If Almighty God’s work of the last days is the true way, why do those elders, pastors, and priests not accept it?

The answer from God’s word:

“Do you wish to know the root of why the Pharisees opposed Jesus? Do you wish to know the substance of the Pharisees? They were full of fantasies about the Messiah. What’s more, they believed only that the Messiah would come, yet did not seek the truth of life. And so, even today they still await the Messiah, for they have no knowledge of the way of life, and do not know what the way of truth is. How, say you, could such foolish, stubborn and ignorant people gain God’s blessing? How could they behold the Messiah? They opposed Jesus because they did not know the direction of the Holy Spirit’s work, because they did not know the way of truth spoken by Jesus, and, furthermore, because they did not understand the Messiah. And since they had never seen the Messiah, and had never been in the company of the Messiah, they made the mistake of paying empty tribute to the name of the Messiah while opposing the substance of the Messiah by any means. These Pharisees in substance were stubborn, arrogant, and did not obey the truth. The principle of their belief in God is: No matter how profound Your preaching, no matter how high Your authority, You are not Christ unless You are called the Messiah. Are these views not preposterous and ridiculous? I ask you again: Is it not extremely easy for you to commit the mistakes of the earliest Pharisees, given that you have not the slightest understanding of Jesus? Are you able to discern the way of truth? Can you truly guarantee that you will not oppose Christ? Are you able to follow the work of the Holy Spirit? If you do not know whether you will oppose Christ, then I say that you are already living on the brink of death. Those who did not know the Messiah were all capable of opposing Jesus, of rejecting Jesus, of slandering Him. People who do not understand Jesus are all capable of denying Him, and reviling Him. Moreover, they are capable of seeing the return of Jesus as the deceit of Satan, and more people shall condemn Jesus returning to flesh. Does not all of this make you afraid? What you face shall be blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, the ruination of the words of the Holy Spirit to the churches, and the spurning of all that is expressed by Jesus. What can you gain from Jesus if you are so befuddled? How can you understand the work of Jesus when He returns to flesh on a white cloud, if you obstinately refuse to realize your errors? I tell you this: People who do not accept the truth, yet blindly await the arrival of Jesus upon white clouds, will surely blaspheme against the Holy Spirit, and they are the race that shall be destroyed. You merely wish for the grace of Jesus, and merely want to enjoy the blissful realm of heaven, yet you have never obeyed the words spoken by Jesus, and have never received the truth expressed by Jesus when He returns to flesh. What will you hold up in exchange for the fact of Jesus’ return upon a white cloud? Is it the sincerity in which you repeatedly commit sins, and then confess them, over and over? What will you offer in sacrifice to Jesus who returns upon a white cloud? Is it the years of work with which you exalt yourselves? What will you hold up to make the returned Jesus trust you? Is it that arrogant nature of yours, which does not obey any truth?”

from “When You Behold the Spiritual Body of Jesus Will Be When God Has Made Anew Heaven and Earth” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

“It is precisely because facts do not allow man to give free rein to his imagination, and, moreover, cannot be easily refuted by man, and the conceptions and imaginings of man do not brook the existence of facts, and, furthermore, because man does not give thought to the correctness and veracity of facts, and merely single-mindedly lets loose his conceptions, and employs his own imagination, that the conceptions and imaginings of man have become the enemy of the work of today, work which is at odds with the conceptions of man. This can only be said to be the fault of the conceptions of man, and cannot be said to be a fault of the work of God.”

from “Knowing the Three Stages of God’s Work Is the Path to Knowing God” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

“Only those who know and appreciate the three stages of work can fully and accurately know God. At the very least, they will not define God as the God of the Israelites, or the Jews, and will not see Him as a God who will be forever nailed to the cross for the sake of man. If you only come to know God from one stage of His work, then your knowledge is too, too little. Your knowledge is but a drop in the ocean. If not, why would many of the religious old guard nail God to the cross alive? Is it not because man confines God within certain parameters? Do many people not oppose God and obstruct the work of the Holy Spirit because they do not know the varied and diverse work of God, and, furthermore, because they possess but a smidgeon of knowledge and doctrine with which to measure the work of the Holy Spirit? Though the experiences of such people are superficial, they are arrogant and indulgent in nature, and they regard the work of the Holy Spirit with contempt, ignore the disciplines of the Holy Spirit and, moreover, use their trivial old arguments to ‘confirm’ the work of the Holy Spirit. They also put on an act, and are wholly convinced of their own learning and erudition, and that they are able to travel across the world. Are such people not those who are despised and rejected by the Holy Spirit, and will they not be eliminated by the new age? Are not those who come before God and openly oppose Him myopic little people, who are merely trying to show how clever they are? With but a meager knowledge of the Bible, they try to straddle the world’s ‘academia,’ with but a superficial doctrine to teach people, they try to reverse the work of the Holy Spirit, and attempt to make it revolve around their own thought process, and short-sighted as they are, they try to behold in one glance 6,000 years of God’s work. Do these people have any reason to speak of? In fact, the greater people’s knowledge of God, the slower they are to judge His work. Furthermore, they only talk a little of their knowledge of God’s work today, but they are not rash in their judgments. The less people know of God, the more arrogant and overconfident they are, and the more wantonly they proclaim God’s being—yet they only talk of theory, and offer no real evidence. Such people are of no value whatsoever. Those who see the work of the Holy Spirit as a game are frivolous! Those who are not cautious when they encounter the new work of the Holy Spirit, who run their mouths off, are quick to judge, who give free rein to their natural instinct to deny the rightness of the Holy Spirit’s work, and also insult and blaspheme it—are such disrespectful people not ignorant of the Holy Spirit’s work? Are they not, furthermore, the ones of arrogance, inherently proud and ungovernable? Even if a day comes when such people accept the new work of the Holy Spirit, still God will not tolerate of them. Not only do they look down upon those who work for God, but also blaspheme against God Himself. Such foolhardy people will not be forgiven, either in this age or the age to come and they shall forever perish in hell! Such disrespectful, indulgent people are pretending to believe in God, and the more they do so, the more likely they are to offend God’s administrative decrees. Do not all those arrogant ones who are innately unbridled, and have never obeyed anyone, all walk upon this path? Do they not oppose God day after day, He who is always new and never old? …

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… in His work that is always new and never old, God is constantly expressing an aspect of His disposition that has never before been expressed to man, and is always revealing to man His new work, and His new being, and even though the religious old guard does its utmost to resist this, and openly opposes it, God always does the new work that He intends to do. His work is always changing, and because of this, it is always encountering the opposition of man. So, too, is His disposition always changing, as are the age and recipients of His work. Furthermore, He is always doing work that has never been done before, even carrying out work that appears to man to be in contradiction to the work done before, to run counter to it. Man is only able to accept one kind of work, or one way of practice. It is difficult for man to accept work, or ways of practice, that are at odds with them, or higher than them—but the Holy Spirit is always doing new work, and so there appear group after group of religious experts that oppose the new work of God. These people have become ‘experts’ precisely because man has no knowledge of how God is always new and never old, and has no knowledge of the principles of God’s work, and, what’s more, has no knowledge of the many ways in which God saves man. As such, man is utterly unable to tell if it is work that comes from the Holy Spirit, and if it is the work of God Himself. Many people cling to an attitude in which, if it corresponds with the words that came before, then they accept it, and if there are differences with the work of before, then they oppose and reject it. Today, do you all not abide by such principles? … Know that you oppose God’s work, or use your own conceptions to measure the work of today, because you do not know the principles of God’s work, and because you do not take the work of the Holy Spirit seriously enough. Your opposition to God and obstruction of the work of the Holy Spirit is caused by your conceptions and inherent arrogance. It is not because God’s work is wrong, but because you are naturally too disobedient. After finding their belief in God, some people can’t even say with certainty where man came from, yet they dare to make public speeches appraising the rights and wrongs of the Holy Spirit’s work. And they even lecture the apostles who have the Holy Spirit’s new work, passing comment and speaking out of turn; their humanity is too low, and there is not the slightest sense in them. Will the day not come when such people are rejected by the work of the Holy Spirit, and burned by the fires of hell? They do not know the work of God, but instead criticize His work, and also try to instruct God how to work. How can such unreasonable people know God?”

from “Knowing the Three Stages of God’s Work Is the Path to Knowing God” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

Do you know the real meaning of rapture?

https://www.holyspiritspeaks.org/videos/awakening-from-the-dream-1/

Hundreds of millions of the Lord Jesus' followers all wait to be raptured into the kingdom of heaven, but do you know where the kingdom of heaven actually is? Do you know the real meaning of rapture? This brilliant movie clip of Awaking From the Dream, will uncover the mysteries of the rapture for you!

Storyline:

Like hundreds of millions of followers of the Lord Jesus, Yu Fan focused on studying the Holy Bible, cast everything aside to pay the price of suffering for the Lord, and sought to serve the Lord with enthusiasm. She thought that by seeking the Lord this way, when the Lord returns she would definitely be raptured into the heavenly kingdom. When Yu Fan, in order to realize this beautiful dream, enthusiastically preached and worked for the Lord, her fellow workers raised a difficult question: Although the sins of us believers have been forgiven, although we cast everything aside and pay the price of suffering for the Lord, we still often reveal our corruption, we still sin and oppose the Lord. God is holy, so how can corrupt people like us ever be worthy of His praise? Are we qualified to enter the kingdom of heaven? This didn't inspire Yu Fan to reflect at all, not until she had a discussion with preachers from the Church of Almighty God. Then, Yu Fan was able to understand the mysteries of rapture. She finally was able to awake from her dream, and firmly believed that Almighty God was her long-awaited Savior, the Lord Jesus.

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“When God arose from His bed, the first thought that He had was this: to create a living person, a real, living human—someone to live with and be His constant companion. This person could listen to Him, and God could confide in and speak with him. Then, for the first time, God grabbed a handful of dirt and used it to create the very first living person that He had imagined, and then gave this living creature a name—Adam. Once God had gained this living and breathing person, how did He feel? For the first time, He felt the joy of having a loved one, a companion. He also felt for the first time the responsibility of being a father and the concern that comes along with it. This living and breathing person brought God happiness and joy; He felt comforted for the first time. This was the first thing God had ever done that was not accomplished with His thoughts or even words, but was done with His own two hands.”

From “God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself III”

Believing in God Should Focus on Actual Practice, Not Religious Rituals

https://www.holyspiritspeaks.org/videos/word-believing-in-god/

Almighty God says, "Some men have a penchant for drawing attention to themselves. In the presence of his brothers and sisters, he says he is indebted to God, but behind their backs, he does not practice the truth and does entirely otherwise. Is this not as those religious Pharisees? A man who truly loves God and has the truth is one who is loyal to God, but does not outwardly reveal so. He is willing to practice the truth when matters arise and does not speak or act in a manner going against his conscience. He demonstrates wisdom when matters arise and is principled in his deeds, no matter the circumstances. A man such as this is one who truly serves"

Principles for Behavior Toward Your Wife or Husband and Children

1. If your wife or husband and children all believe in God, you should allow yourselves to be governed by God’s words and the truth, and leave yourselves in the charge of Christ. You should learn how to support and obey each other.

2. If your wife or husband and children are not believers, but do not oppose your belief, if it is according to the principles for spreading the gospel, you should often testify to God’s love and bring them before God.

3. You should take an enlightened approach to wives, husbands, or children who oppose the belief in God and hate the truth. You should not force the wicked to believe in God and enter the church.

4. For family members who are not believers, you should choose whether to stay with or leave them based on whether they support your belief or are against it, and according to their degree of opposition and harm.

Relevant Words of God:

When they bring God into their real lives, God primarily requires that people worship God, pursue the knowledge of God, and perform the duty of a creature of God amid normal humanity. … They are not asked to abide by doctrine. Each should act according to their individual stature: If your husband does not believe, treat him as an unbeliever, and if he believes, treat him as a believer. Focus not on love and patience, but on wisdom.

from “Practice (2)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

Those who take their utterly unbelieving children and relatives into church are too selfish and show their kindness. These people stress only love, with no regard as to whether they believe or whether it is God’s will. Some bring their wives before God, or bring their parents before God, and regardless of whether the Holy Spirit agrees or carries out His work, they blindly “adopt talented people” for God. What benefit can possibly be gained from extending this kindness toward these people who do not believe? Even if these unbelievers who are without the presence of the Holy Spirit struggle to follow God, they still cannot be saved as one believes they can. Those who receive salvation are not actually that easy to obtain. Those who have not undergone the Holy Spirit’s work and trials and have not been perfected by God incarnate cannot be completed at all. Therefore, these people lack the Holy Spirit’s presence from the moment they begin to nominally follow God. According to their conditions and actual states, they simply cannot be made complete. So, the Holy Spirit does not decide to expend much energy upon them, nor does He provide any enlightenment or guide them in any way; He merely allows them to follow along and ultimately reveals their outcome—this is enough.

from “God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

Maintain a stable temperament, do not let your passions run hot and cold; you must have a heart that always holds Me in reverence. What you do in front of Me or behind My back must always be in accordance with My wishes. Do not be lenient to anyone on My behalf, be it your husband or family member; it is unacceptable, no matter how good they are. You must take action based on the truth. If you love Me, I will grant you great blessings. I will tolerate none who resist. Love those whom I love, and hate those whom I hate.

from “The Twenty-ninth Utterance” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

The Man’s Fellowship:

When you bring God into your real life, the first thing is to bring God into your home life. In your home life, if people used to be in charge of your family, then you must remove them from their position. You must dispel all idols, make God’s words the master of your home, and allow Christ to rule. Husband and wife, father and son, mother and daughter—they must all read and commune God’s words together. If there are any problems or disagreements, these can be resolved through prayer, reading the words of God, and communing the truth. Do not do as you used to, listening to someone. People shouldn’t do as other people say, they should magnify Christ, and allow the words of Christ to rule their family, allow the words of God to take charge in their home. Is this not bringing God’s words into your real life? And so, who really wields power in your home life? Is it you, your husband (or wife), or is it your children, or parents? Do you dare to write the words “Christ Is the Lord of My Home” in your house? Do you dare to say to your husband (or wife), children, and parents, “Our family worships God. God’s words have begun to wield power, and from now onward, regardless of what problems we have, we shall solve them through prayer, and eating and drinking the words of God”? If you do it, and bring a complete end to a life of being ruled and reigned by the flesh, then this will be the first step in bringing God into your real life.

from “Preaching About God’s Word ‘You Ought to Live for the Truth Since You Believe in God’” in Fellowship and Preaching About Life Entry (VI)

See how there are some brothers and sisters who are persecuted by their spouse, and who divorce them as a result, saying, “I’d rather divorce you, I wish to believe in God and serve God. I’d rather our family be broken apart, I wish to walk the path of belief in God.” Such people possess resolve—but not everyone has this resolve. How many do? Only a few, yes? But there is something I must tell you: If a husband and wife are both believers, and one of them has problems with their belief, then it is not OK for you to divorce them. If you both believe in God and acknowledge that there is a God, then you should use love to help each other. If, in a family, the unbelieving party is too hard on the believing party, if they oppress you and don’t let you walk this path, then they become the enemy, and there’s no point in you spending any more time with them. In your heart, you long for the light, and wish to leave behind the darkness and follow God. They, however, are of Satan, and their connection with you is merely an emotional one. And if you betray God simply because of this emotional connection, is this not a great loss for you? It is fair to say that there’s nothing lovable about those who belong to Satan. There are some who feel that they are really lovable—but that’s just an emotional need, and it has no meaning. Is it not hollow? You have suffered a little emotional hardship, but so what? You have gained God, and the depths of your heart have been brought comfort. Which of these, then, is more important?

from “Nothing Is More Beneficial to a Person’s Life Than Experiencing the Pain of Trials” in Fellowship and Preaching About Life Entry (II)

… in their home environment, some are enshackled by a husband or wife who doesn’t believe in God, or else are enshackled by their environment. This is enshacklement, it means to be limited. When you believe in God and try to pursue the truth, those who do not believe are an enshacklement to you: They oppose you, pass judgment on you, and limit you, and so you are unable to believe in God freely and properly. This is what it means to be enshackled. How do you face such situations? You must be wise. First of all, you must be sure that since they enshackle your belief in God, then they are Satan, they are a devil. You must first determine what the nature of their actions is, who they belong to, and what kind of person they are; if they oppose people’s pursuit of the truth and their belief in God, then they belong to Satan and are a devil. First determine their nature and what they are—this is what’s most important. If you treat those who enshackle your belief in God as right, and as good people, then you shall never rid yourself of this enshacklement, which shows that you are fighting on the same side as Satan, that you have taken the wrong side. They are a demon that opposes God, and they enshackle your belief in God and pursuit of the truth, which proves that they are a demon, and of Satan—that they are something negative. First determine their nature, and then face them with wisdom. Is it right to act in this way? It is completely right. There are those, perhaps, who still don’t have the correct view about such matters. As a result of their emotions, they believe that their unbelieving husband or wife is good, that they support their belief in God. It is proper that they be brought to heel—they can’t go overboard in their belief in God, and there’s nothing wrong in leading a normal life; they must go with the psychological needs of the people in their family. Would you say this way of thinking is right? This view is wrong. This is following Satan, it is being mindful of Satan, and not being mindful of God’s will or pursuing the truth. In sum, there must be principles to your behavior toward every person, situation, and thing. You must face them using the truth, and according to the truth. … You must establish boundaries with them. In addition, you must use wisdom; you must not go along with Satan, you must not follow Satan or be mindful of Satan, much less must you yield to Satan.

from “Questions and Answers” in Fellowship and Preaching About Life Entry (III)

If you are a sister and your husband says something that is at odds with the truth, do you listen? How do you approach this? How do you handle it? In day-to-day things, you can listen. The path that people should take and the things they should do must be based on the words of God. When it comes to day-to-day matters, husband and wife each have their responsibilities in the home; if it’s something you are responsible for, then you must do it, you must take the responsibility. And if you don’t do it properly and he rebukes you, then this is right. But if he doesn’t allow you to believe in God, and makes you walk the path of the worldly people, then you must not listen to him, yes? “Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. I must obey Christ in all things. Christ’s words and the truths expressed by Christ are the path that I must walk, and I cannot stray from the words of Christ. Such are our beliefs.” If your husband violates your belief, then you absolutely must not tolerate this. This concerns questions of principle, and you cannot back down! Look at how some brothers and sisters are like this. Their husband (or wife), who is an unbeliever, opposes their belief in God. Ultimately, they oppose to the extent that things become irreconcilable. At that point, they divorce and each go their own way. There’s no other option. They say: “If you support my belief, then we can find a way to be together. But if you genuinely oppose my belief in God and oppose me taking the path of belief in God, then we can’t be together, it’s impossible.” Is this not principle? This is principle. When it comes to the way of the life, you absolutely must not give way. You must stick by the truth, stick by our beliefs, and comply with God’s words in all things. Only then will you be someone who truly believes in God.

from “The Value and Significance of Pursuing the Truth” in Fellowship and Preaching About Life Entry (V)

How do you deal with a spouse who does not believe? If you have a husband or wife who does not believe, you should maintain your family as long as they do not restrict or coerce you and allow religious freedom. This is because we are currently in the period in which God is still saving people and the disaster has not yet descended. As it is not yet time for God to dispose of families, maintaining for the moment remains the best policy. If the unbelieving party opposes the believing party or even persecutes the believing party, it is not wrong for the believing party to request a divorce if the believing party feels they can no longer tolerate it. No one will condemn it. If it is a proper marriage then there should be a proper married life. Regardless of whether the other party believes in God, it is reasonable and in accordance with the law. People should not condemn married life. Believers are free to choose marriage, but people who truly believe in God and seek the truth should have principles. Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers. That is, believers and unbelievers don’t share the same language and don’t walk the same path. Even if they form a family it will not be a happy one. When choosing a marriage partner, one should pay attention to the principles of sharing the same language and pursuing the same goals. This is beneficial to everybody and conforms with God’s will.

from “Approaching and Practicing Principles Concerning Real Life Problems” in Annals of the Fellowship and Arrangements of the Work of the Church (I)

Satan taking advantage of social trends to corrupt man

https://www.holyspiritspeaks.org/videos/god-himself-the-unique-vi-part-2

God’s words in this video are from the book “Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh”.

The content of this video:

How Satan uses science to corrupt man

How Satan uses traditional culture to corrupt man

Satan taking advantage of social trends to corrupt man

Renounce Good and Embrace Evil

After acquiring a piece of gold, they all changed completely. Faced with a choice between righteousness and evil, which will she choose?

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