God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Godself (3)

 Once “it was the first time” or “for the first time” is mentioned, it means that God had never done such works before. The works were unprecedented, and even though God had created mankind before and even though God had created various kinds of creatures and living things before, God had never done such works. All these works have to do with the work of God’s managing man, and they are works related to man and related to God’s saving mankind and managing mankind. After Abraham, God for the first time chose Job to be the one who under the law could fear God and shun evil and stand testimony even in satan’s temptations. That was the first time God allowed satan to tempt a man, and the first time God made a wager with satan and finally God for the first time gained a man who could stand testimony for God and bear testimony for God before satan and put satan to utter shame. He was the first man God gained after the creation of mankind who could testify God. After God gained such a man, God’s heart was more eager to continue his management, to do the next step of work he intended to do, and to prepare the people and place for the next step of his work.

After we have fellowshipped these, what do you truly know about God’s will? God considers the thing of managing mankind and saving mankind this time as more important than anything else. God did those things not just by his thought or by his word, much less did he do them casually. Rather, he has been doing all the things in a planned, purposeful, and standardized way, and with his will. It can be seen that the work of God’s saving mankind this time is of so great significance to God and to man. No matter how difficult this work is, no matter what great hindrances there are in doing this work, and no matter how weak mankind is and how disobedient mankind is, they are nothing difficult to God. God has been busying and has been spending his painstaking effort and price, managing the work he aims to do, arranging everything, and ruling over all the men he aims to complete and all the works he aims to do. All this is unprecedented. God for the first time carries out a great project in such ways and at so much price to manage mankind and save mankind. While doing all the works, he expresses and releases to mankind his painstaking care and price, what he has and is, his wisdom and almightiness, and his disposition of various aspects bit by bit without any reserve. The expressions and release in these ways are also unprecedented. So, in the entire universe, except for the men God aims to manage and save, no created being has ever been so close to God, and no created being has so intimate a relationship with God. In God’s heart, the mankind he aims to manage and save is most important, and he considers such a mankind to be more important than anything else. Although he has paid a lot of price for such a mankind and although he has been constantly hurt and rebelled against by such a mankind, he has no complaint or regret and never leaves or forsakes mankind, but keeps doing his work without stopping, for he knows that there will be a day sooner or later when man will be awoken by the calling of his word, will be moved by his word, and will recognize that he is the Creator, thereby returning to him. …

After hearing these words today, you may feel that all this God does is very normal. All along man seems to have felt some of God’s will for mankind in God’s word and God’s work, but man’s feeling or his knowledge is always at some distant from what God thinks in his heart. So I think it is necessary to fellowship with everyone why God created mankind at that time and against what background God wanted to gain the mankind he expects. It is very necessary to tell all these to everyone, so that everyone can be clear about them and know them in his heart. God’s every idea and thought and his work in every phase and every period are related to his entire management work, very closely related, so if you know about God’s ideas and thoughts and God’s will in every step of work, it means that you know the origin of the work of God’s management plan. On this basis, you will gradually have a deeper knowledge of God. Although all the things God did at the beginning of the creation of the world, which I mentioned above, are only some “messages” to man, and they seem to have nothing to do with man’s pursuit of the truth, yet one day when you experience to a certain extent, you will think that these things I say are not so simple as to be one or two messages only or to be some mysteries only. When you grow in life, when you have some place for God in your heart, or when you have a clearer and deeper knowledge of God’s will, you will truly feel the importance and necessity of my speaking these words today. No matter to what extent you can understand now, it is necessary for you to know and understand these things. Whatever thing or work God does, whether he does it with his mind or with his own hands, for the first time or for the last time, he has his plan for it, and there are his purposes and his thoughts in it. Such thoughts and such purposes represent God’s disposition and also express what God has and is, and such disposition of God and what God has and is are what everyone must know. After knowing these, men will gradually understand why God has done so and why God has said so, so that they will have more faith to follow God and to pursue the truth and pursue the transformation of their disposition. Therefore, man’s knowledge of God and man’s faith in God, these two are inseparable.

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