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26 Jun 2017

God’s Disposition Is Vivid and Holy



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Real and vivid is God's disposition.
His thoughts transform,
attitude shifts,
as He responds to changes of things,
of the environment.
Different facets of God's substance
will be revealed
as He changes His thoughts.
A lion's wrath. Mother's mercy.
How vividly God inclines.
His righteous disposition,
which is His wrath and mercy,
can't be questioned,
twisted, offended,
or changed by anyone.
It's shown in all things,
at any time, any place.
In each corner of nature,
in every minute and every second,
God shows His righteous disposition,
unlimited by space or time.
The wrath of God is free from flaw;
God's mercy, no creature bears.
His mercy, holy and pure.
Experience and thought
prove it's true.
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God's fierce wrath is a response
to the evil people do;
His wrath is pure.
God's heart is moved and changed
when He sees people repent to Him.
Such change and mercy is flawless,
His tolerance unblemished and pure.
Though wrath must flow,
so mercy too,
in answer to repentant hearts
and different conduct.
All He reveals and expresses
are pure and without blemish.
His substance is unique from
all the rest of His creation.
No matter what God does,
His deeds are flawless,
and His thoughts and decisions
pure like Himself.
As God has decided,
so will He carry on
and complete what He plans.
Everything He does
is precise and faultless,
for its source is flawless and pure.
In each corner of nature,
in every minute and every second,
God shows His righteous disposition,
unlimited by space or time.
The wrath of God is free from flaw;
God's mercy, no creature bears.
His mercy, holy and pure.
Experience and thought
prove it's true.
from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs



Where did man actually come from?



Where did man actually come from? Do you understand this question?

Storyline:

Xiao Zhen used to be a pure, kind-hearted Christian, who always treated her friends sincerely. However, when it was to their benefit, her former friends became her enemies. After suffering this tragedy, Xiao Zhen was forced to abandon her true heart and her formal principles. She began to betray her own good conscience and good spirit, and wallowed in the mire of the evil world. … As she fell from grace and walked a path of depravity, she was trampled by the world and became riddled with scars and bruises. She had reached a dead end, and at her point of despair when she had given up all hope, Almighty God's sincere call finally awakened Xiao Zhen's heart and soul….

God’s work of the Age of Grace lasted two thousand years. How many years will it take for God’s work of the last days to end the old age and open up the new heaven and new earth?


The answer from God’s word:

“Although now is already the last days, know that the ‘last days’ is but a name for an age: Just like the Age of Law and the Age of Grace, it refers to an age, and it indicates an entire age, rather than the final few years or months. Yet the last days are quite unlike the Age of Grace and the Age of Law. The work of the last days is not carried out in Israel, but among the Gentiles; it is the conquest before My throne of all nations and peoples outside of Israel, so that My glory throughout the universe can fill the entire cosmos. It is so that I can gain greater glory, so that all creatures on earth can pass on My glory to every nation, forever down the generations, and all creatures in heaven and on earth can see all the glory that I have gained on earth. The work carried out during the last days is the work of conquest. It is not the guidance of the lives of all the people on earth, but the conclusion of mankind’s imperishable, millennia-long life of suffering on earth. As a consequence, the work of the last days cannot be like the several thousand years of work in Israel, nor like the decade of work in Judea which then continued for several thousand years until the second incarnation of God. The people of the last days encounter only the reappearance of the Redeemer in the flesh, and they receive the personal work and words of God. It will not be two thousand years before the last days come to an end; they are brief, like the time when Jesus carried out the work of the Age of Grace in Judea. This is because the last days are the conclusion of the entire era. They are the completion and the ending of God’s six-thousand-year management plan, and they conclude mankind’s life journey of suffering. They do not take the whole of mankind into a new age or allow mankind’s life to continue. That would hold no significance for My management plan or the existence of man. If mankind carried on like this, then sooner or later they would be entirely devoured by the devil, and those souls that belong to Me would ultimately be forfeited by its hands. My work lasts for but six thousand years, and I promised that the evil one’s control over the whole of mankind would also be for no more than six thousand years. And so, the time is up. I will neither continue nor delay any longer: During the last days I will vanquish Satan, I will take back all My glory, and I will reclaim all the souls that belong to Me on earth so that these distressed souls may escape from the sea of suffering, and thus will be concluded My entire work on earth.”

from “None Who Are of the Flesh Can Escape the Day of Wrath” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

God says,"When you are weary and when you begin to feel the desolation of this world,do not be perplexed,do not cry."



Almighty God says, "God created this world and brought man, a living being unto which He bestowed life, into it. In turn, man came to have parents and kin and was no longer alone. Ever since man first laid eyes on this material world, he was destined to exist within the ordination of God. It is the breath of life from God that supports each living being throughout his growth into adulthood. During this process, none believe that man lives and grows up under the care of God. Rather, they hold that man grows up under the love and care of his parents, and that his growth is governed by the instinct of life. This is because man knows not who bestowed life or from whence it came, much less how the instinct of life creates miracles. Man knows only that food is the basis of the continuation of life, that perseverance is the source of existence of life, and that the belief in his mind is the wealth of his survival. Man does not feel the grace and provision from God. Man then squanders the life bestowed upon him by God. … Not one man whom God looks upon day and night takes the initiative to worship Him. God continues to work as He has planned on man for whom He holds no expectations. He does so in the hope that one day, man will awaken from his dream and suddenly comprehend the value and purpose of life, understand the cost at which God has given man everything, and know how fervently God longs for man to turn back to Him. None have ever considered the secrets to the origin and continuation of man’s life. And yet, only God who understands all of this silently endures the hurt and blows from man, who has received everything from God but is not thankful. Man takes for granted all that life brings, and “as a matter of course,” God is betrayed, forgotten, and extorted by man. Is the plan of God truly of such importance? Is man, the living being that came from the hand of God, truly of such importance? The plan of God is of absolute importance; however, the living being created by the hand of God exists for His plan. Therefore, God cannot lay waste to His plan out of hatred for this mankind. It is for the sake of His plan and the breath He exhaled that God endures all torment, not for the flesh of man but for the life of man. He wishes to take back not the flesh of man but the life He breathed out. This is His plan."



Almighty God says, "Knowledge of God’s disposition and what He has and is can have a positive impact on humans."



lmighty 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."

from "Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh"

“Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not” (Luke 12:40).



When the Lord comes again, will He descend with the clouds, or will He come as secretly as a thief? How will you face the second coming of the Lord? Will you be too afraid of being misled by a false Christ that you will refuse to seek Him out, or will you act the part of the wise virgin and pay careful attention to God's voice? How should we "watch and wait" so that we will be able to welcome the Lord when He comes? Watch this short video!

Storyline:

Yang Hou'en is a pastor at a house church in China. With his father Yang Shoudao, they have awaited the Lord Jesus to descend from the clouds and take them up into the kingdom of heaven. For this, they diligently worked for the Lord, held fast to His name, and believed that anyone who is not the Lord Jesus descending from the clouds is a false Christ. And so, when they heard the news of the Lord's second coming, they did not listen to it or accept it. They thought that it was best to watch and wait…. While they waited passively, Yang Hou'en's cousin Li Jiayin accepted the work of Almighty God in the last days, and spread the gospel to them. After some intense discussions, Yang Hou'en finally understood the true meaning of "watch and wait," and could see that Almighty God's words were the truth, the way, the life, and these were the voice of the Lord, and Almighty God was the second coming of the Lord Jesus that they had waited for so many years….

The Hymn of God's Word "Song of the Overcomers"



God’s kingdom is expanding in humanity’s midst.

It is forming in humanity’s midst.

It is standing up in humanity’s midst.

There is not any force that can destroy God’s kingdom.

People in the kingdom of today,

which of you is not one of the human race,

or lies outside the human condition?

When God’s new starting point is announced to the multitude,

how will humanity react?

You’ve seen with your own eyes the state of mankind.

Do you still harbor hopes of enduring forever in this world?



God is now walking in the midst of His people.

He lives in the midst of His people.

Blessed are those who bear genuine love towards God today.

Blessed are those who submit to God.

They will surely stay in His kingdom.

Blessed are those who have knowledge of God.

They’ll surely wield power in His kingdom.

Blessed are those who seek after God.

They’ll surely escape from Satan’s bonds and enjoy blessing in God.

Blessed are those who can forsake themselves.

They will surely enter into God’s possession.

They will inherit the bounty in God’s kingdom.



God will commemorate those who run around for His sake.

God will joyfully embrace those who go to expense for His sake.

God will give enjoyment to those who make offering to Him.

God will bless those who find enjoyment in God’s words.

They’ll surely be the pillars that hold up the ridgepole in His kingdom.

They’ll surely have matchless bounty in His house, and no one can compare with them.



Have you ever accepted the blessings that you were given?

Have you ever sought the promises of God that you were made?

You will surely, with the guidance of His light,

break through the stranglehold of the forces of darkness.

You’ll surely not, in the midst of darkness, lose the light guiding you.

You’ll surely be the master of all creation.

You’ll surely be an overcomer before Satan.

You will surely stand up amid the myriad throngs

to bear witness to His victory at the downfall of the great red dragon.

You will surely be strong and steady in the land of Sinim.

You’ll inherit the blessing that comes from God for the sufferings you endure,

and will surely illuminate all in the universe with His glory.

from “The Nineteenth Utterance” of God’s Utterance to the Entire Universe

in The Word Appears in the Flesh