Eastern Lightning | On How to Achieve Results in Reading God’s Word

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7 On How to Achieve Results in Reading God’s Word

Lu Ming  Nanyang City, Henan Province

When God is incarnated in the end time, he does the work of the word, and through the word, he conquers man, perfects man, and gains man. If we want to be saved and gained by God, the most fundamental thing is to read God’s word. However, now most brothers and sisters are still unable to achieve the due results in reading God’s word, so they are slow in life entering in. Although they have believed in God for several years, they have not understood much truth, even less gained the transformation of their life disposition. Then, how can we achieve results in reading God’s word?

The Church of Almighty God | The Moment of Change

        Su Mingyue is a preacher of a house church in mainland China. Over the years, she has been a devout servant of the Lord who insists on doing preaching work for the Lord and bearing the burden of work for the church. She goes by Paul's word in the Bible, feeling that merely believing in the Lord is enough to be called righteous and be saved by grace. Although man still sins constantly, his sins have been forgiven by the Lord, his image will be changed instantly to become holy and he will be raised into the kingdom of heaven when the Lord arrives. However, in recent years, the church has become increasingly desolate, the believers have been negative and weak in general, their faith and love have cooled.

The Church of Almighty God | Only by Fearing God Can Evil Be Shunned

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A Hymn of God's Words
 Only by Fearing God Can Evil Be Shunned

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God's disposition is majestic and wrathful. He's not a lamb to be slaughtered by anyone. He is not a puppet, played by anyone as they like. Nor is He air, ordered around by people. If you really believe in God's existence, you should have a heart that fears God. You should know that God's essence is something that cannot be offended. Offense may be caused by a word or thought, a doctrine or theory, or some vile activity.

Eastern Lightning | We Should Know the Significance of God’s Raising Up the Man Used by the Holy Spirit

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6 We Should Know the Significance of God’s Raising Up the Man Used by the Holy Spirit

He Yi  Zhuanghe City, Liaoning Province

In “Ten Administrative Decrees God’s Chosen People Must Keep” it is stipulated: “In the work or the church affairs, apart from obeying God, you should take orders from the man used by the Holy Spirit in everything and should not disobey any of them but should obey them absolutely. Do not analyze whether they are right or wrong. Whether they are right or wrong has nothing to do with you. You should just obey them absolutely.”

Eastern Lightning | We Should Truly Accept the Chastisement and Judgment of God’s word

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5 We Should Truly Accept the Chastisement and Judgment of God’s word

Danchun  Luoyang City, Henan Province

We all know that what God does in the end time is the work of chastising and judging by the word, and that only if one truly accepts the chastisement and judgment of God’s word can he gain the transformation of his disposition and be saved by God. Then, what does it mean to truly accept the chastisement and judgment of God’s word? Some people think: Now I have no notions about God’s word. Whatever God’s word says is right, and I have no opinions about it; whatever God says I acknowledge.

The Church of Almighty God | Red Re-Education at Home

       Zheng Yi is a Christian. When he heard about the CCP government's brutal persecution of Eastern Lightning and the arrest of Christians during his work in the United States, he pondered, "The CCP is an atheist party, a satanic regime that resists God most. Under the frenzied persecution and suppression by the CCP, Eastern Lightning has still become increasingly prosperous. It most likely is the true way." So he examined Eastern Lightning on the website of The Church of Almighty God. He discovered that Almighty God's word is the truth and the voice of God. He determined that Almighty God is the return of the Lord Jesus.

Eastern Lightning | It Is Most Crucial to Pursue the Truth While Believing in God

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4 It Is Most Crucial to Pursue the Truth While Believing in God

Kang Rong  Anqing City, Anhui Province

Now, brothers and sisters generally have such states: Those who lead the church only care to go around the church without being idle; those who preach the gospel only pay attention to gaining people; those who do general affairs only busy themselves with doing them properly; those who do hosting only think of hosting the brothers and sisters properly; those who cannot perform duties just keep attending meetings regularly without leaving God’s family.

The Church of Almighty God | Follow God Along the Rough Path

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The Hymn of Life Experience
 Follow God Along the Rough Path
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You spend yourself for God, I devote myself to Him, forsaken by family, slandered by the world. The path to follow God is not easy at all. I put all my heart and soul into expanding the kingdom of God. I have seen the turning of the seasons. I welcome the joy and sorrow ahead. To satisfy God's requirements, I obey His arrangements. I will suffer all my life. I will satisfy God's heart! I will suffer all my life. I will satisfy God's heart!

Eastern Lightning | One Cannot Step Onto Peter’s Path Only by Willing to Take It

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3 One Cannot Step Onto Peter’s Path Only by Willing to Take It

Yang Jing  Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

After Almighty God revealed to men the outcomes of Peter and Paul, a lot of people thought in their heart: I must take the way of Peter and never take the way of Paul. And they believed that as long as they were willing in their heart to take the way of Peter they could step onto it. Therefore, many of them took the good aspect of what they did as the sign of their having stepped onto the way of Peter.

The Church of Almighty God | I Will Not Rest Until I Gain God

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The Hymn of God's Word
I Will Not Rest Until I Gain God

"Out of my own willingness I follow God. I don't care whether He wants me or not. I seek to love Him, steadfastly follow Him. I will gain Him, offering my life to Him." (Woo oh … Woo oh … Woo oh …)

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     "May the will of God be accomplished. May my heart be fully offered up to God. No matter what God does or what He plans for me, I'll keep on following, seeking to gain Him. Out of my own willingness I follow God. I don't care whether He wants me or not. I seek to love Him, steadfastly follow Him. I will gain Him, offering my life to Him." (Woo oh … Woo oh … Woo oh …)

Eastern Lightning | Why We Should Pay Attention to Knowing Ourselves

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2 Why We Should Pay Attention to Knowing Ourselves

Gan’en  Luoyang City, Henan Province

In the course of our believing in God, many of us brothers and sisters pay attention only to working and performing duties, and very few of us pay attention to knowing ourselves. Many times when we fellowship in a meeting about the topic concerning knowing ourselves, some brothers and sisters have questions and resistance in their heart: Since we believe in God, we just believe in God. If I am assigned to do hosting, I will do hosting; if I am assigned to preach the gospel, I will preach the gospel.

The Church of Almighty God | How to Pursue to Be an Honest Person

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1 How to Pursue to Be an Honest Person

Miaoxiao Anyang City, Henan Province

In the past, when reading in God’s word that we were required to be an honest person, many brothers and sisters thought that it was not hard to be an honest person and that as long as one told the truth without cheating others in everything, he was an honest person. Most people did not meditate or seek whether they had lived up to the standards of an honest person, and even less did they pay attention to entering into being an honest person.

Eastern Lightning | The True Story Behind Work in the Age of Redemption

       

Almighty God says, "Jesus represents all the work of the Age of Grace; He was incarnated and crucified, and inaugurated the Age of Grace. He was crucified in order to complete the redemptive work, to end the Age of Law and begin the Age of Grace … The work of Jesus represents only the Age of Grace; it does not represent the Age of Law and is no substitute for the work of the last days. This is the essence of Jesus’ work in the Age of Grace, the second age of mankind—the Age of Redemption."

Eastern Lightning | The Incarnate God Has Greater Concern for His Followers

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A Hymn of God's Words
The Incarnate God Has Greater Concern for His Followers

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After God became flesh, living life among mankind, He saw man's depravity, the situation of their life. God in the flesh deeply felt man's helplessness, how pitiful they are; He felt their sadness. God gained more compassion for the human condition, and more concern for His followers from His instincts in the flesh.

The Church of Almighty God | All People Live in God’s Light

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Now in exultation, God’s holiness and righteousness

thrive through the universe, exalting among all mankind.

Cities of heaven laugh. The kingdoms of earth dance.

Who doesn’t jubilate? Who doesn’t shed tears?

Men do not quarrel nor come to blows.

They do not disgrace God’s name,

living in the light of God, being in peace with each other.

Eastern Lightning | When You Behold the Spiritual Body of Jesus Will Be When God Has Made Anew Heaven and Earth

        Almighty God says, "Do you wish to know the root of why the Pharisees opposed Jesus? Do you wish to know the substance of the Pharisees? They were full of fantasies about the Messiah. What’s more, they believed only that the Messiah would come, yet did not seek the truth of life. And so, even today they still await the Messiah, for they have no knowledge of the way of life, and do not know what the way of truth is. How, say you, could such foolish, stubborn and ignorant people gain God’s blessing? How could they behold the Messiah?

The Church of Almighty God | When You Open Your Heart to God

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When You Open Your Heart to God

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When you do not understand God and do not know His nature, your hearts can never truly open, open up to God. Once you understand your God, you will understand what's in His heart, and savor what lies in Him with all your faith and heed. When you savor what is in God's heart, bit by bit, day by day, when you savor what is in God's heart, your heart will open up to Him.

Eastern Lightning | Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination

      Almighty God says, "Once the work of conquest has been completed, man will be brought into a beautiful world. This life will, of course, still be on earth, but it will be totally unlike man’s life today. It is the life that mankind will have after the whole of mankind has been conquered, it will be a new beginning for man on earth, and for mankind to have such a life will be proof that mankind has entered a new and beautiful realm.

The Church of Almighty God | God’s Work and Man’s Practice

        Almighty God says, "In every instance of God’s work are the visions that should be known by man, visions that are followed by God’s fitting requirements of man. Without these visions as the foundation, man would be simply incapable of practice, nor would man be able to follow God unwaveringly. If man does not know God or understand God’s will, then all that man does is in vain, and incapable of being approved by God.

A Hymn of God's Words | He Who Is God's Incarnation Shall Hold the Expression of God

A Hymn of God's Words 

He Who Is God's Incarnation Shall Hold the Expression of God

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 God's incarnation shall embody God's substance and expression. And when He's made flesh He'll bring forth the work He's been given to express what He is, bring truth to all men, give them life and show them the way. Any flesh that doesn't embed His substance surely is not God incarnate.

The Church of Almighty God | God's Name Has Changed

      Do you know the origin of God's name? Why did God's name change from "Jehovah" to "Jesus"? What does the "new name" in the prophecies of Revelation mean? This short video will show you the answers.

The Church of Almighty God | Honor and Dishonor

From "Jehovah" to "Jesus," and from "Jesus" to "Almighty God," why does God take different names in different ages? What's the significance of God's names? This film clip will show you the answer.

A Hymn of God's Words | Not Knowing Christ's Divine Substance Is the Root of Man's Resistance to God

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Not Knowing Christ's Divine Substance Is the Root of Man's Resistance to God

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The divinity of Christ is above all mankind. He's the highest authority among all created beings. This is His divinity, disposition and being. These are what determine the identity of Him. Normal is His humanity, in different roles He speaks, and utterly He obeys God, yet He is still God, there's no doubt.

The Church of Almighty God | What Do You Know of Faith?

What Do You Know of Faith?

In man exists only the uncertain word of faith, yet man knows not what constitutes faith, much less why he has faith. Man understands too little and man himself is too lacking; he merely has faith in Me mindlessly and ignorantly. Though he knows not what faith is nor why he has faith in Me, he continues to do so obsessively.

The Church of Almighty God | God Is the Lord of All Creation

God Is the Lord of All Creation

One stage of the work of the two previous ages took place in Israel; another took place in Judea. Generally speaking, neither stage of this work left Israel; they were the stages of work carried out among the initial chosen people. Thus, in the view of the Israelites, Jehovah God is only the God of the Israelites. Because of Jesus’ work in Judea, and because of His completion of the work of the crucifixion, from the perspective of the Jews, Jesus is the Redeemer of the Jewish people.

A Hymn of God's Words | Corrupted Mankind Needs the Work of God Incarnate

A Hymn of God's Words 

 Corrupted Mankind Needs the Work of God Incarnate

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God became flesh 'cause the object of His work is not the spirit of Satan, nor anything not, not of flesh, but man. Man's flesh was corrupted by Satan and so became the object of God's work. The place of God's salvation is man, is man. Man is a mortal being, only flesh and blood, and God alone can save him. God must take on man's flesh, and all that man is, in order to do His work, to achieve the best result. God must take on flesh, because man is flesh, who cannot overcome sin. God must take on flesh, because man is flesh, who cannot free himself from the bondage of the flesh.

Nine International NGOs Issued a Joint Statement Condemning the CCP’s Persecution of The Church of Almighty God

Since it took power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has been carrying out atheistic education throughout the country. Christianity has been designated as a tool of imperial “cultural invasion,” with Western missionaries expelled and Chinese preachers subjected to “thought reform.” All religions, including Christianity, have been regarded as “feudal superstition” and suffered severe suppression and banning. Over the past more than sixty years, The Chinese Communist Party has never ceased its persecution of religious beliefs; instead, it has step by step “legitimized” its crackdown and persecution of Christianity through legislation, and The Church of Almighty God suffered the most serious suppression. Since The Church of Almighty God was established in 1991, the CCP government has held numerous emergency meetings and drawn up and issued many secret documents. It has made use of television, radio, newspaper, and internet media to start libelous rumors and false accusations; it has defamed The Church of Almighty God, and has manufactured public opinion in order to confuse and deceive the populace; and it has conducted nationwide arrests of The Christians of The Church of Almighty God.

The Church of Almighty God | FAITH IN GOD

Yu Congguang preaches the gospel for the Church of Almighty God. While preaching the gospel, he was pursued by the Chinese Communist government. He fled to the mountains, where he received help from Zheng Xun, a co-worker of the local house church. When they first met each other, they felt like they had already known each other for a long time. Zheng Xun took Yu Congguang to the thatched shack where he and his co-workers gathered.

The Church of Almighty God | Who IS MY Lord

Liu Zhizhong is a pastor at a local house church in China. He's been a believer for over 30 years, and has constantly maintained that "The Holy Bible is inspired by God," "The Holy Bible represents God, believing in God is believing in the Bible, believing in the Bible is believing in God." In his heart, the Bible is paramount.

The Church of Almighty God | My Dream of the Heavenly Kingdom

Song Ruiming is a pastor of a church in South Korea. As a devout follower of the Lord for many years, he has been keenly pursuing his faith and working for the Lord while waiting to be raised to the heavenly kingdom when the Lord returns. In recent years, he has been feeling very confused and powerless when seeing that the church doesn't have the Holy Spirit's work and become increasingly desolate. That was when he heard about a sect by the name of the Eastern Lightning emerging in China that witnesses the return of the Lord Jesus—Almighty God, who is doing the judgment work in the last days by expressing the truth.

The Church of Almighty God | Awakening From the Dream

Like hundreds of millions of followers of the Lord Jesus, Yu Fan focused on studying the Holy Bible, cast everything aside to pay the price of suffering for the Lord, and sought to serve the Lord with enthusiasm. She thought that by seeking the Lord this way, when the Lord returns she would definitely be raptured into the heavenly kingdom.