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O Lord.
You are my reliance, my strength.
I beg You. Please answer my prayer.
O Lord, where are You?
Now I am puzzled and confused.
I cannot feel Your presence.
But, without Your guidance,
how am I to be a good shepherd to my flock?
O Lord. I am forever in Your debt truly.
Brothers and sisters can’t receive any supply.
They hunger and thirst and their faith grows cold.
Some no longer attend the services, distracted by the world.
But I’m unable to support them, because I am weak.
O Lord. Where are You?
Please have mercy on me … and give me strength.
Lord. May You revive the church…
Better go to bed. You’ll catch a cold here...
I just can’t write my sermon. So how can I sleep?
But didn’t you buy many books about preaching?
I did, but they aren’t inspiring.
My spirit’s dry. I have nothing to preach about.
Give it time. It’ll get better.
And soon you’ll be back to normal.
To be truthful, when I preach, the eager faces of my flock all around me…
I have nothing new to preach. And it just feels…
They are listening to me out of courtesy.
And it makes me feel like I’m so very guilty.
I can’t really minister to them.
You should go back to sleep.
But I must finish my sermon.
I’ve got to prepare for the service I’m leading tomorrow.
Yes, but please not all night.
I’m worried that your health is getting worse.
I know. You sleep first.
All right.
Brothers and sisters,
no matter where we might be,
we should be light and salt.
Same old thing again.
Glorify the Lord’s name. (I know what you mean.)
Obey the Lord’s teaching.
I don’t want to come back.
Be humble and patient. (No enjoyment at all. You said it.)
Love your enemies... (It’s the same every week.)
How has everybody been progressing
with the daily Bible reading plan?
Please read the Bible according to the daily plan.
For the manna God prepared for the Israelites
is what the Bible is like.
It is the spiritual bread we eat. It strengthens us.
Just as Luke 1:37 says,
So, if we don’t read the Bible,
we’ll be thirsty and hungry in spirit.
Brothers and sisters,
keep reading the Bible, and you’ll be strong.
And now one final message.
Please open your Bibles and turn them to Acts 1:11.
I’ll read it with you.
From this verse we can see
in the end time, the Lord will appear in the spirit
and take us into heaven.
Yes! That’s right!
And so, we should wait for Him with faith.
He never fails His promise.
Amen!
But in the end time,
like a lion, the devil prowls around us,
it is searching, searching for someone it can devour.
Yes.
Especially the “Eastern Lightning.”
Preaching everywhere that the Lord
has returned to this world in the flesh.
We know this is impossible!
Right. Yes.
He’ll come in the Spirit.
And He will not come in the flesh!
Amen. That’s right. Yeah.
So then we should all be as wise virgins.
Stay in our home church.
Amen!
We all must be watchful and wait for the Lord to return.
Or otherwise we’ll be like the people we find in Ephesians 4:14.
We should both read the Bible and pray more.
This concludes today’s service.
Amen!
Pastor Chen, my husband’s having those headaches again.
Please pray that he’ll recover.
Pastor Chen, my son is going abroad.
Please pray and ask the Lord to bless his trip.
Brothers and sisters, let us stand and pray.
The sermon was boring. I didn’t enjoy it.
I think you’re right.
It’s just the same old sermon again and again.
There’s nothing new.
Coming to the service doesn’t solve any problems.
I’m getting tired of it.
Do you think we can really enter the kingdom of heaven?
Sister, you can’t say that.
Didn’t Pastor Chen tell us?
We will all be raptured when the Lord returns.
I might stop coming.
I’ve so many things to do at home, I just feel that…
Hey, Pastor Chen.
Hi. You’re all still here.
Hey, Pastor Chen, you’re leaving now?
Yeah. It’s cold out here. You’d better head home.
See you later.
Sister Gao, you’re still here?
Pastor Chen.
Mm-hm.
I’m disturbed.
I just don’t know how to be after the Lord’s heart.
So I need your advice.
Thank the Lord.
May He lead us. Please explain your problem.
Our factory has had so much work.
My husband has asked me to come and help him.
That means I wouldn’t have time to take care of the service,
which has made me struggle with which I should be doing.
Sister Gao, you know that our church needs a host.
No matter what, abandoning the mission and service
is not after the Lord’s heart.
Which I feel, too.
I know my husband is burnt out from working very hard all day long,
and still I do nothing to help him.
This doesn’t glorify the Lord’s name.
Sister Gao, since you said so, I can say nothing more.
Of course, you’re aware of the condition of our church.
That it really needs you.
Lord have mercy. Someone will be raised up in my place.
Brother Lin is zealous and donated much.
His grave illness was quite unexpected.
How could it come to this?
So many bad things have happened in our church lately.
We must pray for Brother Lin,
ask the Lord to care for him.
We must tell others about it
and ask them to pray as well.
I don’t understand.
What’s happening to the church?
Why doesn’t the Lord keep us?
I think the Lord is testing us.
I almost forgot I met Brother Liu on my way home yesterday.
He’s moving out of town for work.
He’s what? He said he was going?
Yeah. That’s what he said to me.
And did he tell you why?
He was in a rush to go shopping.
So I couldn’t ask him more.
I thought if you could find a little time,
you could talk to him about it.
Mm.
Let’s go.
Pastor Chen, fewer and fewer are coming to services.
Most co-workers became weak.
We must find a way to restore it.
Yes. I’ve been praying a lot about it.
I haven’t received any answers.
Do you have any suggestions?
What about a dinner meeting once every week?
All the brothers and sisters can communicate with each other.
And the long-time believers can testify
to encourage those whose faith might have weakened…
Brother Chen, you can stop reading now.
My mind’s made up.
Brother Liu, please think this over.
I am quite sorry for you.
You’ve served the Lord for so many years.
So tell me, how can you give up so easily?
Is there some difficulty in your life?
Brother Chen, to be honest, the difficulty in my life
isn’t the only reason that I’ve decided this.
I’m hesitant to tell all of this to you.
Please don’t worry. Just go ahead.
I am a minister.
But there are some things.
It just isn’t right for me to say.
But I would like you to hear the truth now.
I’ve believed for a long time.
I pray every day and read the Bible.
But I am always alone in darkness.
I can’t feel God’s presence.
I have no way to go.
And what am I going to do if this continues?
What if the Lord rejects me?
Other believers also seem to…
Brother Liu, the Lord’s promise is reliable.
The Lord has promised us,
Haven’t you often said to others just wait patiently
until the day when the Lord comes back to rapture us?
Thanks for the Lord’s mercy.
Brother Chen, I can preach a lot about faith.
Faith can’t come from wishful thinking, though.
Don’t try to persuade me anymore.
I’m really indebted to the Lord...
Hello, Sister Cai? Thank the Lord.
I haven’t seen you in church for a long time.
How are you doing?
Mm!
Oh!
Listen.
Fridays we’re having a kind of dinner meeting.
We can get together.
That’s right.
And we can have the chance to talk as well.
Yeah. Then I will see you at the meal?
Oh. That’s great! Bye.
Brothers and sisters, peace to you!
And to you!
I would like to thank the Lord for such a good time.
Amen!
So we can get together, and enjoy the Lord’s grace!
Amen!
This meeting will hopefully
connect our hearts in the bountiest love of the Lord.
Amen!
It says in Romans 12:5,
Today, how nice to see all of you brothers and sisters here
who may not have been to service in a long time!
Thank the Lord!
I hope that within this meeting,
we can have a good spiritual communication
and sustain one another.
Amen!
And those who have testimonies
testify all the wonderful ways the Lord has blessed you.
Or in other words, let’s fellowship!
Amen!
And now let us all sing a hymn.
Amen!
What a wonderful turnout! ...
It’s been so long since she’s been to the service...
This is a good turnout.
May be twice a month, and different menus each time, all right?
Worried about my son’s marriage.
I’ve been so busy with it…
No way could I find the time to come to church.
I’m really indebted to the Lord.
Sister Wang.
Does your son have insurance?
No, not yet.
Ah. You had better find him some.
General plans are pretty good.
Oh, yes. A sister sells the plans.
The care is excellent. Yeah.
Well, here’s the soup, sisters!
Oh, here’s more soup.
I bought the same plan last year, it’s good! You should try it.
You won’t be sorry.
Hey, so how’d you feel about our health product?
Oh! It was amazing! I really liked it!
My skin has never felt so soft and lustrous. And I…
Well I think it was a big success,
how do you feel about our dinner meeting?
Thank the Lord. It was pretty good, wasn’t it?
Many believers who haven’t been to church in a while,
they showed up tonight.
You’re right.
So many of them we haven’t seen for a long time.
I truly feel God’s love.
Because of today’s meeting,
our brothers and sisters who are weak
will all come back to the Sunday service, don’t you think?
I think they will. I spoke with many of them
and I asked them to come back to the service.
They said they were coming.
Thank the Lord.
Amen!
Hurry up, you’ll be late.
You’re not gonna go?
I think we’ll have a lot of people there today.
I have a meeting with our son’s wife.
I’ll go next week. Time to leave.
Well, goodbye.
Bye.
Brothers and sisters, peace to you.
And to you!
In your Bibles, please turn to Matthew 7:13.
O Loving Lord Jesus! Where are You?
The church, it is desolate.
All the sheep are lost. And I am powerless to help.
I am unworthy of Your good grace.
My Lord, what should I do now?
Co-workers, this is the end of today’s meeting.
If you have any questions, then please ask now.
Elder Qian, there’s a question that I would like to ask. (Hmm.)
The day of the Lord is soon coming.
Yeah. Right...
But we don’t have anything new to preach. (Yeah...)
Believers can’t get any supply, distracted by the world.
Less and less attend the service.
What can we undertake to combat this terrible plight?
It is normal that the church is in this position.
Of the Lord’s return, the Bible says,
So then all of us must patiently wait and pray more.
The Lord will surely appear to us.
Wouldn’t you agree, Pastor Chen?
But, elder, I am so greatly concerned.
Yeah...
At this rate, our churches will soon be empty.
Yeah...
We are the lead sheep.
When the Lord returns,
how can we give account for all of this?
Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.
It says in Revelation 3:15 and 16,
If this continues, will we be rejected by the Lord?
Yeah. No one knows for sure.
What will all of us do if we are rejected by the Lord?
Yeah. Right. Yes...
Pastor Chen, the Lord’s reliable and faithful.
So it is important that we have faith in Him. Never doubt.
The church is in the condition that it’s in,
because the Lord wants to test our faith.
Amen!
Did the Lord really forsake us?
O Lord! Why is the church so desolate?
What should we do?
My Lord! I’ve come to a dead end…
Brother Wang. (Hmm?)
Was this photo taken at seminary?
Yes.
It seems memorable.
Time goes by so quickly.
Indeed.
Ten years just flew by.
Among them, some passed away
and some became businessmen.
Hey, who is that brother there?
That’s Chen Peng. After graduation,
he became a house church pastor.
It’s been a long time since we saw each other.
Brother Chen is upright.
He’s zealous, and preaches well.
I am not sure if he’s ever heard God’s end-time gospel.
Brother Wang, can you get in touch with him?
I think I can.
That’s Great!
Perhaps it would be all right if I invited him over here.
Good idea.
If a true believer can accept our gospel,
God’s heart will be very comforted.
She’s right.
All of God’s sheep will certainly hear God’s voice! (Mm-hmm. Yeah!)
Hello?
Hi! Chen Peng? This is Wang Zhong.
Oh, Wang Zhong, hi.
How’s it been going?
It’s hard to explain…
Thank the Lord!
I really hope this meeting will be good for you.
May the Lord lead me.
Sister Fang, how has your church been doing lately?
It isn’t going well.
Many believers have been losing their faith.
Hey, I heard you’ve been having dinner meetings.
How’s that been going?
It’s not going well. Everybody comes for the dinner.
But very few come for the service.
It’s terrible!
What a shame!
It’s the same with our church.
Oh, thank you!
Don’t be shy! Make yourselves at home! Sister Yang, don’t bother! Come sit with us! (It’s no trouble.)
Sister Yang, I heard Pastor Wang
invited many co-workers from local churches.
He did. (Thanks!)
Sister Fang. (Thank you.)
So where is Pastor Wang?
Oh, he went to pick someone up.
Ah. (Sister Yang.)
Pastor Chen is here.
Ah. Hello, Pastor Chen.
Pastor Chen.
Ah, Brother Cao, Sister Fang, you’re here.
Yeah. Since our last meeting
didn’t really solve the problems in our church,
we accepted Pastor Wang’s invitation.
I see!
Sit. Please. Sit. (Yes, have a seat.)
Brother Wang,
do you have any ideas
to solve the desolation of our church?
Would you please share with the rest of us?
Yes, please.
I regret that I have none. Just like all of you!
But I invited some fine preachers,
and their messages will help us all solve the current problem
and strengthen our faith as well.
Oh. yeah, that’s wonderful. Good idea.
Co-workers, peace to you.
Amen!
First thing, I’ll make an introduction.
I’d like you to meet Sister Li.
She followed with my father preaching for many years.
Her spiritual experience is rich.
I think her messages
can help solve the desolation of our church.
This is Sister Zhou, and Sister Wu,
Sister Li’s co-workers.
They’re both experienced preachers.
And their messages will be very beneficial.
And this is Pastor Chen,
a key leader in the local church.
I think you all must be somewhat familiar with him.
So he requires no further introduction.
And this of course is Brother Cao.
You all know him.
And since the rest of you know each other,
I will skip further introductions.
Pastor Chen. (Hmm.)
You’ve preached for years. You know the Bible.
I think you’re the most learned man here.
Will you share your opinion with us?
We can then have a discussion.
I’m indebted to the Lord.
Something has been genuinely puzzling me for a long time.
It seems most believers weaken in faith, tired of service.
This is the main problem that we face.
To encourage service attendance, we tried an idea or two
activities believers could come to.
Unfortunately, most of them came merely to socialize.
They did not come to worship.
Truth is, I just have no idea
what should be done to revive the church.
Yeah. I’m indebted to the Lord.
The believers nowadays
take the meeting place as a free market
or even some kind of a club,
further and further away from the Lord.
What’s going on with the church?
What is the Lord’s will?
Is anybody aware of the reason all this is happening?
Regarding the recent desolation of the church,
what we need is to seek the truth about this.
Look back to the Old Testament.
At the end of the Age of Law,
the temple which was originally full of Jehovah’s glory,
it had fallen into desolation as well.
At the time, people failed to keep the law.
Priests offered lame sacrifices.
The temple became a house of merchandise, a den of thieves.
What was the reason for it?
Well, I think there were a number of them.
Continue, Sister Li. I’d like to know your opinion.
Thank God.
In fact, here’s the main reason for the desolation.
The work of God progressed forward.
God left the temple to start the work of redemption.
So the Holy Spirit no longer upheld the work in the Age of the Law,
but upheld Jesus’ work of redemption.
At that time, if people didn’t seek God
and follow God’s new work,
they would lose God’s presence and God’s supply.
Gradually, they became fallen and no longer feared God.
Then the temple became a house of merchandise,
and a den of thieves.
This is the foremost reason for the desolation of the temple.
Hmm! That does make sense.
How come we’ve never thought about this?
Could you tell us, sister,
what you think is the reason for the current problem.
Pastor Chen,
there are verses which can answer this question.
Amos 4:6-7,
“When there were yet three months to the harvest,”
God withheld the rain.
When is it the time when “the harvest” should begin?
I’m pretty sure it’s autumn.
As we know, the Lord Jesus did the work of sowing.
Clearly, “the harvest” refers to the work the Lord does
when He returns in the end time.
Would you agree with that?
When it’s time for the harvest,
in the end time,
then the Holy Spirit will stop working in the church of the Age of the Grace
and do the work of the harvest.
And so the church without the Holy Spirit’s working
will become desolate and dried-up.
Clearly, all this desolation that is now
occurring in our churches wasn’t caused by man.
It’s because God has started a new work.
This fulfills John 4:37,
In the end time,
God has returned in the flesh to begin the harvest.
What? God already came into the flesh?
You are preaching the “Eastern Lightning.”
You are! You are preaching the “Eastern Lightning.”
I’ve heard enough!
We will not listen to you no matter what you say! Humph!
Pastor Chen, it’s him!
Brother Wang, how did this happen?
You believe in the “Eastern Lightning”?
You’re a part of this deception?
Humph!
You are wrong-minded.
Go. Go. Go. Everyone. We’re leaving!
They’re part of the “Eastern Lightning.”
Co-workers, please calm down. Stay and hear us out.
For these past years, we’ve all been in a quandary
about the desolation of the church.
And then, the sister explained the cause of the problem,
the desolation’s cause.
Now, don’t you think that it’s good
for us to sit down and all talk this over?
All these years,
we have condemned the “Eastern Lightning”
and the more that we condemn them,
the more their church prospers and grows,
while our church becomes more and more desolate.
Shouldn’t we at least examine why?
Co-workers, we are all already here.
Can’t we at least talk together?
Might we not learn something?
So then, we can give the believers an explanation.
We don’t seek or investigate.
All we do is avoid the problem.
What if this is the Lord’s work after all?
Aren’t we resisting and condemning God?
Won’t our faith in God end up in vain?
Brother Chen, what do you say?
Pastor Chen, Brother Cao, co-workers,
I ask you to please listen.
Pastor Wang has long served the Lord.
Would he be deceived so easily?
How about we just listen to
what they’re trying to preach first?
And if Pastor Wang has been deceived,
I really don’t think
that we should leave him alone with them.
Is that all right with you?
All right. Everyone please sit down.
Thank the Lord. May the Lord lead us.
All right, I look forward to seeing the tricks
that all of you “Eastern Lightning” people
are going to try to use to deceive us.
Humph!
Brothers and sisters,
we have all served the Lord for many years.
You know, I used to have the same opinion
of the “Eastern Lightning.”
And you all know that I did.
And then, after their fellowship recently,
I totally changed that opinion.
Then I invited you here only after a great deal of prayer
and communion with the Lord.
So I really hope that you can all benefit
after fellowshipping with them.
Let’s all agree to speak out freely.
We can discuss any question or opinion you have,
anything you want.
That’s right.
We can all investigate and discuss these things together,
determining whether or not
Almighty God’s work is the true way.
Actually, everyone should feel free to ask us questions.
If we sincerely investigate,
we just might find all of the answers.
I’ve believed for decades, read the Bible many times.
Nowhere have I seen it written
Jesus would return into the flesh again.
How are so many deceived by this blatant fallacy?
Today,
I would like to hear how you misinterpret the Bible.
That’s right.
So according to you,
Jesus already came back in the flesh?
Impossible!
Nowhere did Jesus say that He would return in the form of flesh.
You have no biblical basis.
That’s right.
You should never preach anything that groundless.
Brothers and sisters,
the return of Jesus is prophesied in the Bible
and that He’ll return in the flesh.
There are very many verses that talk of this.
How’s that possible?
We know that God is wise.
God’s prophecies are obscure.
They can’t be so plain.
So then we should not interpret them at will.
We understand a prophecy only once it’s fulfilled.
As the Old Testament prophecy says
In man’s eyes, Jesus had a father and mother
and He was not born of a virgin.
In man’s eyes, He was not called Immanuel.
It didn’t match the prophecy.
Therefore the chief priests and the scribes and Pharisees
wouldn’t believe in Him or accept Him,
but resisted and condemned Him.
And so, for us to truly welcome the returned Lord,
we shouldn’t measure or circumscribe God
with the words of prophecies.
If we did, we would repeat the Pharisees’ error.
Don’t you think that we would know these?
Yeah.
We have served the Lord for many years,
read the Bible countless times.
Do not try to deceive us.
Yeah. You say that God has come into the flesh.
If you have no evidence, your words are worthless.
Don’t bother trying to fool us.
Brothers and sisters,
the prophecies have finally been revealed to us
through the fulfillment of God’s incarnation in the end time.
Let’s open our Bibles and turn to Luke 17:24-25.
Here it mentions
“so shall also the Son of man be in his day.”
“Son of man”
means He is born of a man with bones and flesh, not “Spirit.”
If God’s Spirit comes,
He can’t be called the “Son of man,”
because the Spirit has no form or image,
invisible and intangible.
So “Son of man”
tells us that God will be incarnated once again.
If He doesn’t come in the flesh,
He can’t be called the “Son of man.”
Besides, if God is not incarnated again in the flesh,
He won’t “suffer many things” or again
“be rejected of this generation.”
If He comes as the “Spirit,”
He won’t suffer and no one would dare reject Him.
And thus, when God comes again in the end time,
He will still appear to us as the “Son of man,”
that is to say, appear in the flesh.
This is a reference to the Lord Jesus.
Because the Lord will return
in the glorified flesh and He won’t suffer.
Right! You’re misinterpreting the Bible.
What it means is the Lord Jesus suffered and was then rejected. (Amen!)
Brothers and sisters, may we look at some other verses?
The book of Luke 9:22.
This verse tells us very clearly,
when Jesus was first incarnated,
He was rejected by chief priests and scribes and elders
and suffered quite a lot,
and then in the end was crucified.
But Luke 17:24-25
tells us when the Lord Jesus comes again,
He will suffer many things
and again be rejected of this generation.
It mentions “and again be rejected of this generation.”
“Again” means that He was once rejected,
and it will happen again.
It shows that the Lord will come back in the flesh.
If the Lord Jesus returns in the glorified flesh,
He will not “suffer many things”
or “again be rejected of this generation.”
Do you not all think so?
Thank the Lord! What she said makes so much sense.
They’ve got many ways to deceive people.
But we listen to Pastor Chen…
The Bible really prophesies that.
I wonder why none of us ever noticed it before.
Oh, yeah.
Maybe the Lord really will return in the flesh?
Impossible! Jesus will return the same way He went.
So how could He become flesh again?
The pastor is correct.
Lord Jesus will not become flesh again.
We don’t believe.
Amen!
Actually when the Lord Jesus made the promise that He’d return,
it was Jesus Himself who said the words,
it was not the Spirit.
Since the Lord Jesus Himself made the promise,
when He comes He will surely come in the flesh,
because Jesus was God’s incarnation.
We all know that the Spirit didn’t ever say that He would leave,
or He would surely return.
So it’s not the Spirit who will come.
If the Spirit said that, He will fulfill it.
But here the incarnate Jesus said He would surely come,
not the Spirit.
So when God comes in the end time,
He will become flesh again.
We believe the Spirit will come.
But you say it will be the flesh. We’ll never agree.
Yet their fellowship seems to have merit.
Jesus foretold He would come, not the Spirit.
That’s impossible!
Right!
We listen to Pastor Chen. We think he’s right.
Hmm. The Lord Jesus said that.
That’s right.
We had better listen some more.
Brothers and sisters, in the Bible it is prophesied
the Lord will “come as a thief,”
which means God will be incarnated.
Let me ask,
when the Lord Jesus came in the Age of the Grace,
did anybody know that He was God?
The answer is “no.”
Jesus spoke many words,
did many works, performed many miracles.
But no one recognized Him.
No one knew that He was God.
How can any of us prove this?
Will you turn in your Bibles to Matthew 16:13-17.
So, when God is incarnated on earth without inspiration,
no one can recognize Him,
not even those who chose to follow Him.
So the prophecy in Revelation “I come as a thief”
means that God will become flesh in the end time.
These people really are expert deceivers.
Yeah! Right!
You said that God will be incarnated to work?
Well, I see no need for this to be so!
The Spirit can do it.
Amen! That’s right!
Did not Jehovah do His work in the form of the Spirit?
So then the same thing can be done in the end time.
There’s no need to become flesh!
Amen! (Amen!)
You can’t just fool all of us with your deceptions
and your specious words!
That’s right! Truly Jehovah worked in Spirit form.
It will be the same in the end time, too.
I tell you your fellowship goes against the Bible.
Amen!
It’s heresy!
It’s right here! Look! Look! Look!
Really? Okay!
Brothers and sisters, I used to share your opinion,
so I do understand.
But we know we do not decide. Only God decides.
It is God alone who decides what form He’ll take,
whether it is in the form of the Spirit
or in the form of the flesh.
God chooses the way He will work
in accordance with the need of His work
and the need of corrupt mankind.
If a way is truly better for His work
and the salvation of corrupt mankind, He will use it.
In God’s three-stage work of the saving of man,
God worked in the form of the Spirit
in what’s known as the Age of the Law.
In the Age of the Grace and the Age of the Kingdom,
God works in the form of the flesh.
Now then why does God work in the form of the flesh
in the last two stages of works?
Let’s take a look at God’s word.
God makes the choice of what way He will work
according to the needs of mankind
and the importance and nature of the work.
In the Age of the Law,
Jehovah worked in the form of the Spirit,
this is because Jehovah
was the one who just issued the law
and led the newly-born men to live on the earth.
Since that had nothing to do with changing man’s disposition,
so then, Jehovah worked in the form of the Spirit.
In the Age of the Grace,
God performed the redemptive work.
The Lord was crucified for man in sinless flesh
and became man’s sin offering.
If the Spirit did this, He couldn’t be crucified.
So, in the Age of the Grace,
God came into the flesh to work.
From Almighty God’s word,
we can see clearly God decides to work in the flesh
due to the necessity of the work,
so that man can receive His salvation.
In the end time, God becomes flesh to work
according to corrupt mankind’s needs
and according to His management plan.
Almighty God’s word tells us, in the Age of the Grace
mankind wasn’t saved completely from their sins,
they were actually still in the bondage of sin.
So then,
God has to be incarnated again to do a work of salvation.
After that, mankind will be completely saved
from the influence of Satan.
If God chooses to work in the Spirit form,
He can’t make contact with men and can’t achieve results.
What now?
Now you say God didn’t even save men completely?
Just hearing these few words of yours,
I can surely say, you are deceivers, and heretics!
Jesus said on the cross “It is finished,”
meaning Jesus saved mankind for all eternity.
Yet you sit there,
glibly saying that He in fact did not.
You could not be more wrong!
He’s right! The Lord Jesus Himself said that.
How dare you try to deny the word of Lord Jesus?
How dare you!
That’s right.
How are they trying to deceive us?
They can’t do this.
Pastor Chen, Jesus said “It is finished” on the cross,
meaning that the redemptive work of God was finished,
not meaning that His management plan
of saving mankind was finished.
If this word that Jesus uttered
meant that God’s entire work of saving man had reached its completion,
then how would the end-time harvest
spoken of in Revelation truly be fulfilled?
Besides, we are redeemed by Jesus.
We are not completely freed from sins.
We all sin often, disobey, resist God.
So then how could the salvation work of God be finished?
God is faithful.
When He saves mankind, it will be done quite thoroughly.
There is no way He’ll stop the work of salvation
before it’s done completely.
Actually, in the Age of the Grace
the Lord Jesus only served as men’s sin offering
and redeemed men from sins. So men were forgiven.
They could come before God and pray to Him,
so they could enjoy the peace and joy.
But Jesus didn’t do the work of resolving men’s sins.
People who have been redeemed by Jesus
are all still bound by sins and sinning,
they are still resisting God.
So then on the basis of all of Jesus’ work,
God will do more to remove man’s sinful nature,
saving man completely from all sins.
And then when man has experienced God’s end-time salvation work,
cast off corruption and become holy.
God’s plan for the salvation of mankind
will then be finished.
This will be the fulfillment of Revelation 21:5-6.
That is to say,
when people cast off their corrupt disposition
and are transformed into new men,
it is then God’s work of salvation
can be said to be truly completed.
Here it is. But the way they speak of the end time ...
it’s confusing.
I don’t remember anything like this.
I am telling you they are trying to confuse us.
It doesn’t make any sense!
The Bible doesn’t have a prophecy about that!
Still, the Spirit of the Lord verses the flesh?
Let us read the word of Almighty God,
Brothers and sisters,
from these words of Almighty God, we can learn
Lord Jesus only did one of God’s salvation works.
He forgave mankind for their sins,
but He didn’t remove their sinful nature.
So, men often still commit sins and resist God.
Look at the brothers and sisters in the Lord.
Believers, elders, pastors from top to bottom,
which one of them has gotten rid of sins and commits no more?
Not one. They are all controlled and bound by sins.
They can be selfish or arrogant, greedy, crafty,
and the list goes on and on.
And no matter how hard they try,
they can’t help but sin.
Even though some look humble and mild,
their hearts are filled with corrupt satanic disposition.
God does not want to gain these people
who cannot do God’s will and are not holy.
So, if men still commit sins,
controlled and influenced by Satan,
it means that God’s work of saving men is not finished,
and God will continue to do a greater work to save men.
After men’s sins have been forgiven,
God will do a work to transform men’s disposition
and will purge them altogether of their sins.
In other words, in the end time
Almighty God will become flesh to judge all men with the word.
Through the judgment of Almighty God’s word,
men will become holy, will enter into heaven
and have eternal life.
You said that God will do a new work?
Even if that is true,
He cannot possibly work in the flesh.
Why can’t the Spirit do it?
Right! God’s Spirit can do it as well!
Amen!
Pastor Chen, we have fellowshipped
for some time about the question you raised.
God works in the flesh in the end time,
because of the need of His work.
Otherwise, God will not come into the flesh.
In the end time, God’s work
is to express the word and guide man into the truth
while the Spirit can’t do it.
And so, that means in the end time
God has to appear in the form of the flesh.
In the end time God is going to express the word?
Impossible!
Right! Yes!
Lord Jesus has given us a full and a bountiful salvation.
And it has been indeed fulfilled.
Amen!
So why would the Lord speak again?
Besides, the Bible doesn’t have a prophecy about that,
and neither did the Lord Jesus.
You made it up just so you could deceive us!
That’s right!
Brother, why don’t we look at some verses?
John 16:12-13.
Now let’s turn to Revelation 2:7.
And Revelation 5:1 and 5:5.
Let’s look at what these verses mention,
In these passages we clearly learn
God prophesied that He would speak again in the end time
and guide man into all truth.
That is, He will open the scroll and break the seven seals.
Since God plans to express the word to save men,
He will surely come in flesh to do it.
If the Spirit speaks, men don’t understand.
When the Lord Jehovah spoke, it was as if it thundered,
people simply couldn’t understand.
Let’s read from John 12:28-29.
You see, here, a voice from heaven said,
Why did the people who stood by say that “it thundered”?
Do you think they all heard the voice wrong?
I don't know. (No.)
They couldn't understand. (Could they?)
Of course they couldn’t.
Because God’s Spirit spoke like thunder,
people couldn’t understand or approach.
But the incarnate God’s work is different.
He can give us accurate guidance through words,
clear goals of pursuit.
No need to grope or guess.
People will know how they can be after God’s heart.
As we all know,
as the book of Matthew chapter 18 records,
Peter asked Jesus,
We can see that God incarnate can directly supply people
with the truth,
tell them the way they should walk.
Then they can practice according to God’s will.
So the end-time God incarnate can easily contact people.
He can directly supply and water them with the truth,
while God in Spirit form really can’t do that.
Let us look at the disclosure from Almighty God.
Brothers and sisters,
from the words of Almighty God we quite clearly learn
the incarnate God can give us accurate words and clear intentions,
but the Spirit would not be able to accomplish these things.
After Jesus rose and went up into heaven above,
on Pentecost the Spirit appeared
and all of the believers followed the Spirit’s leading.
And these men served God by the inspiration
and their understanding of the Holy Bible.
But as they had different understandings,
none could be accurate in their interpretation of the Spirit’s will.
So over 2,000 denominations came into being since Jesus left.
They each hold their own doctrine as God’s will,
leaving the religious world in chaos and division.
And so that means that in the end time
God must be incarnated and express the Word,
so people can get the most accurate word
and the most accurate direction,
and they can know God’s will without groping or seeking,
which cannot be accomplished by the Spirit.
I agree. The Spirit couldn’t.
So that’s how denominations came into being.
We’ve never really thought about it. (Yeah.)
Can the pair of you hear yourselves?
Is it so easy to pull the wool over your eyes?
Have you read the Bible at all?
Watch out.
You better pray a lot more for the Lord to guide you.
Or else you’ll all be deceived by the “Eastern Lightning.”
Right!
You are all deceivers and heretics! We’ve heard enough.
Pastor Chen, let’s leave. We cannot share in their evil.
Pastor Chen, we can’t judge casually
whether it’s the true way or a heresy.
If we don’t seek or investigate but judge rashly,
it’s actually kind of reckless!
When the Lord Jesus did His work,
the Pharisees and scribes condemned Jesus’ way
as a heresy and a cult,
because they assumed and imagined it that way.
They thought their judgment was most accurate.
What then?
They condemned and rejected the only true God and true way.
Please we ask that you listen.
Investigate and consider before deciding.
Try to be like the Jewish official Nicodemus was.
Because he had a seeking heart,
he went out and sought out from Jesus
the way of being reborn at night.
And then he was given inspiration and salvation from God.
God’s end-time work of word
refers to “judgment beginning with God’s family” in the Bible.
That is, expressing the truth to judge and purify men,
which means this is not the work
that can be done by the Spirit.
So then God has to become flesh
in order to do the last work.
Hold on!
Revelation 20:11-12 clearly say,
so says John.
According to these verses,
the judgment will take place up in the air.
God will judge men while seated on a throne.
No need for Him to come into the flesh to do it
on the earth. (Amen!)
I find your fellowship to be seriously against biblical prophecy.
That’s right! (Right!) (That’s right!)
God will judge men in the air not in the flesh on earth.
Amen!
This is wrong!
Yeah, how can they all go against the Bible?
I agree with Pastor Chen.
They are against the prophecy seriously.
Hmm! Pastor Chen’s completely right.
Yet some of their words kind of make sense.
I think we should keep listening to what they have to say.
Let’s see what else they’ve got.
All of us have got some kind of fantasy about
how the Lord does the judgment work.
We think the Lord will set a large table in the air.
He’ll sit on a great white throne, with majesty and wrath.
He will open the books in which is written everything
you have done in your life.
He will call you before Him to confess all of the sins
you have committed in your life.
And finally there will be justification or condemnation
from the good or evil you have done.
This fantasy is reasonable. But it’s not realistic.
You see, the verses record the vision
that John saw on the island of Patmos.
Vision is always far different from reality.
So then we can’t conclude
that God’s end-time judgment will happen in the air.
The truth is the Lord has told us
how and where God would do the judgment work in the end time,
but we didn’t pay attention to it.
Let’s read another two verses. In the book of John 5:27.
And John 5:22.
The two verses directly prophesy
that Christ will come into the flesh to judge men on earth.
The words “Son” and “Son of man”
definitely refer to the Christ in the flesh, not the Spirit.
Because the Spirit can’t be called
the “Son” or “Son of man.”
Only the incarnate God can.
God incarnate, the Son of man, is Jesus Christ.
There’s no doubt about this.
So, we know that the Christ in the flesh will do the end-time judgment, not the Spirit.
Because if God works in the Spirit,
He’s not able to judge, purify or save men.
You are completely wrong.
The verses talk about the Lord Jesus Christ.
“Son,” “Son of man”? Hmm…
Incarnation?
The Bible says “Son,” “Son of man”…
The Father has committed judgment to the Son,
which might refer to incarnation.
Brothers and Sisters,
will you all turn in your Bibles to John 12:47-48?
Saying this, Lord Jesus quite clearly told us that
He didn’t come to judge men.
Because the judgment is in the end time.
That is, Jesus will return to judge men with the word.
The “Father” has committed the work to the “Son.”
Speaking of the “Son,” obviously it means incarnation.
Let’s read Almighty God’s word.
Yeah, that’s how we’ve always thought about it.
God will set a table in the air at which to judge all peoples.
That’s right.
Over so many years,
we’ve been indulging in our imaginations,
this fantasy we all share,
sitting and waiting for the appearance of God
as the Spirit up in the air,
seated on the majestic throne to judge all men…
However, when God comes and starts the work of judgment,
we realize that God’s judgment before the white throne
means God becomes flesh to judge the people with the word.
The incarnate God of today is the One
who judges mankind in the end time.
I just don't even know… Are we solving our problems?
Would you like some water?
What do you think? (I don't know.)
Thank you.
Where is Pastor Chen going?
Lord! Today I was rendered speechless.
Their preaching is well organized,
the words they read have authority,
and their answer is well-founded.
I feel brightened within.
They’re totally different from what the adverse materials say.
Lord! What’s going on? Are we wrong?
No!
People say the “Eastern Lightning” have glib tongues.
I shouldn’t be deceived by their appearance.
But I feel clear. I find ways in their fellowship.
And it’s indisputable.
O Lord! Merciful Savior,
You’re a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Please show me the direction.
If You’re really incarnated to work again
and Almighty God is Your return,
Lord, may You inspire and guide me so that I can understand.
I will accept and obey.
If not, may You keep me from being deceived.
Brother Chen.
It’s chilly outside. Here. Have some tea to warm up.
Thank you.
Well, I think that I’ve heard enough.
No need for more discussion.
Brother Cao, today the Lord has given us a precious opportunity.
Any question you might have you are encouraged to ask it.
The Lord’s coming is a great thing.
All of us should treat it seriously.
If we don't investigate it, we may find ourselves against God.
Yes. Yes!
Now Let’s read Almighty God’s word.
Well, I’ve certainly never heard that before.
You’re right. No man could truly speak these words.
Yes! We’ve believed in the Lord for years,
but never have we heard these words before.
These words are so clear. Crystal clear.
They’re reasonable and also they’re practical.
Yes. I feel like I’m brightened in my heart.
You’re talking nonsense!
No matter what they tell us, we cannot believe their lies.
She’s right! We must hold on to the Lord’s ways.
It’s true that no man can speak these words.
Is it really God’s work?
But... Hmm.
From Almighty God’s words, we can plainly see:
The end-time work of judgment is mainly to purify and save man,
so that man will no longer commit and confess sins repeatedly
and can break away from sin, becoming holy.
To achieve such a result,
God has to be incarnated to express words practically,
judging man’s sins, exposing man’s corrupt disposition,
and revealing man’s unrighteousness.
Then man can know his corrupt disposition,
understand God’s requirement for man,
gradually break from the bondage and restraint of sin,
living out the reality of God’s word.
If God’s Spirit spoke directly to man,
man would fall down before the Spirit,
none would dare resist or oppose,
because man has no notion about God’s Spirit.
But when the incarnate God begins the work of judgment,
man’s notion, imagination,
resistance and disobedience against God,
these all will be completely revealed.
This way God can quite easily grasp the facts
and expose man’s satanic nature of resisting God.
Then judge and chastise man’s disobedience and resistance.
Contrasting the facts against God’s word,
man will fall down before God
to accept His judgment and purification.
Now let us all take a look at another issue.
We’ve mentioned in the end time God is incarnated in the flesh
to do the work of judging and purifying man
through expressing the word.
But beyond that,
what do you think might also be achieved by this?
I don’t think we’ve ever thought about it.
Pastor Chen, what do you think?
This is actually a mystery. Please continue.
The Lord Jesus has prophesied
that in the end time He would separate wheat from tares,
sheep from goats, righteous from evil,
good servants from evil servants,
He’ll reward the good and punish the evil.
God will bring this work to fulfillment through incarnation.
And if God did these things in Spirit form,
both good and evil would fully submit before God.
Men couldn’t be divided into their kind.
God’s incarnation can reveal men clearly.
God incarnate is the Son of man,
He has normal humanity just like us, He looks just like us.
Thus, all the disobedience and resistance of men shall be completely revealed.
And now when God incarnate performs this work,
through His word the gospel is spread.
Unconsciously it’s done the sheep from goats and wheat from tares.
Those who truly believe in God and thirst for the truth
will come to the light and return before God
when they hear God’s voice.
But all those who are arrogant and self-conceited
who hate the truth and condemn and reject God’s word
will be revealed and eliminated.
From Almighty God’s words, we can truly know:
when God is incarnated to express words,
the righteous will be separated from the evil.
Like when Jesus was incarnated,
the hypocritical priests, scribes, and Pharisees
who considered themselves faithful to God,
their nature of resisting God and hating the truth was revealed.
Today when God is incarnated to express words,
He reveals those who truly believe in God and seek the truth
and those who believe in God in name but resist God in substance.
So today, when God is incarnated to express the truth,
the righteous will be separated from the evil,
those who love the truth
will be divided from those who hate it,
and true believers from false believers,
and men’s satanic nature shall be revealed.
Then, they will be divided into their kinds.
Good with the good. And evil with the evil.
This is the wisdom of God’s working
and also the necessity of God’s incarnation.
Praise be to God. The Lord is so wise.
Without such work, it’s quite hard to sort wheat from tares.
She’s right. Their fellowship makes sense.
Hmm. God will sort the sheep from the goats in the end time.
I think this work would have to be done through incarnation.
The Spirit cannot reveal men.
If the Lord Jesus didn’t actually come into the flesh,
the Pharisees would not be revealed.
Yes!
Humph!
Your faith is weak.
Actually I think that’s a good point.
When the Lord comes back to judge men,
tares and wheat, goats and sheep will be sorted.
But at that time,
God will punish and reward and all the peoples on earth will wail.
Tell me why God doesn’t do that to us right now.
That’s right!
That’s a good question!
I don’t even know what to think right now!
Pastor Chen, God does His work by steps and stages,
He will not do it in one step.
And God’s work of judgment is to save and to purify men,
and also separate them into their kinds,
not to directly condemn and destroy them.
I think I’ve heard enough!
God will reward the good and punish the evil
after He finishes the work of judgment.
God will separate all the goats from sheep and the wheat from tares,
all of this shall be accomplished by the work of judgment.
That is to say,
when the incarnate God expresses words to judge men,
those who are judged and who are purified
through the word of God are the ones who are to be saved.
And those who refuse God’s judgment,
condemn and resist God are the ones who are to be punished.
And then after men are divided by God’s judgment into their kinds, God will punish and destroy the evil.
When God does the work of judgment,
we won’t see God reward the good and punish the evil.
Brothers and sisters,
let us all read together Almighty God’s word.
The words of Almighty God are very clear.
The end-time judgment and chastisement
is intended to purify and save men
and to divide them into their kinds.
After God has separated sheep from goats and wheat from tares,
that is, separated true believers from false believers,
the righteous from the evil,
God will punish the evil and reward the righteous,
by this convincing all people fully.
So, God will reward the good and punish the evil
when He has finished all the work of judgment.
When the work of judgment is done by God,
we will not witness God punishing the evil.
Since Almighty God started His end-time work,
most of those who thirst for the truth in different denominations
have returned before God,
because they have heard the voice of God.
They are the sheep who have been called by God.
Those who crazily resist God
and make rumors to blaspheme God,
and hinder people from accepting the true way
are the revealed tares.
The work done by God exhibits such wisdom.
Only if He does the work of judgment
can all created beings be divided into their kinds.
Brother Chen, tell me can you accept my fellowship?
Your fellowship makes sense. I can accept it.
Pastor Chen, we all have to stand firm.
We are the lead sheep of our flock!
If we should stray from goodness,
what would become of our flock? (He’s right!)
Pastor Chen, don’t forget what we said
to all of our brothers and sisters in Christ.
It is no trifling matter to leave off from the Lord’s way!
She’s right!
Brother Cao, I am the lead sheep of this flock.
So, I’m the one who decides to investigate
whether this is the true way or whether it’s not,
out of the responsibility I have to our brothers and sisters.
And then I can explain things clearly to them.
Right! This is simply being responsible for their life.
Let us dispense with our anger and listen more.
Yes. Please sit down.
Let us all look together at the word of Almighty God.
The words of God tell us so clearly that
Almighty God, the end-time Christ is the expresser of all of the truths
and the gate through which we may enter the kingdom.
If we accept Almighty God’s end-time judgment of the word,
then we will receive all the truths from Him,
understand all the mysteries of God in heaven,
know God’s righteous disposition
and know mankind’s outcome and destination.
It’s very important to us corrupt mankind
that God is incarnated to work in the end time.
Only if we accept the truth Almighty God expresses
can we gain the approval of the Lord Jesus,
and be qualified to step into the kingdom of heaven.
Thank the Lord!
Almighty God,
the last Christ is the Lord Jesus we’ve long expected.
Only if we accept the truth that Almighty God expresses
can we be purified and enter God’s kingdom.
You’re right.
No wonder so many enthusiastic believers
don’t ever want to turn back
after they've joined the “Eastern Lightning.”
Actually, they’ve found the true way, the spring of living water.
Sister Fang, you’d better speak with more caution.
And Pastor Wang, you betray the Lord when you say these words.
You say you’re our co-worker
and then lead us to apostatize.
How can you give account to the Lord?
Yes! You’ve been given so much from the Lord.
But you are ungrateful and betray the Lord.
Are you any different from Judas?
The Lord Jesus was crucified for the redemption of us all.
I can’t believe that you’d betray Him.
Brother Cao and sisters,
I ask you all to please calm down a bit.
Control your anger.
Why aren’t you angry?
They’ve talked all day and not said anything but heresy.
Are you telling me you believe them?
No, I will not calm down.
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I curse you Satans!
Amen!
Get out now.
Before we all do worse than just cursing you!
What do you think you’re doing?
I invited all of these people here.
We all heard their fellowship.
All that they’ve said is very reasonable.
And now from their fellowship,
we can be absolutely certain
that God has indeed returned in the flesh.
It’s worthwhile to seek and investigate.
Even if we might not absolutely understand it all yet.
Lest we resist the Lord,
we should all watch our tongues.
Just as the Bible says
Brother Cao,
we have been very prejudiced
against “Eastern Lightening” before.
But after hearing what they truly have to say,
they’re very different from
what we imagined they were like.
Truth is their words match up with the Bible.
I think that you had better keep listening to them.
Pastor Chen,
I always thought you knew what the Bible said
and were mature.
How could you so quickly lose your ground?
Yes!
If you agree with me, let’s get out of here.
We are finished listening to all their garbage.
Let’s go!
Brother Cao, if you insist on leaving, I will not stop you.
But I hope that you do not pass judgment on “Eastern Lightning” until you have investigated it fully,
whether this is the true way.
Lest you offend God.
But I will stay and listen for a little while.
Thank the Lord. I believe that the Lord is with us here.
Everybody, it’s time to go. (Yeah!)
Do not believe their deception.
Come on, get up. We’re leaving.
Don’t you know that they are deceiving us?
No, no. Please, just think about it!
You don’t have to go!
Let’s read Almighty God’s word.
We all know that only God is the truth, the way, and the life,
the source of man’s life.
We’ll have the supply of life
when we find God’s footsteps.
Now God is incarnated
and has taken back the Holy Spirit’s work
from the other places.
He does all His work on those
who keep up with His footsteps.
So they get the watering and supply of God’s word,
and they are satisfied in spirit.
They are confidently following God
on the way of pursuing the truth.
How about all the other churches?
They have been trapped in famine and drought.
This is the root for the present desolation
the churches are experiencing.
So then if we fail to keep up with God’s footsteps,
then we will never be given any watering
and supply of the living water of God’s life.
Just like it was when Jesus came to do His work,
those Pharisees and those scribes in the temple
didn’t let go of God’s former word and work.
They resisted and refused
the work and word of Jesus Christ
and failed to keep up with God’s work.
As a result, they lost the supply of God’s life,
fell into darkness and then they lost God’s salvation.
Today in the end time,
only if we keep up with the work of Almighty God
can we get the watering and supply of the living water of God’s life,
because God alone is our good and righteous shepherd.
Just as John 10:10 says,
Only if we can find the source of the truth
can we receive real and true supply for our life.
Praise to the Lord!
Because of your fellowship,
I now know that
the church’s desolation isn’t caused by man.
It’s because God’s work has moved,
but we had failed to keep up.
Now I know why we tried everything
but weren’t successful at reviving the church.
This fulfills the verse in the Bible,
Yeah! I found your fellowship quite reasonable!
The desolation of the church isn’t caused by man.
It’s because God no longer sends rain or gives supply.
You’re right.
I find I finally can understand the prophecies
in the book of Amos.
Thanks be to God!
Praise Almighty God!
Today we can finally understand these words.
Thanks to the Holy Spirit’s inspiration and God’s love.
Right.
Let us read some more of Almighty God’s word.
Let’s all turn to page 1451.
The word of Almighty God covers all aspects
and His word also opens truths of all kinds to us,
telling us all of the truths that man should practice,
things like how to live out a normal humanity
and how a man should do his duty,
how to believe in God, and so on.
This way no matter what happens at any point in our life,
we can directly find the ways of practice from God’s word.
They’re accurate and practical and clear.
They are not confusing.
They are not vague in the slightest bit.
Almighty God, the last Christ, our Savior,
brings us the truth, the way, and the life.
It is absolutely right.
From your fellowship,
I feel much more brightened within.
Hmm! Thank the Lord!
It’s right! Only God is the way.
There’s nowhere we could go,
if God didn’t show us the way. (Yes.)
Brothers and sisters, let us read Almighty God’s word.
Please turn to page 1460.
Brother Chen, will you take over for me?
From Almighty God’s word, we can see
that God is the truth, the way, and the life.
Only the word of the end-time incarnate God
is the spring of living water.
If we reject or resist the incarnate God,
we can’t get the supply of living water.
Then we will fall into darkness and desolation.
So then only the last Christ is the gate
through which we may enter the kingdom,
the only pathway for us to receive eternal life.
Almighty God’s word really has authority and power!
We shouldn’t resist and condemn any more.
But instead we should investigate with care.
Yeah! The “Eastern Lightning” is actually the true way,
the work of the returned Jesus.
I only wish that I had sought it earlier.
We shouldn’t condemn so carelessly. (That’s right!)
Before I never sought.
I just followed the elders to resist and condemn God.
Today, after hearing your fellowship,
I feel much brightened inside.
Before I also believed the rumors
and resisted God’s new work.
Later, through seeking and investigating,
I understood the “Eastern Lightning” is the true way.
These words of God are the truth,
and the truth that we all must follow. (Oh! Yeah!)
God works in the flesh in the end time.
This is a great salvation to all of mankind.
Amen! I agree!
Brothers and sisters,
today words of life are brought to us
directly from Almighty God.
Later, the more we read God’s word,
the more we will understand.
For you see,
Almighty God has unlocked all the mysteries to us.
We learned all the things we shared
directly from the word of Almighty God with you today.
Of course, our understanding is so limited.
We can’t fellowship about many truths clearly.
So, you all need to read God’s word much more by yourselves.
Brother Chen,
the problem of our church’s desolation has been solved!
Yes, it has.
Yes. From God’s word,
we should also see that in the end-time…
If God didn’t come in the flesh to save man
but worked in the Spirit,
man could only be punished by God due to his corruption.
God’s being incarnated again is really a salvation to man.
These years,
the pastors just preached the same old things.
I couldn’t give anything new either.
God’s word is just like the spring in the desert.
I’m very nourished and supplied in spirit.
O God!
I found my way back to You after all of this time.
I got the watering and supply of Your word.
My God!
I thank You for the mercy You’ve given and patience.
Now let’s all turn to page 9.
From the words of God
we can clearly see God is the only spring of living water.
We will be supplied with living water
when we all keep up with God’s new work.
Then we can truly be watered and satisfied in spirit,
because God is the truth, the way, and the life.
We must hurry! Because I want to get there early.
OK. Let’s go now. (Mm.)
Pastor Chen.
All of you are here.
Waiting for you, Brother Chen.
You got here early.
Oh hi!
Yeah. Have a seat.
Good to see you.
Thanks.
Brothers and sisters,
on this beautiful day
we are keeping up with God’s new work.
Attending this feast of life,
I feel so wonderfully assured
and peaceful deep within my heart. (Yes.)
It is clear to me,
that this is God’s mercy and salvation.
I thank God!
I truly feel like my faith and love have returned. (Amen.)
Yeah! I used to dread coming to the service even one time a week.
Now I can’t wait to get here!
You’re right, I feel the same way. I didn’t read my Bible.
I didn’t bother taking it home with me, because it wouldn’t get read.
I only ever read it at the service.
I feel very different when I read Almighty God’s word now! (Hmm...)
Yeah! I thank God for choosing us. (Thank God!)
Now let’s sing another hymn of God’s word. Number 7.
Mm...
Without God’s work and the supply of God’s word,
people will naturally get dry
and the church will become desolate.
It’s in vain no matter how hard they try.
Those who keep up with God’s work
are really different.
They are all vigorous and energetic, free and released!
God truly blesses us.