The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

130 THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALreceived no conversion - no "pounds." (They shall yet find conversion,as many, many passages of Scripture affirm.)Now the reason for His going to heaven was to "receive forhimself a KINGDOM, and to return." That is, He was going to thethrone of the government of the entire universe where God Almighty,the Father, sits, to have conferred on Him the RULERSHIPOF THE WORLD. The coronation ceremony will take place inheaven, at the throne of UNIVERSE RULE. When He returns He willbe crowned with MANY CROWNS (Rev. 19: 12). He is coming toRULE ALL NATIONS with almighty divine POWER (verse 15).Back to Luke 19. On his return. his servants, to whom he hadgiven the money - that is, the beginning unit of GoD's SPIRIT atconversion - are to be called to an accounting, "that he mightknow how much each man had GAINED" while he was gone. Thismeans each Christian is expected to GROW spiritually - in spiritualKNOWLEDGE and grace (see 11 Peter 3: 18). The Christian lifeis a life of spiritual GOING TO SCHOOL - of training for a POSITIONIN GoD's KINGDOM, when and after we shall be changed frommortal to immortal - when we shall be no longer flesh-and-bloodhumans, but composed of SPIRIT, with eternallife inherent.In the parable, the first carne to report he had multipliedwhat he had been given TEN TIMES. You see, the receiving ofGod's Spirit is GoD's GIFT- that is what God does - it comes byGRACE, as a gift. WE CAN'T EARN IT. But al! through the New Testamentit is made plain we shall be REW ARDED according to OURWORKS. Not SAVED by works we have done. This man had, by hisown application, multiplied his spiritual gift ten times - his onepound was now ten pounds. He received a greater REW ARD thanthe one who gained five pounds.The nobleman (Christ) said to him, "Well, thou good servant:because thou hast been faithful in very little, have thou AU­THORITY o ver TEN CITIES."He had qualified to RULE. He had been obedient to God'scommands- God's government. We have to BE RULED before wecan learn to RULE.The second servant had increased his spiritual stock of goodsfive times. He had qualified, in this life, for HALF as much as thefirst servan t. He was given HALF the REW ARD.