It is stipulated in “Ten Administrative Decrees God’s Chosen People Must Abide By”: “Do not pass judgment on God. Do not pass comment on matters pertaining to God at will. Do what man should do and say what man should say. Do not go beyond the limits and do not exceed the boundaries. Watch your tongue and guard your steps lest you do things that offend God’s nature.” Doctrinally we all know that God’s nature does not tolerate man’s offense, but because we do not know God’s nature and do not know God’s substance, and because we disobey and resist God by nature too seriously, when encountering things that are not in conformity with our notions, we talk loosely, and unconsciously say words of offending God’s nature. For example, when the work arrangement concerning the seven-year trial was distributed, some people said, “It had been said that the day of God would come in the year 1999, but now it is said to come in seven years. Who knows how many years there will be in the future before it actually comes. God’s word is not accurate.” When some people heard that the leader XX, who had followed God for many years, was expelled, they said, “He has believed in God for so many years and has undergone so many sufferings, yet he was expelled without demur. God is too heartless. God has no love either.” Some leaders always performed their duties according to their own will and acted arbitrarily against the work arrangements. After being removed by God’s family, they said that in serving God, keeping God’s company was like living with a tiger. When some people saw that God’s family arranged for those who had no work to do to go back home, they said, “When the gospel work needed people in the beginning, God’s family spared no effort to fellowship with them and encourage them to leave home to perform their duties. Now the amount of the gospel work becomes less and they are of no use, so they are sent home. Isn’t this killing the donkey the moment it leaves the millstone?” When some people saw that others became the leaders but they themselves didn’t, they said, “They know how to win the favor of and fawn on the right people, so they can become leaders. The person like me who does not know how to fawn and flatter is disliked by both God and man.” Some people, because God’s family arranged for them a duty not to their liking, said, “God’s family finds that I am good-natured and that it is easy to take advantage of me, so they always arrange for me the duties no one is willing to perform. If I were a tough one, they would surely not arrange this way. God’s family also bullies the weak and fears the strong.” Some people, because unpleasant things or disasters befell them, complained against God, “Why does God not keep me? I have worked so hard to expend for God. Why do such things still come upon me? God has no love, and he is not righteous either.” Some people, when preaching the gospel, in order to win more people and finish the task, said some words of blaspheming God along with those denominational people. Some people believed in God as if for others. When their anger flares up, they would recklessly say the word “I don’t believe anymore” without thinking. When some people heard that someone who pursued hard suddenly died by accident, they judged God without thinking, saying that God was not righteous. And so on. We have spoken too many such words, but when we say these words, we do not mind at all, thinking that we only say some words but have not done any thing that disobeys and resists God, frustrates God’s work, or offends God’s nature. So, we do not feel afraid nor realize the gravity of the matter, nor do we confess and repent of our sins to God.

We can say such words, mainly because we have not realized the nature and consequence of speaking these words. God says: “Some people talk loosely and say whatever they want to say. Seeing that God is a normal and ordinary person now, they slander him in whatever way they like. Such people have no good fruit to reap. You resist God in this way, and act against God, openly resisting God, openly blaspheming God, openly slandering God, and openly judging and calumniating God. Such people are all the objects of severe punishment in the future. … Your words are out, which means that spilled water cannot be gathered up. Can God allow a person to casually resist him, casually judge him, and casually blaspheme him while ignoring it? Then God would have no dignity! … If you can blaspheme God once, you can judge God once, or you can slander God once, it is a permanent blot, which can never be removed. … People all do not fear God while believing in God. When their tempers flare up and when their anger wells up, they simply say whatever they want to say. Then you will have to pay some prices for the words you have said. This is not so small a matter!” “Since you have done things you should not do and said things you should not say, you will receive your deserved retribution. You should know that although you have no principles in speaking and doing things, God is highly principled in doing things and speaking. You receive your retribution, because you have offended God, not a human.” “Is God one you can fool at will? One you can judge casually? Or one you can talk about at will? This is an extraordinarily serious matter. If you say a wrong word, you are finished. It’s a matter that may cost you your life!” From every sentence of God’s word, we can see God’s righteous nature that does not tolerate anyone’s offense and see that slandering, judging, and blaspheming God is a matter that may cost one his life and is a blot that will never be removed. Such people will absolutely have no good fruit to reap and will surely receive their deserved punishment and retribution, because God is the Creator, God has dignity, and he by no means allows a little creature to slander him or blaspheme him at will. In the Age of the Law, the Israelites uttered complaints against God whenever encountering difficulties in the wilderness, so they provoked God’s wrath, received God’s punishment, and died in the wilderness. In the Age of the Kingdom today, things like people receiving punishment and retribution for saying words of offending God have happened from time to time. A sister, because the communication deacon in her church died suddenly while sleeping at night, passed a judgment before another sister, saying, “So many negative people God does not discipline. This sister was so burdened for the work of God’s family, but God took her away. I think God is unrighteous by doing so….” As she spoke, God’s discipline came upon her. Her mouth suddenly quivered, and she could not even utter a word in the end. Another sister who preached the gospel, because she had notions about this fellowship “How Should We Treat the Day of God,” said thoughtlessly, “It was already said at the end of the year 2003 that the gospel work would be concluded then, but now here comes such a saying. The above is really powerful; whatever he says is right….” After saying that, she tore the work arrangement. Not long after that, she got stomach cancer and died, receiving her deserved retribution. Outside God’s family, many people from various sects and denominations were also cursed and punished by God for slandering God and blaspheming God. These are the facts all of us have seen, and they are enough to show us God’s majestic and wrathful nature that does not tolerate anyone’s offense. What is the nature of our talking loosely? When we casually judge that God’s word is not accurate, this is essentially denying the faithfulness of God, and it is actually saying that God is a God who cheats people. When we say that by asking people to perform their duties, God is making use of people to toil, and that God will kill the donkey the moment it leaves the millstone after people finish their duties, it is essentially saying that God employs diabolic means and is sinister and cunning. When we say that in serving God, keeping God’s company is like living with a tiger, it is essentially denying and blaspheming God’s substance of being beautiful and good, and is saying that God is unapproachable and is putting God on the par with the archfiends. When we say that those who can fawn are popular in God’s family or say that God’s family also bullies the weak and fears the strong, it is essentially denying God’s substance of righteousness and holiness, and is saying that God also likes evil and darkness and is unfair like man. When we loosely say “I don’t believe anymore,” it is essentially denying and rejecting God. By saying these words, we are purely judging God, slandering God, condemning God, and blaspheming God. It is an extraordinarily serious matter and has seriously offended God’s nature. However, we think that we just say some words and there is nothing more, and some people even say that they are telling the “truth.” This is enough to show that we do not know God’s nature, do not know our arrogant and conceited satanic innate nature, believe in God but do not treat God as God, and have no fear or reverence for God at all. If we do not repent and confess our sins immediately, the consequence will be dreadful to contemplate.