2 Imperative Ways to Get Ready for Jesus’ Return

By Da Zhao

    Today, all kinds of disasters around the world grow ever worse, and many prophecies of the Lord’s return are basically fulfilled.

    We Christians are eagerly awaiting the Lord’s coming to rapture us. I think of the Lord Jesus’ words, “Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes” (Matthew 24:44). The Lord reminds us that we must soberly ready ourselves to welcome His return, but how exactly should we do this

The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything Wins Audience Acclaim at Canadian Film Festival

On September 14, 2018, Toronto, located on the shores of Lake Ontario in North America, welcomed the 2nd Canadian International Faith & Family Film Festival (CIFF). This film festival was established particularly for films related to family and faith in order to promote more understanding and recognition of these kinds of films among the general public and showcase the most excellent films on these topics from across the globe. In this year’s film festival, 177 films were selected from 22 countries across various continents including the USA, Canada, Australia, China and Brazil. There was a wide variety of genres, such as feature films, documentaries, revival films, and family films. Out of the 70 that were entered, 35 films were nominated for the best awards, and more than 18 were publicly released. The Musical Documentary produced by The Church of Almighty God, The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything was nominated for the Best Documentary and publicly screened.

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The Church of Almighty God | Testimony of a Christian: How She Overcame the Temptation to Have an Affair (Part 1) Audio Essay

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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 …

The Church of Almighty God | Best Gospel Music - The Management of God Always Moving Forward

When the ancestors of mankind, Adam and Eve, were corrupted by Satan, God began His management of mankind's salvation. Since that time, He has worked without cease: God decreed the laws to guide mankind, and He personally came among man to be crucified and redeem mankind, and during the last days, God continues His work, fulfilling the prophecies of the Bible: "I go to prepare a place for you" (John 14:2). "I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be" (Revelation 22:12).

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Gospel Q&A | In one’s faith in God one must not stray from the Bible; anything straying from the Bible is fake and heretical. Is this tenable?

    Bible Reference:

    “Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And you will not come to me, that you might have life” (Jhn 5:39-40).

    The Answer from God’s Word:

    The Bible is a historical book, and if you had eaten and drunk the Old Testament during the Age of Grace—if you had put into practice what was required in the time of the Old Testament during the Age of Grace—Jesus would have rejected you, and condemned you; if you had applied the Old Testament to the work of Jesus, you would have been a Pharisee. … During the time of Jesus, Jesus led the Jews and all those who followed Him according to the Holy Spirit’s work in Him at the time. He didn’t take the Bible as the basis of what He did, but spoke according to His work; He paid no heed to what the Bible said, nor did He search in the Bible for a path to lead His followers. Right from when He began to work, He spread the way of repentance—a word of which there was absolutely no mention in the prophecies of the Old Testament. Not only did He not act according to the Bible, but He also led a new path, and did new work. Never did He refer to the Bible when He preached. During the Age of Law, no one had ever been able to perform His miracles of healing the sick and casting out demons. His work, His teachings, His authority—no one had done this during the Age of Law. Jesus simply did His newer work, and even though many people condemned Him using the Bible—and even used the Old Testament to crucify Him—His work surpassed the Old Testament; if this were not so, why did people nail Him to the cross? Was it not because it said nothing in the Old Testament of His teaching, and His ability to heal the sick and cast out demons? His work was in order to lead a new path, it was not to deliberately pick a fight against the Bible, or to deliberately dispense with the Old Testament. He simply came to perform His ministry, to bring the new work to those who yearned for and sought Him. He didn’t come to explain the Old Testament or uphold its work. His work was not in order to allow the Age of Law to continue developing, for His work gave no consideration to whether it had the Bible as its base; Jesus simply came to do the work that He ought to do. … Why must God’s work be according to the Bible? Could it be that God has no right to exceed the Bible? Can God not depart from the Bible and do other work? Why did Jesus and His disciples not keep the Sabbath? If He were to keep the Sabbath and practice according to the commandments of the Old Testament, why did Jesus not keep the Sabbath after He came, but instead washed feet, covered head, broke bread, and drank wine? Isn’t this all absent from the commandments of the Old Testament? If Jesus honored the Old Testament, why did He defy these doctrines? You should know which came first, God or the Bible! Being the Lord of the Sabbath, could He not also be the Lord of the Bible?

The Church of Almighty God | Gospel Song "Only Those Who Accept the Truth Can Hear God's Voice"

Gospel Song "Only Those Who Accept the Truth Can Hear God's Voice" | Welcome the Lord Jesus' Return

Where there is the appearance of God,

there’s expression of the truth and the voice of God.

Only those who accept the truth

can hear God’s voice and witness His appearance.

Put away views of “impossible”!

Thoughts of impossible are likely to happen.

God’s wisdom soars higher than the heavens.

His thoughts and His work are far beyond all man’s thoughts.

The more impossible something is, the more there is truth to seek.

The more beyond man’s conception, the more it contains God’s will.

No matter where He appears, God is still God, God is still God.

And His essence will never change because of where He’s appeared.

Put your notions aside, quiet your heart, read these words.

If you yearn for the truth, God will let you know His will and words.

The Church of Almighty God | Christian Crosstalk "Prison Without Walls" | Where Is the Religious Freedom for the Chinese?

Christian Crosstalk "Prison Without Walls" | Where Is the Religious Freedom for the Chinese?

The crosstalk Prison Without Walls tells the story of Han Mei, who has fled abroad and looks back on her bitter times as a Christian living in atheist China. Han Mei was arrested by the CCP police for preaching the gospel, but even after her release she was unable to escape the evil hands of the CCP government. Trying to force her to give up her faith, they stopped at nothing to monitor and control her: surveillance devices, bugs, personal visits, plainclothes agents following her, and even following her outside of the region…. After experiencing pursuit, arrest, and persecution, Han Mei finally sees clearly the CCP's evil essence of resisting God and being an enemy of God, and so becomes even more determined to follow God to the end, no matter what it takes!

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