The answer from God’s word:
“When Jesus came, he also did part of the work and also spoke some words. But what work did he mainly accomplish? He mainly accomplished the work of crucifixion, becoming in the likeness of sinful flesh to accomplish the work of crucifixion and redeem all mankind and becoming a sin offering for the sin of all mankind. He mainly accomplished that work.”
from “The Word Accomplishes Everything” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“Although people have been redeemed and forgiven of their sins, this only means that God does not remember their transgressions and does not treat them according to their transgressions. But as they live in the flesh and have not broken away from sins, they cannot but continue to commit sins and continually manifest their corrupt satanic disposition. This is their life of committing sins continually and being forgiven continually. Most people commit sins in the day and confess them at night. Thus, even if the sin offering is forever effective to them, it cannot save them from sins. This means that the work of salvation has only been half completed.”
from “The Mystery of Incarnation (4)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“People are forgiven of their sins because of God’s work of crucifixion, but they are still living in their old corrupt satanic disposition. Thus, God has to save people completely from their corrupt satanic disposition, so that their sinful nature will be completely cast off and no longer develop and their disposition can be transformed. For this, God has to let people understand the way to grow in life, the way of life, and the pathway to be transformed in their disposition, and have them practice according to this way, so that they can be transformed in their disposition gradually and live under the shining of the light, and that everything they do can be after God’s heart, and they can cast off their corrupt satanic disposition, break away from satan’s influence of darkness, and come out of sins completely. Only then will they have received a full salvation. When Jesus did his work, people’s knowledge of him was still vague and obscure, and they always believed that he was the Son of David and said that he was a great prophet and he was the merciful Lord who atoned for man’s sins. Some were healed of their sicknesses by touching the edge of his garment by faith, the blind could receive sight, and the dead could be raised. But people could not discover the deep-rooted corrupt satanic disposition within them and did not know how to cast it off. People received a lot of grace, such as, fleshly peace and joy, the whole household being blessed through one member believing in the Lord, the healing of sicknesses, and so on. Besides that, they had good deeds and godly appearance. Those who could live by these would be qualified believers. Only such believers could go to heaven after their death, that is, be saved. But when these people were alive, they did not understand the way of life at all but just kept committing sins and confessing them, and they did not have the way to be transformed in their disposition. In the Age of the Grace people were just in such a situation. Have they been saved completely? No! So, after that stage of work has been accomplished, there is still a stage of work of judgment and chastisement. In this stage, it is to purify people through the word so that they can have ways to go on. If God still drove out demons in this stage, it would produce no results and would be meaningless, because people’s sinful nature could not be cast off and they could only remain at the basis of being forgiven of their sins. People have been forgiven of their sins through the sin offering, because the work of the cross has ended and God has triumphed over satan. But people’s corrupt disposition still remains within them and they still can commit sins and resist God, and God has not gained mankind. So in this stage, God discloses people’s corrupt disposition by his word and lets them practice according to proper ways. The work done in this stage is more significant and produces greater results than the work done in the former stage, because now the word directly supplies people’s life so that their disposition can be thoroughly renewed, and it is a more thorough work. So, the final incarnation has completed the significance of God’s incarnation and has completely accomplished God’s management plan of saving man.”
from “The Mystery of Incarnation (4)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“When Jesus came among men, he did many works. But he only accomplished the work of redeeming all mankind and was only man’s sin offering, and he did not rid men of all their corrupt disposition. To completely save men from satan’s influence, it not only requires Jesus to be the sin offering to bear men’s sins, but also requires God to do a greater work to completely rid men of their disposition corrupted by satan. So, after men’s sins were forgiven, God has again returned in the flesh to lead men into the new age and begin the work of chastisement and judgment. This work has brought mankind into a higher state. All those who submit under his dominion will enjoy higher truth, receive greater blessings, truly live in the light, and receive the truth, the way, and the life.”
from “Preface” to The Word Appears in the Flesh
“God does the work of saving man by three stages; that is, he thoroughly defeats satan by warring against it by three stages. But the inside truth of all the work of warring against satan is that God achieves the results through these several works of bestowing grace to man, being man’s sin offering, forgiving man’s sins, conquering man, and perfecting man. To put it plainly, to war against satan is not to fight against satan, but to defeat satan by saving man, working man’s life, and transforming man’s disposition so that man can testify for God. He defeats satan by transforming man’s corrupt disposition. After satan has been defeated, that is, after man has been thoroughly saved, satan which has been put to shame will be thoroughly bound. Then man will have been thoroughly saved. So, saving man in substance is warring against satan, and warring against satan is mainly manifested as saving man. Conquering man in the final stage is the last stage of work in warring against satan, a work of thoroughly saving man from satan’s domain. The inner meaning of conquering man is to conquer satan’s embodiments that have been corrupted by satan and then make them return to the Creator, so that they will forsake satan and completely return to God. Then man will have been thoroughly saved. So, the conquering work is the concluding work of warring against satan and the last stage of management in defeating satan. Without this stage of work, even in the end man could not be completely saved and thus satan could not be thoroughly defeated, and mankind could never enter into the pleasant destination and could never break free from satan’s influence.”
from “Recover Man’s Normal Life and Bring Man into the Pleasant Destination” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
