If Your Belief in God Is True, You Will Receive His Care Often | The Church of Almighty God
God’s
changing of His intentions toward the people of Nineveh involved no
hesitation or ambiguity. Rather, it was a transformation from pure
anger to pure tolerance. This is a true revelation of God’s
substance. God is never irresolute or hesitant in His actions; the
principles and purposes behind His actions are all clear and
transparent, pure and flawless, with absolutely no ruses or schemes
intermingled within. In other words, God’s substance contains no
darkness or evil. God became angry with the Ninevites because their
wicked acts had reached His eyes; at that time His anger was derived
from His substance. However, when God’s anger vanished and He
bestowed His tolerance upon the people of Nineveh once more, all that
He revealed was still His own substance. The entirety of this change
was due to a change in man’s attitude toward God. During this
entire period of time, God’s unoffendable disposition did not
change; God’s tolerant substance did not change; God’s loving and
merciful substance did not change. When people commit wicked acts and
offend God, He will bring His anger upon them. When people truly
repent, God’s heart will change, and His anger will cease. When
people continue to stubbornly oppose God, His rage will be unceasing;
His wrath will press in on them bit by bit until they are destroyed.
This is the substance of God’s disposition. Regardless of whether
God is expressing wrath or mercy and lovingkindness, man’s conduct,
behavior and attitude toward God in the depths of his heart dictate
that which is expressed through the revelation of God’s
disposition. If God continuously subjects one person to His wrath,
this person’s heart doubtlessly opposes God. Because he has never
truly repented, bowed his head before God or possessed true belief in
God, he has never obtained God’s mercy and tolerance. If one often
receives God’s care and often obtains His mercy and tolerance, then
this person doubtlessly has true belief in God in his heart, and his
heart is not opposed to God. He often truly repents before God;
therefore, even if God’s discipline often descends upon this
person, His wrath shall not.
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Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh
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Nineveh
turns from the evil way
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Sodom
is being burned
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