I

"Money makes the world go round" is a philosophy of Satan. It prevails in every human society. Satan uses money to tempt people, and corrupts them into worshiping money and venerating material things. People feel that they could not survive in this world without any money. People's status is based on how much money they have, as is the respect they command. The rich speak loudly and live arrogantly. Many people make any sacrifice in the pursuit of money. Many people lose their dignity and integrity in the pursuit of more money. Many people lose the opportunity to perform their duty and follow God for the sake of money. Is losing the chance to gain the truth and be saved not the greatest of all losses for people?

II

You inadvertently come to live by the saying. You might know the true way, and you might know the truth, but you're powerless to pursue it. You may clearly know that God's words are the truth, but you're unwilling to pay the price or to suffer in order to gain the truth. Instead, you would rather sacrifice your own future and destiny to resist God to the very end. No matter what God says, no matter what God does, no matter whether you understand how deep and how great God's love for you is, you would stubbornly insist on having your own way and pay the price for this saying. That people can act thus, that they can be controlled and manipulated by the words of Satan—does this not mean that Satan's philosophy and mindset have taken root in your heart?

III

When you blindly pursue wealth, and abandon the pursuit of the truth, has Satan not achieved its aim of misleading you? Satan corrupts man at all times and in all places. Satan makes it impossible for man to defend against this corruption and makes man helpless against it. Satan makes you accept its thoughts, its viewpoints and the wicked things that come from it in situations where you are unknowing and when you have no recognition of what is happening to you. People accept these things and take no exception to them. They cherish and hold on to these things like a treasure, they let these things manipulate them and toy with them; this is how people live under Satan's power, and unconsciously obey Satan, and Satan's corruption of man grows ever deeper.

from The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. God Himself, the Unique V