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Christian testimonies | What Salvation Is and How It’s Gained From God
Being saved by God isn’t the same as being rescued. It’s not aid given to the poor by the rich, it’s not a doctor saving the life of a patient, and it’s not the loving help of a kind person or a charitable organization. God’s salvation is prepared for the sake of saving mankind and it is overflowing with God’s great love and mercy for humanity. Gaining it means that we are able to accept God’s salvation, obey His current words and work, put God’s words into practice, comply with God’s way, as well as do things and conduct ourselves in accordance with His requirements. This is the only way we can gain God’s salvation.
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Gospel hymn | A Hymn of God's word | Pure Love Without Blemish
I
Love is a pure emotion,
pure without a blemish.
Use your heart, use your heart
to love and feel and care.
Love doesn't set conditions
or barriers or distance.
Use your heart, use your heart
to love and feel and care.
If you love you don't deceive,
grumble, turn your back,
look to get something in return.
If you love you'd sacrifice,
accept hardship
and be one with God in harmony.
II
In love there's no suspicion,
no cunning, no deceit.
Use your heart, use your heart
to love and feel and care.
In love there is no distance
and nothing that's not pure.
Use your heart, use your heart
to love and feel and care.
If you love you don't deceive,
grumble, turn your back,
look to get something in return.
If you love you'd sacrifice,
accept hardship
and be one with God in harmony.
III
You would give your family,
youth and future you may see,
give your marriage up for God;
you would give your all for Him.
You would give your family,
youth and future you may see,
give your marriage up for God;
you would give your all for Him.
Or your love's no love at all,
but deceit, betrayal of God.
IV
Love is a pure emotion,
pure without a blemish.
Use your heart, use your heart
to love and feel and care.
Love doesn't set conditions
or barriers or distance.
Use your heart, use your heart
to love and feel and care.
from "Many Are Called, but Few Are Chosen"
in The Word Appears in the Flesh
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Christian Music Video | "True Faith Comes Only From Knowing God"
God’s work now is to speak, no more signs, nor wonders.
It’s not the Age of Grace. God is normal and real.
In the last days He’s not the supernatural Jesus,
but a practical God in flesh, no different from man.
So man’s belief in God is because of His many works, words and deeds.
Yes, it is God’s utterance that conquers and perfects man.
Signs and wonders aren’t the root of their faith.
Yes, it’s God’s deeds that make man know Him.
In every age God reveals different dispositions,
a different part of His deeds.
But they all, still give a deeper knowledge of Him,
a more down-to-earth and true belief in God.
So man’s belief in God is because of His many works, words and deeds.
Yes, it is God’s utterance that conquers and perfects man.
Signs and wonders aren’t the root of their faith.
Yes, it’s God’s deeds that make man know Him.
……
from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs
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This image is a patchwork product of three images I merged some days ago and did the finishing touches as I arrived back today . The images I used are posted below. I felt this isn't finished yet as I wanted it to ,but I have to stop ....
BTW , I love Romania's Corvin castle in my retouched scenes .It's a beautiful castle ,enchanting with very interesting history !
Nov.20
The images were merged but like pottery they can be molded into different shapes and forms or characters in a picture . I didn't go far to the extreme ,but the craggy mountains were based on the rockery image .
I do enjoy this lately ,the use of the mouse and the photoshop tools are like normal painting brushes ,it's only done digitally ,which is a cracker ... i love it !!!! I only knew the basics ,but exploring and a little bit of imagination does help a lot .
Gospel Hymn | The Hymn of God's Word "All Things Live in the Rules and Laws Set Down by God"
1. Thousands of years passed by, humans still enjoy the light and the air bestowed by God. Humans still breathe in and out the breath exhaled by God Himself . Humans still enjoy things created by God, the fish, birds, flowers and insects. Humans enjoy all the things, all the things provided by God. Continually day and night still replace each other. As usual the four seasons alternate. Flying in the sky, the geese depart in winter and return in spring. Swimming in the water, the fish never leave the rivers and the lakes, their home.
2. During the summer days, cicadas on the ground joyfully sing their hearts out. During the autumn days, crickets in the grass gently hum in time to the wind. Geese gather in flocks, while eagles stay alone. Lions hunt to live, while elk never stray from the grass and flowers. … Every living creature in all things comes and goes again and again, a million changes in a moment. But what does not change are their instincts and the laws of survival. They live under God’s nourishing and provision. No one can change their instincts. No one can break their rules of survival. No one can break their rules of survival.
from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs
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God Himself, the Unique VIII God Is the Source of Life for All Things (II) | Introduction
Almighty God says, "The biggest difference between God and mankind is that God rules over all things and supplies all things. God is the source of everything, and mankind enjoys all things while God supplies them. That is to say, man enjoys all things when he accepts the life God bestows on all things. Mankind enjoys the results of God’s creation of all things, whereas God is the Master. Right? Then from the perspective of all things, what is the difference between God and mankind? God can see clearly the growth patterns of all things, and controls and dominates the growth patterns of all things. That is, all things are in God’s eyes and within His scope of inspection. … Hence God is God, and man is man! Even if man keeps researching science and the laws of all things, it is only within a limited range, whereas God controls everything. For man, that is infinite."
Christian testimonies | 3 Paths to Welcoming the Lord Jesus’ Return
God says, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, said Jehovah. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8–9). “We should all know that people, who are of the flesh, have all been corrupted by Satan. It is their nature to oppose God, and they are not on a parity with God, much less can they offer counsel for the work of God. How God guides man is the work of God Himself. Man should submit, and should not hold such and such a view, for man is but dust” (“Only He Who Experiences the Work of God Truly Believes in God”).
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Christian testimonies | Throwing off Shackles Is Liberating
At that time, I thought of God’s words : “If you are very glad to be a service-doer in the house of God, working diligently and conscientiously in obscurity, always giving and never taking, then I say that you are a loyal saint, because you seek no reward and are simply being an honest man” (“Three Admonitions” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). God’s words showed me the way of practice: As one of God’s creations, I should love Him and satisfy Him and devoutly fulfill my duty, rather than living within a satanic corrupt disposition and striving for fame and gain. This is the conscience and sense that one of God’s creations should possess. This is a pursuit that is in line with His will. From this day forward, I will do my best to pursue the truth. I will rely on truth to penetrate Satan’s deceitful schemes and throw off its shackles. No longer will I seek to tower above others. Instead, I will toil in obscurity, fulfilling my duty to satisfy God. Even if I’m left with nothing in the end, I will continue on willingly with nary a regret, because I am just one of God’s insignificant creations. Satisfying the Creator is my true purpose in life.
Christian Testimonies: How She Overcame the Temptation to Have an Affair (Audio Essay, Part 1)
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One evening, Jingru was tidying her place.
“Ring, ring.” The phone began to ring. She answered it and a strange yet familiar voice sounded in her ear: “Hello! It’s Wang Wei. You’re home!”
“Wang Wei?” Jingru was somewhat astonished: Why was he calling her now after so many years?
“Yes … I’m home. What’s up?” asked Jingru in surprise.
“Long time no see. I’d like to take you for a ride. I’m on my way to your place and will arrive soon. Wait outside your door for me!” said Wang Wei.
After she’d hung up, Jingru’s heart began to race, and her thoughts immediately returned to those days at school …
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Christian Testimonies | What’s the Meaning of Life? Find the Answer Through a Comic Book Artist’s Experience
One day while watching the news, I saw that a famous Taiwanese comic book artist had died suddenly at just 51 years old. Hearing the news left me with a mix of emotions. He had been a really prominent person in the world of comics and had created a number of excellent works; many people envied and looked up to him. He had both fortune and fame—I had never thought he’d end up dying just like that! I couldn’t help but sigh: When someone dies, no matter how famous they are, how much status they have, what good is it? Then my own 30 years on the path of creating comics occurred to me …
God's Utterance "How to Know God’s Disposition and the Result of His Work" (Part One)
Introduction
God’s word in this video are from the book "The Word Appears in the Flesh".
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“If you don’t have a proper relationship with God, no matter what you do to maintain your relationships with other people, no matter how hard you work or how much energy you exert, it will still belong to a human philosophy of life. You are maintaining your position among people through a human perspective and a human philosophy so that they will praise you. You do not establish proper relationships with people according to the word of God. If you don’t focus on your relationships with people but maintain a proper relationship with God, if you are willing to give your heart to God and learn to obey Him, very naturally, your relationships with all people will become proper. This way, these relationships aren’t established on the flesh, but on the foundation of God’s love. There are almost no interactions based on the flesh, but in the spirit there is fellowship as well as love, comfort, and provision for one another. This is all done on the foundation of a heart that satisfies God. These relationships aren’t maintained by relying on a human philosophy of life, but they are formed very naturally through the burden for God. They don’t require human effort—they are practiced through the principles of the word of God” (“Establishing a Proper Relationship With God Is Very Important” in The Word Appears in the Flesh)...
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God's Utterance "God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself III" (Part One)
Introduction
Almighty God says: "God sees this instance of management of mankind, of saving humans, as more important than anything else. He does these things not only with His mind, nor is it only with His words, and He particularly does not do it casually—He does all of these things with a plan, with a goal, with standards, and with His will. It is clear that this work to save mankind holds great significance for both God and man. No matter how difficult the work is, no matter how great the obstacles are, no matter how weak humans are, or how deep mankind’s rebelliousness is, none of this is difficult for God. God makes Himself busy, expending His effort and managing the work He Himself wants to carry out. He is also arranging everything, and ruling all the people and the work He wants to complete—none of this has been done before. It is the first time God has used these methods and paid a great price for this major project of managing and saving mankind. While God is carrying out this work, little by little He is expressing to humans without reservation His hard work, what He has and is, His wisdom and almightiness, and every aspect of His disposition. He unreservedly reveals all of this to mankind bit by bit, revealing and expressing these things as He has never done before."
"God Himself, the Unique IX God Is the Source of Life for All Things (III)" (Part Three)
Introduction
Almighty God says, "When God created all things, He used all sorts of methods and ways to balance them, to balance the living conditions for the mountains and lakes, to balance the living conditions for the plants and all kinds of animals, birds, insects—His goal was to allow all kinds of living beings to live and multiply within the laws that He had established. All beings cannot go outside of these laws and they cannot be broken. Only within this type of basic environment can humans safely survive and multiply, generation after generation."
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Gospel Music Video | The Hymn of God’s Words “All Creation of God Must Come Under His Dominion“
I
God created all things, and so He makes all creation come under His rule, and submit to His dominion. He commands all things, controlling them in His hands. Living things, mountains, rivers and man must all come under His rule. Things in the skies and on the earth must all come under His dominion. All must submit, without any choice. This is God's decree and His authority.
II
God created all things, and so He makes all creation come under His rule, and submit to His dominion. Everything is commanded by God. He orders and ranks all things, each classed according to kind and by God's will allotted their positioning. Things in the skies and on the earth must all come under His dominion. All must submit, without any choice. This is God's decree and His authority.
III
No matter how great a thing is, it will never be able to surpass God. All things serve God-created mankind, none dare defy or make demands of God. Man, a creature of God, must also keep his duty. Whether the master or ruler of all things, however high his status, a small human under God's rule he still is. An insignificant human being, a creature of God, never will he be above God.
From “Success or Failure Depends on the Path That Man Walks” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
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| christian short film | God With Me | Christian Short Film "Escape From the Devil's Den" | God Is Here | Power of Love
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Introduction
She was a strong-minded woman. She paid a painstaking effort but always failed to get her wish, so she felt lost and was disoriented…. In her distress and helplessness, Almighty God end-time salvation came upon her. She saw the light of life and found the true goal in God's words , and her life was thus full of vitality and happiness. Unexpectedly, she was secretly watched and arrested by the CCP government because of that. To force her into selling out the church, the evil cops carried out “wheel combat” to destroy her willpower. During half a month, she was beaten up whenever dozed. In the face of the devils’ endless torture, she was mentally tensed and horrified all along…. In danger, God accompanied her by her side all the time, giving her faith, courage, and wisdom, and helping her miraculously flee the devil’s den under the evil cops’ eyes. Experiencing the CCP government’s persecution that time, she saw through the CCP devil’s evil and reactionary substance. Moreover, she personally experienced God’s wonderful deeds of ruling over everything and felt the tender care and love from God. She resolved to commit her whole life to God and perform the duty of a created being properly to repay God’s grace.
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Christian Skit | We Must Be Dreaming!
A religious-world pastor in a sheepskin coat, a kind and honest wife, and a devoted Christian with discernment who loves the truth come together in a humorous skit that explores the question, "Can one enter the kingdom of heaven through hard work?" The ironic language and the brilliant debate between the believer and the pastor leave viewers with a lot to think about …
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Gospel hymn | The Significance of Prayer
I
Prayer is one of the ways
how man cooperates with God,
to call upon His Spirit
and to be touched by God.
The more you pray,
the more you'll be touched,
enlightened and strong-minded.
People as such
can be made perfect soon.
The more you pray,
the more you'll be touched,
enlightened and strong-minded.
People as such
can be made perfect soon.
II
So those who never pray are
dead without spirit.
They can't be touched by God,
can't follow. God's work
People who never pray
lose normal spiritual life,
have broken ties with God;
He will not approve them.
People who never pray
lose normal spiritual life,
have broken ties with God;
He will not approve them.
III
The more you pray,
the more you'll be touched,
enlightened and strong-minded.
People as such
can be made perfect soon.
The more you pray,
the more you'll be touched,
enlightened and strong-minded.
People as such
can be made perfect soon.
People as such
can be made perfect soon.
People as such
can be made perfect soon.
from "Concerning the Practice of Prayer"
in The Word Appears in the Flesh
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Since Jesus departed, the disciples who followed Him, and all of the saints who were saved thanks to His name, have been desperately pining for Him and awaiting Him. All those who were saved by the grace of Jesus Christ during the Age of Grace have been longing for that joyful day during the last days, when Jesus the Savior arrives on a white cloud and appears among man. Of course, this is also the collective wish of all those who accept the name of Jesus the Savior today. Throughout the universe, all those who know of the salvation of Jesus the Savior have been desperately yearning for the sudden arrival of Jesus Christ, to fulfill the words of Jesus when on earth: “I shall arrive just as I departed.” Man believes that, following the crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus went back to heaven upon a white cloud, and took His place at the Most High’s right hand. Similarly, man conceives that Jesus shall descend, again upon a white cloud (this cloud refers to the cloud that Jesus rode upon when He returned to heaven), among those who have desperately yearned for Him for thousands of years, and that He shall bear the image and clothes of the Jews. After appearing to man, He shall bestow food upon them, and cause living water to gush forth for them, and shall live among man, full of grace and love, living and real. And so on. Yet Jesus the Savior did not do this; He did the opposite of what man conceived. He did not arrive among those who had yearned for His return, and did not appear to all men while riding upon the white cloud. He has already arrived, but man does not know Him, and remains ignorant of His arrival. Man is only aimlessly awaiting Him, unaware that He has already descended upon a white cloud (the cloud which is His Spirit, His words, and His entire disposition and all that He is), and is now among a group of overcomers that He will make during the last days.
from “The Savior Has Already Returned Upon a ‘White Cloud’” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
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A Hymn of God's Words
God's Kingdom Is Established Among Men
I
In the earth and universe,
God's wisdom can be seen.
Among all things and all people,
His wisdom yields fine fruits.
Everything looks like
the product of God's kingdom.
Mankind rests under God's heavens
as sheep in the pastures of God.
God can rest in Zion again;
man can live under God's guidance.
People manage all in the hand of God.
Wisdom and first look,
they regain them after all.
No more dusty, pure as jade,
each with a face like a saint.
For God's kingdom has been
established among all men.
II
God walks above all people,
turning His gaze to look around.
Not one thing is as of old,
not one man is as he was.
God rests upon His throne,
He lies across the universe.
All things regain their sanctity,
and God's heart is satisfied.
God can rest in Zion again;
man can live under God's guidance.
People manage all in the hand of God.
Wisdom and first look,
they regain them after all.
No more dusty, pure as jade,
each with a face like a saint.
For God's kingdom has been
established among all men.
from "The Sixteenth Utterance"
of God's Utterances to the Entire Universe
in The Word Appears in the Flesh
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Warnings of the Last Days From God | Christian Short Film "The Days of Noah Have Come"
This is a true story. Because of refusing to accept Almighty God’s end-time gospel again and again, Qingping Township of Sichuan Province suffered the overwhelming disaster twice, and disappeared from the earth forever. This is God’s warning to the end-time people, and makes people see the bitter fruits and disasters caused by their rejecting the end-time Christ. …
Look back to the people in Noah’s age. They were corrupt and licentious and remained impenitent, which aroused God’s anger. Only the eight members of Noah’s family obeyed God’s words and survived, while the rest of the men disobeyed God’s words and lost God’s keeping. Now, God has expressed his last voice of salvation to this extremely corrupt mankind! Facts prove again that for those who accepted Almighty God’s end-time gospel, they saw God’s wonderful deeds in disasters and received God’s care and keeping; for those who refused God’s end-time work, they were devoured and destroyed in disasters! Qingping Township’s disappearing twice is a testimony of the fulfillment of God’s word: Those who accept and obey God’s word and those who refuse and resist God’s word are two kinds of people with different destinations!
God Uses Animal Skins to Make Clothes for Adam and Eve
God's word：“In this image of “To Adam also and to his wife did Jehovah God make coats of skins, and clothed them,” what kind of role does God play when He is with Adam and Eve? Under what kind of role does God appear in a world with only two human beings? As the role of God? Brothers and sisters from Hong Kong, please answer. (As the role of a parent.) Brothers and sisters from South Korea, what kind of role do you think God appears as? (Head of the family.) Brothers and sisters from Taiwan, what do you think? (The role of someone in Adam and Eve’s family, the role of a family member.) Some of you think God appears as a family member of Adam and Eve, while some say God appears as the head of the family and others say as a parent. All of these are very appropriate. But what is it that I’m getting at? God created these two people and treated them as His companions. As their only family, God looked after their living and also took care of their basic necessities. Here, God appears as a parent of Adam and Eve. While God does this, man does not see how lofty God is; he does not see God’s paramount supremacy, His mysteriousness, and especially not His wrath or majesty. All he sees is God’s humbleness, His affection, His concern for man and His responsibility and care toward him. The attitude and way in which God treated Adam and Eve is akin to how human parents show concern for their own children. It’s also like how human parents love, look after, and care for their own sons and daughters—real, visible, and tangible. Instead of putting Himself in a high and mighty position, God personally used skins to make clothing for man. It doesn’t matter whether this fur coat was used to cover their modesty or to shield them from the cold. In short, this clothing used to cover man’s body was personally made by God with His own hands. Rather than creating it simply through the thought or miraculous methods as people imagine, God had legitimately done something man thinks God could not and should not do. This may be a simple thing some might not even think as worthy of mentioning, but it also allows all those who follow God but were previously full of vague ideas about Him to gain an insight into His genuineness and loveliness, and to see His faithful and humble nature. It makes insufferably arrogant people who think they are high and mighty bow their conceited heads in shame in the face of God’s genuineness and humbleness. Here, God’s genuineness and humbleness further enables people to see how lovable He is. By contrast, the immense God, lovable God, and omnipotent God in people’s hearts is so small, unappealing, and unable to withstand even a single blow. When you see this verse and hear this story, do you look down upon God because He did such a thing? Some people might, but for others it will be the complete opposite. They will think God is genuine and lovable, and it is precisely God’s genuineness and loveliness that moves them. The more they see the real side of God, the more they can appreciate the true existence of God’s love, the importance of God in their hearts, and how He stands beside them at every moment.”
from “God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself I” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
This story is about a 17-year-old Christian, who experienced the religious Persecution in Mainland China. Read the article and learn what Tao, the 17-year-old Christian, had been experiencing and how he depended on God during the trail and What was God’s deed on this teenager.
Christian testimonies | Awake in the Tribulation of Persecution —A Seventeen-year-old Christian’s True Experience of Being Persecuted
Wang Tao
I’m a Christian in The Church of Almighty God Compared with the kids at my age, I’m the luckiest, for I was uplifted and selected by God and accepted the end-time work of Almighty God with my parents at the age of eight. At that time, although I was young, I was very willing to believe in God and read God’s word. As I constantly read God’s word and listened to the fellowship of the uncles and aunties, over the years, I understood some truths. As I grew older, I saw that the brothers and sisters all pursued the truth and practiced being honest and lived in harmony, without intriguing against each other as between my classmates at school. I felt that it was my happiest and most joyful time to stay with the brothers and sisters. Later, I heard these words in Fellowship and Preaching About Life Entering In, “To believe in God and pursue the truth and follow God in Mainland China, one has to tie his head to the waist of his trousers, which is absolutely true….” At that time, I didn’t understand the meaning of those words. Through the fellowship of the brothers and sisters, I knew that believers in Almighty God would be arrested by the police because China is an atheistic country without freedom of belief. But at that time, I didn’t believe those words. I thought that I was just a child, and even if I was arrested by the “policemen,” they wouldn’t hurt me. Not until later I personally experienced the police’s arrest and affliction did I see clearly that the “policemen” in my mind are actually a gang of devils!
…….
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A Mother's Love is an Inspirational Christian Movie that examines the subject of how to raise children. "Knowledge can change your fate" and "The son becomes a dragon, the daughter becomes a phoenix" are the hopes that nearly all parents have for their children. To ensure that her daughter Jiarui is able to pass her university entrance exams and test into a good university, Xu Wenhui decides to retire from her job as a sales director to accompany Jiarui as she studies to retake her tests. Xu Wenhui's high-pressure teaching methods and the competitive stress of the college entrance examinations drive her daughter to collapse, and nearly to desperation. Xu Wenhui feels deep remorse over this: She thought that everything she did was for her daughter's benefit, but instead, she only caused her daughter pain and hurt…. This is when her old classmate Fang Xinping preaches God's gospel to her. Through reading God's word, Xu Wenhui finally understands why pursuing ideals like "Knowledge can change your fate" will only hurt herself and her child, and comes to understand how to educate her daughter in a way that expresses real love …
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Almighty God says, “God created this world, He created this mankind, and moreover He was the architect of ancient Greek culture and human civilization. Only God consoles this mankind, and only God cares for this mankind night and day. Human development and progress is inseparable from the sovereignty of God, and the history and future of mankind are inextricable from the designs of God”. from “God Presides Over the Fate of All Mankind” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“From the moment you come crying into this world, you begin to fulfill your duty. Performing your role in God’s plan and in His ordination, you start your life’s journey. Whatever your background, and whatever the journey ahead of you, no one can escape the orchestrations and arrangements of the Heaven, and no one is in control of their own destiny, for only He who rules over all things is capable of such work. Since the day man came into existence, God has ever worked thus, managing the universe, directing the rules of change for all things and the trajectory of their movement. Like all things, man is quietly and unknowingly nourished by the sweetness and rain and dew from God; like all things, man unknowingly lives beneath the orchestration of God’s hand. Man’s heart and spirit are held in the hand of God, everything of his life is beheld in the eyes of God. Regardless of whether or not you believe this, any and all things, whether living or dead, will shift, change, renew, and disappear in accordance with God’s thoughts. Such is the way in which God presides over all things”. from “God Is the Source of Man’s Life” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
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Christian testimonies ｜God’s Words Guide Me to Learn How to Educate My Children (Part 1)
I have two sons and they are one year apart. In order to raise them to be cultured, well mannered, good people who will be able to establish themselves in society and succeed, when they were two years old, I discussed finding a good kindergarten for them with my husband. After some visits, inquiries and comparison, we selected an English kindergarten because they placed importance on children’s caliber and ability, which matched my view on educating children. Although the tuition fees were a bit high, as long as the children were able to develop better and get a better education, it was worth spending a little more money.
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The Answer from God's word:
What God wants are people who follow His footsteps. No matter how wonderful and pure what you understood before is, God does not want it, and if you are unable to put aside such things, then they will be a tremendous obstacle to your entry in the future. All those who are able to follow the present light of the Holy Spirit are blessed. The people of ages past also followed the footsteps of God, yet they could not follow until today; this is the blessing of the people of the last days. Those who can follow the present work of the Holy Spirit, and who are able to follow the footsteps of God, such that they follow God wherever He leads them—these are people who are blessed by God. Those who do not follow the present work of the Holy Spirit have not entered into the work of God’s words, and no matter how much they work, or how great their suffering, or how much they run about, none of it means anything to God, and He will not commend them. Today, all those who follow the present words of God are in the stream of the Holy Spirit; those who are strangers to the words of God today are outside of the stream of the Holy Spirit, and such people are not commended by God. Service that is divorced from the present utterances of the Holy Spirit is service that is of the flesh, and of conceptions, and it is incapable of being in accordance with God’s will. If people live among religious conceptions, then they are unable to do anything that is fit for God’s will, and even though they serve God, they serve in the midst of their imagination and conceptions, and are totally incapable of serving in accordance with the will of God. Those who are unable to follow the work of the Holy Spirit do not understand the will of God, and those who do not understand the will of God cannot serve God. God wants service that is after His own heart; He does not want service that is of conceptions and the flesh. If people are incapable of following the steps of the Holy Spirit’s work, then they live amid conceptions, and the service of such people interrupts and disturbs. Such service runs contrary to God, and thus those who are unable to follow the footsteps of God are incapable of serving God; those who are unable to follow the footsteps of God most certainly oppose God, and are incapable of being compatible with God. “Following the work of the Holy Spirit” means understanding the will of God today, being able to act in accordance with the present requirements of God, being able to obey and follow the God of today, and entering in accordance with the newest utterances of God. Only this is someone who follows the work of the Holy Spirit and is in the stream of the Holy Spirit. Such people are not only capable of receiving God’s praise and seeing God, but can also know God’s disposition from the latest work of God, and can know man’s conceptions and disobedience, and man’s nature and substance, from His latest work; furthermore, they are able to gradually achieve changes in their disposition during their service. Only people such as this are those who are able to gain God, and who have genuinely found the true way. Those who are eliminated by the work of the Holy Spirit are people who are incapable of following the latest work of God, and who rebel against the latest work of God. That such people openly oppose God is because God has done new work, and because the image of God is not the same as that in their conceptions—as a result of which they openly oppose God and pass judgment upon God, leading to their loathing and rejection by God. Possessing the knowledge of the latest work of God is no easy matter, but if people can intentionally obey the work of God and seek the work of God, then they will have the chance to see God, and will have the chance to gain the newest guidance of the Holy Spirit. Those who intentionally oppose the work of God cannot receive the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit or the guidance of God; thus, whether or not people can receive the latest work of God depends on the grace of God, it depends on their pursuit, and it depends on their intentions.
from “Know the Newest Work of God and Follow the Footsteps of God” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
(Lk 24:30-32) And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and broke, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
14. The Disciples Gave Jesus the Broiled Fish to Eat
(Lk 24:36-43) And as they thus spoke, Jesus himself stoodWord of Almighty God in the middle of them, and said to them, Peace be to you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said to them, Why are you troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said to them, Have you here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them.
Let us now look at the above passages of scripture. The first passage is the account about the Lord Jesus eating the bread and opening the scriptures after His resurrection. The second is the account about the Lord Jesus eating the broiled fish. What help can these two passages bring to your knowing God’s disposition? You may imagine: What picture do these descriptions give you that the Lord Jesus ate the bread and the broiled fish? You may imagine: If the Lord Jesus stands before you and eats bread, what kind of feeling will you have? Or if the Lord Jesus eats at the same table with you, eating fish and bread with you, what kind of feeling will you have then? If you feel very close to the Lord and feel that the Lord is very amiable with man, this feeling is right. This is precisely the result the Lord Jesus wanted to achieve by eating bread and fish before all the men after His resurrection. If the Lord Jesus only talked with men after His resurrection and they could not feel His bones and His flesh but felt He was an unreachable soul, what kind of feeling would they have? Wouldn’t they be disappointed? When they were disappointed, wouldn’t they feel abandoned? Wouldn’t they feel that there was a distance between them and the Lord Jesus Christ? What negative effects would this distance have on the relationship between man and God? Man would definitely feel afraid and not dare to come close to Him. Man would take the attitude of staying at a respectful distance from Him, and thereafter man’s intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ would be cut off and be restored to the relationship between man and the God in heaven before the Age of Grace. The spiritual body that man could not touch or feel would cause man’s feeling of being close to God to disappear, and would also cause the zero-distance intimate relationship the Lord Jesus Christ established with man when in the flesh to exist no longer. Man’s feeling toward the spiritual body was only dreading, shunning, and staring without words, not daring to approach and not daring to communicate and talk with, not to speak of following, trusting, and looking up to. God hated to see that man had this kind of feeling toward Him, and He did not want to see that man shunned Him and stayed away from Him, but He only wanted man to know about Him, come close to Him, and be His dear one. If your dear ones and your children do not know you and dare not come close to you but always shun you when seeing you, and anything you do for them cannot be understood by them, what kind of feeling will you have? Won’t you feel your heart ache? Won’t you be heart-broken? Such is God’s feeling when man shuns Him. So, after His resurrection the Lord Jesus still appeared to men in the image with bones and flesh and ate and drank with men. God regards man as His dear one, and God also wants man to regard Him as the dearest. Only thus can God truly gain man and can man truly love and worship God. Can you understand now My intention of why I extract these two passages of scripture that the Lord Jesus ate the bread and opened the scriptures to men after His resurrection and that the disciples gave the Lord Jesus the broiled fish to eat?
The series of things the Lord Jesus did and the words He said after His resurrection could be said to embody His thoughtful kind intention. He was full of God’s deep affection and profound kindness toward man, full of God’s treasure and meticulous care for the intimate relationship He established with man when in the flesh, and even more full of God’s yearning and expectation for the life of eating and living with His followers when in the flesh. So God did not want man to feel there was a distance between God and man or want man to become distant from God, much less want man to feel that after the Lord Jesus’ resurrection He was no longer the Lord close to man and He was no longer with man, because He had returned to the spiritual realm and returned to the Father whom man could never see or reach. He did not want man to feel that He became different from man in position. When God saw that man wanted to follow Him but stayed at a respectful distance from Him, God’s heart was aching, because it meant that man’s heart was far away from Him, and meant that He could hardly gain man’s heart. So, if He appeared to man in the spiritual body that man could not see or touch, it would again cause a distance between man and God, and at the same time it would make man mistake that the resurrected Christ became great, no longer of the same kind with man, and could not eat at the same table with man again, and that man could never come close to God as man was sinful and filthy. In order to remove these misunderstandings of man, the Lord Jesus did the series of things He often did when in the flesh. Just as the scripture records, “he took bread, and blessed it, and broke, and gave to them,” and He opened the scriptures to them as before. All that the Lord Jesus did made everyone who saw Him feel that the Lord did not change and He was the same Lord Jesus, and that although He was crucified and went through death, yet He was resurrected, He did not leave man, He came back among men, and nothing of His changed. The Son of man standing before men was the same Lord Jesus, and they felt that His conduct and speech were so familiar, He was still full of lovingkindness, grace, and forbearance, and He was the same Lord Jesus who loved man as Himself, and the same Lord Jesus who could forgive man “seventy times seven.” He ate with men and talked with men about the scriptures as before, and more importantly He had blood and flesh as before, being touchable and visible to men. Such a Son of man made men feel close to Him, made men feel assured, and made men have the delight of regaining after losing. At the same time men assuredly and confidently began to rely on and look to this Son of man who could forgive their sins, began to pray in the name of the Lord Jesus without any hesitation, praying to receive grace and blessing from Him, receive peace and joy from Him, and receive care and keeping from Him, and began to heal the sick and drive out demons in the name of the Lord Jesus.
While the Lord Jesus worked in the flesh, most of His followers could not be completely certain about His identity and His words. When He went to the cross, His followers’ attitude toward Him was watching; from the time He was crucified to the time He was brought into the tomb, men’s attitude toward Him was disappointed, and during this, men in their heart already began to doubt and deny the words the Lord Jesus said when in the flesh; when the Lord Jesus came out of the tomb and appeared to the men one after another, most of those who saw Him with their own eyes or heard the news of His resurrection gradually changed from negating to half-believing. Not until the Lord Jesus asked Thomas to put his hand into His side and He broke the bread and ate it and ate the broiled fish before all the men after His resurrection, did men truly accept the fact that the Lord Jesus was the incarnate Christ. It can be said that the spiritual body with bones and flesh standing before men at that time made everyone feel as if awakening from a dream: This Son of man standing before their eyes is the One who exists from everlasting, He is with form and image and with bones and flesh, He has been eating and living with men for long…. At that time, His existence made men feel it so real and so wonderful, feel so pleased and happy, and also filled with deep feelings. And His reappearing made men truly see His humbleness and feel His being close to men and His being concerned about and reluctant to part from men. The short reunion made men who saw the Lord Jesus feel as if a generation had passed. Their heart was comforted which felt lost, perplexed, confused, uneasy, and worried, was full of yearning, and was numb. Men no longer doubted and was no longer disappointed, because they felt that they had hopes and reliance, and that the Son of man standing before them was their permanent rear guard and eternal strong tower and refuge.
Although the Lord Jesus resurrected, His heart and His work did not leave man. He told man by His appearing that in whatever way He existed, He would accompany man anytime and anywhere, walking with man and being with man, and supply and shepherd man anytime and anywhere, and He would be visible and touchable to man anytime and anywhere, making man no longer feel helpless. The Lord Jesus also wanted man to know that living in this world man was not isolated, man had God’s concern and God’s presence, God was man’s permanent support, God was the dear one of every man who followed Him, with Him as the support man would no longer be alone and no longer be helpless, and those who accepted Him as the sin offering would no longer be bound by sin. These works the Lord Jesus did after His resurrection were very small things in man’s eyes, but in My eyes every one of them was so meaningful and so valuable, and was so important and weighty.
Although when the Lord Jesus did the work in the flesh, it was full of hardships and sufferings, He, by appearing in the spiritual body with bones and flesh, completely and perfectly accomplished the work of redeeming mankind through being incarnated that time. He began His ministry in the way of incarnation, and ended His ministry by appearing to men in the incarnate image; He brought the Age of Grace and started the Age of Grace in the identity of Christ, carried out the work of the Age of Grace in the identity of Christ, and strengthened and guided all His followers in the Age of Grace in the identity of Christ. God’s work really can be said to be well begun and well ended, step by step and in a planned way, full of God’s wisdom, God’s almightiness, and God’s wonderful deeds, and full of God’s love and mercy. Of course, the main thread which ran through all God’s works was God’s care for man, and was God’s concern for man which He could hardly give up. In these verses, what manifested in every thing the Lord Jesus did after His resurrection were God’s unchanging expectation and concern for mankind and God’s meticulous care and affection for mankind. These have remained the same up to now. Have you seen them? When you see these, doesn’t your heart unconsciously become close to God? If you were born in that age and the Lord Jesus appeared to you after His resurrection, who was with form and image and was visible to you, and sitting before you He ate bread and fish and opened the scriptures to you and chatted with you, what kind of feeling would you have then? Wouldn’t you feel very happy? Wouldn’t you feel guilty? Wouldn’t your former misunderstanding and shunning and resistance and doubt toward God all disappear? Wouldn’t your relationship with God become somewhat normal?
Through My interpreting these few verses in the Bible, have you found any flaw in God’s disposition? Have you found the slightest mixture in God’s love? Have you seen any craftiness or evil in God’s almightiness and wisdom? Definitely not! Can you say with certainty now that God is holy? Can you say with certainty that God’s pleasure, anger, sorrow, and joy are all manifestations of God’s substance and God’s disposition? I hope that what you understand after reading these words will bring help and benefit to your pursuing to be transformed in your disposition and pursuing to fear God. I also hope that the results these words achieve in you will increase with every passing day, so that in the course of your pursuit you will become closer and closer to God and become closer and closer to the standard required by God, and will no longer dislike pursuing the truth and no longer feel it is a troublesome thing and an unnecessary thing to pursue the truth and pursue the transformation of your disposition, but because of the expression of God’s real disposition and the holy substance of God, you will be encouraged to long for light, long for justice, have the will to pursue the truth and pursue to satisfy God’s heart’s desire, and become a man gained by God and become a real man.
Today we have talked about some things God did when incarnated the first time in the Age of Grace. From them we have seen the disposition God expressed and manifested when in the flesh and seen what God has and is in various aspects. What God has and is in these various aspects seem very human, but actually none of the expressions and the manifestations in substance is separated from the disposition of God Himself. Every way and every aspect in which God incarnate expresses God’s disposition in His humanity are inseparable from the substance of God Himself. So, God’s coming to mankind in the way of incarnation is very important, the work He does in the flesh is also very important, and the disposition He expresses and the will He expresses are much more important to everyone who lives in the flesh and everyone who lives in corruption. Can you understand this? After you have understood God’s disposition and what God has and is, have you made any conclusion about how to treat God? About this question, finally I want to give you three admonitions: First, do not test God. No matter how much you understand about God and how much you know about God’s disposition, never test God. Second, do not contend with God for position. No matter what position God gives you, what work God lets you undertake, what duty God uplifts you to perform, and how much you have spent and consecrated for God, never contend with God for position. Third, do not compete against God. No matter whether you can understand or obey what God does on you, what God arranges for you, or what comes upon you from God, never compete against God. If you can do these three things, you will be rather safe, and you will not easily provoke God. That’s all for today.
July 23, 2014
A Selected Passage from “God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself (III)”
in A Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh
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Introduction
I
Deep in my heart, it is Your love. So sweet, I get close to You.
Caring about You sweetens my heart; serving You with all my mind.
Guiding my heart, it is Your love; I follow Your footsteps of love.
I shift myself according to Your eyes; love’s showing my heart’s joy.
Love’s showing my heart’s joy.
Now I live in another world, no one but You are with me.
You love me, I love You; no grief or sorrow bothers us.
No grief or sorrow bothers us. Painful memories pass away.
Painful memories pass away.
II
Follow You in love, I’m close to You; happiness fills You and me.
Clear about Your will, just obey You, unwilling to disobey You.
I will live before You more than ever, can’t be away from You again.
Thinking about and tasting Your words, I love what You have, what You are.
I love what You have, what You are.
I want You to be my life. I’ll let You take my heart.
Oh! I love You, I love You. I’ve been conquered by Your love,
so I am lucky to be made complete to satisfy Your heart.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise be to God!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise be to God!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise be to God!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise be to God!
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All God’s People Give Vent to Their Feelings
Look upon God’s kingdom, where God reigns over all.
From when creation started until the present day,
sons of God guided undergoing hardships.
Through ups and downs they went. But now in His light they dwell.
Who doesn’t weep at yesterday’s injustice?
Who doesn’t shed tears for the hard-won life today?
Who doesn’t take this chance to dedicate their hearts to God?
Who doesn’t want to give voice to their passion and experience?
Who doesn’t weep at yesterday’s injustice?
Who doesn’t shed tears for the hard-won life today?
Who doesn’t take this chance to dedicate their hearts to God?
Who doesn’t want to give voice to their passion and experience?
People give their best to God. Some regret their follies.
Some hate themselves for their pursuit yesterday.
They have all known themselves, seen Satan’s deeds, God’s wonder.
Inside their hearts lives God, for His work has been fulfilled.
Who doesn’t weep at yesterday’s injustice?
Who doesn’t shed tears for the hard-won life today?
Who doesn’t take this chance to dedicate their hearts to God?
Who doesn’t want to give voice to their passion and experience?
Who doesn’t weep at yesterday’s injustice?
Who doesn’t shed tears for the hard-won life today?
Who doesn’t take this chance to dedicate their hearts to God?
Who doesn’t want to give voice to their passion and experience?
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"How secure is your Faith and Trust in God?
...Jesus speaks of the tremendous Trust He has in God His Father and the tremendous Trust we ought to have in Him, our Good Shepherd.
...We can confidently follow the Lord wherever He leads, Trusting that nothing can keep us from God if we Trust in Him. Have you placed your life securely in God where it belongs?"
PRAYER
"Lord Jesus, You are the Good Shepherd. In You I place all my Hope and I enTrust myself to You completely. Increase my confidence in Your saving grace and in Your abiding presence."
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2018 Christian Dance Songs| "The True Love of God" (Korean Song English Subtitles)
Introduction
Today I come before God again, I see His lovely face.
Today I come before God again, I’ve left my wandering past behind.
Today I come before God again, enjoying His word fills me with joy.
Today I come before God again, my heart has so much to say.
It’s His tender words that water and nourish me to grow up.
It’s His stern words that encourage me to stand up again.
Oh God! We can praise You for You have raised us!
We can sing to You today all because of Your blessing and mercy.
Oh God, You truly love us so! You make us relish Your words every day!
Oh God, You truly love us so! You enlighten us every day!
Oh God, You truly love us so! You water and nourish Your people.
You lead us away from Satan’s influence.
Brothers and sisters! Hurry and rise! Let’s praise our God!
Let’s cherish how He’s gathered us here today.
Be free from all burdens of the flesh! Praise onto Almighty God earnestly!
Fulfill our duty with all our heart and might, show our love for God with action.
We will love You forever, almighty true God!
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