It is Very Important for People to Serve God to Love God

Serving God is the most honorable work there is. Receiving the call of serving God is life’s most fortunate things. Those who serve God must love God because only those who love God can be perfected by God and can obtain God’s promise and blessings. Those who serve God but do not love God are destined to be punished. All those who seek blessings or power in their service of God are antichrists and must be punished. Paul and Peter are excellent examples. Paul is a classic example of someone that walked the path of the antichrist and received punishment. Peter is a model of someone who sought an understanding of God and was able to satisfy God and be perfected by God due to his love for God. Peter and Paul are a good and a bad example for God’s chosen people as they experience God’s work in the last days. The path that people take is entirely up to them. The path of Peter and that of Paul were completely different paths by two very different people. Peter was someone who loved God while Paul was someone that did not love God. Those who love God love the truth. Peter loved the truth, that is why Peter sought to be perfected by God. What Paul loved was knowledge, status and power. That is why Paul did not get perfected by God. Instead, he was punished by God. The key to being perfected by God lies in the path that people choose to take. Paul and Peter were two completely different people that walked two completely different paths. Peter was a positive man. He had conscience and sense. He particularly loved the truth and God. From the deeds that Peter did, we can see that Peter had a heart that loves God from the moment that he started believing in God. He was someone that sought the truth. When Jesus was spreading the gospel, Peter was among the people who most desired to follow Jesus. Peter heard that the sermon Jesus preached involved the way of the kingdom of heaven and that only through listening to His sermons could one enter the kingdom of heaven and understand God. As a result, Peter looked for Jesus everywhere to follow Him. What Paul focused on in his faith was knowledge and status. He followed the upper ranks of the Jewish religion. When Paul heard Jesus’ sermons, instead of seeking Jesus, he convicted and judged Jesus. We can see this from the cases of Paul resisting God. Both Paul and Peter believed in God, however, their attitudes toward Jesus were different. One followed and thirsted for Jesus. The other judged, resisted and even hunted down Jesus. These two people’s attitudes toward Jesus were completely different. Their attitudes were what completely differentiated them from each other. Paul is a kind of person that innately loved status, knowledge, fame and profit. He was very self-interested and would specifically curry favor with people in the upper ranks of the Jewish society or people that had power and influence. He blindly trusted in power and knowledge. He was completely different from the likes of Peter and John. Peter and John, on the other hand, liked to witness the appearance of God. They loved people who have the truth. At first, they did not know that Jesus was God incarnate. However, after they heard of the miracles that Jesus performed, they admired and thirsted for Him. They did not give up following Jesus because of His lowly family and status. Instead, they followed and thirsted for Jesus because what He spoke of was the truth and the way of the kingdom of heaven. From these matters, we can see that the attitude that people have toward Jesus and the path that He proclaimed is completely representative of a person’s nature and essence. Today, God has been incarnated to do the work of the last days. He has come to express the truth in its entirety. All the people of the religious world who believe in God have heard that Almighty God has arrived. Eastern Lightning has emerged. However, people’s attitudes and opinions are not the same. Some people are comparatively thirsty, so they say, “Since someone has said that God has arrived, I must investigate this. Since someone has said that Almighty God expresses the truth, I must listen a bit and see if it really is the truth.” Other people are not the same. Once they hear that Almighty God has arrived, they blindly condemned it as a false way, saying that He is a deceiver and a false Christ. The attitudes, perspectives and decisions of people are not the same. That is why whether someone can be perfected and achieve salvation is completely reliant on that person’s nature or essence. Which kind of people you belong to determine the path you take. Evil people cannot love the truth. Paul was an evil person and that was why he did not love the truth. What was it that Paul loved? He loved knowledge, doctrine, academics, status and reputation. He is the same as the people today in the religious world. Whichever pastor has a diploma, accreditation or whoever has a Ph.D. is the one that they will listen to and follow. What they worship is knowledge and status. Peter and John did not worship knowledge and status. What they worshiped originated from God and the Holy Spirit. They chose to follow and acknowledge all that the Holy Spirit bore witness to and all that originated from God. On what basis do you think can a person make their decisions? Based on their nature and essence. People’s nature and essences are not the same and the paths that they choose are definitely not the same. Everyone has listened to the path of truth and to God’s voice; why is it that the paths that people take are not the same? People have received the same watering; why is it that some people understand the truth while other people are incapable of understanding the truth? Why is it that some people seek to be perfected by God yet others seek status and reputation? Why is it that the decisions that people make are not the same? This is based on people’s nature or essence. If someone has Satan’s nature, they would not love the truth even if you encourage them to do so. Even if you discourage them not to seek status, you will be unsuccessful. That is why the path that people take is based on what their essence is like. Peter chose the path of loving God, satisfying God and pursuing to understand God. Did God directly tell him to do this? Did God force him to take this path? No. Peter chose this himself. God has said that Peter was very sensible, clever and bright. He was also honest. The path that Peter took and the witness that he performed can verify it. Peter was very sensible and he paid a lot of attention to reality. From the things Peter said and did, we can see that he paid particular attention to practical entry. He did not talk about empty theories nor did he use superficial words. Paul was not like this at all. He specifically talked about profound revelations and mysteries. He talked about ruling as kings and how to obtain the crown of righteousness. Peter talked about realistic and practical matters. These are all things that normal people who are conscientious and sensible should focus on and can attain. We can see that Peter’s entering and seeking is representative of someone who genuinely loves God and it represents the normal seeking of a person who is conscientious and sensible. We can see from the service of Paul and Peter that they took two very different paths. The path that Peter took involved seeking to love God and seeking to be perfected by God. The path that Paul took involved seeking knowledge, status and rewards. How should we decide when it comes to these two paths? Which path should we take? This is a decision that everyone who accepts God’s work must face. This decision is very crucial. It can be said that this decision leads to a person’s final destination in the very end. This is not an insignificant matter.