信神必须寻求与基督相合才能达到蒙拯救

我在人中间生活人都不知道我的存在，我将我的光照耀在人的身上之时，人仍旧不知道我的存在，当我的烈怒降在人的身上之时人更加否认我的存在。人都寻求与字句相合，与圣经相合，却无一人来到我前寻求与真理相合之道。人都在仰望天上的我，人都特别在乎天上的我的存在，却没有一个人在乎活在肉身中的我，因为活在人中间的我简直太渺小了。那些只寻求与圣经的字句相合的人，那些只寻求与渺茫的神相合的人，在我的眼中看为卑贱，因为他们崇拜的是死的字句，崇拜的是能赐给人万贯家产的神，崇拜的是并不存在的任人摆布的神。这样的人又能从我得着什么呢？人的卑贱简直不堪言语，这些与我为敌的人，这些对我有无限的索取的人，这些并不喜爱真理的人，这些悖逆我的人怎能与我相合呢？

如今的人又是怎样呢？为了上天堂、为了得恩典人都宁愿将已经来到的释放真理的基督赶出人间；为了维护圣经的利益人都宁愿将真理的到来全部抹煞掉；为了维护圣经的永远存在，人都宁愿将第二次重返肉身的基督再次钉在十字架上。人的心地如此恶毒，人的本性如此与我敌对，又怎能得到我的拯救呢？

他们天天在圣经里寻找我的踪迹，随便找一段“合适”的话就读起来没完没了，而且当作“经”来背诵，他们不知道怎样与我相合，不知道什么是与我为敌，只是一味地念“经”。他们把根本就没看见过的、根本就看不着的渺茫的神定规在了圣经之中，在闲暇之余就拿起来看看。他们在圣经的范围之内信仰我的存在，他们把“我”与“经”划为等号，没有“经”就没有“我”，没有“我”就没有“经”。他们并不在乎我的存在，并不在乎我的作为，而是非常、特别在乎每一句经文，甚至更多的人认为没有经文的预言我就不该作任何一件我愿意作的事情。他们把经文看得太重要了，可以说他们把字句看得太重要了，以至于他们用圣经的章节来衡量我的每一句说话，用圣经的章节来定我的罪。他们寻求的不是与我相合之道，他们寻求的不是与真理相合之道，而是寻求与圣经的字句能相符合的道，他们认为凡是与圣经不合的一律不是我的作工，这些人不都是法利赛人的孝子贤孙吗？那些犹太的法利赛人以摩西的律法来定耶稣的罪，他们不寻求与当今的耶稣如何相合，而是认真地对待每一句律法，以至于他们最终以耶稣不守旧约律法、以耶稣并不是弥赛亚为罪名而将本来无罪的耶稣钉在了十字架上。他们的本质是什么？不就是他们并不寻求与真理相合之道吗？他们只留心“经文”的字字句句，却并不在意我的心意与我的作工步骤和作工方式。他们并不是寻求真理的人，而是死守字句的人；他们不是相信神的人，而是相信圣经的人，说得透彻点，他们都是圣经的看家奴。为了维护圣经的利益，为了维护圣经的尊严，为了维护圣经的名望，他们竟然将仁慈的耶稣钉在了十字架上。他们这样做只是为了圣经抱打不平，只是为了维护圣经的字字句句在人心中的地位，所以他们宁可断送自己的前途，宁可得不到赎罪祭，也要将与经文的规定不合的耶稣处死。难道他们不都是每一句经文的走狗吗？

摘自《你当寻求与基督相合之道》

ONLY THOSE WHO SEEK THE WAY TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH CHRIST CAN BE SAVED

When I live among people, no one knows my existence. When I shine my light upon people, they still do not know my existence. When my wrath falls upon people, they deny my existence all the more. People all seek to be compatible with the letters and with the Bible, but no one comes before me to seek the way to be compatible with the truth. People all look up to the me in heaven and care greatly about the existence of the me in heaven, but no one cares about the me living in the flesh, because the I living among people is simply too small. Those who only seek to be compatible with the letters of the Bible and those who only seek to be compatible with the vague god are low in my sight, because what they worship is dead letters, is a God that can bestow vast wealth to man, and is a nonexistent god manipulated by man in any way. What can such people receive from me? People’s lowness is simply unspeakable. How could these people who are against me, who demand from me endlessly, who do not love the truth, and who disobey me, be compatible with me?

How about people of today? In order to go to heaven and to receive grace, they all would rather drive out of the world the Christ who has come and who releases the truth; in order to safeguard the interests of the Bible, they all would rather completely annul the coming of the truth; in order to maintain the eternal existence of the Bible, they all would rather again nail onto the cross the Christ who has returned in the flesh the second time. People’s hearts are so malicious, and their inherent nature is so hostile to me. So how could they receive my salvation?

They search for my footprints in the Bible every day. Casually getting a “suitable” passage, they read it endlessly and memorize it as “scriptures.” They do not know how to be compatible with me or what it means to be against me, but just blindly chant “scriptures.” They circumscribe within the Bible the vague god, which they have never seen and which cannot be seen at all, and they pick it up and read it at their leisure. They believe in my existence within the bound of the Bible. They equate “me” with the “Bible”: no “Bible,” no “me,” and no “me,” no “Bible.” They do not care about my existence or my deeds, but care much and greatly about every word of the Scriptures. More people even think that without the prophesying of the Scriptures, I should not do anything I wish to do. They consider the Scriptures to be too important, or it can be said that they consider the letters to be too important, so much so that they measure every word of mine by the verses of the Bible and condemn me by the verses of the Bible. What they seek is not the way to be compatible with me or the way to be compatible with the truth, but the way that can agree with the letters of the Bible. They think that any work that does not agree with the Bible is not my work. Aren’t all these people true sons of the Pharisees? The Jewish Pharisees condemned Jesus by the law of Moses. They did not seek how to be compatible with the Jesus of their day but treated every word of the law seriously. Thus, they eventually nailed the sinless Jesus onto the cross on the charge that Jesus did not keep the law of the Old Testament and that Jesus was not the Messiah. What was their essence? Wasn’t it that they did not seek the way to be compatible with the truth? They only paid attention to every word and letter of the “Scriptures,” but paid no attention to my will and the steps and the ways of my working. They were not ones who sought the truth but ones who rigidly observed the letters. They were not ones who believed in God but ones who believed in the Bible. To put it incisively, they all were watchdogs of the Bible. In order to safeguard the interests of the Bible, to safeguard the dignity of the Bible, and to safeguard the reputation of the Bible, they even nailed the merciful Jesus onto the cross. They did so only in order to defend the Bible and to maintain the place of every word and letter of the Bible in people’s heart. So, they would rather forfeit their future and receive no sin offering than not have Jesus executed who was incompatible with the rules in the Scriptures. Weren’t they all running dogs of every word of the Scriptures?

If you cannot accept the new light coming from God and cannot see clearly what God does today and yet do not seek but doubt, judge, or research and analyze it, such people are all not ones who intentionally obey. When the present light comes, you, however, still treasure the light of yesterday and resist the new work; such people are purely absurd ones and are ones who deliberately resist God. The crucial point in obeying God is to be able to receive the newest light and to accept and practice it. This is true obedience. If one does not have the will of thirsting for God, he will not be able to intentionally obey God, but will only resist God because of being content with his present situation. Man cannot obey God because he is occupied by his original things. These things have become within him various kinds of notions and various kinds of imaginations about God, and these have all become God’s image in his heart. Therefore, what man believes in is his own notions and his own imagined standards. If you measure the God who works practically today against the god you imagine in your mind, then your belief is from satan, and you are believing in God with your own preferences. God does not want such belief. As for all those who believe in God this way, no matter how senior they are or how much they spend, even if they spend their lifetime energies to work for God and are even martyred, God will not approve such believers in him but will only give them some grace for them to enjoy temporarily. Such people cannot possibly practice the truth. The Holy Spirit will not work on them, and God will eliminate them one by one. All those who believe in God but do not obey God and have wrong intents, whether old or young, are the ones who resist and disrupt. Such people are undoubtedly the ones to be eliminated. Those who do not have any element of obedience to God but only acknowledge God’s name and somewhat feel that God is dear and lovely and yet cannot follow the step of the Holy Spirit or obey the present work and word of the Holy Spirit are ones who live in God’s grace, and they cannot be gained by God or perfected by God. God perfects people through their obedience, through their eating and drinking and enjoying God’s word, and through the sufferings and refinings in their life. Only by believing in God this way can people be transformed in their nature and have a true knowledge of God. Not being content with living in God’s grace but initiatively thirsting for and seeking the truth and pursuing to be gained by God, this is obeying God consciously. God wants such belief in God. If one only enjoys God’s grace, he cannot be perfected or transformed but can only have outward obedience, outward godliness, and outward love and patience. If one only enjoys God’s grace, he cannot have a true knowledge of God. Even if he has some knowledge of God, it is superficial. He may say that God loves man or that God is merciful to man; these do not represent his life and do not mean that he has a true knowledge. When God’s word refines him, or when God’s trial comes upon him, he cannot obey and has doubts and even falls; such a person does not have any element of obedience to God within him. Within him there are only a lot of rules and regulations concerning believing in God, and the old experience summed up over many years of believing in God, or various regulations based on the Bible. Can such a person obey God? He has been fully occupied by his things, so how can he possibly obey God? He “obeys” according to his own preferences; will God want such obedience? This is observing regulations, not obeying God, and this is satisfying himself and consoling himself. If you say this is obeying God, aren’t you blaspheming God? You are Pharaoh of Egypt, an evildoer, and a man who specializes in the work of “resisting God.” Will God want such service of yours? I advise that you had better repent earlier and have some self-knowledge or you had better resign and return to your native place. This will be more profitable to yourself than your “serving God” is. Won’t it be better if you do not disrupt or disturb but keep your place and live a proper life? Otherwise, you will resist God and be punished!

Those who are compatible with me will serve me in my house forever, and those who are against me will be under my punishment forever. Those who only care about the letters of the Bible but do not care about the truth or seeking my footsteps are all the ones who are against me, because they restrict me to the Bible and circumscribe me within the Bible. Their doing so is a great blasphemy against me. How could such people come before me? What they pay attention to is not my deeds, not my will, and not the truth, but the letter, the letter that kills. How could such people be compatible with me?

Whoever believes in God but does not seek to obey God is one who resists God. God requires man to seek the truth, thirst for God’s word, eat and drink God’s word, and practice God’s word all for the purpose that he will obey God. If your intent is really this, God will surely uplift you, and God will surely grace you. This cannot be doubted by anyone and cannot be changed by anyone.

From The Word Appears in the Flesh