Selected Preachings of the Leaders from Different Levels in the Church

Since mankind was corrupted by satan, their innate nature has changed into the innate nature of resisting and rebelling against God as satanic poisons have increased in them. Just as satan resists and rebels against God, so also mankind resists and rebels against God. Satan attempts to be on an equal footing with God, in the vain hope of governing mankind and ruling over all things, and corrupt mankind resists and rebels against God in the same way. They do their utmost to banish God’s coming, chasing after, persecuting, condemning, and rejecting the Christ who is incarnated twice, in the vain hope of controlling their own destiny and creating their own paradise with their own hands. As far as man’s innate nature of rebelling against God is concerned, all corrupt human beings, of course, are full of evil and reactionary corrupt nature. Man’s innate nature of rebelling against God is filled with satanic poisons. What flow out of man’s bones and blood are all satanic poisons, such as arrogance and conceit, loss of conscience, lawlessness, willfulness and recklessness, superciliousness, scorn for Heaven, worship of satan, blind belief in science, hatred for the truth, love of evil, disgust with purity, confusion between right and wrong, indulgence of sinful lust, freedom from restriction, acting against Heaven, self-degradation, advocacy of evil, cursing Heaven, complaining against heaven and earth, being impervious to reason, and so on. So how can such a mankind filled with evil and corruption not resist or rebel against God? The whole mankind is rejecting and condemning Christ; the whole mankind is resisting and rebelling against God. Strictly speaking, no one really welcomes God’s coming, and no one truly obeys God’s arrangements, but everyone wants to break away from God’s sovereignty to create his own “happiness.” Because man resists and rebels against God by nature, his viewpoints on things are doubtless reactionary ones resisting and rebelling against God. All of his philosophies, thoughts, viewpoints, knowledge, and doctrines are born out of satan’s corruption, so his thoughts and viewpoints are bound to be completely wrong and hostile to God. No wonder man is full of notions about and enmities toward all the truths expressed by the incarnated Christ and does his utmost to judge and condemn God’s work; this results entirely from his innate nature of rebelling against God. Because of corrupt mankind’s resistance and rebellion against God, God’s work has to begin by conquering mankind to make this mankind who has been so corrupted by satan as to become a hostile force against God, first fall down before God; this is really not an easy matter. If it were not that God’s word, like a sharp two-edged sword, can divide man’s soul, how could mankind be conquered? It is through judging and chastising people that God transforms their nature and thus achieves the purpose of saving them. God conquers people mainly by expressing the truth to contradict their erroneous notions and absurd viewpoints which resist and attack him, causing them to be sincerely convinced in their hearts, from their mouths, and with their eyes and thus truly fall down before him. If God did not conquer mankind first, they could not enter the right track of believing in God, and even less could they be saved.

Man’s viewpoints on things are closely related to his innate nature. Corrupt mankind’s innate nature of resisting and rebelling against God is completely composed of various satanic poisons, and these various satanic poisons are the source of all evil fallacies. All of corrupt mankind’s hostile viewpoints and doctrines against God result from satan’s corruption. Not only the extremely reactionary atheism is satan’s theory which resists and rebels against God, but all the theories and viewpoints contrary to the truth and resistant to God are also from satan. The whole corrupt mankind is filled with these erroneous and absurd viewpoints that resist and rebel against God, and in every corrupt human being’s mind, there exist many erroneous and absurd viewpoints from satan. It can be said that as long as man has the innate nature of rebelling against God, he certainly has various satanic poisons and erroneous and absurd viewpoints. This is not surprising. Because man is influenced by satanic evil poisons every day, and man is good at thinking, is apt to accept the things he likes, has the survival ability to adapt himself well to his environment, and has a free will, therefore as long as man lives in this dark and evil world for eight to ten years, he can be corrupted by satan unconsciously, and the more he learns, the more corrupt he becomes. Besides, man receives the inheritance of his ancestors and mankind’s propaganda and education, thus he sinks deeper and deeper in satan’s corruption, unable to extricate himself from it or escape it. The whole world is under satan’s power. Everyone has a set of satanic philosophies of life and viewpoints on things in his heart, which have become the guide to his existence and his maxims. All the knowledge and learning of corrupt mankind are erroneous and absurd viewpoints that resist and rebel against God. Corrupt mankind has no truth at all. The so-called “great men” from all nationalities are human beings who have been corrupted by satan, and they are not from God at all. So the poisons and fallacies in the several-thousand-year culture of mankind are all from satan. Being influenced by these cultures, thoughts, and theories generation after generation, mankind has become more and more corrupt, more and more evil, and more and more resistant to God. And, mankind has been corrupted by satan more and more deeply so that they have completely lost the human conscience they had in the beginning, have long since become the offspring of satan, and have begun to advocate evil and confuse right and wrong. They clearly know that the world is dark and evil, but they still say that it is “bright and beautiful”; they clearly know that mankind has been corrupted so deeply that they are hostile to God and guilty of monstrous sins, but they still say that “good people are in the majority”; they clearly know that the world is the hell of the devil, but they still say that it is a “wonderful homeland” and cling to and enjoy it. Mankind has long since been corrupted to the extent of confusing right and wrong and advocating evil. No one seeks the truth; no one can accept the truth. Even few people dare to tell the truth that the world is dark, and no one dares to expose the fact that mankind is evil. All follow the world trend in what they say and do and submit to satan’s evil force that resists God. In such an evil and licentious age, those pursuing to be good people will head into a blind alley, those pursuing to be honest people will be bullied and oppressed, those pursuing the true way will be rejected, and those following Christ will surely suffer persecution and tribulation or even lose their lives. God has been incarnated twice to save mankind, and both times, he has been relentlessly hunted and persecuted and has been condemned and rejected by mankind. This is ironclad proof of corrupt mankind’s resisting and rebelling against God and is a fact no one can deny. In such an evil and licentious age, corrupt mankind has long become the scum who follow satan and rebel against God. How can such an extremely corrupt mankind not provoke God’s wrath? And how can they escape God’s punishment? It can be said with certainty that all the viewpoints on things of such an evil mankind who rebels against God are ridiculous, evil, and reactionary viewpoints against the truth. Mankind’s viewpoints on things are the expressions of their innate nature of rebelling against God and are completely the manifestations of satan’s innate nature. All of mankind’s viewpoints on things fully represent mankind’s innate nature of resisting and rebelling against God. Let’s look at the great red dragon, this gang of devils. It frenziedly advocates atheism, and with the extremely reactionary “evolutionism” of Darwin as its theoretical basis, it spares no effort to deny God’s existence, frenziedly condemns God’s work, and persecutes and tortures sincere believers in God. It only allows mankind to adore, follow, and worship it, but forbids them to worship the Creator. This gang of devils even dares to put itself in God’s seat for people to worship, attempting to dominate the world and rule over and control all mankind so that the world can become the region where there is no God and become satan’s own fief. This is the concrete evidence of corrupt mankind’s innate nature of rebelling against God. Let’s look again at various cults which adore satan and deny the true God who created all things. They worship satan which has long since rebelled against God as well as various evil spirits as their gods, call them “God,” and enshrine the works and words of various evil spirits as the “truth.” Their minds have been blinded by satan, and thus they always talk black into white, becoming the tools with which satan deceives and corrupts people. What they spread and advocate are all ridiculous fallacies that resist and rebel against God. No matter who they are, satan and various evil spirits or human beings corrupted by satan, if they rebel against God by nature, all the doctrines, theories, and viewpoints that they spread are sure to be rebellious against God. What mankind’s innate nature is determines what their viewpoints on things are. If mankind rebels against God by nature, their viewpoints on things are also rebellious against God. In a word, man’s viewpoints on things are from his innate nature. Whoever he is, as long as we know his viewpoints on things, we will know what he is like by nature. Whether one is good or evil can be determined completely according to his viewpoints on things.