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12 Jun 2017

God's voice "God Himself, the Unique (III) God’s Authority (II)" (Part Two)


God's words in this video are from the book "Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh". 
The content of this video: 
The Six Junctures in a Human Life 
Birth: The First Juncture 
1. A New Life Is Born Out of the Creator’s Plans 
2. Why Different Human Beings Are Born Under Different Circumstances 
Growing Up: The Second Juncture 
1. The Circumstances Under Which One Grows Up Are Fixed by the Creator 
2. The Various Circumstances Under Which People Grow Up Give Rise to the Different Roles 
Independence: The Third Juncture 
1. After Becoming Independent, a Person Begins to Experience the Sovereignty of the Creator 
2. Leaving One’s Parents and Beginning in Earnest to Play One’s Role in the Theater of Life 
Marriage: The Fourth Juncture 
1. One Has No Choice About Marriage 
2. Marriage Is Born of the Fates of Two Partners

Recommendation:

The Church of Almighty God was founded by Almighty God personally

The Eastern Lightning—The Light of Salvation

Why must people who believe in God pray, gather, and read God’s word to attain new life?

God Is the Source of Life for All Things (II)


The Hymn of God's Word "The Authority and Significance of God's Incarnation"



The Authority and Significance of God's Incarnation

I
Man's stature, knowledge, love, and loyalty, obedience, and all that man sees have come from judgment by the word. Your faith stands because of His word. Through this man sees God's amazing work. There is much beyond man's grasp: great mysteries and wonders all around. And therefore many have submitted. None surpass the judgment of His word, and no darkness prevails over His authority. Man submits because of His incarnation, His authority, and judgment from His word.

II
Those who have never submitted kneel to God when confronted by His word. They bend to the judgment of His word, never scrutinizing or judging with their tongue. God's flesh appears as if He's ordinary, but His words show man His full authority. He is God Himself, His words express this. None can offend Him, He is God in flesh.

III
God incarnate delivers His words, so all with ears may hear and receive His judgment. God does not frighten man into submission by showing Himself in spirit form. Man's true disposition, though hidden deep, is revealed by this real and unique work, so man may recognize it and change. God's judgment is practical and is delivered by the word. This is the authority and significance of God's incarnation. This is the authority and significance of God's incarnation. None surpass the judgment of His word, and no darkness prevails over His authority. Man submits because of His incarnation, His authority, and judgment from His word. His incarnation, His authority, and judgment from His word.

from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs

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God Is an Everlasting God | "God Is the Beginning and the End" 

11 Jun 2017

On the First Day, the Day and Night of Mankind Are Born and Stand Fast Thanks to the Authority of God


“Let us look at the first passage: “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day” (Gen 1:3-5). This passage describes God’s first act at the beginning of creation, and the first day that God passed in which there was an evening and a morning. But it was an extraordinary day: God began to prepare the light for all things, and, furthermore, divided the light from the darkness. On this day, God began to speak, and His words and authority existed side-by-side. His authority began to show forth among all things, and His power spread among all things as a result of His words. From this day onward, all things were formed and stood fast because of the words of God, the authority of God, and the power of God, and they began to function thanks to the words of God, the authority of God, and the power of God. When God said the words “Let there be light,” so there was light. God did not embark upon any enterprise; the light had appeared as a result of His words. This was the light that God called day, and which man still depends on for his existence today. By God’s command, its substance and value have never changed, and it has never disappeared. Its existence shows forth the authority and power of God, and proclaims the existence of the Creator, and it confirms, over and over, the identity and status of the Creator. It is not intangible, or illusory, but is a real light that can be seen by man. From that time onward, in this empty world in which “the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep,” there was produced the first material thing. This thing came from the words of the mouth of God, and appeared in the first act of the creation of all things because of the authority and utterances of God. Soon after, God ordered the light and the darkness to separate…. Everything changed and was completed because of the words of God…. God called this light “Day,” and the darkness He called “Night.” From that time, the first evening and the first morning were produced in the world God intended to create, and God said that this was the first day. This day was the first day of the Creator’s creation of all things, and was the beginning of the creation of all things, and was the first time that the authority and power of the Creator had been shown forth in this world that He had created.”


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“As the words of God were spoken, the land became lush and green, all sorts of herbs that could be enjoyed by man sprang forth and broke from the ground, and the mountains and plains became thickly populated by trees and forests…. This barren world, in which there had not been any trace of life, was rapidly covered by a profusion of grass, herbs and trees and overflowing with greenery…. ”

Gospel Movie "The City Will be Overthrown"



Cheng Huize is a co-worker at a house church in China. She has believed in the Lord for many years, and has worked for the Lord with unwavering enthusiasm. She takes on a lot of responsibilities for the church, and she has compassion for her brothers and sisters. As her church grew more and more desolate with each passing day, the wickedness in her church were more and more frequent. The pastor energetically proposed that the church should start a factory, and led the followers down the path to wealth, and also enticed them to join the Three-Self Church so they could rely on help from the Chinese government. This caused a fierce debate to unfold. The pastor stubbornly acted in his own individual interests and did not hesitate to divide the church, leading the believers down the wrong path. Cheng Huize and a few others held fast to the way of the Lord, and fiercely opposed the church becoming a factory and joining the Three-Self Church. Although the elders at the church expressed that they were opposed to this, they only did so to protect their own status and livelihood. Even though the pastor and elders were all harboring secrets in their hearts, locked in constant strife for their own fame and profit, fighting out of envy, when they saw that most of the good sheep and leading sheep in the church had investigated the Eastern Lightning and turned to Almighty God one by one, they joined together with the Chinese government and fought to repress the Eastern Lightning, blocking the believers from coming to study the Eastern Lightning, urging the followers to report them to the police. They set an example by reporting and arresting the brothers and sisters preaching the kingdom gospel. Cheng Huize and others saw that the pastor and the elders had deviated from the Lord's way a long time ago, and the church had already lost the work of the Holy Spirit and had degenerated into a religious place like Babylon the Great, cursed and reviled by the Lord. Because of this, they decided to investigate the Eastern Lightning to search for the manifestation and work of God. After intense debates with the preachers from the Church of Almighty God, Cheng Huize and the others finally began to see clearly that the leaders of the religious world opposed God in substance, and the reason why the religious world declined, day by day drawing nearer to its destruction: The pastors and elders of the religious world, although they could explain the Bible and hold the Bible in high esteem, they only do so for status and livelihood. They are confusing and ensnaring people. They don't hold God in high regard or bear witness for Him, they don't understand God at all. In the last days, when the incarnate Almighty God does His work, they oppose Him without the slightest scruple, they condemn God's work, even to the point where they unite with the Chinese government to arrest believers. This is enough to prove that they possess a satanic nature that hates the truth and hates God. They are modern-day Pharisees, impersonating virtuous people, antichrists who deny that God becomes flesh. The religious world has already completely become a stronghold for antichrists who are enemies of God. They will absolutely meet with God's curses and punishments. Cheng Huize and others were eventually able to differentiate the antichrist nature of the leaders of the religious world, and guided the believers to break away from the confusion and control of the Pharisees, to escape without hesitation from Babylon, the city that will be overthrown….

Since God is righteous, why is it that the wicked are prosperous and live a comfortable life while the good are bullied and oppressed, and suffer hardships and afflictions?


Bible Reference:

“There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from there. Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house: For I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment” (Luke 16:19-28).

The answer from God’s word:

“Whoever receives blessings in this age will surely suffer in eternity. Whoever suffers in this age will surely receive blessings in eternity. This is My ordination and no one can change it. No one can change My heart. …”

from “The Ninety-seventh Utterance” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

“How should one understand, how should one comprehend the righteous disposition of God? How does one come to know this righteousness? The righteous man receives God’s blessing, and the evil person meets the curses of God. Such is the righteousness of God, right? Is this how it is? I will ask you, if a righteous person has not received God’s blessing, and cannot obtain God’s blessing, and if God does not bless him, and an evil person on the contrary is wealthy in family property, has numerous children, and everything goes smoothly and successfully, is this the righteousness of God? Yes! How do we explain it? There is a saying that God rewards the good and punishes the evil, and that each person receives retribution according to his or her actions. Is this saying correct? Now there is a thing like this: A person who worships God is killed or is cursed by God, or God has never blessed him or paid attention to him, and further worship is ignored. Then there is an evil person whom God has neither blessed nor punished, but he is wealthy in family property, has numerous children, and everything goes smoothly and successfully. Some people say: ‘God is not righteous. We worship Him, yet we have not received His blessing. The evil person, however, who has not worshipped Him but resisted Him, is better than us in everything, higher than we are. God is not righteous!’ What does this thing allow you to see? Of the two examples that I just gave, which one illustrates God’s righteousness? Some people say: ‘They are both God’s righteousness!’ Why would they say this? The understanding that people have of the disposition of God is erroneous. All of man’s knowing is within his thinking and point of view, from a standpoint of trade, or from viewpoint of good and evil or right and wrong, or from the point of view of logic. If you go about knowing God while holding these viewpoints, there will be no way to be compatible with God, and you will still resist God, and make complaint. There was a beggar that appeared to be a fool. He knew only to worship God, but God just ignored him, God did not bless him. Perhaps you are thinking, ‘Even if God will not bless him in the world to come, certainly God will bless him in eternity and reward him ten thousand times over. Would that not make God righteous? That rich man, he enjoys hundredfold blessings, and in the ever-after is extinguished. Is this not also the righteousness of God?’ … According to human conceptions, the good is rewarded and the evil is punished, evil persons must not receive reward, and those who do no evil should all receive reward, and be blessed, because God is righteous. It seems that people should receive what they deserve, and that God is said to be righteous only when people receive what is due to them. What if someone does not get his or her share? Should you then say that God is not righteous? … Knowledge of God is not saying this or that about God based on how humans view things. There is no truth in the way humans view things. You must see what the essence of God is, what the disposition of God is. People should not see the essence of God based on the external phenomena of what God has done or has dealt with. The human race itself has been corrupted by Satan. It essentially does not know what its nature is, or what the corrupted human race is before God, and how it should be dealt with. Consider Job, a righteous man blessed by God. This is God’s righteousness. Job undergoes trials, and Satan makes a wager with Jehovah: Why does Job worship You? It is because You give him such reward. If You take all of that away from him, will he still worship You? Jehovah God said, ‘As long as you don’t take his life, you may do whatever you please.’ Satan went to Job and later Job encountered trials. Everything he had was stripped away, and his children died. Is the righteous disposition of God contained in Job’s trials? Yes! Where? You can’t explain it, right? Even if you are a righteous person, God still has a right to try you, and allow you to become a witness for God. The disposition of God is righteous. He treats everyone equally, which does not mean that because the righteous person can endure trials that he does not need to undergo them, that the righteous person needs to be protected. It is not like this. He has the right to try you. This is an expression of His righteous disposition. Finally, after Job underwent trials and bore witness for Jehovah, He blessed him even more than before, blessing him doubly and better. Furthermore, Jehovah appeared before him, and spoke to him in the wind, as if Job saw Him face to face. This is a blessing given to him, yes? This is God’s righteousness. What if it is the opposite? Jehovah saw Job accepting these trials, bearing witness for Him in Satan’s presence, and shaming Satan. But Jehovah turned and left ignoring him. Job did not attain blessing afterward. Is God’s righteousness in this? Regardless of whether Job was blessed after the trials or not, or whether Jehovah appeared before him or not, all of this contains God’s good pleasure. Appearing before him is God’s righteousness, and not appearing before him is also God’s righteousness. As part of the creation, on what basis do you make demands on God? Man is not qualified to make demands on God. To make a demand of God is the most unwise thing. God will do what He wants, and God has a right not to do it this way. He has a right to handle these things on His own. His own disposition is righteous. Righteousness is by no means impartial and reasonable, cutting one in two, giving you as much work as you can do or paying you according to how much work you have done. This is not God’s righteousness. You believe that each person does his share, with distribution according to work done, and that each person receives his due according to what he puts out; none other than this is righteousness. … The essence of God is righteousness. Though it is not easy to understand what God does, all that He does is righteous. It is simply that people do not understand, no mistake about that. You see that when God gave Peter to Satan, how Peter responded: ‘Man is unable to penetrate what You do, but all of what You do contains Your good pleasure. There is righteousness in all of it. How can I not utter praise for Your wise deeds?’ … Everything that God does is righteous. Though you are unable to discover it, you should not make judgment as you please. If it appears to you as irrational, or if you have a conception about it, and then say God is not righteous, this is the most unwise. Just now I raised a few negative examples for you to differentiate, and you don’t dare to speak. You see that Peter found some things incomprehensible, yet he was sure that God’s wisdom was present here, that God’s good pleasure was in it all.”

from “How to Understand the Righteous Disposition of God” in Records of Christ’s Talks With Leaders and Workers of the Church