Monthly Archives: June 2024

June 29, 2024 · 4:13 pm

We Are Sent by God to Do What?

[Please don’t rush through this. “Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.” Slow down and savor the secrets of the Word. Matthew 13:11, 35]

To answer the question in the title: We are sent to teach the nations the truth of Christ. The Great Commission gives a sweeping panorama of what our sending is about. We are to “go and teach all nations…teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20).

What are these “all things” that we are to teach the world? Christ said to His disciples [that’s us, too], “All things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me” (Luke 24:44).

In other words, the prophets’ writings, the psalms, and Moses’ writings—all were written about Christ. This does not fully compute when we are first taught this truth. The vast quarry of knowledge found in these sacred writings can be overwhelming. But since the Supreme Being has called you into His service, He will in due time clarify your vision of what will be fulfilled in you. We receive the revelation that the Son of God walks in unity with the great Spirit Father Yahweh [“I and my Father are One”].

And now, we are bidden to abide within His glorified spirit body. Later we will realize that all things are about Him, His purpose, and His plan to fulfill His purpose, which is God reproducing Himself in us. We will realize that “God [Yahweh] was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.”

Christ saw that His disciples were dazed, having seen and heard the risen Christ. We, too, are dazzled when we see the One who conquered death. And, so, to help them, Christ “opened… their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures…and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations…”

He speaks of the big harvest of souls, of which we have spoken before. This is His desire, and this is His will. We must pray that He would open unto us the new wine of the scriptures of truth and learn of Him on a deeper level. We must repent of the old leaven doctrines that we have blindly accepted since our youth. For we must repent before we preach repentance (Luke 24:45-49).

“All Things”

Everything is about Him and for Him. All emotions, all feelings, all dreams, all endeavors that we have lived, all our vain actions and desires—all things are wrapped up in Him. “For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen” (Rom. 11:36).

He has rescued us from the darkness we once wallowed in and has now transferred us into His kingdom. He has redeemed us with His blood and has forgiven our sins. He who forgave us “is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.” The Son created all things. And all things are for Him. “He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Col. 1:13-18). That old song is true: “He’s got the whole world in His hands.”

And it is through His gracious love and mercy that He has included us in His plan of bringing us, His spiritual offspring, to full spiritual maturity—to be just like the Original, who is called Christ, the Anointed One. He has all power invested in His word. Should we not think that He would grant us a portion of His power to fulfill our calling and election in Him? He said, “Ask and it shall be given.” But we must ask with a pure heart, one that is not choked with the smoke of burning falsehoods. “Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.” Christ will open “their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.”

We are called to be His teachers. But first, we must “purge out the old leaven,” the false doctrines that the enemy has sown into the churches. Rather, we must learn of Him all things that pertain unto His purpose and plan.   Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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June 26, 2024 · 9:32 am

Corrupt Church Tree Cannot Bring Forth Good Fruit

For the seeker of God, this whole spiritual walk here on earth is an everyday challenge to clear our minds of the clutter of material things that comprise our earthly existence. We need to focus on the invisible things. “While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal” (II Cor. 4:18 NKJV)

God has created our world to facilitate this. He created the adversary, the devil, as an intruding thought usurper. He raids our minds each morning with thoughts that are primarily based on visible things. The devil knows full well that once a child of God strays into the visible, material world, that child is vulnerable.

This should then be one of our main motives in prayer–to cleave to the invisible God. We need to abandon the temporary things of this world, along with this world’s god. The Spirit through the apostle Paul speaks to this. “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” (Col. 3:2).

Our task, then, as the children of God is to be aware of what is going on in the arena of our mind. And then to throw away every thought that does not agree with the vision of God depicted in the scriptures of truth. This prompts more questions. Which thoughts are true, and which are false about God and His plan and purpose?

Christ and His apostles warned us incessantly about false prophets who would “bring in damnable heresies.” And these heresies speak about Christ. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing.”  And many in the churches shall follow them through the “wide gate” of Christianity. Many are heading to a desperate culmination of their religious dogmas because of the false teachings.

Which false doctrines?

 So, which teachings are corrupt? Which doctrines are false? What is wrong with their teachings? In a word, almost everything.

We know that false doctrines are there in the churches, yet the purveyors of these doctrines are adamant that they are right, and most everyone else is wrong. The false teachings are there because Christ and His apostles said that they are there. The list of false doctrines in the churches is long. We can start with these: no trinity, oneness, prosperity doctrine, no rapture, pagan holidays, sacred Hebrew names, to name a few. The elect will study these false doctrines out and repent of them.

False doctrines corrupt the churches. Christ said, “a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit” (Matthew 7:18). Organized denominations feed the poor and help those in need in our societies. They will have their reward. But their doctrines will never bring forth the fruit of the “manifestation of the sons of God [and daughters of God].”

False doctrines are like leaven. “A little leaven leavens the whole lump.” Leaven is false doctrines that have now permeated the whole of Christianity (Matthew 13:33).  Kenneth Wayne Hancock [For more about the old leaven and false teachings, hit this link: purge out the old leaven | Search Results | Immortality Road (wordpress.com) If this article has helped you, hit that like button and subscribe. It helps us reach more people. Thank you. kwh]

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June 24, 2024 · 10:36 am

Christ Has Sent You and Me–Already

You have been sent by Christ to do the Father’s will (desire)…

Before we get into “being sent,” we should consider this: The deeper we go into the truth, the more we need to repeat its concepts. We need to rehearse it until our restless minds are corralled and come into obedience of the very concepts we are endeavoring to learn.

Such is the case with Christ’s words recorded by the apostle John: “My food is to do the will of Him that sent me and to finish His work” (4:34). Doing the Father’s will and finishing His work is the spiritual food that gives the Son spiritual strength. We will receive the same spiritual sustenance that fueled His walk when we know and do the Father’s will and finish His work.

The next major word in our study of this saying is “sent.” Christ said twenty-six times in the gospel of John that the Father had sent Him. It is obviously very important to him that we understand the concept. Twenty-six times! For example, He said, “He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on Him that sent me. And he that sees me sees him that sent me” (12:44-45).

The Father Yahweh has sent the Son, who is the earthly witness of the invisible Father. In our embryonic thinking, we only see Christ the Son, the Savior, being the one sent, and that is true. But modern Christian theology teaches that it is a one-off and was only good for Christ and a few of the early apostles.

But, according to His words, we have been sent, too. Christ is expanding the base by including us as those that are sent. He said, “He that receives whomsoever I send receives me, and he that receives me receives Him [the Father] that sent me” (John 13: 20).

Christ puts an exclamation point on this: “As my Father has sent Me, even so send I you” (John 20:21). In the same manner that the Father has sent Christ, even so, Christ has sent us. What manner did the Father send Christ? He sent him with power.

In John 17, Christ is praying for His disciples. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one… in us…” (17: 20-21). You and I have believed in Christ through the words of the early apostles. In the mind of Christ, we are one with His early apostles and with Christ and with the Father! We are sent in the same way.

Christ is still saying, I am sending you just like the Father sent Me. He sent Him armed with the truth. He sent Him with miracle working power. He sent Him to bear witness to the truth. He sent him to give testimony through the miraculous works—works that can only be done by the Father. He sent Him to give testimony that mankind may believe God. And He sent Christ to those prepared to receive him. KWH

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June 16, 2024 · 3:27 pm

Catching Bigger Fish for Christ

Christ has invited us to become fishermen. He does not want us necessarily to catch fish in the sea; He wants us to catch men. Christ likens men to fish. In this analogy, He has some followers as fishermen and some as fish. He said, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19).

In Christ’s kingdom, there are three levels of spiritual growth attainable with God’s grace and mercy—children, young men, and fathers (I John 1:12-14). The spiritual fathers have “known Him that is from the beginning.” Those who will become fathers like Paul, Peter, James, and John—they are the big fish. We need these future sons of God who will arise in power and do the “greater works” than even what Christ did.

So, How Do You Catch the Bigger Fish for Christ?

You use bigger bait.

Continuing the analogy, more questions surface. What bait should we choose to catch a “big fish”? And how much of that bait should we use?

In fact, what is the bait? The bait is Christ’s words of truth. The amount of truth [the bait] depends upon the person’s spiritual growth. He wants us to feed them with spiritual food that meets their need. You feed a kitten milk; you feed its mother meat. Spiritual discernment is needed. Remember how He admonished them: “Don’t cast your pearls before swine…” It is difficult for novices in the word to handle the heavier truths, much less Satan’s thugs who are always around to mug you.

To “fish for men,” we need to know where someone is spiritually. Throwing big bait into a pool of tiny perch will not do. As we know from previous studies, Christians will grow and bear fruit in three levels: Thirty-fold, Sixty-fold, and 100-fold fruit bearing (Matt. 13:3-23). 30-fold fruit is borne by babes in Christ and little children of God. They believe God for personal salvation. This is a good start, but most little children of God stay on this level where they are mostly alive for what they can receive from God. You can hear it in their prayers; they want to be blessed by Him. This is categorized as “Knowing.” These are the children.

I have said it many times. We are to keep growing “until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.  That we henceforth be no more children…” And who are the children who are not yet mature in the spiritual growth cycle? It is those who are “tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine…” Deceivers have sowed seeds of false teachings; children cannot discern the good from the bad. But many shall grow into the maturity that the apostle Paul is referring to (Ephesians 4:13-14).

Doing

60-fold Christians are those who have been taught more truth about the Son of God and His Kingdom. The truth is that God wants them to be the channel of His blessings and not the object. They begin to awaken to His desire for them to be “doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving themselves…” (James 1:22). The truth about Christ’s purpose and plan is the bigger bait that is offered to them by the fishers of men, who are the teachers sent by Yahweh.

Those foreordained by God to grow into 60-fold fruit bearing will accept and desire and latch on to the bigger bait. They will begin to see the deeper teachings of truth, and they will be drawn to it. They will see that by doing the deeper truths they will grow spiritually. This is part of fishing for men. And these doers of the word will grow into the 60-fold level of growth known as “Doing.”

The bigger bait is the deeper truth which solves the “mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.” The big fish are those foreordained by God to respond to Him. They may grab the line and get hooked and try to run away from God like Jonah did for a season, but after God reels them in, they will do grand and glorious works as a testimony that the Father is real.

Some May Think This Is “Out There”

Some may not like this fish analogy. But they are Christ’s words, not mine. He wants us to fish for men, not minnows. This notwithstanding, He wants us to win souls for His sake. So how do you win someone who is destined to bear 100-fold fruit. Some will reach maturity and be like Paul, Peter and John? The answer: You cast out the biggest baits, the deepest truths. You cast before them the big truth that Christ has a plan to fulfill His purpose. And His purpose is to reproduce Himself in and through us. The “us” being those chosen by Him to become His manifested sons and daughters who will rule with Him on His throne during the 1,000-year reign of Christ. These will bear 100-fold fruit. This is “Being.”

Fishers of Men

Once landed, the big fish analogy is transposed into another extended metaphor: To become fishers of men. These future 100-folders “are the called according to His purpose.” These that He knew before, “He also did predestinate.” He gave them a destiny “to be conformed to the image of His Son” They will be just like Christ: that He might be the “first born among many brethren.” Those bearing 100-fold fruit believe that they have been predestinated, then called by Him and then justified, and then He glorified them. This has already happened in the mind of God (Romans 8: 28-30; Ephesians 1:4-5).

This vision of manifested sonship, 100-fold growth, is the “big bait.” Fully grown sons and daughters of God are His body with power. This vision contains the deep truths that the “big fish” are hungry for. When you arrive in these deeper waters, humility is needed, for this is heady stuff.

Christ sees us as already mature, for He “calls those things that be not as though they were” (Rom. 4:17). Therefore, Christ’s big fish are the Christians who have passed the stage and growth where they are not in this race to receive something for themselves. Rather they want to not just attain knowledge and things, but they desire to do and obey Christ’s new commandments. One of them is this: “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” {Send for my book The Eleventh Commandment. Free with free shipping. Send your name, mailing address and name of the book to my email: wayneman5@hotmail.com}

Obeying this commandment—“Follow me”—brings us closer to Him, for Christ said, “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love” (John 15:10). [There’s The Abiding—the new book that the Spirit is writing through this vessel.]

Abiding/continuing/staying in His love! What a promise our Head has given us! To stay in the kind of incomparable love that Christ is! We can abide in Him and He in us! And then His love will flow through us to His people, and He will show Himself that He is alive by the movement of His Spirit—through us! Those whom He has chosen will think on these things, for they are His thoughts, not our thoughts.

When we think on His purpose, when our thoughts about His kingdom are first and foremost in our meditations, when we give His testimony—from the cross to the Throne with us seated with Him—This Is the Spirit of prophecy! These are the things in the future that His true prophets speak of. “The testimony of Jesus/Yahshua is the spirit of prophecy.” God’s prophets today speak of Christ’s testimony as to the fulfilling of His purpose and plan. In the meantime, we will follow Him, and He will help us become “fishers of men.”   Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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June 5, 2024 · 10:39 am

Being a Breath Away

You know that lonely feeling, when it seems that it is just you out there, paddling in a dinghy on a rough sea? Yes, you have called on the Spirit for comfort. And then you are put in remembrance: He is very near to you.

In fact, He is right beside you. We live in Him. We reside now in His full encompassing presence. He is saying to us now, “Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.”

“In” means “inside” in the Greek. We literally are dwelling inside of this great invisible Spirit. He is known by many names: the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, Yahweh, the Father. He is our dwelling place. We are dwelling inside of His watchful love. Christ taught this. “Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.” At hand. Reach out literally with your hand and you will benevolently pierce His invisibility.

He said, “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” I have read this verse many times, scratching my head, looking up at the heavens for Him, not realizing that my head and heart are connected to this Spirit who wants us to believe that we “live, move and have our being in Him.”

We move in Him, inside of the Spirit. His love is omnipresent. We need only speak to Him, saying a kind word to our Savior, telling Him how much we appreciate Him for loving us enough to die for us—even for the likes of us.

Before we believed the Truth, we did not know how to come in or go out. We were running about, lost, not knowing Him and His presence. We had no access to that nearness in which we sit now, at rest in the perfect balance of spheres and gravity. We are still now, at peace with our glorious God who is all around us. We breathe Him in; He is our oxygen. We see now that the Spirit is the breath we breathe.

And so, we can only say, “Thank You, for loving us. Thank You, for accepting us and launching us into Your Kingdom by Your tender grace and mercy. We now see that “we have our being in You.“

You’re near. Closer than near. And as we breathe in Your Spirit, we resuscitate and escape the deadening grind of the dead-in-sin. The dead groan, waiting to bury their dead. They are still asleep, waiting for their appointment with Your Love. They must keep trudging on in the present world system. You love them, and as we breathe You into our lungs [You are Agape Love], we love them, too. For we are all one in You. And You make it all happen by faith, by us just believing the report.

And so, the spiritual atmosphere begins to clear for this statement: “And He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost” (John 20:22).  kwh

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