People all feel that they can only gain transformation through the church life and cannot gain transformation outside the church life and feel as if they cannot gain transformation in their real life. Do you realize what the problem is? Before, I talked about bringing God into the real life, which is a path for believers in God to enter into the reality of God’s word. Actually, the church life is only one way through which people can be made perfect. The main environment where people can be made perfect is their real life. That is, they have to practice and exercise practically, which I speak about, so that they can live a normal human life and live as a real man in their daily life. On the one hand, they need to acquire literacy so as to improve their literacy ability so that they can read God’s word and can understand it; on the other hand, they need to have the common knowledge of living as a man and have the knowledge and sense as a normal man, for they hardly have any of these things; on the third hand, they need to enjoy God’s word through the church life so that they can become clear about the truth step by step.

Why must people bring God into their real life when believing in God? Because not only can people be transformed through the church life, but even more they can be transformed through entering into reality in their real life. In the past, you always talked about your spiritual states and the things in the spirit, but paid no attention to exercising or entering in in many things. You just wrote, listened, and read every day. And you prayed while you were cooking, “God! Be my life within. Bless me and inspire me to know how I should spend today. Let me know now what you will inspire me about today. Make your word my life.” Before your meal, you prayed again, “God! The food is bestowed by you. May you bless us. Amen! Help us to live by you. Be with us. Amen!” While you were washing the dishes after your meal, you muttered again, “God, I am like these dishes. They were used, just as we have been corrupted by satan, and thus need to be washed with water. You are the water, and your word is the living water to supply my life.” After that, evening came before you realized it, and before you went to bed you muttered again, “God! You blessed me and led me the whole day. I truly thank you….” You passed a day like that and then went to sleep. Most of you lived such a life every day. Even today, none of you pays attention to entering in in a real way, but you all only pay attention to praying with your lips. That is your former life and your old life. Most of you lived like that. You did not exercise practically and thus you gained little real transformation. You only prayed with your lips and drew near to God with your mouth but did not have any change in your knowledge. Take tidying your room, a simplest thing, as an example. When you saw that your room was very dirty, you sat there and began to pray, “God! You see, my home has been corrupted by satan to such an extent. God! I truly thank and praise you. I am as dirty as this room. If you did not save us and inspire us, we would not realize this even today!” You sat there muttering with your lips and prayed for quite some time, but after that you did nothing as if the room did not need tidying, exactly like a garrulous old woman. This is how you lived your spiritual living. You simply did not enter into anything truly and practically but kept too many outward practices! You have to exercise in a real way, exercising in your practical life and through your actual difficulties. Only in this way can you be transformed. Without your real life, you cannot be transformed. What is the use of praying with your lips? It is useless if you cannot know your innate nature, and it is even more useless if you cannot find ways to practice! To pray normally may keep people in a normal state within, but it cannot transform them completely. People cannot know their self-rightness, haughtiness, pride, self-conceit, and corrupt nature through praying, but they can only discover them through enjoying God’s word and know them through the Holy Spirit’s inspiration they receive in their real life. People now can all speak fine words, and the messages they hear are the highest, which are higher than all those of the past ages and generations. But they have applied few of them to their real life. That is to say, they do not have God in their real life or have the life of a transformed new man, they do not live out the truth in their real life or bring God into their real life, and they all live their life as a son of hell. Isn’t this an obvious deviation?

To become a normal man again, that is, to have the normal humanity, people should not please God with their lips. Doing so will only do harm to themselves but will not help them to enter in or gain transformation. So, to gain transformation, people have to exercise bit by bit, enter in little by little, and seek and grope bit by bit, entering in from the positive side and living out a practical life of truth and of a saint. From now on, people just need to exercise through actual things, actual matters, and actual circumstances in a practical way, and they needn’t speak anything with their lips but just need to exercise through the actual circumstances. After realizing that they are with poor qualities, they need to eat and drink normally, enter in normally, and practice normally. Only in this way can they have reality and enter in faster. To be transformed, people have to exercise through some realities, through some actual things, matters, and circumstances. If they only live the church life, can they exercise truly? Can they enter into reality? No! If they cannot enter into the real life, their old practices and ways of living cannot be changed. This is not solely because they are lazy or too dependent but because they simply do not have the ability to live their life, much less understand what the normal man God requires them to become is like. In the past, people all paid attention to communicating, speaking, and fellowshipping, and they even became “talkers.” No one pursued the transformation of their life nature, but they simply pursued profound theories. So, today this kind of life of believing in God in a religious way should be changed. They should begin to exercise through one matter, one thing, or one person, and practice through one object. Only in this way can they gain transformation. For people to be transformed, they have to be transformed from their substance, being transformed from their substance, from their life, and from their laziness, dependence, and slavishness. Only in this way can they be transformed.