The Church of Almighty God | Resolve to be Born Again - "Offer Love to God" (Official Music Video)

God took on flesh, came to live among us.

Through all disgrace and shame, He gave us salvation.

But I did not know or understand Him, full of grumbles.

How His heart grieved at my rebellion and resistance!

Dear Almighty God, You don’t remember my faults.

You’ve endured all my rebellious ways but offer grace once again.

Knowing You raise me up, I’m covered with great shame.

How unworthy I am to receive Your love!

Dear Almighty God, I hear what you said.

Holding Your words in my hands, tears stream down my face.

Every word is warm to my heart, draws me closer to You.

Freed from my passiveness, I rise to follow You.

Now my eyes are opened, my heart filled with remorse.

Ready to be born again and live out what You desire.

I will return Your love, offer everything I am,

bearing strong witness to comfort Your heart.

Your love has woken me, I’ll fulfill my duty.

Faithful to the end, I’ll care for Your desire.

I will return Your love, offer everything I am,

bearing strong witness to comfort Your heart,

bearing strong witness to comfort Your heart.

from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs

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Only Putting the Truth Into Practice Is Having Reality

Being able to blatantly explain God’s words does not mean that you are in possession of reality. Things are not as simple as you might have imagined. Whether you are in possession of reality or not is not based on what you say, it is rather based on what you live out. When God’s words become your life and your natural expression, that is when you are in possession of reality, that is when you have gained understanding and real stature. You must be able to withstand examination for a long period of time, you must be able to live out the likeness that is required of you by God. It must not be mere posturing, but it must flow naturally out of you; only then will you truly have reality, only then will you have gained life. Let Me use the example of the “service-doers” that everyone is familiar with. Anyone can talk about the loftiest theories regarding the “service-doers”; you all have a decent level of understanding regarding this matter, and every one of you is proficient at talking about this subject matter as if this is a competition. However, if man has not experienced a major trial, it is very difficult for him to have a good testimony. In short, man’s living out is still very poor, which is out of tune with his understanding. Therefore, it has yet to become man’s actual stature, it is not yet man’s life. Because man’s understanding has not been brought into reality, man’s stature is like a castle in the sky, without any true foundation. Man has too little reality, it is almost impossible to find any reality in man. There is too little reality naturally flowing from man, all the reality in his life has been forced, so I say that man possesses no reality. Don’t put too much stock in men saying that their love of God never changes, this is only what men would say before they are faced with trials. Once they are suddenly faced with trials, the things that men speak of will once again become incompatible with reality, and it will once again prove that men possess no reality. It can be said that, whenever you encounter things that do not fit with your notions and it requires that you put yourself aside, these are your trials. Every time before God’s will has been revealed is a rigorous test for every man, it is an immense trial for all men; can you see clearly through this matter? When God wants to test men, God always lets men make their choices before the truth of the facts has been revealed; which is to say, when God is testing you, He will never tell you the truth, and that is how men may be revealed. This is one way that God carries out His work, to see whether you understand the God of today, to see whether you possess any reality. Do you truly have no doubt regarding God’s work? Will you remain standing when a major trial comes upon you? Who dares to say words such as “I guarantee there will be no problems”? Who dares to say words such as “Others might have doubts, but I shall never doubt”? Just as the times when Peter was being tested—always talking big before the truths had been revealed. This is not a personal flaw unique to Peter, this is the greatest difficulty facing every man now. If I were to visit several places, or if I were to visit several brothers and sisters, to look at your understanding of God’s work of today, certainly you would be able to talk about many of your understandings, and it would appear that you do not have any doubt. If I were to ask you: “Can you really determine that the work of today is performed by God Himself? Without any doubt?” you would certainly answer: Without any doubt, it is the work performed by the Spirit of God. Once you have answered in such a way, you surely would not have a shred of doubt, you might even feel great enjoyment, you might feel that you have gained a bit of reality. Those who tend to understand things in this manner are those who are in possession of less reality; the more one thinks that he’s “gained reality,” the more one won’t be able to stand up to trials. Woe to those who are arrogant and haughty, woe to those who have no knowledge of themselves. Such men are the best at talking, yet they fare the worst in their actions. When there is the smallest sign of trouble, these men will start to have doubts, the thought of quitting would enter their mind. They have no possession of any reality, all that they have are theories loftier than those of religion, without any of the realities that God has demanded today. I am most disgusted by those who only speak of theories and have no reality. They make the loudest cries when carrying out their work, yet they fall when faced with reality. Doesn’t it show that these people have no reality? If you can remain standing despite the ferocity of the storm that you are facing, with not a shred of doubt entering your mind, if you can remain standing, if you can continue to not deny God’s work, even when there is no one else left, then this shows that you have true understanding, this shows that you are truly in possession of reality. If you should follow whichever way the wind blows, if you should follow the majority and learn to say what others are saying, no matter how well you can say such things, it is no proof that you are in possession of reality. Therefore, I suggest that you not be premature in shouting out empty words. Do you know the work that God shall perform? Do not behave like another Peter lest you should bring shame to yourself, lest you can no longer hold your head high, and it doesn’t do anyone any good. Most men have no real stature. They have yet to be visited by any advent of facts after all the work that God has performed, to be more exact, God has never personally chastised anyone; some of them were exposed by such trials, with their tentacles of sin crawling further and further out, thinking that they can treat God in an off-handed manner, and doing whatever they want. Since they are not even able to withstand such trials, the more challenging trials are out of the question, reality is also out of the question. Is this not fooling God? To have reality is not something that can be faked, it is also not something that you can attain from your knowledge of it; it is based on your true stature, it is based on whether you are able to withstand all trials. Do you understand now?

You Should Know That the Practical God Is God Himself

What should you know about the practical God? The Spirit, the Person, and the Word make up the practical God Himself, and this is the true meaning of the practical God Himself. If you only know the Person—if you know His habits and personality—but do not know the work of the Spirit, or what the Spirit does in the flesh, and only pay attention to the Spirit, and the Word, and only pray before the Spirit, unknowing of the work of God’s Spirit in the practical God, then this yet proves that you do not know the practical God. Knowledge of the practical God includes knowing and experiencing His words, and grasping the rules and principles of the work of the Holy Spirit, and how the Spirit of God works in the flesh.

Keeping the Commandments and Practicing the Truth

In practice, the commandments should be connected with the practice of the truth. While keeping the commandments, one ought to practice the truth. When practicing the truth, one should not violate the principles of the commandments or go against the commandments. Do that which God requires you to do. Keeping to the commandments and practicing the truth are interconnected, not contradictory. The more you practice the truth, the more you keep to the essence of the commandments. The more you practice the truth, the more you will understand God’s word as expressed in the commandments. Practicing the truth and keeping the commandments are not contradictory actions, but are rather interconnected. In the beginning, only after man keeps the commandments can he practice the truth and attain enlightenment from the Holy Spirit. But this is not the original intention of God. God requires you to worship God with heart, not to just practice good behavior. But you must keep the commandments at least superficially. Gradually, through experience, man gains a clearer understanding of God. He stops rebelling against and resisting God, and he stops calling God’s work into question. In this way man may abide by the essence of the commandments. Therefore, merely keeping the commandments without practicing the truth is ineffective and does not constitute real worship of God because you have not yet attained real stature. If you keep the commandments without the truth, this amounts to just keeping rigidly to the rules. In so doing, the commandments become your law, which will not help you grow in life. On the contrary, they will become your burden, and will bind you firmly like the law of the Old Testament, causing you to lose the presence of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, only by practicing the truth can you effectively keep the commandments. One keeps the commandments in order to practice the truth. You practice even more truths through keeping the commandments. You gain even more understanding of the practical meaning of the commandments through practicing the truth. The purpose and meaning of God’s imperative that man ought to keep to the commandments is not to follow ordinances as man may imagine, but rather has to do with man’s entry into life. The more you grow in life, the greater the degree to which you will be able to keep the commandments. Although the commandments are for man to keep, the essence of the commandments only becomes apparent through man’s life experience. Most people think keeping the commandments well means “everything is ready, all that remains is to be caught up.” This is an extravagant imagining and is not God’s will. Those who say such things do not wish to make progress and are greedy for the flesh. This is nonsense! This is not in keeping with reality! Only practicing the truth without keeping the commandments practically is not God’s will. This kind of person is disabled and proceeds as if hobbling on one leg. However, only keeping to the commandments and sticking rigidly to the commandments without having truth is, likewise, not fulfilling God’s will—like a man who sees from one eye only, this is also a form of disability. It can be said that if you keep the commandments well and gain a clear understanding of the practical God, then you will have truth. From a relative perspective, you will have gained real stature. You practice the truth and keep to the commandments at the same time without mutual conflict. Practicing the truth and keeping the commandments are two systems, both of which are integral parts of one’s life experience. One’s experience should comprise an integration of the keeping of the commandments with the practice of the truth, not a division. However, there are both differences and connections between these two things.

Focus More on Reality

  Every person has the possibility of being perfected by God, so everyone should understand what service to God most suits God’s intentions. Most people don’t know what it means to believe in God and have no idea why they should believe in God. That is to say, most people have no understanding of God’s work or the purpose of God’s management plan. Down to the present, most people still think believing in God is about going to heaven and having their souls saved. They still have no idea of the particular significance of believing in God, and moreover they don’t have any understanding whatsoever of God’s most important work in His management plan. For all sorts of their own reasons, people just don’t take any interest in God’s work and give no thought to God’s intentions or God’s management plan. As individuals in this stream, each person should know what the purpose of God’s entire management plan is, the facts that God has already fulfilled, why God has chosen this group of people, what its goals and significance are, and what God wants to achieve in this group. In the land of the great red dragon, God has been able to raise such an inconspicuous group of people, and He has continued to work until now, trying and perfecting in all sorts of ways, speaking countless words, performing much work and sending so many serving objects. From God accomplishing such enormous work, it can be seen that the significance of God’s work is so great. You cannot yet see into it entirely. Therefore, do not treat the work that God has done on you as a simple matter; this is not a small thing. Just what God has shown you today is enough for you to ponder and understand. Only if you thoroughly understand can you experience more deeply and make progress in your life. What people understand and are doing right now is really too little and cannot fully satisfy God’s intentions. This is the insufficiency of man and the failure to fulfill their duty. This is why the results that should have been achieved have not been. The Holy Spirit has no way to work on many people because they have such a shallow understanding of God’s work and are unwilling to treat the work of the house of God as something valuable. They always go through the motions just to get by, or copy what most people are doing, or just show people that they are “working.” Today, each person in this stream shall recall whether what you have done is all that you could have, and whether you have put in all your effort. People have not fulfilled their duties at all. It is not that the Holy Spirit does not do His work but that people do not do theirs, making it impossible for the Holy Spirit to do His work. God has finished expressing His words, but they have not kept up at all and have fallen far behind, unable to stay close with every step, unable to follow the Lamb’s footsteps closely. What they should abide by they have not abided by; what they should have practiced they have not put into practice; what they should have prayed they have not prayed; what they should have discarded they have not discarded. They have not done any of these things. Therefore, this talk of going to the banquet is empty and has no real meaning at all. It is in people’s own imagination. It can be said that as of the present people have not fulfilled their duty at all. Everything is dependent on God doing and saying things Himself, while people’s function has really been all too small. They are all useless trash who don’t know how to coordinate with God. God has spoken hundreds of thousands of words, but people have not put them into practice at all, from forsaking the flesh, discarding notions, practicing obedience in all things, developing discernment and gaining insight at the same time, to letting go of people’s status in their hearts, eliminating the idols who occupy their hearts, rebelling against individual intentions that are not right, not acting based on their emotions, doing things fairly without bias, thinking more about God’s interests and their influence on others when they speak, doing more things that benefit God’s work, keeping in mind benefitting God’s house in all that they do, not letting their emotions determine their behavior, discarding what pleases their own flesh, eliminating selfish old conceptions, and so on. People actually understand some things in all these words of what God requires of them, but they are just not willing to put them into practice. How else can God work and move them? How can rebels in the eyes of God still have the nerve to pick up God’s words to admire them? How do they have the nerve to eat God’s food? Where is man’s conscience? They have not fulfilled the very least of the duties they should have, so talking about doing all they can is pointless. Are they not dreamers? There can be no talk of reality without practice. That is plain fact!

How Is Your Relationship With God

In believing in God, you must at least resolve the issue of having a normal relationship with God. Without a normal relationship with God, then the significance in believing in God is lost. Establishing a normal relationship with God is entirely attained through quieting your heart in God’s presence. A normal relationship with God means being able to not doubt or deny any of God’s work and submit to it, and furthermore it means having the right intentions in the presence of God, not thinking of yourself, always having the interests of God’s family as the most important thing no matter what you are doing, accepting God’s observation, and submitting to God’s arrangements. You are able to quiet your heart in God’s presence whenever you do anything; even if you do not understand God’s will, you must still fulfill your duties and responsibilities to the best of your ability. It is not too late to wait for God’s will to be revealed to you and then put this into practice. When your relationship with God has become normal, then you will also have a normal relationship with people. Everything is established on the foundation of God’s words. Through eating and drinking the words of God, practice in accordance with God’s requirements, put your viewpoints right, and do not do things that resist God or disturb the church. Do not do things that do not benefit the lives of the brothers and sisters, do not say things that do not contribute to other people, do not do shameful things. Be just and honorable when doing all things and make them presentable before God. Even though the flesh is weak sometimes, you are able to attach the highest importance to benefiting God’s family, not covet your own benefits, and carry out righteousness. If you can practice in this way, your relationship with God will be normal.

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The Millennial Kingdom Has Arrived

Have you seen what work God will accomplish in this group of people? God said, even in the Millennial Kingdom people must still follow His utterances onward, and in the future God’s utterances will yet directly guide man’s life in the good land of Canaan. When Moses was in the wild, God instructed and spoke to him directly. From heaven God sent food, water, and manna for the people to enjoy, and today it is still thus: God has personally sent down things to eat and drink for people to enjoy, and He has personally sent curses to chastise people. And so every step of His work is personally carried out by God. Today, people long for the occurrence of facts, they try to see signs and wonders, and it is possible that all such people will be abandoned, for the work of God is becoming increasingly real.