There are far too many foolish and unwise people in the world who examine others’ claims or writings merely to criticize them for the sake of their own assertions. While they lightly regard or casually pass over the true Word and truth of the good God that stirs their conscience and leads them to the right path, they easily satisfy themselves and deem as righteous whatever aligns with their desires and cravings, tailored to their own tastes and thoughts. This is a world where too many pastors and believers have turned such things into faith and the Word. However, today, if the content does not fit the tastes and standards of pastors and believers, no matter how good it is or how much it could protect their lives and souls, their faith and standards will never lead them to seek the true truth and Word that can turn them back and establish them on the right path. Because countless believers and saints today uniformly view, hear, and believe the Word of God within the framework of their own rationalized standards and centers, tailored to their tastes and assertions, they pursue a faith and sermons that seem like comfort and hope based on worldly ideals, success, happiness, and desires. Yet, in reality, these have no relation to salvation and can only fuel and accumulate more sin and greed. This is the inevitable result of a selfish, prideful, self-centered faith that picks and chooses, biased toward pursuing only their worldly desires, hopes, and cravings—a faith established solely for themselves by pastors and believers who dominate today.
Since their faith and Word are governed by interpretations and explanations rationalized to fit their own standards and self-centered thinking, they uniformly pursue worldly desires, ideals, and cravings, resulting in a faith and belief that can only pile up more sin and greed. Like medicine that is inevitably bitter to the taste, they neither teach nor listen to the admonitions and teachings that point out and rebuke their unrighteous values and lives. Instead, most churches hope for and teach only the worldly lessons of hope and comfort that follow their worldly desires, ideals, and cravings. Because the standard of serving God alongside the world and material things, centered on themselves, has already been turned into teachings and learning disguised as the Word, God, and faith, most churches are governed by such teachings. With a cunning faith of double-mindedness, they cling to their worldly greed, distorting the gospel and Word of good deeds that follow the love of the cross—which can only be obtained through self-sacrifice—into lies upon lies, excuses upon excuses, teaching and learning a faith dominated by believers that can only pile up more sin and greed. These are faiths that attempt to serve God alongside the world and material things, as if weaving together two opposing materials, interpreting and explaining according to their tastes, arming themselves with assertions to rationalize their sin and greed.
The method of interpreting and explaining the Word to fit within their own framework is armed with pride, stubbornness, lies, excuses, and rationalizations that only fuel their sin and greed, resulting in a faith that inevitably desolates their conscience. Consequently, most pastors and believers become those with a vain faith and prideful belief, trusting absolutely in their own zeal, enthusiasm, and self-confidence. The reality of their faith is not like the true faith of Christ, which follows the love of the cross—exceedingly gentle, beautiful, abundant, holy, and overflowing with joy. Instead, it is fierce, extreme, ignorant, reckless, prideful, selfish, excessively wounding to others, and lacking the love of the cross. Due to this, they fall into a vicious cycle of sinning again despite reflection and repentance based on self-interest, unable to change or be reborn, repeating futile awakenings, repentance, and reflection—a foolish faith that always treats others recklessly or with hostility based on their own tastes and benefits. These are believers who have turned their fierce zeal, confidence, enthusiasm, and self-assurance into the faith, Word, and truth of Christ. Thus, I boldly exhort those reading this text with the holy Word of God: if the fundamental reason for reading this is not to pursue the fruit and evidence of cultivating a beautiful heart that follows the true love of the cross worthy of leading to salvation, centered on the Word, or to struggle in faith to find the flaws in their own faith and belief, but rather to rationalize their biased faith and assertions by picking and choosing according to their tastes, seeking the weaknesses and flaws of this text.
The Word of rebuke, instruction, and admonition that seeks to establish your conscience and reveal your sin and greed to bring about worthy repentance may not suit your taste or align with your assertions. Yet, it truly turns the eyes and ears of your conscience, transforming you into complete rebirth worthy of leading to salvation and enabling the true repentance of Christ. Repeating awakening, repentance, and tears within the vicious cycle of sinning again despite a lifetime of reflection and regret, tamed by sinful habits, is by no means the true repentance of Christ worthy of rebirth. The notion taught and asserted by countless churches and pastors today—that the reflection and regret anyone in the unbelieving world can do is the true repentance of Christ—is a forced repentance and false rebirth that cannot break free from the cycle of repeated sin, as the recurring sin itself already testifies. This is due to serving God alongside the world and material things, resulting in a duplicity where behavior and life differ inside and outside the church, lacking the love of the cross that requires true self-sacrifice due to self-interest. Thus, despite reflection, they only add to their sin with envy, jealousy, hatred, pride, lies, strife, and lust, repeating futile reflection and regret, yet calling it the repentance of Christ. This is why the last days and the day of judgment exist in a world where such people teach and learn.
The repentance of Christ makes those worthy of rebirth live a spiritual life that does not repeat sins driven by worldly and fleshly self-interest. In other words, it is escaping the path of sin caused by self-interest based on worldly and fleshly ideals, desires, and cravings, cultivating a beautiful temple of the heart that resembles God by following the love and sacrifice of the cross according to the Word. Instead of following the love of the cross that serves brothers and neighbors as oneself, most pastors and believers today have turned their faith and belief into something corrupted by putting forth only words and theories, becoming bolder toward sin or marveling at it with excuses and rationalizations disguised as the Word, God, and faith. Thus, they lack the example of good deeds and practice that follows the love of the cross—mutually uplifting, cherishing, and serving one another—being tamed by lessons, emotions, and sermons that pursue worldly success, happiness, ideals, and desires.
Sin and greed are neither the fruit nor the evidence of Christ. The true fruit and result of Christ are the beautiful love of the cross—serving poor and pitiful neighbors as oneself, the highest law and commandment—feeding, giving, and caring through good deeds and charity, mutually uplifting, cherishing, and serving. Those who pursue worldly desires, ideals, hopes, and dreams, always turning back to envy, jealousy, hatred, lies, disputes, strife, pride, and evil deeds due to self-interest, can never achieve the faith that follows the love of the cross. Those who put forth only words and theories are inevitably corrupted in faith and belief due to serving God alongside the world and material things. The path of following the love of the cross, sacrificing all life, ideals, and desires, even unto death, is by no means an easy, broad, and smooth path of merely attending church. It is the way of the cross, requiring the sacrifice of one’s entire body, devotion, and even life. A Christian never seeks their own or lives for themselves.
Those who belong to the world seek worldly things unrelated to salvation, those who belong to the flesh seek fleshly things, and those who belong to heaven and God seek only to cultivate a temple of the heart with the love of the cross, interceding for the tears, sorrows, and pains of brothers and neighbors. Faith that puts forth only words and theories is a dead faith, dishonoring the love of the cross and opposing the holy grace and Word of God—an adversary, enemy, heretic, and antichrist. Thus, it is natural that the love of the cross and the holy Word of God are bitter to our stomachs. The Word is sweet and peaceful, but in practice and action, it is exceedingly difficult, bitter, and hard to swallow for our bodies—like medicine.
And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter (Revelation 10:10)
Following lessons and sermons that stir worldly desires, hopes, and ideals, seemingly offering the comfort and hope of the gospel of Christ, yet always sinning again despite repentance and reflection due to self-interest, unable to be reborn, lack the beautiful faith that follows the love of the cross. Thus, their behavior outside the church is no different from that of worldly people, despite claiming to be God’s sheep within the church. Unlike their outwardly gentle, kind, or holy appearance, their inner envy, hatred, and jealousy constantly intersect, revealing a cunning double-mindedness and duplicity where words and actions differ—a vain faith. Examine yourselves! Break free from this vicious cycle and bear the beautiful fruit and result of Christ that follows the love of the cross, worthy of leading to salvation!
The light of Christ’s Word and gospel is the true light that illuminates the sin and greed hidden in the conscience, granting grace worthy of repentance by revealing them. Teachings and sermons that cannot turn us back with the light of the Word are uniformly lies and evil, exploiting God’s Word to use believers as tools to fill their selfish desires. Churches that lack the example of practice—feeding, giving, and caring for poor and pitiful sheep through good deeds and charity, mutually uplifting, cherishing, and serving with the love of the cross—rely only on words and theories. These word-mongers, with comedy, satire, rumors, and human adversities, lead believers to pursue worldly ideals and desires, piling up more sin and greed. Their sermons and assertions cause the love of the cross and God’s holy name to be mocked.
If faith could be achieved by words and theories alone, there would have been no need for the Word of Scripture, shepherds, gifts, prayers, churches, apostles, or the blood and sacrifice of Christ from the beginning. The Word of Scripture commands us to keep, practice, and perform God’s will, commandments, and laws in over 4,000 places. If salvation could be achieved by words and theories alone, the Word commanding us to practice, keep, and perform would be a lie, and God, who is the Word, would become a false God. If the true salvation of Christ were achieved by human confidence and assurance through words and theories alone, would the Word stating that salvation is obtained only by keeping, practicing, and performing be a lie?
As it is written to diligently perform good deeds and bear the fruit of goodness and righteousness, and that trees failing to bear fruit will be burned and destroyed, can a single word of “I believe” cultivate the beautiful love of the cross, the divine nature resembling God worthy of leading to salvation? Can a faith inevitably wavering from human confidence, relying only on words and theories, truly be the true faith of Christ? It is time to escape as soon as possible from the vain faith and belief that disguises human zeal, confidence, and assertions as the Word, faith, and God, deceiving the conscience with words and theories alone. The disgrace of mistaking conviction, passion, and pride—which constantly waver according to self-interest—for the faith of Christ united with the love of the cross has not only failed to serve as an example and model to the world, but has also dishonored the sacrifice and love of the cross. The recurring sin that cannot break free from the bad habit of sinning, reflecting, and regretting already proves that one is a sinner who has not borne fruit in keeping with repentance and has not been born again. Thus, one must discern whether their claimed rebirth, repentance, Spirit, and faith are truly righteous and true according to the evidence of the Word.
We do not have much time left. Thus, it is time to examine whether your faith bears the fruit of goodness and righteousness following the divine nature of God, the source of love, with the love of the cross, or whether it is a weary, defiled life heading toward judgment and destruction, piling up sin and greed due to worldly ties, increasingly desolating the conscience, resulting only in a deprived and wretched heart. What use is confidence, enthusiasm, awakening, and faith in a belief that repeats envy, hatred, jealousy, lust, lies, disputes, pride, slander, and strife despite thousands of awakenings and reflections, fluctuating with self-interest? These are churches, pastors, offices, and believers governed by faiths that only increase sin worthy of leading to judgment, which is why God has prepared the day of judgment! Do not further dishonor God, the source of love, and the love of the cross with faiths and beliefs stemming from forced interpretations and explanations for pursuing worldly desires, ideals, and cravings through excuses, words, theories, repentance, salvation, and the Spirit alone, as recorded in the Word, unable to bear the fruit and result of Christ. This is a greater sin than unbelief. And these are the churches, shepherds, and believers in whom the word, ‘The first shall be last, and the last shall be first,’ has already been fulfilled.
Those who put forth only words and theories are cunning and shameless, avoiding the rugged and difficult path of tribulation following the Lord’s will with the cross of love and sacrifice, seeking instead a broad and smooth worldly life while hoping to gain salvation and faith. This is like farmers seeking fruit without sowing seeds or effort—a faith and belief of mere words. Coldly compare your conscience’s fruit and result to the light of the Word and ask what it truly is! If the fruit and result of goodness and righteousness united with love are not evidenced, you are not of God, the source of love, but a slave to sin, testifying to a lack of union with the love of the cross—an adversary and enemy belonging to the world. God’s profound grace shames our words and leaves us ashamed that all our disgrace cannot be fully recorded—an immense grace and love ordained from the beginning. Thus, daring to speak of faith and the Spirit with words and theories before God, ignorant of His great grace, dishonors the love and blood of the cross. If you hold a faith and belief unable to cultivate a temple of the heart resembling God’s beautiful nature through the love of the cross, seeking only to argue with words and theories, you consider your arguments higher and truer than God’s Word, trusting and believing in your own assertions. In other words, you do not believe the Word of Scripture as it is but believe in your own assertions, judgments, and arguments. Bear in mind that this exceedingly prideful, forced, and false interpretation and explanation, disguising your assertions as the Word, your judgments as faith, and your standards as God, blinds your eyes and ears and deceives your conscience. Many reading this base their perspective on their own assertions and judgments. Rationalizing arguments and excuses stemming from the stubborn belief that their assertions alone are right, no matter how clear and distinct their words, theories, and assertions, wisdom and arguments without the example of practice are dead wisdom and faith, unable to follow, achieve, or know the gospel, truth, and wisdom of God, the source of love.
All that they know, believe, trust, are confident in, resolve, and take pride in actually opposes God’s Word, becomes an enemy to the love of the cross, and contradicts God’s wisdom and truth, inevitably piling up more sin and greed. Yet, due to faiths and beliefs that endlessly put forth their assertions and arguments with excuses upon excuses, corruption upon corruption, lies upon lies, stubbornness upon stubbornness, this world of churches, pastors, and believers increasingly abounds with lawlessness, lies, corruption, depravity, adultery, and evil deeds, growing ever more heretical. Thus, the day of judgment will distinguish true Christians from fruitless churchgoers posing as Christians. Instead of a righteous standard and center, pastors who are not shepherds and churchgoers who are not true Christians—merely attending church without practicing the love of the cross, unable to bear the complete fruit of Christ—will be clearly distinguished in the approaching last days, as confessed by an elder: “There are many pastors but no shepherds, many churchgoers but no Christians.” The recurring sin of those who sin and regret yet turn back to sin due to self-interest, despite relying only on words and theories, testifies that the true fruit and result of Christ cannot be borne, as the Word states: “He that committeth sin is of the devil.”
True Christians live a life willing to lay down even their lives for the poor and pitiful brothers and neighbors, never envying, hating, being jealous, disputing, lying, or striving due to self-interest. The inevitable repetition of sin stems from serving God alongside the world and material things, resulting in unhealthy faiths biased toward selective interpretations and explanations that distort and corrupt the Word of Scripture through teachings, learning, and assertions. Thus, most believers today rely only on words and theories. The Lord seeks to reveal the reality and truth of these vain faiths that believe and follow only words and theories, making known the true faith and belief that bears the complete fruit and result of Christ across the earth, according to the Word ordained from the beginning and aligned with His dispensation. This is proclaimed here to inform distant believers of the preparation for the last days. However, these words concerning the vast heavens and all of God’s ideals and mysteries are so great, high, and immense that no one can fully receive them, and it is truly regrettable that they cannot all be revealed and recorded clearly. Like Christ’s teachings in parables, lest God’s mysteries and ideals become tools for the selfish desires of religions, churches, and pastors, those who join will see and hear. I pray that all the ideals and mysteries of heaven be revealed on earth as worthy, and as God’s holy mysterious Word spreads, all human science, civilization, medicine, religions, and theories will be put to shame. None will dare open their mouths to object; rather, most will persecute out of fear of losing their status and power rather than restraining their shame and vanity. Thus, all nations will persecute the messenger bearing God’s mysteries, and the glory of persecution awaiting me is to fulfill the recorded Word of Scripture. The foolish will not understand what this means, but those prepared will know.
As the last days are upon us, the Lord seeks to reveal all ideals, values, mysteries, truth, and wisdom hidden from the beginning to lead us to the complete path of becoming God’s children. Thus, centering and basing yourselves on the Word, cast off all forms of evil and assertions and theories that trouble your conscience, escaping the path of guilt to obtain a pure and innocent heart through repentance. Those who serve God alongside the world and material things cannot obtain the hope, faith, and love of Christ, remaining in the foolishness of repeating futile reflection and repentance due to inevitable sin based on self-interest, even dishonoring the true essence of Christ’s repentance. Most churches today, governed and taught by such people. If you are reading this message with the intention of establishing your own arguments and assertions, your conscience will inevitably be troubled. Do not forsake your conscience, and I earnestly urge you to coldly reconsider where the Word and path following God’s holy will truly lie. This text is not anyone’s assertion or argument but the truth and Word of God obtainable through the example of practice and the foundation of action, which anyone with a conscience can acknowledge as the Word of Scripture upon reading. Examine again whether your assertions and interpretations, endlessly crafted from excuses and rationalizations opposing God’s Word, have been turned into the Word, faith, and God. If there is no evidence or fruit of the Word, it is a faith and belief that, worse than the ignorant worldly, becomes the greatest adversary and enemy before God—an antichrist unable to bear the true fruit of Christ, merely a churchgoer dishonoring the love of the cross and God’s holy name.
Only a Christian bearing the love of the cross, recognized by God—not by the world—cultivates a beautiful temple of the heart, evidenced by the example and fragrance of Christ worthy of leading to salvation. If you seek this place to argue with your own assertions, opinions, or views, we cannot be together. This is like casting pearls before swine. No matter how good the Word of life is, if one is armed with prideful assertions and lacks ears to hear, even the most righteous Word is useless. Such people have made their assertions the Word, their thoughts God, and their interpretations faith, unable to see the complete Word and truth of life despite having eyes or hear the Word of salvation that awakens the conscience despite having ears. Yet, most pastors and believers today, though blind in faith—unable to see despite having eyes or hear despite having ears—do not even realize their blindness due to centering and basing themselves on their pride.
Those who excessively rely on words and theories, delighting in arguing with others, lack deep roots and inevitably fall, armed with excuses and cunning to rationalize a life of repeated sin without practice—a hollow faith of mere noisy claims like an empty can. A faith like a deep-rooted tree united with the love of the cross does not follow the detestable faith of noisy words and theories nor waver with them. Wavering faith is neither the faith nor belief of Christ but rather dishonors the love and sacrifice of the cross, worse than unbelievers, merely clamoring vainly for their greedy desires and ideals.
If you are biased toward a faith of words and theories following your own assertions and theories rather than the practice and good deeds of the love of the cross, no matter how good those words and theories seem, it is a vain faith and belief. The form and fragrance of words are like smoke that rises momentarily and vanishes without roots. The form and fragrance of words are like smoke that rises in an instant—they have no root and vanish away. Thus, those who put forth seemingly sound theories for the sake of that fleeting and vain smoke are, in truth, more wretched than those who are ignorant or blind. For they stand in opposition to the holy will of God and bring disgrace to the love of the cross, thereby accumulating even greater sin. Yet we live in a world where almost no one realizes that such misguided faith is nothing more than vain and profane. Due to not knowing that their faith and theories, wavering with their own assertions and standards, make them heretics, adversaries, and enemies of God and Christ, rationalizing interpretations and explanations of the Word, their faith is worse than unbelief. Now is the time to truly turn back to the Word, examining whether your faith’s standard and center are vain before God.
If your standard is truly worthy of leading to salvation, comparing it to all the contents of the Word, your conscience will have no shame or hesitation, overflowing with grace, love, joy, and gratitude. Yet, a standard claiming to center on the Word but unrighteous asserts extreme theories and forced interpretations tailored to their tastes, claiming practice and good deeds with words but not following through in action due to duplicity and double-mindedness. Their behavior differs inside and outside the church, their inner intentions differ from their outward appearance, and their words differ from their actions—an inevitable limitation they cannot overcome. Are these not faiths armed with forced interpretations and explanations rationalizing their increasing sin and greed due to serving God alongside the world and material things? Most churches today are governed by teachings and learning armed with corrupted interpretations and commentaries of the Word by those serving God alongside the world and material things, resulting in faiths and beliefs inevitably dominated by corruption, lies, and stubbornness rather than holiness and purity.
The rebuke, admonition, and instruction that stir your good conscience and lead you to the right path are the true truth leading you to a path worthy of rebirth. Lessons and emotions that merely inflate your desires and ideals, stirring enthusiasm and confidence, cannot lead you to complete rebirth before God but are Satan’s schemes, exploiting the Word—a vain effort. The greatest heresy lies in the churches and pastors who believe and teach this, and in yourselves and the churchgoers who learn and hear it. The thought of the flesh is death, but the life of the spirit is salvation. In a world where those unable to follow the spiritual life of practicing the love of the cross teach and learn, the love of the cross is dishonored by those who claim to believe. The most fearful and greatest Satan is oneself, who, without following or obtaining the beautiful nature of God through the love of the cross, pursues only worldly and fleshly greed, desires, and hopes with a faith of words and theories. Faith without the love of the cross is a dead faith, an adversary and enemy of God, a heretic, and an antichrist.
The wheat and the tares are distinguished by whether they have borne the fruit of the love of the cross. For those who put forth only words and theories, repeating sin and greed, all they gain is the bondage of sin—an outcome that is by no means the beautiful fruit of Christ’s love following God’s holy will. That is why the path to salvation is hard to find and a rugged path of tribulation.
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