The words of some spiritual figures and Jesus' apostles
are recorded in the Bible.
Is their expression God's word or not?
You say Christ is the truth, the way, and the life.
It's from the Holy Spirit, and is definite.
However, the words of some spiritual figures and Jesus' apostles
are recorded in the Bible.
Is their expression God's word or not?
If what they expressed is really God's word,
aren't they the truth, the way, and the life?
In my view, there's just no difference
between the apostles' words and the Lord Jesus'.
They are also God's words.
Why are they not the truth, the way, and the life?
That's right! Spiritual figures and others write books as well.
And their words are quite right! Recommended by saints and prophets! (Amen.)
We all approve of that! These spiritual figures, they are right! (Amen.)
They've written so many letters! More than the apostles books! This is fact.
Amen.
It edifies us so much.
I feel they are just as good as the apostles of Jesus!
Are they not the truth, the way, and the life?
Why are they not these things?
Agreed. What is the matter here?
If believers can realize and understand
Christ is the only truth, the way, the life,
it is so precious.
It shows that they truly know Christ's substance.
They can all be called the ones who truly know God.
Christ is the incarnate practical God.
Those who know and have obedience to Christ,
they're the ones who truly know God.
Because all of the truths, the way, the life, they all come from God.
They come from the incarnate Christ's expression.
No one else except Christ is the one and only truth, the way, the life.
Very few people understand this truth.
The standard by which God judges every believer
is based on whether he knows the incarnate God.
This is the only standard for a believer to gain God's approval.
All those who can accept and obey the God incarnate
are the overcomers raptured to God's presence and perfected first.
Those who can't accept and obey Christ of the last days
will be suffering in disasters,
for they fail to know the God incarnate and are just foolish virgins.
Just like when the Lord Jesus came,
He took His followers to the mountains
who accepted the truth and accepted His word and believed in Him.
He instructed and trained.
He just ignored the religious people
and the greedy ones, the ones who only sought bread to satisfy hunger.
They only believed in the vague God.
They refused to believe in the incarnate God.
They were the blind who didn't know or see God.
So then only believers who can accept and obey the incarnate Christ
are the ones approved and perfected by God. (That's right.)
Why is it said in the Bible Christ is the truth, the way, and the life?
Let's read Almighty God's words. (OK.)
Yes, this is true. This is what I've been waiting to hear for so long.
From Almighty God's words we see that
the truth, the way, the life, they all come from God.
Only God Himself possesses the way of life.
The Bible says,
The Word is God. The Word is God's word.
The Word is the truth, the way, the life.
The Word becoming the flesh
means that God's Spirit is realized in the flesh;
that is the truth, the way, and the life embodied in the flesh.
Just as Almighty God says,
God's two incarnations witness that He is the truth, the way, and the life.
So man is given a great revelation—
only Christ Himself is the truth, the way, the life.
Christ's work and His word, and what Christ has and is
are the truth, the way, the life.
This is the substance of Christ.
Christ expressing God's word is doing God's own work with God's identity,
opening an age, ending an age,
the work of an entire age, and the work to all mankind.
God's words that are expressed by Christ
are the total words in one stage of God's work.
They can reveal God's disposition
and what God has and is, the mysteries in God's plan.
They can show us God's requirements and will that He has for man.
All of those words, they are the truth,
providing man with a full life and being a part of man's life.
Just like when the Lord Jesus came,
He expressed all the truths that mankind needed in the Age of Grace.
So they could confess and repent to God, qualify to pray to God.
They come before God to enjoy God's grace, see God's mercy and lovingkindness.
These results are produced by the redemptive work.
The Lord Jesus' work was to forgive man's sins and also redeem mankind from sin.
He then did a stage of work of redemption for mankind.
He opened the Age of Grace and ended the Age of Law.
In the last days Almighty God incarnate comes
to express all the truths that purify man and save man,
to do the work of judgment beginning with the house of God.
He shows man His righteousness, almightiness, and wisdom.
He cleanses and changes their life disposition.
So man can fear God and shun evil, and be delivered from Satan's influence.
They return to God, be gained by God. (Yes. Mm.)
Almighty God's work then starts the Age of Kingdom
and then ends the Age of Grace.
What does all of this tell us?
All that Christ says, and does, and expresses to all mankind
shows us the truth.
Christ brings salvation to all mankind.
He shows us the way, provides us with life.
No one can possess or express this. Only Christ can do all of this. (Mm.)
Christ is the source of man's life, the appearance of God.
Christ is the truth, the way, and the life.
Christ is the way, only redemption for mankind.
No one else has what Christ possesses,
which is the truth, the way, and the life.
That's a fact obvious to all of us. (Mm.)
Yes. Completely obvious! I agree. Very practical.
There's authority in Almighty God's words.
It's quite truthful and practical. (Praise be to God.)
All the truth that we'll ever need, indeed, is brought to us by God incarnate.
Lord Jesus bestowed to us the truths of the Age of Grace,
making us all enjoy God's grace and blessings.
During the last days,
Almighty God bestows all the truths man needs to be saved in the Age of Kingdom
so that all truth lovers can gain God's salvation in the last days,
enter the kingdom of heaven, and receive eternal life.
This indeed all proves that only Christ is the truth, the way, the life.
Christ is the one true Savior,
the practical God who saves all of mankind. (Yes.)
What man must have is the truth, the way, and the life.
All that is expressed by Christ. (Yes.)
That's a fact I'm afraid no one can deny.
So then, all those who decline and resist Christ are courting destruction.
Yes. Jesus testified that He Himself was the truth, the way, the life.
When we heard of these truths, we called them practical.
When Almighty God testified Himself in the last days
as the truth, the way, and the life,
we hear a pleasant voice, quite familiar and kind. (Thanks be to God.)
We feel the voice we hear is from the same source. More clear it is to us then.
It's as kind as the word of the Lord Jesus.
Almighty God is Jesus Christ returning to the flesh.
He is the truth, the way, and the life.
Yes, it's true. Christ is God incarnate, so He then has a divine substance.
All the apostles are not God incarnate. They only have man's substance.
Prophets and apostles cannot be thought of as equal to Christ. (Mm.)
The God incarnate is the embodiment of the truth,
and also the source of God's word.
He can directly express the truth, so man's life is supplied.
Though prophets and apostles can convey God's word,
or say something enlightened by the Holy Spirit and in line with the truth,
they only have man's substance. They are not God incarnate.
So then, they do not have any truth and can't express the truth.
They're merely used by God to lead and supply God's chosen people,
performing man's duty.
They're not qualified to express the Holy Spirit's voice. (Mm.)
Let's read some of Almighty God's word. (Yes.)
Brother Wang? Can I read it? (Sure.)
Next, please turn to page 1317.
Mm.
Almighty God clearly differentiates
between the substances and words of people who are used by God
and those of Christ.
Christ's expression is directly from the Holy Spirit.
So all that Christ expresses is the word of God and is the truth.
Spiritual figures and the apostles,
whether through their letters, speaking, or written in their books,
are talking about their experience and knowledge of God's words.
Though most of them are in line with the truth,
they're simply not God's words at all,
far different from the truth that Christ expresses.
The reason why people think their teachings conform with the truth
is because their words contain the Holy Spirit's enlightenment
and their knowledge of God's word.
But you see, without Christ's expression,
spiritual figures wouldn't have the knowledge and experiences of God's word.
This is to say, the apostles based their work on Christ's word and work.
Christ's expression has to come first, then comes the apostles' experience.
So then, only Christ alone in God's work can express God's word.
Man who is used by God can just convey their personal experiences and knowledge.
They're all proclaiming and testifying the words Christ expresses.
Their knowledge can never go beyond the scope of Christ's word.
Nobody out there can speak as profoundly as Christ does.
So no matter how compatible their words are with the truth,
their words don't have the substance of God's word, which is the fact. (Mm.)
Yes. The truth expressed by Christ is inexhaustible to all of us.
It's the eternal source of living water of life for man.
So then, even though prophets can be instructed to convey His word,
God's word conveyed by them
differs from God's word expressed in His entire work.
Prophets can't do God's work.
They're only conveying God's word in special circumstances.
They're warning God's chosen people
in special circumstances and special matters,
exhorting, comforting, or saying prophecies to lead the Israelites.
Prophets are merely raised and used in each stage of the Age of Law.
They convey God's word because of Jehovah God's instructions.
They're cooperating with God by doing a little work.
They're simply doing man's duty.
Without God's instruction,
their conveying of God's word will end, and they can't go on.
Prophets themselves have no truth, and they don't have the way of life.
That only comes from Christ.
This is undeniable.
When God initiates an age, it's always God incarnate working directly with it.
God expresses His entire will for man and the work He'll do.
That is to say, only Christ can directly express God's word.
Only Christ can accomplish the work "the word appears in the flesh."
The limited words of prophets can't represent
God's work of opening an entire age.
That's something for sure.
Despite the letters and the books they've written,
the apostles and the spiritual figures
are simply talking about their personal experience and knowledge
which are man's testimonies.
They can't be compared to God's words expressed by Christ.
So then, nobody used by God, the apostles, the spiritual figures
can be the source of the truth, the way, and the life.
They dare not even say themselves that they're the truth, the way, and the life,
much less say their words are God's words and the truth.
So we all see that all their achievements are very limited.
Even though they're the apostles, spiritual figures, and have worked for years,
there's no way they can save man, and they can't perfect man.
Only Christ can perfect man and save man. This is a fact. (Yes.)
In the end, only Christ is the truth, the way, the life.
The apostles and spiritual figures are not the truth, the way, or the life.
Yes. Right.
Your fellowship is practical.
Whether one is the truth, the way, and the life
doesn't depend on whether their word is in accord with the truth,
but mainly depends on whether he is God incarnate.
Is he the expression of the truth, the way, and the life? Is he the source?
Yes.