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placed HJS ÜOVERNMENT in His
Church. That is
WHY
God's
Church Government is theocratic
instead of democratic. That is
WHY
it is hierarchical in form–
government from Goo at the top
on down, not from the bottom up.
Otherwise those at the bottom
would be ruling Goo!
I t is the SAME Government by
which Chr ist shal l rule all nations
beginning wi th the Millennium!
And that is
WHY
Satan has
subti lely influenced dissidents in
God's Church to become resent–
ful and bitter over God's Govern–
ment-why sorne have gane ou t
of the Church!
The
c hurches of this
world 1"t raditional Ch ristian–
ity"-oo NOT speak of the Gov–
ernment of Goo. They do not
picture Jesus as coming world
RULER. They do not preach Jesus
as coming KING- but only as
Savior. They overlook- reject–
scriptures speaking of Christ as
King and coming Ruler, and
gov–
ernment
rule in the Kingdom of
God. And that is to say, they
deliberately REJECT and OMIT the
Gospel MESSAGE o f Chris t in
their teach ing and preaching!
They teach that one is
already
saved
on "receiving" (GETTING)
Christ!
1
repeat, the individual whom
God calls and adds to His Church
is not , at initial conversion,
remotely capable of being given
POWER of rule over nations!
He is called a " babe in Christ."
He has, if repentant and really
converted in this preliminary
human state, actually received the
Holy Spirit of God. Indeed in
Romans 8: 16 we read: "The Spir–
it itself beareth witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of
God."
We are already, though yet
unborn, the begotten chi ldren of
God . By direct comparison the
impregnated embryo or fetus in a
mother-to-be's womb is
a/ready
the chi ld of its parents, though
not yet born. Therefore 1 remark,
in passing,
abortion is MUR–
DER!
But this brings us to a most
importanl PURPOSE and FUNC–
TION of lhe Church!
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Beginning verse 22 of Gala–
tians 4 is an allegory about tbe
two covenants-the Old Cove–
nant made with national Israel
at Mount S inai, and the New
Covenant to be made al Christ's
re turn . However, mini slers in
the Church are "able ministers
of the New Testamenl" (II
Corinthians 3:6).
The CHURCH is a part of, and
preliminary to the final making
of, the NEW TESTAMENT.
In this allegory of the two cov–
enants, the Church is called "THE
MOTHER Of US ALL"- that is, of
those in the Church.
So notice the direct compari–
son. God is reproducing Himself
through humans. He endowed us
with power to reproduce
our–
selves. And human reproduction
is the exact type of God's SPIRI–
TUAL REPRODUCTION!
How Human Re productlon
Plctures Splrltua l Salvatlon
Now see and UNDERSTAND how
human reprod uction pictu res
SpirituaJ SALVATION!
All human Iife comes from a
tiny egg, called an ovum.
It
is
produ ced inside the human
mother. This ovum is about the
size of a pin point. Inside it,
when highly magnified , can be
seen a small nucleus. But this
ovum has a very limited Ii fe,
of
itself!
Sorne doctors and scien–
tists believe it has a life of sorne
24 hours, unless fertilized by a
sperm from a maJe.
But huma n l ife may be
imparted
to
it by a sperm cell,
produced in the body o f tbe
human father. The sperm cell is
the smallest cell in t he human
body- about one-fift ieth the size
of the ovum. The sperm- techni–
cally named a spermatozoon (plu–
ral, spermatozoa)-on entering
an ovum, finds its way lo and
joins with the
nucleus.
This
imparts /ife- physical
human
life-to the ovum.
But it is not yet a born human
being. Human life has merely
been
begotten.
For the first four
months
it
is called an
embryo.
After that , until birth it is called
a
fetus .
This human life starts
very small- the size of a tiny pin
point-and the sperm that gener–
ates it is the
smal/est
cell in a
human body!
Once begotten, it must
be fed
and nourished by physical food
from the ground, through the
mother. From this physical nour–
ishment it must grow, and
grow
a nd GRow- unti l phys ically
large enough to be born, after
nine months. As it grows, the
physical
organs and characteris–
tics gradually are formed. Soon
a spinal column forms. A heart
forms and begi ns to beat. Other
interna! organs form. Then, grad–
ually, a body, a head, legs, arms.
Finally hair begins to grow on the
head, fingernails and toenails
develop, facial features g radually
shape up. By nine months the
average normal fetus has grown
to a weight of approximately six
to nine pounds, and is ready to be
born.
A human has to be BEGOTTEN
by his human father. To be born
again
of the Spirit-of Goo–
one must first be begotten by the
SP IR ITUAL FATHER- Aimighty
God.
The Amazing Compari son
Now see how HUMAN begettal,
the period of gestation and birth
is the astounding identical TYPE
of s piritua l sa lvat ion- being
BORN of God- being given ETER–
NAL LIFE in the Kingdom of
God-the God FAMILY into
which we may be BORN!
Each adult human is, spiri t ual–
ly, an "egg" or "ovum." This
spiri tual "ovum" has a very lim–
ited life span, of itsel f-compared
to ETERNAL LIFE-an average of
sorne 70 years. But spiritua l,
divine immortal
life may be
impar ted
to
it by the entrance
into it of the HOLY SPIRIT, which
comes from the very Person of
Goo the Father. This divine Spir–
it of Goo imparts to us also the
divine nature
(II Pet er 1:4).
Heretofore we have had only
human, fleshly or carnal nature.
As the human sperm cell is
the very
sma/lest
of all human
ce ll s, even so, many new ly
begotten Christia ns start ou t
with a very
small
measure of
God's Holy Spirit. Many may
The
PLAIN TRUTH