I have a question.
I've read God's words and the Lord Jesus' words in the Bible.
And recently I've read some of Almighty God's words as well.
They're indeed the truth and have authority and power.
But what I want to ask is:
Some spiritual figures' words conform to the truth
and are also beneficial to man.
Can you tell me the difference between these figures' words
that are compatible with the truth and God's word that's of the truth?
Please fellowship on that.
That is a good question and it's just what I wanna ask.
I will listen well.
But the spiritual figures' words
that line up with the truth are also the truth, right?
Could there be any substantial difference?
Are you oversensitive to it?
You make such a simple question so complicated.
You've asked such a crucial question, Pastor Kim!
Many people just cannot quite grasp the key to investigating the true way.
They admit that Almighty God's word is the truth,
and that it has authority and that it has power,
but as they fail to tell the difference between spiritual figures' words
which are compatible with the truth and the truth as it is expressed by God,
it's very hard for them to accept God's work
and then be raptured before God's throne.
If people regard all those words in line with the truth as God's word,
they're so easily deceived to follow and worship man,
and follow Satan, leading to the result of resisting God,
betraying God, and offending God's disposition.
Just like many people adore religious pastors and leaders,
and follow false Christs.
It's cursed by God.
So believers must be able to discern
what's the truth, what's knowledge and doctrine,
and what's the difference between the truth and the words in line with the truth.
This is exceedingly important.
One who doesn't know the truth doesn't know Christ.
One who fails to discern the substantial difference
between the truth and the words compatible with the truth
can't possibly hear God's voice and return to God, which is absolute.
So then, what is it that is the truth
and what is the word in line with the truth?
Let's take a look at the words of Almighty God.
Please turn to page 826.
Yeah,
speaking of what is truth and what is the word in accordance with the truth,
Almighty God has made it quite clear.
This is it. The truth comes from God.
And all that is expressed by Him, that is the truth.
All of this is completely beyond doubt.
So then what exactly is the truth?
What is the substance of the truth?
The truth is all God's expression.
It's naturally the expression of the substance of God's life,
what God has and is, and God's disposition.
The truth is the reality of all positive things.
It never changes and will exist forever.
The truth is God's life being, with authority and power.
So it can purify man, save man, and perfect man, and can be man's eternal life.
God expresses the truth so that man can accept the truth as life,
and live by God's word.
If man gains the truth as life,
then his corrupt and satanic disposition will be absolutely cleansed.
As long as man lives by the truth
then he can live out the likeness of a real man,
and become the one that is holy, and become the one that is after God's heart.
God then is able to fulfill the meaning of His creation of mankind.
This can be said to be the ultimate result
that God's work of salvation is hoping that it will attain.
After the great tribulation,
the ones left alive are those who obey and worship God,
those who gain the truth and are saved.
Such mankind will be brought into God's kingdom,
enjoy the promises of God and receive the wonderful destination.
This is the fact God's words will fulfill
and the fruits of the truth expressed by God.
Although the words of those great spiritual figures
conform to the truth and edify others,
they are not the truth, and can't be equated with God's word.
You see, God's word can be man's life
while man's word simply cannot be man's life.
Indeed, the truth can purify man, change man, and can perfect man,
but man's words that are in accordance with the truth
can't purify, and change, and just cannot perfect man.
And this, as you know, is an undeniable fact!
As we can see, a great many people have been used by God throughout the ages.
But among all of them no matter how long they worked and how much they said,
no one is able to at all purify, or save or perfect man.
And why is this so? (I've never thought about that.)
It's because man's words that accord with the truth
are their limited understanding after they experience the truth of God's words.
What they express are only their opinions and views,
and represent their own stature and understanding of God and the truth.
Even if their pure understanding is in line with the truth,
beneficial and helpful to man,
they can only be considered as right words in accordance with the truth.
The words in accordance with the truth
fall far short of the substance of the truth,
and cannot be called truths.
Men's writings and sermons are out of their burden to the churches.
Their purpose is to shepherd, console, and exhort believers,
to help others resolve some difficulties and puzzles in belief in God.
But their words can only sustain people for a period of time, a stage,
and can by no means replace the effect brought by God's work.
The fact is enough to prove
that man's words in accordance with the truth
fall far short of the substance of the truth.
So we can't say that they are truths, much less the words of God.
This is the main difference
between the truth and man's word that accords with it.
Now is that clear? (Yes!)
Your fellowship is so great!
The words of Almighty God have stated it very clearly.
Having believed in the Lord for years,
I've never heard of anyone who can differentiate between the words of God,
and the words of great spiritual men as clearly as this.
Yes. Yeah, that's so clearly.
We've gained a lot from this fellowship.
We used to adore great spiritual men, and look up to men who worked for years
and interpreted scriptures and preached well.
We blindly treated their words as the truth.
We were so lacking in discernment!
Without truth we are too easily deceived. (Yes.)
One thing we can certainly say is that no man can ever express the truth.
Pastor Jang, all the theological theories we have learned are not truths either.
Right.
Based on today's fellowship, they are knowledge and doctrine summarized by man,
rather than the truth. (That's right.)
Now, we understand
only the word of God is the truth, and man's word is not the truth.
Ah, I really feel
your fellowship today reverses our deviations in the way we believe in God.
Pastor Kim,
I hope our fellowship has successfully answered the questions you had.
Ah, your fellowship is practical.
Now I can see that only the word of God is the truth.
Although the words of the spiritual greats conform to the truth,
they are a great distance from the substance of the truth
and can't be considered truths.
Truth is truth, and doctrine is doctrine.
They can't be mentioned in the same breath.
Almighty God's words certainly did resolve our actual problems.
The truth that Almighty God expresses,
it is what we lack and also what we need most.
I want to thank Almighty God so much! (Amen!)