Principles of Practice for Church Life

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      Importance of God's Words |  Principles of Practice for Church Life

1. Church Meetings Must Always Be for Eating, Drinking and Enjoying God’s Words

All people who accept the judgment and chastisement work of Almighty God should eat, drink, and enjoy all of Almighty God’s words. This is the unalterable duty of God’s created beings, something no one can interfere with. One can only be saved by eating, drinking, and enjoying Almighty God’s words, obeying all of God’s work, and accepting all truths expressed by God. That’s why church life only permits eating, drinking and enjoying God’s words, and prohibits reading texts outside of God’s words. 

Principles of Practice for Church Life

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Worship God | Principles of Practice for Church Life

1. Church Meetings Must Always Be for Eating, Drinking and Enjoying God’s Words

All people who accept the judgment and chastisement work of Almighty God should eat, drink, and enjoy all of Almighty God’s words. This is the unalterable duty of God’s created beings, something no one can interfere with. One can only be saved by eating, drinking, and enjoying Almighty God’s words, obeying all of God’s work, and accepting all truths expressed by God. That’s why church life only permits eating, drinking and enjoying God’s words, and prohibits reading texts outside of God’s words.

The Scroll Opened by the Lamb | Part Three Newest Utterances From Almighty God

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Newest Utterances From Almighty God | Knowing God is the Path to Fearing God and Shunning Evil

Every one of you should examine anew your life of believing in God to see whether, in the pursuit of God, you have truly understood, truly comprehended, and truly come to know God, whether you truly know what attitude God bears to the various types of human beings, and whether you truly understand what God is working upon you and how God defines your every act. This God, who is by your side, guiding the direction of your progress, ordaining your destiny, and supplying your needs—how much do you, in the final analysis, understand and how much do you really know about Him? Do you know what He works on you every single day? Do you know the principles and purposes on which He bases His every action? Do you know how He guides you? Do you know the means by which He supplies you? Do you know the methods with which He leads you? Do you know what He wishes to obtain from you and what He wishes to achieve in you? Do you know the attitude He takes to the multifarious ways in which you behave?

Is All Scripture Inspired by God?

Spiritual Life | Is All Scripture Inspired by God?

Is All Scripture Given by Inspiration of God?

Dear brothers and sisters, may you find peace in the Lord! Thanks be to the grace of God that we have been brought together today, and the question we will be fellowshiping is: Is all Scripture given by inspiration of God?

When we talk about this issue, there are perhaps some brothers and sisters who will say, “Do you really need to ask this question? In 2 Timothy 3:16, it tells us clearly that ‘All scripture is given by inspiration of God.’

The Words of Christ as He Walked in the Churches

The Word of Almighty God | 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. No one knows that God has descended from heaven, they are still unaware that God has sent down food and tonics from heaven—yet God actually exists, and the warm scenes of the Millennial Kingdom that people imagine are also the personal utterances of God.

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Collection of Sermons—Supply for Life | 10. Grasping God’s Will and Seeking God’s Meaning

  Grasping God’s will is a visionary aspect of the truth that those who serve God must understand clearly. Examples of this are the meaning of God’s work, God’s purpose in working man, God’s demands for man, how God requires man to cooperate when it comes to one particular work method or work procedure, what expectations and hopes God has for man, etc.

On Quieting Your Heart Before God

The Word of Almighty God | On Quieting Your Heart Before God

Quieting your heart in God’s presence is the most crucial step for entering into God’s words, and is a lesson that all humanity urgently needs to enter at present. The paths by which you enter into quieting your heart before God are:

1. Withdraw your heart from external things, be quiet before God, and pray to God with an undivided heart.

2. With your heart quiet before God, eat, drink, and enjoy God’s words.

3. Meditate on and contemplate God’s love and ponder God’s work in your heart.

Classic Words From Almighty God, Christ of the Last Days

Message from God | Preface

During His work of the last days, Almighty God has expressed millions of words that have now been arranged into the three books: The Word Appears in the Flesh, and Records of Christ’s Talks. These books are extremely rich in content, and they are of great importance and are extremely valuable to people’s knowledge of God’s work, of God’s disposition and of His essence. Because there are so many of God’s words, with only the one book The Word Appears in the Flesh having an equivalent word count to the Bible, so as to facilitate people’s pursuit of the truth, their understanding of God’s words and their knowledge of God’s work, we have therefore selected from these three books some comparatively classic and well-known passages of God’s words for the enjoyment of all those who believe in God and who seek the truth, so that God’s words may become their life mottos and their life’s reality.

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Every Word of God Is an Expression of His Disposition

Hu Ke Dezhou City, Shandong Province

Whenever I saw these words spoken by God, I felt anxious: “Every sentence I have spoken contains within it the disposition of God. You would do well to ponder My words carefully, and you will surely profit greatly from them” (“It Is Very Important to Understand God’s Disposition” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). I felt anxious because through experiencing God’s work, I realized that understanding God’s disposition is so important both to man’s understanding of God and their seeking to love and satisfy Him. But when reading the words of God, I always felt like God’s disposition was too abstract, and I didn’t know how to understand it.

Interpretations of the Mysteries of God’s Words to the Entire Universe

                          The Word of Almighty God | Chapter 3

Today is no longer the Age of Grace, nor the age of mercy, but the Age of Kingdom in which the people of God are revealed, the age in which God does things directly through divinity. Thus, in this chapter of God’s words, God leads all those who accept His words into the spiritual realm. In the opening paragraph, He makes these preparations in advance, and if one possesses the knowledge of God’s words, they will follow the vine to get the melon, and shall directly grasp what God wishes to achieve in His people. Before, people were tested through the title “service-doers,” and today, after they have been subjected to the trial, their training officially begins.

The Church of Almighty God | Witnesses for Christ of the Last Days (The Twenty Truths of Bearing Witness to God)

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1. What is judgment?

Relevant Words of God:

The work of judgment is God’s own work, so it should naturally be done by God Himself; it cannot be done by man in His stead. Because judgment is the conquering of the human race through the truth, it is unquestionable that God still appears as the incarnate image to do this work among men. That is to say, in the last days, Christ shall use the truth to teach men around the earth and make all truths known to them. This is God’s work of judgment.

from “Christ Does the Work of Judgment With the Truth” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

A Collection of Sermons for Supply Volume One

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7 On How to Achieve Results in Reading God’s Word

Lu Ming  Nanyang City, Henan Province

When God is incarnated in the end time, he does the work of the word, and through the word, he conquers man, perfects man, and gains man. If we want to be saved and gained by God, the most fundamental thing is to read God’s word. However, now most brothers and sisters are still unable to achieve the due results in reading God’s word, so they are slow in life entering in. Although they have believed in God for several years, they have not understood much truth, even less gained the transformation of their life disposition. Then, how can we achieve results in reading God’s word?

Four Steps to Be Praised by the Lord in Bible Reading

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Four Steps to Be Praised by the Lord in Bible Reading

Brother Zhao Ming:

Unwittingly, we have been parted for over two years. How are you doing these days? What’s the situation of the brothers and sisters? I really miss those days when we spread the gospel, read the Bible and attended meetings together. Do you still remember we once discussed a question: How should we read the Bible since we still don’t understand the Lord Jesus’ words although we read them every day?

Praise for New Life in the Kingdom

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We’ve heard God’s voice and returned to His house. In gatherings we eat and drink God’s words, we’re attending the banquet. We bid farewell to our sorrows and entanglements, we’re leading a new life. God’s words are with us every day, we so bask in them. Opening our hearts in fellowship on the truth, our hearts are so brightened. We contemplate, ponder God’s words, the Holy Spirit enlightens us. We are rid of our barriers and prejudices, we live within God’s love. We understand the truth and are freed, our hearts are sweet as honey.

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Breaking Free From the Rumor Trap

By Xiaoyun, China 

I used to be a female army officer. One day in 1999, a Korean pastor preached the gospel of the Lord Jesus to me. Because of my earnest pursuit, I soon became the focus of the pastor’s training and his right-hand man. The summer of 2000, the pastor came to Yunnan on a short summer missionary trip with more than a dozen college students from the Korean Gospel Church. Unexpectedly this alarmed the CCP government. We were arrested whilst having a meeting at the pastor’s home and then brought to Yunnan Province Public Security Department for trial.The Korean university students were deported the same night and the Korean pastor was also expelled. The church suffered persecution by the CCP and many believers were cowardly and did not dare believe. A proportion of believers were also forced to go to the Three-Self Church and this was how the church was broken up by the CCP. I was one of the main co-workers in the church and the persecution by the CCP this time also caused me to lose my job.

As a Christian Believing in God, Regularly Attending Gatherings Cannot Be Neglected! (1)

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Christian Life | As a Christian Believing in God, Regularly Attending Gatherings Cannot Be Neglected! (1)

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Hello brothers and sisters of Spiritual Q&A,

I get very tired from working during the day, and I do not sleep very well at night. As a result, I am not willing to make it to gatherings on time. I do not like to be restricted. I feel that if I have spiritual needs, as long as I look for my brothers and sisters to chat during those times, it should be fine. I wonder what the cause of this issue is. How should I resolve this?

An Jing

Appendix: Interpretations of the Mysteries of God’s Words to the Entire Universe

The Utterance from Almighty God | Chapter 46

Among all these words, none are more unforgettable than those of today. God’s words previously revealed the states of man or the mysteries of heaven, yet this utterance is unlike those of the past. It does not mock or poke fun, but is something completely unexpected: God sat down and calmly talked with people. What is His intention? What do you see when God says, “Today, I have begun new work above the universes. I have given the people on earth a new beginning, and asked them all to move out from My house.

Witnesses for Christ of the Last Days

Question 11: You testified that the Lord has returned and does His work of judgment beginning at the house of God in the last days. This seems to be different from the great white throne judgment in the Book of Revelation. What most people in religion think is that the great white throne judgment is targeted at the non-believers that belong to the devil Satan. When the Lord comes, the believers will be taken up into heaven, and then He will send disaster to destroy the non-believers. That’s the judgment before the great white throne. You testify to the start of God’s judgment in the last days, but we haven’t seen God bring disaster to destroy the non-believers. Then how could it be the great white throne judgment?

As a Christian Believing in God, Regularly Attending Gatherings Cannot Be Neglected!

 Xiaogao

Hello brothers and sisters of Spiritual Q&A,

I get very tired from working during the day, and I do not sleep very well at night. As a result, I am not willing to make it to gatherings on time. I do not like to be restricted. I feel that if I have spiritual needs, as long as I look for my brothers and sisters to chat with during those times, it should be fine. I wonder what the cause of this issue is. How should I resolve this?

An Jing

Hello Sister An Jing,

You said that you are not willing to attend gatherings on time and that when you feel you have spiritual needs, that is the only time you will actively look for your brothers and sisters to chat. We can think like this because we do not understand what truly believing in God and the importance of gatherings are. Thank the Lord. I will talk a little bit about my understanding about this aspect. I hope it will be useful to you.

All Levels of Church Leaders Must Recognize the Battle of the Spiritual World

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Spiritual Warfare | All Levels of Church Leaders Must Recognize the Battle of the Spiritual World

The day of God is before us, just around the corner. The closer God’s work gets to the key moment, the more Satan is unwilling to accept defeat, and all kinds of evil spirits, antichrists will furiously come out of their nests to frantically disturb and destroy the work of God’s house. They have already disseminated a lot of deceitful notions and fallacies to confuse God’s chosen people. At the same time, they also grasp opportunities to arbitrarily judge God’s work, plan to disrupt God’s chosen people from pursuing the truth and entering the right track to believing in God, and obstruct God’s will from being carried out. This is Satan’s cunning scheme.