Reunion with God | I Hear the Voice of God and Experience a Wonderful Reunion With the Lord (Part 2)

Can We Receive Life If We Depart From the Bible?

The two brothers then gave fellowship on the topic, “How can we receive life in our belief in the Lord?” The main character, Feng Jiahui, asked: “Then, how will we believe in the Lord and receive life if we leave the Bible?” This was precisely the issue I was wondering about, as our pastor had often said to us, “Only by adhering to the Bible can we receive life. How could we receive life if we depart from the Bible?” I was itching to know how they would answer this question in the movie.

Brother Shen answered, “Sister Feng, your question is very crucial. This is what we believers all want to know. The Lord Jesus once said this, ‘Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me. And you will not come to Me, that you might have life’ (John 5:39–40). Before, we also studied the Bible again and again, thinking we could gain eternal life from it. Actually, the Bible only testifies God. Brothers and sisters, if we want to gain truth and life in believing in God, the Bible’s testimony is not enough.”

After that, Brother Guo read a passage of Almighty God’s words: “Christ of the last days brings life, and brings the enduring and everlasting way of truth. This truth is the path through which man shall gain life, and the only path by which man shall know God and be approved by God. If you do not seek the way of life provided by Christ of the last days, then you shall never gain the approval of Jesus, and shall never be qualified to enter the gate of the kingdom of heaven, for you are both a puppet and prisoner of history. … The steps of God’s work are vast and mighty, like surging waves and rolling thunders—yet you sit and passively await destruction, sticking to your folly and doing nothing. In this way, how can you be considered someone who follows the footsteps of the Lamb? How can you justify the God that you hold on to as a God who is always new and never old? And how can the words of your yellowed books carry you across into a new age? How can they lead you to seek the steps of God’s work? And how can they take you up to heaven? What you hold in your hands is the letters that can provide but temporary solace, not the truths that are capable of giving life. The scriptures you read are that which can only enrich your tongue, not words of wisdom that can help you know human life, much less the paths that can lead you to perfection. Does this discrepancy not give you cause for reflection? Does it not allow you to understand the mysteries contained within? Are you capable of delivering yourself to heaven to meet God on your own? Without the coming of God, can you take yourself into heaven to enjoy family happiness with God? Are you still dreaming now? I suggest, then, that you stop dreaming, and look at who is working now, at who is now carrying out the work of saving man during the last days. If you do not, you shall never gain the truth, and shall never gain life” (“Only Christ of the Last Days Can Give Man the Way of Eternal Life” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).

Brother Shen then went on fellowshiping: “Brothers and sisters, from Almighty God’s words, we understand only Christ can express the truth, redeem mankind, and save mankind. Only if man comes to Christ can he receive truth and life. The Bible can’t replace God’s authority and power and can’t give man life on behalf of God, much less replace the Holy Spirit’s working. Only if we accept and obey the end-time Christ can we receive the Holy Spirit’s working and gain truth and life. If man doesn’t accept the words expressed by the end-time Christ, he can’t gain life, because the Bible isn’t God but just the testimony of God’s work. Here we see, life isn’t from the Bible but from Christ. Only Christ is the Lord of the Bible and the spring of life.”

Brother Guo also said: “Brothers and sisters, before, we believed in God only according to the Bible. In our eyes, the Bible represented the Lord and God. The Bible replaced God in our hearts. Rather than believe in God, we believed in the Bible. So, when Almighty God, the end-time Christ, works, we think what He speaks and does doesn’t agree with the Bible and then deny and reject and even condemn and resist. We know God’s disposition is righteous and doesn’t tolerate man’s offense. In the past, the chief priests, teachers of the law, and Pharisees, though believing in God for generations, held on to the Old Testament, and by the law, they condemned the Lord Jesus, and crucified the Lord Jesus. Today, when Almighty God came, we resist His work by the Bible once again. Isn’t it the same as the Pharisees’ resisting the Lord Jesus in the Age of the Grace? We should draw a lesson from the Pharisees’ failure. The Lord Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by Me’ (John 14:6). Before I accepted God’s end-time work, I didn’t understand the meaning of this word. Today, I understand, only the last Christ is the gate to enter the kingdom of heaven. Only if we accept and obey the last Christ can we be led onto the way of being saved.”

After listening to Almighty God’s words and the fellowships given by the two brothers, I finally understood that merely adhering to the Bible could not help me to know God, much less give me life. I’d always believed that eternal life could be found within the pages of the Bible, and that if I wanted to obtain truth and life, then I had to read the Bible more. Now I understood that the Bible is nothing more than a testimony to God’s past work; eternal life is not to be found within the Bible, for only God can bestow eternal life on us. If I treated the Bible as if it were God, then I would be blaspheming God, and ultimately I would make the same mistake as the Jewish Pharisees when they used the Bible to delimit and defy the Lord. The more I pondered these words and fellowships, the better I thought them. These words gave me some new understanding about the substance of the Bible and about the relationship between the Bible and God.

The Lord Has Returned, Bringing the Way of Truth

Just before the movie ended, I heard Brother Shen in The Church of Almighty God give fellowship, saying, “Brothers and sisters, since 1991, the last Christ, Almighty God, has expressed millions of words, that is, this book The Word Appears in the Flesh. It discloses the biggest mystery, God’s six-thousand-year management plan, and points out the only way for us to be saved and to gain truth.” When I heard that the Lord Jesus had returned and was expressing new utterances, my heart was filled with excitement and joy. It turned out that the words that had just been read were the utterances of the second coming of Jesus. I never imagined that the Lord would truly have returned already. I had unexpectedly welcomed the Lord’s return and had listened to truths that were both practical and new! The Lord had returned and had been working for 28 years already, but I had only just heard these glad tidings. I’d found out so late, but I was still very lucky, as God had used this special method to lead me to hear His voice! I’d never before known the path to receive life but had believed that I could receive life just by adhering to the Bible. Now I knew that I had just been daydreaming! Thanks be to God for showing me the path to receive life, and I made a resolution: From this moment on, I will follow the new words expressed by the second coming of Jesus!

I Receive the Supply of God’s Living Water of Life

The next day, I told the brothers and sisters in my church the happy news of the Lord’s return, and showed them the movie, Disclose the Mystery About the Bible. After watching the movie, some of them recognized Almighty God as the second coming of Jesus, and they began to seek the truth alongside me, and I was greatly encouraged. Afterward, I searched on YouTube for the YouTube channel of The Church of Almighty God, and watched many gospel movies such as Yearning and Knocking at the Door, and they really helped me a lot. Although after watching these movies, I came to understand some truths and some of my confusion in my belief in the Lord was dispelled, there were still many things I didn’t understand, and I looked forward to the day when I would be able to investigate these issues with brothers and sisters from The Church of Almighty God. I therefore tried to call The Church of Almighty God to make contact with the brothers and sisters, but I wasn’t successful because of the poor cell phone reception. I felt a little disappointed, but then I thought that my having been able now to watch these movies and understand these truths was all down to the guidance and leadership of God, and whether there was the Indian branch of The Church of Almighty God nearby or not, I would still keep on seeking the truth. I thought about how the city of Sodom had had only one righteous man, Lot, and that God sent angels to save him. I therefore believed that God would open up a way for me. And so, every day I downloaded from YouTube some movies produced by The Church of Almighty God and watched them with my family, and we began to pray together for God to lead us to understand the truth.

Later, I thought about leaving a message on the website of The Church of Almighty God. I was soon in contact with the brothers and sisters of The Church of Almighty God in the local area, and I began to attend their meetings. Together with the brothers and sisters, I attended meetings and read Almighty God’s words, and each time I felt very provided for and I felt a sense of release and enjoyment in my heart. Through attending meetings, I also came to understand that God’s work moves ever onward and that, on the foundation of the Lord Jesus’ work of redemption, in the last days God performs the work of judging and purifying man with words, so as to save mankind from the influence of Satan once and for all and lead all who are purified by His words into the kingdom of God—this is God’s work in the Age of Kingdom. As soon as God’s new work in the last days began, the churches of the Age of Grace no longer had the work of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the religious world of today is experiencing unprecedented desolation, pastors have nothing to preach and just say the same old things, our spirits are unsupplied by listening to them and instead just get darker and darker, we become dispirited and weak, and we end up with nowhere to turn. Only now do I understand that only by keeping pace with God’s new work can we obtain the work of the Holy Spirit and receive the watering and supply of God’s living water of life. I give great thanks to Almighty God, for it was Almighty God who led me before Him to accept His salvation in the last days. From this day on, I wish to believe in God in earnest, and to walk the path in pursuit of truth and life! Thanks be to God!

Source From: Eastern Lightning