The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

98 THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALHe was the "Second Adam."Like the first Adam, He had not only to RELIEVE and OBEYGod - but also to reject and overcome Satan and his way!Oh yes! He was TEMPTED in all points like the rest of us sinningmortais - only HE NEVER SINNED!Satan was still around. He was vehemently aroused at the appearingof this Second Adam. Jesus was the Messenger of theNEw Covenant, bearing the Message of that Covenant from God.That Message was H1s GOSPEL! Satan was determined to preventthat Message from being proclaimed! For it included the abolitionofSatan from earth!He tried to have the Christ-child killed asan infant. But Godsaved His Son Jesus! For sorne thirty years, Jesus had faced temptationsfrom Satan, but had safely overcome!Then carne the most severe temptation ever thrown at anyman. Jesus had fasted forty days and forty nights without a morselof food or a drop of water. But this fasting brought Him evencloser to God His Father. Though physically weak, He was spirituallySTRONG. The story of that temptation is revealed in the firsteleven verses of Matthew 4.It was the most titanic contest ever fought. Jesus was temptedas no man had ever been. Y et He resisted and overcame Satan,and remained faithful to Goo's way!Satan's very effort to overthrow Jesus resulted in Jesus' qualificationto replace him and restore the GOVERNMENT OF Goo.More, to establish the KINGDOM OF Goo, which is the FAMILY OFGOD, ruiing with the GOVERNMENT OF Goo!Jesus had been required to OVERCOME SATAN - to resist anddefeat him, in order to QUALIFY to sit on the THRONE OF THEWHOLE EARTH!But what about those God has called, from Abel until now?Notice something that seems to have escaped all churches,theological seminaries, and students of the Bible.Notice what Christ Himselfsaid, in Revelation 3:21: "To himthat overcometh will 1 grant to sit with me in my throne, even as 1also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne."To him that overcomes - overcomes WHAT? Notice, overcomes"even as 1 also overcame." What was Jesus required to