Can you please fellowship about how to tell the difference
between the work of God incarnate and the work of men used by God?
Doesn't the work of men used by God come from the guidance of the Holy Spirit?
Isn't all that comes from God also the work of God?
I don't see any difference at all!
How is it possible that God's work could be the same as man's work?
The Lord Jesus was crucified for man to forgive them their sins.
Can man do His work instead?
I have a question.
We've been investigating Almighty God's work in the last days.
Here is the question.
You testify Almighty God is the incarnate God
and does God's work of judgment in the last days.
But God incarnate is the most difficult for us to recognize.
Like in South Korea, a great many people take man's work as God's work.
And many even take false Christs' words as God's work to accept and to follow,
and then end up deceived into following Satan.
Can you please fellowship about how to tell the difference
between the work of God incarnate and the work of men used by God?
We are in urgent need to understand the truth in this aspect.
That is a good question!
The work fulfilled by the Lord Jesus was God's work,
and the work performed by His apostles was also from God.
Isn't all that comes from God also the work of God?
I don't see any difference at all!
Me neither.
Doesn't the work of men used by God come from the guidance of the Holy Spirit?
They do God's work, too.
Only those not led by the Holy Spirit are doing man's work.
Oh, I think you have it wrong.
How is it possible that God's work could be the same as man's work?
The Lord Jesus was crucified for man to forgive them their sins.
Can man do His work instead? (No.)
Definitely, there are differences
between the work of God incarnate and the work of men used by God.
It's just that our understanding towards the truth
is too shallow to tell the differences.
Let's hear the fellowship
of brothers and sisters from the Church of Almighty God.
Yes,
there are surely some distinct differences between God's work and man's work,
and we will find them if we examine carefully.
For example, when we compare the words and work of Lord Jesus
with the words and work of those apostles,
we find the obvious differences.
Every word of the Lord Jesus is the truth, filled with authority,
and is able to reveal lots of mysteries, none of which can be achieved by man.
And that is why so many people follow the Lord Jesus, after all.
However, those apostles could only preach the gospel
to testify about God and supply the church,
and the results of their work were very limited.
Then why is man unable to discern
what are such obvious differences between God's work and man's work?
What is the reason for this?
It's because corrupt mankind has no knowledge either of God or truth at all
that they don't know the difference between God's work and man's.
And they're prone to treat the work of God incarnate as man's work
and to take the work of those they adore,
evil spirits, false Christs and false prophets
as the work of God to accept and follow.
It's straying from the true way and resisting God.
It's adoring man, following and worshiping Satan,
which is something that's gravely against God's disposition and cursed by God.
Such people will thus lose the chance of salvation.
So the question you asked
is fairly important for man to seek the true way
and know God's work in the last days.
The work of God incarnate and the work of men used by God
both seem to be humans' working and speaking outwardly.
But there is a world of difference
between their substances and the natures of their work.
Today, Almighty God comes and reveals the entirety of truth and mystery.
Almighty God reveals the difference between God's work and the work of man.
For only then,
do we have some knowledge and discernment in terms of God's work and man's work.
Let's read the word of Almighty God. Please turn to page 874.
Yes. I'll read it.
I'll continue.
You see that the words of Almighty God make very clear
the difference between the work of God and the work of man.
Since the incarnate God and the people used by God are different in substance,
their works are totally different.
God incarnate is ordinary and normal in terms of His appearance,
but He is the flesh God's Spirit is realized in.
He has divine substance, God's authority, power, almightiness and wisdom.
Thus, God incarnate can directly express the truth,
God's righteous disposition and what God has and is in His work.
He alone can usher in the new age and conclude the old,
reveal all the mysteries in God's management plan,
and can speak all of God's will and God's requirements for man.
All the words God incarnate expresses are the truth,
and they can be man's life and they can also change man's life disposition.
So, the work of God incarnate can conquer and purify man,
deliver man from the influence of Satan,
and take mankind into a wonderful destination.
Such results cannot be achieved by any work of man.
God incarnate does the work of God Himself,
and the work cannot be done by any man in His stead.
Whereas, the people used by God are human.
They all have merely humanity
and don't possess the divine substance of Christ,
thus, they cannot express the truth, God's disposition
and cannot express what God has and is.
All they can do is fellowship about their knowledge of God's words
on the foundation of God's words and work,
or talk about their own experiences and testimony.
Both their knowledge and testimony
represent their personal understanding and viewpoint of God's words,
so no matter how high and reasonable their knowledge sounds,
it isn't the truth, much less is it God's words,
and therefore cannot become man's life.
They can only bring man some help, supply, support and edification,
but they cannot achieve the effect of purifying, saving and perfecting man.
Thus, the people used by God are unable to do the work of God Himself,
and can merely cooperate with God's work and perform their duty.
As to the difference between God's work and man's work,
let me give you an example to show the difference more clearly for everyone.
In the Age of Grace,
the Lord Jesus brought the way "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
He unlocked the mystery about the kingdom of heaven,
offered Himself as the sin offering, did the work of redeeming mankind,
and asked man to confess and repent;
they were forgiven of their sins, spared of the law's condemnation and curse,
and qualified to come before God to pray and commune with Him.
They enjoyed His abundant grace and truth
and saw God's merciful and compassionate disposition.
The Lord Jesus' work opened up the Age of Grace and concluded the Age of Law.
This was God's work in the Age of Grace.
After the Lord Jesus finished His work,
His apostles, based on His work and word,
started to lead God's chosen people
to experience and practice the Lord Jesus' words.
They proclaimed and witnessed the Lord Jesus' salvation,
spread the gospel of His redemption of mankind to the end of the earth.
This was the work of the apostles in the Age of Grace,
that is, the work of the people used by God.
It tells us that there're substantial differences
between the Lord Jesus' work and the apostles' work.
The incarnate Almighty God of the last days
expresses all the truths to purify and save mankind,
and reveals all mysteries in God's six-thousand-year management plan,
and conducts the work of "judgment beginning with the house of God,"
thoroughly freeing man from Satan's corruption and influence as well,
and showing man God's righteous, majestic, wrathful disposition
and His intolerance of offense as well.
Thus, you see, corrupt man is delivered from sins, attains holiness,
and then can be gained by God.
Almighty God's work initiates the Age of Kingdom and concludes the Age of Grace.
This is God's work in the Age of Kingdom.
The work of the man used by God
is to water and shepherd God's chosen people
based on Almighty God's work and word,
and to lead them into the reality of God's word
and onto the right track of believing in God,
and to spread and witness Almighty God's gospel of the descent of the kingdom.
This is the work of the man used by God in the Age of Kingdom.
It shows us that what God does in these two incarnations
are the initiation of an age and the conclusion of one.
They're aimed at the whole of mankind.
Both incarnations are to accomplish a stage of work in God's management plan,
which is exactly the work of redeeming and saving mankind.
God's works in His two incarnations prove that
only God's work can bring the necessary truth to purify and to save mankind.
There is no one who can do God's work instead.
So we can see absolutely
only God incarnate is capable of undertaking the special work of God.
So, God's two incarnations witness
that only Christ is really the truth, and the way, and the life.
Except the incarnate God, no one can possibly do God's own work.
No one can initiate an age and conclude an age, much less save mankind.
The work of the man used by God is only in cooperation with God's work.
Men can only proceed with their duty to lead and shepherd God's chosen people.
No matter how long men have worked, how much they have talked,
or how great men's work appears,
they are, in fact, still men's work in essence.
This is the major difference
between the work of God incarnate and the work of the man used by God.
Almighty God's word states so clearly the difference
between the work that is done by God incarnate
and the work of the man used by God.
After all these years of Bible reading, we don't understand this truth.
It seems the word of Almighty God is indeed the truth!
Yes, Almighty God's word is well said!
After your fellowship, we understand
the work done by God incarnate is to open an age and to end one also.
However, no matter how much work the man used by God does,
he simply cannot initiate a new age
or go beyond the scope of God's work and word.
Such a fellowship really enlightens me!
Yes. Almighty God's word shows us the substantial difference
between the work of God and the work of man,
illustrating how different they are.
We have just realized
that He who is God incarnate is the One who can express the truth,
the One who can display God's disposition and can express what God has and is.
If man accepts and experiences God's work,
then they will come to understand the truth,
know more and more about God's holiness and righteousness, and God's substance,
and His intention of saving man,
the ways of God of saving man and God's remarkable love for man.
Meanwhile, they will know their nature, substance,
and real situation of their being corrupted by Satan.
In that way, their corrupt disposition will be cleansed and transformed.
They will have true obedience and fear of God and be granted salvation.
However, man's work is so different from God's work,
for man can't express the truth,
but is only capable of talking about some experience
and knowledge about God's word.
Though in line with the truth,
it can only lead, shepherd, sustain, and help God's chosen people.
And obviously, all those people who are approved by God
can only cooperate with the work of God.
They're just performing man's duty.
However, those who are not used by God or devoid of the Holy Spirit's work
boast about man's gifts, talents, and fame.
Even when they interpret the scriptures,
they're exalting man's words in the Bible,
ignoring God's words and replacing them.
The work of such people is all the work of the Pharisees.
All of them is resisting God.
Such are the two main kinds of man's work.
Well, in any case,
the biggest difference between man's work and God's work is that
man's work alone can't achieve the result of purifying and saving man,
while the work of God
can purify man and can save man also by expressing the truth.
This is a fact.
All that I said above refers to the difference
between God's work and the work of the people used by God.
And it doesn't refer to the work of those religious heads
who're not used by God.
Since the work of God is so different from the work that is man's work,
then tell me, why people worship and follow man when they should believe in God?
Why do many people consider
the works of those famous spiritual figures and religious leaders they adore
to be God's work?
And some even take the deception of false Christs and evil spirits
to be the work of God?
This is all because people have no truth
and do not know how to discern man's work from God's work.
They don't know the substance of God incarnate and the substance of man.
They don't discern what is truth
and what is actually just knowledge that's in accord with truth,
and have no idea how to tell the voice of God from that of man.
Besides,
because those corrupted by Satan all adore knowledge and gifts very much,
they easily treat things from man as the truth,
like biblical knowledge, religious doctrines, and theology.
These things from man, which are just not in line with the truth,
can bring nothing but knowledge to man.
They can't give any actual supply to man's life,
much less can they help man know and revere God.
This is an undeniable fact.
So, no matter how much man works or speaks,
no matter how long and great he works,
it can't attain the result of purifying and saving man,
and man's life won't change.
It shows man's work can never replace God's work.
Only the work of God can bring a person salvation.
Therefore, the work of God,
even if for a short time and even with only limited words,
can initiate an age and conclude an age,
and can achieve the result of redeeming and saving mankind.
This is the apparent difference between God's work and man's work.
Only with the discernment between the work of God and the work of man,
will people not be led to worship or follow man blindly.
And they can reject
the deception and the control of these false Christs and antichrists.
Thereby, people will accept and obey Almighty God's work of the last days,
be judged by God and purified to be granted salvation.
If people still cannot discern the work of God from the work of man in the end,
they will never escape
the deception and control of the false Christs and antichrists.
Such people, though they might believe in God in name,
are believing, and following, and worshiping man in fact.
In truth, it's worshiping idols.
It's resisting God and betraying God.
If such people persist in their mistake and don't repent,
they will offend God's disposition
and thus be cursed by God and eliminated by Him.
It is just as it is written in Almighty God's words.
Turn to page 445.
Yes, certainly. I couldn't agree more.
The truth expressed by Almighty God is really good!
We had no discernment before,
and even sometimes we thought that the work of man was God's work actually.
Thus, we blindly believed in man, adored and followed man. (I know.)
We were ignorant fools.
People without the truth are so pathetic, though.
We should never blindly just adore or follow the priests or elders anymore.
Right, I know. That's just worshiping idols! It's blasphemy against God!
Such people will be cursed by God. (That's right!)
It's very clear to fellowship like this.
Whether it's God's work or man's work,
depends on his substance and the nature of the work that he does.
The work of God incarnate is expressing the truth to save mankind,
while the work of the man used by God
is simply the cooperation of humanity based on God's work.
So we've learned
Almighty God's work of judging and purifying man in the last days
is truly the work of God. (Yes. Mm.)