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  • Grandpa, grandma, I'm home!

  • Nuo! You're home! (Yes.)

  • There's my favorite granddaughter!

  • Grandma,

  • why isn't my aunt home yet?

  • I haven't seen her in a long time.

  • Oh! You'll see her soon.

  • That's great! That's great!

  • Hey, darling?

  • Yes?

  • Did you stew the chicken I bought?

  • Don't worry.

  • Everything's ready!

  • Back to stewing!

  • Okay.

  • Grandpa, (Yes?)

  • you're reading the Bible again?

  • We believe in the Lord,

  • so we have to read it often.

  • And Nuo,

  • you need to study the Bible too,

  • so in the future

  • you can preach and work for the Lord like your aunt.

  • Grandpa, I memorized lots of Bible verses.

  • Really?

  • Then recite one for me!

  • I'll recite one you always say.

  • Sure, okay. Good!

  • Look at her! Look at my granddaughter!

  • You could take over his work!

  • Dad, mom, I'm home!

  • Aunt Si'en! (Nuo!)

  • Come give me a hug!

  • You're taller than ever!

  • Aunt Si'en! (Give her some space.)

  • Here, that's for you. (Thanks!)

  • Mom.

  • Hey! It's so good to finally have you home!

  • Dad, how have you been? (Si'en.)

  • Very good.

  • Good.

  • Si'en, you're thinner!

  • I am!

  • But there's good color in your face! (Thanks be to the Lord!)

  • Let her sit down and talk!

  • I'm too excited!

  • Nuo, go get some fruit.

  • OK.

  • Si'en, (Dad …)

  • you've been gone for six months now, yes?

  • Yes, I have.

  • I bet you've gained a lot, yes?

  • Tell us about it!

  • Alright. (Come on.)

  • Let her catch her breath first!

  • Mom, no need. (I know.)

  • Here, sit.

  • Mom, dad,

  • I've brought back some incredible news.

  • What is it? (Really?)

  • The Lord Jesus, whom we've awaited for so many years, has returned!

  • He's Almighty God!

  • Almighty God?

  • Yeah.

  • Almighty God speaks truth,

  • doing the work of judgment first with God's house in the last days.

  • Si'en, (Yes?)

  • have you accepted Eastern Lightning?

  • Yes, I have.

  • I can't believe you!

  • Why didn't you discuss such a big decision with me?

  • Did you investigate it closely?

  • Dad

  • That was uncalled for.

  • Your temper constantly changes.

  • I …

  • Our daughter just walked in the door.

  • Be nice if you're going to say something.

  • I'm scared she'll take the wrong path. (You can't …)

  • Si'en, (Mom.)

  • I know you've always had your own opinions

  • and done things your own way,

  • but what made you so certain that Eastern Lightning is the return of the Lord?

  • I want you to tell us all about it. (Oh, okay.)

  • Just listen to what she has to say!

  • Come on!

  • Dad,

  • I accepted Eastern Lightning

  • after serious seeking and investigation.

  • I've read a lot of Almighty God's words

  • and discovered the truth.

  • Almighty God not only judges the corruption within mankind,

  • He also reveals the root cause of why people sin and resist God.

  • That's God's work of judgment in the last days.

  • Only by accepting God's judgment in the last days

  • and being purified of our sins can we enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • Alright, enough. OK?

  • I've never read Almighty God's words,

  • and I don't know whether it's the truth,

  • but Eastern Lightning testifies

  • only by accepting Almighty God's work of judgment and being cleansed

  • can we enter the kingdom of heaven,

  • and I can't accept that.

  • What does it say in Romans?

  • We are called righteous by our faith in the Lord, and saved by grace.

  • When the Lord comes,

  • He will rapture us up to the kingdom of heaven,

  • and He

  • Hey, Dad

  • What are you doing getting so angry?

  • How could I not be angry about such a big issue?

  • This temper is too much.

  • Dad, have some water.

  • You're so stubborn! (Grandpa.)

  • Don't be mad, don't be mad.

  • Sit down.

  • Don't you always say we should be humble and tolerant?

  • Please don't get sick from being angry.

  • Nuo's a smart girl.

  • Nuo, don't worry.

  • I won't get angry, yes?

  • Now, go do your homework in your room.

  • Okay.

  • Remember, be humble and tolerant.

  • OK.

  • What a good girl.

  • Dad, have some water.

  • Si'en, your father is right.

  • All we have to do is keep the Lord Jesus' name

  • and believe the Lord Jesus is our Savior,

  • and we can enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • No one can deny that, right?

  • Mom, dad,

  • it's true that believing in the Lord will gain us salvation,

  • but does this mean we can enter the kingdom of heaven?

  • Did the Lord Jesus ever say that?

  • Is it written anywhere in the Bible?

  • The Bible?

  • I don't think the Bible says that at all.

  • Hey! Mude,

  • you know the Bible, you tell us.

  • Well, looks like it doesn't say that in the Bible.

  • If it did,

  • your dad would have told us the biblical basis already.

  • Fine. Go ahead. You talk.

  • Since the Lord Jesus never said it,

  • does the idea of "entering the kingdom of heaven with salvation" stand up?

  • Isn't that just human notions and imagining?

  • Notions and imagining? (Right.)

  • Can we base our entry into the kingdom of heaven on that?

  • The Lord Jesus never said we can enter the kingdom of heaven

  • if we gain salvation,

  • but the religious world endorses that view.

  • They couldn't possibly be wrong.

  • Dad!

  • Does the religious world's acceptance mean it accords with the Lord's words?

  • Does it represent the Lord's will?

  • Who is the Lord of the kingdom of heaven?

  • Who has authority over the entry into the kingdom of heaven?

  • Without a basis in the Lord's words,

  • if people say we can enter the kingdom of heaven if we gain salvation,

  • isn't that just deceiving and misleading people?

  • Dad,

  • do you know what "salvation" refers to?

  • If you look at the background of the Lord Jesus' work of redemption,

  • you'll understand.

  • Background? (Yeah.)

  • Hey Mude, what's the background?

  • It looks like your father doesn't know, either.

  • Go ahead.

  • Of course I know!

  • I was just getting to it! (You …)

  • In the Book of Malachi,

  • the Israelites of the time were sinning more and more,

  • and could no longer keep the laws,

  • so they were in danger of being condemned to death by the law.

  • Dad, you're absolutely right.

  • It was against that backdrop

  • that the Lord Jesus was nailed to the cross as a sin offering to redeem man.

  • As long as people believed, confessed, and repented,

  • their sins would be forgiven,

  • and they could all enjoy the peace, joy, and bountiful grace of the Lord.

  • That's the meaning of salvation in the Age of Grace.

  • So that's what it means to gain salvation!

  • Yes.

  • So, salvation only refers to

  • having your sins forgiven,

  • and not being condemned by the law.

  • Well, what she is saying makes sense,

  • and fits with the Bible.

  • She explains it a lot more clearly than you!

  • Why cough?

  • She does explain more clearly than you!

  • You're entirely right. Yes.

  • Let's sit down and continue. (OK.)

  • Dad, we gain our salvation through grace,

  • but we can still often lie and sin,

  • and we haven't escaped the bondage of sin.

  • God is holy.

  • And only those who are holy can see the Lord.

  • The kingdom of heaven is ruled by God.

  • It's a holy place.

  • How could God allow people who often sin and resist Him to enter the kingdom of heaven?

  • Dad, am I right about this?

  • Sounds right to me.

  • So then, even if we gain salvation by grace,

  • it doesn't mean we're qualified to enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • Salvation and entering the kingdom of heaven are two different things.

  • That's right. Listen to her.

  • Her fellowship is completely correct.

  • You are correct in saying that we still often sin.

  • But the Lord Jesus' sin offering is eternally effective.

  • As long as we confess our sins to the Lord and repent,

  • He will forgive us.

  • In the book of Romans it says,

  • The Lord has already forgiven all of our sins

  • and doesn't see us as sinners,

  • so we are no longer in sin. (Right.)

  • Doesn't that mean we can enter the kingdom of heaven?

  • True!

  • That's what all the pastors and elders have been saying.

  • They say what?

  • God's love is limitless,

  • and His grace is infinite.

  • And it doesn't matter

  • if we've sinned in the past, present, or if we sin in the future.

  • As long as we come before the Lord, confess, and repent,

  • the Lord will forgive us,

  • and when the Lord comes,

  • He will lift us directly into the kingdom of heaven.

  • Wow! Mom,

  • that's a good impression!

  • Well, I've heard it a lot!

  • But, mom, if we go by this idea

  • that the Lord's sin offering is forever effective,

  • then it doesn't matter that we sin,

  • the Lord forgives us.

  • In the Bible it says,

  • Now how do we explain this?

  • Well

  • Oh my.

  • You mean,

  • if we don't practice the Lord's words, and sin intentionally,

  • the Lord still condemns us?

  • That's right, mom.

  • Sit down.

  • Mom, dad, think about it,

  • if we can enter the kingdom of heaven simply because we've had our sins forgiven,

  • it means everyone who believes in the Lord Jesus can enter the kingdom of heaven!

  • Yeah

  • So why did the Lord Jesus say,

  • "Not every one that said to Me,

  • Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;

  • but he that does the will of My Father which is in heaven"?

  • He also said,

  • So, how would those words be fulfilled?

  • Right.

  • Also,

  • when the Lord returns in the last days,

  • He will separate the sheep from the goats,

  • the wheat from the tares,

  • and the good servants from the evil.

  • How'll those prophecies be fulfilled?

  • Oh my.

  • The Lord Jesus says it all very clearly.

  • Just because our sins are forgiven

  • doesn't mean we'll enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • I don't understand how we missed something so important!

  • What's the matter now?

  • Si'en, please keep going.

  • He wants you to continue.

  • Dad, mom,

  • the sin offering is eternally effective,

  • but we have to look at for who.

  • It is not for everyone.

  • It's only effective eternally

  • for those who achieve actual genuine repentance.

  • People who love the truth

  • and truly want to practice the Lord's words,

  • because their nature is sinful,

  • they still involuntarily lie and sin,

  • sometimes they rebel against the Lord.

  • Those things are forgiven.

  • But if we've clearly learned the truth and deliberately sin,

  • the sin offering is no longer effective,

  • and we can't enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • Don't you think what I'm saying is true?

  • yes, it really is true.

  • Then tell me,

  • who exactly can enter the kingdom of heaven?

  • About the people in the kingdom of heaven,

  • the Lord Jesus said,

  • The Lord's words couldn't be any clearer.

  • Only those who achieve true repentance and do God's will

  • can enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • Oh, so that's how it is! (Yeah.)

  • You say only those who achieve true repentance and do God's will

  • can enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • That fits the Lord's words.

  • Now tell me:

  • For the years we've believed,

  • we've been humble, tolerant, suffered,

  • and borne the cross according to the Lord's requirements,

  • we've preached and worked for the Lord,

  • and even when we suffer persecution, or are imprisoned,

  • we don't deny the Lord's name.

  • Tell me,

  • aren't those all signs of repentance?

  • Right.

  • As believers in the Lord,

  • we can admit that we are sinners.

  • When we sin, we are able to go before the Lord,

  • weep, repent, pray, and confess all of our sins.

  • We beg for forgiveness.

  • Now, isn't that considered repentance?

  • Mom, dad,

  • it's true that after we believe in the Lord,

  • we do some good deeds,

  • but we still often rebel against and resist the Lord.

  • We are often arrogant, self-centered, and greedy,

  • and are concerned with vanity.

  • We often have envy and hate in our hearts,

  • and we can still lie and deceive.

  • Even when we pray,

  • we say flattering things to appease the Lord.

  • Isis that genuine repentance?

  • The Lord Jesus demands that we be honest people,

  • but are we really?

  • The Lord Jesus requires that we love God with all our heart, mind, and soul,

  • and that we love others.

  • Do we do that?

  • We can't practice the Lord's words or keep the Lord's commandments.

  • Is that genuine repentance?

  • It really isn't.

  • Honey, our daughter is right.

  • When we sin,

  • we weep, go before the Lord, and pray, and confess,

  • right?

  • But what happens after that?

  • Well, let me tell you what happens!

  • We wipe our eyes clean, stand up, and keep lying and sinning. (Right.)

  • But that's only regret, there's no change!

  • We all say,

  • "Christ is the Lord of my house,"

  • but actually we all want to be the ones in charge.

  • I don't submit to you,

  • and you don't submit to me.

  • We hold ourselves way above others,

  • and try to make everyone else listen to us.

  • During meetings and sermons,

  • we often put our labors on display.

  • We show off to make others look up to us and admire us. (Enough.)

  • Come on,

  • aren't we clothing ourselves in sin,

  • and covered in guilt?

  • It's true!

  • This is how we are,

  • and we still want to enter the kingdom of heaven?

  • Right.

  • Give your father time to think, 'k?

  • Everything my daughter says is true.

  • In the last few years,

  • I have done some work for the Lord,

  • and done some good deeds.

  • But always in a way

  • that puts me on display and puts others down.

  • When I preach and work,

  • I often show off to make others look up to me.

  • I pray to the Lord and confess,

  • but afterward I do the same things again.

  • That isn't true repentance at all!

  • Come on.

  • Mude, really,

  • just standing here mumbling to yourself?

  • There's a saying,

  • "The deeper the well, the cleaner the water;

  • the more openly you share things, the more clear they become."

  • The more that we fellowship on the truth,

  • the brighter our hearts become.

  • Isn't that right?

  • We should listen to her, shouldn't we?

  • I've been listening!

  • Did it sink in?

  • Look what you're asking!

  • Howhow unreasonable do you think I am?

  • He could've fooled me!

  • Si'en, (Dad.)

  • everything you've said so far

  • has made perfect sense to me,

  • and I've been listening. (Thanks be to God.)

  • I'd like you to tell me more about

  • what genuine repentance specifically refers to.

  • Dad,

  • do you remember how Matthew 22:37–39 goes?

  • Amen.

  • There's also this prophecy,

  • Based on the Lord's words, as I understand it,

  • genuine repentance refers to when people no longer sin or resist God.

  • When the sinful natures within us have been cleansed,

  • when we can practice God's words,

  • live by God's words,

  • and no longer rebel against God,

  • when we expend for God purely out of love,

  • without trying to make an exchange,

  • and when everything we do is to obey God and repay His love,

  • that's true repentance and will help us enter God's kingdom.

  • That's completely right!

  • Dad, think about it,

  • which of us believers in the Lord has achieved genuine repentance?

  • Well

  • Think about those famous spiritual people and the pastors.

  • Even though they are familiar with the Bible,

  • can labor and work,

  • and outwardly do some good deeds,

  • who among them has escaped the bondage of sin

  • and achieved genuine repentance?

  • You're right.

  • It seems like there actually aren't any.

  • Right.

  • For years, we've wanted to escape sin.

  • But why can't we make it?

  • It's really a problem.

  • Why can't believers in the Lord escape the bondage of sin?

  • Reading passages from Almighty God will help us understand.

  • Okay!

  • Sure.

  • Okay, here.

  • I'll read the first one.

  • Sure.

  • But wait, I'm …

  • Out of the way.

  • Sometimes I can't believe you

  • I'll read the next one.

  • This makes everything so clear! Doesn't it? (It does!)

  • Almighty God's words reveal all the mysteries of God's work.

  • In the Age of Grace,

  • the Lord Jesus only did the work of redemption,

  • only forgave people's sins.

  • He didn't resolve our sinful natures and satanic dispositions.

  • Our sinful natures are the root cause of why we sin and resist God.

  • They're something more serious and more stubborn than sin itself.

  • That's absolutely right.

  • If we don't resolve our satanic natures,

  • there's no way for us to achieve genuine repentance.

  • Hey, mom, dad,

  • I'll give you an example, and you'll understand.

  • Sure. Okay.

  • Soconsider if a thief was caught

  • and was brought before a merciful judge,

  • and the judge wanted to give the thief another chance,

  • so he forgave the thief's crime.

  • That doesn't mean that the thief wouldn't steal again

  • after he was let go, right?

  • No.

  • And that doesn't mean the thief's nature has changed, right?

  • No.

  • Of course not!

  • There's this saying,

  • "Can a leopard change his spots?"

  • If his thieving nature doesn't change,

  • he'll go stealing all over again. (Exactly.)

  • Hey, Si'en,

  • that was actually a very good metaphor!

  • The Lord Jesus told us that He would return.

  • His return is to do the work of completely purifying and saving mankind.

  • Almighty God's come in the last days,

  • and on the basis of the Lord Jesus' work of redemption,

  • He has expressed the truth

  • and begun the work of judgment beginning with God's house

  • to resolve our sinful natures and satanic dispositions.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • We've been corrupted too deeply.

  • We are full of satanic dispositions,

  • and we often resist and rebel against God.

  • Right!

  • Merely having our sins forgiven is far from enough.

  • Indeed!

  • We need to experience God's judgment and chastisement

  • to see the truth of how deeply we have been corrupted by Satan,

  • truly come to loathe ourselves,

  • and genuinely repent to God.

  • We need that before we can practice

  • and live by God's word

  • and become people who can truly obey God and do God's will.

  • That's how we gain full salvation and enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • That's right.

  • God's work of salvation is so practical!

  • It looks like,

  • if we want to escape the bondage of sin,

  • genuinely repent, and enter the kingdom of heaven,

  • we still need to undergo God's further work of judgment and purification!

  • That's right. Yes.

  • Many years I've believed in the Lord

  • and relied on ideas and notions.

  • I thought if the Lord forgives my sins,

  • I will enter God's kingdom,

  • and that being saved once means being saved forever.

  • That's why, when people testified the last-days work of Almighty God,

  • I didn't seek or investigate.

  • I nearly missed my chance to welcome the Lord!

  • Dad.

  • Yes, you did!

  • In matter of entering the kingdom of heaven,

  • I didn't listen to the Lord's words.

  • Instead, I listened to the pastors and elders.

  • Hey now!

  • I've … I've been so stupid!

  • Si'en, (Dad.)

  • you're a bit smarter than us!

  • You managed to welcome the Lord and be lifted up before the throne before us!

  • Yes. (Thanks be to God!)

  • It truly fulfills the Lord's prophecy,

  • Mude,

  • we're going to have to catch up to them!

  • But we just can't pursue by ourselves!

  • What

  • We have to bring all the brothers and sisters in the church with us! (Yes!)

  • Dad, are you saying that

  • After we eat dinner,

  • I'll call the brothers and sisters together

  • to study Almighty God's work of the last days! (That's wonderful! Great!)

  • Grandma! Grandma!

  • Why do I smell something burning?

  • Oh no! My chicken!

  • Your memory is really so

  • Mom, I'll help you!

  • Take it easy!

Grandpa, grandma, I'm home!

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