Why does God have to be incarnated twice to do the work of saving mankind?
In the Age of Grace, God was incarnated as the Lord Jesus,
and was then nailed to the cross to serve as a sin offering.
We all understand this.
But for the Lord Jesus' return in the last days,
why is He incarnated in the flesh again as the Son of man to complete His work?
Many can't understand this.
That's right. I'm afraid we just don't get it.
If Almighty God hadn't explained this aspect of the truth to mankind
and unveiled this mystery,
then it's safe to say that no one would have understood it.
Right!
Now, my two brothers,
we've learned much from listening to your fellowship
over these past several days. (Yes!)
We've begun to understand the mystery of God's incarnation.
This is the first time we've heard this in all of our years in faith.
Yes. That's right.
Yes, we've never heard preaching like this before.
But now I think I still have a question to ask you.
Go ahead with your question.
In the Age of Grace,
God was incarnated to be a sin offering and take on the burden of sin.
This makes perfect sense.
Yes.
He was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
The Lord Jesus became Son of man to redeem man with sinless flesh.
And through this, Satan was defeated.
Yes.
In the last days,
God has once more become flesh as the Son of man to do the work of judgment.
And this we have come to learn is the truth!
Oh, yes, yes, it's true.
What I wanted to ask is this:
God's two incarnations are different,
the first was in Judea and the second is in China.
Now then, why does God have to be incarnated twice
to do the work of saving mankind?
What is the significance of His two incarnations?
Please tell us!
We have yet to understand this one aspect of the truth.
Could you explain it to us further? (Sure.)
Yes, brothers, please talk with us a little more about this!
Yes, please tell us more! (Alright!)
You say God has been incarnated in the last days as the Son of man
to do the work of judgment.
I say that's impossible! (That's right!)
The believers like us already know
when the Lord Jesus was crucified, He said,
This proves mankind's salvation by God's incarnation
has already been completed.
It's over. (Amen! Yes!)
Now you're saying He's back
and He's been incarnated as the Son of man again.
How can that be true?!
That's right.
The Lord Jesus was incarnated to redeem mankind.
We all know this is right! (Right!)
The Lord Jesus has come back through yet another incarnation?
If it's to rapture His believers into the kingdom of heaven,
is it necessary to be incarnated? (Right.)
When it comes to this issue, we don't understand.
Could you explain it further to us?
Sure!
You asked us a minute ago,
"Why should God be incarnated twice to do the work of saving mankind?"
We should be clear about this first.
With regard to saving mankind,
God's two incarnations have a profound meaning. (Yes.)
Because when it comes to the salvation of mankind,
whether we mean the redemption
or God's work of judgment and purification of the last days,
it can't actually be performed by mankind.
God has to be incarnated and He has to perform the work Himself.
In the Age of Grace,
God was incarnated as the Lord Jesus,
meaning God's Spirit clothed Himself in a holy and sinless flesh,
and was then nailed to the cross to serve as a sin offering,
redeeming mankind from their sinfulness. (Yes.)
We all understand this.
But for the Lord Jesus' return in the last days,
why is He incarnated in the flesh again as the Son of man to complete His work?
Many can't understand this.
That's right. I'm afraid we just don't get it.
If Almighty God hadn't explained this aspect of the truth to mankind
and unveiled this mystery,
then it's safe to say that no one would have understood it.
Right!
Now, let's see what exactly Almighty God has said! (Alright!)
Let's turn to page 1008.
Amen!
God's incarnation in the last days is important! (Yes!)
I think we should read another passage. (Alright!)
Amen!
It's amazing how Almighty God makes it so clear! (It is!)
God's incarnation is truly a mystery! (Yes!)
If we based our faith just on the Bible, we would never learn this mystery!
That's right!
Thanks be to God!
From Almighty God's word, we see for ourselves:
In the Age of Grace, God became flesh for the first time
just to do the work of redemption.
Through the crucifixion,
He served as the sin offering to redeem mankind from its sinfulness
to relieve mankind from the curses and condemnation of the law.
We only had to confess and repent, then our sins would be forgiven.
We could then enjoy the truth and the bountiful grace,
which God bestowed upon us.
Yes!
This is the work of redemption that the Lord Jesus performed,
and it's also the true meaning of being saved by faith.
Amen!
Now, having said all this, I want to ask you all a question.
We are saved through our faith and the Lord pardons us of our sins,
but are we rid of our sinfulness?
Absolutely not.
That's right! Man's not rid of his sinfulness.
Right! Though the Lord Jesus pardoned us of our sins,
we still have yet to free ourselves from our sinfulness,
because we are still deeply possessed of our sinful nature
and satanic disposition.
Though we may continue to admit every one of our sins to the Lord,
and may still receive the pardon from the Lord,
that doesn't mean we have any real knowledge of our sinful nature.
Yes.
We know even less about our corrupt disposition,
something much more serious than sin.
The only sins that we are able to recognize are the sins of lawlessness
and the ones that accuse our conscience.
But we fail to recognize the deeper kind of sins, the sins of resisting God.
We don't know what causes our resistance,
how our satanic disposition manifests itself,
how our satanic nature came to exist,
which of Satan's poisons ingrain themselves within our nature,
and where man's satanic logic thinking and rules have arisen from.
It's very true we've never asked these questions.
So why does man have no knowledge at all of these satanic things?
Since man has been pardoned of his sins by the Lord Jesus,
why can't he free himself from the clutches of his sinfulness?
Why does he commit the same sins?
Does man truly become pure once he's been pardoned of his sins?
Does he then truly become holy?
No.
This is a practical issue that no one in the Age of Grace understands. (Yes.)
We truly can't see to the heart of these issues. (Yes.)
Though we are pardoned of our sins through the Lord,
we still unknowingly sin and resist God, rebelling against Him.
We believers all know this and experience it firsthand.
Yes!
For instance, we keep lying, even after putting faith in the Lord,
covet vanity, despise the truth and worship evil.
We can still be arrogant, quite treacherous, and greedy,
we're helplessly caught up in the corrupt disposition of Satan.
Many men work tirelessly for the Lord,
but they do so to enter the kingdom of heaven.
When they enjoy the Lord's grace,
then they're happy and resolute in their faith,
but as soon as they're faced with disaster or some tragedy strikes,
they misunderstand and blame the Lord.
They even deny and betray Him.
That's right!
As soon as God's work doesn't fit their conceptions,
they turn on God just like the hypocritical Pharisees,
resisting and condemning Him.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Yes, sometimes we sin without even knowing it.
That's right, we seem to live in a never-ending cycle of sin and confession.
That's right!
So in the end, what does all of this prove?
That even though we have accepted salvation through Lord Jesus,
our sins were forgiven by Him,
this doesn't mean we have fully rid ourselves of sin and become holy, (Right!)
nor does it mean we have become of God or been gained by God.
Yes.
So when the Lord Jesus comes again to pass His judgment in the last days,
many people from the religious world
can even judge, condemn, and blaspheme God,
declaring Him their enemy and nailing Him to the cross again.
Could those that publicly condemn and resist God
enter the kingdom of heaven on the basis of their sins being pardoned?
No!
Would God allow evil forces to enter the kingdom of heaven to resist Him?
Would God take antichrists these haters of the truth into the kingdom of heaven?
No! Absolutely not!
He wouldn't! And why wouldn't He?
Because God is holy!
Right! That's right!
God is holy and righteous!
Amen! Yes!
As you can see, although we are pardoned of our sins through our faith,
we haven't fully rid ourselves of sinfulness or the influences of Satan, (Yes.)
much less have we been gained by God or become of God.
Yes!
So now if we humans wish to rid ourselves of sin to be fully gained by God,
we need God's second incarnation
to do the work of thoroughly purifying and saving man.
Amen!
Do you all understand this now? (Yes!)
That's indeed the truth.
God's second incarnation is necessary!
Yes, you're right! Yes.
Sadly, our view of God's work of salvation is far too simple.
Once we have our sins pardoned, we think there are no other issues,
that we'll surely be taken to the kingdom of heaven.
A corrupt man can be very naive and childish!
Corrupt mankind's conceptions and illusions are so ridiculous!
Was sin our only problem after our corruption by Satan?
What is the real root of mankind's sin?
And what exactly is sin?
Why does God detest it so?
To this day, no one has a proper understanding.
That's right, no one really gets it.
Man has been corrupted by Satan,
but to what degree is their corruption?
No one is clear on this.
Can you admit that's true?
Yes! It's true. (Yes.)
The reality of man's deep corruption
was made clear at the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus.
The fact that man could crucify the Lord Jesus
who had been merciful and expressed so much truth,
truly is a proof that man was now a descendant of Satan,
a follower of Satan, (Yes, that's the truth, he's right.)
that they had lost their humanity,
and that they didn't possess the slightest shred of a conscience.
Right!
They have no normal humanity.
Yes, that's right.
Doesn't man's resistance and animosity mean that man is at a point
where it's either them or God, where they can't reconcile with Him?
Can this problem really be solved by having their sins pardoned?
Who can guarantee that afterward man won't resist God
or take Him as their enemy?
No one can make that guarantee.
Right.
No, no one can guarantee it!
Man's sins may be pardoned,
but what about man's nature which opposes God?
Can God pardon man's disposition that is satanic?
He can't. No!
So then how does God resolve the things that still belong to Satan?
Without a doubt,
that's where God uses judgment and chastisement. (Oh … Yes.)
It's fair to say without God's righteous judgment at work,
corrupt mankind would not be conquered,
they would never sink to the ground in deep humiliation.
This reason is why God must be incarnated in order to do the work of judgment.
Yes. I see.
There are many who have misconceptions about God's incarnation
and judgment in the last days.
Why is this so?
This is because they fail to see the reality of man's thorough corruption.
Right!
And so they don't understand why God does judgment work during the last days.
They hold fast to their conceptions
and fail to seek and study the true way.
Yes!
With that, how could they possibly obey God's work?
Ah, so it is!
So late today!
I've been a believer for many years, only repenting my sins.
But I never understood what the root of my sinfulness was.
Yes!
After hearing your fellowship, I finally understood.
The real root of our continuing sinfulness is actually our satanic nature!
Yes! Right!
Why do you frame belief in such a complicated manner?
The Lord Jesus who we believe in is the Redeemer. (Right!)
The Lord has forgiven us of all our sins, so we're free of sin!
Amen!
Having faith in the Lord is a simple matter,
we've no need for God's judgment in the last days!
Right! The Lord Jesus is a loving Lord.
I don't think the Lord Jesus would take His believers and then destroy them!
Brother Gu, Sister Huang,
the Lord Jesus clearly prophesied:
The words of Lord Jesus couldn't be more clear. (Yes. That's right!)
In the last days, He will come again to judge man with His word.
So why can't you just accept this?
I'm wondering if you're truly the sheep of the Lord.
You …
Why can't you hear the Lord's voice?
Right!
They just explained it so clearly, how come these two still don't get it?
They made it so clear!
For the past while these two brothers spoke with us very clearly.
The Lord Jesus became flesh and He completed the work of redemption,
only forgiving man of his sins.
It didn't resolve the root of man's sinfulness,
this is simply a fact. (Yes!)
Within our past belief,
we couldn't understand the substance of the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus.
We believed that God had already forgiven our sins,
and so everything was just fine.
So we were waiting to enter God's kingdom.
That's right, that's exactly how we used to practice faith.
Yeah. If Almighty God hadn't come to reveal the full mystery of the incarnation
or His three-stage work's purpose,
we would be incapable of understanding God's work and will.
Yes! That's right! That's true.
With this view,
God incarnate expresses truth in the last days to do the work of judgment,
this is so meaningful! (Amen!)