
there will be a new beginning among man. If man only abides by the
truths that “Jehovah is God” and “Jesus is Christ,” which are
truths that only apply to a single age, then man will never keep up
with the
work of the Holy Spirit,
and will forever be incapable of gaining the work of the Holy
Spirit.
Regardless of how God works, man follows without
the slightest doubt, and he follows closely. In this way, how could
man be eliminated by the Holy Spirit? Regardless of what God does, as
long as man is certain that it is the work of the Holy Spirit, and
cooperates in the work of the Holy Spirit without any misgivings, and
tries to meet the requirements of God, then how could he be punished?
The work of God has never ceased, His footsteps have never halted,
and prior to the completion of His work of management, He has always
been busy, and never stops. But man is different: Having gained but a
modicum of the Holy Spirit’s work, he treats it as if it will never
change; having gained a little knowledge, he does not go forth to
follow the footsteps of God’s newer work; having seen but a bit of
God’s work, he immediately prescribes God as a particular wooden
figure, and believes that God will always remain in this form that he
sees before him, that it was like this in the past and will always be
thus in the future; having gained but a superficial knowledge, man is
so proud that he forgets himself and begins to wantonly proclaim the
disposition and being of God that simply do not exist; and having
fastened upon one stage of the Holy Spirit’s work, no matter what
kind of person it is that proclaims the new work of God, man does not
accept it. These are people who cannot accept the new work of the
Holy Spirit; they are too conservative, and incapable of accepting
new things. Such people are those who believe
in God but
also reject God. Man believes that the Israelites were wrong to “only
believe in Jehovah and not believe in Jesus,” yet the majority of
people act out a role in which they “only believe in Jehovah and
reject Jesus” and “long for the return of the Messiah, but oppose
the Messiah who is called Jesus.” No wonder, then, that people
still live under the domain of Satan after accepting one stage of the
work of the Holy Spirit, and still do not receive God’s
blessings.
Is this not the result of man’s rebelliousness? … Even though
they have the “utmost loyalty” toward the words spoken by God,
their words and actions still feel so disgusting because they oppose
the work of the Holy Spirit, and commit deceit and evil. Those who do
not follow to the very end, who do not keep up with the work of the
Holy Spirit, and who only cleave to the old work have not only failed
to achieve loyalty to God, but on the contrary, have become those who
oppose God, have become those who are rejected by the new age, and
who will be punished. Are there any more pitiable than them?
from
“God’s Work and Man’s Practice” in The Word Appears in the
Flesh
If
man always calls Me Jesus Christ, but does not know that I have begun
a new age during the last days and have embarked upon new work, and
if man always obsessively awaits the arrival of Jesus the Savior,
then I shall call people such as this the ones who do not believe in
Me. They are people who do not know Me, and their belief in Me is a
sham. Could such people witness the arrival of Jesus the Savior from
heaven? What they await is not My arrival, but the arrival of the
King of the Jews. They do not yearn for My annihilation of this
impure old world, but instead long for the second coming of Jesus,
whereupon they will be redeemed; they look forward to Jesus once more
redeeming all of mankind from this defiled and unrighteous land. How
can such people become those who complete My work during the last
days? The desires of man are incapable of achieving My wishes or
accomplishing My work, for man merely admires or cherishes the work
that I have done before, and has no idea that I am the God
Himself who
is always new and never old. Man only knows that I am Jehovah, and
Jesus, and has no inkling that I am the Last, the One who shall bring
mankind to an end. All that man yearns for and knows is of his own
conception, and is merely that which he can see with his own eyes. It
is not in line with the work I do, but in disharmony with it.
from
“The Savior Has Already Returned Upon a ‘White Cloud’” in The
Word Appears in the Flesh
If
you use conceptions to measure and delineate God, as if God were an
unchanging clay statue, and if you delimit God within the Bible, and
contain Him within a limited scope of work, then this proves that you
have condemned God. Because, in their hearts, the Jews of the age of
the Old Testament cast God in the mold of idol, as if God could only
be called the Messiah, and only He who was called the Messiah was
God, and because they served and worshiped God as if He were a
(lifeless) clay statue, they nailed the Jesus of that time to the
cross, sentencing Him to death—condemning innocent Jesus to death.
God had committed no crime, yet man did not spare God, and
unwaveringly sentenced Him to death. Thus, Jesus was crucified. Man
always believes that God is unchanging, and defines Him according to
the Bible, as though man has seen through to God’s management, as
though all that God does is in the hands of man. People are
ridiculous to the extreme, they are possessed of the utmost
arrogance, and they all have a flair for turgid eloquence. Regardless
of how great your knowledge of God, still I say that you do not know
God,
that there are none who are more opposed to God, and that you condemn
God, for you are utterly incapable of obeying the work of God and
walking the path of being made perfect by God. Why is God never
satisfied with the actions of man? Because man does not know God,
because he has so many conceptions, and because, instead of complying
with reality, all of his knowledge of God is cut from the same cloth,
and rigid and inflexible. Thus, having come to earth today, God has
once more been nailed to the cross by man.
from
“The Wicked Must Be Punished” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
Do
you wish to know the root of why the Pharisees opposed Jesus? Do you
wish to know the substance of the Pharisees? They were full of
fantasies about the Messiah. What’s more, they believed only that
the Messiah would come, yet did not seek the truth of life. And so,
even today they still await the Messiah, for they have no knowledge
of the way of life, and do not know what the way of truth is. How,
say you, could such foolish, stubborn and ignorant people gain God’s
blessing? How could they behold the Messiah? They opposed Jesus
because they did not know the direction of the Holy Spirit’s work,
because they did not know the way of truth spoken by Jesus, and,
furthermore, because they did not understand the Messiah. And since
they had never seen the Messiah, and had never been in the company of
the Messiah, they made the mistake of paying empty tribute to the
name of the Messiah while opposing the substance of the Messiah by
any means. These Pharisees in substance were stubborn, arrogant, and
did not obey the truth. The principle of their belief in God is: No
matter how profound Your preaching, no matter how high Your
authority, You are not Christ unless You are called the Messiah. Are
these views not preposterous and ridiculous? I ask you again: Is it
not extremely easy for you to commit the mistakes of the earliest
Pharisees, given that you have not the slightest understanding of
Jesus? Are you able to discern the way of truth? Can you truly
guarantee that you will not oppose Christ? Are you able to follow the
work of the Holy Spirit? If you do not know whether you will oppose
Christ, then I say that you are already living on the brink of death.
Those who did not know the Messiah were all capable of opposing
Jesus, of rejecting Jesus, of slandering Him. People who do not
understand Jesus are all capable of denying Him, and reviling Him.
Moreover, they are capable of seeing the return of Jesus as the
deceit of Satan, and more people shall condemn Jesus returned to
flesh. Does not all of this make you afraid? What you face shall be
blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, the ruination of the words of the
Holy Spirit to the churches, and the spurning of all that is
expressed by Jesus. What can you gain from Jesus if you are so
befuddled? How can you understand the work of Jesus when He returns
to flesh on a white cloud, if you obstinately refuse to realize your
errors? I tell you this: People who do not accept the truth, yet
blindly await the arrival of Jesus upon white clouds, will surely
blaspheme against the Holy Spirit, and they are the race that shall
be destroyed. You merely wish for the grace of Jesus, and merely want
to enjoy the blissful realm of heaven, yet you have never obeyed the
words spoken by Jesus, and have never received the truth expressed by
Jesus when He returns to flesh. What will you hold up in exchange for
the fact of Jesus’ return upon a white cloud? Is it the sincerity
in which you repeatedly commit sins, and then confess them, over and
over? What will you offer in sacrifice to Jesus who returns upon a
white cloud? Is it the years of work with which you exalt yourselves?
What will you hold up to make the returned Jesus trust you? Is it
that arrogant nature of yours, which does not obey any truth?
from
“When You Behold the Spiritual Body of Jesus Will Be When God Has
Made Anew Heaven and Earth” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
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