The passages from Almighty God
tell all of us that God's two incarnations complete the meaning of incarnation.
Right. Yes.
These words are very profound, man can't grasp them easily.
Yes!
Very well! As for God's two incarnations completing the meaning of incarnation,
some just don't get it.
Because they lack the experience, when they hear it, they don't understand.
The truth of the incarnation is indeed profound,
it takes a few communions for us to understand.
Yes. That's right!
We humans truly cannot fathom the deep significance of God's two incarnations.
Yes!
So, to learn why God has been incarnated twice
and what the meaning of these two incarnations is,
let's turn to two passages from Almighty God to better understand this truth.
Alright!
Amen!
Now let's turn to page 1372. (Okay!)
Brother, may I read the next one? (Of course.)
Amen!
Good. Let's end our reading here.
The truth of the incarnation is profound.
If Almighty God didn't reveal it, then none of us would comprehend it.
Right! That's right!
Now it's clear if we just read the Bible and only listen to pastors,
we'll never understand the truths and mystery of the incarnation.
The passages from Almighty God
tell all of us that God's two incarnations complete the meaning of incarnation.
Right. Yes.
These words are very profound, man can't grasp them easily.
Yes!
Brother Lin,
it's said that God's two incarnations complete the incarnation's significance.
What exactly does this mean?
Please elaborate on this for us.
Yes, please commune some more! Tell us more!
Fine!
Almighty God's word
has revealed the full significance and mystery of the incarnation.
From our reading of Almighty God's word,
we already know that "incarnation" refers to God's Spirit becoming flesh,
becoming an ordinary and normal person to do the work of God Himself.
Right!
That means the incarnate God must have a normal humanity,
and has to work and speak within normal humanity.
Even when He performs miracles,
they must be done in normal humanity.
His outward appearance appears quite normal.
He goes about His work as a normal, average human.
If He didn't have normal humanity or work within a normal humanity,
He would not be the incarnation. (Yes.)
God's incarnation refers to God's Spirit being realized in flesh.
Within a normal humanity,
He delivers the truth and does the work of God Himself,
redeeming and saving man.
This is the significance of the incarnation.
It's all so clear to me now.
It's so clear. (Yes!)
Now what is the significance of two incarnations?
Yes!
It mainly means
that God's two incarnations complete the significance of incarnation,
accomplishing the work of the Word appearing in the flesh,
and completing God's management plan to save mankind.
This is the significance of God's two incarnations.
Amen!
Now I understand more clearly.
Thanks be to God.
We should be clear about this.
The purpose of the first incarnation was to fulfill God's work of redemption
to pave the way for God's judgment work in the last days.
And so, God's first incarnation alone
did not complete the meaning of the incarnation.
The purpose of God's second incarnation
is to do judgment work in the last days,
and thoroughly set mankind free from the domain of Satan and its influence
to relieve mankind of their satanic disposition
and resolve their sinful nature,
so they can fully return to God and be gained by Him. (Amen!)
Thanks be to God.
Almighty God, Christ of the last days
has expressed all the truth to purify and save mankind,
has completed all the work God ought to do in the flesh,
and expressed all the words God must express
while He is on earth in His incarnate flesh. (Amen!)
Through this, He has completed the work of the Word appearing in the flesh.
Amen!
Let's read more passages from Almighty God. (Alright! Okay!)
Amen!
God's two incarnations together complete all the work of God in the flesh,
that is, God's work to complete the salvation of man.
That means God will never have to be incarnated again.
There won't have to be a third or a fourth incarnation.
Because God's work in the flesh will have been accomplished completely.
This is how God has been incarnated twice
to complete the significance of the incarnation. (Amen!)
God's two incarnations have completed the meaning of the incarnation.
For those who have yet to experience God's judgment in the last days,
this is difficult to understand. (Yes, it certainly is.)
Those who have only experienced God's work in the Age of Grace
know that the Lord Jesus is the incarnate God.
But very few of them can understand
that the work of Lord Jesus was limited to redemption alone,
and He did not accomplish the work of the Word appearing in the flesh.
Right!
And that means the Lord Jesus did not express the truth in its entirety
that can complete the incarnate God's salvation of mankind. (Amen!)
So the Lord Jesus then said,
Amen!
According to the prophecy,
there are many truths the returned Lord will express in the last days.
Their fellowship is in accord with what it says in the Bible!
And now the Lord Jesus has returned as the Son of man in the flesh,
He is Almighty God, Christ of the last days.
He's begun His judgment work from the house of God, (Yes.)
and expressed all the truth that will cleanse and save mankind
found in The Word Appears in the Flesh. (Amen!)
God incarnate speaks for the first time in God's identity,
proclaiming His word to the entire universe.
Yes, thanks be to God! Praise the Lord!
He explains God's management plan to save man,
expresses God's will, His demands toward all of mankind,
and man's destination in a detailed manner.
Amen! Thanks be to God!
Let's see how Almighty God explains this in His words. (Alright!)
Why don't we turn to page 253. (Okay!)
Amen! Thanks be to God!
Amen!
Thanks be to God!
Almighty God's word is very clear! (Yes, you're right!)
It seems that while He is fulfilling the work of judgment in the last days.
Almighty God has already expressed many truths.
But we have no idea! We've suffered a great loss!
Yes, if only we'd accepted Him earlier,
we could've known much more about the truth!
Yes!
Thank you, my brothers,
it's so important to know the significance of God's two incarnations!
Yes! Praise God!
Despite Almighty God's word being so clear,
this is our first time hearing some of it. (Yes.)
We have no experience with it.
We don't understand enough.
With regard to this aspect,
I was wondering if there was anything else you could tell us about!
Yes! Please do this.
In the past, we just simply knew too little.
So, my brothers, please continue to fellowship with us! (Yes!)
Very well!
As for God's two incarnations completing the meaning of incarnation,
some just don't get it.
Because they lack the experience, when they hear it, they don't understand.
The truth of the incarnation is indeed profound,
it takes a few communions for us to understand.
Yes. That's right!
Now let's go into the details of the work performed
during God's two incarnations.
Alright! Great!
During God's first incarnation,
He fulfilled His work of redemption performing many miracles.
Everyone knows this, right? (Yes, we know.)
Go ahead!
He fed five thousand with just five loaves of bread and two fish. (Right!)
He calmed the wind and the waves with just a word.
He … Who did He resurrect?
He resurrected Lazarus!
Also, He fasted and was tempted in the wilderness for forty days.
He walked on the water and so on.
Yes. Right. He did. He did all that.
Because the flesh of the Lord Jesus did miracles and could be transfigured,
in the eyes of us humans, though the Lord Jesus was God incarnate,
He still seemed supernatural.
He wasn't like a normal man and miracles occurred around Him.
Right!
Also, the Lord Jesus did only the work of mankind's redemption.
He only expressed the truth of redemptive work,
mainly manifesting God's disposition of love and compassion.
He didn't express the truths needed for the work of judgment and salvation.
Yeah.
And He did not express to man God's righteous, holy, unoffendable disposition.
So then we can't say
the first incarnation fulfilled the meaning of the incarnation.
It's just as Almighty God says,
Amen!
God's incarnation in the last days is different from His very first incarnation.
Because His second incarnation doesn't perform miracles at all.
He is not supernatural.
On the outside, He looks like a normal human being,
doing His work and speaking His word practically among men.
He has expressed the truth to judge, purify, and perfect man. (Amen! Yes!)
Almighty God has revealed all the mysteries of God's management plan,
manifested God's righteous, holy disposition,
all that God is and has, and God's will.
He has revealed to mankind His demands of them.
Amen!
Also, He's judged and exposed
man's satanic nature and dispositions that oppose God,
with which He conquers, perfects, and eliminates man, each unto his own kind.
Amen!
God's judgment in the last days is meaningful!
That's right! Only God's judgment can reveal every kind of man! (Yes!)
All of the truth that God bestows upon man in the last days
is expressed through the normal humanity of His flesh, (Yes.)
not through supernatural means.
All we see now is a normal man, speaking His word and doing His work.
Yes.
But the word that He has expressed is all the truth.
It has authority and power it can purify and save man. (Amen! Thanks be to God!)
From the word of Christ,
which judges and exposes the truth and substance of man's corruption,
we see how God looks into our hearts in His judgment
and see His thorough understanding of man.
We also see God's disposition is holy, righteous and unoffendable.
Amen! Thanks be to God!
Besides, from Christ's reminders and exhortations,
we have perceived God's compassion and concern for mankind. (Yes.)
From the many ways used by Christ to work and speak to us,
we come to appreciate God's almightiness and wisdom,
God's earnest intentions of saving and perfecting man,
God's true love and salvation for mankind.
Amen! Thanks be to God!
From the way that Christ treats every single person, matter, and thing,
we can understand how God's pleasure, anger, sorrow, joy
are the reality of positive things,
how they all express God's disposition
and naturally manifest the substance of God's life.
Amen!
We can see from Christ's word and work
just how God is great and supreme and how He is humble and hidden,
we gain a real understanding of God's inherent disposition,
and meanwhile we come to know His true face,
causing us to develop a thirst for the truth and a reverence,
to truly show love for God and obey Him.
This is the effect of God's second incarnation
and the effect that His word and work will achieve on us.
Amen! Thanks be to God!
The word and work of God's second incarnation
won't just allow man the chance to see God become flesh,
but also allow them to see the fact of God's word appearing in the flesh, (Amen!)
see that God's word accomplishes all. (Amen!)
This normal and average flesh is the embodiment of the Spirit of truth. (Amen!)
And God incarnate is the truth, the way, the life! (Amen!)
He's the appearance of the one true God! (Amen! Thanks be to God!)
With Almighty God's appearance and work,
the significance of incarnation is completed. (Amen!)
If we hadn't heard this communion today,
we never would have understood. (Yes. Thanks be to God!)
Brothers and sisters, let's read something from Almighty God's word, (Yes!)
so that our understanding of this truth can become even clearer.
Okay! Sure! Great!
Let's turn to page 1040. (Alright!)
Brother Lin, can I read it?
Of course.
Amen!
Amen! What a great passage!
Thanks be to God.
In all my years of faith,
I never had an understanding of the truth of the incarnation!
I knew that the Lord Jesus was God incarnate,
but if the Lord Jesus were living among us today,
I definitely wouldn't recognize Him.
I could even act like a Pharisee with resistance and denial.
Right.
Today you've told us just how Almighty God works
the same way the Lord Jesus did.
Men are truly incapable of recognizing Christ from appearance.
Yes, it's true. We are!
If you hadn't testified today about Almighty God's word and work,
how would we have ever heard God's voice or witnessed God's appearance?
Amen! Thanks be to God!
Now that we've heard your communion,
we can now see Almighty God is truly God's incarnation. (Amen!)
We know this for a fact! (Amen!)
Almighty God's word has honestly opened my eyes.
I have gained so much! (Amen!)
Thanks be to Almighty God! (Praise God!)
Since we've read parts of Almighty God's word,
I trust that everyone has an understanding
of how God's two incarnations complete the meaning of incarnation!
Yes!
Praise God! I feel like I've learned so much from this fellowship.
We are now aware of the fact
that God's work of salvation is ultimately accomplished
through the work of the incarnation.
Amen!
The work that Lord Jesus carried out was the work of redemption.
The truth He expressed was very limited,
so having only experienced the work of Lord Jesus,
our knowledge of God was limited.
Ah, true.
Almighty God has come to do the work of judgment in the last days,
expressed the truth in its entirety,
which God uses to perform His righteous judgment on corrupt mankind. (Amen.)
This allows man to see God's inherent disposition
and get to know His righteous and holy substance.
Amen! Thanks be to God!
So God incarnate in the last days
has thoroughly completed all of God's work in the flesh.
Amen! Praise God!
He has expressed the entire truth God should express
while He is in the flesh, (Amen!)
fulfilling the fact of the Word appearing in the flesh. (Amen!)
This is exactly
how God's two incarnations complete the meaning of the incarnation.
Amen! Yes. That's how it completed.
God's two incarnations are both essential and complementary.
So we can't say God can only be incarnated once,
or even suggest that He might be incarnated for the third or fourth time.
Right!
Because God's two incarnations have already finished God's work of saving man,
and They have expressed the entirety of the truth that God in the flesh
is meant to express for man's salvation.
Thanks be to God.
So, you see God's two incarnations complete the meaning of the incarnation.
Amen!
So now does everyone understand?
Yes. Thanks be to God! I see. I think I'm finally able to understand it!
God's two incarnations are so meaningful!
If we hadn't heard this fellowship,
then we never would have understood the truth of the incarnation.
Amen. Thanks be to Almighty God! (Yes, praise Him!)