How do the three stages of God’s work gradually deepen for people to be saved and perfected?

How do the three stages of God’s work gradually deepen for people to be saved and perfected? | The Church of Almighty God

　Relevant Words of God:

　The entire management of God is divided into three stages, and in each stage, fitting requirements are made of man. Furthermore, as the ages pass and progress, God’s requirements of all mankind become ever higher. Thus, step-by-step, this work of God’s management reaches its climax, until man beholds the fact of the “appearance of the Word in the flesh,” and in this way the requirements of man become even higher, and requirements of man to bear testimony become even higher. … In the past, man was required to comply with the law and the commandments, and was required to be patient and humble. Today, man is required to obey all of God’s arrangements and possess a supreme love of God, and is ultimately required to still love God amid the tribulation. These three stages are requirements that God makes of man, step-by-step, throughout His entire management. Each stage of God’s work goes deeper than the last, and in each stage the requirements of man are more profound than the last, and in this way, God’s entire management gradually takes shape. It is precisely because the requirements of man are ever higher that man’s disposition comes ever closer to the standards required by God, and it is only then that the whole of mankind gradually departs from the influence of Satan until, when God’s work comes to a complete end, the whole of mankind will have been saved from the influence of Satan.

from “God’s Work and Man’s Practice” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

The Power of God's Word | Christian Music "The Creator's Authority Never Changes"

The Church of Almighty God | The Power of God's Word | Christian Music "The Creator's Authority Never Changes"

God is with authority and power; they are real, not merely words.

Revealed in steps, shown in His creation and His control over all things. 

Seen in how He guides and manages man.

Proved by every way, detail and perspective of His rule, 

by His deeds and grasp of all things. 

Heaven and earth may change a lot, but God’s authority will stand firm. 

All things may vanish and be gone, but God’s authority remains. 

This is the essence of it. Unique to God, the Creator.

The Light Is Warm When Passing Through the Tunnel

The Church of Almighty God | The Light Is Warm When Passing Through the Tunnel

Wang Yuping

Just like all the other brothers and sisters who thirst for the return of the Lord Jesus, I too continuously long for our Lord eagerly to return to receive us into the kingdom of heaven soon so that we can enjoy its blessings. One day in November of 2006 I finally heard the news of the Lord’s return. Through reading the words expressed by Almighty God and through the patient fellowshiping about and bearing witness to God’s work in the last days from my brothers and sisters, I finally recognized that Almighty God incarnate is the return of the Lord Jesus. Thereupon, I willingly accepted Almighty God’s work in the last days.

How does God incarnating to do the work of judgment bring to an end mankind’s belief in the vague God and the dark age of Satan’s dominion?

Bible Verses for Reference:

“And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob, come you, and let us walk in the light of the LORD” (Isa 2:2-5).

God Is Great | Thank God | "The True Love of God" | Praise the Lord (Best Christian Music Video)

The Church of Almighty God | God Is Great | Thank God | "The True Love of God" | Praise the Lord (Best Christian Music Video)

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I stand before my God again today.

My heart has much to say when I see His lovely face.

I’ve left my wandering past behind me.

His word fills me with bliss and joy from His grace.

It’s God’s tender words that

water and nourish me to grow up.

It’s His stern words that encourage me to stand up again.

God, we sing to You today 'cause of Your blessings.

We give praise to You today because You’ve raised us.

Almighty true God who has loved us!

We love You! Oh God! We truly do!

God Is God | Bless God | Christian Music Video "All People Live in God's Light" | Praise and Worship

The Church of Almighty God | Christian Music Video "All People Live in God's Light" | Praise and Worship

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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.

Those Who Love God Will Forever Live Within His Light

Those Who Love God Will Forever Live Within His Light

The substance of most people’s belief in God is religious conviction: They are incapable of loving God, and can only follow God like a robot, unable to truly yearn for God or adore Him. They merely follow Him silently. Many people believe in God, but there are very few who love God; they only revere God because they fear catastrophe, or else they admire God because He is high and mighty—but in their reverence and admiration there is no love or true yearning. In their experiences they seek the minutiae of the truth, or else some insignificant mysteries. Most people merely follow, they fish in murky waters only to receive blessings; they do not seek the truth, nor do they truly obey God in order to receive God’s blessings. The life of all people’s belief in God is meaningless, it is without value, and in it are their personal considerations and pursuits; they do not believe in God in order to love God, but for the sake of being blessed. Many people act as they please, they do whatever they want, and never consider the interests of God, or whether what they do is in accordance with the will of God. Such people can’t even achieve true belief, let alone the love of God. God’s substance is not just for man to believe in; it is, moreover, for man to love. But many of those who believe in God are incapable of discovering this “secret.” People don’t dare to love God, nor do they try to love Him. They have never discovered that there is so much that is lovable about God, they have never discovered that God is the God who loves man, and that He is the God who is for man to love. The loveliness of God is expressed in His work: Only when they experience His work can people discover His loveliness, only in their actual experiences can they appreciate the loveliness of God, and without observing it in real life, no one can discover God’s loveliness. There is so much to love about God, but without actually engaging with Him people are incapable of discovering it. Which is to say, if God did not become flesh, people would be incapable of actually engaging with Him, and if they were unable to actually engage with Him, they also wouldn’t be able to experience His work—and so their love of God would be tainted with much falsehood and imagination. The love of the God in heaven is not as real as the love of the God on earth, for people’s knowledge of God in heaven is built upon their imaginings, rather than upon what they have seen with their own eyes, and what they have personally experienced. When God comes to earth, people are able to behold His actual deeds and His loveliness, and they can see everything of His practical and normal disposition, all of which is thousands of times more real than the knowledge of the God in heaven. Regardless of how much people love the God in heaven, there is nothing real about this love, and it is full of human ideas. No matter how little their love for the God on earth, this love is real; even if there is only a little of it, it is still real. God causes people to know Him through real work, and through this knowledge He gains their love. It’s like Peter: If he hadn’t lived with Jesus, it would have been impossible for him to adore Jesus. So, too, was his loyalty toward Jesus built upon his engagement with Jesus. To make man love Him, God has come among man and lives together with man, and all that He makes man see and experience is the reality of God.

The Hymn of God's Word "All Things Live in the Rules and Laws Set Down by God"

The Church of Almighty God | The Hymn of God's Word "All Things Live in the Rules and Laws Set Down by God"

1. Thousands of years passed by, humans still enjoy the light and the air bestowed by God. Humans still breathe in and out the breath exhaled by God Himself. Humans still enjoy things created by God, the fish, birds, flowers and insects. Humans enjoy all the things, all the things provided by God. Continually day and night still replace each other. As usual the four seasons alternate. Flying in the sky, the geese depart in winter and return in spring. Swimming in the water, the fish never leave the rivers and the lakes, their home.

Books of the Church of Almighty God | On Quieting Your Heart Before God

Books of the Church of Almighty God | On Quieting Your Heart Before God

　　Quieting your heart before God is one of the most crucial steps for entering into God’s words, and is a lesson that all people presently have an urgent need to enter. The entry ways to quieting your heart before God are:

1. Withdraw your heart from external things, be quiet before God, and pray to God with a focused heart.

2. With your heart quiet before God, eat, drink, and enjoy God’s words.

3. Make it a usual practice to meditate on and contemplate God’s love and ponder God’s work with your heart.

The Church of Almighty God | The Way the Lord Arrives

The Church of Almighty God | The Way the Lord Arrives

In a spiritual body, or in the flesh? “Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not” (Luke 12:40). “For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even to the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:27). “This time, God comes to do work not in a spiritual body but in a very ordinary one. Not only is it the body of God’s second incarnation, but also the body in which God returns” (The Word Appears in the Flesh). Please stay tuned for the musical drama of the Church of Almighty God—Every Nation Worships the Practical God!

The Church of Almighty God | Gospel Movie "Awakening From the Dream" (1) - The Tabernacle of God Is With Men

　　Many believers in the Lord Jesus all wait to be raptured into the kingdom of heaven, but do you know where the kingdom of heaven actually is? Do you know the real meaning of rapture? This movie clip of Awaking From the Dream, will uncover the mysteries of the rapture for you!

The Church of Almighty God | What Lies Behind Lies

The Church of Almighty God | What Lies Behind Lies

Xiaojing    Heze City, Shandong Province

Each time I saw God’s words calling on us to be honest people and to speak accurately, I thought, “I have no problem with speaking accurately. Isn’t it just calling a spade a spade and telling things as they are? Isn’t that easy? What had always most annoyed me in this world were people who embellished when they spoke.” Because of this, I felt super confident, thinking that I had no problem in this regard. But only through God’s revelation did I discover that, without entering into the truth or changing one’s disposition, one can in no way speak accurately.

The Church of Almighty God | The Holy Spirit Works in a Principled Way

The Church of Almighty God | The Holy Spirit Works in a Principled Way

Qin Shuting    Linyi City, Shandong Province

For some time, although I had not ceased to eat and drink the words of God, I never felt the light. I had prayed to God for this but, afterward, I had still not been enlightened. So I thought, “I have eaten and drunk what I should have and God is not enlightening me. There is nothing I can do, and I do not have the faculty to receive God’s words. There is a time for God to enlighten each man, so there is no use in trying to rush it.” Afterward, I kept the rules and ate and drank the words of God without anxiety, “patiently” awaiting God’s enlightenment.

The Church of Almighty God | The Seven Thunders Peal—Prophesying That the Kingdom Gospel Shall Spread Throughout the Universe

　Almighty God says, "I gave My glory to Israel and then took it away, and afterward I brought the Israelites to the East, and all of humanity to the East. I have brought them all to the light so that they may be reunited with it, and be in association with it, and no longer have to search for it. I shall let all who are searching see the light again and see the glory I had in Israel; I shall let them see that I have long ago come down upon a white cloud into the midst of mankind, let them see the countless clouds of white and fruits in their abundant clusters, and, what is more, let them see Jehovah God of Israel. I shall let them look upon the Master of the Jews, the longed-for Messiah, and the full appearance of Me who have been persecuted by kings throughout the ages. I shall work upon the entire universe and I shall perform great work, revealing all My glory and all My deeds to man in the last days. I shall show My glorious countenance in its fullness to those who have waited many years for Me, to those who have longed for Me to come upon a white cloud, to Israel that has longed for Me to appear once again, and to all mankind who persecute Me, so that all will know that I have long ago taken away My glory and brought it to the East, so that it is no longer in Judea. For the last days have already come!"

The Church of Almighty God | A Battle of Life and Death

The Church of Almighty God |  A Battle of Life and Death

Chang Moyang    Zhengzhou City, Henan Province

“When you forsake the flesh, inevitably there will be a battle inside. Satan wants you to follow the notions of the flesh, to protect the interests of the flesh. However, God’s word still enlightens and illuminates you within, moves you from within and works from the inside. At this point, it is up to you whether you follow God, or Satan. Every time truth is practiced and every time people practice loving God, there is an enormous battle. When you practice the truth, deep inside there is a battle of life and death. Victory will only be determined after fierce fighting. How many tears of sadness have been shed” (“Every Time You Forsake the Flesh There Is a Battle of Life and Death” in Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs). Every time I used to hear God’s words in this song, I would ponder the following: Is practicing the truth really that difficult? When people don’t understand the truth, they cannot practice it. Once they have understood it, wouldn’t acting according to God’s will be enough? Could it really be as serious as “deep inside there is a battle of life and death”? It wasn’t until later, through my actual experience, that I had a taste that practicing the truth truly is not easy. What God said is entirely in line with the truth; it is not even a little exaggerated.

The Church of Almighty God| "Rapture in Peril" (2) - If a Man Can Live Out God's Image, Will He Be Able to Become God?

　　Since God created man in His image, is man capable of becoming God? What does it mean to have God's image, and to live out God's image? This movie clip will explain this all to you.

　　Zhao Zhigang is an elder at the Local Church in China. Like many Christians, his greatest hope as a believer in the Lord is to be raptured alive, meet the Lord and rule with Him. In 1999, after the church leaders released the message, "In the year 2000 the Lord shall come again, and His believers will be raptured alive," he was even more excited and enthusiastic than before. Brimming with faith and confidence, he looked to the future with hope and expectation…. However, after the year 2000 came and went, his hope had been all for naught. An unprecedented crisis of faith emerged in his denomination, and he couldn't help but wonder whether or not he had chosen the right path.

The Church of Almighty God| Face to Face With God | Praise and Worship "Chinese Gospel Choir 17th Performance"

　　The Chinese Choir Episode 17 of the Church of Almighty God starts in a quiet and solemn atmosphere. A sonorous and powerful hymn, The Symbol of God’s Disposition, extols God’s righteous and holy disposition and His just, good and beautiful substance, singing out the reverence and admiration of God’s chosen people for the Creator. Following that, God’s chosen people sing loudly All Will Be Accomplished by God’s Words, in praise of God’s victory over Satan and the accomplishment of His six-thousand-year management plan!

Songs Of Choir

1. The Symbol of God’s Disposition

2. All Will Be Accomplished by God’s Words

1. The Symbol of God’s Disposition

　　God’s disposition encompasses His love for mankind (His love for mankind), comforting of mankind, hatred of mankind, and even more so, a thorough understanding of mankind. The disposition of God is one that belongs to the Ruler of the living beings among all things, to the Lord of all creation. God’s disposition represents honor, power, nobility, represents greatness, and supremacy (supremacy). God’s disposition is the symbol of authority and all that is righteous, the symbol of all that is beautiful and good. Moreover, it is a symbol of how God cannot be suppressed or attacked by the darkness and any enemy force, as well as a symbol of how He cannot be and indeed is not allowed to be offended by any created being. God’s disposition is the symbol of the highest power. No person or persons may or can disturb His work or His disposition.

The-Church-of-Almighty-God| Gospel Movie clip "Song of Victory" (6) - The Path That Leads to Purification and Salvation

How will God's work of judgment in the last days purify and save man? How do men actually undergo God's judgment and chastisement so that they can attain the truth, the life, and become worthy of salvation and enter the kingdom of heaven? This video will tell you the answers, and point you towards the path to entering the kingdom of heaven.

The Church of Almighty God| I. Typical Testimonies of the Christians and Catholics in Mainland China Who Turned to Almighty God Because of Receiving Dreams and the Revelations of the Holy Spirit

(50 Testimonies Selected)

1．Ji XX, female, aged 56, from Henan Province, formerly a leader in the Justification by Faith Church. Starting from 1996, some people preached God’s end-time work to me, but I never accepted it. At the end of 2000, God’s end-time salvation came to me again. Although I accepted it, I still had doubts about it in my heart. Not long afterward, several leaders from my former church came again to invite me to their meeting. I did not know how to choose, so I prayed to God and asked God to show me a way ahead. That night, I dreamed that I was walking in the street. Suddenly, I saw many monsters before me. They were in human clothes, but they had faces of tigers, leopards, wolves, insects, or the hanged men…. I was frightened and I darted into a hotel. A waiter came up to me, “You are back. You may have the same room you had before.” I entered the room and switched on the light immediately, but the light did not work. I cried out, “Waiter, why does the light not work?” “Oh, sorry, I forget to tell you that there has been no light in our hotel for a long time.” “Where is light?” I asked, puzzled. “Our general manager has long taken light to the new development zone and begun a new project.” “Did he take the usual path or a new one?” She said, “It is the new path he himself has opened up. Do you want to go there?” “Yes!” I had just finished my words when I heard a queer laugh from outside the door, “Ha-ha! There you are….” Greatly scared, I hurriedly pushed against the door with a table. Suddenly, I saw a big black hand reach in through the window. I hastened to cry out, “Lord Jesus! Help me! …” That monster laughed grimly, “Ha-ha! What an idiot! Today you still call the Lord Jesus. We’re not afraid!” I corrected myself in a hurry, “Almighty God! Help me! …” Then I heard the monster scream, “Run! She has called Almighty God!” Immediately, the big black hand disappeared. Then I woke up and found I was in a sweat…. I was fully awakened to the reality and became completely certain about God’s end-time work. And I brought back to the Church of Almighty God the four brothers and sisters who had given up God’s end-time work because of my disturbing.

The Church of Almighty God| The Overcomers' Testimonies | "Sweetness in Adversity" (Official Trailer) | Eastern Lightning

　　Han Lu is a leader of the Church of Almighty God in mainland China. She is brave and tough, loves the truth, has wisdom, and has true faith in God. In order to completely ban all the house churches, the CCP government issued secret documents one after another, dispatching heavy police forces to frenziedly arrest and persecute Christians of the Church of Almighty God. In one of the arrests, the CCP police arrested Han Lu and many other Christians. In order to obtain the money of the church, arrest more church leaders, and destroy the Church of Almighty God, the CCP police brutally tortured Han Lu, brainwashed and re-educated her. They also used various base means, such as coercion and bribery and influencing Han Lu by her family affection, attempting to disrupt her psychological line of defense…. In pain and weakness, Han Lu relied on God and prayed to God. Under the guidance of God's word, she saw through every scheme of Satan, overcame repeated exertion of confession by torture, and forcefully refuted all sorts of rumors and fallacies from the CCP. She bore beautiful and resounding testimonies for God in the suffering environment caused by the CCP's persecution….