I

The purpose of people understanding and practicing the truth is for them to live out the truth, to live out human likeness, and to turn the truths they understand and can practice into their own life. That is, they become the foundation and source of one’s actions, one’s living, self-conduct, and existence—they change the way one lives. What did people live by before? Whether they had faith or not, they lived by satanic dispositions, not by the words of God or the truth. Living by God’s words is the likeness a created being should have. In the eyes of God, such people are true created beings.

II

Faith in God is actually the process of attaining God’s salvation, as well as the process of changing from a human being corrupted by Satan to what is in God’s eyes a true created being. If someone continues to live by their satanic disposition and nature, in the eyes of God, are they up to standard as a created being? You claim to believe in God, you acknowledge God, you acknowledge God’s sovereignty and acknowledge that God gives you everything, but do you live out God’s words? Do you live in accordance with God’s requirements? Do you follow the way of God? Can a created being like you come before God? Can you live together with God? Do you have a God-fearing heart?

III

Are what you live out and the path you walk compatible with God? If not, then what is the meaning of your faith in God? Your faith in God is in form and word alone. You believe in and acknowledge the name of God, and you acknowledge that God is your Creator and Sovereign, but in essence you have not accepted God’s sovereignty or God’s orchestrations, and you cannot be wholly compatible with God. That is, the meaning of your faith in God has not been fully realized. Although you believe in God, you have not cast off your corruption and attained salvation, and you have not entered into the truth reality that you should have entered into in your faith in God. This is truly your mistake. Looking at it this way, faith in God is not a simple thing.

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Part Three