I

For the sake of your fates, you ought to achieve being recognized by God. Since you acknowledge that you are members of the house of God, you ought then to set God's mind at rest in all respects and satisfy Him in all things—which is to say, you must act with principle and in accord with the truth. If you cannot achieve this, then you shall be spurned by God and you shall be rejected with disdain by everyone. Once you have fallen into such a predicament, you cannot then be counted among the members of God's house, which is precisely what's meant by not being recognized by God.

II

Every person, in the course of living their life of faith in God, has done things that resist and deceive God. Some things need not be recorded as demerits, but some are unforgivable, for there are many deeds that violate the administrative decrees—deeds which offend the disposition of God. I exhort you to make a real effort to understand the content of the administrative decrees, and to endeavor to know God's disposition. Otherwise, you'll find it difficult to keep your lips sealed, your tongues will wag too freely, and you'll spout high-sounding talk, unwittingly offending God's disposition and falling into the darkness, losing the presence of the Holy Spirit and the light.

III

Because you're unprincipled in your actions, doing and saying that which you should not, you shall receive the retribution you deserve. You should know though you're unprincipled in word and deed, God is highly principled in both. The reason you receive retribution is because you have offended God, not a person. If, in your life, you commit many offenses against God's disposition, then you are bound to become a child of hell. If you're an honest person and someone who acts according to principle, then you can be a confidant of God. If in your actions you do not offend God's disposition, and seek the desires of God, and if you have a God-fearing heart, then your faith is up to the standard.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Three Admonitions