845 Only Those Perfected by God Can Truly Love Him
Verse 1
Man lives under the shroud of Satan,
beneath the influence of darkness,
unable to escape the bondage
of the influence of Satan.
Man’s disposition, processed by Satan,
has become ever more corrupt.
He has always lived this way;
he’s incapable of loving God.
Chorus
To truly love God, one must be directly perfected,
broken, pruned, chastened, refined by the Holy Spirit.
Verse 2
If man wishes to truly love God,
he must be stripped of his arrogance,
stripped of conceit and self-righteousness.
All that is of Satan’s disposition.
If man is not stripped of these things,
then his love is an impure love;
then his love is satanic love
and can’t receive the approval of God.
Chorus
To truly love God, one must be directly perfected,
broken, pruned, chastened, refined by the Holy Spirit.
Bridge
If you say part of your disposition represents God,
that you can therefore truly love Him,
then you are arrogant, you are absurd.
Such people are the archangel!
Verse 3
The inborn nature of man
cannot directly represent God;
man must shed his innate nature
through the direct perfection of God.
Only by fulfilling God’s will
and undergoing His chastisement
and the work of the Holy Spirit
can what man lives out be approved by God.
Chorus
To truly love God, one must be directly perfected,
broken, pruned, chastened, refined by the Holy Spirit.
Adapted from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Corrupt Man Is Incapable of Representing God