Straying from the Bible is heresy!
All of God's work is recorded in the Bible.
Our belief in God must be based in its words!
Almighty God's arrival has sent shockwaves
through the nations and sects of the world.
Is Almighty God actually God Himself, the Creator and Master of all things?
Is He truly the Lord Jesus,
who was crucified on the cross by the Israelites two thousand years ago?
"Ironclad Proofs" is here to give you ironclad facts and evidence.
Once faced with the irrefutable facts and evidence,
mankind will receive its answer.
Lin Bo'en served the Lord for decades and he was a great preacher.
When he accepted Almighty God, Christ of the last days
he was excluded and condemned by pastors, elders,
and other leaders in the religious world,
and dismissed from his own church.
Having suffered attacks, condemnations, and false-charges,
he finally saw the truth
behind the pastors' and elders' hypocritical practices for himself.
And what's even better,
he finally realized that only Christ is the truth, the way, and the life.
Only Christ is capable of purifying and saving mankind.
He made up his mind to follow Christ and testify to others about Christ,
putting his all into seeking the truth,
trying to change his disposition and become a true witness for God.
When the CCP learned that after his release from prison,
not only did he remain strong in his faith,
but he accepted the Eastern Lightning,
spreading the word that the Lord Jesus Christ has returned
and that He's Almighty God.
They soon put out a warrant for his arrest and pursued him everywhere.
Lin Bo'en was forced to escape from his hometown,
and continued to bear witness that the Lord Jesus has returned
and that He is now the incarnate Almighty God.
He brought before God many true believers who were thirsty for His return.
This film is the true story
of how Lin Bo'en spread the gospel wherever he went
and told many others about Christ of the last days—Almighty God.
Come on in!
Okay. Morning!
Oh, you're back! (Yes!)
And this is?
Oh! It's you! (That's right!)
Oh, it's so good to see you, Brother Lin!
Sorry, I couldn't recognize you,
you have so much makeup on!
Oh, this is just to help me avoid the CCP.
He's right, he has to do it!
I almost forgot Brother Liu and Zhang are just inside.
Why don't you come in!
Right, we should go in. (Let's go!)
Now we know the CCP—
You both made it!
Ah, it's you, Brother Lin, you come back!
We heard last night that the police went to arrest you again,
and I hear this time they have a warrant.
I think we all should take a seat. (Okay.)
You know, you've become famous around here.
It seems that the CCP government won't rest until you're in custody.
You've spread the gospel throughout this area,
holding meetings and surrounding yourself with believers.
This could give away your whereabouts.
I'm sorry but soon you won't be able to spread the gospel here.
He's right!
Brother Lin, you need to lay low for a while,
or else things could get very dangerous!
Right now,
the kingdom gospel of God is spreading throughout the country on a grand scale.
Right!
And everyone is proactively trying to spread it.
How could I lay low at this time, living in shadows?
That's true.
The more the CCP bears down on us,
the greater our faith has to be.
We cannot run away!
That's right!
If we can't spread the gospel here,
then we'll have to spread it somewhere else!
Sounds good! Very good!
I've been thinking:
I've come to know many brothers and sisters who attend house churches.
We can use this opportunity to spread God's kingdom gospel to them, (Alright!)
and His work in the last days.
That's a great idea!
Since we became believers,
we have enjoyed much of God's grace. (Yes!)
If we don't fulfill our duties now for the kingdom gospel's sake,
we'll become unworthy of God. (Right!)
Brother Lin and I are growing old.
We're advanced in our years! (Yeah, you are right.)
But we still get to spread the kingdom gospel and God's work in the last days.
Isn't that an exaltation from God?
It's an immense blessing!
Yes, a blessing.
And one worth fighting for!
It is! (Yes!)
We have to give our all.
Don't hold back! (Amen!)
In the past, I've met quite a few house church preachers.
There was one who was called Zhen Houlin and another …
Song Muzhen.
Yes, Song Muzhen!
Oh, you both have met them!
Yes, I know them. We can trust them.
They are both true believers in God. (That's great!)
They're part of God's flock, those treasures He will "steal" at His return!
Yes!
Let's go then and spread the gospel of Almighty God.
Sound good? (Yes, wonderful!)
They're good people who are upright.
They have a true faith and believe in God.
They're perfect for hearing the gospel! (True!)
Then I think we should head out at the crack of dawn! (OK!)
The church is in bad shape.
Come on in!
Brother, look who's come to visit us!
Brother Lin! (Brother Zhen!)
Oh, this is so great!
Brother Lin!
Yes, Brother Song!
I can't believe it!
Welcome!
My good friends, it's been years since we met! (Yes, it has! Yes!)
The time has flown by! (Yeah!)
Brother Lin, Brother Liu, never thought I'd see you here!
Me neither. Thanks be to God!
We just happen to have our meeting today,
why don't you join us! (Okay!)
Yes, join us!
Right this way.
Let's welcome our visitors! (Yes! Hi!)
This is Brother Lin, this is Brother Liu. (Hello! Welcome! Hi!)
The three of us used to serve the Lord together as co-workers.
Brother Lin is very spiritual, (Thanks be to God!)
and his fellowship is full of light and practical!
Today, why don't we have Brother Lin give us a sermon!
Oh, alright!
Amen. Thanks be to the Lord.
Let's sit down.
Thanks be to God.
I've heard Brother Lin preach before, it is great!
This is wonderful!
What a great opportunity!
This will be wonderful!
Brothers and sisters, peace in the Lord!
Amen! Praise the Lord! Thanks be to God!
I trust you are all watching and waiting for the second coming of the Lord.
Yes.
Yes, every day we watch and wait for the coming of the Lord! Right, we've always been waiting!
We're waiting for the Lord to come and take us!
Right now, the entire religious world acknowledges
that all prophecies of His return have been fulfilled. (Yes!)
Many of those who thirst for the appearance of the Lord have already felt it
that the Lord probably has already returned.
Yes, we all felt it, too.
Yes, we think it's time for the Lord to return. (Yes, that's true.)
Yes, the Lord must have returned! (Right!)
So now I want to confirm a piece of good news for all of you.
What news?
The Lord Jesus has indeed returned to us!
What? The Lord has returned? Is he telling the truth?!
And this is an indisputable fact!
Our Lord Jesus has returned?!
Did I hear you right?
Is that correct that the Lord has returned?
The Lord has really returned?!
This is amazing! The Lord has returned!
How wonderful!
Our Lord has returned?! Our Lord has really returned?!
This is amazing!
I've been feeling this for such a long time now!
If He's returned, where is He now?
Brother Lin, please tell us!
Yes, please! Where is the Lord?
The Lord has returned? But how can that be true?
If the Lord had really returned,
then wouldn't we have been raptured already?
He's right, and especially we have been raptured?
How could it be that the Lord has returned?
Brother Lin, if the Lord has returned, where is He?
Yes, please tell us! Tell us! Tell us what you know!
Alright, everyone! Calm down.
Have a seat and we'll discuss this. (Alright!)
I'll tell you everything.
God has become flesh as the Son of man and revealed Himself in China,
expressing the truth and performing His judgment in the last days!
Become flesh?
In China?
God is in China?
Now some of you might be asking:
Why has the Lord chosen to be incarnated in China?
Yes, why? Tell us, please!
The prophecies of the Lord Jesus tell us this.
Please tell us!
Well, in Matthew 24:27, it is clearly written:
These two scriptures clearly give us the details on how the Lord will return.
Everyone knows the fact that China is known as the East of the world.
Yes, that's true.
Almighty God has chosen to work in China
and expressed every truth that will purify and save mankind,
so that it is like a great light shining out of the East.
This is how the Eastern Lightning came into being.
They bear witness that the Lord Jesus has returned.
He is now the incarnate Almighty God, performing His judgment in the last days.
Ah … Yes!
In just twenty years,
Almighty God's work in the last days
has already spread through China at such a rate.
He is now a household name.
Twenty years? That's fast!
Amen! Thanks be to God!
Nowadays, Almighty God's word is available online,
so that the people of every nation can look into it for themselves.
The work of Almighty God in the last days is like a bolt of lightning,
shining from the East and into the West.
This completely fulfills the prophecy of Lord Jesus.
With the Lord Jesus' work of redeeming mankind as a foundation,
Almighty God has begun the next stage of work:
judging and chastising mankind's corruption.
Actually, the true purpose of this work
is to save and cleanse mankind completely.
It's just as the Lord Jesus prophesied:
Yes, that's what it says in the Bible!
And here, the Lord Jesus made it clear.
He said He would come again in the last days as the Son of man incarnate,
uttering words to fulfill His important work of judgment.
When we use the term "Son of man,"
we're referring to the incarnation of God, God in the flesh.
When we refer to God's Spirit,
this is not the same as the Son of man.
But Christ is certainly the incarnation of God, the Son of man,
and this is indisputable.
The Son of man?
The second coming of the Lord Jesus is the Son of man
who speaks the words to do the work of judgment in the last days.
Really?
Brother Lin,
you have told us that the Lord Jesus has returned
and He's been incarnated to do His work.
But I just don't understand.
We all know that the Lord Jesus was the incarnation of God.
Once His work was finished,
He was crucified and resurrected, appearing to His disciples,
and then ascended into heaven in His spiritual body.
Exactly. Precisely.
It's just like it says in the Bible,
Amen!
And so, this has all been confirmed in the biblical scripture.
When the Lord comes again,
it will be through His resurrected spiritual body that He appears to us.
Why would God choose to be in the fleshly form of the Son of man in the last days
to perform His judgment?
Yes. Tell us.
So what is the difference between these two forms,
the spiritual body of the Lord Jesus and the Son of man in the flesh?
I'm only saying that I'm still quite confused, if you could explain it to us.
Yes, fellowship with us, please! Please explain it to us. Tell us more!
It clearly says in the Bible,
The Lord Jesus ascended to heaven in a spiritual body,
so logically the second coming of the Lord
should also be in this spiritual body.
It only makes sense!
Tell me, how could this be wrong?
You're telling us
that God in the last days has come in the flesh for His judgment.
I'm sorry, but that's impossible.
Most followers of the Lord Jesus do believe
that the Lord will reveal Himself in His spiritual body,
that is,
the spiritual body the Lord appeared in for forty days after His resurrection.
We believers are clear about this.
This spiritual body of the Lord Jesus, after He was resurrected,
has the very same image He had when He became flesh,
but the spiritual body is not constrained by the material world, time, or space.
It has the ability to appear and disappear at will
to mankind's shock and amazement.
Accounts of these times are in Scripture. (Right! That's true!)
Before it was time for the Lord Jesus to be crucified,
He had been speaking and working within the normal humanity of the flesh.
Whether He was expressing the truth,
interacting with men, or performing miracles,
everyone thought He was normal.
And what people actually saw was His flesh truly doing His important work
while suffering torment and paying the price.
In the end, it was this flesh that was brutally crucified on the cross
as the sin offering for mankind,
thereby completing God's redemptive work.
This is widely acknowledged as fact.
Think about this for a moment:
If His spiritual body had done the work,
could the Lord Jesus have held normal conversations with men?
Could He have truly suffered the torment and paid the price for our sins?
Could a spiritual body have been nailed to the cross?
He couldn't have done these things.
If it were His spiritual body doing the work,
could we humans interact with Him?
Would we reveal our corruption?
Would we form notions about Him?
Would we dare to rebel and cast judgments on God?
No! Absolutely not!
That would be impossible!
All men are imbued with normal humanity,
they are all subject to the constraints of the world, time, and space.
And all men have a normal thought process.
If man witnessed the work of the spiritual body,
then they would be overwhelmed with fright and sent into a great panic.
Their very thoughts would become crazed and maniacal.
If God were faced with this situation,
then salvation would be impossible.
So working in the spiritual body
is far less effective than working within the confines of a normal humanity.
Yes! That's right!
Throughout the ages,
God's chosen people have never experienced the work of God's spiritual body.
It certainly wouldn't be suitable for God's spiritual body
to express the truth, directly communicate with man,
or shepherd the churches.
This truly is helping us understand things.
Brothers and sisters, God's judgment work which comes in the last days
uses the expression of God's word to purify, save, and perfect mankind,
but also its goal is to expose and eliminate human beings,
dividing man according to their kinds, rewarding good and punishing evil.
If God were to appear in His spiritual body,
and all men good or evil were to bow down before Him,
then how would He separate the good from the evil?
He's right. There would be no way to distinguish them!
Also, if God were to appear in His spiritual body,
then mankind would fall into a panic and chaos start to spread.
Then how would God continue His judgment of man in the last days?
It's true. Yes.
And if that were to happen,
how would God make a group of followers that align with His will
before the great disasters?
Yes. That's right!
So in the last days,
God must take on a human form as the Son of man with normal humanity.
This way, He can work and live in the human world
and He can express truth to judge and purify mankind all in a practical manner,
so that man may be freed from Satan's influence,
receive salvation from God and become of God.
Yes, of course.
The incarnate Lord Jesus worked within His normal humanity
in order to achieve mankind's redemption.
The Lord Jesus' spiritual body only appeared to mankind
just to prove that the Lord Jesus was the incarnation of God.
This was done so that man's faith would be strengthened.
You see, His spiritual body was for appearing to man and not for doing the work.
Now I see!
God incarnate has to have normal humanity to be able to work amongst man
and to achieve the redemption and salvation of mankind.
Right!
So then if God wants to thoroughly save man
through His judgment in the last days,
He must become flesh and work in normal humanity to do it effectively.
He certainly can't appear in the spiritual body of the Lord Jesus
to do His judgment in the last days.
This is something that all believers of the Lord have to become clear on.
Only by being incarnated to do His work can God purify and save man!
Yes, God really loves man!
What you said has helped me understand.
You're saying the Lord's spiritual body
was only meant for appearance and not to do work.
Yes!
The Lord Jesus came back after the crucifixion,
and His resurrected spiritual body appeared to man for forty days.
He did this so that man could see the Lord Jesus is the incarnation of God.
Right!
Only the flesh that's been assumed by God's Spirit
can resurrect and become the spiritual body.
Knowing this, God's incarnation is essential to His work. (Yeah! Right!)
It was only through becoming flesh
that God redeemed man through His crucifixion. (Oh yes, that's right!)
Only through His incarnation
is God able to deliver His truth to man, judge man, and cleanse man,
and thoroughly save mankind from all of its sinful ways. (Amen!)
The pastors and elders never put it like this before.
To gain an even greater understanding of the incarnation,
let's read something from Almighty God's word. (Alright!)
That's wonderful.
Yes.
Praise the Lord. Thank the Lord.
Let's continue reading. (Thank the Lord.)
Brother Lin, could we have a look at the word of Almighty God?
Yes, let us have a look! (Alright. Sounds good.)
Great!
Could you take them out?
Brother Song.
Thanks be to God!
Great!
Thanks be to the Lord!
"Holy Bible The Kingdom Age."
This is God's word!
This is
Everyone, please turn to page 1355.
Alright!
The word of Almighty God is so clear!
Let's all turn back to page 1011.
Let's stop our reading of God's words here.
Almighty God has revealed the mystery of the incarnation.
His word is truly eye-opening.
The truth He reveals is so extraordinary.
Do you have time to fellowship with us some more?
Yeah, please fellowship with us! Tell us more!
Almighty God's word clearly explains the differences
between God's work performed in His spiritual body and as God incarnate.
Right.
It also reveals the meaning of God's work while in His incarnation.
Yes.
Despite the fact that the Lord Jesus' spiritual body
can appear to man and come face to face with them,
that same spiritual body still seems unapproachable and mysterious,
it stirs fear in man's hearts to keep them at bay.
Yes.
Because the Lord's spiritual body cannot interact with man normally,
and cannot perform His work while living normally amongst men,
He thus is incapable of saving all of mankind.
However, God incarnate is different.
He can interact with mankind in a practical way
and He can water and supply man,
just as the Lord Jesus could deliver the truth anytime and anywhere
while He was still living among men.
His disciples would always take the time to sit with Him,
listen to His teachings and communicate with Him.
They directly received His watering and shepherding.
Whatever obstacles they faced,
the Lord Jesus would help them find the right solution.
They were blessed with the rich supply of life.
They found God to be both pleasant and lovely.
And thus they could truly love and obey God.
It's only when God chooses to become flesh among men
that we have a chance to engage with, experience, and know God.
Only at that point can we see God's wonder, witness His wisdom
and His practical salvation with our own eyes. (Amen!)
You see, this shows the importance and value of the work of God incarnate.
And the spiritual body simply cannot achieve this effect.
It's great that God has become flesh for His work!
This fellowship is important to understand,
and has made one thing very clear to us.
Only through returning as the Son of man and working within normal humanity
will God be able to practically judge, conquer, and purify man.
If the spiritual body of Lord Jesus came to work,
He could not achieve nearly the same result. (Right!)
At first, when God becomes the Son of man
to begin His judgment and purification of mankind,
we humans will treat God as though He was an ordinary human,
and that's because we don't know the incarnate God.
We will form notions about God's word and work;
we'll treat Christ without respect and disobey Him;
we'll speak in falsehoods, pass judgments on His work,
and go so far as to condemn Him.
The arrogance, rebelliousness, and resistance of us humans
will make itself fully visible in the presence of Christ.
It's just as Almighty God says,
Let's end our reading here.
God judges, exposes, and deals with mankind
according to the actual fact of their resistance.
God's work is practical and reveals man's true nature.
When faced with this evidence,
those who can accept the truth will be thoroughly convinced enough
to admit their own resistance and that they are rebellious against God.
Also, they will come to know God's holy, righteous,
and unoffendable disposition,
and they will all be able to accept God's judgment by word submissively,
so that they may be conquered and saved by God's practical work.
Just as Almighty God says,
So mankind will only have themselves thoroughly purified and achieve salvation,
if the incarnation of God comes to implement His judgment in the last days.
Yes, it is true! That is true!
Praise the Lord!
I understand this now thanks to your communion!
Thanks be to God!
Though I have yet to experience Almighty God's judgment,
I'm clear it's through God's incarnation
performing His work of judgment, purification, and salvation
that we have the opportunity to see God and truly acquire knowledge of God.
Right!
The work of God's incarnation is very practical!
Thanks be to God!
I'm embarrassed to admit this:
Although we're believers,
we've never understood the Lord's word.
We've based everything on imagination,
thinking that in the last days the Lord would descend with clouds.
For all these years, I've been gazing toward the heavens,
waiting foolishly for His spiritual body to descend with clouds.
I never thought to study the work of God's incarnation in the last days.
I think we've been so very ignorant!
Lately, more people have been accepting the gospel.
That's right.
God's sheep will hear the voice of God. (Right!)
Oh, I think it's our brothers and sisters.
Let them in.
Now that all these people want to spread the gospel,
more people would accept God's work.
That's for sure! You're right!
Brother Zhen! Brother Zhen! Someone has reported you.
What did they say?
They said that there are two preachers from out of town
who've been living with you for months.
The village headman's coming to investigate and soon!
This is very bad. His son's in the police station. (Yes.)
This means he might bring the police.
Well, maybe it's not safe here.
We should just go.
Right, we're heading out now.
Wait, Brother Lin, you can stay with Elder Peng in Wulin County.
Hold on!
What is it?
I was at the committee office.
I rushed over here to tell you as soon as I heard!
I've written down Elder Peng's address.
Elder Peng is a very good man,
you can live with him for now.
Thank you!
Go! I'll see you out!
Please take some buns for the road!
Alright, we're off!
Hey! Hey there! Wait a minute.
Good morning! (Hi, how are you?)
Co-worker Guo is here, too.
Almost everyone is here. Let's begin!
Now then, my brothers,
I'm a longtime believer,
and though I knew the Lord Jesus is the incarnation of God,
I didn't know the Lord Jesus Himself
and I didn't treat the Lord Jesus as God Himself. (Right!)
When the Lord Jesus arrived a second time,
I couldn't recognize His voice
and I didn't know how to welcome the Lord. (Right.)
But now we've certainly come to the root of the problem,
and it's because we don't understand the truth about God's incarnation. (Right.)
Now I think after hearing your testimony,
it's become clear that in the last days the Lord has to become flesh
in order to perform His judgment. (I agree. Yes!)
But we don't understand the truth about the incarnation,
and we are all so easily deceived
by the rumors of the CCP and the pastors of the religious world.
We might treat God incarnate as an ordinary man
and even resist Him and blaspheme Him.
And so I want to ask you more about the incarnation.
Now what is the incarnation of God?
What is the difference between Christ and the prophets and apostles used by God?
Please explain it to me. (Right. Please.)
What is the difference?
You've raised a very important issue.
The reason believers can't accept Almighty God's work in the last days
is because of this very point!
If we don't understand the truth about the incarnation,
we may easily fall prey to the rumors
spread by the CCP and the pastors and elders of the religious world
who would lead us to believe that Almighty God is just a man
and deny that Almighty God is the incarnation of God. (Right.)
That's right. That's what we've heard!
Since you've brought up this very crucial issue today,
I think we should focus on that in our talk.
Okay.
First of all, as for what the incarnation is and what Christ is,
you could say
there's a mystery of the truth that no believer has ever understood. (Yes!)
Even though believers have known for thousands of years,
the Lord Jesus is in fact the incarnate God,
you see no one understands it,
nor do they really understand the substance of the incarnation.
But Almighty God of the last days has come
and now this aspect of the mystery has been revealed to man.
Let's read and see how Almighty God explains it. (Alright!)
Great!
Amen!
Amen! Praise God!
Let's turn to page 1390. (Okay!)
Amen!
Praise God. Let's stop here for now.
The incarnation, it means that God becomes a man?
We've never heard preaching this before.
So, in Almighty God's word, it has been made clear
God's incarnation refers to God's Spirit being realized in flesh.
God's Spirit is clothed in flesh and becomes the Son of man
to carry out His work here on earth and appear to mankind.
All of that means that God in heaven has become man,
so He can fulfill His salvation of man while working among man.
He has normal humanity and complete divinity.
From His appearance,
God's incarnation seems like an ordinary and normal man.
He obeys the normal laws of human life
and takes part in the activities of normal life.
He has normal human emotions and lives practically
while He's in the company of human beings.
From His appearance,
He doesn't seem different from us.
But the substance of the incarnate God is divinity.
He can express God's disposition, all that God is and has.
He's able to express the truth according to man's needs
and supply and save man no matter what time or place.
He can do the work of God Himself,
something that nothing else in creation is capable of.
Amen!
We know the Lord Jesus is definitely the incarnation of God, He is Christ.
From His outward appearance,
He seemed just the same as us, an ordinary normal person.
Yes! Right! Amen!
And yet the Lord Jesus could express the truth
and bring man the way of repentance.
He had the authority to pardon man of his sins and be crucified,
so He could complete mankind's redemption.
No other man has been capable of this.
Yes! Indeed.
The Lord Jesus could also perform signs and wonders.
He could calm the winds and sea,
feed five thousand with just five loaves and two fish,
resurrect the dead, and so on. (Right. That's right.)
The Lord Jesus performed many miracles and manifested a myriad of God's deeds.
Yes. Indeed.
The Lord Jesus also traveled far and wide to preach.
According to man's real needs,
He expressed the truth to supply and shepherd man,
working at any time or place,
allowing man to see how His words and work
were indeed those of the real and practical God on earth and in the flesh.
Amen!
The words and work of Lord Jesus
are a manifestation of God's life disposition and all that God has and is.
No created humans are possessed with this,
nor are they capable of reaching such achievements.
Amen!
This proves the Lord Jesus Himself is indeed the incarnate God.
Amen!
Though He has normal humanity,
His inner substance is still divine.
And so, He can utter God's voice and express the truth.
He can perform God's work with God's identity.
You see, if we were only able to see Christ's normal humanity,
we would only think to treat Him like an ordinary man,
but if we were to realize that the words expressed by Christ are the truth,
that He manifests God's disposition and all that God is and has,
and behold all of His deeds and the work of God in the flesh,
only through reaching this level
would we come to know the divine substance of Christ.
Amen!
Okay. God's incarnation is a mystery.
Yes. Indeed.
I've been reading the Bible for many years,
and even though I've heard the term "incarnation,"
sadly, I don't think I've been very clear on its true meaning.
Right.
Now, finally I understand.
God incarnate looks like us on the outside and seems ordinary, (Yes.)
but what's hidden inside Him is His divine substance,
and the divine substance of Christ cannot be understood easily.
Right, yes, indeed! That's right!
So to realize that everything Christ expresses is the truth,
and that He manifests God's life disposition,
that's not exactly an easy task. (Right.)
We must experience God's work and seek truth
if we want to make that realization! (Yeah!)
Yes, that's true!
In fact, it's very important for us believers
to know the divine substance of Christ.
Right!
If we don't recognize His divine substance,
then we might deny Christ and think He's just an ordinary man,
or we might even treat the apostles and prophets used by God,
like they were God Himself.
This is certainly no small matter!
Yes. Indeed. Of course!
Now I think we should discuss the differences
between the apostles and prophets used by God and Christ Himself.
Alright!
Thanks be to God!
Everyone is now aware that God incarnate has a normal humanity,
and seems like a normal person,
but He's actually God's Spirit realized in the flesh
and He has divine substance.
That's why He's the One who's able to do the work of God,
why He has the ability to express the truth,
God's disposition and His demands for mankind at any time or place. (Right.)
So He's the One who can judge, expose, and even curse mankind,
just like He can redeem, purify, and save man.
Amen!
The prophets and apostles are men who are used by God.
They too possess normal humanity but they lack divine substance.
That means they can only do the work of man,
that is, in God's management plan they can only fulfill human duties. (Right.)
None of them are able to express the truth,
much less do the work of God Himself.
Right. I see.
Though their preachings are endowed with the Holy Spirit's pure enlightenment
and accord with the truth,
they're not the truth itself,
they're just their experience and knowledge of God's word.
If we think about the apostles of the Age of Grace,
what they communed was only their own interpretation of the Lord Jesus' word,
testimony based in their experience of God's work.
When we look at the letters of the apostles,
we can clearly see that they were written by men,
they're all based on their personal experiences and witnessing.
Not a single word is the truth that God personally expresses.
Not a single word contains the authority and power as the Lord Jesus' word.
You see, the apostles' words and those of the Lord Jesus are vastly different.
We cannot look at them in the same light.
Amen! Yes!
But there are prophets like Isaiah and Daniel too
who were able to speak God's word!
How do you explain that?
Actually, when the prophets express God's word,
they're only conveying it because they're ordered to by God Himself.
You see, they can't express God's word,
using God's identity or using the first person.
On top of that they can't express the truth at will.
Because they're merely men that are used by God,
they're not God Himself.
They're only supposed to deliver God's word,
and still what they can deliver is very limited.
So when the prophets deliver God's word,
they make it clear that what they're speaking is the word of God
and not their own words.
Is that not the case? (Yes, it's true.)
This is very true!
When the prophets conveyed God's word,
they said "thus saith the Lord," or "The Lord spoke unto me saying."
That is indeed the case. Yes, it is the case.
This is all proof
the prophets and apostles are men who are used by God,
but they're not incarnations of God.
Right! Yeah!
God's incarnation, we can absolutely call God since He has divine substance.
The prophets and apostles have just humanity.
They lack divine substance and so they can't be called God.
So you see, this is the biggest difference
between God's incarnation and the prophets and apostles.
Now I see.
This communion made things clearer for me!
The Lord Jesus looks ordinary,
but what the Lord Jesus says is all God's word and is the truth for sure.
Amen!
His deeds are all part of God's work.
So the Lord Jesus truly does have divine substance within Him, (Yes!)
which no other human could possibly have. (Amen!)
And the apostles and prophets only have humanity
and don't possess divine substance.
Right!
They can't express any bit of truth or complete God's work.
That's a fact! Right!
And now we can distinguish things!
Only God is God, man is always man.
It's important for us to know and understand the incarnate God! (Amen!)
Thanks be to God!
I'm glad that Almighty God has explained the incarnation so clearly.
If Almighty God hadn't revealed the mystery of the incarnation
for us to understand,
we might have never discovered the truth for ourselves
or known about the incarnation.
Yes, that's right! Very true! Absolutely.
Pardon me, brothers, if I may speak.
Your testimony makes a lot of sense,
but we believe in the Lord Jesus who is God's incarnation. (Amen!)
And the Lord Jesus did God's work of redemption.
No one would deny that.
But this Almighty God you believe in cannot really be God's incarnation.
This Almighty God is nowhere in the Bible.
So then the pastors of the religious world
say that He's merely a man
and that you've been fooled.
Only the Lord Jesus, the One we believe in, is Christ, God's Son! (Amen!)
This Almighty God you believe in is just a man.
How could it be otherwise?
Right!
You say that God has been incarnated again to do His work.
That's impossible!
There's only one incarnation of God that we recognize
and He is our Savior, the Lord Jesus. (Amen!)
The One you believe in couldn't possibly be the incarnation of God.
The One you believe in is merely a man!
Your belief that the Lord Jesus is God's incarnation is not wrong.
But why do you choose to believe in the Lord Jesus?
Do you really think the Lord Jesus is God Himself?
You believe in the Lord Jesus
because of what's written in the Bible and the work of the Holy Spirit.
But no matter what, you haven't seen the Lord Jesus face to face.
Do you really dare to say you know the Lord Jesus?
In your belief, you're merely echoing the words of Peter
who said that the Lord Jesus is Christ, the Son of the living God.
But do you believe the Lord Jesus is the manifestation of God,
and that He's God Himself?
Do you dare say that you recognize the divine substance of Lord Jesus?
Do you dare to declare that if the Lord Jesus comes back expressing truth,
you will be able to recognize His voice?
I wouldn't dare. No.
Your belief in the Lord Jesus
amounts to nothing more than a belief in that name "the Lord Jesus."
You don't even understand the divine substance of the Lord Jesus.
If you understand it,
then why can't you distinguish the true voice of God's Spirit?
Why can't you acknowledge
that the truth expressed by Almighty God comes from God,
that it's the voice of the Holy Spirit?
Now that I've seen the way you recklessly reject the voice of God
and boldly deny the very truth which God expresses.
I am now sure that deep down in your hearts,
you don't really know God incarnate!
That's true!
If you had been born two thousand years ago,
in the age when the Lord Jesus was working,
you certainly would have joined in
along with the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees
in condemning the Lord Jesus.
Do any of you think that's not the case?
That's absolutely true.
Those chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees
had believed in the only true God for many years,
but then why couldn't they recognize the Lord Jesus?
Why did they choose to persecute Him and nail Him to the cross?
What was the big issue?
Yes. Right.
Why is it that the pastors of the religious world
fail to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit in the last days?
Why are they condemning the judgment work of Almighty God in the last days?
Let me ask you:
If you believe in God but you fail to acknowledge God's incarnation,
doesn't that make you an antichrist?
Yes!
The Pharisees back then
worked to resist and condemn the Lord Jesus, the incarnate God.
They were all antichrists and they were revealed by God's work!
That's right! Amen.
And as for the pastors and elders of the religious world
who resist and condemn the incarnate Almighty God in the last days,
they are also antichrists and are against God who are all exposed by God's work!
Amen!
Yes! That's right! Indeed they are!
We can plainly see
that the majority of pastors in the religious world
all resist and condemn the work of Almighty God in the last days.
They look upon Almighty God's work without really seeing,
and hear His words without listening.
Almighty God has delivered all truth to purify and save mankind.
He has conquered, saved, and made a group of overcomers.
The whole world will soon see the gospel of the kingdom.
It's becoming unstoppable!
So now could the pastors and leaders of the religious world
possibly not see the facts of God's work?
How can they dare to repeat something as foolish as
"Belief in Almighty God is belief in a man"?
That's right.
Thinking about all this reminds me
of how the Lord Jesus came to do His work,
how He faced so much resistance and blasphemy
from the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees who would then crucify Him.
They said belief in the Lord Jesus was belief in a mere human.
What is the big issue here?
This just goes to show
that there are many who believe in the vague God in the heavens,
but there are very few who have a real knowledge of the incarnate God.
That's right.
Why did the Lord Jesus condemn those Pharisees that resisted Him?
Because they only believed in the vague God up in heaven,
but chose to condemn and resist the incarnate God.
Amen! Yeah!
Isn't that what happened?
That's true. Right!
Yes, it's true.
Belief in God without knowledge of God can lead to resistance.
Yes!
The chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees then
clearly saw the authority and power in the Lord Jesus
through His words and His deeds.
So how could they still brazenly condemn and blaspheme against the Lord Jesus?
They all said that He cast out demons through Beelzebub to deceive man,
and then they ultimately nailed the Lord Jesus to the cross alive.
Yes. That's true.
Now what does all of this tell us?
Wasn't it because they only saw the Lord Jesus just as an ordinary man?
It's just like they said "Isn't that the Nazarene, the son of a carpenter?"
Yeah.
As far as the Pharisees were concerned,
the flesh assumed by God incarnate should've supernatural qualities.
He should be of great stature and a powerful build,
and a kingly and commanding presence.
His words should be earthshaking and deafening.
They should strike fear in the hearts of man.
If not, He can't be God.
That's how I've always thought of it, too!
Me, too! I've always thought that!
The truth is they didn't have the slightest understanding
of what the incarnation is,
and didn't seek the Lord Jesus' words and work
to find the truth and to find God's disposition and all that God is and has.
They saw Lord Jesus as an ordinary man,
judging and blaspheming against Him based on their own misconceptions.
This is all the proof while they believed in God,
they resisted Him and did not know Him.
Yes.
Very true.
And now pastors say that the One we believe in is just an ordinary human.
This isn't any different from how the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees
went out of their way to condemn the Lord Jesus and His followers.
That's right.
You see, most of the pastors in the religious world
are no different than the hypocritical Pharisees back then.
They resisted God while believing in Him. (Yes.)
They're scoundrels who acknowledge the God in the heavens
while denying the incarnate Christ Himself!
Amen!
What authority do they have
to condemn those who choose to accept and obey Christ?
What do you say to that?
Yes, that's absolutely right!
This fellowship today has been so valuable for us. (Yes.)
Before, we didn't have the slightest understanding of the incarnation
and didn't investigate the work of Almighty God in the last days. (Right!)
We just listened to the pastors and elders who said you believe in a man.
We never considered that if Almighty God really is the returned Lord Jesus.
Our resistance and condemnation
would be no different from that of the Pharisees against the Lord!
Yes!
How ignorant and foolish we have all been!
Right. Yes. That's true.
Your fellowship was really practical.
I really got a lot out of it!
Praise God!
Pardon me, but I'd like to ask another question.
On what basis can you confirm that Almighty God really is God's incarnation?
If you could, please explain this matter for us!
Yes, please tell us more!
Praise God. I'd be happy to continue our fellowship! (Okay!)
God becomes flesh once again in the last days
to deliver His word and do His work,
and He is the incarnate Almighty God. (Amen!)
Based on His appearance, Almighty God just seems like an ordinary person,
and He lives practically in the company of men,
taking part in their lives and working among them.
He expresses the truth according to man's needs
and does His work of judgment beginning from the house of God.
Amen. Yes, that's so great and wonderful!
In experiencing Almighty God's wonderful work,
we have heard Almighty God's word, heard His utterances with our own ears.
We have seen Him unveil the mysteries
of God's management plan of salvation with our own eyes, (Oh, that's so wonderful!)
that is, the inside story of God's three stages of work for saving man,
the purpose of God's management plan, the mystery of the incarnation,
how Satan corrupts humanity,
the truth and substance of man's corruption by Satan,
how God works to purify, perfect, and save mankind from that corruption,
the meaning and purpose behind God's judgment work,
the distinction between who God loves and who He curses,
who will be saved in the end, and who will be destroyed,
the destination of man, the end of all kinds of men,
how God's kingdom will be fully realized on earth and so on.
Almighty God has also done other things while expressing these truths.
He has judged and exposed man's satanic disposition
and his nature of resistance to God,
allowing us to see the fact of our thorough corruption
under the influence of Satan,
to see how arrogant, self-aggrandizing, treacherous, and selfish we can all be,
how we're nothing like a real man,
how unworthy we are to be in the presence of God. (That's right.)
Yet despite of all this,
God has still been incarnated,
humbly hiding and living amongst a filthy and corrupt mankind.
He has still returned, expressing the truth to judge, expose, and save man.
Amen!
We have all felt it deep within our hearts,
the substance of God's life is so kind and honorable. (Right! Yes!)
God's love for mankind is so real!
Amen!
In experiencing God's judgment through His word,
we became closely acquainted
with God's righteous, holy, unoffendable disposition,
and we felt the authority and power of Almighty God's word.
Unknowingly, reverence for Him grew in our hearts.
We began to seek the truth and our life disposition began to change over time.
Yes.
It was then that we truly came to understand
that the practical incarnate Almighty God
has expressed the entire truth to purify and to save us, (Amen!)
allowing us to rid ourselves of arrogance, of our cunning, satanic disposition
and live out the likeness of honest people.
Almighty God truly lives among man, walking amongst the churches.
Outwardly, He's just an ordinary person, (Yes.)
and yet He expresses the truth
and reveals God's righteous disposition,
all God is and has. (Amen!)
Those that follow Him and experience His work have received from Him
the truth, the way, and the life.
They see the way God works and how it's practical and very wise.
That's right.
They see how humble and lovely God is
and they find God has no arrogance,
God's disposition is holy. (Yes.)
It stands to reason
that God would possess a lofty flesh,
the kind of flesh that mankind would feel compelled to worship.
But this isn't what God did.
To save a corrupt mankind,
God clothed Himself in an ordinary flesh,
took on the image of an ordinary man,
and came down to live with us corrupt human beings.
He judges and supplies us with His words according to our practical needs.
God has been incarnated as a simple, meager man,
and has already endured a number of indignities and great suffering.
Also, He has endured the slander, condemnation,
and rejection of corrupt humanity,
as well as the persecution of the CCP government.
Despite this, God persists with remarkable patience to express the truth
and complete the salvation of mankind.
Thanks be to God!
God has suffered great torment all just to save mankind! (That's right!)
God's love of mankind is so real!
This lets us see how holy and how great God is.
Amen!
There are no words good enough to describe Him!
Amen!
Almighty God brings us closer to God.
We can be face to face with God,
so we can see Him, get to know Him,
and develop a true love for Him,
and finally receive God's perfection,
so that we can truly worship Him in pure obedience.
Amen!
Now we have all acknowledged in our hearts
that the Almighty God we believe in
is the Lord Jesus Christ returning to the flesh.
Right!
He is man but also God.
Almighty God is the one and only Creator of all things in heaven and earth!
Amen!
Thanks be to God! Praise be to God!
Yet, the pastors and elders condemn us,
thinking we put our faith in a mere human.
Now let me ask you:
Who in all of mankind is capable of speaking truth and God's voice?
No one!
Who in all of mankind
can practically fulfill the work of purifying and saving mankind?
No one!
Who among us can guide corrupted men on the path towards being perfected
into ones who truly know and obey God by experiencing His work?
No one! There's no man capable of this! No one in the world!
There's no one, not one person!
Amen!
Only Almighty God is capable of doing such practical work.
Amen!
Almighty God is the manifestation of the Savior.
Amen!
He's the real and practical God incarnate.
Amen!
Only Almighty God can save mankind and provide mankind with a good destination!
Amen!
Thanks be to God!
Now in the last days, God's become flesh
in order to speak the truth and fulfill His work amongst men.
Yes!
From the outside, He looks like an ordinary man and not supernatural. (Yes.)
He doesn't summon the wind or make the earth tremble,
but He speaks the truth and passes His judgment in the last days (Yes.)
to purify and save man. (Amen!)
This is just like when the Lord Jesus did His work in Judea.
He still speaks in a real and practical way with man heart to heart
and does His work to shepherd man, supply man.
It's so practical that God has been incarnated to complete His work!
Amen!
Thanks be to God!
Well, we uphold the Bible.
No matter what, faith in the Lord Jesus is what we're going to support!
Oh, of course!
As well as Almighty God speaks,
unfortunately, it's not in the Bible.
Who really knows if it is God's word!
That's right.
They've just communed the truth so clearly.
How can you both still speak so absurdly?
Yes, they've just shared the truth very clearly!
That's true. Right! I agree. Yeah.
I think now I finally understand.
Only the wise virgins are able to hear the voice of God,
and the foolish virgins, no matter what, are incapable of hearing God's voice.
Right!
This is what keeps the wise virgins separated from the foolish ones.
Yes! That's right! True!
There is nothing you could do or say to help a foolish virgin.
Yes, that's true! Right.
Only the wise virgins can hear the voice of God. (Yes.)
Mr. Peng! Mr. Peng!
Oh, it's the neighborhood committee!
Quick, my brothers, hide out in the balcony!
Open the door!
Coming!
Oh, Mr. Chen!
Hi!
Mr. Chen, who are these two?
Oh, they are the household registrars.
You weren't at home yesterday.
We've inspected the whole building and you're the last family. (Oh, I see.)
Please get your IDs and household register, we have to check them.
Okay, I'll go get them.
Good.
This census is being conducted all over the city.
We're mostly concerned with identifying out-of-province population.
Just three people in your family? (Yes!)
Have you had any visitors recently?
Hey! Are you here to search the whole house?
Is anyone staying with you from out of town?
No.
What was that sound? (Hey!)
Oh, our daughter's sick. She was just taking her medicine. She's resting now.
Oh, your daughter's at home? (Yes.)
So when did she return?
Oh, two days ago. (I see.)
That should be it. You're all registered.
Okay. Good.
Well then, you're registered. We'll head out.
You see yourselves out then.
Good.
Oh! Mr. Peng, it's well-known that you believe in the Lord.
I hope you remember the regulations,
you can't hold private meetings in your home.
And don't forget it's against the law!
Okay, I'm leaving.
Alright, have a nice day.
Okay.
Brother Peng, what do we do now?
The household registrars are gone now.
I think they were here for a different reason.
I'm guessing they were scouts sent by the CCP to monitor us.
It seems it's no longer safe to meet here. (Yes.)
Brother Guo, can we reconvene in your food cellar?
It might be safer there. (Of course, we can.)
We should go to my food cellar. We'll be safe there.
Okay, great, then we should hurry over there. (Right.)
Come on, brothers. You can follow me. (Alright! Okay.)
Dad, is everyone here?
Yes, we're all here.
I'll close the door.
There you are!
Ah, you are here.
Brother, have a seat.
Amen! Thanks be to God!
Thanks be to God! I think we'll certainly be safe here.
Well then, we should begin. (Okay, let's get started.)
So, my brothers,
you testify that God's incarnation on the outside looks like an ordinary man.
Yes!
Just like the Lord Jesus,
He has both a normal humanity and divinity.
This much we know for certain.
Amen!
But still I have a question for you.
What is the difference
between normal humanity that God's incarnation is possessed of
and that of a corrupt person?
Yes.
If you don't mind, could you tell us more on this?
Yes, please! Tell us more!
Sure, Brother Guo has raised a very important question.
It's a question that's key to understanding God's incarnation.
Yes!
When God becomes flesh, He is called Christ.
Man would plainly see the normal humanity in Christ.
Christ could express the truth and do His work
while living in the normal humanity.
Even when He performs signs and wonders,
He does so within normal humanity.
He was not supernatural.
Amen!
This allows us to see the normalcy of Christ's humanity.
Because of this reason,
it is still very difficult for many to believe
that Christ is in fact the real God incarnate. (Yes!)
So during the Age of Grace, those who followed the Lord
referred to Him as Christ, deemed Him the Son of God,
but still almost no one obeyed, revered,
and worshiped the Lord Jesus as God Himself. (Yes!)
And why didn't they?
I think this was mainly because
Christ's humanity appeared to be very normal and not supernatural.
In their eyes, Christ was just an ordinary person.
So no matter how the Holy Spirit testified,
man still had a hard time seeing the Lord as God Himself.
Yes.
Also, in that time,
men had experienced too little of the word of the Lord Jesus.
So it was difficult for them to understand the truth
and know the divine substance of Christ.
Yes.
Christ has a normal humanity,
but very few of us have come to understand thoroughly of this humanity.
Yes.
Christ is without sin.
And His normal humanity is holy.
He is without impurities,
without corruption, arrogance or a rebellious disposition,
and He certainly has no selfishness.
This is a vastly different humanity from that of mankind,
the two are simply incomparable.
Yes!
Right!
We should read from Almighty God's word to get a clear picture. (Okay!)
Amen!
Now let's turn to page 1391.
Okay.
Amen!
Let's stop here for the moment.
From Almighty God's words, we can plainly see
that because God's incarnation has the divine substance
and God's Spirit is realized and dwelling in Him,
Satan is thus incapable of corrupting Him.
This is certainly because Christ is the truth, the way, and the life.
He's wholly resistant to Satan's corruption.
Yes!
Just like we experience until one day
when we acquire the truth in its entirety;
that day, Satan won't be able to corrupt us anymore.
When that day comes,
we will finally belong to God.
Yes, sounds wonderful.
With that in mind, we can see clearly now
that our corrupt humanity is worlds away,
and something completely different from Christ's humanity!
Yes!
Within Christ's normal humanity,
there is a conscience and rationality,
there's true love in His heart for God,
and there is true obedience toward God.
When Christ works and speaks in His normal humanity,
no matter how the forces of Satan may slander, condemn, or blaspheme Him,
no matter what difficulties He may face,
He obeys God completely,
and He's willing to pay any price in order to carry out God's will.
Amen! Yes!
Like when the Lord Jesus went into the wilderness for forty days
to be tempted by Satan,
He overcame the temptation of vast worldly riches and power beyond imagining
and thoroughly defeated Satan.
Amen!
And when the Lord Jesus was nailed to the cross,
despite the weakness of His humanity, despite the torment deep in His heart,
He still placed fulfilling the will of God the Father above everything else,
choosing to sacrifice His own life and have nails driven through His body
rather than abandon God the Father's will. (Yes!)
No corrupt human being could have accomplished this feat.
What do you say?
Don't you think this true?
Yes.
Yes, what you say is true!
Only Christ could do these things.
Corrupt mankind is too incapable! (Yes!)
The Lord Jesus doesn't have an ounce of arrogance or self-importance in Him.
Although He is God Himself, living in the company of men,
the Lord Jesus still never puts Himself in the position of God.
He humbly hid Himself among men to speak with them
and complete His work serving and supplying man.
Amen!
He healed man's illness, drove out demons, relieved them of their worries,
and even sat amongst sinners.
Yes. Indeed! Amen! God is truly lovely!
And because of the incarnate Lord Jesus,
we see how Christ's humanity is holy and purely good.
Christ has all aspects of what a normal humanity truly should be like.
Christ truly obeys and loves God immensely and has a love for others.
Amen!
So, Christ is able to undertake God's commission,
complete God's work and carry out God's will.
Amen!
So this is what normal humanity means.
In days before, we used to think we should practice humility and forbearance,
having love for others, committing no sins against the law,
and thus we have normal humanity.
Yes!
It seems as though
our prior understanding of normal humanity was so far off!
We didn't have the slightest understanding of what it really meant!
Yes! Yeah!
That's so true.
Through this communion,
we have all seen how Christ's humanity is normal humanity.
Amen!
We know Christ alone can fulfill God's commission,
complete His own work and carry out His will.
If our humanity could be just as pure and holy as Christ's,
we could carry out the will of the heavenly Father!
Yes.
Unfortunately, we have all been deeply corrupted by Satan.
Our own humanity is full of satanic disposition,
our words and actions are manipulated by the satanic nature—
arrogant, treacherous, greedy, selfish, repulsed by the truth,
a servant to the forces of evil,
we really live like demons and our humanity isn't normal!
Yes!
Though we believe in the Lord, we have never truly obeyed Him.
When God's work doesn't conform to our own personal conceptions,
we rebel against Him, resist Him, and even betray Him.
Even those who work for Him only do so to be rewarded,
to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
They do it for their own benefit,
not out of consideration of God's will,
not even thinking about completing God's will.
Yes.
Think about it, isn't this the true state of corrupted humankind?
Yes!
He's hit the nail on the head, that's exactly what we humans are like! (Right!)
It's clear the true substance of corrupt man is satanic,
and it's treacherous and resistant to God.
All humans manifest a satanic disposition, one without humanity.
Right.
But the incarnate Christ is completely different.
Because Christ has the divine substance and can't be corrupted by Satan,
He has no sinful nature.
Christ does not have any rebellion or resistance.
Neither does He have any arrogance, selfishness, or treachery.
Christ is able to obey God absolutely and carry out God's will.
Only Christ's humanity is a normal humanity. (Amen!)
So, between the normal humanity of God incarnate
and the corrupted humanity of man,
this is the substantive difference. (Amen!)
Thanks be to God!
Now I finally understand!
There are many who don't understand Christ's normal humanity,
they form misconceptions against and judge Christ.
What's the real problem?
It's because mankind is far too arrogant and obsessed with evil!
They worship Satan in their hearts,
and choose to follow Satan without even knowing it.
They resist and condemn Christ with a passion.
This is unspeakably evil!
It's downright degenerate!
Amen!
God has appeared in the flesh, works within normal humanity,
yet humans, in their blindness, failed to see it or recognize Him.
How do they still expect God to approve of them?
How do they expect to be raptured up into the kingdom of heaven?
Yes.
Can you see how this is true?
Yes! It is! It is true!
Everything you've said is completely true!
Now I finally see it,
only Christ's humanity is normal humanity. (Amen!)
Before this,
I had always thought the disposition shown by the famous,
those who I looked up to was a normal humanity,
and that any regular or what you'd call unexceptional
or even just average humanity
didn't count as normal.
Yes. That's true.
But now I see
how absurd and ridiculous my conceptions and illusions really were!
Yes!
Thanks be to the Lord!
I think this communion was wonderful! (Amen!)
Your communion helped us have an understanding of Christ's humanity.
From the outside, Christ's humanity seems quite normal.
Yet the substance of His humanity is fully obedient to the will of God.
He loves us more than Himself, sacrificing His life for humankind.
Only such humanity is truly normal humanity.
Amen!
It's the kindest and noblest humanity, (Amen!)
and the greatest form of humanity. (Amen! That's right!)
Through the ages,
saints have called Christ the beloved and the most lovely One.
Yes! Amen!
Now it's a shame we're so corrupt
that we can't even see the beauty and greatness of Christ's normal humanity.
We can't even magnify Christ!
It's so clear we owe God so much!
Yes!
Amen!
Thank Almighty God
for revealing the mysteries and the truths to us! (Thanks be to God!)
Now, I trust that after this fellowship, everyone is clear on the difference
between man's corrupt humanity and Christ's normal humanity.
Yes! That's right!
Brother Peng,
I've been thinking
it's safe to say our work spreading the gospel is complete in this area. (Yes!)
Do you know of any brothers and sisters in other places?
Oh, Brother Liu and I were just talking.
Oh?
There's Elder Xia in Fan County.
We can go preach the gospel to him and testify to God's work in the last days.
Thanks be to God! That sounds great! (Right!)
That's great. I know him too!
We can head out once the snow stops!
What are we waiting for?
This is the best time to leave
since no police will notice us out there!
You're right!
You know, I've been thinking maybe Elder Xia will be staying at home.
Yeah.
That makes it the perfect time to preach the gospel!
Yeah, right.
I agree! There's no time to waste.
We should jump at this chance and leave as soon as we can!
Yes, you're right! Let's head out!
Well, well, look at you two!
Nothing gets you excited like preaching the gospel to others!
Praise be to God!
That's impossible!
We'll wait for the Lord to descend with the clouds!
But God has already been incarnated!
Get out! Get out of here!
But wait … Just listen! The Lord Jesus has really come back …
Come on! Get out! Get out of here!
We don't want to hear it, really!
Listen to us! Just listen! Stop!
Elder Xia! Please! Please! Just for a moment. Just listen to us …
Get away! Get away! Go on! Get going!
What a waste of faith!
Elder Xia! …
Come on!
Get out of here! Get going!
Leave! We don't want to hear it!
Elder Xia!
Let's go.
Come on.
Hey! What's that up ahead?
Is that a thatched house? (That one up there?)
Looks like one!
I think you may be right.
Well, let's go have a look! (Let's go!)
Oh! What a storm this is!
Come in!
Alright!
You know, I had always thought of Elder Xia as a good man.
He seemed like he lived a pious life,
someone who had real faith in the Lord.
I never would have thought
that as soon as we told him of Almighty God's work in the last days,
he would be so resistant.
He didn't have the basic humility
that one would come to expect from a Christian,
and he certainly didn't seek the truth.
I have to say I was quite surprised.
God incarnate's work in the last days truly reveals men!
Goats and sheep, tare and wheat, good and evil servants,
those who love truth and those who hate truth are all revealed.
Yes!
The Bible's prophecies have all been fulfilled in time.
God's work is truly wise!
Praise be to God!
It's just like you've said!
But we're here in the middle of this snowstorm,
neither one of you is young and you've suffered so much.
I feel just awful putting you through all of this.
Brother Peng, don't talk like that!
It's a blessing to be able to experience God's work in the last days!
And this is nothing compared to all of the suffering that Christ suffers for us.
That's right!
Mankind is deeply corrupt,
so how many of them can love the truth? (Indeed.)
How many of them actively seek out and then study the work of God?
Right.
He was exactly right!
Yeah!
One can see from how the religious world acts toward Christ
how much darkness has grown in our world.
Right!
Christ is still suffering today for mankind.
So what does our discomfort really amount to?
Yeah!
Right!
To widely spread God's kingdom gospel,
we're all bound to endure some suffering. (Right!)
I'm reminded that
all the saints through the ages have undergone various sufferings
in order to bear witness for God.
Right!
Indeed, it's true.
We must be meant to go through this suffering.
I've decided, let's visit Elder Li from the church in Li village.
I know he's a good man.
Let's go and preach the gospel to him!
Alright!
Thanks be to God!
That's great! Praise God!
Thanks be to God! (Yes, God be praised!)
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!)
What you've said is 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.
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 man, 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!)
That Brother Chen from two days ago sure had some misconceptions.
It's amazing that he would accept!
Yeah!
But that Elder Sun, his humanity …
needs work.
Brother Li, what's going on with Elder Sun now?
I was just going to tell you about it.
I heard there was trouble at Lizhuang Church.
Some believers wanted to study the true way.
Elder Sun desperately held them back and even condemned God.
They continued to insist on those studies and started to argue with him.
If we try to go back to their church,
I'm worried that Elder Sun might call the police on us,
and that could mean trouble. (True!)
Yeah, you're right.
We're also—
That doesn't sound like a normal knock!
I'm going to check on it.
Okay, take a look.
Let's get our things ready.
What do you want?
Tell us where the preachers are.
Preachers? I don't know about any preachers!
You don't know? You don't know?
Back off!
Out of my way! Move!
Let go. Mind your business.
You can't just force your way into my house! You can't come in here!
Stop!
What do you think you're doing?!
Do you have a search warrant?
This is against the law!
The law?
You're telling me the law?
Listen up!
In this part of town, I'm the law!
Captain, the room's clear.
Captain, there's no one else here.
Impossible! Are you sure? (What now?)
Out of my way!
Captain, they escaped.
Captain, what should we do?
Damn it! We let them escape!
They haven't gone far. Go! (Let's go!)
Right!
Quick!
Don't let them get away!
There!
Go! Go! Go!
They're up ahead! Hurry!
Hurry up!
Wait, Brother Lin! Here!
Quick!
They were just here. Where could they have gone?
Look! Something up ahead! (Go!)
Someone's here.
Thanks be to God!
Who's there?
Is that you, Brother Zhao?
Brother Lin, Brother Liu! (Yes.)
Come right in!
Thanks be to God!
Come on in!
Hi, everybody!
Hi!
Their fellowship is amazing!
You're early!
Hey! Let's have a seat.
Everyone's here.
Okay.
Well, praise the Lord!
Brother Lin, Brother Liu, these past few days,
after hearing your fellowship,
we've learned so much about the truth of the incarnation.
Right!
Thanks be to God!
But now, Brother Lin, there's a question we're still not very clear about.
What's your question? Go ahead!
The Bible says clearly that the Lord Jesus is Christ, the Son of God.
We believers all acknowledge the Lord Jesus is Christ, the Son of God.
Right! That's right.
Yet you've testified
that the incarnate Christ is the appearance of God, God Himself,
that the Lord Jesus is God Himself, Almighty God is also God Himself.
This is all very mysterious to us,
and compared to what we know, it's a little different.
That's right. Right!
So concerning the incarnate Christ,
is He really God Himself or the Son of God?
Both situations seem reasonable to us and they match the Bible.
Right! That's right!
So which of these statements is correct?
Please, Brother Lin, if you wouldn't mind, we'd love for you to explain it!
Yes, explain it! Please commune with us! Please!
The Bible clearly states that the Lord Jesus is in fact Christ, the Son of God.
That's right.
And so, for two thousand years,
the faithful have thought that this was the truth,
and have so believed.
Right? (Yes!)
Could this possibly be wrong? (No way.)
The Bible states that when the Lord Jesus was baptized, heaven opened,
and just like a dove, the Holy Spirit came upon the Lord Jesus,
and a voice said,
Amen!
So, you see, it's stated very clearly in the Bible. (Yes!)
And since the Holy Spirit said the Lord Jesus is God's Son,
it serves as proof the Lord Jesus is clearly God's Son!
How could there be any doubt?
So since the Bible proves it,
then tell me, how can you still deny it?
The question that you wanted to ask us
is the exact question most believers have trouble understanding.
When the incarnate Lord Jesus came to do the work of redeeming man,
God became the Son of man appearing and performing His work amongst mankind.
He not only began the Age of Grace,
but started a new age where God came to the human world
and lived alongside man.
With great adoration,
man called the Lord Jesus "Christ," "the Son of God."
Yes!
The Holy Spirit witnessed the Lord Jesus is God's beloved Son.
After that, the Lord Jesus called God in heaven Father.
Because of that, man thought the Lord Jesus was God's Son.
This is how the whole Father-Son conception is formed.
Oh …
Oh, now I see!
Now think for a moment:
Does God say anywhere in Genesis that He has a beloved son?
No!
Not!
Now think of Jehovah God during the Age of Law,
did He ever say that He had a son? (No.)
He did not!
This just proves our point:
There's only one God and no Father-Son relationship to speak of.
Right!
Now some people may be wondering:
If this was true,
during the Age of Grace, why did the Lord Jesus say He was God's Son?
Yes, why?
Was the Lord Jesus Christ God's Son or actually God Himself?
You could say this is a question
that we believers have debated through the ages.
People can sense the contradiction in this issue,
but they don't know how to explain it.
The Lord Jesus is God and He is God's Son,
so is there really God the Father?
People have a hard time explaining it.
That's right, we don't know how to explain it. (That's right.)
Over the past two millennia,
there are very few who could recognize
that the Lord Jesus is God Himself, He is the appearance of God.
Yes.
Actually, there's a record of this. It's very clear in the Bible.
If you'll turn to John 14:8,
we see Philip asked of the Lord Jesus,
Then after that, (I remember this!)
how did the Lord Jesus respond to Philip?
Does anyone remember?
The Lord Jesus said to Philip,
Amen!
It is here that the Lord Jesus said very clearly
You see, the Lord Jesus is the appearance of God Himself.
Oh …
The Lord Jesus didn't say that He and God have a Father-Son relationship.
He just said,
Amen!
Now, based on the words of Lord Jesus,
are we able to confirm that the Lord Jesus is God Himself, there's only one God,
and there's no Father-Son relationship to speak of?
So right. How could I not have seen this? Yes! I see!
So are you sure now?
Yes, now I finally understand.
The Lord Jesus clearly said,
The Lord Jesus is God Himself,
and the Father-Son idea doesn't really exist! (Right!)
I've often read this part of the Lord Jesus' word.
Why didn't I see it before?
It seems if we want to get the Lord's word,
we need to commune with someone who understands the truth.
That's right! Indeed.
Yes! We'll never understand it if we read on our own. (Yes.)
Brother Lin, Brother Liu,
there's one question that I'm still not clear on.
If the Lord Jesus is God Himself,
then why is it that when He prays, He prays to God the Father?
Yes! Why is that?
There is a certain mystery here to unfold.
Yes, this is a mystery!
If you can, could you please explain it for us?
Yes, please commune with us. Please!
Alright!
Go ahead!
The question that Brother Yang brings up is a very good one.
It's a mystery why the Lord Jesus would call the God in heaven Father
during His prayers since He's God Himself.
When God's incarnated, His Spirit is hidden deep within the flesh
who doesn't feel the Spirit's presence.
Just like how we cannot feel our own spirit within our own body.
Also, God's Spirit doesn't do anything supernatural in His own flesh.
And so, although the Lord Jesus was God become flesh,
if God's Spirit had not spoken and testified to God Himself,
the Lord Jesus could not have known that He was really God's incarnation.
So then in the Bible, it said the Son doesn't know, only the Father knows.
Oh, I see. I get it.
Before the Lord Jesus performed His ministry, He lived in normal humanity.
At first, He didn't know that He was the incarnation of God,
because His Spirit did not work in flesh supernaturally, He worked normally,
just like how man does things normally.
So the Lord Jesus would pray to the heavenly Father,
that is, the Lord Jesus in His normal humanity would pray to God's Spirit.
This should make complete sense.
Now I understand!
Praise God!
When the Lord formally performed His ministry,
the Holy Spirit uttered His voice,
speaking to witness that He was the incarnate God.
And then the Lord Jesus realized His true identity,
that He'd come here to do the work of redemption.
But when He was to be nailed to the cross,
He still prayed to the Father.
This shows us that Christ's substance is fully obedient to God.
Amen!
We should read from Almighty God's word
to help us understand this issue further. (Alright!)
Amen!
Thanks be to God. Praise God.
Let's turn to page 1029. (Good!)
Brother Liu, I'll read this one. (Sure. Okay!)
Amen!
Let's end our reading here.
Thanks be to God!
Hearing Almighty God's word helped me understand it.
The Lord Jesus prayed to the Father,
because God's Spirit did work within Him in a natural way,
not a supernatural way.
So, the Lord Jesus was actually praying to God's Spirit,
calling God "Father" from the perspective of His flesh. (Yes!)
That's right!
If Almighty God hadn't revealed this mystery to us,
we never would have understood just from the Bible.
We truly have Almighty God to thank for revealing this truth. (Yes!)
Thanks be to God!
Almighty God has explained things so clearly.
When the Lord Jesus worked among men,
it was actually God's Spirit clothed in the flesh as a man
to work and appear to mankind.
No matter how the Lord Jesus had expressed His words
or prayed to God the Father,
the substance of the Lord was divinity, not humanity.
God is Spirit, invisible to man.
When God becomes flesh,
then man only perceives the flesh and not God's Spirit. (Yes.)
If the Holy Spirit had directly witnessed that the incarnate Lord Jesus was God,
man would have rejected it. (True. That's right!)
Because at the time,
no one knew what it meant for God to be incarnated in the flesh.
They were just in contact with God's incarnation with little understanding.
Yes.
They didn't have the slightest clue
that this regular Son of man was the embodiment of God's Spirit,
the appearance of God in the flesh.
Though the Lord Jesus expressed many words throughout the course of His work,
taught man the way "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,"
and performed so many wondrous miracles,
fully revealing God's authority and power, (Yes.)
sadly man failed to recognize from the word and work of the Lord Jesus
that the Lord Jesus was God Himself, the appearance of God.
So what kind of understanding did man have of the Lord Jesus at that time?
Some people said that He must be John the Baptist,
others said that He was Elijah. (Yes.)
Others even called Him Master. (That's right!)
Yes! Man failed to recognize that the Lord Jesus was God. (Yes!)
So God worked according to man's stature, He didn't make it hard.
The Holy Spirit spoke in a way man could understand,
so He testified the Lord Jesus is God's beloved Son,
temporarily allowing man to think of the Lord Jesus as God's Son.
This idea fit in with man's conceptions and was easier to accept,
because back then the Lord Jesus was only bringing redemption.
No matter what man called the Lord Jesus,
they only needed to accept the Lord Jesus as the Savior
to get their sins forgiven,
and then they were qualified to receive God's grace.
So God's Spirit testified to the Lord Jesus this way
because that's what man could reach.
Amen! Thanks be to God!
This completely fulfills the word of Lord Jesus,
Amen!
It's honestly true.
We can't see God's Spirit when He becomes clothed in flesh.
But God's disposition, what God has and is, His almightiness, and wisdom
are fully expressed through His flesh.
From the words and work of Jesus Christ
and the disposition which He expressed through His flesh,
we can be very sure that the Lord Jesus is God Himself.
Amen!
The word and work of Lord Jesus hold God's authority and power.
What He demands is soon realized.
Once He speaks, it becomes reality.
Amen!
Just as one word from the Lord Jesus could forgive man's sins
and bring the dead to life,
one word calmed the wind and sea and more!
From the word and work of Lord Jesus,
we see God's authority which rules over all things in His creation!
Yes!
Haven't we all seen God's almightiness, wisdom and wondrous works?
Yes, we have!
The Lord Jesus preached the kingdom of heaven is near,
brought the way of repentance.
He began the Age of Grace, concluded the Age of Law.
He expressed God's merciful loving disposition
and completed the work of man's redemption. (Amen!)
So I ask you, did the Lord Jesus perform the work of God Himself?
Yes! Absolutely!
The Lord Jesus did the work of God Himself. (Yes, of course.)
Only God Himself can do His own work.
No one else can! (Praise the Lord!)
The words and work of Lord Jesus are directly expressed by God's Spirit.
Isn't this all the proof we need
that God's Spirit came down in the flesh
to speak to and work among mankind and appear to them?
Right! This is plenty of proof! Yes!
Could it be that no matter how God's Spirit speaks and works in the flesh,
we just can't see that they're the deeds of the Spirit?
Can this shell of the flesh really prevent us
from recognizing Christ's divine substance?
No!
No way! (That's right!)
Could it be that when God's Spirit becomes flesh to work,
no matter what we see,
we still can't recognize God's appearance?
If this is the case, then we are too thick-headed.
How can we attain God's approval?
Right!
Hearing your fellowship, I feel quite ashamed.
I've believed for years
and enjoyed much of the grace the Lord has blessed me with,
yet I never recognized the Lord's divine substance.
I didn't recognize the Lord Jesus was God,
in fact not literally God's Son.
I didn't treat the Lord Jesus like He was God Himself.
So I prayed to the Lord Jesus and also the heavenly Father, Jehovah God.
But now I understand the truth of the incarnation.
It doesn't matter what we call God's incarnation, what His name is.
In substance, He's the appearance of God in the flesh. (Amen!)
That's so true.
After hearing your communion today,
I've realized despite my faith,
I've never really known the Lord.
I couldn't recognize His voice,
so how could I think that I know Him? (Indeed.)
Thinking back on all those years I've believed,
I've only believed in just the Lord Jesus' name,
"the Lord Jesus" those words only.
So when I was presented with the gospel of Almighty God in the last days,
I failed to seek and study.
I just held on to my own misconceptions, denying, rejecting Almighty God.
I almost missed the chance to welcome the Lord's coming.
Just think it's horrifying.
The facts have left me utterly exposed.
I've been impoverished, pitiful, and blind.
I don't know God at all! (Yes!)
You have all expressed it well.
If Almighty God hadn't revealed the mystery and the truth of the incarnation,
not a one in the religious world
would understand or embrace it like we did today.
Yes!
If it weren't for Almighty God's compassion and salvation,
every believer would've strayed down the same path
as the hypocritical Pharisees who crucified our Lord.
Yes!
Believing in God without knowing Him, even unknowingly resisting Him,
all the while waiting to be taken to the kingdom of heaven,
it's so shameful!
Praise be to God!
Almighty God has blessed me, (Amen!)
letting me hear the voice of God,
be raptured before His throne,
and attend the wedding feast of the Lamb!
Amen!
Thanks be to God. Praise to Almighty God!
Thanks be to Almighty God! (Amen!)
Right now we've finally come to see the appearance of God
and be with Him face to face, (Amen.)
and live with Him in our lives from this day forward! (Amen!)
This fulfills the prophecy spoken in Revelation:
Amen!
All of us are truly blessed!
Thanks be to God.
Grandpa, you say God is here already.
Have you seen God?
I have heard God preach and speak to us.
Does God eat?
Does God sleep as well?
God eats and sleeps just like the rest of us.
I can assure you.
God is so great,
I want to see God too!
God loves you,
and I promise in the future you'll definitely get to see God.