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  • Amen!

  • Almighty God's words showed me that

  • the Bible is just a record of God's words and work

  • in the Ages of Law and Grace,

  • but not of His words and work in the last days.

  • Yes.

  • If we just cling to the Bible

  • and don't seek what the Holy Spirit says to the churches in the last days,

  • we won't be able to keep up with the Lamb and welcome the Lord's return.

  • That's right.

  • This truth is crucial to us being able to welcome the Lord in His second coming.

  • For sure.

  • I would like to share my experience with all of you now.

  • Great.

  • One day in January of 2018

  • I met Sister Xie and Sister Chen while browsing the internet

  • and they had such unique insights to share on the Bible.

  • Their fellowships were so practical and filled with light.

  • They told me the causes of the churches' desolation,

  • how to be a wise virgin and welcome the Lord,

  • why the Pharisees resisted the Lord Jesus,

  • the work God will do in the last days as prophesied in Revelation, and more.

  • They fellowshiped with me over several days

  • and I understood more than I had in over 10 years of listening to my pastor.

  • It all felt so fresh and new, and I wondered in amazement:

  • How could they gain so much light from the Bible and be so insightful?

  • I started taking part in their gatherings to learn more truths and mysteries

  • and get to know the Lord more deeply.

  • At one of these gatherings,

  • Sister Xie told me happily, "Hey, I have some great news for you!"

  • What was the news?

  • "The Lord has returned

  • and is doing the work of judgment in the last days."

  • I was thrilled to hear this, but even so I found it a little hard to believe,

  • so I asked, "Is it true?"

  • Sister Chen said, "Yes, it's true.

  • The Lord has returned as Almighty God.

  • He's uttering words and doing the work of judgment."

  • And then I suddenly thought

  • of a post I'd seen on Facebook that said Eastern Lightning

  • is testifying that the Lord's returned to speak and do His judgment work,

  • and that what they preach goes beyond the Bible.

  • I was suddenly uncertain and on my guard, and quickly asked Sister Chen,

  • "Do you two actually believe in Eastern Lightning?"

  • She answered frankly and said "Yes."

  • So I got a bit flustered

  • and thought how the pastor and elders

  • said that all of God's words are in the Bible,

  • our faith must be based on the Bible, and departing from it is heresy.

  • What these sisters were preaching went beyond the Bible.

  • Hadn't they strayed from the Lord's way?

  • So then I said,

  • "What you preach is different from what our pastor and elders preach.

  • I'm afraid I can't meet with you anymore."

  • I then abruptly disconnected.

  • But the news of the Lord's return kept my mind buzzing for a long time.

  • I thought of how enlightening and how very practical

  • the sisters' fellowships had been.

  • I had understood so much about the mysteries in the Bible

  • and also more about God's will.

  • I then wondered: "Could Eastern Lightning come from God?

  • If I don't listen and fail to welcome the Lord,

  • it will be too late for regret."

  • - Yeah, that's right. - That's true.

  • But when I thought of what the clergy had said,

  • I worried that I might be led astray.

  • My heart felt like it was being pulled in two very different directions.

  • Of course. I can feel you.

  • So I just prayed in earnest to the Lord in my heart,

  • asking Him to guide me to make the right choice.

  • I was supposed to have

  • another discussion with the sisters online the very next morning.

  • Thinking about how loving and patient they always were with me,

  • I thought it would be very rude of me not to let them know

  • I wouldn't be attending.

  • That's right.

  • Well, I went online as usual,

  • and once we were connected, I said,

  • "Your fellowships have been so enlightening

  • and what you've read to me is very practical.

  • But you're saying the Lord Jesus has returned

  • and is doing new work and expressing new words.

  • This goes beyond the Bible and strays from the Lord's way.

  • Pastors and elders say God's words and work are all within the Bible.

  • So how could there be new words from God outside the Bible?"

  • Sister Xie then patiently said,

  • "Pastors and elders say, 'God's words and work are within the Bible

  • and cannot be found anywhere else but the Bible itself.'

  • But does this view accord with the facts and with God's words?

  • Did the Lord Jesus ever say this? Did the Holy Spirit say this?"

  • No.

  • "If it's not based on God's words or on the truth,

  • then this view is just one of man's notions and doesn't hold."

  • - Yes. - Of course.

  • "Those versed in the Bible know that

  • because those who compiled and made record of the Old Testament

  • left some passages out,

  • some of Jehovah God's words conveyed by the prophets

  • were not recorded in the Old Testament.

  • Ezra's prophecies, for example, were not included in the Bible,

  • and this is a well-known fact."

  • It really is.

  • "While the Lord Jesus worked,

  • He didn't just speak the few words

  • that are recorded and found in Four Gospels that are in the Bible.

  • It's just as what the Gospel of John says,

  • "If we abide by the pastors' and elders' views,

  • wouldn't we be denying and condemning those missing passages from God

  • that weren't recorded in the Bible?"

  • Yeah.

  • "Also, the Lord Jesus clearly foretold:

  • "It's also prophesied in Revelation:

  • Then there's the scroll to be opened by the Lamb

  • and the peals of seven thunders.

  • These words tell us that when the Lord returns,

  • He'll speak more utterances,

  • and these utterances can't be recorded in the Bible in advance."

  • That's right.

  • "If God's words can only be found in the Bible,

  • how will these prophecies be fulfilled?"

  • Yes!

  • - Yes, that's so right. - Right.

  • "God is the Creator, the spring of ever-flowing living waters,

  • how could He have only spoken these limited words recorded in the Bible?"

  • Amen!

  • "The clergy said that 'God's work and words are all in the Bible

  • and can't be found anywhere else, but the Bible,'

  • but doesn't this deny and condemn

  • the work and words of the returned Lord Jesus?"

  • - It does. - Yeah.

  • After listening to her fellowship,

  • I thought, "Yes, the Lord prophesied He would return and speak,

  • and those words would have to be beyond what's in the Bible."

  • But the thought of departing from the Bible troubled me,

  • and I thought,

  • "Pastors and elders always say that departing from the Bible is heresy.

  • What if I go astray in my faith?

  • I've believed in the Lord for so long and have always read the Bible.

  • Christians all over the world base their faith on the Bible.

  • The Bible is the pillar of our faith.

  • How can we depart from it and believe in the Lord?"

  • I fell silent at this thought.

  • Seeing I was silent, Sister Chen didn't continue the fellowship.

  • After that,

  • she sent me a clip called Does God Work According to the Bible?

  • from a movie named: Come Out of the Bible,

  • and asked me to watch it.

  • I opened up the link to it

  • and watched the main character Wang Yue fellowshiping with a pastor.

  • It drew me in right away.

  • She said, "You just said God wouldn't do His salvation work outside of the Bible,

  • and anything that goes beyond the Bible is heresy.

  • So I have a question for you.

  • Tell me which one came first, the Bible or God's work?

  • God created all things in the beginning.

  • He flooded the world and burned Sodom and Gomorrah.

  • Did the Old Testament already exist when God did those things?"

  • No. It didn't.

  • "Also, did the New Testament exist when the Lord Jesus came?"

  • No.

  • That's right.

  • "Both the Old and New Testaments

  • were compiled based on people's records of God's work which He had finished.

  • God doesn't work according to the Bible

  • and He's not limited by it.

  • He works according to His own management plan and also the needs of mankind."

  • Amen!

  • "We can't then limit God's work to what's written in the Bible

  • or use the Bible to delimit God's work,

  • because God has the power to do His own work."

  • That's right.

  • And then my heart brightened at Sister Wang's fellowship.

  • - Amen! - Thanks be to God!

  • I thought, "The New Testament didn't exist when the Lord Jesus came to work,

  • and the Old Testament didn't exist when God created all things and issued the laws."

  • - That's true. - That's so true.

  • "This is undeniable!"

  • - Yes. - Yeah.

  • I thought, "How had I not thought of this before?"

  • The fellowship in the video went on:

  • "If we say anything that goes beyond the Bible is heresy,

  • aren't we condemning all of God's words and work throughout history?

  • When the Lord Jesus worked, He didn't do it according to the Old Testament.

  • He preached the way of repentance, healed the sick, cast out demons,

  • and forgave people seventy times seven times

  • none of this was in the Old Testament."

  • That's right.

  • "The Pharisees, chief priests and scribes

  • used these things against the Lord and condemned His work as heresy.

  • They believed in God yet defied Him."

  • The sister then read two passages of Almighty God's words.

  • Let's read them together.

  • Great.

  • Amen!

  • Sister Wang went on with her fellowship:

  • "The Bible is just a record of the two stages of God's work

  • in the Ages of Law and Grace.

  • It's a testimony of the two stages of God's work in which He guided

  • and redeemed mankind after creating all things and making mankind.

  • It cannot represent God's entire work to save mankind."

  • Right.

  • "God's work is moving ever onward.

  • God begins a new age and does new work in the last days.

  • He gives more truths to man that allow us to be free of sin once and for all,

  • so we can be cleansed, saved, and enter His kingdom."

  • - Yes. - Amen!

  • "So God doesn't guide man based on His old work recorded in the Bible,

  • and He wouldn't repeat work He's already done.

  • God is the Lord of both creation and the Bible.

  • He has the power to go beyond the Bible

  • and to do new work according to His management plan."

  • Amen!

  • "That's why

  • 'God's words and work are all in the Bible

  • and to depart from the Bible is heresy'

  • is an untenable claim

  • which simply delimits and blasphemes God.

  • Anyone who says this doesn't know God's work whatsoever

  • and is resisting God."

  • Right. No one can ever fathom the work of God.

  • Yes.

  • Yes, we can't delimit God to what we find in the Bible.

  • So true.

  • The sister then continued saying,

  • "God works only according to His plan,

  • Jesus preached the way of repentance, he cast out demons and healed the sick,

  • He didn't keep the Sabbath and taught people to always forgive

  • didn't this all go beyond what's in the Old Testament?

  • He even broke the laws of the Old Testament,

  • but wasn't this still God's work?"

  • It was.

  • I'd had faith in the Lord for so long

  • and had always believed and clung to what the clergy said,

  • that "God's words and work are all in the Bible

  • and to depart from the Bible is heresy."

  • Hadn't I been condemning God's work?

  • Yes.

  • Now I see how foolish and confused I was! How blind I was.

  • Whenever I had time after that,

  • I watched gospel movies and videos

  • produced by The Church of Almighty God on YouTube.

  • One day, I got online and I clicked on a movie clip called

  • What Is the Relationship Between God and the Bible?

  • God's words in that clip moved me deeply.

  • Let's watch it now.

  • Great.

  • Amen!

  • After watching this clip, I realized

  • that knowing the Bible inside and out

  • isn't the same as truly knowing or obeying God.

  • Right.

  • The Jewish Pharisees for example,

  • were great at expounding the Scriptures,

  • yet they had the Lord Jesus crucified.

  • This shows that understanding the Bible doesn't mean you understand God,

  • and just because someone adheres to the Bible

  • doesn't mean they follow the Lord's way.

  • Yes.

  • That's right.

  • I realized that although I'd read the Bible for years and knew a bit about it,

  • I didn't really know the Lord at all.

  • I'd wrongly believed the Bible could represent the Lord,

  • that faith in the Bible was faith in Him,

  • and adhering to the Bible was adhering to the Lord's way.

  • When Sister Xie testified that God was doing the work of the last days,

  • I didn't dare look into it.

  • And later, after reading Almighty God's words,

  • I still found it hard to accept

  • simply because they are not recorded in the Bible.

  • Despite knowing in my heart

  • that His words are the truth and the voice of God.

  • I'd worshiped and clung to the Bible and refused

  • to accept God's new utterances and work.

  • How was I any different from those Pharisees who'd resisted the Lord?

  • Indeed.

  • This thought truly scared me.

  • I thought, "I must let go of my notions,

  • I must read more of Almighty God's words."

  • Thanks be to God!

  • At the next gathering,

  • I told the sisters about what I'd gained and understood

  • from watching those gospel movies.

  • They were overjoyed, and read a passage of God's words to me.

  • Let's read it together.

  • Okay.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Sister Xie then shared fellowship, saying,

  • "In the last days,

  • Almighty God begins the Age of Kingdom and ends the Age of Grace.

  • He expresses the truth and does the work of judgment beginning with God's house

  • to cleanse and save mankind once and for all."

  • Yes.

  • Amen!

  • "Almighty God has spoken millions of words.

  • Most can be found in The Word Appears in the Flesh

  • the Bible of the Age of Kingdom.

  • He's uncovered important mysteries in the Bible

  • such as the wise virgins welcoming the Lord,

  • what being raptured is,

  • the overcomers being made before the disasters,

  • the mysteries of God's management work,

  • the inside story of His three stages of work,

  • the relationships between the three stages of work, and their outcomes,

  • the mysteries of the incarnation and judgment in the last days,

  • the truth about the Bible, and more.

  • Almighty God also reveals His righteous, majestic disposition

  • that tolerates no offense.

  • He exposes and judges the truth of mankind's corruption by Satan,

  • dissects the root cause of why people disobey and resist God,

  • and tells us what His will and requirements for mankind are.

  • True, that's right.

  • These include what true faith in God is,

  • what it means to obey God, fear God and bear witness for God,

  • how to practice the truth and be honest,

  • how to live out a meaningful life, and more.

  • Yes.

  • Almighty God's words are plentiful and contain everything we might ever need.

  • These truths are the way of eternal life God gives to man in the last days.

  • Exactly.

  • They can cleanse and change us, and they can free us from the binds of sin,

  • fully save us and lead us into God's kingdom."

  • - Amen! - Thanks be to God!

  • The sister's fellowship made everything crystal clear.

  • Almighty God expresses so many truths,

  • He truly is the eternal fountain of living waters!

  • Right!

  • I knew in my heart that Almighty God's words are the voice of God

  • and that He is the Lord Jesus returned.

  • Amen!

  • I'd believed in God all those years but never really knew Him,

  • I believed what the pastor and elders said.

  • I'd limited God's utterances and work to the Bible

  • and refused to accept God's kingdom gospel.

  • God still didn't abandon me,

  • but used the sisters to preach the gospel repeatedly to me.

  • Yes.

  • I've been so fortunate to hear God's voice and welcome the Lord's return,

  • and enjoy the sustenance of the living waters which flow from the throne.

  • This is God's grace for me.

  • Indeed.

  • I'm so grateful to Almighty God!

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Thanks be to Almighty God!

  • - Thanks be to God! - I learned a lot today.

Amen!

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