The Church of Almighty God | God's word | Chapter 12. God’s Will Is to Save People to the Greatest Extent Possible
1. Don’t Just Be Concerned With Whether or Not You Have Been Predestined by God, but Be Concerned With Your Pursuit
Many people don’t understand the will of God; they think that everyone who is predestined by God will inevitably be saved and they think that everyone who is not predestined by God will not be saved even if they do things better. They think that God will not determine people’s outcome based on their performance and behavior. If you think this way, then you greatly misunderstand God. If God really did this, then would God be righteous? God determines people’s outcome based on a principle: Ultimately people’s outcome will be determined according to their personal performance and behavior. You don’t see God’s righteous disposition, and you always misunderstand God and distort His intentions, which causes you to always be pessimistic and lose hope. Is this not self-inflicted? In fact, do you really understand, and are you sure of God’s intentions? You have always used “God’s predestination” to delineate and deny God’s words. This is a serious misunderstanding of God! You do not understand God’s work and you don’t understand God’s will at all; even more so, you don’t understand the good intentions God has put into His 6,000 years of management work! You give yourself up to despair, second-guess and doubt God; you are deeply afraid of being a service-doer, thinking, “There is nothing great about me; why am I being promoted to do this work? Is God using me? Is it that He is making me do service and then He will get rid of me when I am no longer useful?” Is not this view of God categorizing Him with those in power? You have always misunderstood God; you have thought ill of God and despised Him. You have never believed God’s words and frankness, you have taken the initiative to seek to be a service-doer, you have taken the initiative to walk on the path of the service-doers, but you have not sought to change your disposition nor have suffered hardships in order to put truth into practice. Ultimately, you have pushed your responsibilities onto God, saying that you had not been predestined by God, and that God has not been sincere with you. What is the problem? You misunderstand God’s intentions, you do not believe God’s words, you are not putting truth into practice nor devoting yourself while fulfilling your duties. How can you satisfy God’s will? With this course of action, you are not qualified in the least to be a service-doer, so how can you be qualified to negotiate with God? If you think that God is not righteous, then why do you believe in Him? You have always wanted God to say to you, “You are of the people of the kingdom and this will never change” before you exert yourself for God’s family. If God didn’t say this, then you would never give your true heart to God. How rebellious is this kind of person! I have seen so many people who have never focused on transforming their dispositions, much less focused on putting truth into practice. They only pay attention to asking about whether they will obtain a good final destination, how God will treat them, whether He has a predestination for them to be His people, and other hearsay matters. How can these people who are not engaged in honest work obtain eternal life? How can they remain in God’s family? Now I solemnly tell you: If a predestined person does not put the truth into practice, then he will ultimately be eliminated; and a person who sincerely expends himself and does his best to put truth into practice—even if people view him as a person who is not predestined to remain—will have a better final destination than those so-called predestined people who have had no devotion, because of God’s righteous disposition. Do you believe these words? If you are not able to believe these words and you continue going about things in the wrong way, then I say to you that you certainly will not be able to survive, because you do not truly want God and are not fond of the truth. Since it is this way, God’s predestination of people is not important. The reason I say this is because in the end, God will determine people’s outcomes by their performance and behavior; however, objectively speaking, God’s predestination only plays a small role and does not play a leading role. Do you understand these words?
