If one is human and possesses normal humanity, then being able to discern right from wrong is crucial. When they have not received the supply of God’s words and do not understand the truth, they can use their conscience and reason to understand some simple positive and negative things. They have certain discerning and cognitive abilities when it comes to some positive and negative things they come into contact with in real life. They are able to have some discernment toward the things that fall under basic human common sense, toward the laws of human survival, and toward some people, events, and things they often encounter. They are not someone who lives in a muddled way, but have discerning and cognitive abilities when it comes to the positive and negative things in the human world, and of course, they also have certain thoughts, stances, and correct attitudes toward these things. After the age of thirty, such people begin to gradually encounter various matters of life. Even if they have not read God’s words or received the supply of God’s words, by the time they are in their fifties or sixties, they can gradually work out what positive things are and what negative things are, and then live according to those positive things they can comprehend, and follow some of the laws of positive things. As for some negative things, besides being able to discern them, they can also distance themselves from them from the depths of their hearts. When they have no choice but to follow worldly trends or some philosophies for worldly dealings and sayings that circulate among people, they feel that they are going against their conscience, and their conscience will reproach them. From the depths of their hearts, they do not accept such views; they only act this way for the sake of survival or temporary benefits. It is not their original intention to do these things; rather, it’s a choice made against their will. After such people believe in God, they are more concerned with what exactly God’s words say about all kinds of issues, such as those concerning human life and survival, what exactly God’s accurate statements are regarding difficult problems in human life, and what exactly God asks people to do when they’re confronted with them. They yearn for the answers to these questions. When they receive the answers, they do not feel that practicing according to God’s words is too difficult or too contrary to the needs of humanity. Instead, they feel that only these truths are the right path, what people should possess and achieve, and the likeness people should have in life. They feel that if people live this way, it can truly satisfy the needs of their conscience and humanity, and that only by living this way do they not go against their will, and only then can they feel grounded and have joy and peace. They also feel that only then will people have hope and be willing to live on, and that only then can they break free from various evil forces, various evil trends, and the hollow state in which humankind lives. Under the influence of their conscience deep within their hearts, they have a liking for the various statements, teachings, and provisions in God’s words, and they embrace them from the depths of their hearts. They have the desire to pursue gaining the truth. Moreover, as God’s words are expressed more and more, and the supply of God’s words becomes more and more practical and detailed, their yearning for the truth and for positive things is increasingly satisfied. It’s not that the more they listen, the more restless they become, the more they find it to be overly-detailed, or the more muddled they feel. On the contrary, the more they listen, the clearer things seem, and the more they feel they can see through things and have a path. They feel that there is hope ahead, that they see the light and have a path to practice the truth and attain salvation. Their hearts feel more and more grounded, and they feel more and more that the path of believing in God is correct, and that the price they have paid and the energy and heart’s blood they have expended, each day up to now in believing in God, have all been worthwhile and meaningful. This is affirmed in the depths of their hearts. Although their wish has been fulfilled, and their yearning for the truth has been somewhat sated, people who truly yearn for the truth will set their resolve and make plans, requiring themselves to practice and enter into all aspects of the truth, to implement God’s words, the various truth principles, and God’s various requirements in themselves, allowing God’s words to become the criteria for their actions and self-conduct in real life, and to become their life reality. In the past, when they did not understand the truth, they could only speak some words and doctrines. When they encountered things, they only had a one-sided view of them, like in the parable of the blind men and the elephant; they were unable to see the essence of the problem and did not know what to do. They felt that life was very boring, with no goals to strive toward and no hope, and they lived in a muddled way. But now it’s different. God’s words are spoken more and more clearly, and the truth is fellowshipped more and more clearly. They feel that the path is becoming brighter and clearer, and that there is a way forward. And they have God’s words to follow as a basis for every word they speak, every thing they do, and every type of person they encounter. They feel that God’s words are so practical and so good, and they have affirmed that believing in God is the right path, that believing in God can lead to salvation, and that believing in God in this way can enable them to live out a human likeness, and that it’s so meaningful and valuable! While yearning for and practicing the truths, they are also continually entering into these truths and continually reaping good harvests. As the yearning and need for positive things of their conscience and humanity are satisfied, their life is also gradually changing. Although they often reveal corrupt dispositions and rebel against God, and often—despite themselves—act according to their corrupt dispositions, their flesh, and their foolish, fallacious thoughts and viewpoints when they encounter things, at the same time there is also a good phenomenon: When they do this, their conscience frequently feels uneasy, and they feel that their corrupt dispositions are deeply rooted and difficult to change. Then, under the influence of their conscience, they frequently feel reproached in their hearts, feeling guilty and regretful. They frequently reflect on where exactly they went wrong, and they often repent. These are all the effects of conscience. If people have conscience, they will have these feelings and these manifestations; if people have conscience, this is how they will live, often reflecting on themselves, and often repenting and reversing course. Although they frequently face failures and setbacks, and frequently face pruning, judgment and chastisement for doing wrong, because they often repent and change, their goal of pursuing the truth remains the same, and in the end, they will have a good result and a good harvest. They often feel reproached and guilty, and they often reverse course and repent. This is a good phenomenon—it shows that they are already on the right path, and ultimately they will have real gains. For one thing, their corrupt dispositions have been somewhat alleviated, and their rebelliousness toward God has diminished. Previously, when they encountered things that did not align with their notions, they would complain, but now they no longer complain and can seek the truth; they know that treating God and God’s work based on notions and imaginings is absurd, ridiculous, and incorrect. Additionally, while previously they would be negative when encountering difficulties, now they are no longer negative; they can treat them correctly and submit to God’s orchestrations and arrangements. Although sometimes they may be negative, it does not affect the performance of their duty, and they have become devoted in doing their duty. Their conscience will tell them that doing so is right. When they act this way, they will have peace in their hearts and no sense of accusation, and they will increasingly feel that this is how they ought to act. The more they practice this way, the more they realize the importance of seeking and practicing the truth in all things, and the more they feel that they should seek the truth and practice according to the truth principles, that this path is right, and that practicing this way yields gains. When people have such gains, they find that their relationship with God is changing, that the life within them is changing, and that their corrupt dispositions are increasingly losing hold, the bondage and constraint these dispositions have over them diminishing; they also find that their desire to pursue the truth and their yearning for it are growing stronger, and that their strength to practice the truth and overcome their corrupt dispositions is also increasing. In this way, people will have a certain kind of feeling, which is that there is hope for them to cast off corrupt dispositions and attain salvation, that the path they are walking is right, and that accepting, practicing, and submitting to the truth is right. This is the attitude that people who possess the conscience and reason of humanity have toward the truth. This is the manifestation people have as they gradually accept the truth. This is the most normal manifestation. For those who do not have this manifestation, their conscience cannot play any regulatory role—that’s at the very least. If you have conscience, your conscience will certainly play a regulatory role. If your conscience cannot play a regulatory role, then that conscience of yours is not a conscience—you do not have a conscience. If people have conscience, they will be able to discern right from wrong, discern positive things from negative things, and will choose positive things and abandon negative things. If people have conscience and can discern right from wrong, they will choose to accept, practice, and submit to the truth, and act according to the truth principles. If they do not practice the truth this time, their conscience will reproach them, and if they do not practice the truth next time, they will be reproached again. If you have a sense of conscience and understand right from wrong, then, having heard so many truths, when you repeatedly do wrong, your conscience will reproach and accuse you even more, and you will be able to submit to the feeling of your conscience and make the right choice. Some people say, “My conscience also reproaches me when I do wrong, but even after being reproached for ten or twenty years, I still don’t want to choose to practice the truth.” Then I say that conscience of yours is not a conscience. You say you feel reproached by your conscience, but for so many years you have been unable to reverse course or repent, and your so-called conscience has failed to regulate you so that you choose the right path. Then your conscience is not a conscience, and you have no humanity. You say, “I know what’s correct and what’s incorrect—how can You say I have no conscience?” That can only mean that your heart is too intransigent, and your conscience is no longer functioning. If you truly possess the conscience of humanity, when you do wrong and your conscience reproaches you, your humanity will have an inclination toward the positive, and your conscience will accuse you from within, saying, “This is wrong, this is so lacking in humanity!” If it always reproaches you like this, what kind of person would you have to be to have no perception of it? Only those without a conscience lack this perception. If you truly have a conscience, when you are reproached by your conscience, can you remain intransigent? If you say, “I’ve been reproached for ten or twenty years and haven’t felt anything in particular,” then you are not a person with a conscience. Isn’t this so? (Yes.) You have no conscience, yet you claim to have humanity—isn’t this deceiving people? If you have humanity, how can you have no conscience? If you have no conscience, then you have no humanity. A sign of having no humanity is not understanding what positive things are and what negative things are. You say you have a conscience, so why are you unable to discern right from wrong? You have heard so many sermons, so why do you not yearn to pursue the truth? You say, “My heart is willing to pursue the truth, and willing to practice the truth”—what truths have you practiced, then? Where is the evidence? If your heart loves the truth and is willing to pursue the truth, then why do you not practice the truth? Isn’t this deceiving people? Isn’t this just like the lies of a deceiver? It’s just like the great red dragon, which always proclaims that everything it does is to serve the people and to enable them to live happy lives, but when people believe in God and walk the right path, it frantically arrests and persecutes them. It doesn’t allow people to follow God, doesn’t allow them to accept the truth and attain salvation—it only allows them to follow the Party and obey its commands, leading them to end up in hell and being punished, which delights the great red dragon. So, are the words of the great red dragon that it “serves the people” true or false? Satan always says that what it does is for the benefit of people, but it cannot supply people with the truth, nor can it guide people onto the right path in life. It only inculcates people with heresies and fallacies, getting them to indulge in a life of debauchery, to walk the path of evil, to pursue the world, pursue fame and gain, and to fight against and harm each other, not allowing people to walk the right path, and snatching people away from God’s side. In the end, people realize fame and gain, but their bodies and minds are completely ruined; they are filled with Satan’s heresies and fallacies, God is absent from their hearts, and they no longer believe that humankind was created by God. They begin to deny God and become hostile to Him. Is Satan doing this for the benefit of man? Isn’t this harming and ruining people? Yet people who are not able to discern right from wrong cannot see through these things.

Some people say, “I have humanity and can discern right from wrong, and I have more of a conscience than most people.” Then compare yourself with the content fellowshipped today and see if you have a conscience, if you can accept and practice the truth, if you feel remorse and guilt when you do wrong, and whether you have truly repented and changed. If you don’t have these manifestations of life entry, it proves that your conscience has not functioned despite having listened to sermons for so many years since you started believing in God. What is behind your conscience not functioning? There is only one reason that can explain this problem: You are a person without a conscience. Some people say, “Although I don’t have life entry, I understand all truths.” If you understand the truth, why don’t you practice it? Why haven’t you had any entry? How come even now your life still hasn’t changed? You understand the truth but don’t practice it—where is your conscience? Some people even argue, “I’ve believed in God for so many years. If I had no conscience, could I have forsaken so much, suffered so much, and paid so great a price? Could I willingly do my duty?” If you have a conscience, then what effect has it had after you’ve listened to so many truths? Can it restrain you so that you act according to the truth principles? Can it govern your behavior and your thoughts? You have listened to sermons for so many years, you can speak many doctrines, and you have suffered so much and paid such a great price—then why doesn’t your conscience play a role in governing your behavior, making you act according to principles, and preventing you from violating principles? If you have so much conscience and humanity, and you’ve understood so many truths, why can’t you put them into practice? How can you openly violate principles and openly disturb the church’s work? If you have a conscience, has your life changed after doing your duty for so many years? You haven’t changed, and you have no entry into the truth whatsoever; this shows that you have no conscience. Some people say, “Could I do my duty if I didn’t have a conscience?” You are not doing your duty; you are laboring. Laboring does not require conscience; exerting a bit of effort is enough. This precisely confirms the saying: People who labor are people without conscience; they do not pursue life entry or the truth, and they only seek to labor and are willing to exert effort. What are the characteristics of laboring? Being willing to suffer hardship and pay a price, looking for one’s joy, sense of importance, and value in suffering hardship and paying a price, trying to satisfy one’s desire for blessings and one’s ambition to make deals with God, and trying to gain blessings in exchange for their suffering and sacrifice. If you ask them to exert effort in work, suffer hardship and pay a price, they have plenty of vigor for this; but if you ask them to act according to principles and practice the truth, they become listless, perplexed, and don’t know how to practice. Some people even feel they’ve been put in a difficult spot, thinking, “It’s fine if you ask me to exert effort, suffer hardship, and pay a price. I can endure any amount of hardship, and I won’t complain no matter how tired I am. But asking me to act according to principles—isn’t that making things difficult for me? Being able to exert effort, and to suffer hardship and pay a price without complaints is already quite good—why do you still require me to act according to principles? Your demands on people are too high! Let people do things however they want; as long as the work gets done, that’s good enough. If it’s not done well, it can just be corrected over time!” They are just willing to labor, and they are very energetic when laboring, but they become listless when it comes to practicing the truth, and they become even more confused when it comes to life entry. Yet they still think they are good people. They often say, “I am a person with a conscience and I am kind. I put all the energy I’ve got into doing my duty and never hold back. I can forsake my family and career to expend myself for God. How can I be so driven? I am naturally a good person!” In fact, they do not understand any truth, much less can they act according to the truth principles. They only know to use brute force, yet they still think they are good. Even at this stage, they have no feeling in their conscience and reason at all. If you truly had a conscience, how could you have spouted such twisted arguments? How could you not have a pure comprehension of the truth? If you had a conscience and humanity, how could you have not listened attentively to God’s words, to what God’s required criteria for people are, and to what principles should be followed in each thing you do? If you listen but don’t understand, and you’re numb to the truth, then you are someone without conscience and humanity. Do you think you can exchange your brute exertion for the truth and life, for salvation? This is impossible; that path does not work. Even if you are willing to exert effort, toil with sincerity, and can suffer a bit, and in people’s eyes you are somewhat devoted, it’s still hard to say whether you can be devoted to the end. There’s no telling when your beastly nature will flare up, and you’ll cause trouble and create disruptions and disturbances, and then you will have to be cleansed away. Weren’t a few people just cleansed away from the church recently? People like this say very pleasant-sounding words, and anyone who hears them thinks they understand the truth, but they simply do not practice the truth. They say nice-sounding things but do not do real work. Not only do they set themselves against people, but they also set themselves against God’s house. Isn’t this resisting God? Can God’s house accommodate them? If they are willing to do their duty, they should do it compliantly and in a rule-abiding way, but they do not do so. They try to be in charge and hold power, and they even cause disturbances and destruction. To what extent do they cause disturbances? Even when I’m doing something, they try to meddle, critique this and that, and obstruct and disturb. They try to disturb My actions—could I show them mercy? If you were only disturbing My personal life, I could put you aside and ignore you, but I am doing work in God’s house, doing some real work for God’s chosen people, and you still try to disturb and undermine it. What is the problem here? What should be done with such a person? (They should be cleansed away.) God’s house has principles for handling people, and such people should be cleansed away. Some people say, “I have been wronged! I didn’t know this was offending You. I didn’t know this was defying the Above and defying God. I didn’t do it on purpose.” The fact that you could do such a thing shows you were acting purposefully. How many years have you listened to sermons? Do you have a conscience—do you have humanity? If you were human, if you had humanity and possessed conscience and reason, you would not do such things, whether intentionally or otherwise. I am doing work, and they deliberately disturb it and try to undermine it. Are they even human? Are they not devils? If people truly have conscience and reason, and truly have humanity, even if it’s an ordinary person doing something, so long as it’s beneficial to the church’s work and to the brothers and sisters, they know they should uphold it and not undermine it, let alone if it’s something I’m personally attending to. Yet they insist on causing disturbances and trying to sabotage it, and no one can stop them. They’ve become thoroughgoing devils, haven’t they? I say such characters’ evildoing is serious—we mustn’t be lenient with them; God’s house has principles for handling people, and they should be handled by being cleared out. Is this an appropriate way to treat them? (Yes.) If it’s only in their everyday lives that they follow their personal preferences, that is acceptable. For example, I might say, “I like to eat noodles,” to which they respond, “I don’t like to eat noodles. When I cook, I’ll make some noodles for You, and I’ll make rice for myself.” This matter does not involve the church’s work, nor does it involve any truth principles, much less does it involve one’s humanity or conscience. Following your personal preferences here is fine, but when it comes to matters involving the church’s work, it is not acceptable. If you recklessly commit misdeeds and cause disruptions and disturbances, you’re violating the administrative decrees. What kind of person can brazenly violate the administrative decrees? What kind of person can openly defy the truth and God’s house? (Devils.) Those foolhardy muddled people and beasts can defy and disturb in this way, and devils are even more capable of doing so. No matter what God’s house does, devils always try to disturb it—they cause disturbances as if they were possessed, without any regard for the consequences. They can disturb to such an extent and still not realize it, still feeling that they have not caused disturbances, that they are totally innocent, and even defend themselves. There is no need to fellowship anything with such people; just clearing them out is the right thing to do. People like this, who have no conscience and reason of humanity, are bona fide devils; they will never change. You are not required to pursue the truth, nor are you required to practice the truth in all things, but at the very least you must know to follow the rules. If you don’t even understand the rules, and you don’t understand the administrative decrees of God’s house, and you don’t even know it when you violate administrative decrees, then do you have humanity? You have no humanity; you are a devil. When devils do evil, they cannot help themselves. Their resistance to God, their judgment of God, and their blasphemy against God are natural revelations of their nature. Without anyone egging them on or indoctrinating them, they can naturally do evil like this. This is because they’re dominated by their devilish nature.

Today, we fellowshipped on the issue of discerning right from wrong, which is part of people’s conscience and reason. Through this fellowship, do you now see this aspect clearly? A true human has a conscience and can discern right from wrong; their conscience is functioning. No matter what people, events, or things they encounter, and no matter what issues arise, their conscience is, at the very least, the first line of defense. For one thing, your conscience will help you make judgments about and discern which things are positive and which are negative; for another, it can help you carry out vetting and check the path ahead of you so that you do not fall below the minimum standards of self-conduct, and ultimately it will help you make trade-offs and choose the right path. Naturally, people who understand the truth or who have believed in God for many years and have a foundation in their belief will, under the influence of their conscience, ultimately choose positive things, and choose to seek and accept the truth. Therefore, conscience plays a leading role within humanity; it plays the role of guiding people toward the right path and regulating people so they choose positive things. If a person has no conscience, then it goes without saying that not only will they be incapable of choosing positive things and the right path, but in anything they do, they will lack the minimal restraint and regulation of conscience. Such a person is in great peril; they are very likely to do evil and resist God. If they are the reincarnation of an animal, they might do the things that evil demons do, and people who are evil demons and devils can do even greater evils, which is very frightening. So, possessing a conscience is very important. Is that clear? (Yes.) If a person has no conscience to regulate their behavior and guide them to walk the right path, then the path they choose will inevitably be a wrong one, and what they do will be negative things—the consequences will be unimaginable. If they can brazenly violate the truth and the laws of the development of things, and also recklessly blaspheme, judging the truth and all the work God does, even openly resisting God and violating God’s administrative decrees, and audaciously cursing, condemning, and blaspheming God, then they are exactly the same as devils and Satan. They can commit all the evil that devils and Satan commit, do all the things that devils and Satan do, and utter all the fallacies, heresies, and twisted arguments that devils and Satan utter. These people are bona fide devils and Satans.

What have you understood from today’s fellowship? (I’ve understood that people with humanity possess conscience and reason, and can discern right from wrong. Regarding discerning right from wrong, God, using different examples, explained with utmost clarity what positive things and negative things are, so that when we encounter things, we can make accurate judgments and at the same time have the correct perspectives behind our pursuit—we should yearn for and pursue positive things, and hate and reject negative things.) The conscience and reason within humanity are the most basic conditions for a person to attain salvation. If you possess these two basic conditions but do not pursue the truth, and do not practice the little bit of truth you understand, and ultimately cannot achieve submission to the truth, then you will still be unable to attain salvation. Conscience and reason are merely the basic conditions for salvation; as for what path you walk, that depends on your own choice. If you are a person who truly has conscience and reason, you will have the opportunity, under the regulation of your conscience, to choose to embark on the path of pursuing the truth. If your conscience regulates and guides you so that you choose the right path, but you are unwilling to suffer and pay a price, unwilling to rebel against the flesh and let go of things related to your fleshly interests, and you have not embarked on the path of pursuing the truth, then you will still have no hope of gaining salvation. The hope of gaining salvation is, for one thing, directly related to the conscience of your humanity; for another, it is also directly related to the price you can pay in pursuing the truth, and your determination and desire to practice the truth. Conscience merely gives you a basic condition for being saved, and it also creates many opportunities for you to practice the truth, giving you the chance to embark on the right path under the regulation of your conscience. That is, your chance of embarking on the right path will be relatively high, and your hope of gaining salvation will also be relatively high, more than fifty percent—it will not, however, be guaranteed. Therefore, even if you feel you have a conscience and humanity, do not be complacent about it, thinking that just having a conscience and reason means you are a good person and can attain salvation, that it’s in the bag. If you think this way, then I tell you that there are deviations in your comprehension of this matter. If you possess a conscience and have humanity, this only confirms that you are someone God has chosen and called. However, the most important determining factor in whether you can ultimately attain salvation lies in your own pursuit. Even if your conscience is typically active, often regulating your behavior and regulating you so that you choose the right path, if you often violate your conscience and do not choose the right path, and do not choose to practice the truth, but instead frequently safeguard your personal interests, your personal reputation and pride, and often consider your personal prospects, ambitions, and desires, then your hope of ultimately attaining salvation will be very slim—little by little it will have been ruined by you. This would be a very tragic thing. Do you understand? (Yes.) Alright, that’s all for our fellowship today. Goodbye!

March 9, 2024