The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL 177fertilized ovum - an embryo - is NOT a born human person. Lifefrom the father has been imparted to it. He has begotten it, butneither embryo nor fetus is YET a born person. In the same mannerthe Spirit-begotten human is not, yet, a SPIRIT PERSON orBEING, as Jesus said he shall be when born again!Continue: "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus fromthe dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shallalso quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth inyo u" (verse 11 ).UNDERSTAND THIS! There is a direct comparison betweenhaving been born of the flesh and being born AGAIN of God. Jesussaid that which is born of the flesh is flesh - a born human. Thatwhich is born of the spirit (God) is Spirit - a bom SPIRIT PERSON!A mortal human life starts when a sperm cell from the bodyof the father impregnates - imparts physical LIFE to - an ovum(egg cell) in the mother. At this point the father begets, sires. Hedoes not "bring forth." The mother does that, later. His part in thePROCESS leading to final birth is then done. BUT THERE IS A TIMEELEMENT. At the TIME of begettal, birth (parturition) has not YEToccurred.It is necessary to give this explanation, at this point, becausethe popular deception of a deceived traditional "Christianity" isto claim that when one "receives Christ," "accepts Christ," "professesChrist," or first receives God's Holy Spirit to dwell in him,he is already "BORN AGAIN."First, then, notice the physical type and comparison.The TIME ElementIn human physical reproduction, there is a TIME ELEMENT. Fromimpregnation - begettal on the part of the father - having conceivedon the part of the mother - to BIRTH, or parturition, orbeing delivered from the mother's womb is a TIME ELEMENT ofnine months.That nine-month period is called gestation. U pon conception,the now fertilized ovum is called an embryo. A few months later, itis called a fetus. But during this nine-month period of gestation,we do not speak of the embryo-fetus as having been born. It isin the PROCESS toward birth. It is the child of its parents. But