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identtcal TYPE of spttitual salvation
being BORN of God - bemg given
ETEil·
NAL LJFE in the lringdom of God - the
God FAI4JLY inLo wbich we may be
BORNI
Eaeh adult human
is,
spirituaUy, an
'"cgg" or Hovum."
This spiritual
...,ovum"
has
a
very limited life span, of itself -
compared to
ETERNAL
LtfE- an average
of 70 years. But spiritua1,
divin~
immof–
rallife
roay be impaned
ro
it by the en–
trance Ínto iL of the HOLY SPIRIT, whicb
comes from the very person of Goo the
Fatber. Tbis diviDe spirit of Goo
im·
parts to us-also tbe
dlvln• natur<
(ll
Pet.
1:4).
Heretofore we hove had
only human, fleshly or camal nature.
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the human sperm oell is the very
smallest
of all human cells, even so,
many newly begotten Christians start
out with a very
sma/1
measure of God's
holy spirit. Many may
$1Íll
be,
at tlnt,
about
99.44%
camall Apparent1y those
in the churc:ll of God at Corinth were
(1
Cor. 3: 1-3). Tbe apostle Paú! said be
stiU bad
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fecd them on the spiritual
mi/k -
not yet al!_ult spiriLual
"food.~
Now, as the physical maJe sperm finds
its way
10,
and unites wtlh the
nucll1U
in
the ovum, so God's apirit énters and
combtnes with the human MJND! Tbere
IS,
as explaincd above, a
spirit
IN
man.
This human spirit has combincd with
tbe brain to form human MINO. Ood's
spirit unites with, and witnesses with
our
spirit that we are, oow, the cbildren of
Goo (Roro. 8:16). And God's boly
spirit. now combincd with our human
spirit
in our
MIND.
imparts to our mind
power to comprehend SPIRITUAL
KNOWLI!OGE
(1
Cor. 2: )1) - wliich the
carnal mind cannot grasp.
Now we bave the presence of ETEJUIAL
UFB
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God life - througb God's spint,
but we are not yet immorul spirit
bein~
- DOI yet BORN of God - nOl yet inher·
itors, and possessors, but physical HEJRS
(Rom. 8:17). But
IF
God's holy spirit
dwelb in us, God wiU, at the resurrec–
tion,
~quickeo»
to immonality our mor–
tal
bod1es
BY
His spirit that "dweUeth
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us" (Roro. 8:11; 1 Cor. 1S:49-S3).
Now see bow the astonishing analoky
cootinues!
As yet we are not
born
divine being¡¡.
We are not yet
compos<d
of spirit, but of
physical mauer. The divine life has
merely been begotten. This divine
CHAI\.4<:nR startS so very small it · is
doubtful if rouch of it u in evidence -
except for the glow of that ecstasy of
spiritual
uromance"
which we may
radi~
ate in that
ufi.rst
love" of conversion
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spiritually speaking. But so far as spiri·
tual KNOWLEOOE and developed spiri·
tual CHARACTER
ps.
tbere is not much,
asyet.
The
Spiritual Embryo
So now, once spiritually begotten, we
are roerely a spiritual embryo. Now we
must be fed &nd nourished
OD
SPL&ITUA.L
foodl Jesus said man sball not live by
bread (pbysieal food)
a/one,
but by
IWilllY WORD OP ÚOD (spiritual food)!
Tbis wc drink in from the 8reLE! But we
drink in <bis spiritual knowledge aod
cbaracter,
also,
through personal, in–
timate, continuous contaa with God
througb
ru
va,
and tbrough Christian
feUowsbip witb God's cbildren in His
cbureh.
WEEK ENDINO AUGUST 2, 1975
Now the
physlca/
embryo and fetus
~
fed pbysically tbrougb the mother.
God's cburch is called Jefi!Salem
abo~
"wbicb is the MOTHER OF U$ ALL"
(Gal. 4:26).
NoLice tbe exact parallel! The
CHURCH is tbe spiritua) MOTHER of
rTS
MEMBERS.
God has set His called and
choseo minuters in' Hu Cburch to
FEED
THE FLOCJC -
"for
rh•
perf«ting
or the
saints, for thc work of the ministry, for
the
edifyi~g
of the body (CHURCH) of
Christ: TILL we
aU
come in the unity of
the faitb, and of
rh<
knowltdgt
of the
Son of God, unto a perfect man. unto
tbe measure ofthe stalure ofthe fullness
ofChrist"(Epb. 4: 11-13).
lt
is Lhe duty of Cbrist's TRUS minis·
ters (and
how .rcorce today!)
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PROTECT
the begotten but yet unborn saints from
false doctrines, from false ministers.
Tbe
HUMAN
mother carnes her un·
bom baby in that part of her body
where sbe can best PROTECT it from
physical
harm; and that proteCiion is
par! of her function, as well
as
to nour–
ish the unbom cbild! Even so. the
CHURCH, througb Christ's ministers, in–
structs, teaehes, counsels with. advises.
and PllOTECTS from
spintual
harm the
unbom members! Wbat
a
WONDERFUL
picture is human reproduction of spiri·
tuaJ SALVATION!
Continue further!
As the physical
fetus must grow
physiCill/y
large enougb
to be bom,
so
tbe begotten Christian
must
grlJw
in
yace,
and
m
the JcnowJ.
edge of Chnst
(JI
Peter 3:18) - must
overcome, must develop in spiritual
CHARACTEll during this life, in order to
be BORN into the kingdom ofGoo!
And as the physical fetus gradually,
one by one, develops the pbysical or–
gans, features, and charactenstics, even
so
the begotten Christian must gradu–
ally, continually, deve1op the SPIRITUAL
character - Jove, faíth, patience, gentle–
ness, humility, kindness. temperance. He
mustlive by. and be
a
~ER
ofthe Word
of God. He must develop the divine
CHARACTER!
Flnally - lmmortaUtyl
Tben in God's due time - tbough tbe
roan may die meanwltile - by a resur–
rection, or by instantaneous CHAI<GE Lo
immonality at Christ's coming. be sball
be aoJt>< of God - into the Kti<GDOM OF
Goo - because Goo
is
tbat kingdom!
He is no longer material llesh from the
ground, but oomposed <;>f spirit, even as
God
is
a spirit (John 4:24).
How WONDI!JtFVL is the TlllfTH of
Goo!
Yet, by bu dastard1y perversion of sex
altitudes and purposes and the true sex
knowlcdge of Goo's Word, Satan has
DECETYED THB WORLD - has bJinded hu·
mimity to the fact that Ood
/S
this
KJNGDOM Jesus proclaimed - and that
WE may be
born
as spirit indtVJduals -
as
pan
of tbat divine FAMILY -: as pan
ofthe Goo KINGOOM!
How precious, pure and wholesome is
GOD'S TRUTHI And God desig.oed.SEX lO
picture, aod in physical manner, to KnP
US COI<STAN"lLY IN THE KNOWLCDQE Of
HIS WONDEllFVL PLAN Of SALVATION!
Let us, then, allow the living Saviour
to CUAN
ur
our minds, and open Lhem
lO Hls TRUTHJ
NOW POSSIBLE...
EVEN MORE TERRIFYING
MASS DESTRUCTION
THAN NUCLE.AR WEAPONS!
by
Herbert
W.
Armstrong·
Soviet Jeader Leonid BreU!nev re·
cently broke out in 6ve-column front–
page news beadlines urging a worldwide
ban on creation of NEW weapons ofmass
destruaion even
mQn
terrible than the
hydrogen bomb and other nuclear
weapons. Modem technology, in his
view. now has the power lO create oew
systerns of mass destruction not yet cov–
ered
lll
any international
arms
control
pae1.
Just what is tbe realslgnificance ofthe
Brezhnev proposal?
ls the Soviet Union working on sucb a
new means of mass destructioo? lf
so.
would Brezhnev come out witb sueh
a
proposal? Ooes he fear that the United
States. China, or sorne other power may
be working on somcthing of the lrind?
Ooes he have secret information of such
activity7 Or is be merely seeking bead–
lines to boost bis personal prestige
as
a
world Jeader?
In any event it would be foolishness
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assume the lauer and s1mply shrug it off.
He might have in mind the strategic use
of the Jaser beam, but that is supposed
to be still ten years away.
Tbis we JCNOW: The weapons airead
y
Clli.St that
can
blast
al!
human 1ife offthis
planet. And il would be foolisb
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ignore
tbc prophecy of Jesus Cbrist about
a
time of world troubJc
SO
GREAT that,
unless supernatural power stops it shon,
The"SDR"–
FutureWorld
Supercurrency?
Tbe vacuum creatcd by the decline of
the dollar in the late s1xties has nO\ yet
been fillcd. Tbe role of intemational re–
serve currency has gone vacant since
thc two devaluations of tbe once–
almighty dollar.
Since 1971, bowever, intemational
business has been a b1t of a free for all.
Tbe tremendous pressure of the billiOO$
of sloshing petrodollars has painfully
underscored the need ror a new ínter·
naLional currcncy.
Al tbe time of the dollar's initial
devaluation
in
August 1971, no one paid
much auention
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the one intemational
currency that already waited in the
wings. h bad the unappealing name,
Special Orawing Rights, aod the com–
mon abbreviation, SOR.
Tbe SOR is only a book.keeping entry,
wonh about S1.20, on the
bool:.s
of tbe
lnl~mmtionai
Mooctarr funó (IMf).
but
tt
IS legal interoattonal tender for
buymg 1mpons and.selling expons.
Tbe SOR is unique in that it
is
not tbe
coin or any realm.
1t
is
not minLed by
"the<e sbould no flesh be saved (alivef'
(Mattbew 24:22). And millions in this
world
are
bterally betting their Uves on
whether the supematural power they
don't believe exJsts
does,
af\er
al!,
exist
and
wi/1
intervenc and save humanity
alive.
More and more it is becoming evident
that many world-famous scientists are
ngbt in saying that bumanity's ONLY
CHANCE, now. u the formauon of a
world supergovemrnent, ruling over
al/
nations, with power greater than any. or
any combination of military powers.
And at the same time, the possibility of
world Jndcrs gening together and form·
tng sueh a WOill.D GOVEllmlENT
ÍS
be·
coming mote and more remote.
In a world with morals sinking more
and more, with homosexuality (sodomy)
gaining public acceptanee rapidly,
maybe the whole earth migbt suffer the
fa te ofancient Sodom and Oomorrah!
Perhaps we bave not yer quite
reachcd the state mentioned in Mauhew
24:21·22 - world trouble greater than
ever before - but we are approacbing it
with
increasing momentum.
NEVEJI before, until this generation,
was
it even possible for one or two
human world leaders to seL olf the ex–
plosions that could erase
aiJ
humankind
froro this earth,
You Uve in that world today.
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politicians, althougb tbe IMF managers
are noL without political clout. lf the
SOR gains any further favor, tbu would
funher swell tbe power of tbe IMF. lts
fuLure caretakers could wield immense
power over intemational trade.
The problem with any world currency
then becomes
a
problem of world
go•·
•mmMJ.
A world currency would entai1
great and potentially corrupLing política!
powtr
for those who controlled it.
The totalitarian implications or any
such future world currency take on pro–
phetic overtones. Revelation 13:17
speaks of a future world superpower
with the
ab~ity
Lo control CCOIIOmic
transactions fo the poinl where "no man
migbt buy or sell."
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While Bíble scholars would point out
that the "mark of the beast" relbrred Lo
here is most Jikely not a currency as
sucb, the existence of sueh an inter–
national medíum of exchange would at
least pave the way for the exercise of
tbis brutal cconomic power.
SDR's may not turn out to be the
economic bulwark of tbe prophesied
biblical beast power, but the function
lhey
servt could
be.
In
AnY
case. t.eep
your eye out for any European-based
world currency soon
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replaoe the bat·
tered old dollar. O
- Jeff C11/kins
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