The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

106 THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALOld Covenant Israel was carnal-minded, with minds hostileagainst God, and not subject to the laws and ways of God!Now the New Testament CHURCH OF GooRemember Old Covenant Israel lived in the days of the firstAdam. Satan, the "prince of the power of the air," by subtile injectionthrough the "human" spirit of bis hostile attitude, ruledsupreme in the world. And with the exception of those in God'sChurch, he does still today!Remember, too, that all nations and peoples, except the nationIsrael, had been completely CUT OFF from God and knowledgeof God. They had continued forming their own ideas ofgovernment, swayed, though unrealized, by Satan. They hadformed their own religions - created in their own imaginationstheir own gods. They had produced their own store of humanmaterialistic knowledge - though more than half of all livingwere - and remain today - illiterate, living in abject poverty,filth and squalor. They were suffering the evil consequencesof Satan's way!It was, and today still is, except for the Church of God andthe Message of HOPE it disseminates, A WORLD WITHOUT HOPE!But Jesus Christ, the second Adam, was to come at God'sproper time, bringing a hope that is real - and transcendentlywonderful beyond human capacity to comprehend!Notice two prophecies, recorded by Old Testament prophetsunder inspiration ofGod:"For unto us [the Israelitish people) a child is born, unto usason is given: and the GOVERNMENT shall be upon bis shoulder;and bis name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mightyGod, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increaseof bis GOVERNMENT and peace there shall be no end, upon thethrone of David, and upon bis kingdom, to order it, and to establishit with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal ofthe [EternalJ ofhosts will perform this" (Isa. 9:6-7).This prophecy foretells Christ's appearing as a KING - aRULER - to reestablish the GOVERNMENT OF ÜOD on earth.Then, foretelling His coming as the Savior of mankind,"Therefore the Lord himself shall give yo u a sign; Behold a virgin