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Almost all believers, for the most part, follow their earnest worldly desires and cravings in their faith in God. However, in a faith and belief that pursue one’s worldly desires, satisfaction, success, and hopes, the love of the cross, which is worthy of leading to heaven, can never exist. This is because it cannot achieve the divine nature (the temple of the heart) resembling God, which those worthy of reaching heaven must possess. This refers to a loving heart, a merciful heart, a joyful heart, a gentle heart, a temperate heart, a patient heart, a peaceful heart, a kind heart, and an obedient heart—namely, the nine attributes of a heart resembling God. Yet, due to worldly desires and cravings, countless people, driven by their selfish ideas and benefits, give rise to sins and greed, ceaselessly producing envy, jealousy, hatred, strife, lust, pride, and lies. These are entirely different from true Christians who bear the love of the cross worthy of leading to salvation. They are merely shepherds, believers, and faiths of the world with only the shell and appearance that seem plausible. In other words, they are religions, churches, shepherds, and believers filled with empty gestures, hypocrisy, pretense, stubbornness, and lies, bearing no fruit or results. They are hollow tares, appearing plausible on the outside but rotten or worm-eaten within—like fruit. They only learn words and theories, yet in reality, they are foolish ones who neither seek nor follow the path worthy of leading to salvation in their faith and belief.
Due to believing in thoughts and judgments that combine assertions and stubbornness rooted in bad habits tamed by their physical desires and hopes from a young age, they pile up more sin and greed instead of the Word. These are vain faiths centered on selfish ideas and thoughts that constantly repeat as they pursue their worldly hopes, success, and desires. Thus, tamed by their sins and greed, they grow bolder in their habits toward sin and greed, and with sins easily committed, their conscience inevitably fades away in such faith and belief. How can one, by pursuing their worldly hopes, desires, and success, obtain the divine nature (the Holy Spirit) worthy of entering the kingdom of God?
How can someone who follows their selfish greed and desires build the beautiful temple of the heart (the Spirit of God) that bears the love of the cross? How can the abominable hope that follows one’s selfish desires and cravings be called the hope of Christ, which possesses the love worthy of leading to salvation? As their righteous conscience gradually becomes desolate due to their futile worldly greed and sins, their zeal, resolutions, and determinations, growing bolder toward sin, are faiths that drag them further into the mire of the world and the snares of greed. These are lives that become increasingly deprived and faiths that grow ever more futile and wretched. Don’t silence your conscience—turn back to it! This is like gradually brightening the lamp that leads to life (to salvation). Follow the physician who restores and illuminates your conscience! The greatest physician is the Word of God, so place all your judgments, thoughts, and standards in the Word. Through this, the sins accumulated in your conscience will be revealed. The Word is the life that lights the lamp of conscience, and the Word is the light that exposes the sins hidden in the darkness. Through this, all humans can obtain the path worthy of receiving forgiveness of sins.
Repent! The day of judgment is at hand!
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