Who is it?
It’s me, Xiao Lu.
Ah, Sister Lu. Come in. Please come in.
Here. Have a seat.
Pastor Chen, two “Eastern Lightning” preachers came to my home.
I drove them away.
They went to your home? (Yeah.)
Hmm.
Hello, Jin Xiangdong?
I want to talk to you. Come over.
Hmm. Okay, okay!
Our loving Lord Jesus! You are our only Savior!
Your precious blood is eternally effective.
Neither is there salvation in any other.
O Lord! We call on You.
Please have mercy on us.
May Your grace and peace be with us.
May You keep us.
In today’s world, the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about,
seeking whom it may devour.
May the Lord strengthen our faith.
May the Lord be our refuge and our reliance. (Amen.)
In the holy name of my Lord Jesus Christ we pray.
Amen.
Okay, have a seat.
I urgently called you here today
mainly to talk about the “Eastern Lightning” deceiving people.
Yesterday, two betrayers in our church went to deceive Lu Xiu’en.
Yeah, I drove them away.
I’m afraid that they’ll come back for me.
If you can’t drive them away, beat them.
Hmm. And these, distribute them to the brothers and sisters in the meeting.
Make the gravity of this matter very clear.
Say it as seriously as possible!
Saying this might be improper!
We always say the “Eastern Lightning” gouges eyes and cuts off ears,
and drugs their books.
Some brothers and sisters are tired of it,
and some simply don’t believe it,
because some of their relatives and friends believe in the “Eastern Lightning,”
but they’re not like what the materials say.
Yeah! Some believers in our church
have contacted with the people of the “Eastern Lightning” and read their books.
They didn’t believe. But they were safe and sound.
So are our materials true?
If they’re not true and we say this, the Lord won’t be pleased with us.
Which side are you on?
If they snatch all the sheep, what account can we give to the Lord?
Besides, how can the ministry be carried out?
How are we going to run the church?
In order to resist the “Eastern Lightning,”
the pastors of other churches have contacted me,
and we all agreed to do so.
There’s nothing improper!
We do it for defending the Lord’s way!
But it’s groundless to say that.
I’m afraid to offend the Lord!
We work for the Lord and protect the flock,
so the Lord will remember!
Hmm. I understand Pastor Chen.
In fact evidence isn’t important,
as long as our sheep won’t be drawn away.
Besides, the government cracks down on the “Eastern Lightning,”
so it’s not a big deal for us to say so.
Now the most crucial thing is to keep our flock from being lost.
Since the government said so,
we just tell the brothers and sisters like that.
Anyway, it won’t bring us harm.
And remember
that the “Eastern Lightning” says God does a new work again to save man.
This is impossible,
because we believe in the Lord Jesus and we got saved.
The Lord Jesus’ precious blood is eternally effective.
Once saved, always saved!
Don’t believe them.
After you go back, pay more attention to the brothers and sisters.
When you find them in an unusual state, report to me immediately.
Goodbye, Pastor.
Pastor, goodbye. (Bye.)
Goodbye. (Hmm, bye.)
Xiaodie. Come, come over here.
I wanna talk with you. Come, sit here.
Have you got used to our church? (Hmm, yes!)
Does anyone treat you unfairly? (No.)
Yesterday Pastor Chen had a meeting with us.
He said we must protect the Lord’s flock
and prevent the “Eastern Lightning” from snatching the believers.
Everyone here is an important co-worker.
We must be cautious!
Pastor Chen specifically emphasized that we should never be soft with them.
Is it right to do so?
Can Pastor Chen be wrong?
He’s believed in the Lord for decades.
We must listen to him!
We’ve printed hundreds of booklets about the “Eastern Lightning.”
Distribute them as soon as possible.
Once we find someone believing in the “Eastern Lightning,”
we should deal with him seriously.
The betrayer will never have a good end.
Yeah. We have to be cautious.
Hmm. Let’s be very careful. (OK.)
Brothers and sisters, peace to you in the Lord.
And to you.
Let’s turn to Matthew 6:20.
Matthew 6:20 says,
We all know that people who love the Lord should offer willingly
and shouldn’t be worried that offering will bring you burden.
On the contrary, the Lord will doubly bless those who make offerings.
Why did the Lord Jesus approve the poor widow who offered up two mites?
Because she offered all she had…
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Amen.
That’s all for today’s meeting.
Peace. (May the Lord bless you.)
Xiaodie. Come. Have a rest.
Genesis 2:18 says,
Xiaodie, God created Adam and created for him a helpmate, Eve.
God approves men’s affection.
You see, God created man and woman
for the purpose that they could support each other.
Don’t you think that we should also support each other? …
Is there anybody home?
They’re back!
They’re “Eastern Lightning” deceivers.
Pastor Chen said when they come, beat them.
Drive them away!
Pastor Chen said that?
Hurry up!
Hello, brother. Is Sister Lu at home?
Shameless. Go away!
Brother, we don’t mean any harm—
Go now! Get out of here.
I couldn’t understand you. Are you crazy?
You have nothing better to do but deceive others all day long.
I warn you. If you come again, I’ll call the police.
Sister, you’re back?
You two again?
Sister, if you have time, can we have a talk?
Yeah, sister. Here is a tape. You can listen to it.
I don’t wanna listen.
Sister, sister. The Lord Jesus has really come back.
Blessed are the poor in spirit…
Sister Ruan, you haven’t come to the meeting for a long time.
How are you recently?
Sister, you care about me and visit me often.
I don’t know how to thank you.
This is what I should do! Thank the Lord!
We are a family in spirit.
Recently the “Eastern Lightning” is very rampant.
Pastor Chen shows much care for the brothers and sisters
and he is worried that we would be deceived.
If you have time, come to the meeting! OK?
One thing has been buried in my heart for a long time.
I’ve never told anyone. I feel very miserable.
When I got married, I was a bit over twenty.
At that time,
my husband often worked out of town and seldom came home.
Pastor Chen saw that it was easy to take advantage of me,
so he forcibly had me for a long time.
You should thank the Lord!
Tamar gave birth to Perez and Zerah with her father-in-law.
The prostitute Rahab bore Boaz. Ruth bore Obed.
And Bathsheba gave birth to Solomon with David.
Outwardly, these four women were immoral.
But they made their own contribution to God’s plan of salvation.
You also make a contribution to God’s plan of salvation.
Don’t you think so?
Later, I had his child.
Pastor Chen was a famous person here.
Others thought he expounded the Bible well,
and said he was a holy man.
My husband and I could only swallow the humiliation silently.
But he just couldn’t bear it and died a few years later.
I raised the child myself and did some odd jobs to earn a living.
I want to attend the meeting regularly.
But I … really can’t face Pastor Chen.
I thought of going to another church.
However, others said one should stay where he was baptized,
and that those who ran around, were prostitutes, and adulteresses…
Wait! I think I left my cellphone upstairs.
I forgot it. You go first! (Okay.)
Pastor Chen, I have to say something.
If you don’t settle Xiaodie’s pregnancy,
her parents will make trouble.
Then our church will be affected.
O Lord! I beg You. Please forgive me!
Pastor Chen, I have another matter to discuss with you.
Now you give me less and less money.
It’s not enough for my expenses!
Last month you bought a new car.
How can it not be enough?
You have to save money!
You know that I’ve completely offered myself up to work for the Lord!
I deal with everything in the church.
I do them all for you.
You know that the offerings these few months are less and less!
You think I don’t know?
It doesn’t match the account!
Sister Xu. (Hmm.)
Don’t worry.
You’ve spent so much for the Lord.
I’ll keep your matter in mind. (OK.)
What the hell were you doing out? The house is a mess.
Our business lost more than ten thousand. Don’t you care?
Bitch, why don’t you say anything?
Say what? You only know how to drink all day long.
Have you ever cared about me?
These bills have been here a long time, but you don’t deal with them.
I need to do it every time.
Fine! I’ll spend the day to deal with them…
O Lord! Dear Lord Jesus.
You’re my refuge. You’re my Savior.
O Lord! I’m very weak and confused now.
Please save me.
O Lord! Pastor Chen took advantage of Sister Ruan
and embezzled Your offerings with Sister Xu.
O Lord! So many unrighteous things happened in the church.
What should I do?
O Lord! Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path!
Please guide me to walk the way ahead.
O Lord! You’re my Rock.
May You strengthen my faith!
Hello. Cousin, it’s me, Xiu’en.
I want to stay at your home for a few days.
Okay, I’ll go tomorrow.
Cousin.
Yeah! Coming! Xiu’en.
Come in and have a seat.
Did you fight with him again?
Well, stay here a few days. Calm down first.
You can’t always quarrel like this! OK?
Is Sister Lin at home? (Yes.)
Xiaoying is here. We often have meetings together.
I’ll open the door.
Coming.
Xiaoying. Come in, please! (Sister Lin.)
Xiu’en! When did you get here?
I just arrived. Come in and have a seat.
Xiaoying, please introduce us.
This is my high school classmate, Xiu’en. (Hello!)
This is Sister Gao and Sister Zhao.
Hello! (Hello!)
Today it’s really God’s arrangement that we can get together.
Sister Gao and Sister Zhao are also preachers,
so we can have a good fellowship. (Okay!)
Sister, when did you believe in the Lord?
1995. And you?
From childhood.
You must be well versed in the Bible.
I have some questions puzzling me greatly.
Let’s discuss about…
I just can’t figure out why.
Now the church condition becomes worse and worse,
the brothers and sisters lose faith and love,
and the sick people have no peace.
The previously prosperous church is in a state of disunity.
What can we do to revive the church?
Now the churches are generally in such a state.
Since the churches became desolate, we should find out the reason.
Then … what’s the reason?
Sisters, what do you think of it?
Speaking of this topic,
if we know the reason why the temple became desolate
at the end of the Age of the Law,
we’ll know why the churches are desolate today.
At that time, the temple was full of Jehovah’s glory.
No one dared commit evil deeds in it, even the “king” of the people.
But later, the temple became a “den of robbers.”
Why didn’t Jehovah God do something about it?
That was because Jehovah God had left the temple and begun a new work.
That is, God had been incarnated
and begun the work of crucifixion to redeem mankind.
When the Lord Jesus came to do the new work,
the Holy Spirit didn’t uphold the work of the law anymore
but upheld Jesus’ work.
All those who followed the Lord Jesus Christ to enter the new age
had ways to go on and life supply.
Those who failed to follow
were trapped in the sins and became more and more fallen.
Even if they committed sins, they received no discipline.
So the temple became a “den of robbers.”
This fulfilled the prophecy in the Bible.
Right!
If one can’t keep up with the Holy Spirit’s work,
he can’t receive God’s supply.
Those who stubbornly kept the law and refused to come out of the temple
would rather lose the Holy Spirit’s working than follow the Lord Jesus.
This is because they didn’t know Jehovah and Jesus are in fact one God.
So, every time God does a new work,
He’ll eliminate many people who can’t keep up with the Holy Spirit’s work.
Excuse me, I have to answer a call. (Okay.)
Hello? Sister Zhang.
Yes, I’m at my cousin’s.
How about coming over?
Yeah, I’ll be waiting for you.
Hmm. Bye.
Let’s continue! (Okay.)
As I was saying…
Just now we fellowshipped about the churches’ being desolate.
We’re also puzzled about that. Let’s listen.
That’s great!
We’re all trying to revive the church, but it’s useless.
Since you’re here today, please tell us more about it!
OK, let’s seek and fellowship today.
May God lead us. Thank God! (Thank the Lord!)
Now the churches are desolate,
just as the temple at the end of the Age of the Law.
The reason is that the Lord Jesus has returned in the flesh and come to China,
and He has started a stage of new work of thoroughly saving mankind—
So you’re preachers from the “Eastern Lightning”?
You’re the ones who deceive the brothers and sisters everywhere!
Sisters, please don’t get irritated.
Let’s quiet our heart to seek and fellowship patiently.
We don’t wanna listen anymore!
I advise you to repent to the Lord immediately!
We believe in Jesus, so we got saved.
There’s no need to receive any other salvation.
We have nothing else to fellowship.
The “Eastern Lightning” is a heresy!
It specially deceives brothers and sisters in the Lord.
Never expect to deceive us!
I advise you to repent to the Lord immediately!
Xiu’en, don’t get agitated! Let’s fellowship first.
Fellowship what?
Xiaoying,
I never expected that you would be deceived by the “Eastern Lightning”!
Don’t you know? The “Eastern Lightning” is a heresy!
They specially come to deceive us.
The pastor has told us so many times that we should never contact with them.
Once we do, we’ll be deceived!
Why are you so foolish?
Xiu’en…
Cousin! Why are you so muddled?
Have you believed in God for so many years in vain?
Why do you receive heresy? You mustn’t believe in it!
Otherwise, you can’t get saved!
Cousin, we mustn’t betray the Lord.
Ask them to leave now. They can’t stay in our home!
Xiu’en, we often called on the Lord for guidance together,
and eagerly expected the Lord to come take us earlier.
Now we hear the news that the Lord has returned,
but if we don’t investigate or seek, we’ll lose the Lord’s salvation!
Cousin, we can’t listen!
On hearing it, we’ll be deceived.
How many times has the pastor told us?
The “Eastern Lightning” is a heresy. It’s a mafia.
Whoever joins it won’t be able to come out!
Yeah, we can’t listen.
Sisters, the apostle Paul said,
Fear is from Satan. With God, there is no fear.
With God, all is strong, joyful, released, and free.
As believers in God,
we should believe in God’s almightiness and sovereignty
and rely on God to discern the way of the truth
rather than be afraid or on guard!
We aren’t afraid. You’re from the mafia.
We don’t need to fellowship with you.
Xiu’en, Sister Zhang, Sister Wang,
the “Eastern Lightning” we heard of is the true way.
Don’t make a rash decision.
If we blindly follow the religious people to condemn and resist it,
we’ll offend God.
We should have sense.
After making a careful investigation, we’ll know whether it’s the true way.
Let’s study the Bible and refer to God’s word.
Then we can discern and make a decision in the end.
What do you think?
Lord! Today I encounter such a thing; what should I do?
Please guide me.
Have a seat. Let’s sit down and talk.
Yeah, sisters, let’s have a seat.
Have some tea.
You said that God has come again to do the work of saving man.
That’s impossible!
Romans 10:9 says,
The 13th verse says,
These two verses tell us clearly
that people have been saved through Jesus’ salvation.
As long as people confess with their mouth and believe in their heart,
they will get saved.
Once saved, always saved.
God won’t and needn’t repeat the work of saving man.
But you said that God comes again to do the work of saving man.
That’s impossible.
Sister, speaking of “getting saved,”
we indeed got saved because of the Lord Jesus’ redemptive work.
But what does getting saved mean here?
About this question, we have to talk from the Age of the Law.
As we all know, in the Age of the Law,
God issued the law through Moses for people to obey.
Whoever offended it had to atone for his sin by offering sacrifice.
Otherwise, he would face the danger of being executed by the law.
So, people at that time all kept the law properly, and no one dared disobey.
But at the end of the Age of the Law,
people became more and more corrupt, committed more and more sins,
and didn’t have enough sin offerings to atone for their sins,
so they all faced the danger of being executed by the law.
In this regard, God was incarnated and came to the world.
He was personally crucified and became man’s sin offering.
From then on, if one believed in and relied on Jesus,
he would be forgiven of his sins
and wouldn’t be condemned by the law any more.
This means that we got saved because of the Lord’s redemption.
So getting saved means that after one believed in Jesus,
if he confessed and repented,
he was forgiven of his sins and wouldn’t be executed by the law.
What’s more, he could enjoy the peace, joy, and rich grace
the Lord Jesus bestows to him.
This is the true meaning of “getting saved” in the Age of the Grace.
Just as the Bible says,
Here, “getting saved” only means that
we are forgiven of our sins and are not condemned after we believe in Jesus.
But we still have corrupt disposition and often commit sins and resist God.
Then, does it mean that
we who often commit sins and resist God always got saved?
Although we haven’t broken away from sins,
the Lord has forgiven us and we’re no longer of sin.
As long as we obey the Lord’s teachings to confess and repent
and rely on the Lord Jesus’ redemption, we got saved.
Yeah!
Sisters, although we’re not of sin due to the Lord Jesus’ redemptive work,
it doesn’t mean that we’ve broken away from sins and always got saved.
Because we haven’t broken away from sins,
we still live in the fallen life
of committing sins in the day and confessing them at night,
and still can’t break free from the bondage and restriction of sins.
This is the state of us believers in the Lord.
As Paul said,
Although the apostle Paul was forgiven of his sins
due to the Lord Jesus’ salvation,
the biggest misery in his heart
was that he still often committed sins and resisted God in spite of himself
because of being unable to break free from the bondage and restriction of sins.
So he said helplessly,
Sisters, isn’t Paul’s misery
the misery of the brothers and sisters believing in the Lord today?
Isn’t the salvation that Paul eagerly wished to receive
what we believers in the Lord eagerly wish to receive today?
Sister, especially believers in the end time have a deep experience of it.
Man’s heart is taken by various poisons and philosophies of Satan
and man is filled with arrogance, selfishness,
craftiness, greed, evil, and so on.
So, we can still go with the world trend and associate with Satan,
seeking after position, fame and gain, and money
and enjoying the pleasure of sin.
Even if one is familiar with the Bible,
he can in no way break free from the bondage of sin.
So, in the Age of the Grace,
all believers in the Lord who have been redeemed by the Lord Jesus
haven’t truly broken away from Satan’s influence of darkness
and their heart hasn’t been completely gained by God.
Even if they have some changes in their outward behaviors
and sometimes they can do some good things,
their inner sinful nature still rules and controls them within,
so that what they live out is still the corrupt satanic disposition
and they haven’t broken away from the bondage of sin.
Don’t you think so?
So, the “getting saved” you talked about
doesn’t mean that one has truly broken away from sin and been holy.
Sister…
What they said is a fact.
No! The Lord Jesus already saved us. This is a fact.
Humph! No! I have to find an opportunity to use their words against them.
Regarding this question, let’s read Almighty God’s words.
Wait!
Sister, do you have any question? Go ahead!
What you read just now tells us that we’re never of sin.
Then why do you say that God comes to do the work of salvation?
Right!
Sisters, I haven’t finished reading God’s words.
After we finish the two passages, we can have a fellowship, OK?
Okay! Go ahead.
I’ll see what else you’ll say.
Later I’ll embarrass you. See what you’ll say!
Sister Gao, please read it.
Sisters, God speaks very clearly
that it is because of God’s salvation
that man is forgiven of sins after being redeemed by the Lord Jesus.
God says that man is no longer of sin,
but it doesn’t mean that man won’t commit sins.
It just means that God doesn’t remember man’s sins
and doesn’t treat man as a sinner.
But the Lord Jesus’ work just achieved the result of redeeming man’s sins,
and it didn’t solve the problem about the root of man’s sinning.
So, man’s sinful nature still roots in his heart.
In this regard,
even if the Lord Jesus’ sin offering is forever effective for man,
it can’t save man from sin thoroughly.
So, those who have received the Lord Jesus’ redemption
still commit sins and resist God.
They need God’s further work of salvation,
and only thus can they thoroughly break away from sin
and receive God’s full salvation.
It sounds right.
You’re wrong! The Lord Jesus’ salvation has forgiven our sins.
We’re already sinless and simply don’t need the new work you said.
You’re denying the Lord Jesus’ salvation!
Yeah, if God still works when He returns,
doesn’t it deny the redemptive work Jesus did?
Sisters, we’re not denying the Lord Jesus’ salvation.
The Lord Jesus redeemed people from sins.
It’s an absolutely true fact and nobody can deny it.
But those who have received the Lord Jesus’ forgiving grace
still have corruption within,
and they’re still living a fallen life
of committing sins in the day and confessing them at night.
Isn’t it a fact?
So, we should understand the Lord Jesus’ salvation correctly.
The work the Lord Jesus did just redeems people from sins but
it doesn’t solve the problem about their sinning.
So, those who got saved by the Lord Jesus
still need God’s further purification and salvation.
Only thus can they be saved.
Sisters, at this point, I want to ask you a question.
In your opinion is God holy?
You even need to ask? Of course holy!
God is holy. Then what’s the criteria for man to be saved and gained?
Of course holiness as well!
Are we holy now?
Sister Lu, do you remember what the Bible says?
And in John 8:34-35,
From these verses we can see that breaking away from sin and being holy
is the criteria of being saved that God requires man to reach, right?
Those who commit sins stay not in the house for ever.
These are the Lord’s words.
Can’t we who often commit sins be always saved?
Impossible! The Bible says clearly,
Does “being saved” here, just as they say, not mean being always saved?
No! No! O Lord!
May You keep my heart so that I can hold on to Your way!
Sister, just think: If God raptures to His kingdom
a mankind who still has corrupt satanic dispositions and can resist and betray God,
is God’s kingdom a holy kingdom?
How can God’s kingdom permit mankind who resists God to exist?
That’s impossible, and it’s against God’s holy and righteous disposition.
What’s more, if this is the case,
isn’t it meaningless for God to do the work of saving man?
So, according to God’s disposition and the plan of God’s work of saving man,
it’s wrong to say that man is saved and can enter into God’s kingdom
after he receives the grace of Jesus’ redemption.
Actually, we thought that we could be approved by God
after being forgiven of sins,
because we weren’t clear about what being saved is.
Today Almighty God tells us clearly about it.
Sister, please read it. (Okay.)
Almighty God’s words tell us clearly the real being saved means that
man breaks away from the fleshly corruption and Satan’s influence of darkness
and is purified by God.
That is, through the words expressed in the end time,
God chastises and judges man and works into man the truth he needs,
so that man can cast off the corruption,
not commit sins any more and have his life disposition transformed.
The satanic poisons, laws, and philosophies within man
can’t control him any longer.
Things of Satan have no place in man’s heart and are replaced by the truth.
All the words God expresses become man’s life
and man can live by God’s words and be compatible with God.
Man no longer disobeys or resists God but can truly obey and worship God,
and what man lives out can manifest and glorify God.
This is truly being saved.
Man casts off his corrupt disposition and no longer commits sins;
this is being saved?
O Lord! I can’t accept their way. I can’t be deceived by them.
O Lord! You already set the feast for me before the enemies.
Please keep my heart, and give me strength and faith
so that I can fight the good fight for You.
According to your words, nobody has become holy now;
then nobody can be saved? (Yeah!)
That’s impossible! Absolutely impossible!!
Sisters, the concepts of getting saved and being saved are totally different.
There’s an essential difference between the two.
Getting saved means that because of the Lord Jesus’ redemption,
men’s sins are forgiven.
But their sinful nature still hasn’t been removed
and they still continuously commit sins, resist God, and betray God.
So, those who got saved through the grace haven’t been completely gained by God.
Being saved is based on man’s being forgiven of his sins.
It means that through experiencing God’s work
of judging, chastising, transforming, and purifying man,
man can gain the truth he needs within.
The essential difference between getting saved and being saved
lies on whether one has the truth
and whether he has transformation in his life disposition.
Those who only believe in Jesus can’t enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Only those who carry out God’s will,
that is, those who accept the end-time salvation and are purified
can enter into it.
You said that in the end time God—
You said that man is still sinful and hasn’t become holy; I admit it.
But you said that there is still a work of salvation in the end time;
we definitely won’t admit it.
Because when the Lord Jesus was crucified,
He said in the end, “It is finished.”
That is, Jesus has saved mankind forever;
God’s work of salvation has been totally accomplished,
and there is no more work of salvation.
But you said that God will still do the work of saving man in the end time.
This is impossible. It’s fallacy!
Yeah, the Lord Jesus said that.
Since the work has been finished, isn’t it redundant to do another work?
God does nothing meaningless!
Hmm. We don’t need any other salvation.
Don’t talk about it anymore.
Sister, if we think the Lord Jesus’ word “It is finished”
means that God’s work totally ends,
doesn’t the Lord Jesus’ promise that He’ll come again fall through?
Actually the Lord Jesus’ word on the cross “It is finished”
means that His redemptive work is finished.
It doesn’t mean that God’s work of salvation is totally accomplished.
Revelation prophesies,
Here it says, “It is done.”
Only this means that God’s management plan is totally finished.
If “It is finished” the Lord Jesus said on the cross
means that God’s work of salvation totally ends,
how do we explain this prophecy?
So, we should have a correct understanding of God’s word.
Actually, the Lord Jesus prophesied many times
that God would do another stage of saving work in the end time.
Here we can see
that the Lord Jesus will speak in the end time and guide man into all the truth,
that is, the way of truth to judge man,
so that man can break away from sin and become holy.
You’re wrong. All the truth here refers to the word of the Lord Jesus,
and it doesn’t mean that God will do a new work in the future.
Sister, if it refers to the word of the Lord Jesus,
it means that all those who have been redeemed by the Lord Jesus
can understand the truth and break away from sin.
But now, how come we often commit sin
and are bound by sin and unable to break free from it?
Actually, the words the Lord Jesus expressed in the Age of the Grace
are not the words to lead man out of sin,
but the words to have man trust in His name and confess and repent to Him.
Those words can only bring man a true faith in the Lord Jesus,
but can’t sanctify man fully.
Now I’m more perplexed.
Isn’t the word of the Lord Jesus the truth?
Why can’t it purify man?
Sister, the word of the Lord Jesus is the truth, which is absolutely right.
But God speaks by time and by stage,
and speaks according to different periods and mankind’s different needs.
The word of the Lord Jesus at that time is only the word of teaching man,
not the word of judging man.
Moreover,
the Lord Jesus’ teaching can only change man’s outward behavior in some way,
but can’t solve the problem of man’s committing sins.
After one believes in the Lord,
his behavior is somewhat changed under the Lord’s teaching,
but he still commits sins frequently.
Even if he tries hard to control himself, it is in vain. Why?
Because God didn’t do the work of expressing the word to judge man
in the Age of the Grace.
But when in the end time the Spirit of truth comes to do this work,
He will express all the truths
to judge and purify man and guide man into all the truths,
so that man can become holy.
These truths fulfill the prophecy in Revelation,
That is to say, the Lord Jesus prophesied
that in the end time He would do a stage of work
of judging man with the word, saving man from sin, and making man holy.
It is also the final stage of purifying work,
and is the most crucial and fundamental work in God’s management plan.
Moreover, all the prophecies in Revelation
are the inside truth of the work God will do
and the facts that God will accomplish in the end time.
So, only if we accept and experience God’s work
of judging and purifying man with the word in the end time
can we become holy and be saved by God.
We read the Bible many times, but we didn’t notice that.
Now it seems that there’s really another stage of work.
Hmm…
Doesn’t it mean that all God’s saving work is finished?
There can’t be another work!
But their fellowship is quite reasonable!
O Lord, please give me a discerning spirit.
Almighty God’s word has told us about the work God will do in the end time.
From Almighty God’s words,
we see the Lord Jesus’ redemptive work only teaches man to be patient and humble
and to confess and repent and be forgiven of sins.
It only involves some change in man’s outward behavior,
but not the transformation of man’s nature.
So, God is incarnated in the end time to do the work of judgment,
judging, purifying, and transforming man through expressing the truth,
so that man can understand the truth, break from sin,
and become completely holy.
Therefore, “getting saved” in the Age of the Grace
only lays a foundation for being saved in the Age of the Kingdom.
The work of judgment and chastisement in the end time
is the central work of saving man,
and is a work of transforming man’s corrupt disposition
and completely saving man from Satan’s domain.
That is to say, God’s end-time work is the only way for man to be saved.
If man only accepts the Lord Jesus’ salvation
but rejects God’s judging and purifying work in the end time,
he will never break free from the bondage of the sinful nature
and will always be the puppet of sin.
In the end, his hope of entering the kingdom of heaven will fail forever.
This is a heavenly rule, and no one can disobey it.
As the Bible records,
Xiu’en, please read God’s word.
Xiu’en.
These words sound reasonable.
This issue has been troubling me.
I often commit sins and confess them,
but I don’t know how to break away from them.
Now I seem to understand a little.
Although what they said makes sense, I still think we should investigate first.
O Lord! What is the new end-time work they mentioned?
What they said today is reasonable.
What should we do? Shall we listen tomorrow?
They are not aggressive like our pastor says.
After speaking with them, I feel they are very kind.
Hmm. Yeah! So do I.
But there is something I never expected.
What they said is well-founded and really irrefutable. (Right!)
How about listening more tomorrow?
There are three of us. They can’t do anything to us.
What if this is the true way?
Hmm. I think so.
If it’s true, we’ll accept it.
If it’s false, we won’t believe it.
What do you think?
All right! We’ll listen more tomorrow.
You both get some rest. (OK.)
O Lord! Please listen to my prayer.
O Lord! You are my Savior.
You are the Rock of my faith.
Please give me a discerning heart.
O Lord! Are You really back?
Please show me Your way.
I’m willing to act according to the truth. O Lord…
And remember!
The “Eastern Lightning” says that God has done a new work.
It’s impossible, because we got saved through believing in the Lord Jesus.
Once saved, always saved!
Don’t believe them.
I’ve believed in the Lord many years,
and the pastor always preached
that one got saved and could enter the kingdom of heaven by believing in Jesus.
But the Bible records without holiness no man shall see the Lord.
Is it really like that?
We can’t enter the kingdom of heaven by believing like this?
Impossible!
But, what they said makes sense.
Although we got saved through the Lord’s salvation,
we still live in a condition of committing sins and confessing them every day!
Man’s heart is taken by various satanic poisons and philosophies,
and man is filled with arrogance, selfishness,
craftiness, greed, evil, and so on.
So, we can still go with the world trend and associate with Satan,
seeking after position, fame and gain, and money
and enjoying the pleasure of sin.
Even if one is familiar with the Bible,
he can in no way break free from the bondage of sin.
So, since the Age of the Grace, all believers in the Lord…
What they said is our actual state!
Our condition now is just like this!
The Lord will do another stage of saving work; could it be true?
Right! Now we live in sin and are controlled by Satan’s influence of darkness,
unable to get free from sin, even the pastors live in sin.
If the Lord doesn’t work, man can never cast off his corruption.
I have to say something!
If you don’t settle Xiaodie’s pregnancy, her parents will make trouble.
Then our church will be affected.
O Lord! I beg You. Please forgive me!
Pastor Chen, I have another matter to discuss with you.
Now you give me less and less money.
It’s not enough for my expenses!
In my previous view, only we believers commit sins.
Unexpectedly, even the pastors and elders are bound by sins.
Then, how can we see the Lord’s face?
Has God really done a new work?
What if it is God’s work?
If I accept it, I’ll be expelled by the church and be rejected by others.
If not, won’t I become one who rejects God?
I’m expecting the Lord’s return every day.
Will I reject Him when He comes?
These words sound like God’s words, but…
Tomorrow I’ll ask them what the end-time saving work refers to.
If the Lord really came, I’ll accept Him even if others reject me.
I shouldn’t be one who rejects God.
I thought it over through the night.
You said that God would do a stage of new work.
Please make this issue clear today.
What new work will God do in the end time?
We’d like to know more about it.
Thank God!
May God lead our fellowship today.
To know what God’s end-time work is, let’s read God’s word first. (Hmm.)
OK. Please turn to Page 6.
Sisters, God’s words are so clear.
God does the end-time work of judgment and chastisement
mainly to disclose man’s corrupt nature
and dissect man’s words and behaviors by expressing the word,
so as to let man know his corrupt substance and corrupt root,
and He shows man the clear goal to pursue and the way of practice,
so that man can submissively accept His judgment and the leading of His word.
At the same time,
God divides men to their kinds by the judgment and chastisement of the word,
and reveals all those who can be saved and those who cannot.
All those who accept the judgment and chastisement of God’s word
will practice the truth and understand the truth when experiencing God’s work.
In the end, they experience to an extent that God’s word becomes their life.
After men get transformed in disposition and are saved,
God will bring them into rest and then God’s judgment work will end.
According to your sharing,
if we don’t accept God’s end-time work but only believe in Jesus,
can’t we be saved?
Yeah!
If we don’t believe in the end-time Christ but only believe in Jesus,
won’t it do?
Hmm…
Sisters, to be completely saved by God, we must obey and follow God’s work;
otherwise, we not only can’t be saved,
but will be condemned by God and be punished in the end.
As we know, when the Lord Jesus came to work,
the priests, scribes, and the Pharisees in the temple
refused to accept His salvation,
and they also deceived and trapped those innocent Israelites.
In the end, they nailed the Lord Jesus onto the cross,
seriously offending God’s disposition.
So Israel was destroyed and many people were slaughtered.
This is their deserved punishment and retribution for resisting God.
Likewise, Almighty God is incarnated in the end time
to end the Age of the Grace and bring the Age of the Kingdom.
All those who follow and obey Almighty God
can be purified and transformed in disposition
through the judgment and chastisement of God’s word,
and in the end they can be saved by God and brought into God’s kingdom.
But those who refuse to accept God’s end-time salvation
will lose their opportunity to be saved because of their resistance
and will finally fall into the hell where God chastises man.
This is decided by God’s righteous disposition.
From Almighty God’s words, we can see God’s attitude toward these people.
Let’s read two passages of God’s word. Sister, please read first.
Xiu’en, God’s end-time work is a work of ending the whole management plan
and a work of completely defeating Satan and saving all mankind.
God’s end-time work through incarnation
is an exceedingly great salvation to those who are willing to accept the truth,
but to those who disobey and resist God, it is a mark of being condemned.
Xiu’en, what do you think about this?
Now I don’t dare draw conclusions lightly.
I will investigate the way you preach.
Hmm. This is a major issue concerning our outcome in believing in God,
so we can’t draw conclusions lightly.
Please talk more about it!
OK. God’s sheep can hear God’s voice,
and they can accept the truth and receive God’s salvation.
Those who are not, can’t recognize God’s voice,
and won’t accept God’s new work,
so they can’t be saved by God.
Let’s read Almighty God’s word! Sister Zhang, please read it.
All right.
Page 1430.
Yes! It is not a simple thing to believe in God.
If we draw conclusions casually without seeking and investigating,
we are being irresponsible for our lives.
Yeah. As co-workers of the church,
concerning such a great matter like God’s coming again,
we should try our best to seek.
Thank the Lord for the preparation.
This is indeed the Lord’s mercy for us.
I have some questions and I want to seek.
Thank God!
As long as we have a seeking heart,
we believe that God will surely inspire us to recognize His voice.
Thank the Lord! This is indeed the Lord’s mercy for me.
Before, I believed the pastor’s rumors.
I was afraid to be deceived, not seeking or investigating.
I drove away many gospel preachers. I really had no conscience.
Yes! I also believed what Pastor Chen said
and drove away all the gospel preachers who came to me.
We are really too numb.
I never dreamed that in my life I could welcome the Lord Jesus’ return.
The Lord has really come back!
Yeah! I never expected that the “Eastern Lightning” we resisted for years
is actually the Lord Jesus we expected.
I’m really too blind!
Thank the Lord for not abandoning us.
Yes! It’s all because of God’s mercy and God’s extremely great love for us.
Otherwise, we won’t know Him though believing in Him,
and can even shut the door on Him.
Let’s have a prayer. (OK.)
O Lord! Almighty God! I’m a sinner.
I’m really unworthy to come before You.
I was so blind and so stubborn.
I regarded Your salvation as Satan’s deception
and condemned and blasphemed it blindly.
O Lord! You sent so many brothers and sisters to preach the gospel to me.
I not only didn’t accept it but also beat and abused them.
I even more condemned and defamed Your work,
brazenly made rumors, sealed off the church, and gave many false testimonies,
blinding the brothers and sisters, hindering them from coming before You.
I completely lost my conscience and sense
and did too many things to resist You.
I’m an evil servant who hinders Your work.
O Lord! According to my evil deeds, I only deserve Your punishment.
But You didn’t treat me according to my transgressions
and gave me more opportunities, trying to save me.
O God! Your love for me is so great!
O Lord! From now on, I’m willing to repent thoroughly
and bring those brothers and sisters deceived by me before You earlier
to make up for my transgressions and repay Your grace of salvation.
I pray in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ.
Pastor Chen, something bad happened!
Lu Xiu’en believes in the “Eastern Lightning”! (What?)
O Lord, please forgive her sin.
Lu Xiu’en, you actually preached the “Eastern Lightning” to Sister Wan.
We’ve believed in the Lord for so many years.
How could you be so muddled that you were deceived by the “Eastern Lightning”?
Right!
Don’t you know it’s false? (Yes! Yeah!)
How could you be so muddled? (We can’t betray the Lord!)
It’s not right to betray the Lord so lightly!
Pastor Chen thinks so highly of you
and personally trained you to be an important co-worker. (Yeah. Yes.)
Lu Xiu’en, we should have conscience!
Brothers and sisters, I didn’t betray the Lord.
I did contact the people of the “Eastern Lightning” and heard their preaching.
Then, I knew that the One we’ve been resisting is the true God!
The Lord has really come back to do a new work. We can’t—（Lu Xiu’en,）
is it in vain that you’ve read the Bible for so many years?
The “Eastern Lightning” says that God has done a new work to save man.
This is impossible, because we got saved by believing in the Lord Jesus.
Once saved, always saved. Don’t believe them!
Pastor Chen, although the Lord Jesus has redeemed us through crucifixion,
our sinful nature still exists.
This time the Lord comes to do the work of removing sins.
We always say that the “Eastern Lightning” is a heresy,
but we’ve never heard their way.
They are not like what we say.
The way they preach is well-founded.
The Lord has really come back to do a new work. We should investigate.
Well. Lu Xiu’en, today we give you a chance by advising you,
but instead you try to draw us in and deceive us into betraying the Lord.
No way! We’ll give you a last chance. You should repent now.
Repeat after me. The “Eastern Lightning” is a heresy.
We can’t blaspheme God like this. It will offend God.
She is hopeless! She has already betrayed the Lord!
I trained you personally to be a preacher.
Unexpectedly, you betray me today,
wasting so many years of my painstaking effort and price on you.
You’re really ungrateful. You have no conscience.
Now, Lu Xiu’en has already betrayed the Lord.
It’s up to you how to deal with her!
Go. Get in.
Is that Lu Xiu’en?
Yeah! She’s the betrayer who believes in the cult.
Judas! Traitor!
The pastor is here. The pastor is here. Pastor Chen is here.
Brothers and sisters, peace to you in the Lord. (And to you!)
Today, I’m very grieved.
You see, your previous preacher, Lu Xiu’en,
has already apostatized and believed in the “Eastern Lightning.”
How could it be possible?
She has betrayed the Lord Jesus and become a Judas, a traitor.
O Lord! It’s really unexpected!
Lu Xiu’en has actually betrayed the Lord!
She preached so well before!
Yeah. We often listened to her preaching.
O Lord! Please forgive her.
O Lord! Please have mercy on this poor child. O Lord!
We all know that the Lord Jesus has bled for us
and His great love has redeemed us.
Unexpectedly, Lu Xiu’en betrays the Lord!
Brothers and sisters, what should we do?
Reject her! (Yeah!)
From now on, she is our enemy!
She has no conscience!
Give her a chance to repent!
Brothers and sisters, please listen to me.
The “Eastern Lightning” we resisted before is indeed the true way.
This time I met them and listened to their preaching for several days.
I’m certain that this is the true way.
The Lord has done a new work.
This fulfills the words in Revelation 14,
It refers to this way.
This time God comes to do the work of removing sins thoroughly— (Shut up!)
Wanna deceive us here? You traitor!
Brothers and sisters, don’t believe her!
Yes, get her out of here! We don’t want her here! Yes, go!
Brothers and sisters, please listen to me. Then, you’ll understand.
Let her finish her words!
Please let me finish my words.
You are a traitor!
Pastor Chen has trained her for many years,
but she is ungrateful and betrays him.
Brothers and sisters, should we reject her?
Get out! We don’t want you! Get out of here! Leave us!
Brothers and sisters, don’t resist any more.
This is really the true way! (We don’t want to hear anymore!)
You’re speaking out of the devil. You are a devil! Get out!
Be quiet! Be quiet! Let me say something to her.
Lu Xiu’en, I never expected that you would be like this.
However, it’s not too late.
As long as you reject the “Eastern Lightning,”
I’ll ask Pastor Chen not to deal with you.
What do you think? How about it?
Sister, I’ve investigated this for many days.
This is exactly the true way!
We really shouldn’t condemn it blindly!
Enough! Don’t deceive us!
Everyone should see Lu Xiu’en is hopeless.
We should reject her, right? (Yes!)
Before, she told us not to believe in the “Eastern Lightning,”
but now she herself accepts it.
That’s right! That’s right! She’s right! Curse her! Get her out!
Now you have all seen Lu Xiu’en is too stubborn and hopeless.
Now, I declare Lu Xiu’en is excommunicated.
We should stand on the side of the Lord.
We should stop receiving her and reject her.
We should pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and curse this apostate!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Curse her. She’s a liar. Get her out of here, Pastor.
What’s the matter, Pastor Chen?
Do you know?
Now Lu Xiu’en has stopped believing in Jesus
and believes in the “Eastern Lightning” and takes members in everywhere.
Today we just expelled her.
Really? (Yeah.)
You don’t know? The “Eastern Lightning” is a mafia.
All male leaders are given lovers.
Keep an eye on your Lu Xiu’en.
How dare she!
You know, Xiao Lu has taken away many believers from our church.
You should discipline her. Don’t let her run around.
I said this for your own good. Otherwise, your family will break up.
Pastor Chen, the Lord Jesus taught us not to tell lies.
How could you say this?
We’ll go now. Let’s stop here. (OK.)
Remember what we just said. (OK.) We’re leaving.
If you dare to run around again, I’ll break your legs.
Pastor Chen lied to you.
How could you believe his words so easily?
Shut up! Don’t talk back!
We’ve been married for so many years. Don’t you know me?
Cut the crap.
From tomorrow on, you have to stay home. You can’t go out!
That won’t do. I need to go out.
How dare you disobey me!
I’ve worked with them for so many years.
We sustained and helped each other all the time.
I wanted to preach the true way to them,
but I never expected that they would resist so much.
They even went to gossip in my home and incite my husband to persecute me.
Sister, don’t be sad. We can completely understand how you feel.
Before, I was also rejected by the pastors and co-workers in my past church.
In the beginning, I was very weak and passive.
I didn’t understand why they changed so quickly.
Later, I read Almighty God’s word and understood.
Today they treat us like this
because we have chosen the true way and followed the true God.
They don’t hate us, but they hate the truth and our God.
Yeah. In fact, those religious leaders clearly know that
all the words expressed by the end-time Christ are the truth and the true way.
However, like the Pharisees at that time,
they fear to lose their position and the believers’ offerings.
So they do their best to fabricate rumors,
condemn and resist God’s end-time work,
hinder believers from accepting the true way,
and make them God’s enemies.
In the past, I adored Pastor Chen very much
and followed him to seal off the church and do evil to resist God.
I hindered and restricted the brothers and sisters
from investigating the true way
and didn’t allow them to choose freely.
So, many of them couldn’t return before God.
I was too blind and too ignorant!
As to those hypocritical religious leaders
who indulge in the blessing of position,
Almighty God has already disclosed their devilish substance of resisting God.
Let’s read Almighty God’s word.
All right.
Sister, God’s words have disclosed the substance of the religious leaders.
They are exactly the living devils that devour people’s souls.
They have severely offended God’s disposition
and are doomed to be eliminated and punished.
The Lord Jesus already prophesied
that in the end time He would reveal all kinds of people
and separate good servants from evil servants.
Today when the Lord comes, outwardly they work for the Lord,
but actually they spare no effort to condemn and resist Him.
These are the revealed evil servants.
This just fulfills the words in Matthew.
The evildoers the Lord Jesus mentioned
are those who outwardly work and preach for the Lord in the church
but actually don’t do God’s will.
They exalt and testify themselves on the lectern, making others listen to them.
And they never teach others to obey and know God or listen to God’s word.
As they have no place for God in their heart,
they act wildly behind others’ backs,
committing adultery and stealing offerings.
They take serving God as the way to get rich
and often call on others to give offerings for their enjoyment.
They are exactly bloodsuckers and parasites!
They don’t fear God in the slightest.
Therefore, when God appears to do His work,
they do all they can for fame, gain, and position.
They resist and condemn God and hinder others from accepting God’s gospel.
God allows those religious leaders to persecute us,
and there is God’s wisdom in it.
Through their persecution,
we can see clearly their satanic nature of being hostile to God
and thus we can reject them completely and follow God genuinely.
Thank God for His mercy, so that I have the fortune to come before Him.
Otherwise, I could never see through their nature of being antichrists
and would still be wallowing in the mire with them to resist God’s work.
Today, it’s worthwhile to suffer this.
Let’s cooperate to preach the gospel
so that those blinded brothers and sisters can come before God sooner
and break free from the control of those antichrists!
All right. I’ll go back and cooperate in the gospel work
and bring more people before God.
Let’s pray for it together. (OK!)
Well, let’s take a break.
Have some water.
It’s a beautiful day!
Hope she can recognize God’s voice. (Yeah.)
We should get going. (Let’s go.)
Sister, I’m Lu Xiu’en.
You think you’re still a preacher?
I tell you! Pastor Chen already informed all of us not to receive you.
Sister, you’ve misunderstood me. Please listen to me.
Pastor Chen said that
you betrayed the Lord and believed in the “Eastern Lightning.”
You are an apostate, a traitor.
Wanna deceive me? Shameless! Go away!
Sister, you’ve misunderstood me.
Open the door, please. Let’s have a talk.
You believe in the cult and betrayed the Lord Jesus.
How dare you come to deceive her! Go away!
Brother…
Sister, you home? Sister?
I’m coming.
Sister.
What did you come for?
Pastor Chen already said that you are a traitor.
You took the wrong way and believed in the cult.
You’re not welcome here.
Sister, please listen to us, give us some time. (Go away!)
Sister, let’s have a talk… Sister…
Although the religious leaders never stopped persecuting us
in our preaching the gospel,
I saw more clearly their antichrist substance of being hostile to God
and truly felt God’s love to man,
because every time I was insulted or maltreated by the religious leaders
and became weak and passive,
God would inspire and lead me.
Through the brothers and sisters’ fellowshipping about God’s word,
I understood God’s intention of saving man and got up again
to cooperate with the brothers and sisters in preaching the gospel.
Under God’s leading,
more and more brothers and sisters in various denominations and sects
accepted God’s gospel and came before God.
Through the meetings and fellowships of this month,
I’m certain that this is the true way.
In the past I resisted God’s new work. I’m really blind, ignorant…
Brother, I was the same as you before.
Deceived by the religious antichrists,
I drove away many brothers and sisters who preached the gospel to me
and spread rumors to slander God’s end-time work.
When I learned that this was the true way,
I hated myself bitterly and felt that God would no longer save me.
In fact, we all misunderstood God’s will.
As long as we can repent, God will save us to the utmost.
Yes! Brother, God doesn’t care about man’s previous transgressions
but cares about whether man can repent
and comfort God’s heart with his actual actions.
Now God’s eager intention is that those brothers and sisters
who are still restrained and bound by the religious leaders
can break through Satan’s force and come before God earlier.
From this passage of God’s word, we can see God’s will.
Brother, please read it.
There are about thirty brothers and sisters in my area.
You can preach the gospel to them this Friday.
This is such a good deed!
Perfect! Thank God!