Umaasa ang Diyos na kapag iyong nauunawaan ang tunay na bahagi Niya, sa Kanya'y ikaw ay lalong mapapalapit; tunay mong mapapahalagahan ang pag-ibig Niya at malasakit Niya sa sangkatauhan; puso mo'y ibibigay sa Kanya, wala nang mga alinlangan at wala nang mga hinala sa Kanya. Palihim Niyang ginagawa ang lahat para sa tao. Kanyang sinseridad, katapatan, at pag ibig ay lihim na ibinigay sa tao. 'Di Siya nagsisisi sa Kanyang mga ginagawa; ni may hinihintay na kapalit sa tao, o may inaasahang anuman sa kanila. Ang tanging layunin ng ginagawa Niya ay tunay na pananampalataya at pag-ibig.
What Is the Substance of the Pharisees’ Opposition to God?
For two thousand years, although all believers have known the fact that the Pharisees defied the Lord Jesus, no one in the whole religious world knows exactly what the root cause and essence of the Pharisees' defiance of God is. Only with the coming of Almighty God in the last days can the truth of this question be revealed. Almighty God says, "These Pharisees in substance were stubborn, arrogant, and did not obey the truth. The principle of their belief in God is: No matter how profound Your preaching, no matter how high Your authority, You are not Christ unless You are called the Messiah. Are these views not preposterous and ridiculous?" (The Word Appears in the Flesh).
It is recorded in the Bible that the Lord Jesus condemned the Pharisees with the seven woes. Nowadays, the path walked by the pastors and elders of the religious world is that of the Pharisees and they similarly suffer God's detestation and rejection. So why did the Lord Jesus condemn and curse the Pharisees? It was primarily because they had a hypocritical essence that defied God, because they only paid attention to performing religious rituals and keeping rules, they only explained the rules and doctrines in the Bible and did not put God's words into practice or follow God's commandments whatsoever, and they even discarded God's commandments. Everything they did completely ran counter to God's will and requirements. This was the hypocritical essence of the Pharisees and it was the primary reason for the Lord Jesus hating and cursing them.
The Religious World Has Degenerated Into the City of Babylon
The leaders of the religious world stray from the Lord's way and follow worldly trends, they also cooperate with the ruling power's wild defiance and condemnation of the Eastern Lightning, and they have already begun to walk the path of opposition to God. The religious world has degenerated into the city of Babylon. The Bible says, "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said to them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves" (Matthew 21:12-13). "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies" (Revelation 18:2-3).
Sa aking kamakailang mga pagbisita sa mga iglesia, madalas kong narinig na sinasabi ng mga pinuno at manggagawa na ang ilang mga tao, matapos dumalo sa pagbabahaging kasama ako, ay naging negatibo, mahina at kulang sa paghahangad na magpatuloy sa paghahanap. Nadama ng iba na masyadong mahirap ang maniwala sa Diyos at hindi naunawaan ang Diyos. Sinabi ng ilan na ang kanilang kalagayan ay mainam bago sila nakipagkilala sa akin, ngunit sa sandaling nakita nila ako, labis nilang nadama ang pagkagipit at hindi komportable. ... Nang marinig ko ang lahat ng ito, nanghina ang aking puso, at labis na nasaktan-sa tuwing nagkaroon ako ng pagbabahagi sa kanila ay mananatili ako sa loob ng ilang araw, at, upang malutas ang kanilang mga problema, nagpasiklab ako at nagbanggit ng di mabilang na mga sipi ng salita ng Diyos, na nagsasalita hanggang sa ang aking bibig ay natuyo, at sa lahat ng sandali ay iniisip na ang aking mga pagsisikap ay nagbunga ng mga magagandang resulta. Hindi ko naisip kailanman na ang mga bagay ay magiging ganito. Bakit ito nangyari? Inilagay ko ang tanong na ito sa aking mga saloobin nang nanalangin ako sa Diyos, "O Diyos, tiyak na ako ang may kasalanan sa lahat ng nangyari, ngunit hindi ko alam kung saan ako nagkamali. Hinihingi ko ang Iyong patnubay, upang higit kong malaman ang aking mga pagkakamali. Nakahanda akong maghintay na tanggapin ang Iyong pagliliwanag. "
Salita ng Diyos ay totoo, kailan ma'y 'di magbabago. Diyos ang naglalaan sa buhay, tanging gabay. Halaga't kahulugan ng Kanyang salita nababatid ng isip at diwa nila, kahit pa 'di tanggapin o kilalanin. Kahit pa walang taong tumanggap ng salita N'ya, kahalagaha't pagtulong N'ya sa tao'y 'di masusukat. Salita ng Diyos ay totoo, kailan ma'y 'di magbabago. Diyos ang naglalaan sa buhay, tanging gabay.
Hindi kayo nagtutuon ng pansin sa panalangin sa inyong pang-araw-araw na buhay. Palaging nakakaligtaan ng mga tao ang panalangin. Sa kanilang mga panalangin noong nakaraan sila ay nakikisabay lang sa agos at naglalaro, at walang sinuman ang nagbigay nang lubos ng kanilang puso sa harap ng Diyos at tunay na nanalangin sa Diyos. Nananalangin lamang ang mga tao sa Diyos kapag mayroong isang bagay na nangyayari sa kanila. Sa buong panahong ito, nakapanalangin ka na ba nang tunay sa Diyos? Tumangis ka na ba kailanman sa harap ng Diyos? Nakarating ka na ba kailanman sa pagkakilala sa iyong sarili sa harap ng Diyos? Nagkaroon ka na ba kailanman ng masinsinang pananalangin sa Diyos? Ang pananalangin ay unti-unting isinasagawa: Kung hindi ka karaniwang nananalangin sa bahay, hindi ka magkakaroon ng pagkakataon na makapanalangin sa iglesia, at kung hindi ka talaga nananalangin sa panahon ng maliliit na pagtitipon, kung gayon hindi mo makakayang manalangin sa panahon ng malalaking pagtitipon. Kung hindi ka normal na lumalapit sa Diyos o hindi binubulay ang mga salita ng Diyos, kung gayon wala kang anumang masasabi kapag oras na ng pananalangin--at kahit na ikaw ay nananalangin, ang iyong mga labi ay kikilos lamang, hindi ka talaga nananalangin.
Cheng Huize is a co-worker at a house church in China. She has believed in the Lord for many years, and has worked for the Lord with unwavering enthusiasm. She takes on a lot of responsibilities for the church, and she has compassion for her brothers and sisters. As her church grew more and more desolate with each passing day, the wickedness in her church were more and more frequent. The pastor energetically proposed that the church should start a factory, and led the followers down the path to wealth, and also enticed them to join the Three-Self Church so they could rely on help from the Chinese Communist government. This caused a fierce debate to unfold. The pastor stubbornly acted in his own individual interests and did not hesitate to divide the church, leading the believers down the wrong path. Cheng Huize and a few others held fast to the way of the Lord, and fiercely opposed the church becoming a factory and joining the Three-Self Church. Although the elders at the church expressed that they were opposed to this, they only did so to protect their own status and livelihood. Even though the pastor and elders were all harboring secrets in their hearts, locked in constant strife for their own fame and profit, fighting out of envy, when they saw that most of the good sheep and leading sheep in the church had investigated the Eastern Lightning and turned to Almighty God one by one, they joined together with the Chinese Communist government and fought to repress the Eastern Lightning, blocking the believers from coming to study the Eastern Lightning, urging the followers to report them to the police. They set an example by reporting and arresting the brothers and sisters preaching the kingdom gospel. Cheng Huize and others saw that the pastor and the elders had deviated from the Lord's way a long time ago, and the church had already lost the work of the Holy Spirit and had degenerated into a religious place like Babylon the Great, cursed and reviled by the Lord. Because of this, they decided to investigate the Eastern Lightning to search for the manifestation and work of God. After intense debates with the preachers from the Church of Almighty God, Cheng Huize and the others finally began to see clearly that the leaders of the religious world opposed God in substance, and the reason why the religious world declined, day by day drawing nearer to its destruction: The pastors and elders of the religious world, although they could explain the Bible and hold the Bible in high esteem, they only do so for status and livelihood. They are confusing and ensnaring people. They don't hold God in high regard or bear witness for Him, they don't understand God at all. In the last days, when the incarnate Almighty God appears and does His work, they oppose Him without the slightest scruple, they condemn God's work, even to the point where they unite with the Chinese Communist government to arrest believers. This is enough to prove that they possess a satanic nature that hates the truth and hates God. They are modern-day Pharisees, impersonating virtuous people, antichrists who deny that God becomes flesh. The religious world has already completely become a stronghold for antichrists who are enemies of God. They will absolutely meet with God's curses and punishments. Cheng Huize and others were eventually able to differentiate the antichrist nature essence of the leaders of the religious world, and guided the believers to break away from the confusion and control of the Pharisees, to escape without hesitation from Babylon, the city that will be overthrown …