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.