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lt is that nonphysical componen! in
the human brain tbat
i.s
NOT in tbe brain
of animals.
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is the ingredient tbat
makes possible the transition from
human to divine,
wlthout
changing mal·
ter
into
spirit, al the time of resurrection.
Tbatl
will
explain a linle later.
Let me make elear
a
few essential
points •t>:<>ut
lhi~
spirit in
m~n
..
11 i.s
spiri~
essence, JUSI
as
10 mauer atr 1s essenee,
and so
is
water. This human spiri t can·
not see. The physical DRAIN sees,
through tbe eyes. The human spirit IN a
person cannot hear. The brain hears
through tbe ears. This human spirit can–
not tbinlc.. The brain thinlc.s - altbough
the spirit imparts tbe power to tbink,
wbe=s brute animal brains witbout
sucb spirit cannoL
A seripture often used by believers in
an
"imroonal
soul~
explains this poinL
In
1
Corintbians
2,
the apostle Paul is
explaining io lhe Corinthians that he
did not come to them using hard to un–
derstand speech as many do to exalt
lheir own vanity. He carne to them witb
plain and simple speech, in humility.
And yet none of tbe princes - tbe elite,
tbe bjghly educated, tbe rulers -
of
this
world could unde,¡tand.
WHY
couldn't tbe more bighly
leamed understand? Because he was
preacbing Christ's message of tbe lcing·
dom ofGod. Tbis is
splrituallc.nowledge.
This kind
of
knowledge cannot be seen
by tbe physical eye, nor heard wi th tbe
pbysical car. Spirituallc.nowledge canno t
enter the human mind by natural means
- for spirit cannot be seen, heard, felt,
tasted or srneUed.
Then be explains that in t.his manner
(verse 11) no MAW could bave the
lc.nowledge a man
possesses,
except by
"tbe spirit of man which is in him.
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Tbe
brute animal has a brain virtuaUy iden–
tical to human brain - and some even
larger. But their brain cannot KNOW -
comprehend - what mao Jcnows. Nei–
ther could man without the spirit ofman
which is in bim.
In
other words, this
spirit imparts tbe power of intellect to
the human brain.
Yet
tbis
human wrwo is limited
m
l<nowledge of tbe ph)'Sle&l
lt
cannot
KNOW - eomprebend - lhe spiritual
tbings of God. WHY? Because even tbe
human MINO can lc.now, naturally, onJy
what knowledge comes to it througb tbe
senses of sigbt, hearing, smelling, tast–
ing, feeling. A brute animal may
see,
hear, smell, taste or feel what a man
does, and stilJ be unable to utilize what
enters bis brain in thought or lc.nowl–
edge.
Now the secood balf of
1
Corinthians
2:11:
"EVEN
so"
(in lite manner) no
man
can
know -
have l<nowledge of,
understand or comprebend - the thingll
of Goo, exeept by AWOTlmR spirit,
the
holy spirit o[GOD.
Just as no dumb animal can lcnow tbe
thiogs of man's knowledge, oeither
could man, by brain alooe, except by the
spirit of man - tbe human spirit - tbat
is
in
man.
So
alsot
in
the same maoner.
even a man cannot l<now - comprehend
- the tbingll of God, unJess or until be
reeeives
anothtr
spirit -
the holy
spirit of
Ct>D.
Stated still another way, all humans
have from birtb a spirit eaUed "the spirit
of man" whicb
is
IN THEM. No tiee care-
W'EEK ENDINO
SEPT'EMDER
6, J97S
fuUy tbat thís spirit is NOT the man.
lt
is
something
IN
THE MAN. A mao mighl
swallow a smaU marble. lt is lhcn some–
tbing
in
the man, but it is
not
tbe man or
any
pan
of bim as a man. Tbc mao was
made of the dust of lhe ground - mor·
tal This human spirit is oot lhe soul.
h
is somcthing
1N
the soul w!Ucb
/S
the
pbysicaJ MAN.
Notiee. funher, verse 14: "But the
natural man receivetb not the tbingll of
the Spirit of God: for lhey are foolish·
ncss unto him; neither
can
he lc.now
tbcm. because they a re spiritually dis·
cerned."
So, from binh, God gives us one
spirit, which for lack of
a
better term
1
call
a
human spirit.
lt
gives us MIWO
power wbkh is not in animal BRAIN. Yet
that MINO power ís
limited
to lc.nowledge
of tbe physical universe. WHY?
Beca
use
lc.nowledge enters the human mind ONLY
tbrough the flve pbysical seoses.
Bu1 notice that God bad not com–
plcted the creation of MAN at the ere·
ation of Adam and Eve. Tbe
phy.síca/
creation was completed. They had tbis
"'bum~n"
spirit at their creation. But
oow mus1 follow tbe spiritual c.eauon.
Tbis
required
a
s«ond
spirit in man -
tbe HOLY SPIRrT ofGod.
"And tbe ETERNAL God formed man
of the dust of the ground . ... and
planted a garden eastward in Edeo; and
there he put the ma.n wbom he had
formed. And out of tbe ground ·maae
the 11TEANAL God to grow every tree that
is pleasant to tbe sigbt, and good for
food; tbe tree of life also in tbe midst of
tbe garden, aod the tree of l<nowledge of
good and
evil"
(Gen. 2:7-9).
Actually and lileraUy, Adam. as yet,
was "oot all lhere." The spirit of mlln
was in bim - but ool lhe spirit of God.
God olfered him freely tbe fruit of the
TRE8
OF uFS - whicb symbolized God's
HOLY SPIRIT. Talc.ing of tbe tree Of LIPB
would bave done two thlogs : ( 1) opened
bis MINO to compr ehend spiritual
lc.nowledge, and
(2)
imparted within
him the OtFT of God's holy spirit, lead·
ing to Jl'TUNAl.
UFE.
But, when God ex–
plained
lO
him !he ICIWGOOM OF ÚOO,
Adam disbelieved what God said aod
disobeyed - SIWNED. Then wbat?
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And the ETERNAL God said ... aod
now, lest he put forth bis hand, and talc.e
also of the tree of life, and eat, and live
for ever: therefore the ETERNA!. Ood
sent bim fort h from the garden of Eden.
to till the ground from whence he was
talc.eo.
So
be drove out the
man:
and he
placed at the east of the garileo of Eden
cberubim, and a
llaming
sword wbicb
tumed every way, to keep tbe way of the
treeoflife" (Gen. 3:22-24).
Now ORASP
nns,
picase!
Do
DOI
forget God's great PUIIPOSE!
Tbrough human man, composed of ma·
terial substaoee, God is reproducing
Himself - adding to His own holy, righ–
teous, sinless Ooo FAMU.Y. Bu t Ood
is
composed of SPUUT. How does Ood
bridg~
tM gap
between mortal physieal
MMI and immonal SPIIUT-composed
God?
The
m-y
first
human bad made tbe
wroog dloice. and br srw rejected the
GOVEJUIMJ¡WT OP Goo. God bad driven
him
out of the garden of Edeo and
bloeked all possible reentry to tbe tree of
life. Bu t of course God anticipated the
probability of tbis. Ood's PURPOSE must,
nevértheless, STAND! But
1/0W?
lt oow required the "second Adam" -
Jesus ChrisL He had olfered Himselfbe–
fore tbe world was. But He was 001 to
come, boro human for the purpose of
deatb, for about aootber 4,000 years.
God had marked out
a
7
,000-yeas
period - tbe 6nt 6,000 for ma.nkiod,
cut
o.J[from God
(witb few exeeptions), to go
h1s own way - to wri te the lesson in
human s ulfering and anguish of living
contrary
to Goo's WA
Y
OP LtFE, com·
manded by
TH.E
OOVERNMENT Of ÜOO -
which Adam rejected.
This 6.000 years. with Sata.n still here,
would be ToUowed by a single 1.000
yea,¡, during wbich CJlll.IST would rule.
haviog qualified to restore
TKE
GOVEJtN·
MENT
OP
Goo
oo
eartb.
Satan would be
totally restrained during the sevenlh
millennium.
During tbat seventh millennium, tbe
KINGOOMOF Goo - thc RULtNO FAMILY
OF Goo - would be estoblished on
eanh.
Perfect spiritual and
holy character cannot
be created by divine
fiat. lt must be
developed over a
period of time, and
requíres a lifetime
of experience.
Meanwbile, dunn.g the firsl 6,000
years, FEW would be olfered opponunity
to enter into lhe
spiritual creation,
whicb
begins witb tbe reeeiving of the secowo
SPIIUT - that is, the g1f't Of the HOLY
SPIRIT of God. Outside of this compara–
tive few, God adopted a "hands-oft''
policy toward the human raee. Abel,
Adam's second son, apparently foUowed
God's way, for Christ caUed him "righ·
teous Abel"
Enoeb
"walked witb God."
Noah found favor with God - but ap–
parently that
was
all during tbe first
1.900
years or so.
Af'ter the ftood, Abraham, Isaac,
Israel, aod Joseph lived God's way.
Then God called and formed the nation
of Israel, but they were offcred no spiri·
tual salvation or eterna! Ufe - only ma–
terial and national blessings. God caBed
aod used a few prophets. Then Cbrist
carne and made spiritual salvation
pos–
sible for
all
Yet only tbe 6rst
compara·
tively very small spiritual harvest has
been caUed
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spiritual salvatioo durin.g
the nearly 2,000 years.
Human lteprocluctloo
tbe
Type
of
God's lteproduclog Hlmself
Few people realize that human repro–
duction has a sacred and GOD-PI.Al'f.E
MEANI.NG NOT APPLICABUl TO ANY
OTHEJli<JNDOF LIF&
Human reproductioo p1ctures spiri·
tual sa1vation - wbich is actuaUy God
1he Father reproduanl! Himself in lhe
GOOFAMILY.
Now see the ASTOUNOINO COM·
PAI\ISON!
MAN, remember, is eomposed wboUy
of MATTEI\ from the ground (Gen. 2:7
and
3:
19). But HOW can God bridge the
gap.
in
reproducing Himself, of eon–
vertin.g a whoUy physical rnao into a
wholly spirit-composed member of the
GOOFAMILY?
lt
starts
with a spirit (a portton of
spirit essenee) IN the wholly physieal
man. Remember, this spirit is NOT the
man - only something rw tbe roan. Re–
membcr,
tOO,
this spirit cannot see, hear,
or think. Tbe MAN sees, hears, and
thinlc.s through bis physical brain and
the ñve senses ofseeing, hearing, tasting.
smel ling and feeling. The spirit in man
imparts the power of PHYSICAL IN·
nu..ECT
to lhe physical brain, tbus
forming human
MINO.
This
spirit
&CU,
among olher tbings, as a COMP\/Tillt,
adding
lO
the brain tbe psychic and in·
tellectual power. Knowledge reeeived in
the brain 1nrough the eye, ear, and the
senses
i~
immediately "programmed"
into tbe spirit computer. All memory
is
stored in thi.s spirit computer. Thjs
"computer" gives the brain
instant tYCall
ofwhatever portion of millions of bits of
lc.nowledge may be needed
in
tbe rea·
soo.ing process. Tbat is
lO
say tbat
MUIORY is reeorded in tbe human spttit,
whether or not it also is reeorded in tbe
"gray matter" of
BRAIW.
This human spirit also adds to man a
spiritual and moral faculty not possessed
by aoimals.
God had made th e ·needed second
spirit - thc HOLY SPOUT - availablc to
Adam. But on Adam's rebellion
and
taking tbe forbidden fruit. God had
driven Adam out and closed a
U
aeeess
to
tbe
tree
of
Uf'B -
symbolicaJ ofHis boly
spirit.
Yet tbrough Christ,
a
repentant hu·
manity may yet receive God's OtPT of
His boly spirit. To Nieodemus Cbrist
said, "Exeept a man be born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God." Of
course Nieodcmus could not quite un–
derstand that. Alm0$1 nobody today un·
derstands it. Jesus explained,
~at
whieb is bom of the ftesb
JS
FLESH,
and
that whicb is boro of tbe Spirit
/S
SPIRT1"'
(Jobo 3:6). Man carne from
the ground. He
/S
llesh. Jesus was 001
tallc.ing about anotl¡er
physícal
birtb -
but about a
spiritual
birtb - when man
sbaU
BE
spirit, no longer composed of
mattcr, but composed wholly of SP IRITI
Y
es,
LITBRALLY! Then be shaU bave
beco bom of God. God is a spirit
(John 4:24).
Now 10 become human, eacb of us
bad 10 be
btgotten
by bis human father .
Lilc.ewise, to be bom
again
-
of nm
SPIIUT which is of Goo the Fatber. one
mus1 first be
begotten
of tbe SPIRJTUAL
FA
Tli.EII -
of
Goo.
This is explained in Romans 8: 16:
"Tbe Spirit [of God] itself bearctb wit·
ness with our spirit, tbat we are thc [be·
gouen] children ofG od: and if ch.ildren,
tben heirs (not yet inberitors or posses·
sorsJ: heir!, of God, and joint-heirs with
Christ•.••
And God's holy spirit, now combined
witb our human spirit in tbe human
MIND
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does IWO 1h1051; (J)
~g~l$
lhQ
human with divine eterna! life 10 be
later BORN into the Goo FAMILv as a di–
vine being, tben composed whoUy of
spirit and (2) imparts to the human
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