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How does God perform His judgment
to save mankind and cleanse us in the last days?
That's right, we all want to accept God's judgment,
but tell us how do we have to experience His judgment
so that we can receive the truth and life,
get rid of our sinful nature and achieve salvation.
This type of question is very important,
because it involves the major issues of mankind's end and destination.
Sister Zheng, Sister Yang,
if I may, you've just explained to us in a very clear way
the purpose of God's judgment work.
In the Age of Grace, no matter how long they had believed,
people lived in a sin-and-confess state, unable to escape their sin.
Only those who accept God's judgment work can receive the truth and life.
God performing His judgment work
is so important for our being saved and entering God's kingdom.
Amen! Yes. Thank the Lord. Praise God.
But now, what I want to understand is
how does God perform His judgment
to save mankind and cleanse us in the last days.
Please tell us some more about this! (Yes.)
That's right.
This is something we urgently need to know in examining the true way.
Please, sisters, tell us more about this if you can! (Yes. Okay.)
Yes, please fellowship with us some more!
Sister Xie, your question is very practical!
People who seek and examine the true way want to understand
how Almighty God performs His judgment in the last days.
Almighty God has spoken a lot in regard to this aspect of the truth.
Let's read a few passages of God's word. (Okay!)
Let's read another passage.
I can read it.
Oh! So God uses this many means of making man perfect.
Brothers and sisters,
when God works to judge and cleanse mankind in the last days,
He uses many aspects of truth
to judge man's satanic nature which resists and rebels against God
and show mankind God's holy, righteous disposition tolerating no offense.
Through the judgment of God's word,
man clearly sees the truth of his deep corruption by Satan,
and really gets to know of God's holy essence
and righteous disposition intolerant of offense.
They produce reverence for God,
so they escape the bondage of sin and thus achieve God's salvation.
Oh, yes.
When we read Almighty God's word, we really feel
that God is judging us and exposing us face-to-face.
And we can all feel that God's word just like a double-edged sword
is judging and exposing our God-resisting satanic nature.
We clearly see the truth that we're deeply corrupted by Satan,
and that our nature is arrogant, despicable, and deceitful.
Though we believe in God, we won't let God be exalted.
Our heart doesn't fear God.
We often try to deceive God and others.
Though we believe in God, we worship man.
If we have status, we want to show ourselves off and build ourselves up,
so that people will listen to us.
We try to confront God and split from Him, setting up our own kingdoms.
When we face disaster, we even blame God and oppose Him.
When God does His new work beyond our imaginations,
then we resort to acting like the Pharisees
back when Jesus was on earth, delimiting God and judging God.
And if we spend a little, do some hard work, or suffer a little,
we even try to act self-important, demanding more blessings from God.
If our desires are somehow not fulfilled, then we act negatively
or slow down and quit work.
Our corruption by Satan devil runs way too deep.
We don't live out the image of human beings.
We're the embodiment of Satan!
When we face the truth of our corruption by Satan,
we're all deeply ashamed and remorseful,
and we appreciate that God's holiness can't be defiled,
and that His righteous disposition can't be offended.
We can't help but fall down before God,
regret our evil ways, despise our satanic nature, and repent to God.
We're willing to obey God's judgment on us,
perform our duty as His creatures, and obey everything that God has arranged.
This is the result of the judgment of Almighty God's word on His chosen.
Yeah. Almighty God's judgment work is too practical!
Now everyone,
we all know after we have experienced God's judgment
that God not only uses words to judge and expose us.
Based on our actual situations,
He also sets up environments and people to test and reveal us,
to practically prune, deal with, and discipline us.
Through actually experiencing God's judgment on us and His dealing,
we see that our nature is too stubborn, too arrogant.
If we don't experience such judgment, our disposition will not achieve change.
Sometimes we don't practice the truth while doing our duty.
Through our arrogant nature,
we do what we want, exalting ourselves and building ourselves up,
making our spirits turn dark and unable to sense God.
Our hearts hurt, and we're refined.
When this happens, God's word will reproach us inside.
Sometimes God sets these things up to deal with us,
so that we return to God to reflect on our actions.
And we recognize the arrogance of our great ambitions
in wanting to control people.
When we see our nature as that of the archangel,
then our hearts can't help but tremble in fear.
We know that God's disposition is unoffendable
and fall down before Him to repent and to pray.
When this happens, God's words will encourage us and comfort us,
and make us understand God's effort of salvation. (Yeah! Right.)
So we won't be passive and weak.
We'll have confidence to seek the truth and change our disposition.
After experiencing much of God's actual dealing and pruning and His discipline,
our arrogant disposition is somewhat changed.
We become much more humble and less insolent,
and we can take initiative to open up completely and know our corruption.
We do our best to exalt God, testify to God.
We feel that living like this puts our hearts at ease and brings joy.
The work of God's salvation is so practical!
Yes! Experiencing God's work is so meaningful!
It's through experiencing God's judgment and chastisement
that we now have such a real knowledge of God's righteous disposition,
and know the kind of person God loves and the kind He hates,
the kind of person He'll save and the kind He'll eliminate,
the kind of person He'll bless and the kind He'll curse.
And we've also learned that God does watch over everything and dominates all.
God is right beside us.
He's always there, actually guiding us and saving us. (That's right.)
We appreciate the truth He expresses to corrupt mankind
is His judgment and chastisement,
His inspection and His cleansing.
With a fear of God in our hearts and a change in our corrupt disposition,
we can learn how to seek the truth, practice the truth, and obey God,
gradually living out the real man's likeness.
The changes we've achieved today
are the result of experiencing Almighty God's judgment of the last days.
It's salvation, and it's how God shows His love for us. (Amen!)
It seems the words of Almighty God can cleanse and save people.
This fellowship is so helpful. It's given us a lot of edification!
Praise the Lord!
In the past, we knew that the Lord was coming to judge mankind,
but no one could ever properly explain to us how He would actually do it.
Today after listening to you, I can understand it.
God performs His judgment through expressing the truth.
And it's only through accepting and obeying God's judgment
that we can gain truth and life,
and cast off our sinful nature.
God's work to save us all is so very practical! (Yes.)
Praise God! They've been able to receive the words.
Praise the Lord. Thank the Lord.
Thanks be to God! This is great!
Praise the Lord. After listening to your fellowship,
I understand that Almighty God uses the expression of truth
and His righteous disposition to perform His judgment in the last days,
and to resolve man's sinful nature so that they can achieve salvation.
And now, I can finally see that no matter how long we've believed,
if we don't experience God's final judgment,
then we won't be able to know our own nature and essence,
or get rid of our corruption and be saved by God.
Now sisters, please, I was hoping you could tell us some more.
We all want to accept God's judgment,
but tell us how do we have to experience His judgment
so that we can receive the truth and life,
get rid of our sinful nature and achieve salvation. (Yeah!)
How to experience God's final judgment in order to receive the truth and life,
shed our sinful nature and be saved into His kingdom—
this type of question is very important,
because it involves the major issues of mankind's end and destination.
To understand this aspect of the truth,
we should read a few passages of God's word. (Okay.)
Yes. If believers don't practice and experience God's word,
then that doesn't count as believing in God!
As you can see, we as believers need to understand what believing in God means.
Believing in God means to practice His word and experience His work,
to understand the truth and to live it out in reality.
That's the process of believing in God.
God's end-time work is to judge us through His word.
If we want to cleanse our corrupt disposition
so that we can achieve God's salvation,
we must first put in some effort into God's word genuinely.
We have to eat and drink God's word
and accept the judgment and revelations there in His word.
No matter how much God's word could cut us or be harsh,
or how much it makes us suffer,
just remember that God's word is all the truth,
and the reality of life that mankind should enter into.
Every utterance of God's word is meant to cleanse us and change us,
to help us shed our corruption and reach salvation,
and then to help us understand the truth and achieve knowledge of God.
You see, we must learn to accept the judgment and pruning of God's word.
If we want to gain the truth in God's word,
we must be willing to suffer in obeying the truth in God's word.
We must seek the truth and try to find it in God's word,
feel out God's will and try to know ourselves.
We must reflect on God's word
to know our own arrogance, deceitfulness, and selfishness,
how we trade with God, extort God, deceive God, distort the truth,
and other sinful actions
as well as other impurities within our belief, desires for blessings.
Through this way, we'll gradually get to know the truth behind our corruption
and the essence of our nature. (That's right.)
After we understand more of the truth,
our knowledge of God will grow much deeper,
and then we'll know what kind of person God likes and dislikes,
what kind He'll save or eliminate, who He'll use and who He'll bless.
Once we see these things, we'll start to understand God's disposition.
These are the results of experiencing God's judgment of His word.
Anyone who pursues the truth
take note of experiencing the judgment of God's word,
trying to seek the truth in everything and to practice God's word and obey God.
And gradually, these people will start to understand the truth
and enter the reality in experiencing God's word,
and achieve perfection and salvation.
Yes. Of course.
As for those who don't love the truth,
although they can recognize God's appearance
from the truth that God expressed in His word,
they think that there's a way for them to definitely achieve salvation
if they sacrifice a little and do their duty.
So they can't receive the truth after believing in God for many years.
They might understand a few doctrines,
but they think they have the whole truth and reality.
They're lying to themselves, and soon they'll be eliminated by God. (Yes.)
Yes. They will.
It seems that reading God's word is important to knowing the truth.
Yes, only by knowing and practicing the truth can we have reality.
Sister Zheng, I want to keep listening.
Won't you continue to talk with us? (Sure!)
Yeah, we also need to know. Tell us, please.
How do we experience God's work to help us achieve salvation?
Let's read a little more of Almighty God's word. (Okay!)
I can read.
Let's read another passage of God's word. Page 115. (Okay.)
Almighty God has stated the path for man's salvation
and entrance into the kingdom of heaven very clearly!
This one line is the truth. Too practical. (That's right.)
Believers who don't practice God's word will not receive the truth.
Someone without the truth is someone without life.
Almighty God told us about how Peter actively pursued the truth to be perfected.
Peter was someone who pursued the truth.
He not only sought out how to truly love God,
but also focused on his dispositional change.
His primary practice was to obey Lord's judgment
and accept the refinement and trials given to him.
Even if the Lord gave him to Satan, he would still be obedient to death.
He was crucified upside down for the Lord, providing a resounding testimony.
Yes!
Peter put a lot diligence into his belief in God,
using heart to love God and obey God.
He put a lot of effort into preaching,
and especially focused on practicing the truth and entering the reality.
That's why Peter was perfected and ultimately received God's approval. (Yes!)
We should suffer in our faith.
In accordance with Peter's testimony,
all believers have to pursue the truth if they want to achieve salvation
and put effort into reading God's word,
learning more about the truth and God's will,
and practicing the truth in our lives.
By pursuing this way,
we can see the truth more and more clearly and have more ways to use it.
Before we know it, we'll enter the reality.
Thank the Lord!
If mankind will only be satisfied with doctrines,
then they won't be able to really enter the reality.
The more doctrines they know, the more arrogant they become.
Their natures will never change despite believing in God for many years.
They'll end up thinking that believing in God doesn't mean anything.
Can such people then receive the truth and real life?
Believers in God in religion will all go down this path.
And they will never receive God's approval.
We know that for certain. (That's right.)
When experiencing Almighty God's work,
those who don't have the love for truth
will want to avoid the judgment of God's word.
That feeling will only make them move further away from God,
especially when it hurts them.
In these cases, how can these people gain the truth?
But people who love the truth
are willing to suffer and withstand anything for the chance to gain it.
They can obey even when what they read from God's word can be harsh.
They also learn how they can stand firm in the face of difficult trials.
Even if they lose their families, freedom or lives,
they can still stand witness for God.
People like this can surely obtain the truth and receive God's approval
after they have experienced His work.
Praise be to God! Praise God!
It seems it's hard for us to enter God's kingdom.
We must truly experience God's judgment and chastisement,
and endure all sorts of trials and refinements.
Unlike what we might think,
we can't just accept Almighty God's name, read a little from His word,
live a church life and fulfill our duty a little, and expect to be saved. (Yes.)
God is so righteous, and He's so faithful.
However crafty man is, he can't deceive God.
That's right, we used to dream that we would be raptured.
But today, after your good fellowship we now know that
entering the kingdom of heaven won't be that simple!
The kingdom of heaven where God resides is a holy place.
And people today are too evil, no humanity and with black hearts.
Entering the kingdom of heaven without judgment from God
is just wishful thinking!
Praise the Lord.
Through your fellowship today,
I understand that it's only through accepting and seeking the truth,
through honestly experiencing God's judgment and living out God's holy word
can man have his life disposition changed,
and then shed away their sinful nature to gain salvation. (That's right.)
It seems if believers are careless in their faith and don't seek the truth,
even if they believe in Almighty God,
then they ultimately won't be able to be cleansed and saved.
Yes! That's right.