How does God make people perfect? In what aspects will he make people perfect? Do you want to be made perfect by God? Are you willing to receive God’s judgment and chastisement? What do you know about these things? If you cannot communicate any knowledge about them, it is proof that you do not know God’s work and do not have any inspiration from the Holy Spirit. Such a person cannot possibly be made perfect, but will only be given some grace to enjoy temporarily, which won’t be everlasting. If people only enjoy God’s grace, they cannot be made perfect by God. Some people are content to have peace and enjoyment for their flesh, live an easy and comfortable life free from misfortune and adversity, and have a family living in harmony without wrangling and quarrelling. And they consider such things to be God’s blessing. Actually, these things are only God’s grace. You should not be content to only enjoy God’s grace. Such thought is too vulgar. Even if you read God’s word and pray every day and feel great enjoyment and peace in your spirit, but if in the end you cannot communicate any knowledge about God’s work or about God and do not have any experience of them, and no matter how many of God’s words you eat and drink, you only feel peace and enjoyment in your spirit and feel that God’s words are exceedingly sweet and feel as if you cannot enjoy them enough, but you do not have any practical experience of them and simply do not have any reality of them, then what can you gain through believing in God this way? If you cannot live out the substance of God’s word, your eating and drinking or praying is of religious belief. Such a person cannot be made perfect or be gained. All those who can be gained by God are the ones who pursue the truth. What God will gain is not people’s flesh or their belongings but the part in them which belongs to him. So for God to make people perfect is not to make their flesh perfect but to make their heart perfect, so that their heart can be gained by him. In other words, the word “God will make people perfect” essentially means that God will make people’s heart perfect so that their heart can turn to him and love him.
Men’s flesh is mortal. It is useless to God even if he gains it, for it is something sure to perish, which cannot inherit God’s inheritance or God’s blessing. If God gains men’s flesh and only lets their flesh be in this stream, they will only be in this stream nominally while their heart belongs to satan. Then they not only will not be a manifestation of God but will be an encumbrance to him. Then it will be utterly meaningless for God to choose men. All those God will make perfect will inherit his blessing and his inheritance; that is, they will receive what he has and is so that it will become what they have within, will have all his words wrought into them, and will receive all that he is, so that they will live out the truth. Such are the ones who have been made perfect by God and the ones who have been gained by God. Only such people will be qualified to inherit the blessings from God:
1. Receiving all God’s love.
2. Being able to do everything according to God’s intention.
3. Being led by God, living under God’s enlightenment, and receiving God’s inspiration.
4. Living out an image loved by God on earth, loving God sincerely and being crucified for God and being qualified to lay down their life to requite God’s love like Peter, and having the same glory as Peter.
5. Being loved, admired, and envied by everyone on earth.
6. Overcoming the domination of all death and Hades, leaving no chance for satan to do any work on them, being occupied by God, living in a fresh and lively spirit, and feeling no boredom.
7. Being indescribably excited and thrilled during their whole life as if seeing God’s glorious day come.
8. Being glorified with God and looking like the holy ones loved by God.
9. Becoming ones loved by God on earth, that is, becoming God’s beloved sons.
10. Being transfigured and ascending to the third heaven with God and transcending the flesh.
Only those who can inherit God’s blessings are the ones who have been made perfect by God and the ones who have been gained by God. Have you gained anything now? To what extent have you been made perfect by God? God does not make anyone perfect lightly but conditionally, and there will be obvious results for people to see. It is not that once a person believes in God, he will be made perfect and gained by God and can inherit God’s blessing and God’s inheritance on earth, as people have imagined. All these are extremely difficult things. How much more being transfigured. Now you should mainly pursue to be made perfect by God in everything and to have yourself made perfect by God through every person, matter, and thing you encounter, so that more of God’s being can be wrought into you. You should first pursue to inherit God’s inheritance on earth before you can be qualified to inherit more and greater blessings of God. All these are what you should pursue and what you should first understand. The more you pursue to be made perfect by God in everything, the more you will see God’s hand in everything. Thus you will be able to actively pursue to enter into the being and the reality of God’s word from different angles and in different things. You should not be content to live in such negative states as committing no sins, having no notions, having no philosophies of life, and having no will of your own. God makes people perfect in manifold ways. He may make you perfect through everything, making you perfect not only through positive things but also through negative things, so that you will become richer. If you can find chances to be made perfect and occasions to be gained by God every day and can experience in that way for a period of time, you will be greatly transformed and will automatically see through many things you did not understand before. You won’t need anyone to teach you. God will inspire you without your realizing it, so that you can receive inspiration in everything and enter into the details of all experiences. God will lead you so that you won’t turn aside to the right or to the left. Then you will have been on the path of being made perfect by God.
If you want to be made perfect by God, you should not just pursue to be made perfect by him through eating and drinking his word. Such experience is too unbalanced and is narrow in scope, and you will only be able to experience in a very narrow scope. In that case, you will lack much nourishment you need in your spirit. If you want to be made perfect by God, you have to learn to experience in everything and seek to receive inspiration in everything you encounter. Every time you encounter something, good or bad, you should seek to benefit from it and should keep yourself from getting negative because of it. No matter what, you should look at it from God’s side and should not analyze or study it from man’s angle. (This is an error in experience.) If you experience in this way, your heart will be occupied by your burden for your life, and you will be able to live in the light of God’s presence at all times and will not easily practice in an erroneous way. Such a person will have a great future. You may find many chances to be made perfect by God. It depends on whether you genuinely love God and whether you have the will to be made perfect by God, to be gained by God, to inherit God’s blessing, and to inherit God’s inheritance. It is not enough if you only have the will. You have to have much knowledge. Otherwise, you will always practice in an erroneous way. God wishes to make every one of you perfect. Now, although most of you have accepted God’s work for such a long time, you have only been enjoying God’s grace and only want God to give your flesh some ease and comfort but do not want to receive more and higher revelations. This shows that your heart is still on the outward things. Although there are fewer impurities in your work, in your service, or in your love for God, as far as your inner essence and backward thinking are concerned, you are still pursuing to obtain peace and enjoyment for your flesh and are not concerned with what God’s requirements and purpose for man to be made perfect are. So most of you are still living a vulgar and rotten life without any change, and you simply do not take your belief in God seriously, as if you believe for others, believing mindlessly. You are just muddling along and living for the sake of remaining alive. Few of you pursue to enter into God’s word in everything to obtain more and richer things so that you can become a richer man in God’s family of today and receive more blessings from him. If you pursue to be made perfect by God and to inherit his earthly promises in everything and pursue to be inspired by him in everything and do not idle away your time, this is the best way to actively enter in. Only in this way will you be qualified and be able to be made perfect by God. Are you truly a person who pursues to be made perfect by God? Are you truly a person who treats everything seriously? Do you have Peter’s spirit of loving God? Do you have Jesus’ will to love God? You have believed in Jesus for years, but have you seen how Jesus loved God? Is the one you believe in truly Jesus? You believe in the practical God of today, but have you seen how the practical God of today who is in the flesh loves the God in heaven? It is true that you believe in Jesus with an earnest and sincere heart. Because Jesus was crucified to redeem mankind, everyone praises him. And because he performed many signs and wonders, everyone truly believes the facts about him. You have only believed in the name of Jesus but have not believed in the Spirit of Jesus, because you have not paid any attention to how Jesus loved God. You believe in God too childishly. Although you have believed in Jesus for years, you do not know how to love God. Aren’t you the biggest fool in the world? It is proof that you have eaten in vain for years the “food of the Lord Jesus Christ.” I don’t like such a person as you, and I believe that the “Lord Jesus Christ” whom you worship won’t like you either. How can such a person be made perfect? Don’t you feel shame? Don’t you feel ashamed? Will you have the face to meet your “Lord Jesus Christ” again? Do you all understand what I mean by saying this?
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