Examining whether your own doing is practicing righteousness and whether your actions and behavior can be searched by God should be your principle of acting as a believer in God. You may be called righteous on account of satisfying God and receiving his keeping and care. In God’s eyes, all those who receive his care, keeping, and perfecting and who are gained by him are righteous men and men who are regarded as precious by him. The more you receive God’s practical word, the more you will be able to comprehend and understand his intention, the more you will be able to live out his word and satisfy his requirements. This is what God commits to you and what you all should live up to. If you measure God and draw conclusions about God according to your notions as if God were a never-changing clay idol, concluding that God is only in the Bible and God could only do certain works, it is proof that you have condemned God. The Jews of the Old Testament age worshipped God as an unchanging idol in their heart as if God could only be called Messiah and only the one who was called Messiah were God, and they all enshrined and worshipped God as a clay idol (which is lifeless), so they crucified the Jesus of their time and sentenced him to death, and the sinless Jesus was condemned to death. God was innocent, but they did not spare him and imposed a death sentence upon him. Thus Jesus was crucified. People always believe that God is unchanging, and they draw a fixed conclusion about him according to the Bible, as if they had seen through God’s management and they knew everything God does. Mankind is absurd to the uttermost and arrogant to the uttermost. They all like to talk boastfully. No matter how high a knowledge of God you have, I say that you are one who does not know God, you are one who resists God the most, and you are one who condemns God, because you simply do not know how to obey God’s work and walk the path of God making people perfect. Why is God never satisfied with what people do? Because they never know him and have too many notions about him, and their knowledge of him is not at all factual but stereotyped and mechanical. So when God comes to earth today, he is once again crucified by people. Cruel mankind! When will you cease from intriguing against each other, vying against each other, scrambling for fame and gain, and fighting against each other? Although God has spoken thousands upon thousands of words, no one has woken up. Everyone is for his family, children, work, future, position, vainglory, money, food, clothing, and flesh. Who is really for God? Even though some are for God, hardly any one of them knows God. Who are not for their own interests? Who do not suppress and exclude others for preserving their own position? So, no one knows how many times God has been sentenced to death and how many cruel judges have condemned God and once again crucified God. Who can be called righteous men because of being truly for God?
Is it so easy to be made a holy one or a righteous man by God? “No one in the world is righteous, and the righteous are not in the world.” This is true. You may come before God and look at your dress and consider your every word and deed, every act and move, and every thought. All of them are for yourselves, even the dreams you have every day. Isn’t this true? “Being righteous” does not mean to give alms to others, to love others as yourself, to wrangle and quarrel with no one, or to rob and steal from no one. Rather, it means to treat God’s commission as your own responsibility and obedience to God’s control and arrangement as your bounden duty at any time and in any place, just as the Lord Jesus did in all his work. This is what God means by being righteous. Lot was called a righteous man because he rescued the two angels sent by God without caring about his own gains or losses. It can only be said that what he did then could be called righteous, yet he could not be called a righteous man. Lot saw God, so he gave his two daughters in exchange for the two angels. But not all that he did before was righteous. That is why I say, “No one in the world is righteous.” No one even in this stream of restoration can be called a righteous man. No matter how well you may behave or how greatly you may glorify God’s name outwardly, never hitting or reviling anyone and never stealing or robbing from anyone, you cannot be called righteous, for that is what a normal man can live up to. Now the main problem is that you don’t know God. It can only be said that you have some normal humanity now, yet you have no element of righteousness God speaks about. Therefore, your actions and behavior do not prove that you know God.
In the past God was in heaven, and people deceived him in doing things. Now God has already been among people for many years, which no one knows, yet they are still perfunctory toward him and deceive him in doing things. Doesn’t this show that they are too backward in their thinking? This is like Judas who always lied to the brothers and sisters and cheated them before Jesus came. He didn’t change even after Jesus came and didn’t know Jesus at all. Eventually he betrayed Jesus. Wasn’t it because he didn’t know God? If you still do not know God today, you will become a Judas. As a consequence, the tragedy of Jesus’ crucifixion that happened thousands of years ago in the Age of the Grace will happen again. Don’t you believe? It is true! Now most of you are in such a condition. Maybe I have said this a bit too early. All such people will be a Judas. I am not speaking groundlessly but factually. You have to agree. Many people pretend to be humble outwardly, but actually inside their hearts is a pool of stagnant water, a sewage pit. There are too many such people in the church now. You think I don’t know anything about that. Today, my Spirit is my head and testifies for me. Do you think I know nothing? Do you think I am not clear about the deceitful schemes in your hearts and the things you have in your hearts? Can God be fooled so easily? Can you treat him in any way you like? In the past, I was afraid that you would feel restrained, so I released you at all times. However, you are ungrateful for my kindness and reach for a yard after getting an inch. You may ask each other about this: I have hardly dealt with anyone or lightly lectured anyone. Yet I am clear about all your intents and notions. Do you think that God Godself to whom God testifies is an addlehead? If so, I say you are too blind. I won’t tell you off now. I will see to what extent you can become corrupt. Let’s see whether you can be saved through playing petty tricks or through loving God with all your strength. I won’t condemn you now. Let’s see how God will repay you when his time comes. Now I have no time to waste with you. I won’t let my great work be held up because of one person. Such a maggot as you is unworthy for God to take time to deal with. I will see to what extent you can be wild. Such a person as you does not pursue to know God at all and does not have any love for God, yet you want to be called a righteous man by God. Isn’t it ridiculous? After all, there are a small number of people who are honest, so I will just keep supplying them with life. I will only do what I ought to do now. In the future, I will repay everyone according to what he has done. I have said everything I ought to say, for this is the work I ought to do. I will only do what I ought to do and won’t do what I ought not to do. Nevertheless, I hope you will do much reflection: How much true knowledge of God do you have? Are you one of those who crucify God again? Finally, I will tell you such a word: Woe to those who crucify God.
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