1. Man has been living shrouded by the power and influence of darkness, bound by the power and influence of satan and unable to get released. Having been processed by satan, man’s nature has become increasingly corrupt. Man has been living in the corrupt satanic nature, unable to genuinely love God.

2. If man wants to love God, he must rid himself of all his satanic nature such as self-rightness, self-importance, arrogance, and self-conceit. Otherwise, man’s love is altogether a mixed love, a satanic love, which absolutely cannot be commended by God.

3. Without being perfected, dealt with, pruned, broken, disciplined, chastened, and refined directly by the Holy Spirit, no one can genuinely love God. If you say that some of your nature represents God and thus you can genuinely love God, you are the archangel!

4. Man’s inherent nature cannot directly represent God. Only after man undergoes God’s perfecting and has it gotten rid of, through his caring for God’s intention, satisfying God’s heart’s desire, and experiencing the Holy Spirit’s working, will his living out be approved by God.

From “Corrupt Man Cannot Represent God” in The Word Has Appeared in the Flesh