The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

64 THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALhere a FAMILY relationship- father, son, husband and wife. Andthe "wife" is to be composed of born chi/dren ofGod.1 personally have been the father of a FAMILY. My familyname is Armstrong. My first wife and 1 lived together fifty yearsuntil her death. I have a son, Garner Ted. My son is also ARM­STRONG, just as Jesus, the Word, was God, and yet He was withGod. Our family name is ARMSTRONG. All members of the familyalso were named Armstrong. When our daughters married, theystarted each the forming of another family, and they took thename of the husband who became the father of that family. Buteach family is only ONE family.Likewise, there is but ONE God - but Goo is the familyname, and there is more than one person in the ONE Family.CHRIST the Maker of AllGoo is CREATOR. But Goo is the divine FAMILY. How can theFather of the Family be Creator, and Christ also Creator? In Ephesians3:9 it is written that God the Father "created all things (theUNIVERSE] by Jesus Christ." And Christ is "the Word" - theSpokesman. Speaking of Him, we read in Psalm 33, "By theword of the Eternal were the heavens [universe] made; and all thehost of them by the breath of his mouth .... For he spake, and itwas done" (verses 6, 9).1 will illustrate. In January 1914, I was sent by a nationalmagazine to interview Henry Ford in Detroit. When I first sawhim, he was just outside the door of the huge Ford factory. Hewas wearing a business suit, not workman's overalls. He was theMAKER or manufacturer of the Ford cars. He made them BY histhousands of employees, whom I saw in overalls at work insidethe factory. The employees used machinery and the POWER ofelectricity. Likewise, God the FATHER is CREATOR. He created BYJesus Christ, the "workman" who SPAKE, and it was done by thePOWER of the Holy Spirit. But Jesus said plainly that He "spake"only as the Father commanded Him.Notice Colossians 1: Speaking of the Father (verse 12) and"his dear Son" (verse 13), "who is the image of the invisibleGod ... for by him [Christ] were all things [the universe] created,that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,