How You Should Walk the Last Leg of the Path

You are now on the last leg of the path, and this is a critical portion of it. Perhaps you have endured quite a bit of suffering, done a lot of work, traveled many roads, and listened to many sermons, and it has not been easy to make it to now. If you cannot bear the suffering that is in front of you and if you continue on as you did in the past, then you cannot be perfected. This isn’t to scare you—this is a fact. After Peter underwent quite a bit of God’s work, he gained some insight and a lot of discernment. He also understood quite a bit of the principle of service, and later on he was able to be fully devoted to what Jesus entrusted him with. The great refinement that he received was mostly because in the things that he did, he felt that he owed God too much and he would never be able to make it up to Him, and he recognized that mankind is very corrupt, so he had a guilty conscience. Jesus had said many things to him and at the time he had just a little bit of understanding.

The Experiences of Peter: His Knowledge of Chastisement and Judgment

When he was being chastised by God, Peter prayed, “O God! My flesh is disobedient, and You chastise me and judge me. I rejoice in Your chastisement and judgment, and even if You do not want me, in Your judgment I behold Your holy and righteous disposition. When You judge me, so that others may behold Your righteous disposition in Your judgment, I feel content. I only wish that Your disposition may be shown forth so that Your righteous disposition may be seen by all creatures, and that I can love You more purely through Your judgment and attain the likeness of one who is righteous. This judgment of Yours is good, for such is Your gracious will. I know that there is still much in me that is rebellious, and that I am still not fit to come before You. I wish for You to judge me even more, whether through a hostile environment or great tribulations; no matter what You do, to me it is precious. Your love is so profound, and I am willing to lay myself at Your mercy without the slightest complaint.” This is Peter’s knowledge after he experienced the work of God, and is also a testimony to his love of God. Today, you have already been conquered—but how is this conquest expressed in you? Some people say, “My conquest is the supreme grace and exaltation of God. Only now do I realize that the life of man is hollow and without significance. Man spends his life rushing about, producing and raising generation after generation of children, and is ultimately left with nothing.

The Significance of Saving the Descendants of Moab

In these two to three years of work, what should have been achieved in the work of judgment done upon you has basically been achieved. Most people have let go of their future prospects and destiny a bit. However, when it’s mentioned that you are the descendants of Moab, many of you cannot stand it—your features distort, your mouth twists, and your eyes are fixed. You simply cannot believe that you are the descendants of Moab. Moab was banished to this land after being cursed. The lineage of Moab’s offspring has been passed down until today, and you all are his descendants. There’s nothing that I can do—who made you born in the house of Moab? I pity you and am not willing for you to be this, but the fact cannot be changed by people. You are a descendant of Moab, and I cannot say that you are a descendant of David. No matter whose descendant you are, you are still one of creation. It’s just that you are a creature of low position—you are a creature of lowly birth. All of creation must experience all of God’s work, they are all objects of His conquering, and they must all see His righteous disposition, and experience His wisdom and omnipotence. Now you are a descendant of Moab and you must accept this judgment and chastisement, so if you weren’t a descendant of Moab, then wouldn’t you also need to accept this judgment and chastisement? You should recognize this! In truth, currently working on the descendants of Moab is most valuable and most significant.

Improving Caliber Is for Receiving God’s Salvation

Improving people’s caliber is requiring that you improve your abilities to receive, so that you are able to understand God’s words and know how to practice in accordance with them. This is the most basic requirement. Is it not muddled faith if you follow Me without understanding what I say? No matter how many words I utter, if you can’t get there, if you can’t understand them no matter what I say, this means you are lacking in caliber. It is because you do not possess the abilities to receive that you do not even have the slightest understanding of what I say. As such, it is very difficult to achieve the desired results. Many things cannot be said to you directly and the original effect cannot be achieved. Therefore, additional tasks have to be added to My work. It is necessary to launch this “raising people’s caliber” task among you because your abilities to receive, abilities to see things, and the standards of your lives are too poor. This is the required direction; there is no alternative, and it must be done this way so that a part of the results may be achieved.

Serve As the Israelites Did

Nowadays many people do not pay attention to what lessons should be learned during coordination with others. I have discovered that many of you cannot learn the lessons at all during coordination with others. Most of you stick to your own views, and when working in the church, you say your piece and he says his, one with no relation to the other, not really cooperating at all. You are absorbed in only communicating your own inner insights, absorbed in only releasing the “burdens” within you, not seeking life at all. It seems that you are just doing the work perfunctorily, always believing that you should follow your own way no matter how other people are, and that you should fellowship as the Holy Spirit guides you, regardless of how other people are. You are not able to discover the strengths of others, and not able to examine yourselves. Your way of receiving things is really erroneous. It can be said that even now you still display a lot of self-righteousness, as if that old illness has relapsed. You don’t communicate with each other to achieve complete openness, or on what kind of outcome you’ve achieved in certain churches, or how your inner state has been recently, and so on—you simply don’t communicate like this. You fundamentally do not have practices such as dropping your own notions or forsaking yourselves. Leaders and workers think only of invigorating and energizing brothers and sisters through their fellowship, and those who follow know only to pursue by themselves. You basically do not understand what service is or what cooperation is, and you think only of having the will yourselves to repay God’s love, of having the will yourselves to live out the style of Peter, and of nothing else.

The Inside Truth of the Conquering Work (4)

What does it mean to be perfected? What does it mean to be conquered? What criteria must one meet in order to be conquered? And what criteria must one meet in order to be perfected? Conquering and perfecting are both for the purpose of working man so he can return to his original likeness and be free of his corrupt satanic disposition and Satan’s influence. This conquering comes early in the process of working man, meaning it is the first step of the work. Perfecting is the second step, or the concluding work. Every human being has to go through being conquered; otherwise he would not be able to know God and would not know there is a God, that is, he would not be able to acknowledge God. And if a person does not acknowledge God, it would be impossible for him to be made complete by God because he would not meet the criteria for this completion. If you do not even acknowledge God, how would you be able to know Him? And how would you seek after Him? You would also be unable to bear witness to Him, much less have the faith to satisfy Him.

The Inside Truth of the Conquering Work (3)

The result to be achieved from conquering work is primarily for man’s flesh to stop rebelling, that is, for man’s mind to gain a new understanding of God, his heart to thoroughly obey God, and for him to resolve to be for God. How man’s temperament or flesh changes does not determine whether he has been conquered. Rather, it is when man’s thinking, man’s consciousness, and man’s sense change—that is, when your whole mental attitude changes—that you have been conquered by God. When you have resolved to obey and have adopted a new mentality, when you no longer bring any of your own notions or intentions to God’s words and work, and when your brain can think normally, that is, when you can exert yourself for God with all your heart—this kind of person is someone who is fully conquered. In the realm of religion, many people suffer not insignificantly their whole lives, subduing their body or bearing their cross, even suffering and enduring until their last breath!