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  • Go! Go! Go!

  • Go!

  • Bastard! You wanna run? Then you'll die!

  • - Stop right there! - Get him!

  • - Stop! - Stop running!

  • After him!

  • - Stop! - Stop running!

  • Get him!

  • Stop running!

  • Stop!

  • - Don't you run! - Stop!

  • - Don't run away! - You can't get away!

  • Stop!

  • Stop!

  • Where is he?

  • - Take your team and search over there! - Sheep, my sheep!

  • Everyone else, split up!

  • Okay.

  • Quick!

  • Dammit!

  • - He runs pretty fast! - Where is he?

  • Where is he?

  • Dammit!

  • - Where did he go? - He has to be close.

  • These believers in God are criminals!

  • We must catch him!

  • Now let's search everywhere!

  • Yes, sir!

  • - Come on, let's go that way. - Dammit!

  • Dammit!

  • Captain, there's movement over there.

  • Quick! After him!

  • Yes, sir!

  • That was a close call!

  • I'm glad you were able to escape.

  • Brother Song, put this on.

  • Thanks.

  • The CCP is utterly detestable.

  • They're starting another arrest campaign against Christians.

  • In the last three days in Liaoning,

  • I heard they caught more than 700 brothers and sisters.

  • Right.

  • It's true.

  • They're doing these mass arrests in every province.

  • They've even demolished many churches and crosses.

  • Yeah.

  • The CCP

  • wants to completely eliminate religious faith.

  • Right.

  • They've tried so many times,

  • but they haven't succeeded.

  • It's just like …

  • Hey dad,

  • what was trying to cut the tree?

  • Oh! An ant.

  • Right,

  • it's like an ant trying to cut down a tree—

  • it doesn't know its own strength.

  • Yeah.

  • I think the CCP has gone crazy.

  • They are so mad,

  • they might collapse soon.

  • Right.

  • They have problems

  • inside and out, from every direction.

  • Ordinary people are in dire straits,

  • and the CCP doesn't care.

  • Yeah.

  • The CCP resists and makes itself an enemy of God.

  • They are going against the rules of morality and Heaven,

  • and God will punish them one day.

  • Right. People always say,

  • "You do yourself in with too many evil deeds."

  • The CCP can't escape God's punishment.

  • Yeah.

  • I think, within a year or two,

  • it will be completely dead.

  • The CCP is crazy right now.

  • They're after Christians.

  • You must be very careful when doing church work.

  • If something happens, pray to God and rely on God.

  • Yes.

  • Don't do anything blindly or rashly.

  • If you're arrested, it will be too late.

  • Dad, I know.

  • - Yeah, we do have to be careful. - Okay.

  • But,

  • the crazier they become,

  • the more loyal we should be to God.

  • That is the true testimony of overcomers.

  • Right.

  • And it's how we gain our share of the kingdom of heaven.

  • That's right.

  • Yeah.

  • Brother Song, the noodles are ready.

  • - Eat while it's hot! - Alright.

  • - Eat while it's still hot! - Brother Xu.

  • What time is it?

  • We'll make it to the meeting. Let's eat first.

  • Okay.

  • Look at this. It's important to record this data accurately.

  • If it's not right, we'll have big problems.

  • So this is the one.

  • Hey, Xiaojie …

  • Right, pay special attention to this number.

  • Xiaojie.

  • Secretary Li wants to see you, right now.

  • Alright.

  • - Get going. - I'll be right there.

  • Alright.

  • I have to go. You keep an eye on this.

  • Xiaojie,

  • we received orders from the government to investigate believers in God.

  • We ask everyone to fill out this form

  • and report their family members' religious beliefs.

  • If anyone's family believes in God,

  • we have to fire them.

  • Hey!

  • Your father …

  • Doesn't he believe in God?

  • Wasn't he arrested and put in jail for missionary work?

  • Is he still a believer?

  • If he is,

  • it will be a major problem.

  • Right.

  • Secretary Li, the car is downstairs.

  • Thank you.

  • Xiaojie,

  • you're an intelligent, capable employee.

  • We're thinking about promoting you.

  • Go home,

  • have a talk with your father,

  • and convince him

  • to stop believing.

  • Otherwise, never mind the promotion,

  • you won't be able to keep your current job.

  • Give it some thought.

  • The CCP is very hateful!

  • As long as they're in power,

  • Christians can't meet without risking their lives.

  • Yes.

  • Thankfully, we all escaped this time.

  • God was protecting us.

  • Hey, you have a police record.

  • The police could come looking for you here.

  • You should leave the city and hide.

  • That's what I was gonna do.

  • I'll pack some clothes and go.

  • OK.

  • I'll go pack you a bag.

  • Alright.

  • Xiaojie, you're back?

  • Yes.

  • I was just asking your mother

  • why you weren't back yet.

  • Today I …

  • Dad,

  • what happened to you?

  • What did you do to yourself?

  • The police showed up at our meeting.

  • I escaped but got a few scratches.

  • You …

  • Dad,

  • can … can you stop going out to perform your duties?

  • Can't you just believe quietly at home?

  • Xiaojie,

  • you've followed our faith since you were young,

  • and you know that as believers, we walk the right path.

  • It's our responsibility, our duty to work for God.

  • We can't let fear of being arrested

  • stop us from doing our duty.

  • Xiaojie, you're home?

  • But …

  • what if they put you back in jail?

  • Hey,

  • Xiaojie?

  • Look at this.

  • What is this?

  • It's …

  • You lost your job for believing in God.

  • Is that what you want for me?

  • The CCP is evil! It's despicable!

  • Xiaojie,

  • the CCP is holding your job hostage

  • to force us to give up our belief.

  • It's one of Satan's tricks.

  • You need to have discernment.

  • So don't fall for it.

  • Xiaojie,

  • you've read the Bible and God's word.

  • You know that

  • God dominates the heavens and all things,

  • and directs the fates of mankind.

  • No matter what the government tries to hold over us

  • or what tricks and schemes

  • it uses to make our lives impossible,

  • as long as we rely on God,

  • we will be able to survive.

  • That's right, Xiaojie.

  • A few years ago,

  • when I was in jail,

  • your mom found a part-time job,

  • and with the help from our brothers and sisters in the church,

  • we got by just fine.

  • Do you remember?

  • We need to have faith in God.

  • I knew I couldn't convince you!

  • Hey, Xiaojie?

  • Xiaojie.

  • Are you okay?

  • Are you feeling sick?

  • I'm fine.

  • I'm fine, mom.

  • Xiaojie only cares about his job.

  • He rarely reads God's word,

  • he doesn't have time for meetings.

  • Even now, he doesn't understand the truth.

  • He doesn't have faith in God,

  • he can't stand firm in his faith at all.

  • True.

  • Try to read more of God's word with him

  • and bring him to meetings.

  • I'll do that.

  • Then I'll go.

  • Hold on.

  • Xiaojie bought this for you a few days ago.

  • I have to go.

  • Okay.

  • Be careful!

  • Nuanquan Town! Nuanquan Town! We've arrived at Nuanquan!

  • Passengers for Nuanquan, get off here.

  • Where to?

  • Baile.

  • Okay, get in please.

  • It's good to have you back.

  • Here, come in, come on in.

  • Hey! Are you shelling peanuts?

  • Hey, Brother Song, you're back!

  • Sister Li.

  • You've been gone for a whole week!

  • Yes, I have.

  • Yes, you have.

  • Here, I'll help.

  • Here.

  • How are things?

  • Has the state of our brothers and sisters improved?

  • Recently,

  • when I've fellowshiped on God's word at meetings,

  • they've understood that

  • the CCP's persecution of God's chosen is out of God's permission.

  • He is perfecting His chosen people, helping them grow.

  • That's wonderful!

  • Now, everyone has faith,

  • and is performing their duties.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • This truly is God's blessing.

  • Yes.

  • Brother Song,

  • you spend your days laboring,

  • and working for God.

  • - And that's very risky. - It absolutely is!

  • It must be difficult.

  • Yes! Thanks be to God!

  • Thanks be to God!

  • We'll have noodles with soy sauce for dinner …

  • I'll peel garlic.

  • In the Age of Grace,

  • Amen!

  • God's word states very clearly that to sincerely expend for God,

  • we must forsake everything.

  • Yes.

  • Amidst persecution and hardship,

  • if we persist in spreading the gospel,

  • working for God, and fulfilling our duties,

  • this is genuine obedience and loyalty to God.

  • Right.

  • To do this is to share in the tribulation, kingdom, and patience of Christ…

  • Amen!

  • …which God highly commends,

  • and which will earn us God's approval and blessings

  • and bring us into His kingdom.

  • - Amen! - Thanks be to God!

  • - This fellowship is wonderful! - Brother Song fellowships so well!

  • - He's completely right! - Yes.

  • - Hearing this fellowship, we have faith now. - That's right.

  • If we forsake everything to work for God,

  • in the end we will certainly enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • Yes! Thanks be to God!

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Brother Song,

  • your fellowship just now was fantastic.

  • It was very encouraging for us.

  • - Yes, it certainly was. - Thank God!

  • But, you said

  • that if we forsake everything for God, and work, this is obedience,

  • and we will enter God's kingdom.

  • I don't feel that this view agrees with God's words.

  • It doesn't agree with God's words?

  • If we only work and labor,

  • and don't pursue the truth

  • or achieve change in our life disposition,

  • is that in accord with God's will?

  • I don't know the answer.

  • Neither do I.

  • Brother Zheng,

  • you're absolutely right.

  • All those years we believed in the Lord,

  • we preached and worked everywhere, we were arrested,

  • we were tormented and tortured, but we didn't betray the Lord,

  • and we stood firm and testified.

  • Yes.

  • After we accept God's work of the last days,

  • we can forsake everything, and nothing can stand in our way

  • as we spread the gospel of the coming of the kingdom of heaven.

  • Yes.

  • So, isn't that doing God's will?

  • It is.

  • Isn't that obedience to God?

  • It is.

  • Yes, it is.

  • No matter what else,

  • we achieve at least a little change in our life disposition.

  • That's right.

  • - It's also a testimony of our obedience to God. - Yes, that's true.

  • That's right.

  • I can't explain the problem clearly,

  • but I can't escape the feeling that this view doesn't accord with the truth.

  • It's just like the Pharisees,

  • who also labored and worked,

  • and traveled to preach the gospel for God.

  • But were they really obedient to God?

  • They didn't gain God's approval.

  • Think about it, Brother Song.

  • Isn't what I'm saying correct?

  • Is laboring, working, forsaking, and preaching

  • actually doing God's will?

  • Is it obedience to God?

  • The Lord Jesus also said,

  • Amen!

  • I've worked for so many years,

  • and practiced according to God's word.

  • I should be someone obedient to God.

  • But there's also wisdom in Brother Zheng's words.

  • But, when I was arrested and tortured,

  • I didn't betray the Lord.

  • Talk! Talk!

  • Answer me! Do you still believe in God?

  • Answer!

  • Yes.

  • Damn you! I'm gonna kill you!

  • I stood firm and testified.

  • Isn't that doing God's will?

  • It is in accord with God's will.

  • Alright, let's end today's meeting now.

  • OK.

  • Pack up the books.

  • Okay.

  • Brothers and sisters, let's all help out with the farm work!

  • OK.

  • Hey, if you're tired, please take a break.

  • Okay.

  • Hey, Brother Song,

  • your fellowship at today's meeting was very good.

  • It was very helpful for me.

  • Great.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • But I found one thing you said problematic.

  • Oh?

  • What was it?

  • You said that working and expending for God is obeying God,

  • and that by doing so we gain God's approval and can enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • But I think that's a one-sided understanding of it,

  • and not quite correct.

  • Oh?

  • Brother Lin,

  • what do you think is wrong with that view?

  • How do you understand the issue?

  • Can you explain it to me?

  • Yes, Brother Lin.

  • Are you saying that suffering for God

  • isn't obeying God?

  • Hey,

  • a few days ago I raised the same question with Brother Song.

  • I also felt like that view isn't right,

  • but I couldn't explain it.

  • Brother Lin,

  • share your understanding.

  • Yes, Brother Lin, please share with us.

  • Alright, then I'll tell you my understanding of it.

  • We believe in God,

  • so we forsake, expend, suffer, and pay a price for God.

  • These appear to be expressions of obedience from the outside,

  • but do we dare say that

  • what we do isn't contaminated with our own intentions?

  • Consider Paul,

  • who expended, labored, and worked for the Lord his whole life,

  • but did he earn God's approval?

  • Why did Paul forsake and expend?

  • Was it out of obedience to God?

  • Or was it in exchange for the crown of righteousness?

  • Also,

  • of all the saints throughout history,

  • so many have devoted their lives to expending and working for the Lord,

  • but how many of them

  • actually gained the Lord's approval?

  • What kind of person gains the Lord's approval?

  • If someone believes in God only to gain blessings,

  • or to enter the kingdom of heaven,

  • even if he spends his life suffering and expending for God,

  • do we dare say

  • he will be able to enter the kingdom of heaven?

  • For those who cast out demons, preach, and do great works in the Lord's name,

  • the Lord will not only refuse to know them,

  • but He will say they are workers of iniquity.

  • Why is that?

  • So many people lack understanding of what the Lord meant here.

  • They haven't grasped the Lord's will.

  • If such people work and expend for the Lord,

  • in the end,

  • will they gain the Lord's approval?

  • No.

  • Then shouldn't we consider what kind of people can gain the Lord's approval

  • and what kind of people can enter the kingdom of heaven?

  • But doing God's will isn't a simple matter.

  • People can appear to be suffering and expending,

  • but if their intentions

  • are to gain blessings and rewards,

  • or to enter the kingdom of heaven,

  • then they aren't practicing the truth at all,

  • nor are they working to love and satisfy God.

  • In this case, do you think

  • the suffering and expending is obedience to God?

  • Is this doing God's will?

  • If we believe in God and expend for God purely to gain blessings,

  • then aren't our actions contaminated by our personal intentions and corrupt dispositions?

  • If we aren't purified of our corrupt dispositions,

  • can we truly become people who do God's will?

  • Absolutely not.

  • Right.

  • That was the Lord Jesus' central point when He said that.

  • Many people don't understand this,

  • and believe that working and expending for God is doing God's will,

  • but isn't that misunderstanding the Lord's words?

  • I bet you're all thirsty!

  • Here, have some water.

  • Okay.

  • - Here, have some water. - This is for you.

  • Thanks!

  • Brother, take a rest and have some water.

  • Okay.

  • - Sister, please take a rest. - Brother, here you are.

  • Okay.

  • Here, Brother Song, have some water.

  • Thank you.

  • Actually,

  • we've all seen people who can forsake everything to expend for God,

  • but when they suffer trials and hardship,

  • or when they suffer illness and pain,

  • they complain and blame God for it,

  • they even deny, betray, and leave God.

  • What is the problem here?

  • Hey, what do you all think?

  • Can these people enter the kingdom of heaven?

  • No.

  • Alright. Now I understand.

  • If people's corrupt dispositions aren't purified,

  • they can't become people who do God's will,

  • and they're unqualified to enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • Yes, that's right.

  • Exactly.

  • We all agree that

  • God's disposition is righteous and holy,

  • and that God rules in His kingdom.

  • How could He allow filthy, corrupt people to enter His kingdom?

  • Right.

  • It's just as Almighty God says,

  • God's judgment in the last days

  • is to purify the corruption of mankind,

  • and perfect all those who truly believe in God,

  • allowing them to gain the truth and obey God.

  • Only the ones purified by the work of judgment in the last days

  • and perfected by God

  • are qualified to enter God's kingdom.

  • That's entirely right.

  • Actually, we've all seen

  • that pastors and elders of the religious world have worked and preached for years,

  • but when the incarnate God has come in the last days,

  • they don't understand Him,

  • and still resist and condemn Him, don't they?

  • Are they really obedient to God?

  • No.

  • How are they any different from the Pharisees who resisted and condemned the Lord Jesus?

  • Could God ever approve of people who don't understand Him

  • and still resist and condemn Him?

  • No.

  • Absolutely not.

  • If we want to become people who are truly obedient to God,

  • we need to experience God's judgment, chastisement,

  • pruning, dealing, and refinement,

  • and achieve understanding of the truth and knowledge of God.

  • That's the only way our corrupt dispositions can be purified,

  • our forsaking and expending can gain God's approval,

  • and we can become qualified to enter God's kingdom.

  • That fulfills the Lord Jesus' words,

  • Here.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • After fellowship like this, my heart is much brighter.

  • With man's deep corruption

  • and our satanic dispositions,

  • we work and expend for God to gain blessings

  • and for our own interests.

  • Yes.

  • Without experiencing God's judgment and chastisement,

  • none of us can become people who genuinely obey God and do God's will.

  • That's right.

  • And that's why the Lord Jesus said,

  • Yes.

  • It seems like,

  • no matter whether we can expend for God,

  • we all need to experience the judgment and chastisement in God's words

  • to purify and change our life dispositions…

  • Yes.

  • …and become people who are truly obedient to God.

  • You're absolutely right.

  • You really are.

  • Brother Lin,

  • Sister Chen,

  • your fellowship is completely in accord with God's words.

  • Genuine obedience to God

  • isn't as simple as I thought.

  • That's right.

  • Since I accepted Almighty God,

  • I've understood some truths,

  • but I still have some mistaken religious notions,

  • and lack true understanding of what it means

  • to do God's will or to be truly obedient to God.

  • I suppose I've experienced too little of God's judgment and chastisement.

  • My mistaken notions and satanic dispositions

  • are far from being purified.

  • You've pointed that out to me today,

  • and I need to reflect more on this

  • and seek truth in this matter.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Brother Song,

  • what are you thinking about?

  • I'm thinking that

  • in the years I've believed in God,

  • I've been able to forsake and suffer, and pay a price,

  • so I thought I was someone

  • who was genuinely obedient to God,

  • someone who did God's will,

  • that God would approve of me,

  • and that I would enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • But, after hearing Brother Lin's and Sister Chen's fellowship today,

  • I feel very moved.

  • I realize my dream of entering the kingdom of heaven is broken.

  • I was thinking,

  • if not to enter the kingdom of heaven and gain rewards,

  • would I have endured all this suffering to forsake and expend for God?

  • Yeah.

  • I'm really not sure anymore.

  • Thank you for your cooperation, Secretary Li.

  • It's the least I can do.

  • Then we'll be on our way.

  • Alright, goodbye.

  • Let's go.

  • Miss Yang, show them out.

  • Yes, Mr. Li.

  • To be honest, we don't want to fire you,

  • but eliminating religious faith is a central policy,

  • and we have no choice but to cooperate.

  • You should go home, find your father,

  • persuade him to cooperate with the government and confess his belief in God,

  • and then we might be able to reconsider your job.

  • Brother Wang.

  • Brother Song, Brother Lin brought a letter for you this afternoon.

  • He said it's from your wife.

  • Okay.

  • It's getting colder out. You need a thicker blanket.

  • Thank you.

  • Xiaojie's in the hospital?

  • Huh? What happened?

  • The letter says Xiaojie has myasthenia gravis,

  • and that he can't move his limbs.

  • Myasthenia gravis?

  • I've never heard of this disease before.

  • I saw cases of it where I used to work.

  • It's a neuromuscular condition.

  • Then do you want to go back and see him?

  • Brother Song, bad news! Something happened!

  • Brother Xu.

  • The brothers and sisters at the Zhaojiatun meeting place were arrested.

  • What?

  • When was that?

  • This evening, just after 5:00 p.m.

  • We have to notify everyone at risk to leave town right away!

  • Yeah.

  • So we should get going now.

  • Alright, let's go!

  • Brother Song, don't forget your coat!

  • Take an umbrella! Take an umbrella!

  • Yuzhen, how is Xiaojie doing?

  • He must be miserable having this disease,

  • so try to be there for him and talk to him.

  • It's possible to recover from this disease.

  • I'm busy with church work,

  • so I can't return for the moment.

  • You keep watch over him by yourself,

  • I'm sure you must feel weak at times.

  • I've been thinking,

  • this happened with God's approval,

  • which means this is God's trial for us.

  • God is testing our faith.

  • We need to pray more to God,

  • and we can't blame God.

  • When Job's trials came, he didn't blame God.

  • He stood witness and gained God's approval and blessings.

  • If we don't complain and continue to perform our duties during our trial,

  • Xiaojie's condition might just improve.

  • We need to have that faith …

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • if you have no other questions,

  • let's end our meeting here today.

  • Alright.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • It's really good!

  • - There was a lot of light in the fellowship today. - Yes.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Brother Song is really taking up the church's burden.

  • He doesn't interrupt his duties

  • although his son is very sick.

  • If that had happened to me,

  • I can't imagine how negative and weak I would be.

  • Right.

  • Yeah. He has so much faith.

  • A lot more than us!

  • He certainly does.

  • Yes. Thanks be to God!

  • Mom, let me help you.

  • No need. You need to rest and recover.

  • I'm much better. I'm fine.

  • I'll take care of everything.

  • I can at least take this out.

  • No, no, hey,

  • someone's knocking at the door. Go see!

  • - Okay, I'll go see who it is. - Come on, go.

  • Who is it?

  • Coming, coming …

  • You again!

  • Move!

  • Is your father back?

  • No!

  • With you showing up like this,

  • do you think he would?

  • What are you doing now?

  • Search thoroughly!

  • Don't leave a single corner untouched!

  • When will this end?

  • Stay back!

  • You've made it impossible for my husband to come home,

  • you made my son lose his job,

  • and you traumatized him so deeply you made him sick!

  • Every few days you come to harass us!

  • Can't you just let us live our lives?

  • Quiet!

  • Mom!

  • Mom, are you okay? Mom!

  • Are you alright, mom?

  • I'm fine.

  • Why did you hit her?

  • Shut up!

  • Xiaojie!

  • Xiaojie, where are you hurt? Xiaojie!

  • Where are you hurt, Xiaojie?

  • Listen here,

  • Song Enze is a nationally wanted criminal.

  • He's a core member of The Church of Almighty God.

  • If we can't find him…

  • Xiaojie! Xiaojie!

  • …you'll never know peace in this house!

  • Xiaojie! Xiaojie!

  • Xiaojie! Wake up, Xiaojie!

  • Xiaojie! Xiaojie!

  • Let's go!

  • Xiaojie! Xiaojie! Wake up!

  • Xiaojie! Xiaojie!

  • Doctor, what's the matter with my son?

  • The patient was subjected to intense mental shock

  • which induced the onset of myasthenia gravis.

  • That, combined with a lung infection, means his life is in danger.

  • You should prepare for the worst.

  • We'll do all we can to save him.

  • Yes, we have eyes on them.

  • If Song Enze shows up here, he won't get away.

  • God!

  • How could this happen to Xiaojie?

  • Why didn't You protect him?

  • Was all my forsaking and expending not enough?

  • God …

  • Especially at times like these,

  • we should be more considerate of God's will and perform our duties.

  • - Yes. That's correct. - You're right.

  • That's true.

  • Brother Song.

  • Huh?

  • Brothers and sisters, is there anything else to add?

  • No. I don't … I don't think so.

  • Then let's end our meeting here today.

  • Alright.

  • Hey …

  • Brother Zheng, you're here?

  • Brother Song.

  • I came to see Brother Wang to get a sickle made.

  • Brother Wang,

  • I didn't know you had that skill.

  • I haven't done it for years.

  • Once in a while,

  • when people need it, I use my skill again.

  • It looks like hard work.

  • Well, first you need to make it red-hot,

  • and once it reaches a certain temperature,

  • then you have to hammer it into shape.

  • That's the secret to creating a good piece.

  • Hey, Brother Wang,

  • watching you work makes me think.

  • Isn't experiencing trials as we believe in God

  • just the same as tempering the steel?

  • It takes much torment and hundreds of blows from the hammer

  • to remove all the impurities.

  • Yes, that's the idea.

  • You see,

  • God judges and chastises people in the last days to eliminate their satanic dispositions.

  • Without suffering or experiencing trials,

  • we can't lose our satanic dispositions.

  • Right.

  • If we can't be purified, we aren't qualified to enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • Isn't that the case?

  • Yes, that really is the case.

  • God's word is entirely correct.

  • It's absolutely right.

  • God truly observes people's hearts and minds!

  • In all my years believing in God,

  • I've forsaken, expended, suffered, and paid a price,

  • but why didn't I feel even the slightest hint

  • that I was entirely controlled by my desire to gain blessings?

  • It's just like my son's sickness caused me to complain.

  • I'm not obedient to God at all.

  • If I expend like this,

  • how could I possibly ever practice the truth or obey God?

  • This isn't obedience to God,

  • it's bargaining with God, isn't it?

  • It seems like my intention in expending for God was actually to gain blessings,

  • not to obey God.

  • I have been selfish and despicable …

  • God!

  • I'm wrong!

  • I'm so selfish and despicable!

  • God …

  • Hey, Brother Song,

  • how is Xiaojie's condition?

  • Oh, his life is no longer in danger.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • I know Xiaojie falling ill has been very difficult for you.

  • Are you starting to feel better?

  • A little.

  • Here.

  • Thank you.

  • What happened to Xiaojie has revealed me.

  • All the years I've believed,

  • I've worked and sacrificed for God.

  • Even when I was arrested, imprisoned, and tortured by the CCP,

  • I didn't betray God.

  • Whatever happened to me,

  • I kept performing my duties.

  • I thought I knew …

  • I thought I knew some truth,

  • and showed loyalty and obedience to God,

  • and I believed I'd be saved

  • and enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • I never imagined that my son's illness

  • would make me blame God.

  • After all I'd sacrificed,

  • I wondered why God didn't protect my son.

  • I struggled and argued with God in my heart.

  • The more aggrieved I was, the more tormented I felt,

  • and I lost interest in my duties.

  • I knew blaming God was wrong,

  • but I didn't know that it's a way to resist Him.

  • That's right.

  • Here, let's sit and talk.

  • Brothers and sisters fellowshiped with me on the significance of God's trials,

  • and I also read some of God's word and reflected on myself.

  • That's what made me realize

  • that behind my sacrificing, suffering, and paying a price,

  • I had my own hidden intentions.

  • I did it for blessings.

  • I wanted to exchange my work and suffering

  • for entering the kingdom of heaven.

  • I thought as long as I was able to sacrifice for God,

  • my family would be safe, healthy, and happy.

  • My son's illness completely exposed the truth of my belief

  • and my intention to gain blessings.

  • I clearly saw the truth of my own corruption.

  • I wasn't really performing my duties for God,

  • I wasn't practicing the truth or obeying God,

  • and much less was I doing God's will.

  • I expended for God

  • because of my desire to gain blessings.

  • I was trying to bargain with God.

  • Doesn't that make me someone who is selfish, despicable?

  • Now I realize

  • that I have no realities of truth,

  • my corrupt dispositions haven't changed.

  • Even though outwardly I've done some good,

  • that doesn't at all mean I'm someone genuinely obedient.

  • If I still blame God when trials come,

  • how can I enter God's kingdom?

  • Brother Song,

  • your experience is genuine,

  • and very moving for me.

  • This is God's trial for you.

  • Yes, it is.

  • Experiencing trials is good.

  • It's God's love.

  • We can't be revealed without trials.

  • Yes, that's right.

  • The last few days, I've been thinking

  • in my belief in God, I can labor, work, forsake, and sacrifice,

  • but when trials arrive, I lose my obedience.

  • I show satanic dispositions,

  • I begin to struggle with God.

  • I involuntarily blame and resist God.

  • Where is the root of this problem?

  • Yeah.

  • Only now I see

  • how deeply entrenched people's sinful natures are.

  • Yes.

  • I wonder how I should pursue

  • becoming someone truly obedient.

  • We have been deeply corrupted by Satan.

  • Our natures are arrogant,

  • self-important, twisted, selfish and despicable.

  • Yes, indeed.

  • Everyone loves and pursues status,

  • we also pursue fleshly pleasure, and wealth.

  • Yes.

  • When God's work doesn't satisfy our personal desires,

  • we can't stop ourselves from rebelling and resisting.

  • Even if we want to obey, we can't.

  • Mm. Yes.

  • Oh, right.

  • Now that we're talking about it,

  • Sister Chen experienced something similar.

  • In the past, when she experienced trials, she blamed God.

  • Later, she sought the truth, grasped God's will,

  • and was able to emerge from trial.

  • Hey, should we …

  • You go ahead, brother.

  • We had the same idea.

  • Yeah.

  • Why don't we visit Sister Chen and listen to her.

  • Yes!

  • Hey, Brother Lin,

  • I'd like to go too.

  • OK!

  • Then let's all go together.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • OK.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • It's a good chance to seek the truth.

  • Be careful!

  • Okay, be careful!

  • Sister Chen, please continue.

  • Alright.

  • About five years ago, I was spreading the gospel,

  • many people accepted God's work of the last days,

  • but when the pastor learned I was preaching, he called the police.

  • The CCP police came to arrest me,

  • but I wasn't at home,

  • so they arrested my husband instead.

  • They tortured and threatened him to make him talk,

  • but he wouldn't say where I was.

  • His heart disease acted up,

  • and he passed away.

  • When I heard of this,

  • I was tormented and miserable.

  • I hated the CCP,

  • but in my heart, I also blamed God:

  • Every day, I performed my duties,

  • I worked for God.

  • Why didn't God protect my husband?

  • He also believed in God!

  • I was depressed during that time,

  • I didn't want to perform duties.

  • Through self-reflection, I realized that

  • I was trying to bargain with God.

  • When everything went well or to my benefit,

  • I loved performing my duties,

  • but when I personally suffered,

  • I bore a grudge against God.

  • I was a despicable, selfish person.

  • When I saw the ugliness in myself,

  • I felt remorse and self-blame.

  • I said that I loved God, and would obey God,

  • but when a trial came,

  • I complained against Him, blamed Him, and resisted.

  • Afterward, I prayed to God and read God's word,

  • I gained some understanding of the root of my resistance.

  • Let's read a few passages of God's word together.

  • Alright.

  • Oh, the power is back. It's better to have light!

  • It certainly is.

  • Hey, why don't we watch some videos of readings of God's word?

  • - Sure. - Okay.

  • That's exactly right.

  • God's words reveal things so clearly!

  • - Amen! - Yes.

  • God observes people's minds and hearts.

  • - That's completely true. - Yes.

  • Only after reading God's word did I know

  • Satan corrupts mankind in this way.

  • The CCP promotes atheism every day,

  • advocates the theories of evolution,

  • and promotes struggle against Heaven, earth, and other people.

  • Right.

  • Every day we lived steeped in these absurd satanic fallacies,

  • and in our hearts we struggle with others more and more.

  • - Really. - Yes.

  • Everyone becomes ever more cunning and ruthless.

  • That's right.

  • Unwittingly, we begin to worship lies and violence.

  • We all want to hold power, have authority, and do what we want.

  • Yes.

  • Our corruption grows ever deeper,

  • and we lose all normal humanity.

  • Yes.

  • People rebel against God,

  • they resist God because they are so corrupted by Satan.

  • Our hearts are filled with all kinds of satanic poisons, philosophies, and logic.

  • People's thoughts, views, principles of survival, conscience, and reason

  • have all been corrupted by Satan,

  • and our natures have become just like Satan's,

  • natures that resist and betray God.

  • Yes.

  • When people follow satanic nature, it's impossible to obey God.

  • That's definitely the case.

  • People resist God because of their satanic natures.

  • - Right. - Exactly.

  • I reflected on God's word.

  • I asked myself which thought or which view was controlling me when I blamed God.

  • Which satanic rules, philosophies, and poisons within me

  • led me to so often rebel against God and not obey God?

  • I wouldn't have realized without that reflection,

  • but once I did, I found many satanic toxins inside myself,

  • such as

  • "There has never been any Savior,"

  • "One's destiny is in his own hand,"

  • "Heaven is unfair," "The Creator fools man,"

  • "Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost,"

  • "One should be given credit for hard work, if not for merit," and more.

  • I was harmed by these satanic ideas and logic.

  • They made my dispositions arrogant, self-important,

  • twisted, cunning, and despicable.

  • In all things, I acted in the better interest of myself,

  • so when I believed in God, it was to gain blessings and enter God's kingdom.

  • Right.

  • When God didn't satisfy my intentions and desires,

  • I blamed God, argued with God.

  • I was incapable of true obedience.

  • Right.

  • When I saw that,

  • I knew how deeply I was corrupted by Satan.

  • My satanic nature and dispositions

  • really were deeply rooted in me.

  • Yes.

  • Absolutely right.

  • That's completely true.

  • There are too many satanic poisons within us.

  • These satanic, worldly philosophies and principles are fallacies

  • that turn the facts on their heads,

  • incompatible with the truth.

  • Sure, these are things we have always lived according to.

  • Yes.

  • Yes, they are.

  • With so many of these satanic poisons within us,

  • how could we not resist God?

  • Indeed.

  • So, Sister Chen.

  • Yes?

  • How can we rid ourselves of these satanic dispositions?

  • Right.

  • Satan has corrupted mankind,

  • and satanic natures have taken root within all of us.

  • They're not so easy to escape!

  • Yes.

  • In the last days, God expresses the truth to purify our satanic dispositions,

  • and how we experience His work is crucial.

  • Yes.

  • After the CCP's persecution killed my husband,

  • I complained against and blamed God.

  • At the time, I thought I had good reasons,

  • but now I see the matter clearly.

  • Without God's judgment, trials and refinement,

  • I wouldn't have seen the intention to gain blessings which contaminated my faith,

  • nor would I have seen that people can resist and rebel against God amidst trials.

  • Yes.

  • My husband's death

  • was clearly caused by the CCP's persecution,

  • but I complained and blamed God for not protecting him.

  • I was being so petulant and unreasonable.

  • I had no conscience at all.

  • I truly lacked humanity.

  • When I realized these things,

  • I felt terrible remorse.

  • I owed God so much, and wounded His heart.

  • I thought of how deeply I'd been corrupted by Satan,

  • and that God had saved me.

  • God had given me grace and exaltation.

  • Amen!

  • What right did I have to argue or ask for conditions with God?

  • Wasn't I being too arrogant and too unreasonable?

  • Yes.

  • After that,

  • I also read the stories of Job and Abraham.

  • Job was someone who feared God and shunned evil,

  • but God allowed Satan to attack him multiple times…

  • Yes.

  • …to take away his wealth and children, and to cover him in boils.

  • Abraham worshiped God, and God gave him a son

  • at the age of 100,

  • and later God asked Abraham to give up his son as an offering.

  • Yes.

  • The work God did upon them doesn't accord with human notions,

  • and is difficult for us to accept,

  • but Abraham and Job were nevertheless able to obey God.

  • Yes.

  • Amen!

  • From their experience, I found some enlightenment.

  • God is the Lord of creation,

  • and Christ is the truth, the way, and the life.

  • Amen!

  • No matter how God judges and tries us,

  • it is always to purify and save us.

  • Yes.

  • Why can't we understand God's intentions?

  • What qualifies people to argue reasons with God or raise extravagant desires with God?

  • God decides what kind of person enters His kingdom,

  • and people must obey God's wishes and arrangements.

  • - Yes. - Right.

  • People can't see their own corrupt natures clearly.

  • They have no way of knowing themselves or what they are.

  • But God knows people's hearts and minds.

  • Yes.

  • God is holy and righteous.

  • Amen!

  • And God has His own arrangements

  • regarding who He saves and perfects.

  • Yes.

  • We are all part of corrupt mankind;

  • we should be obedient to God's work.

  • Amen!

  • There is nothing better we can do than to satisfy God.

  • No matter whether God's work accords with human desires,

  • we should obey and not blame.

  • Amen!

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Once I understood these things,

  • my heart felt especially bright.

  • I saw that God's trials are meaningful for people…

  • Yes. Thanks be to God!

  • …and found a path to practice obedience to God.

  • Yes. Thanks be to God!

  • After that,

  • I focused on seeking the truth in all things in my duties,

  • and not living by my notions.

  • I also reflected on corrupt dispositions and any satanic poisons within,

  • what notions I still have about God,

  • and when I found them, I sought the truth,

  • forsook myself, practiced the truth,

  • lived by God's words.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Wonderful!

  • After years of practice,

  • my satanic dispositions of arrogance, self-importance, selfishness

  • gradually began to change.

  • Great.

  • Many of the satanic toxins, notions, imaginings, and extravagant desires

  • that controlled me in the past were also eliminated.

  • I had some fear and obedience of God,

  • and I felt much more peaceful and secure.

  • I felt happy.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Wonderful!

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Sister Chen, hearing about your experience and understanding has been very beneficial for me.

  • Exactly.

  • Now I finally understand,

  • without understanding our satanic natures that rebel against God,

  • and without resolving our satanic dispositions,

  • we will never achieve genuine obedience to God.

  • Yes.

  • Right.

  • There is nothing more necessary for the salvation of mankind than God's judgment.

  • Yes.

  • Amen.

  • Thank God.

  • Amen.

  • That's great.

  • Hearing Sister Chen's experience and testimony

  • was beneficial for me.

  • Now, I finally understand

  • the root cause of why I can't obey God,

  • and my heart feels much brighter.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • In all the years I've believed,

  • I've focused solely on laboring, working and expending.

  • I thought that the more I worked and the more I suffered,

  • the more God would approve,

  • so I didn't make efforts to pursue the truth.

  • I didn't really try to reflect on or know the satanic poisons,

  • principles of survival,

  • and notions and imaginings within me

  • that are the root of why I resist God,

  • I didn't seek the truth to resolve them.

  • How could I attain genuine obedience to God like that?

  • I was too one-sided in my pursuit!

  • Now, I understand finally

  • the most important thing in belief in God

  • is accepting the judgment and chastisement in God's words,

  • and that we need to experience a great deal of trials

  • to resolve satanic dispositions.

  • Right.

  • If we merely labor and work for God

  • without pursuing the truth or accepting judgment,

  • everything we do is in vain.

  • That's entirely correct.

  • God's work of judgment in the last days

  • is based on the fact that mankind has been too deeply corrupted by Satan.

  • If people escaped corrupt dispositions by themselves,

  • God wouldn't need to do the work of judgment.

  • True.

  • Also, I've experienced,

  • no matter how long we believe in God,

  • or how much we work and suffer,

  • if we don't experience God's judgment and resolve our satanic natures,

  • we never become genuinely obedient or compatible with God,

  • we can only do things that cause us to resist God,

  • offend God's disposition, be punished by Him,

  • and we'll never be able to enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • That's really the truth.

  • The satanic dispositions, notions, and imaginings

  • are a lethal cancer,

  • we urgently need to pursue truth to resolve them.

  • That's right.

  • Only after experiencing judgment, chastisement, trials, and refinement

  • did I clearly see that to become someone truly obedient to God,

  • we had to resolve our satanic nature.

  • This is our most urgent matter, and there's no time to delay it.

  • Yes.

  • God's work of judgment in the last days

  • is to resolve the satanic natures within people that resist God,

  • allow them to grasp the truth and know God,

  • and allow them to become truly obedient

  • and be gained by God.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Let's read some passages of God's word.

  • - Sure. - Alright.

  • - Okay. - Yeah.

  • Amen!

  • Yes.

  • Amen!

  • Right.

  • God's word puts it very clearly.

  • God expresses the truth and does the judgment work

  • to express God's righteous disposition and all that God has and is,

  • and to reveal the essence and truth of mankind's corruption by Satan.

  • God also arranges trials and tribulations to reveal people's corruption,

  • and to make people reflect on themselves,

  • and pursue truth to shed their corrupt dispositions,

  • and attain salvation.

  • Yes.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Yes.

  • In the past, we all lived by our satanic natures.

  • We were arrogant, self-righteous,

  • often rebelled against God without realizing it,

  • and still felt that we were good people.

  • Yes.

  • Only after God's judgment, chastisement, and trials

  • do we clearly see the truth of our own corruption.

  • We have no conscience or reason at all,

  • our minds are full of notions and imaginings,

  • all of our words and deeds carry satanic dispositions,

  • all we say and do is contaminated with the intent to bargain, lies, and deceit…

  • Yes.

  • …and we live out nothing of a human likeness.

  • We are more like devils than we are humans!

  • Yes, that's completely true.

  • Yes, that's the truth.

  • It's only now that I have the courage

  • to admit my own filth, corruption, and pitiable state in front of others.

  • I am nothing,

  • and I am unworthy to live in God's presence.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • We all see that God's disposition is righteous and holy,

  • and that God's words and all that God has and is are the truth.

  • Amen!

  • We see that the knowledge, notions, and imaginings of man are not the truth,

  • and that the sayings of famous people and great men are not the truth.

  • - Yeah. - That's right.

  • When we see those things, we no longer trust ourselves,

  • we begin to deny and subdue ourselves.

  • When things we can't understand happen,

  • we no longer carelessly comment on them,

  • and we are capable of praying to God and obeying God's arrangements.

  • Yes.

  • Then, we feel secure and at peace.

  • If we always do that,

  • we'll achieve more change in our life disposition,

  • we'll achieve some genuine obedience,

  • and we'll live out a human likeness.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • These are the results achieved by experiencing God's judgment and chastisement!

  • Thanks be to God!

  • - That's wonderful. - That's great.

  • After your fellowship, I can grasp the path forward.

  • Belief in God without trials never works,

  • nor does it work without pruning and dealing.

  • Accepting the judgment and chastisement of God's word is so crucial.

  • Yes, it is.

  • Right.

  • That's entirely correct.

  • If we want to become people who are truly obedient to God and who do God's will,

  • we need to experience God's judgment, chastisement, trials, and refinement.

  • When we understand the truth, and when we have knowledge of the truth of our corruption,

  • we are able to genuinely repent and rely on God…

  • Yes.

  • …we are able to sincerely pray and commune with God,

  • and we receive the work of the Holy Spirit.

  • Yes.

  • Only then,

  • are we able to rid ourselves of our satanic dispositions and attain salvation.

  • - Amen! - Thanks be to God!

  • - Your fellowship is very practical. - Thanks be to God!

  • I hope I can experience more of God's judgment—

  • - The police are coming our way! - Oh, no!

  • Hurry!

  • Quick! Hurry!

  • This way! This way!

  • - Sister, keep up! - The police are coming!

  • Run, Brother Song!

  • Hurry! That way!

  • They're over there!

  • Don't you dare run! Get them!

  • Hold them!

  • Get back here!

  • Get them!

  • - Stop running! - Come on.

  • Get them!

  • Hey, be careful!

  • Stop right there!

  • Hold them two!

  • Here! Hurry up!

  • Come on. After them!

  • Get up!

  • - Stop! - Come on.

  • Hold it.

  • Hey, let's use this!

  • Stop!

  • Hold it.

  • Get them!

  • Stop running!

  • Don't take another step.

  • - Stop! You not running anymore. - Hold it.

  • Let's go, let's go. Come on.

  • Hurry! Hurry! Let's go.

  • Don't try to run!

  • - Hold them! - Stop them!

  • Stop!

  • Stop right there!

  • Stop!

  • Dammit!

  • I can't run anymore.

  • They got away again!

  • Careful!

  • Brother Song, are you okay?

  • I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine.

  • Let's go!

  • That way!

  • OK.

  • That way!

  • It's alright.

  • We're safe.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Brother Cheng.

  • Yes?

  • You're very resourceful.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Hey, Brother Song,

  • it looks like the path to the kingdom of heaven

  • isn't an easy one.

  • So now you've experienced it too!

  • Yeah.

  • We have to experience a lot of torment to gain the truth as life.

  • I used to be just like you …

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