With regard to Almighty God and the Church of Almighty God, everyone all over the world knows Him and His Church. In 1991, the incarnate God appeared and began to work in Mainland China.
Under the name of Almighty God, He does the work of judgment beginning with God’s family prophesied in the Bible on the basis of the Lord Jesus’ redemptive work in the Age of Grace, unlocks all the mysteries in God’s six-thousand-year management plan to mankind, and expresses all the truths of purifying and saving mankind. Because of Almighty God’s appearance and work, many believers in the Lord for many years in all the denominations and sects confirm that Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus through reading His words and thus they accept Almighty God’s work in the last days. As more and more people follow Almighty God, the Church of Almighty God develops gradually. Subsequently, like all house churches in the Mainland China, the Church of Almighty God is suppressed and persecuted continuously by the atheistic CCP government. Especially since the kingdom gospel was spread widely in 2012, the CCP government has been crafting rumors to slander the Church of Almighty God by the news media. Meanwhile, it does its utmost to persecute and arrest the believers in Almighty God. Thus the Church of Almighty God almost becomes the focus of the world. In recent years, the CCP government has used the Internet media to spread various rumors to smear the Church of Almighty God without restraint by saying “Christianity publicizes that family is important and that mothers should not leave their children. But in Beijing about thirty thousand families are abandoned by the believers in Almighty God. They leave their families to preach the gospel, thus many families have been broken.” “The believers in Almighty God all forsake their families and don’t look after their children.” When you see these words, will you believe them, suspect them or want to explore them? Then let’s discuss about this issue together.
Under the name of Almighty God, He does the work of judgment beginning with God’s family prophesied in the Bible on the basis of the Lord Jesus’ redemptive work in the Age of Grace, unlocks all the mysteries in God’s six-thousand-year management plan to mankind, and expresses all the truths of purifying and saving mankind. Because of Almighty God’s appearance and work, many believers in the Lord for many years in all the denominations and sects confirm that Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus through reading His words and thus they accept Almighty God’s work in the last days. As more and more people follow Almighty God, the Church of Almighty God develops gradually. Subsequently, like all house churches in the Mainland China, the Church of Almighty God is suppressed and persecuted continuously by the atheistic CCP government. Especially since the kingdom gospel was spread widely in 2012, the CCP government has been crafting rumors to slander the Church of Almighty God by the news media. Meanwhile, it does its utmost to persecute and arrest the believers in Almighty God. Thus the Church of Almighty God almost becomes the focus of the world. In recent years, the CCP government has used the Internet media to spread various rumors to smear the Church of Almighty God without restraint by saying “Christianity publicizes that family is important and that mothers should not leave their children. But in Beijing about thirty thousand families are abandoned by the believers in Almighty God. They leave their families to preach the gospel, thus many families have been broken.” “The believers in Almighty God all forsake their families and don’t look after their children.” When you see these words, will you believe them, suspect them or want to explore them? Then let’s discuss about this issue together.
It Is Heaven’s Law and Earth’s Principle to Follow God’s Will. How Can the Rumors of Breaking Families Be Reasonable?
The CCP deceives people by the words “Christianity publicizes that family is important.” It misleads people that the church of the Age of Grace paid attention to families while the Church of Almighty God allows believers to abandon their families. Please think about that: The atheistic CCP government even doesn’t admit there is a God at all. So how can it understand Christianity correctly? Are its words worth trusting? Two thousand years ago, the Lord Jesus taught His followers: “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:26). “He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me” (Matthew 10:37). “So likewise, whoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:33). “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like to it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets” (Matthew 22:37-40). From the Lord’s words, we can see that the Lord Jesus didn’t let man only love their family and relatives. He taught man that if they value their family and relatives above God, then they were unworthy of being His disciples. That God arranges family for us is to make us honor our parents, love our spouse, and glorify Him and benefit our family at home. But God’s intention is not to cause us to forget Him for the sake of our family. Because God’s purpose of creating man is to allow man to worship Him, manifest Him, carry out His will and fulfill man’s duty as a created being on earth. Since we believe in God, we should magnify and exalt Him in everything. At any time, we should put His commission at the first place and our personal things second. When God calls on us, we can put aside our personal benefits without hesitation to expend for Him and satisfy His requirements. This is the behavioral principle of the believers in God and the behavior with conscience and sense. By doing in this way, we must be blessed by God. For the Lord Jesus said: “Truly I say to you, There is no man that has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting” (Luke 18:29-30). From these we see that the words, “Christianity publicizes that family is important” said by the CCP are groundless. Only God’s word is the truth. Since we believe in God, we should believe in His word and practice according to His requirements. If a church only publicizes focusing on family and paying attention to living a life, the church does not belong to a true Christianity. The true one is under the authority of God’s words and the truth, and its believers all practice according to God’s words. If a Christian only knows to enjoy the blessings of domestic harmony and the happiness of relatives’ gathering, and regards his families and relatives more important than obeying God and satisfying Him, he will completely violate God’s will and won’t be considered a true Christian. How can he receive God’s approval even if his family get along harmoniously and love each other? Whoever only enjoys God’s grace but ignores God’s will is an ingrate. This is just like the relationship between parents and children. Parents bring their children up, help them build up their families and make their careers. But when they grow up, they only look after their own little family rather than care for their parents. Aren’t they ungrateful ones with the least humanity? So the CCP’s opinion “The believers of the Church of Almighty God abandon families and children and break families by preaching the gospel” is absolutely absurd.
Look back to the Age of Law. The prophet Samuel was brought to the temple and dedicated to Jehovah God by his mother after he had just been weaned; the prophet Jeremiah left his parents before he married, and spread the words of Jehovah God all his life across the country; in the Age of Grace, the twelve apostles including Peter and John all cast aside their families, houses and lands to follow the Lord Jesus. Especially after the Lord Jesus ascended to heaven, many disciples and apostles wandered outside for years in order to spread the Lord’s gospel to other countries. Did these prophets and apostles abandon and break their families? The British missionary Hudson Taylor came to China to spread the gospel when he was 22, and finally he passed away in China; the American missionary Lottie Moon arrived in China to spread the gospel when she was 33. At last she died in the ship by which she went back to America in her seventies. There were also many other missionaries from other countries who made long journeys and brought the seed of the gospel to China. In order to spread the gospel of the Lord Jesus, they came to China. Can we say that they broke their families by spreading the gospel? Would they not like to enjoy the happiness of family? No! They did these because they knew that it was the redemption of God’s crucifixion that forgave their sins and saved them from violence; they got the greatest salvation of God and saw the deeds of God. They remembered the teachings of the Lord all the time, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment” (Matthew 22:37-38). As a created being, they knew that they should sacrifice for God, devote themselves to spreading the gospel and make more souls return to God. Think of the two-thousand-year history of the Age of Grace. If there were no those apostles, disciples and missionaries who devoted and lost their lives to the gospel work one after another, then how can we, born in this country of atheistic government, enjoy the salvation of the Lord Jesus? How could the gospel of the Lord Jesus be spread all over the world?
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