Through the principles by which God incarnate treats people, do you understand the way I conduct Myself in daily life a bit better? (Yes.) Then are you also a bit clearer on what principles you should abide by in treating people? (Yes.) Even if some people think you are weak, cowardly, and easy to push around, and you can feel that they think this way—and this is how they treat you as well—you should still abide by the principle of treating people fairly. If you are able to help them, you should fellowship on the truth to help them; if they are not people who accept the truth, or people who love positive things, you should still treat them correctly according to principles. At all times, speaking in a more holistic sense, I firmly believe that God holds sovereignty over everything and over the fates of all people. I am certain in My heart that the fate of humankind, the fate of each and every person, are in God’s hands, that no one can escape God’s sovereignty and orchestration, and that no one can escape the scrutiny of God’s eyes. Looking at it from a more condensed perspective, God’s house is a place where God’s words hold power and where the truth holds power. To be more specific, God’s house has administrative decrees, the church has regulations, and there are work arrangements in every period. When it comes to how God’s house treats all kinds of people, it will, to the greatest extent possible, handle them according to the truth principles, not letting a single person who ought to be cleared out or handled slip by. Antichrists, evil people, and disbelievers, as well as those who do not love the truth, those with poor humanity, and those who do not pursue the truth, are all targets of elimination in God’s eyes. Sooner or later, these people will be eliminated and cleared out, while those who truly pursue the truth, or who are at least willing to labor for God and have passable humanity, will continue to do the duty of created beings in God’s house. As for the human world, it is subject to God’s sovereignty; as for the church, God’s house has administrative regulations and truth principles. So, in terms of how other people should be treated, these are the two principles to abide by. Are you clear on this aspect? (Yes.) As for coming into contact and interacting with certain people in life, if I encounter some unpleasant situations or if someone says things that are inconsistent with My viewpoints, I will also handle it correctly. If afterward I ponder, reflect on, and get verification about what you said, and determine that it’s right, then I will accept it; if what you said is wrong, I will also treat you according to principles. If there is friction, conflict, or unpleasantness in the process of interacting with you, and it involves the truth, the church’s work, or your corrupt dispositions, I will fellowship with you if the opportunity presents itself, so that you can understand the truth and see clearly the problems that exist within you. If this opportunity never comes up or there’s no need to fellowship on this with you, you may seek on your own, should you be willing to do so. If your disposition is quite arrogant, or if you speak insolently to My face and affront Me, rest assured, I will treat you according to principles. I will absolutely not prune you just because you affront Me or have affronted Me in the past; I would not do such a thing. If you have affronted Me, I must see whether it was intentional or unintentional. If it was unintentional, then I will treat it as if it never happened. I’ll just assume you were being foolish, lacking rationality, and speaking without thinking—once you spoke, you didn’t know what the nature of your words was, and you didn’t know what you were saying; it was just a bunch of nonsense. If it was intentional, however, then I must fellowship and discuss this matter with everyone, to see whether it’s only with Me that you think and act this way, or whether you are hostile toward many people, toward the church, and toward God’s house; I must understand what the specific situation is. If it’s only toward Me that you are hostile, then I will observe you; I will first give you an opportunity to repent, and will also take a look at what kind of person you really are. If, in addition to being hostile toward Me, you are also hostile toward God’s house, the church, and all the brothers and sisters, always wanting to see God’s house become a laughingstock and always wanting to see Me become a laughingstock; if you clap and cheer when the great red dragon and the religious world fabricate baseless rumors about Me, and you even spread them among the brothers and sisters, deliberately slandering Me and misleading the brothers and sisters, then I will also act according to principles. I will not take revenge on you; I will handle you according to the administrative decrees of God’s house, which is fair and reasonable. I will have the leaders and workers look up the administrative decrees, I will have the man used by the Holy Spirit discern and handle this matter, and I will leave how it is ultimately handled to the church and to God’s house. I do things according to principles; rest assured, I treat people with absolute fairness. If someone is a good person who truly believes in God and pursues the truth, they will definitely remain in God’s house. But if someone is an evil person who is hostile toward God’s house and toward God, who is of Satan, and who is an evil demon, God’s house will absolutely not let any such person off. Do you understand? (Yes.) If you fall into the category of antichrists, evil people, evil demons, or servants of Satan, then I will also act according to principles in how I treat you; I will not wrong you. I must understand whether you affronted Me unintentionally, or whether you just have negative opinions and views about Me personally—if it’s because I’m plain-looking, have an ordinary and normal appearance, am not towering, don’t have a prestigious background, come from humble beginnings, and am an ordinary person that you look down on Me and repeatedly affront Me, saying disrespectful things, or if it’s that you have bad thoughts and hostility toward the entire church and God’s house. I must learn about you. After you affront Me, I must see what your attitude is behind the scenes toward the church, toward the brothers and sisters, toward your duty, and toward the various items of work of God’s house. Once I have an accurate understanding of you, I will handle you according to principles. I will absolutely not wrong you; even if you are cleared out, that’s not wronging you. God’s house will absolutely be accurate in its handling of you. But before handling you, I will absolutely not subjectively say on My own, “Cleanse them away from the church!” I will absolutely not do this. I follow the procedures of God’s house to learn about, investigate, handle, and resolve this matter, ultimately making everyone acknowledge that this matter was handled in accordance with principles. You can look at those who have been dismissed from their duties, handled, and cleared out, and see whether the way in which God’s house handled them has anything to do with their attitude toward Me. In addition, some people have believed in God for several years, yet they still speak to Me like nonbelievers. I feel an aversion in My heart when I hear it, but I have not pruned them to their face, nor have I ever gone after them. There are also some people who are young and impetuous, and address whoever they speak to with “hey you,” lacking a sense of propriety, coming off as people who never learned their manners. I haven’t pruned people like this either; I have never done such a thing. In short, regardless of how long you have believed in God, whether you have any foundation, what your humanity is like, what duty you do, or whether I only encountered you once or have interacted with you many times, I more or less grasp and have a certain view of your nature essence, and for certain individuals I even have a characterization of them. That I grasp someone’s nature essence and have a certain view of it does not relate to that person’s outcome, but having a characterization of them does. They have these kinds of manifestations and revelations, so I have principles by which to treat them and a characterization of them. Although I have principles for people and characterize them, have you seen Me handle anyone? I’ve never handled anyone. I await God’s sovereignty and His arrangements. Also, I leave these matters to the church; the church will handle them according to principles. What do you think of My principle for how to treat people? (It aligns with the truth principles; that is, God holds sovereignty over and arranges everything.) That’s right, God holds sovereignty over and arranges everything; everything should be left to God’s sovereignty and arrangements. These principles also involve submitting to the truth and submitting to God’s orchestrations and arrangements. Not only must you have this awareness and this attitude, but you must also act and practice this way.

God incarnate has God’s life, and has the divine essence as His life. Before anything else, the principles, viewpoints, and methods He has in everything He Himself does cannot violate the truth principles. Regardless of what the personality and manner of expression of His normal humanity are like, or what kind of people He lives among, to begin with, the principles He follows cannot violate the truth principles; they are compatible with God’s life and God’s essence. Since God incarnate teaches you how to conduct yourselves, He Himself must be such a person to begin with—it is because He has such living out and such an essence that He can teach you to be such a person. On this point alone, God’s incarnate flesh has sufficient ability and conditions to lead you onto the right path of human life, to lead you onto the path of salvation, and to bring you before God, enabling you to have an attitude and heart of submission to God. If you can practice and gain these words I’ve spoken and these sermons I’ve given, then these words can sufficiently enable you to cast off your corrupt dispositions and become people who fear God and shun evil. God’s incarnate flesh lives in normal humanity and in real life, and although this way of living and form of existence only allow for limited contact with people, the various principles that He follows for how to treat people while interacting with a limited number of people do not contradict or conflict with the principles of self-conduct that God teaches man, but are compatible with them. Therefore, when it comes to the revelations of normal humanity or the revelations of corrupt dispositions of all kinds of people, regardless of whether they are an affront to or an insolence toward Me personally, and regardless of whether they suit My own personality, preferences, or feelings at the time, I can treat everyone correctly. If you always doubt Me, guard against Me, and scheme against Me, or always think I am scheming against you, I can still treat you correctly. No matter what kind of corrupt dispositions you reveal, whether you lie, doubt Me, speculate about Me, guard against Me and always want to avoid Me, or scheme against Me in your heart, I can treat you correctly. I will absolutely not use your methods to take revenge on you—I will not go an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Even if I know what you are thinking, and know how you want to scheme against Me and treat Me, and even if I see that you give Me very unfriendly looks, I can still treat you correctly. Rest assured, I will absolutely not take revenge on you. You might feel that, by not taking revenge on you, I am actually looking for an opportunity to exploit you, and I am scheming against you. You are wrong to think so; you are speculating about Me. I have already told you My principles for how I treat people. Do you understand Me now? (Yes.) So, am I very easy to get along with? Do people find Me easy to deal with? (God treats us with sincerity, so we should be open and honest with God.) This principle is right. But if you cannot be open and honest, tell Me, will I prune you and expose any unsavory things you did in the past? (No.) I will have a bad impression of you in My heart, thinking to Myself that this person is very calculating, speaks haltingly, as if every word has to be squeezed out, and is not straightforward with people. But even if I have a bad impression of you in My heart, I will not go after you. If most people report that you are doing your duty passably well in God’s house, but your disposition is a bit deceitful, you are not straightforward with Me, and you always show off and flaunt yourself in front of Me, I will still be able to treat you correctly and give you opportunities to change over time. I will absolutely not see what corrupt dispositions you reveal and then say, “I can’t tolerate the slightest fault. I can see right through whatever corrupt dispositions you have at a glance. If you do not believe Me, I will expose what you are thinking in your heart, and you can see if I am right.” I do not do these things. I correctly treat the various manifestations of people’s corrupt dispositions—including those revealed in their speech, their behavior, and in their thoughts and views. If you are someone who pursues the truth and loves positive things, you will gradually change these corrupt dispositions and states of yours according to the truth principles. If you are not someone who pursues the truth, it would be useless to even forcibly water you; you will not change. No matter how polite and courteous you are to Me in My presence, it is of no use—it is no substitute for you practicing the truth or submitting to the truth. Regardless of whether you are polite or impolite to My face, I will treat you correctly. In the past, there were some people who, because of their small stature and lack of understanding of the truth, revealed many corrupt dispositions when they interacted and communicated with Me, and they also exhibited much rebelliousness and resistance. But afterward, they felt remorse and turned themselves around, and a few years later, they understood some truths and changed. By chance, God’s house promoted them again. When I heard they had been promoted, I was quite happy in My heart. You see, I do not hold grudges, do I? (You do not.) I can still treat them correctly. I do not say, “Before, you were disrespectful to Me, you did not listen to anything I said, and you did so many things that hurt My feelings. Now you have been promoted again. I have to let you know that I know all those things you did before; don’t think I have forgotten them.” I do not do these things. Instead, I comfort them, saying, “Pursue earnestly. Do not have any mental baggage.” When people have small stature and do not understand the truth, they will all reveal rebelliousness, because people live under the control of corrupt dispositions, and those who do not have the truth holding power in their hearts cannot take charge of themselves, saying and doing things despite themselves. This is what people who live by corrupt dispositions are like. Therefore, do not have any mental baggage in your pursuit of the truth. I will absolutely not view any person, or any race of people, through a tinted lens. I do not look at your level of education, or your past. I only look at your humanity essence and your pursuit, as well as your attitude toward the truth, your attitude toward God, and your attitude toward your duty. If you were once perfunctory in doing your duty, and caused some losses to God’s house or even committed evil deeds that caused disruptions and disturbances while doing your duty, although those things are vivid in My mind and imprinted in My memory, I will not be influenced or misguided by those things in how I view you. I will take a comprehensive view of you; I will view you according to the truth principles, looking at how you do your duty and treat your duty now, and whether you are still perfunctory as you once were. In the past you could not safeguard the interests of God’s house, acting overly cautious and trying to be a people pleaser. Have you turned yourself around and changed now? Can you put some truths into practice according to the truth principles? You used to always covet fleshly comfort; can you endure hardship now? Have you been expending yourself sincerely? Can you seek the truth in the course of doing your duty? Do you have a bit of loyalty and sincerity? Have you made progress and changed compared to before? These are the things I look at. If you were always perfunctory, indulged in comfort, and did not safeguard the interests of God’s house in the past, and you are still like this now, then I will not have any favorable feelings toward you in My heart. If you were like that in the past, then although I had a bad impression of you, now that you have changed, I am quite happy. And I’ll even comfort you, saying, “Pursue like this from now on. In the past, your stature was too small, you were young and immature, and you just ran amok doing bad things; these are all lessons for you. You should pursue the truth to resolve your perfunctoriness and your evil deeds, and then you will have truly changed.” I will comfort and encourage you. If it were those evil people, seeing that you have changed, they would be jealous of you and hate you. They would not be polite to you, saying, “I must expose the unsavory things you did in the past and show people how hideous you were before. Don’t assume I don’t know about all this!” You see, corrupt humans just like to act smart, play petty tricks, make their presence felt, expose people’s shortcomings, and dig up people’s unsavory pasts. I truly never do such things. I never say such things to people. I simply try to encourage and soothe them, so that they feel peace in their hearts and feel that pursuing the truth is good. When I see that they’ve changed a bit, I must encourage them, letting them know they have made progress, and giving them some motivation and confidence. Tell Me, in treating people this way, am I acting within principles? (Yes.) Do I act out of naturalness or out of impetuousness? (No.) Some people say, “Is it that You have a bad memory? Maybe You don’t care about these things? Or You’re naturally broad-minded?” Tell Me, does this have anything to do with personality, being broad-minded, or memory? (No.) Even if a person is naturally broad-minded and has a fine personality, if they live under the control of corrupt dispositions, they still cannot treat people according to principles or give people opportunities to embark on the right path; they could not achieve this. At most, corrupt humans will say, “I will not expose your shortcomings; otherwise people would laugh at me.” They do this for the sake of pride and due to the pressure of public opinion in the world, worrying that conducting themselves that way would make them look petty and lacking in magnanimity. It’s only to safeguard their own pride that they refrain from exposing people’s shortcomings, but can they point out some right paths for people? (No.) For the majority of people, it’s already quite good if they can refrain from taking revenge—asking them to help other people or wish them well is beyond them. At most, they feel, “Whether you do well or not has nothing to do with me.” Some people proclaim, “I am a modest person of virtue; I cannot take revenge on people,” but in their hearts they think, “Would that things go poorly for you. If you do well, I’ll feel uncomfortable inside. I’ll be happy when the day finally comes that you die!” Their words are full of benevolence, righteousness, and morality, but their hearts are sinister and vicious. They say nothing but nice-sounding things, while their hearts are more malicious than anyone’s. This is called having a tongue of honey and a heart of gall; it’s called being a hypocrite. You see, can corrupt humans manage to treat other people based on the truth principles? Corrupt humans think one thing and do another. Outwardly, to make themselves look respectable, refined, and noble, they say some nice-sounding things, but they do not think that way in their hearts, and secretly do things to trip others up. Therefore, when it comes to the way nonbelievers treat people, even if they don’t take revenge on you, they won’t wish well for you either. The way they treat people does not accord with the truth principles. When they see you doing well, they feel uncomfortable and jealous in their hearts; when they see you doing poorly, if they get the chance, they will rub salt in your wounds or even kick you a few times, and only then will they feel their hatred eased. It’s hard enough for them to refrain from taking revenge—it’s even more difficult for them to manage being principled toward people; they do not possess such humanity.

God incarnate became an ordinary person. In His daily life, the way He treats people is at the very least within the bounds of conscience and reason; it will absolutely not fall below this standard, and can only be above it. It goes without saying that God incarnate treats people according to the truth principles. Because He has the divine essence, He is even more capable of treating you according to the truth principles, and will absolutely not go after you. It’s just like how God’s house treats all kinds of people—dismissing leaders and workers at all levels, adjusting people’s duty assignments or dismissing them, cleansing away all kinds of people, and so on, are all carried out according to principles, not decided based on anyone’s preferences; these decisions are agreed upon by the majority of people in the church. So the truth absolutely holds power in God’s house; this is true. Even people with normal humanity can do things in a way that conforms to the standard of conscience possessed by normal people, and when truth principles are involved, they can still abide by the standards of the conscience and reason of normal people—how much more so is this true for the normal humanity worn by God incarnate. Regarding matters involving the church’s work, the duties you do, and your corrupt dispositions, He is all the more able to treat you according to principles. When it comes to how I, this ordinary and normal person, interact and come into contact with you, no matter how I fellowship the truth or what kind of problems I handle, tell Me, is this normal humanity of Mine worthy of your trust? (Yes.) Do you need to build a line of defense to guard against Me? (No.) So let Me tell you this: When speaking and interacting with Me, you just need to be open and honest. No matter how much I know about you or what it is I know about you, I will treat you according to principles. No matter what attitude you have toward Me, I will still treat you according to principles. You can rest assured; there is no need to guard against Me. Leaving aside My divine essence and divine life, just the humanity essence possessed by this normal and practical side of Me, this ordinary person, is something you can trust. No matter what it is we’re discussing, you should not have a complicated mentality. You just need to be simple and open. If you’re facing any difficulties, just talk about them directly. There’s no need to guard against Me like you were guarding against a stranger. If you always guard against Me, then there’s one thing I’m going to tell you: You are too stupid, and you are blind! Do you not know what work I do? The more you guard against Me, the less able you will be to gain the truth in the end. Is this not holding yourself back and ruining yourself? If you always doubt and guard against God’s incarnate flesh, and no matter how He speaks and fellowships the truth, you always maintain an attitude of scrutiny, not accepting what He says even if you do acknowledge that it is the truth, then not only will the Holy Spirit not enlighten or bless you, but on the contrary God will hide His face from you and ignore you. If you do not believe Me, just try it and see if this is the case. If you have no principles when interacting with Me, this ordinary person with normal humanity, you do not know how to interact with Me, and you do not know how to treat Me according to the principles God teaches you, then wouldn’t you treat the God in heaven the same way? (Yes.) If you interact with the God in heaven in the same way, what will the consequences be? (We will be condemned and struck down.) You are wrong again. God does not arbitrarily strike people down. However, you will never have the opportunity to see God’s true form, nor will you ever be qualified to; this is a fact. You will never be qualified to see God’s true form—you will not even be able to see God’s back. What does this mean? It means that God will never acknowledge you as His created being. What did it mean that Job saw Jehovah’s back? What did it mean that Abraham heard God’s own voice speaking to him? (God approved of them.) It meant that they were qualified to converse with God, to converse with the God in heaven, with His true form, with the Spirit of God. God recognized and accepted them as created beings. God acknowledged them as created beings. God gained them. The significance of this is so profound! God was willing to see them and willing to converse with them. God was willing to let them hear the sound of His voice speaking from heaven. God was willing to let them see His spiritual body, to manifest it to them. What a great blessing this is for human beings! This is a tremendous honor! Do you seek this? You might not dare to seek it, but you must have this wish. So how should you practice to realize this wish? First, start your practice with the way you treat the incarnate God, this ordinary and normal person. How should you interact with Him and treat Him? When you see Him in His tangible form, if you can interact with Him normally, accept everything about Him, be open and honest with Him, and have no barriers or difficulties in interacting and associating with Him, then before God—at least in My eyes—I will be willing to interact with you; I will not feel repulsed by you. Then you might have the opportunity and be qualified to hear God’s voice, to hear God’s own voice speaking from heaven, and to see God’s figure. Of course, right now you are still far from this goal; I am just giving you a path. If you cannot even pass this hurdle that I, this ordinary person, present, yet you want to see the God in heaven, there’s one thing I’ve got to tell you: Fat chance! That is truly wishful thinking!

Alright, let’s end our fellowship here for today. Goodbye!

September 14, 2024