﻿Dear brothers and sister, hello to all!
I am so happy now.
I'm absolutely ecstatic to see all of these smiling faces!
- What are you doing? Goodness. - Pardon!
Hey, Sister Zhao Xun!
Oh, and you're Sister Zheng Lu.
Why are you rushing around, anyway?
I've a question for you, just what are you doing here?
What? This is my street.
If not me then, who'd you come to see?
This is your street?
- Yeah, your point? - Oh boy!
I thought that this was where Pastor Qian lives.
Well, I have a question for you then. Why do they look just the same?
Copied and pasted?
Hey, do you believe this one?
She takes a wrong turn and then blames the street.
Your sense of direction sure stinks.
Oh boy …
Something's really bothering you. Just what is it?
Okay, this is what's going on.
I'm both very happy and confused.
Tell me about it.
I'll tell you.
I'd rather be talking to Pastor Qian.
Don't go! Don't go!
You can just talk to me.
Tell me what's up, maybe I'll be able to help you.
She's really confident!
It is good to help.
Then I'll tell you all about it, the ins and the outs,
the causes and the outcomes, the low points and the high points.
Okay, go ahead!
Check this out.
Just eight hours ago is when the story begins.
Oh, that's really not long.
She's going to sing!
Oh, her mother-in-law and her daughter.
Why did they come over?
Coming to share the gospel.
They bore witness to the Lord's return,
that is God incarnate, Almighty God.
He speaks and works face-to-face with man,
therefore I knew right away, it was Eastern Lightning.
Oh wow, the Lord's returned, this is such wonderful news!
Well, tell me, what did you think?
Hearing them say, that God has indeed returned in the flesh,
expressed truths and performed judgment beginning with the house of God.
I knew that, it fulfilled the Bible prophecy:
Amen.
And, they also said
the truths Almighty God expressed unveil the mysteries of God's management plan
of the Bible as well as His incarnation.
He has told man the path to being purified and saved to enter God's kingdom,
plus man's outcome and destination.
Oh yeah!
Oh, there's just so much more.
That's quite a lot!
What they fellowshiped was the truth,
and what's more, it's all in line with the Bible.
When I heard their fellowship,
I understood more than I had in over a decade of faith in the Lord!
It seems you got a lot out of it!
Their grasp of the Bible's so pure,
just like an arrow racing to its target.
The way they communicated the truth was just amazingly clear!
That's so wonderful!
I listened to them the whole morning,
and you can count me convinced!
And you can count me truly puzzled!
What is puzzling you?
You know that what they fellowshiped was all the truth.
And you benefited from it.
So then why didn't you stay home and listen to them?
Why is it you are running around here?
You really don't know?
Our pastor and elders have warned all of us a million times.
Yeah, they've beat it into her head.
Oh, she'll imitate them.
Brothers … and sisters!
You don't know the Bible well, you've no discernment.
Don't go and listen to any kind of preaching.
They say that to keep power.
You especially should never listen to anyone
who says that the Lord has returned.
Isn't that holding them back?
If you want to hear some preaching, just listen to me,
as long as you listen exclusively to us,
I guarantee you'll enter the kingdom of heaven!
How can they dare say that?
So then, no matter how great their message is,
I have to ask the pastor and elders.
Otherwise I can't be at ease with my decision.
Think it could be that you've utterly failed to consider
whether or not what they say is in line with the truth and with the Lord's will?
They have to be in line with the will of the Lord naturally.
Alright, answer this,
what does Matthew, 25 verse 6, say if you please?
Ah, I know that one:
Didn't the Lord say
that when people bear witness to His return,
we should actively seek and investigate, and welcome Him?
Mm, you're right.
But pastors and elders always prevent people from listening, reading, or investigating.
Is this not absolutely at odds with the Lord?
If you investigate the true way, without seeking the Lord's will,
but just run off to ask the pastor,
isn't that just the same as …
That's enough. Calm down.
I'm just worried about you that's all it is.
I know.
They've believed in the Lord for a good many years, that's the truth.
They preach from the pulpit surrounded by followers,
they know theology like the backs of their hands,
they know the Bible in and out,
they have preached the gospel both far and wide,
they hold Paul's teachings within their hearts too …
Hey, don't you forget to breathe.
You're right.
The simple fact is, they understand a great deal more than we understand,
and so we should defer to them,
to settle this issue of "welcoming the Lord."
Oh, so is working hard and knowing the Bible well, the same as having the truth?
Is it then, just like knowing God and fearing God?
You're just like the Jewish people in the Lord Jesus' time,
who just blindly adored the chief priests, the scribes, and the Pharisees …
Hey, but …
thinking they had believed in God for a long time,
were gifted preachers and knew the law.
How'd that go?
They all heard that what the Lord Jesus preached was the truth,
and yet still asked the leaders of the Jewish faith.
Without their leaders' approval, they didn't welcome the Lord and heed His voice.
Tell me. Is that believing in God?
As I see it, what that is, is believing in religious leaders,
choosing the path of following people.
Tell me now. Don't you agree?
Yes!
How could you possibly say I'm not a believer?
Listen up. I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus.
And I also follow the Lord's way.
How could that be following people?
Yes. You do pray in the Lord Jesus' name.
When you pray you say:
Oh Lord! Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.
Oh Lord, I ask You to always illuminate the way for me.
Hey! That is a devout prayer!
It is and once you've done it,
you would stand up and go, and have a visit with the pastor.
Hey, Pastor Qian,
Eastern Lightning's fellowship and testimony align with the Bible,
it's all the truth.
Should I listen to them?
Hey, Pastor Qian, folks have witnessed the Lord's return.
Should I investigate it too?
Hey, Pastor Qian—
Don't make fun of me like that;
don't air my dirty laundry!
Okay fine. I won't.
How about this?
Let's talk about, how you follow the Lord's way.
Go ahead!
In the Book of Revelation:
God tells us all to pay attention to His voice.
Have you done that?
The pastors and elders have covered our ears, they won't let us listen!
Let's ask everyone out there.
Our friend here, who does she really listen to?
Pastors!
Now what did the Lord Jesus say?
You read the Lord's words just with your mouth,
but your ears are tuned to the pastor.
Your legs follow your pastor by habit,
you go along wherever he leads and you do whatever he wants.
Tell me honestly, is that faith in God?
Is that not following people?
Hey, hold on, hold on.
Wait a second, I'll think this out.
You go ahead.
Crying the name, the name of the Lord, all the while exalting the pastor.
Forgetting all the Lord's demands, and obeying the pastor.
Asking them in seeking the true way, not daring to heed God's voice!
How could this be a believer? Or faith in the Lord?
Did you think it out?
How could I …
… believe for so long but follow a person?
The words of God clearly explain, how this can happen.
Oh? Tell me them, won't you?
Am I just falling for status?
But of course!
We always discuss how long the pastor has believed in the Lord,
that he went to the seminary and knows the Bible
and how much he's worked, suffered, and preached.
What value does all this hold?
What?
Human qualifications and accomplishments, human status.
People admire these things, so they adore pastors and elders.
Before they know it, they're on the path of following a person.
Hold on!
You scared me!
Aren't I like the Jewish people in the Bible?
I am a believer only in name, but in fact I follow people.
That's true.
I …
I … I think I may have taken a wrong turn!
At last, she has finally thought it all out!
Sister Zhao, Sister Zhao.
You know, it's dangerous to believe in God but to follow people!
It's true.
The Jewish people failed to look into the Lord Jesus' appearance and His work.
They blindly followed their religious leaders, in rejecting the Lord,
they followed the religious leaders, and then they—
And then they all nailed the Lord Jesus to the cross,
committing a grave and terrible sin!
Yes, we believe in God, but we follow a person.
We're guilty of taking the path of resisting,
as well as betraying God.
I've been extremely blind and foolish!
The car in front has crashed, those of us behind should be careful!
The path of following people is for sure—
For sure, going to crash all of the cars.
Sister Zheng, explain how we can avoid crashing the car.
Thanks to God!
Revelation says,
Amen.
We follow and believe in God, we must hear His words,
we must seek His will and in all things, we have to practice His words.
This way, you'll avoid crashing the car.
That's true!
With God's words leading us, we can't go in the wrong direction!
You have found the right path.
Thanks to the Lord!
- Thanks be to God! - Yeah, this is wonderful!
Sister Zhao,
Search for God's utterances, God's words?
The truth, the way, and the life!
It's true. God is the truth, the way, and the life.
This is key to finding the true way,
and it's the easiest thing to overlook!
It is!
As long as we find the truth and are sure it's God's voice,
that is truly finding His footsteps, truly seeing His appearance,
then we should go with Him without a backwards glance.
We can't let any person or event stop us!
Amen! Thank you.
- Thanks to the Lord! - Thanks be to God!
This is great!
Hey, were you just reciting the words of God?
Yes, those are words uttered by Almighty God!
What? You've already looked into Almighty God's work of the last days.
To tell you the truth,
my mother-in-law recently visited me too.
Oh! So you just opened up and listened then!
That's right!
I've accepted Almighty God's work of the last days;
I'm following the footsteps of the Lamb.
Thanks to the Lord!
Thanks be to God!
Hey, where are you going?
Well, I have just taken another turn,
I'm seeking truth on the right path!
- Come on back here! - What?
When you go, you should do it properly.