The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL 87All right. The Godly character in us, 1 have stated, cannot becreated by fiat. 1t must be developed. We must yield. We must desireit, seek it. But it comes from Goo. Thus if we keep a closedaily contact with our Creator, through His Spirit and through ourspirit - for remember, His Holy Spirit "beareth witness with ourspirit, that we are the children of God" (Rom. 8: 16) - then He isfashioning and shaping our characters. Had God made us ofSpirit, this could not be done once we had sinned.Now, as Job brought out, we die. Afterlife comes through theresurrection. When we die, all consciousness ceases. This is coveredin chapter 12. The physical brain becomes unconscious anddecays.With what BODY do we come, in the resurrection? That questionis answered in 1 Corinthians 15: "But sorne man will say,How are the dead raised up? and with what body do theycome? ... that which thou sowest [burial in the ground], thousowest NOT that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance ofwheat, or of sorne other grain: but God giveth ita body as it hathpleased him ..." (1 Cor. 15:35-38).The body that dies is NOT the same body that will come up inthe resurrection.Now we come to a MOST IMPORTANT part concerning theSPIRIT IN MAN - which 1 have termed the "human spirit." lt doesnot impart human life. lt does not see, hear or think. The HUMANMAN makes his decisions, and it is in the physical MAN that charactermust be built. lt is the human CLA Y that God forms into Hischaracter. The SPIRIT in man RECORDS what the brain comes toknow, even the attitude, the facets of CHARACTER, not only of thehuman brain, but also of the whole body. lt keeps the imprinteven of the fingerprints.Compare it to a sculptor's mold. The sculptor may want toproduce a bronze statue of a man. The sculptor might use clay toform a clay model - or plaster of parís. Then the sculptor makes aMOLD of the model he has formed and shaped. The mold is a hollowform, made from the finished model. lnto the mold is pouredmolten liquid bronze, which then solidifies. The mold is removed,and the bronze figure is an EXACT copy of the original model.The spirit that is in every human acts as a MOLD. lt PRESERVES