Inquiring Into the Facts (I)

Inquiring Into the Facts (I)

Xiangyi

Synopsis: In view of rumors and slanders spread by the CCP government about the man used by the Holy Spirit in the Church of Almighty God, some people carry out an interview to question closely about the facts.
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Host: Xunguang;

Guests: Zhengyi and Xiangming.

Xunguang: Inquiring Into the Facts pays close attention to the hot topic about which the public care the most with you. In recent years, the rapid development of the Church of Almighty God has attracted widespread attention of countries and the popular media. About this topic which all of us focus on, today we’ve invited two guests from the Church of Almighty God to solve our doubts. Hello, Mr. Zhengyi and Mr. Xiangming.

Zhengyi and Xiangming: Hello, host.

Xunguang: We all know that, in 1991, the incarnate Almighty God formally began to express the truth and perform His ministry in Mainland China. He has expressed millions of words and done the work of judgment beginning with the house of God. The true believers who thirst for God’s appearance in all denominations and sects, after hearing God’s voice, have recognized that Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus in the last days and have turned toward Him one after another. In recent years, Almighty God’s kingdom gospel has been spread to many foreign countries and regions, and His words as well as gospel films, videos and articles of testifying about God have been disseminated widely via the Internet, which attracts an increasing number of men to seek and investigate. However, the Church of Almighty God growing stronger day by day triggers the atheistic CCP government’s deep concern and panic. As is known to all, the CCP government has been suppressing and persecuting underground house churches in China, and we frequently hear the news that the believers in the Church of Almighty God are arrested and sentenced by it. We also see a great deal of negative words from its official media, in the midst of which there is a conspicuous condemnation on a man to draw our attention especially.

“In 2000, the Chinese government launched a large-scale, nationwide search, so Zhao XX fled to New York, the United States via Tokyo, Japan. In June, 2001, he submitted an application for political asylum to the American authorities on the grounds of suffering religious persecution. The authorities who were unaware of the truth approved his request.”

Is it really the case? Considering the CCP’s unsavory reputation of persecuting religious belief and afflicting Christians all along, which is well-known in the international community, in order to avoid listening to its one-sided statement, let’s welcome these two brothers to dig out the truth for us.

Inquiry I

Xunguang: Almighty God has been working in Mainland China for more than twenty years, and millions of people have turned toward Him. But why does the CCP consume the largest manpower and material resources for solely arresting Zhao XX? It not only offered a reward of more than one million yuan for the capture of him in China, but after he went overseas, it does not give up and dispatches spies to shadow and spy on him and does its utmost to attack him on public media opinion. What kind of person is Zhao XX, whom the CCP has put a lot of efforts to arrest in the Church of Almighty God?

Zhengyi: Bible-readers are all familiar with that God once ordained Moses to lead the Israelites when he worked in the Age of Law, which created a precedent that God uses man to cooperate with the work of the Holy Spirit. When God incarnate appears and works in the last days, He again ordains a man to lead His chosen people of the churches. Zhao XX is the man He ordains in the Age of Kingdom to be in charge of leading and shepherding all people in the Church of Almighty God, and the man used by the Holy Spirit in the Age of Kingdom. Almighty God says, “The work carried out by the one who is used by God is in order to cooperate with the work of Christ or the Holy Spirit. This man is raised up by God among man, he is there to lead all of God’s chosen ones, and he is also raised up by God in order to do the work of human cooperation. With someone such as this, who is able to do the work of human cooperation, more of God’s requirements toward man and the work that the Holy Spirit must do among man can be achieved through him” (“Concerning God’s Use of Man” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).

Through Almighty God’s words we can learn that Zhao XX, as the predestined and selected man used by the Holy Spirit when God carries out the work of the last days, is the man who cooperates with God’s work and leads His chosen ones to pursue salvation. He leads and shepherds God’s chosen people totally in compliance with God’s words. Since he began to be responsible for the church’s work, he has issued a good deal of work arrangements as well as fellowship and preaching to help believers enter into the reality of the truth. And he has served as the “translator” as well as the bridge to help us comprehend and receive God’s words. Under his leading, we have possessed a number of real experiences about Almighty God’s words and some practical knowledge of God. Meanwhile, we have seen clearly the facts about our corruption by Satan, and walked on the right way of human life of seeking the transformation of life disposition. Moreover, we have penetrated the atheistic CCP government’s satanic, devilish substance of resisting God frenziedly. After going through its persecution and arrest, we God’s chosen people have possessed real faith in God and have broken through the bondage of the influence of darkness, not enslaved or controlled by the CCP anymore. No matter how serious obstacles or persecution we suffer, we still persevere with our belief in and worship of God. The CCP is very clear that if all the people come to follow God, there will be no one to worship it or believe its atheistic thoughts and communist theory. That will be the time when its desires of making China a place without God and enslaving Chinese people forever are dashed. Hence, it is deeply worried that the man used by the Holy Spirit will bring all mankind before God and extremely afraid that God will reign as King among men. The reason why it frenziedly condemns and hunts the man used by the Holy Spirit is that it wants to ban the Church of Almighty God and God’s work of the last days. But when he went abroad after being persecuted, the CCP cannot arrest him anymore. It doesn’t take its defeat lying down, but spreads various rumors about him and stirs up the antagonism of men toward the Church of Almighty God. Its goal is to hinder man from seeking and investigating God’s work of the last days.

Inquiry II

Xunguang: The CCP claims that it once mobilized the nationwide policemen to search for the man used by the Holy Spirit in a large-scale way, which makes us feel as if Zhao XX had committed a felony and is a principal criminal. Could Zhao XX, a Christian really break the law? Why is such a man who worships God heart and soul listed as a wanted criminal throughout China?

Xiangming: As the law stands, the wanted criminal must meet three requirements: 1. The wanted man must be a criminal suspect. 2. The suspect should satisfy the requirements of arrest. 3. The suspect surely shirks the legal liability and his present whereabouts is unknown. Only man who fulfils the above-mentioned requirements can be wanted legitimately and legally. It is obvious that the CCP cannot list any sinful fact of the man used by the Holy Spirit or tell which law he has broken, but just says that he submitted an application for political asylum to the American authorities on the grounds of suffering religious persecution. From it, we understand that the CCP gives orders to arrest him just because he believes in and serves God. The CCP government is quite clear that if the leader of the Church of Almighty God is not eliminated, he will lead and shepherd us, God’s chosen ones all the while to make us better understand the truth and further strengthen our faith in Almighty God and our love for Him. When we all understand the truth and are made overcomers by God, we aren’t restrained or bound by any Satan’s forces anymore and can worship and serve God wholeheartedly, and the CCP will be abandoned thoroughly. Accordingly, it simply ignores the international human rights treaties and the condemnation from the international community, but just stops at nothing to arrest him.

Inquiry III

Xunguang: All right. We see that the CCP is unable to obtain its desire all the while. After the man used by the Holy Spirit went abroad, it circulates rumors through the media that Zhao XX has already fled abroad. It is incomprehensible to many people how this action, that a Christian went abroad in order to believe in God and preach the gospel seriously because he was wanted by the atheistic government, can be called fleeing. How should we treat this issue?

Zhengyi: It’s quite simple. Let’s review those apostles and missionaries who preached the Lord’s way throughout the ages, and then we can know the answer.

In 1583, Matteo Ricci, an Italian missionary, sailed across the ocean to preach in China. At that time, the gospel of the Lord Jesus’ redemption of mankind spread by him was welcomed and esteemed by Chinese scholar-bureaucrats.

In 1605, Gao Yizhi, an Italian missionary of the Societas Iesu, came to China to preach. He left China in 1616, and at the end of 1624, he returned to Shanxi, China to resume preaching until he passed away.

In 1853, James Hudson Taylor, a British missionary who was only 21 years old, bade farewell to his parents and came to China to preach the Lord’s way. Since then he had never left China.

In 1885, Herbert Dixon, a British missionary, in company with his wife, left their four young children behind in England to preach in China until they martyred themselves in Xinzhou, Shanxi in 1900.

In 1916, Zhong Aihua, an American missionary, came to preach in China, and engaged in medical missionary work for 25 years. He was also one of those who dedicated most of their lives to Chinese Christians.

For thousands of years, it was precisely these missionaries who crossed borders to spread God’s gospel all over the world. None of the governments of democracies have ever condemned them as fugitives. If we say that preaching the gospel abroad means fleeing, could it be said that all Christian churches are formed by the gospel-spreading of those criminals who flee to escape punishment? And that Christians can believe in God at all times and in all countries is because they accept the gospel preached by fugitives? In order to complete the work of the church and to expand God’s kingdom gospel, the man used by the Holy Spirit went abroad. How could he be related to the word fleeing? Obviously, the CCP’s nonsense is purely the discredit against the Church of Almighty God and the smear against him. For the sake of banning God’s work of the last days, it has told a pack of lies and stops at no evil. Now it is quite reckless of the consequences when speaking and doing things. That it makes up these rumors is, in effect, making an enemy of God as well as Christians at all times and in all places openly. So, none of the words spread by the CCP deserve to be trusted.

To Be Continued …

Part Two: Inquiring Into the Facts (II)

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Who Says Believers in God Don’t Want Family?

Who Says Believers in God Don’t Want Family?

Zhang Qiuyang

The CCP government and some people in the religious world make rumors: The believers in Almighty God are inhuman. Many of them forsake family and career, and the youth neither marry nor honor their parents. They clearly go astray in such a way.

When believing in the Lord, I had many misunderstandings of and prejudices against the brothers and sisters from the Church of Almighty God, because I believed the CCP government’s rumors. When they preached the gospel to me, I always gave them the cold shoulder. Even if I spoke to them, I was sarcastic and ironic. However, even though I did so, they still fellowshiped with me patiently. They said: Though we are no more condemned and put to death by laws through the Lord Jesus’ redemption, the Lord Jesus just forgives our sins and yet does not solve our sinful nature. The satanic dispositions such as arrogance and self-conceit, selfishness and greediness, crookedness and deception, disobedience and opposition to God and so on, still remain within us. We are still not purified completely, saved and gained by God. So, the Lord Jesus had said for many times that He would be bound to come again. Many prophecies in the Bible mention His coming to carry out the judgment, bringing saints into the kingdom of heaven. In the last days, to solve our sinful nature, to make us break free of the bondage and restraints of sin thoroughly and live out the likeness of a true person and be gained by Him, the incarnate Almighty God expresses all the truths of purifying and saving people and does the new work of judgment beginning with the house of God on the basis of the Lord Jesus’ redemption work. Only by accepting God’s work in the last days can we enter the wonderful destination. When the brothers and sisters preached the gospel to me time and again, my cold and stubborn heart was softened finally, and I felt God’s love from them. After reading many of God’s words, I firmly believed that Almighty God is truly the returned Jesus and I accepted Almighty God’s work in the last days after understanding the mysteries of the Lord’s return. Not until I appreciated God’s overwhelming love for mankind and eager desire to save us did I realize how ignorant I was before and see clearly how ridiculous the CCP’s rumors are!

Through the contact with these brothers and sisters in the following days, I saw they were flesh-and-blood and emotional like others: When they missed their children, their faces were always covered in tears; derided, ridiculed and abused by the brothers and sisters in various denominations and sects, they would become weak and feel tormented as if a knife twisting inside; faced with the persecution and affliction of the CCP government, they would also give care to the flesh. … For the sake of making China a place without God and ensuring its regime throughout the ages, the CCP government conducts negative propaganda by radio, TV, internet and other media. It starts rumors to deceive people, slander and frame the Church of Almighty God. In addition, it dispatches spies to investigate openly and secretly, searching homes arbitrarily, arresting believers secretly, interrogating believers by cruel tortures and imprisoning them with labor reeducation and even killing them secretly. How many brothers and sisters cannot return home for being chased? How many are arrested, with no one knowing their whereabouts. … Between ease and affliction, benefit and truth, they have ever hesitated, have ever given consideration, and even had a thought of backing off. However, with the leadership of God’s words and the encouragement of God’s love, they knew their commissions and missions were to care for God’s will and to rescue the soul. … Hearing their experiences and testimonies, I saw they have obtained too many precious things from God’s words. They have recognized not only the source of mankind’s corruption but also the destination of mankind, and moreover, they are continually purified through the judgment and chastisement of God and gain the utmost salvation of God, and have a knowledge of God’s righteous disposition. Called by God’s love, I also cooperated with them to spread God’s kingdom gospel in the last days.

Through preaching the gospel, I understood all the more why the brothers and sisters could forsake their family and career to cooperate with God’s kingdom gospel. In fact, in the Age of Grace, the Lord Jesus ever taught the followers of Him, saying, “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:26). “He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me” (Matthew 10:37). “So likewise, whoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:33). From the words of the Lord Jesus, we can know God’s will that one person who truly believes in God and pursues to love God should walk in the way of God in everything, take God’s commission as his duty and put his own things in the second place. In the Age of Law, the prophet Jeremiah was called by God and conveyed His words in his youth; Samuel devoted his whole life to spending for God. In the Age of Grace, disciples of the Lord Jesus spread the Lord’s gospel across the world, of whom both Peter and Paul forsook their marriage and family. Can we say they went astray in their believing in the Lord Jesus? God’s word says, “Are you aware of the burden you shoulder, your commission, and your responsibility? Where is your historic sense of mission? … They are poor, pitiable, blind, and at a loss, wailing in the darkness, ‘Where is the way?’ How they yearn for the light, like a shooting star, to suddenly descend and disperse the force of darkness that has oppressed men for so many years. Who can know just how anxiously they hope, and how they pine day and night for this? These men who suffer deeply remain imprisoned in the dungeons of darkness, without hope of release, even on the day that the light flashes; when will they weep no longer? … Have you ever thought how grieved and anxious God’s heart is? How can He bear to see the innocent mankind He created with His own hands suffering such torment? After all, mankind are the unfortunates that have been poisoned. Though they have survived to this day, who would have thought that they have long been poisoned by the evil one? Have you forgotten that you are one of the victims? Out of your love for God, are you not willing to strive to save those who have survived? Are you not willing to use all your effort to repay the God who loves mankind like His own flesh and blood? How do you interpret being used by God to live your extraordinary life? Do you really have the resolution and confidence to live out a meaningful life of a pious, God-serving person?” God is grieved and anxious for man’s living in the darkness, and He anxiously hopes they can spread the salvation of the last days. They have known God’s eager desire to save man, so how can they stand by and not care for God’s commission? While continuing rushing on the way of spreading the gospel, the experiences of the saints’ loyalty to God in the Age of Law rose before their eyes when they were subjected to ridicule and slander; when they underwent humiliation and persecution, the scene of the disciples’ being martyred for the Lord in the Age of Grace inspired them to go forward; when they felt it difficult to spread the gospel and wanted to give up, God’s words moved them time and time again, and God’s love gave them confidence and courage of being loyal to Him constantly, so that they didn’t want to live for their own selfish desires and fleshly enjoyments any longer; the testimonies of the former saints’ loyalty to God also guided them to know what the most meaningful life is. Under the guidance of God’s love, they have forsaken all their own and spread the kingdom gospel of God firmly. Even if ridiculed, abused, rejected and slandered by the worldly people, they are willing to accept and obey. They would rather run the risk of being arrested and imprisoned by the CCP government than not make their full efforts to spread God’s salvation of the last days to more people. They are also willing to take their respective missions to be faithful to God and considerate of God’s will, because they know this is the unshirkable obligation and responsibility of the creatures.

As we know, now it is the last days. Greater and greater disasters are being brought down onto the world, earthquakes, hailstones and fires occurring frequently and various plagues attacking mankind constantly. China has suffered floods and hailstones and so on unceasingly in recent years, and thousands of lives are engulfed by serious haze every day. And the rare cold current weather appeared in Taiwan and Europe, resulting in many people’s death. … The dead lose their lives in great fear, never reviving again; due to the departed relatives, the living are in agony. Four blood moons have occurred, so the rare great calamities of the prophecies in the Bible will be sent down very soon. Today, the Lord Jesus has returned to flesh and expressed words to save mankind. God’s work of the last days is the only chance of man’s salvation. Almighty God has expressed all the truths of man’s salvation and pointed out the way for us to be purified and saved. Those who can accept God’s judgment and gain the truth can receive God’s care and protection, so the work that God saves man in the last days relates to every person’s end and destination. God’s word says, “This is because only one creation and one salvation are within the plan of God. This is the first time and also the last. Therefore, none can comprehend the kind intention and fervent anticipation of God for mankind’s salvation.” “Only I am the true God; only I am your refuge. You can only now hide in My secret place, only within Me, and the disasters will not befall you and no calamity will come near to your tent.”

After the personal experience of God’s work in the last days, these brothers and sisters who follow Almighty God feel God’s love and salvation and moreover, they are cared and protected by God in the disasters again and again. They know God’s eager desire that God yearns for more people to come before Him to be saved. Because God does not have the heart to see man die in the disasters, much less has He the heart to see man live in the wailing and helplessness because they turn away from God and lack His care and protection. As Christians, they should worry God’s worries and think His thoughts. So, they resolve to preach the gospel and testify to God. It is not that they don’t want family, nor do they have no humanity, much less are they dolts or madmen but that they are merely the needy whom God has lifted from the dunghill, and are merely a group of people who were extremely corrupted but gain God’s salvation and who are awakened by Almighty God’s great love and willing to offer up their heart and body to God. As these men understand God’s will, they are willing to perform their duties and care for His will. What’s more, they willingly fulfill their missions under the encouragement of God’s love. The Lord Jesus said, “How think you? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not leave the ninety and nine, and goes into the mountains, and seeks that which is gone astray?” (Matthew 18:12). Just think: A man enjoys the bountiful grace of God, gains God’s salvation and tastes God’s love, but doesn’t know how to care for God’s heart and repay His love, doesn’t fulfill the duty of a created being before God, and pays no heed to God’s eager desire of saving man. He only cares about preserving his own little family wholeheartedly and pursues to satisfy his family. Does such man really have humanity? It can be said that such man is most selfish and ungrateful and is inhuman at all. Just as parents who work hard to raise children and to help them get married and start their career. But when parents need them to do something, they care for their own little family instead of them. Aren’t they the most ungrateful and inhuman children? So, what people say “Believers in Almighty God have no human kindness and humanity and go astray because of forsaking family and career, not leading a family life and not taking care of family” is purely fallacious knowledge. In the time of Noah, when God saw people in that age became licentious and evil to hideous depravity and He would destroy the world by flooding the earth, Noah built the ark with all his property and conveyed the information everywhere that Jehovah God would destroy the world by a flood. Didn’t people in that age also say he was mad, evil and possessed? However, when the flood came, Noah and the seven members of his family entered into the ark, whereas people who sneered at and slandered Noah were swallowed by the flood, and died in the disaster on account of not listening to God’s words. Isn’t this an ironclad fact?

Can you understand the Lord’s eager desire that He leaves the ninety-nine sheep and seeks the one which has gone astray? Almighty God says, “His substance and disposition are expressed in His dialogue with man; His thoughts and ideas are revealed completely in His deeds; He accompanies and observes mankind at all times. He speaks quietly to mankind and all of creation with His silent words: I am above the universe, and I am amongst My creation. I am keeping watch; I am waiting; I am at your side…. His hands are warm and strong; His footsteps are light; His voice is soft and graceful; His form passes and turns, embracing all of mankind; His countenance is beautiful and gentle. He has never left, nor has He vanished. From dawn to dusk, He is mankind’s constant companion.” God has been awaiting man’s return. God’s deeds and substance are revealed in His words and work. As a creature, only by accepting God’s new work and coming before God can he behold the appearance of God and gain God’s salvation of the last days. Otherwise, he will only be the forsaken one, falling into disasters.

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Lies and Truths III

Lies and Truths III

On March 23, 2010, a campus murder case happened in Nanping City, Fujian Province. The murderer Zheng Minsheng was in despair because he couldn’t earn his living. Then he hacked 13 pupils, which resulted in 8 dead and 5 injured. Most of the casualties were children of local bigwigs. While the Guangshan Case caused no death and happened in a village primary school in one of the poorest areas in China. Comparing these two cases, in terms of death toll, Nanping Case caused more deaths than Guangshan Case; in regard to social influence, the former caused greater influence. But Nanping Case wasn’t concerned or exposed by the media, and many people didn’t know the occurrence of the case. Whereas, after Guangshan Case happened, the government not only hindered the journalists from investigating and interviewing it, but still distorted the facts, imputed the case to the Church of Almighty God, exerted great efforts to publicize and reported it in a high-profile way so that it was spread throughout Mainland China as well as many countries under the circumstances that Min Yongjun’s mother had said, “In recent two years, I have never let him out of my sight, nor have I seen him touch any religion, much less heard him mention doomsday.” The CCP took advantage of a psychotic murder case to make up lies and whip up public opinions, through which it has framed and discredited the Church of Almighty God. Its base means are really irritating and heinous.

No.3: A Pupil Was Murdered, With a Lightning-like Mark Left on the Foot

Brief introduction of the case: Wu Boxin, a professor of People’s Public Security University of China, fabricated a rumor publicly in a talk show, saying that in 2009, he participated in an investigation of a criminal murder case which resulted from reluctance to join the Church. At dusk, the corpse of a child whose parents were unwilling to enter into the Church was found in a pile of firewood, and there was an obvious lightning-like mark on the arch of his foot.

The truth of the facts: This rumor was not fabricated in a skillful manner and was full of loopholes. First of all, there were various versions of the rumor. Some reports said the incident happened in 2009, while some said in 2010; some reports said the victim was a boy, while some said a girl; some reports said it was because the child’s parents were unwilling to enter the Church, but some said it was because the child’s relative had a thought of leaving the Church. Since the rumor was fabricated, then the liar couldn’t make his statement consistent inevitably.

Besides, neither did Wu Boxin say the precise place where the incident happened or the situation of the party, nor could any relevant reports be found in the media. More farcically, could the murderer be so silly to leave his own name on the body of the dead? Didn’t it amount to surrendering himself to the police department? If the case turned out to be true, would the CCP government have long tried it on the court and made it public to man? It was thus evident that Wu’s words collapsed of itself, and were purely fabrications founded upon nothing and false accusations.

Another report said that some people’s nose was cut off, eyes were gouged out, and limbs were amputated by the members of the Church of Almighty God because of withdrawing from it.

The Chinese media have never reported any concrete cases of such incidents, nor can any other legally binding evidence be provided for textual research. Such a report is purely a sample that the CCP fabricates and is founded upon nothing. In China, there are at least four million people who have accepted Almighty God’s work of the last days, and there are also many people who left afterward. If what the CCP government says were true, then how many people would have had their noses cut off, eyes gouged out, and limbs amputated? If there were one case of that, wouldn’t the government be too impatient to wait to screen it in the news media, and have the criminal, victim as well as relevant witnesses tried publicly? Wouldn’t it be more convincing? However, as for these groundless accusations from the CCP, firstly, neither are there time, places, characters, or process of these incidents provided, nor are there news reports on them. They are totally fabrications founded upon nothing; secondly, the law requires evidence. Only with sufficient evidence can the conclusion drawn be objective, be in accordance with the law, and be convincing. But in fact, not only the above-mentioned cases, but all the ones by which the CCP has framed the Church of Almighty God have not been proved. They are purely rumors, slanders, and defamation with malice. How can such a case be spread as news? If we take it as news, then it’s just the false one. Of course, there are only lies and deceptions, but no truths in the state media of the CCP. This is a generally acknowledged fact.

Seeing The International Image of the CCP And Its State Media Through the International Criticisms

China has had a notorious reputation for its control and oppression of freedom of the press and religious belief in the world.

International authorities and human rights organizations have evaluated China as follows:

Reporters Without Borders makes assessments of the degrees of freedom of the news media among 180 countries or regions all over the world every year. In 2016, China ranked the 176th, the fifth from the bottom. Delphine Halgand, the head of America practice, said to the Voice of America, “China has been at the bottom of the ranking of the world news freedom index for many years, and is still the country that imprisons the maximum number of journalists and bloggers in the world. The situation of freedom of the press in China is extremely terrible and worrying.”

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) pointed out, in the report on international religious freedom released in 2016, that China has been encroaching severely on freedom of religion. The CCP government continues accusing some individuals and religious organizations of being engaged in the so-called activities of cults. Underground house churches are more likely to face such an accusation.

Human Rights Watch, the international organization of human rights, pointed out, in its report on freedom of religion in China, that all activities, personnel, and financial records of religious organizations must be examined by the CCP government, and the appointment of the clergy, religious publications and the establishment of religious educational institutions are all controlled by the government. Unregistered religious groups, such as Christian house churches, are regarded illegal, and are usually searched and sealed. Besides, many believers suffer harassment and those who are in charge of churches are taken into custody and even are sentenced.
The freedom of belief and speech is the most fundamental right that every citizen should enjoy, which is expressly stipulated in writing in International Bill of Human Rights and International Law. Although the CCP government has signed these two pacts, it never complies with international laws. Instead, it has been depriving of and trampling on these most fundamental rights, and legislating to crack down on and suppress religious belief on the charge of being a threat to national security and subverting the government. The platform within the CCP states clearly and definitely that the ultimate goal of the Party is to eliminate all religions thoroughly and make China a place without God, and thereafter bring the whole country under its rule. However, no power can stand in the way of God’s work. No matter how the CCP suppresses religious belief and persecutes the Church of Almighty God, yet God’s work of the last days has still spread across the whole of Mainland China, millions of people have returned to Almighty God on account of hearing God’s voice, and He has already made a group of overcomers. Nowadays, the words expressed by Almighty God, the gospel films and videos of the Church of Almighty God, as well as experiences and testimonies of God’s chosen people who have stood witnesses under the CCP’s persecution are publicly available online to be searched and sought by people from countries and territories around the world. For the purpose of concealing its monstrous crimes of resisting God and persecuting Christians, as well as hindering people from seeking and investigating the true way, the CCP not only cracks down on and persecutes the Church of Almighty God in China, but also stretches abroad its vicious claws: taking advantage of the media abroad to spread rumors madly; whipping up public opinions; sparing no effort to condemn and defame the Church of Almighty God; cracking down on religious groups. In February of 2016, Meng Jianzhu, Secretary of Central Politics and Law Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, pointed out clearly at a special conference when indicating suppression of religious groups outside borders, “We should push the work of deepening main diplomatic channels, focus the strategy on carrying out the action of crack-down, and narrow the religious groups’ overseas room for activities. … We must seize the moment when the western countries’ demands from our country are ascending and make the struggle of counteraction abroad more and more active. … We should insist on taking the initiative in attacking and make good use of international general regulations and state laws to attack and crack down on religious groups.” The atheistic CCP government’s animosity against God has reached the hysterical extent. It attempts to use lies to continue deceiving and cheating the people of the world, and to draw democracies over to its side to resist God and be in enmity to God. Whereas, no matter how the CCP spreads lies continually and dresses them up to be convincing, and even though it repeats lies ten thousand times, lies are lies and the truths shall never be changed because of lies.

Countless Evil the CCP Has Done to Resist God Shows Its Satanic and Devilish Substance

The CCP resists God and does much evil. It has been acting against Heaven and running counter to right principles from beginning to end, and has been deceiving, cheating, and afflicting people with lies all the while. Then what on earth is the substance of the CCP? Why does it hate God so much and is in enmity of God? The answers have already been disclosed in Revelation, which says, “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. … And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. … And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 12:9, 13, 17). What is on earth the great dragon foretold in the Book of Revelation? And what has it done among mankind? The great dragon is exactly “that old serpent,” and is also Satan that used lies to entice Adam and Eve to sin and betray God in the beginning. For thousands of years, Satan has been telling lies to deceive, corrupt, and butcher mankind. It has drunk the blood of myriads of saints, and thereby becomes the great red dragon in the last days which is the embodiment of Satan and evil spirits that resist God and devour the soul of man. As everyone knows, the Communist Party was founded by Marx, a believer of Satanism. Marx claimed himself to be Satan, the devil, declared that he would revenge himself on God, and cursed all mankind to go to hell. Accordingly, any political parties that have accepted Marxism all madly oppose God, persecute and kill Christians and slaughter mankind, which is sufficient to prove communism stems from Satan and evil spirits. When communism was brought to China and accepted by some people, then the Chinese Communist Party came into existence. The head of the CCP, the king of devils, is exactly the embodiment of Satan and evil spirits, so it makes an utmost effort to carry out atheism and materialism, and other such heresies and fallacies that deny and resist God to poison, corrupt mankind and devour the soul of man. Ever since the CCP, the king of devils, came into power in Mainland China, it has tyrannized the people and deprived of their freedom of belief, only allowing them to follow and serve it and devote themselves to its illusion of communism, but not allowing them to pursue the truth and the light of human life, much less allowing them to believe in, follow, and serve God, which is a universally recognized fact. It is perceived that the atheistic CCP government is exactly “the great dragon” foretold in the Book of Revelation, “called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world.” This is the CCP’s devilish substance, and is also the source that it always tells lies, hates God and is in enmity of Him, as well as persecutes and slaughters Christians. As long as we see through its satanic and evil substance, we can penetrate Satan’s schemes naturally, so that we will not be deceived or cheated by its lies and then we can make a correct choice between the truths and the lies.

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Almighty God says, "In times past, many pursued with their ambition and notions and for the sake of their hopes. These matters will not be discussed now. The key is to find a way of practice that will enable each of you to maintain a normal condition before God and to gradually break free of the shackles of Satan’s influence, so that you may be gained by God, and live out on earth what God asks of you. Only this can fulfill the desire of God."

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The Pursuit of Spiritual Gifts Is Unrelated to the Attainment of Life

The Pursuit of Spiritual Gifts Is Unrelated to the Attainment of Life

Xin Sheng    United States

After a Startup Failure, I Believed in the Lord and Received His Grace

My name is Xin Sheng and I was born in Taiwan. In 1978, I moved to the United States at age 19 accompanied by my parents. Afterward, to realize my entrepreneurial dream, I opened a retail auto parts store sponsored by my parents. However, it went out of business later for lack of sales channels. Along with that, my startup dream vanished. My parents often gave me attitude for the money loss and sometimes spoke to me sarcastically, asking me to pay their money back. I was so distressed. At that time, I thought of Pastor Yang and his wife whom I met when I was running my store. They served in a neighboring church and I had visited it several times at their invitation. I felt harmony and love and my heart was at peace there. Faced with my parents’ attitudes toward my failure and toward the loss of my business, I felt that my home was lacking in warmth and love compared with the church. So I wanted to stay in the church to calm my mind. There I was moved by the free help of Pastor Yang and his brothers and sisters to other people. They all abided by the teachings of the Lord and pursued to be good people. I felt it was a pure land in the world. Therefore, I turned to the Lord through baptism on Thanksgiving Day of 1981. Thank the Lord for visiting His blessings and profuse grace upon me thereafter. I got married in 1983. My wife and I left our parents and moved to a town in the middle of the United States the next year. I learned aircraft maintenance and repair at a school and meanwhile attended meetings at a Chinese Christian church. Except for workdays, my wife and I would serve in the church. Although it was a small church, there were many believers with fervent hearts and great faith. In 1986, I became an official aircraft maintenance worker and got a stable job. At the same time, my wife and I had our first child. My career and life went smoothly, which made me feel as if I had entered the good land of Canaan. I was happy with the presence of the Lord, often living in joy.

My Wife and I Spread Gospel and Built a Church in Our Hometown, Taiwan

In 1990, my wife came up with the idea of returning to Taiwan for spreading gospel to our families and building a local church. After prayer, we got back to Taiwan with our kids in 1992. At the beginning, there were few believers in our church. Through our constant efforts and cooperation with the local brothers and sisters, the church thrived in five years, burning like fire with an increasing number of believers. Everyone was following the Lord with the utmost confidence. Seeing that the church we established with consistent efforts grew ever better because of the Lord’s blessings, I felt joyous and thanked the Lord for His blessings and grace, and had a greater faith in following Him.

Seven Years Later, I Returned to the United States and Joined the Charismatic Church

Because of some changes in life, my whole family moved back to the United States in 1999. My wife and I decided to settle down here, expecting a new start.

After coming back to America, we found the Charismatic Church and started to serve again, which brought us a new aim and knowledge. The pastor told us, “It is said in the Bible, ‘But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit with. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these works that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will’ (1 Corinthians 12:7-11). So we should pursue to be filled with the Holy Spirit, which is a spiritual gift. Only those who are filled with the Holy Spirit are the people possessed of spiritual life. It should be emphasized that everyone must pursue to gain the gift of praying in tongues, for the level of our spiritual life can be upgraded only with the gift of speaking in tongues. If we only pray with the understanding, the level of our spiritual life won’t be upgraded, and then it will be hard to say if we can enter into the kingdom of heaven when the Lord comes….” From then on, people in our church began to pursue various spiritual gifts, and those who gained the gift of speaking in tongues accounted for the largest proportion. I saw that once the pastor laid his hands on the believers and prayed, some cried, some laughed, some suddenly fell down, and some couldn’t stop speaking in tongues … My brothers and sisters always prayed in tongues after we finished singing hymns. But I was unable to do so. I supposed I was not a spiritual person. So I felt troubled for failing to gain any gifts, including speaking in tongues, which was the most common one. Feeling helpless, I just comforted myself with this: Don’t worry, maybe it is still early for me to gain spiritual gifts.

I Was Confused by the Church Situation Where the Believers Pursued to Be Filled With the Holy Spirit

Gradually, a growing number of the believers in our church could speak in tongues. But I saw that when my brothers and sister pursued spiritual gifts and the filling of the Holy Spirit, they paid decreasing attention to the explanation of the Scriptures and the practice of the Lord’s words, and all their deeds were far from testifying to the Lord. I remembered one time when my younger son came back from the church, he said, “I think the church is pretty much like the society. I don’t want to attend meetings anymore.” Actually, I felt the same way about the church. Gradually, I couldn’t feel the work of the Holy Spirit. I began to wonder whether or not the pursuit of being filled with the Holy Spirit was from Him. What’s more, every time we broke bread in Holy Communion, the church became a place of confessing. The moment the glasses of wine were raised, we began to repent our sins. But after that, we returned to real life and again committed sins involuntarily. The original prosperity of our church was lost and never returned. I was worried about living in sin and being unable to save myself. I tried to solve my problem through praying more, reading the Scriptures and spiritual books more, but to no avail. In particular, when I saw the Lord’s words, “Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3), my heart was full of fear and worry. I still lived in sin and was unable to put the Lord’s teachings into practice. I still could lose my temper, show jealousy and hatred toward others, have passions and lusts, and even tell lies for my personal benefits … I repented my sins, but after that, I continued to sin unwittingly. How could I be reborn in this way? I often thought to myself: If the pursuit of being filled with the Holy Spirit and receiving spiritual gifts is necessary for our salvation, why doesn’t the Lord bless our church? Can we really enter into the kingdom of heaven in such a way?

I Heard the News About the Lord’s Return Seventeen Years Later

I befriended Sister Fang on Facebook in November of 2016. In our conversation, I learned that her cousin was very seeking and that his knowledge and understanding of the Bible were very high. Then through Sister Fang, I got to chat with her cousin, Brother Qiancheng. Thanks be to the Lord. He indeed had a thorough and profound knowledge of the Bible, and I gained a new understanding of the Bible through his sharing. He also told me wonderful news that the Lord Jesus has come back. I was ecstatic and eager to know the work He has brought forth. However, when I heard him say, “The Lord has come back. He becomes flesh and expresses the words to do the work of judgment beginning with the house of God …” I felt conflicted and shocked: The Lord has come back through incarnation; how could it be possible? I believe that the Lord will appear to us with glory in a spiritual body instead of through incarnation when He comes back.

I put forward my viewpoint to Brother Qiancheng. He said, “It is meaningful that God incarnate comes to do His work. God doesn’t do anything insignificant. God becomes flesh once again to do His work in the last days. There are divine mysteries here. Let’s look at the prophecies in the Bible, ‘For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation’ (Luke 17:24-25). ‘I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come’ (John 16:12-13). These verses have prophesied that the Lord Jesus will return through incarnation. The Son of man refers to God’s return to flesh, becoming a person who is born to a human and have parents. God really and actually becomes man, but the Spirit within Him is the Holy Spirit, and He is the embodiment of the Spirit of God. If God appeared in a spiritual body, then He wouldn’t be called Son of man. On the other hand, when God comes back in the last days, ‘first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.’ Only when God comes in the flesh will He suffer many things, and if God appeared as the Spirit, He wouldn’t suffer as much. For instance, the Lord Jesus suffered in a practical way before He was nailed to the cross. When He transcended the flesh and became a spiritual body after the resurrection, however, He did not suffer anymore. On the third hand, ‘when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.’ Man can comprehend and enter the truth only if God’s Spirit is materialized in the flesh, speaks and works among man in a practical way, while the direct work of the Spirit cannot achieve such results. We will understand it more clearly after reading Almighty God’s words.”

Then Brother Qiancheng began to read the words of Almighty God. Almighty God says, “The Spirit is impalpable to man, and invisible to man, and the work of the Spirit is incapable of leaving any further evidence or facts of God’s work for man. Man shall never behold the real face of God, and shall always believe in a vague God that does not exist. Man shall never behold the face of God, nor will man ever hear words personally spoken by God. Man’s imaginings are, after all, empty, and cannot replace the true face of God; the inherent disposition of God, and the work of God Himself cannot be impersonated by man. The invisible God in heaven and His work can only be brought to earth by God incarnate who personally does His work among man. This is the most ideal way in which God appears to man, in which man sees God and comes to know the true face of God, and it cannot be achieved by a non-incarnate God” (“Corrupt Mankind Is More in Need of the Salvation of God Become Flesh” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).

“So if this work is done by the Spirit—if God does not become flesh, and instead the Spirit speaks directly through thunder, so that man has no contact with Him, would man know His disposition? If only the Spirit does the work, then man would have no way of knowing His disposition. People can only behold God’s disposition with their own eyes when He becomes flesh, and reveals His words in the flesh, and expresses His entire disposition through the flesh. God truly lives among man. He is tangible; man can truly engage with His disposition and what He has and is; only in this way can man truly know Him” (“The Vision of God’s Work (3)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).

“The work that is of greatest value to corrupt man is that which provides accurate words, clear goals to pursue, and which can be seen and touched. Only realistic work and timely guidance are suited to man’s tastes, and only real work can save man from his corrupt and depraved disposition. This can only be achieved by the incarnate God; only the incarnate God can save man from his formerly corrupt and depraved disposition. Although the Spirit is the inherent substance of God, work such as this can only be done by His flesh. If the Spirit worked single-handedly, then it would not be possible for His work to be effective—this is a plain truth”(“Corrupt Mankind Is More in Need of the Salvation of God Become Flesh” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).

After reading Almighty God’s words, Brother Qiancheng fellowshiped, “We are still living in sin and under Satan’s domain. Every day we sin and confess. Such corrupt people like us are unfit to see God’s face. What’s more, we are of flesh and blood, so we can’t see God’s spiritual body. When Daniel saw the vision, he set his face toward the ground, became dumb, and there was no strength or breath left in him. When the apostle John saw the vision on the island of Patmos, he fell to the ground as dead. God’s Spirit allows no offense, and can never be approached by man. Only when God is incarnated to be a man, actually carries out His work and speaks His words in the world of man and expresses the truth, can the outcome of salvation of man be attained.”

The Words of Almighty God Awakened My Heart

Brother Qiancheng’s fellowship was very practical and beyond all dispute, making me up from my stupor. As it turned out, God’s work has a very profound meaning. But I would always define it according to my own conceptions. I was too ignorant and arrogant. Indeed, we are caked in grime, living a life of sinning and confessing. How could we be fit to see God’s spiritual body? Only when God is incarnated as a man as well as work and speak among us, can we hear His voice with our own ears, read His words, experience His work personally, and come face to face with Him. Just when the Lord Jesus did His work, His disciples were face to face with Him every day, listened to His preaching, and accepted His personal provision, watering and shepherding. The work of God incarnate is so beneficial to man.

Then Brother Qiancheng read two more passages of God’s words, “It is precisely because Satan has corrupted the flesh of man, and man is the one who God intends to save, that God must assume the flesh to do battle with Satan and to personally shepherd man. Only this is beneficial to His work. The two incarnate fleshes of God have existed in order to defeat Satan, and have also existed in order to better save man” (“Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).

“When God is working in the flesh, He is actually doing battle with Satan in the flesh. When He works in the flesh, He is doing His work in the spiritual realm, and makes the whole of His work in the spiritual realm real on earth. The one who is conquered is man, who is disobedient to Him, the one who is defeated is the embodiment of Satan (of course, this is also man), who is in enmity of Him, and the one who is ultimately saved is also man. In this way, it is even more necessary for Him to become a man who has the outer shell of a creature, so that He is able to do real battle with Satan, conquering man, who is disobedient to Him and possessed of the same outer shell as Him, and saving man, who is of the same outer shell as Him and has been harmed by Satan. His enemy is man, the object of His conquest is man, and the object of His salvation is man, who was created by Him. So He must become man, and in this way, His work becomes much easier. He is able to defeat Satan and conquer mankind, and, moreover, is able to save mankind” (“Corrupt Mankind Is More in Need of the Salvation of God Become Flesh” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).

After reading God’s words, Brother Qiancheng continued his fellowship, “After thousands of years of Satan’s corruption, man has been fully imbued with Satan’s poison like its thoughts and views. What man has lived out is totally in Satan’s image, such as arrogance, self-rightness, self-importance, conceit, selfishness, deceit and so on. Man is also full of imaginations and conceptions about God. Once God’s work is not in line with man’s notions, he will judge, refuse, even blaspheme and condemn it. No one loves the truth or hungers for the truth, nor does he like walking the right path. Instead, people all love the world, pursue fame and fortune, always long for more, adore lust, and covet fleshly comforts. God is righteous and holy. People with the corrupt satanic disposition are not qualified to see the face of God, much less inherit God’s promise and enter into God’s kingdom. People living under Satan’s domain are the ones Satan tries to swallow. God cannot bear to see His created mankind taken captive by Satan. He intends to fully save man from the domain of Satan, allowing him to inherit His promises. To save man, God has to bestow upon him the truth that can help him to throw off Satan’s dark influence. When man gains the truth as his life, Satan’s poison existing within him will be eliminated, and the outdated ideas and views as well as his outlooks on life and values will be changed. Once all things that belong to Satan in man have been cleansed by God’s words, he shall fully break free of Satan’s influence and be saved by God. And the work of expressing words and bestowing man the truth can only be done by God incarnate. As is now clear, corrupt mankind is in need of the salvation of God become flesh.”

God’s words and Brother Qiancheng’s fellowship made me gain further understanding of God’s work in the last days. God becomes flesh to do His work for the purpose of saving man that has been deeply corrupted by Satan. Without the work of God incarnate, man would never be supplied and shepherded by God’s words, and would be unable to gain the truth to break away from the influence of Satan or free himself from sins. In that case, man would always be controlled and exploited by Satan, always live under Satan’s domain, and belong to Satan forever. Therefore, God incarnate expresses the words to provide to man and shepherd him, allows him to break away from Satan’s influence and become a man who truly belongs to God and is gained by God. This is profound salvation for man and great love for him.

It was almost time for my work. Then we all got offline after setting up a time for our next fellowship. I was contemplating God’s words and Brother Qiancheng’s fellowship on my way to work. Almighty God’s words have indeed unveiled mysteries and clarified the significance of incarnation. God is so practical. He becomes flesh as the Son of man, expresses His words and judges the corruption of mankind really and actually. In the past, I believed that the Lord would appear in a spiritual body when He came back. It now looks as though my thought is so vague and impractical, neither is it realistic. However, concerning Brother Qiancheng’s fellowship that people who have gained the truth have received life, I have a different understanding. It is agreed in our Charismatic church that people have gained life when they are filled with the Holy Spirit, or when they get spiritual gifts like speaking in tongues or interpreting tongues. But I have learned something from this fellowship and dare not uphold myself. I prefer seeking out him for fellowship online next time.

The Second Fellowship Made Me Understand That Only Those Who Have Gained the Truth Are Those Who Have Life

Our appointed time finally came. I said, “Brother Qiancheng, people in our sect believed that to be filled with the Holy Spirit or gain spiritual gifts is all that is needed to have life. For example, people with the ability of speaking with tongues or interpreting tongues are those who have received life. What do you think about this?”

He said, “Concerning this issue, the first thing we need to understand is what constitutes life. The Lord Jesus has said, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life’ (John 14:6) and ‘The words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life’ (John 6:63). Almighty God says, ‘the more you obey the words of God, the greater the proof of your longing for the truth. People who do not long for the words of God are people who are without life. Such people are those who are outside the words of God, and who belong to religion’ (‘Only Those Who Know the Work of God Today Can Serve God’ in The Word Appears in the Flesh) and ‘Why is it said that many people have no life? Because they do not know God, and thus it is said that they have no God, and have no life. If your belief in God has reached a certain point where you are capable of thoroughly knowing the deeds of God, the reality of God, and every stage of God’s work, then you are possessed of the truth’ (‘Only Those Who Know God Can Bear Testimony to God’ in The Word Appears in the Flesh) and ‘When you are having a change, the reality of the truth is being wrought in you, and you will then progress and will see a change in the conditions of your life. When you have this change, and this kind of reality of the truth, then you will have stature, and with stature comes life’ (‘If You Wish to Attain the Truth, Then You Must Learn From the People, Matters, and Things Around You” in Fellowship and Preaching of Christ of the Last Days). From what is said above, we can see that God’s word is the life and the truth is the life. It can be seen that only those who have gained the truth and the word of God as their life are those who truly have life and those who are perfected by God’s work of judgment in the last days. In God’s work of judgment, people are able to understand and gain the truth, live by God’s words, have a true knowledge of God, understand His will in all things, be truly loyal and obedient to Him, and truly love Him, revere Him and shun evil. All of these show that they have received the life. People possessed of the life can prevail over Satan. They can penetrate Satan’s deception instead of falling prey to it, no longer rebelling against or resisting God, regardless of how Satan deceives, tempts or tests them. Thus it is erroneous that people want to gain life through pursuing to be filled with the Holy Spirit. In addition, the Holy Spirit is God Himself and will never become man’s life. The Lord Jesus and Almighty God are the fleshes in which the Spirit is realized, the incarnate God Himself, which is nothing less than the absolute truth. Apparently some people still live under the bonds of sin and what they live out is entirely the image of Satan, but they say the Holy Spirit has become their life, which is a tremendous blasphemy to God.

Some people think that those who have spiritual gifts, like speaking in tongues or interpreting tongues, have gained the life. Who said these words? Is there the confirmation of God’s words? Has Jehovah God said these? Has the Lord Jesus said these? We should use God’s words as the standard for our belief in God. Anything without the basis of God’s words comes from man’s notions and imaginations. Man has been corrupted by Satan, and the thoughts in his mind have been processed by Satan. Man pursues vagueness and abstraction, has supernatural imagination, and prefers falsehoods. Thus man’s notions and imaginations are all fallacies and are deceptive, none of which is compatible with God. The Lord Jesus has said, ‘But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come on you: and you shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth’ (Acts 1:8). It is written in Scripture, ‘And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance’ (Acts 2:4). First of all, we must understand such a truth that God absolutely will not do something meaningless or worthless. The Holy Spirit came to be with man after the ascension of the Lord Jesus for the purpose of making them have faith and strength to testify the Lord and spread the gospel. What’s more, there is a background when it comes to being filled with the Holy Spirit to speak with tongues. At that time, people of all nations who didn’t speak Hebrew gathered with the apostles. Then the apostles began to speak with other tongues, as God gave them utterance, witnessing to God to all nations and all lands, thereby leading people to turn to God. Therefore this work of the Lord at that time is meaningful and valuable. But the tongues spoken by people in the religious world have substantive differences with those spoken by the apostles in the Age of Grace. For one thing, the languages they speak don’t belong to any nation or any country, and can’t be understood by human beings. For another thing, they speak with tongues not to testify to the work of God. Then what is the value and significance of it? From these it can be seen that it is done by Satan and evil spirits rather than the Holy Spirit.”

I gained discernments through God’s words and Brother Qiancheng’s fellowship. People from the sect pursue to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to gain spiritual gifts with the result that some can speak with tongues and some can interpret tongues. This is abnormal and is simply not the work of the Holy Spirit but the work of evil spirits. Because man’s living out can show that man still lives in sin, covets money and the pleasure of the flesh, seeks fame and fortune and pursues worldly trends. Not a single one can hold fast to God’s commandments, abide by the Lord’s way, let alone overcome Satan’s temptation. How could this be having life? Even some people see the display of crying, laughing and falling on the ground in great meetings as the manifestations of having life. Thinking about it now, that is so absurd and ridiculous.

I Returned Before Almighty God

I thank God for preparing the online gathering, making me gain a lot of knowledge which is far more than what I have learned in the past couple of years in the religion. It not only rectifies my former mistaken knowledge but also makes me have discernment and see through the absurdity in the religious world. The words of Almighty God are indeed the truth that can supply the life of man. From now on, I will read His words more and equip myself with the truth so that I can become clear of mind and bright of eye and have a path upon which to tread.

In the days after this, we continued with the online gatherings in fellowship. After reading the words of Almighty God, Brother Qiancheng communicated with me about various truths, such as the mysteries of God’s incarnation, the significance of His two incarnations, the differences between the work of the Holy Spirit and the work of evil spirits, the differences between the work of God and the work of man, the prophecies of the kingdom’s beauty and so on. I firmly believe that this is God’s voice and the work of God’s appearance and become convinced that Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus. I happily accepted the work of Almighty God in the last days. Thereafter I enjoy the words expressed by Almighty God every day. I hope to become a person with the truth as my life soon. I give thanks for Almighty God’s salvation for me.

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