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Brothers and sisters, God is always new and never old.
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He is an all-inclusive God.
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No single name of God can represent all of God.
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So as the ages pass, God changes His name.
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What? God's name cannot represent all of God?
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Jehovah is the perfect representation of all of God.
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And Jesus is an even more perfect expression of God.
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These are the facts acknowledged by Christianity for millennia.
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This is the foundation of our belief, and no one can deny it! (Right!)
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The names Jehovah and Jesus both can represent God in His entirety.
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No one can deny that.
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Jesus Christ is the proof that man can be saved through faith in God.
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If you deny God's name, then what right do you have to preach?
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Sister Li, Sister Wang, just wait a moment—
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Be quiet, He Ping! You've betrayed the Lord.
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We don't want to listen to you anymore!
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Sister Li, calm down. Please let them finish speaking first.
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Yes! Calm yourself! Sister, let's hear some more.
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Brothers and sisters,
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whether God's names can represent God in His entirety
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cannot be decided by man.
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Let us look at what Almighty God says about it.
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Please turn to page 925.
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Oh, so that's it.
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There are a lot of mysteries to the changes in God's name!
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Yes, that passage speaks the truth!
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No one would dare say this except God Himself!
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Right. The disposition of our God is so rich.
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No single name can fully represent Him.
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Yes, that's right.
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God's disposition is so rich,
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and one name indeed can't fully represent God.
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God has so much wisdom in His words and deeds.
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These words are so stern.
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I've never heard anyone say these things before.
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Brothers and sisters, God is a wise and almighty Ruler.
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He is so great, bountiful and infinite.
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No single name could possibly represent God in all His entirety.
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In each age,
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God only does a part of His work and expresses part of His disposition.
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God has not expressed all that He has and all that He is.
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So, for each stage of God's work,
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He must use a specific name with age significance,
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which represents the work of that age and the disposition He expresses.
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This is the principle of God's work
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and the primary reason God changes His name.
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Since you say God's name in each age doesn't represent God in His entirety,
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then can you tell me what does God's name in each age mean?
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Sister Wang, the question you asked is important.
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It's very helpful for us to understand God.
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Today Almighty God has given us the answer to this question.
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Everybody, please turn to page 1202.
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Those words are like a bright light!
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Is that really the word of God?
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Yes, I think so!
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Yeah!
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Look, we've never seen anything in the Bible
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like God's six-thousand-year management plan.
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The Bible tells us that God's names are Jehovah and Jesus.
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That passage makes it clear that
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there are mysteries hidden in God's name.
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I've been reading the Bible for years, and I've searched for God's name,
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but I never understood the mysteries of God's name.
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Now, they're here saying all this.
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Lord, what is the truth of it?
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Brothers and sisters, the words of Almighty God
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explain to us the meaning of God's names that He takes in each age.
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In the Age of Law, God's name was Jehovah.
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This name represents the disposition God expressed to the people of that age,
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the disposition of majesty, wrath, curse and mercy.
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At that time, in the name of Jehovah,
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God started His work in the Age of Law.
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He issued laws and commandments,
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and formally led His new-born mankind to live on earth.
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He demanded they strictly obey the law
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and learn how to worship and magnify Him.
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God's blessing and grace would lie upon whoever followed the law of Jehovah.
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Those who broke the law would be stoned to death or burned by heavenly fire.
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So the Israelites under the law
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kept it faithfully and honored Jehovah's name as sacred,
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and lived thousands of years under Jehovah's guidance
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till the end of the Age of Law.
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By the end of the Age of Law,
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people had become increasingly corrupt and sinful
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and were unable to obey the law.
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Everyone was in constant danger of punishment for breaking it.
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Therefore, with the name of Jesus, God began a new stage of work of redemption.
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He ended the Age of Law and initiated the Age of Grace,
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and He expressed the disposition of love and mercy.
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He laid His boundless grace upon man,
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and finally was crucified to redeem man from sin.
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After that, man began to pray in Jesus' name, to worship Jesus' name as sacred,
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and to enjoy the forgiveness of God and His boundless grace.
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The name of Jesus
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exists to allow the people of the Age of Grace to be reborn and saved.
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Its meaning is the sin offering full of love and mercy that redeems people.
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The name Jesus represents God's redemptive work,
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and also God's disposition of love and mercy.
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Brothers and sisters,
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in the previous two stages of God's work, we can see that
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the name God takes in each age holds representative significance.
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Each represents the work and the disposition which God expresses in that age.
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In the Age of Grace,
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if the Lord had been called Jehovah when He came, rather than Jesus,
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then God's work would have been stopped in the Age of Law.
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And corrupt mankind would never have gained God's redemption.
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In the end, they would've been condemned and punished for breaking God's law.
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When God comes in the last days,
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if He still had the name Jesus, then corrupt mankind
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would only receive salvation and forgiveness for their sins.
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They would never achieve holiness, and enter God's kingdom.
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This is because the sins of men have been forgiven through Jesus' redemption,
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but their sinful nature still remains.
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They still often sin and have not been fully gained by God.
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Therefore, in order to save men out of sin completely,
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God is now doing a new work of completely purifying and saving men
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based on Jesus' work.
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And so God's name must change.