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  • Pastors and elders are ordained by the Lord, that's true. (Amen!)

  • Obeying pastors and elders is obeying the Lord. (Amen!)

  • But do they have confirmation of the Holy Spirit's work?

  • Can they give testimony to experiencing the Lord's words?

  • They can't. They cannot.

  • Can they show us the path of entering into God's words?

  • He's right, there's no path.

  • Wait a minute. You're wrong.

  • In the Bible, Paul clearly said,

  • Amen.

  • That proves that pastors and elders are appointed by the Holy Spirit.

  • Yeah. Yes.

  • And doesn't that represent being appointed by God? (Yes!)

  • God appointed them as overseers to the flock.

  • There's no way that's wrong. (Yes!)

  • Isn't that right? That's how it is!

  • Yes, indeed. It's right.

  • That's exactly right.

  • Right.

  • Brother Dou, I've been thinking these past few days

  • while we've talked about this on how we used to blindly interpret the Bible,

  • misuse verses, and twist its words.

  • That's right. Yes.

  • Most of what we say is based on our own notions and imaginations,

  • our own absurd ideas.

  • This violates the Lord's words.

  • We don't understand the truth. We have been foolish.

  • Yes, we have been. Completely.

  • I think we should treat each word of the Bible correctly from now on.

  • The words of the Bible are against certain backgrounds.

  • Right.

  • We can't just take any verse and use it applying it however we see fit.

  • Right! That's right.

  • If we use the verse

  • "and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers"

  • to refer to all pastors and elders,

  • isn't that ridiculous?

  • Yes, it is. Absurd. Completely. Yeah.

  • We must understand.

  • Who said

  • "and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers"?

  • Just who were these words talking about?

  • If you can't answer that and just apply it however you want,

  • aren't you removing the context? (Yeah!)

  • Isn't it distorting the Bible?

  • Yeah, they are distorting it!

  • Oh, yes, that's what they are doing.

  • Can Paul's words show what the Lord Jesus intended? (No.)

  • Can Paul represent the Lord Jesus?

  • No. He can't.

  • Only God's words are the truth. Only God's words can be used as proof!

  • Amen!

  • As for Paul, he is not Christ. He's just a person. (Amen!)

  • His words are not truth.

  • Even if he was enlightened by the Holy Spirit,

  • we can only say his words conform with truth. (Yes. Amen.)

  • We cannot treat the words of Paul as the truth and use them as proof.

  • Absolutely! Amen! Yes. She's right.

  • Sister Fu is right. Paul's words do not represent the Lord's will. (Yeah.)

  • Brother Dou,

  • how can you use Paul's words

  • as proof that all pastors and elders are appointed by the Holy Spirit?

  • You say that they are appointed by the Holy Spirit,

  • but do they have confirmation of the Holy Spirit's work?

  • Can they give testimony to experiencing the Lord's words?

  • They can't. They cannot.

  • Can they show us the path of entering into God's words?

  • He's right, there's no path.

  • And can they bring true supply into our lives? (They can't.)

  • What have we gained from listening to pastors and elders

  • after all of these years?

  • Can't you see the truth?

  • These preachers from the Church of Almighty God have enlightened us today.

  • How can you still use Paul's words

  • to say pastors and elders are appointed by God? (That's right.)

  • Don't you understand or is this false confusion? (Right.)

  • They're just pretending to be confused.

  • Yeah. I agree.

  • I really don't understand.

  • Yeah, it's so obvious. Don't they understand?

  • They use these methods to deceive us.

  • Yeah, we can't listen to them anymore. (Yes.)

  • Brothers and sisters, let's communicate more on this issue please.

  • All right. Yes, let's. I agree.

  • Some people in religious circles often misuse the Bible to make up rules.

  • They claim the hypocritical Pharisees and pastors

  • are all appointed and used by the Lord.

  • Isn't this severely resisting and blasphemy to God?

  • Yes. She's right.

  • Doing that is so wrong.

  • Many people don't know how to distinguish.

  • They believe but don't magnify God and advocate gifts and status and power,

  • blindly believing in the pastors and elders. (Yes.)

  • They can't tell whether one has the reality of the truth

  • and the work of the Holy Spirit.

  • They just think if one is certified as a pastor and can explain the Bible,

  • that they are appointed by God, and that we have to obey them.

  • That's how we've been.

  • Some people even more absurdly

  • think that obeying pastors and elders is obeying God,

  • and resisting pastors and elders is resisting God.

  • If we go according to such ideas,

  • well then, remember the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees,

  • who knew the Bible well and often taught it to others, (Yes. Yeah.)

  • but resisted the Lord Jesus when He appeared to work back in the day,

  • and even eventually had Him crucified. (Yeah.)

  • I ask, were these people appointed and used by God?

  • No. Definitely not. No way.

  • If one followed the Jewish leaders and condemned the Lord Jesus,

  • then does that mean they were obeying God?

  • No, no way. It doesn't mean that.

  • It does not mean that.

  • Would you say that

  • those who rejected Jewish leaders and followed the Lord Jesus,

  • they were resisting and disobeying God?

  • They weren't. Certainly not.

  • The view that obeying pastors and elders is obeying God,

  • and resisting pastors and elders is resisting God,

  • it really is a ridiculous and harmful one. (Yes. That's true.)

  • It is absurd. (Yes.)

  • As believers of God, we should know:

  • if religious pastors and elders resist God,

  • and if their path opposes God and betrays the truth,

  • then we should stand on the side of God and expose them, reject them. (Amen!)

  • That is true obedience of God. (Amen!)

  • That is what it means to satisfy God's intentions. (Amen!)

  • We won't listen to them anymore. (Right.)

  • Well then, now when it comes to pastors and elders,

  • we should all understand the truth and God's intentions.

  • If pastors and elders really pursue the truth,

  • then they will surely have the work of the Holy Spirit, (Yeah! Yes.)

  • and lead us to practice God's words to fear God, shun evil. (Amen!)

  • Following and respecting people like that

  • is certainly in line with God's intentions. (Amen!)

  • Praise God. Thanks be to the Lord.

  • But if they don't love the truth,

  • if they only care about theology or Bible knowledge,

  • only to show off to have people obey them,

  • if they don't bear witness to God,

  • if they don't lead people to experience God's words,

  • then they are people who are condemned and cursed by God.

  • And it would be opposing God if we were to worship them to follow and obey them.

  • That's right. Right!

  • That would be against God's intentions. (Yeah! Yes.)

  • Everyone, isn't that right? (Yes.)

  • We should reject those who resist God.

  • We mustn't follow their evil ways.

  • Pastors and elders are all like that.

  • They hate the truth and resist God like the Pharisees.

  • Yeah. It's true. That's right. They are.

  • We should despise them and abandon them.

  • Indeed. If we continue to obey them,

  • we'll be on the side of Satan opposing God. (Amen.)

  • We must see through these things. (Yes, right.)

  • We can't listen to them anymore!

  • Right.

  • Everyone, most people in religious circles

  • are unable to see the pastors' and elders' essence of resisting God. (Yes!)

  • They believe that as long as pastors and elders explain the Bible,

  • and as long as everything they say conforms with the Bible,

  • then they should follow and obey.

  • That may sound reasonable.

  • But think about it, do pastors and elders really know the Bible?

  • Do they really know God's work?

  • Does having biblical knowledge mean they understand God?

  • No.

  • Can listening to them, explain the Bible

  • really guide people to know and obey God?

  • I don't think anyone in religious circles are able to answer this.

  • Yeah.

  • Let's think about this:

  • Back when the Pharisees appeared to others as if they understood the Bible,

  • well, they did not recognize the Lord Jesus when He appeared.

  • Instead, they relied on rules in the Bible to try and trap the Lord Jesus.

  • They resisted and condemned Him. (Right.)

  • Because the Lord Jesus expressed God's words,

  • they condemned the Lord Jesus, said He was blasphemous.

  • In the end, they even nailed the Lord Jesus to the cross.

  • What was the problem?

  • Were they not arrogant and unknowing of God?

  • Yes.

  • This story proves to us

  • that knowing the Bible and explaining the Bible

  • does not mean one understands the truth,

  • and does not mean he knows God and His work. (Yes. True. Exactly.)

  • Those who truly experience God's work pay attention to practicing God's words.

  • In God's words, they see all God's wondrous deeds,

  • understand the care and thought God has for mankind,

  • they see all the words expressed by God in His work

  • are really the truth that people should enter. (Yes. Yeah!)

  • They also understand why God expresses these truths, what His intentions are,

  • and what He seeks to achieve through His work on people.

  • Those they truly understand.

  • Yes. Yeah.

  • Such people truly understand God's work.

  • Only such people truly understand the Bible. (Amen!)

  • Only after today do I really understand. (Yes.)

  • People who truly understand the Bible

  • focus on communicating God's words,

  • God's own intentions, His requirements, His work and His disposition, (Yes.)

  • and can lead people into the truth, and can make them fear God and obey Him.

  • Amen.

  • What do pastors and elders preach instead? Answer that.

  • Bible facts and theology.

  • What is the consequence of teaching such things?

  • Consequence?

  • It only serves to make people more arrogant.

  • They feel superior with their biblical knowledge.

  • As a result, when God becomes flesh to express the truth,

  • they deny God, resist God, and oppose God!

  • Absolutely right.

  • It seems that pastors and elders explaining Bible knowledge

  • is really resisting God! (Yeah. Right.)

  • They're just like the Pharisees from way back when. (Yeah, I agree.)

  • Why aren't these pastors and elders

  • able to communicate their knowledge of practicing God's words?

  • Why can't they communicate their understanding of God's work and disposition?

  • It's because they don't have genuine experience of God's words and the truth.

  • They only focus on studying the Bible to attain biblical knowledge,

  • which is why they cannot receive the work of the Holy Spirit.

  • Yeah, that's right.

  • So how could their service possibly receive God's approval?

  • He's right. God would not approve. (Of course.)

  • God has become flesh as the Son of man to express the truth

  • and do the judgment work, revealing each person.

  • Those who love the truth, hate the truth, good servants, evil servants,

  • those who serve God or serve mammon will all be revealed. (Yes.)

  • As for those pastors and elders,

  • they continue to take verses out of context and misconstrue the Bible,

  • even believing "There is no utterance and work of God outside the Bible,"

  • spreading lies and fallacies to resist God's work in the last days.

  • Yes. He's absolutely right. Surely is. True.

  • Tell me, is this not deceiving people and misleading them?

  • Yes, that is right.

  • Pastors and elders deceive us.

  • Who knows how many believers

  • have been led astray, harmed and ruined by these lies?

  • Yeah.

  • How many people have lost the chance

  • to come before God's throne to attend God's banquet

  • and lost the chance to be made into an overcomer?

  • So harmful.

  • How can they do such a thing?

  • Everyone,

  • aren't these pastors obstacles for us trying to accept and find the true way?

  • Amen. I agree. They are doing that.

  • We won't be deceived again. (Absolutely.)

  • We weren't able to see it for so long. (That's true.)

  • Yeah. It is true.

  • Let's read the words of Almighty God

  • to discern the pastors and elders even better. (All right. Yes.)

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Yes. Thanks be to the Lord.

  • Thanks be to God. (Be to God.)

  • Yes, well. Oh! Yes! It's true.

  • Amen!

  • Agreed.

  • How did we not know before?

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • before when pastors explained Bible knowledge and theological theory,

  • we blindly worshiped and followed them.

  • Now I know we were so foolish, with no ability to distinguish.

  • Yes. I agree. We were so ignorant.

  • Yeah. Biblical knowledge and theology are too harmful. (Amen.)

  • If not for the words of Almighty God, we'd still be deceived by our pastors!

  • Yeah! Yes. That's right.

  • That's right. I used to think if I followed the pastors,

  • I'd go to the kingdom of heaven.

  • Now I realize the path they lead is not the right path! (Amen!)

  • They're the modern Pharisees.

  • We mustn't be deceived any longer! (Yeah! That's right!)

  • They are demons!

  • But pastors have more knowledge than us. They know the Bible.

  • They're still capable.

  • But they don't know God. They're hypocrites.

  • They'll be cursed by God! (Yeah, that's right.)

  • God will curse them.

  • Following pastors and elders is definitely dangerous. (That's right.)

  • They cannot lead us into the kingdom of heaven! (Right! Yes.)

  • We must reject them. (We will.)

  • We won't be deceived anymore. (We won't be.)

  • I agree. Yeah!

  • We must reject these pastors and elders. We won't listen to them anymore.

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • Almighty God has exposed the true essence of pastors and elders

  • who resist God and deceive man. (Yes.)

  • Pastors and elders often misinterpret the Bible when explaining it.

  • They rely on imagination to explain Bible knowledge and theory,

  • just to show off, build themselves up, and make people follow them.

  • But they never exalt the Lord or bear witness to Him,

  • they just want to place people under their control. (Yeah. Yes.)

  • Why is it there are so many people who worship their pastors and elders

  • and those who can explain the Bible, but so few who can magnify the Lord?

  • What's the problem here?

  • During Almighty God's work of judgment in the last days,

  • many people don't investigate for the truth.

  • They don't pray to God. They just follow the orders of their pastors and elders.

  • Do these people believe in the Lord or their pastors?

  • We've been following pastors, not the Lord at all. (Yes.)

  • We should all look inside to see if we have done this.

  • Yeah. I agree. Yes, he's right.

  • Long ago, the Lord Jesus exposed the Pharisees' resistance against God,

  • so why can't we discern when it comes to pastors and elders in the last days?

  • Yeah.

  • And there are still those who worship them, follow them.

  • They have embarked on the path of resisting God,

  • and as a result are despised and hated by God.

  • Where's the sense in this?

  • Haven't they been deceived by pastors, elders for too long?

  • Yes, he is right.

  • Yes.

  • Now, many who love the truth and hunger for God's appearance

  • have seen right through the antichrist nature of religious leaders.

  • They have left the religion

  • and accepted Almighty God's work of the last days for the Lamb's banquet.

  • Amen!

  • Praise God.

  • As for those who still worship and follow these religious leaders,

  • they will surely only encounter disasters. (Yeah. Yes. This is all true.)

  • Brothers and sisters, listen, we don't have much time left.

  • Great disaster will soon descend.

  • Yes.

  • If we do not accept Almighty God's work in the last days,

  • we will fall into disaster, weeping and suffering. (Yes. It's true.)

  • This is true.

  • It is true.

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • disasters all around the world are getting bigger.

  • Four blood moons have appeared, and the celestial events have occurred.

  • Yes.

  • It seems the destructive disasters are about to happen.

  • Yes. Indeed.

  • The incarnate God's work of judgment starting from the house of God

  • will be completed soon. (Yes.)

  • We've been so lucky to hear God's voice

  • to accept Almighty God's judgment in the last days.

  • This is true rapture into the kingdom of heaven. (Amen! Thanks be to God. Yes.)

  • To attend the marriage supper of the Lamb is our greatest blessing surely.

  • Amen. Thanks be to God.

  • Almighty God has rescued us from the deception of pastors and elders, it's true.

  • We have abandoned the darkness to be brought before God's throne.

  • Amen! Thanks be to Almighty God!

  • Amen! Thanks be to God.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Recently, we've read many words of Almighty God

  • and talked of many problems that exist inside religion.

  • Yes.

  • We finally see our belief in God

  • deviated only because we had worshiped and obeyed pastors and elders.

  • Yeah.

  • We had blind faith in the words of religious leaders.

  • And for that reason, we treated the words in the Bible as letters and doctrines,

  • held onto them as they were rules. (Right. Yes. That's right.)

  • We didn't understand God's words or know how to experience God's words.

  • We didn't. That's right.

  • We never knew to seek the truth when we prayed,

  • and we didn't have a true communion with God.

  • Right.

  • I see. How was that even believing in the Lord?

  • We called it that,

  • but really, we were just worshiping and obeying pastors and elders.

  • She's absolutely true. Absolutely right.

  • This way without knowing it, we embarked on a path of resisting God,

  • becoming hypocritical Pharisees.

  • That's right. Yes. I agree.

  • Great thanks be to Almighty God.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Today, Almighty GodAlmighty God has saved us all.

  • Amen!

  • Almighty God's words let us understand what believing in God is.

  • Yes.

  • Almighty God's words let us know the truth and gain discernment, (Amen!)

  • so we no longer have blind faith in the Bible or religious pastors and elders.

  • Yes. Thanks be to God.

  • We have broken free from

  • the control of the letters of the Bible and religious leaders. (Amen!)

  • We have broken the spell that trapped our belief in the Lord for years! (Amen!)

  • Praise God.

  • We'll no longer suffer under their control.

  • Now finally,

  • we can come before God's throne and enjoy the supply of God's words,

  • and attend the wedding supper of the Lamb, (Amen!)

  • receiving God's personal watering, supply, shepherding.

  • Amen!

  • I believe we're so blessed.

  • Yes. So blessed.

  • We're too lucky! Thanks be to God!

  • In all my wildest dreams,

  • I never thought we'd go before God's throne

  • and enter into the training of the kingdom.

  • Amen! Praise God.

  • This is a chance, a rare opportunity for us to be made perfect by God!

  • Amen! Thanks be to God!

  • We have all been exalted by God!

  • Amen! Praise God. Amen!

  • Many thanks be to Almighty God. (Amen!)

  • Thanks be to Almighty God.

  • Thanks be to God's grace and mercy.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Brother Li, Yangzhuang is up ahead.

  • Up there are many people who believe in the Lord.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Right then, let's hurry. (Good. Let's go.)

  • Let's do it. (Yes.)

Pastors and elders are ordained by the Lord, that's true. (Amen!)

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