The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

120 THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALoutgoing concern and love) one for another" (verses 12-13, 25).Continuing: "And God hath set sorne in the church, firstapostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miraeles,then gifts of healing, helps, governments, diversities oftongues."Now back to Ephesians. What about the member who GOESOUT OF THE CHURCH, to have his own relationship with Christ - toGET his own salvation? He is OUTSIDE the body of Christ!Notice, again, the "household of God"- the CHURCH- isbuilt upon a FOUNDATION. Would one build a BUILDING 00 afoundation of shifting sand? God's Church is built upon "theFOUNDATION of the apostles [the New Testament), and prophets[Old Testament, whose prophecies are for us TODAY (1 Cor.10: 11)], Jesus Christ himself being the chief comer stone" (Eph.2: 19-20).HOW WELL ORGANIZED?"In whom all the building [the Church] fitly framed together,groweth into an holy TEMPLE in the Lord." (verse 21.)Further: "From the whole body jitly joined together and compactedby that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectualworking in the measure of every part, maketh increase of thebody unto the edifying of itself in love" (Eph. 4: 16).Y es, Christ ORGANIZED His Church."And his gifts were, that sorne should be apostles, sorneprophets, sorne evangelists, sorne pastors and teachers," (Eph.4:11, RSV), continuing in KJV: "For the perfecting of the saints,for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:till we a/1 come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge ofthe Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the statureof the fulness of Christ" (Eph. 4: 12-13).What about a single member, "a joint, or part," going off byitself- or following a MAN instead of the CHURCH OF Goo that isin direct continuous succession from the apostolic Churchfounded by Christ, in A.D. 31? He is like a joint or a piece ofwood or stone, entirely outside of, and therefore NO PART OF theBODY OF CHRIST that shall MARRY Christ!We have seen that Christ gave the lay body of the Church theSPECIAL MISSION to back up His apostles in their GOING FORTH with