I was formerly a preacher of the Born Again Church. I once thought that I had already had the seal of salvation and was the holiest one who loved God the most. And I had set my heart on pursuing to be a good shepherd after God’s heart. However, when the Jesus whom I had been earnestly expecting for many years came back, I did not know him and acted as a blind guide. I had broken God’s heart.

In the summer of 1990, I went back to my hometown to see my mother, and she preached the Lord’s gospel to me. After I returned to Jiagedaqi (in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), I joined the Born Again Church, and at the end of that year, I was clearly saved. In December 1998, I attended a training course for the first-class “pillars,” and from then on, I became even more zealous in serving the Lord.

The church at that time was thriving. The believers had a great zeal and could all love each other. At each life meeting, at least more than half of the people were saved. But in recent years, without knowing why, the number of the saved people had gradually decreased. We were as busy as before, but the saved people were very few. The co-workers and we several concerned church members burned with worries. We knelt down before God many times and prayed with tears streaming down our cheeks, “O God! Please revive our spirits and revive our church again!” Yet the church was still in a desolate and miserable state. Even those devout co-workers at ordinary times behaved unrestrainedly and began to pay attention to food and clothing. As a preacher, I always played the same old tune over and over again and couldn’t preach any new light. Previously, when we relied on the preaching that ‘once saved never perish,’ we could have the strength to keep away from sin. But now, we reached a state where we lived in sin and could not extricate ourselves from it. I thought to myself, “O Lord! Can such an unholy person as me see you? What should I do? What should the brothers and sisters in our church do?”

While we were in a perplexed and helpless state, the way of the “Seven Spirits sect” was preached to our area in July 2002. Several sisters of our church accepted it and some listened to it. At this time, I remembered that at a fellowship meeting of the large area co-workers in the summer of 1997, a co-worker said, “There came from the south of the country an organization called the ‘Seven Spirits sect.’ It’s an evil spirit, a deceiver. This sect grows very fast. Because the evil spirit works in it, its members are all very powerful. They are very familiar with the Bible. You will die if you have contact with them.” Thinking of that, I immediately found several concerned church members, went with them to the homes of the sisters who had accepted the “Seven Spirits sect,” and expelled them from the church in the name of “Jesus.” We also confiscated their hymnbooks and cassettes given by our church. As for the sisters who had listened to its way, we told them to stop attending meetings and examine themselves at home. From then on, to protect the flock, I, like crazy, put aside all the works at home and went everywhere to follow, spy on, and search for the people who had accepted the way of the “Seven Spirits sect.” I resisted it at the cost of my life, and I always thought to myself, “My doing so must be most pleasing to God. I must be faithful at this critical time. Only what we believe in is the purest way of life.”

Later, the upper co-workers distributed to us many booklets, which said, “The ‘Seven Spirits sect’ says that God has been incarnated the second time as a female. They specially come to the Born Again Church to snatch people. They can receive 1,500 yuan if they snatch a preacher, 800 yuan a concerned member, and 500 yuan an ordinary believer. They will buy you over first and then make you serve them. If you don’t obey, they will lay murderous hands on you, either breaking your arms or breaking your legs, or gouging out your eyes or cutting off your ears….” Faced with these hearsay “facts,” I felt more disgusted with the “Seven Spirits sect.” I thought to myself, “The Lord had suffered so much from his first incarnation, will he still be incarnated the second time? Wouldn’t it be endless if it continued like this? They also say that God is incarnated as a female? This is even more wrong. It’s too vicious of them to threaten people with such cruel means.” Then, I hastened to read the booklets to the brothers and sisters and wantonly preached, “It’s better to kill one thousand innocent men than to let off one of the ‘Seven Spirits sect.’” At that time, as if possessed by the devil, I spared no effort to rush about in the “front line” of resisting Almighty God’s new work.

Once, a sister who came to our local place to visit her relative came to a meeting of ours. As soon as I entered the gate, the sister of the host family told me about it. I became infuriated immediately after hearing it. I entered the room at once, grabbed that sister’s back collar, and dragged her to the yard. I questioned her sternly, “Where are you from? Who asked you to come here? Do you have a letter of introduction? (All the churches in our denomination have contact with each other, and without the introduction, we will not receive anyone.)” The sister answered my questions one by one. But because she had no letter of introduction and was of a doubtful background, I pushed and shoved her out and then bolted the door.

A few days later, another three people came to our church to preach God’s end-time new work. After I heard it, I rushed to the church in a great rage. The moment I stepped into the room, I roared, “Get out quickly!” One of the brothers said, “We come here to preach God’s end-time new work to you….” Before he had finished his words, I pushed them out roughly. From then on, I specially assigned a brother to guard the gate, and no stranger was allowed to enter the church.

To guard the gate of the sheepfold well and guard against the disturbance of the “Seven Spirits sect,” and to strengthen the “faith” of the brothers and sisters, I set up one more “line of defense”: to curse the “Seven Spirits sect” at the beginning of each meeting. When the meeting was over, I would also warn the brothers and sisters, “If the people of the ‘Seven Spirits sect’ come again, don’t be kind to them. Don’t smile to them. Curse them severely. Don’t let them in. No matter what they say, don’t listen to it.” Just when I was frenziedly resisting, my heart disease, gastric disease, and high blood fat, which had been cured after I believed in the Lord, all came back. After I was put on a drip for a month, I did not get any better. Not knowing what the cause was, I often came before the Lord and examined myself: Was it because I was not faithful and didn’t guard the Lord’s flock properly? Yet I felt perplexed all along.