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January 26, 2013 · 8:09 pm

Patience–Enduring the “Sufferings of This Present Time”

As the sons and daughters of God, we are to add certain spiritual attributes of God’s “divine nature.” This is how we become “partakers of His divine nature” (II Peter 1: 4-7). This assures our inheritance as His sons and daughters. These attributes are added in sequence–in layers, if you will. To our faith we add virtue, and then knowledge onto it. Then we add temperance to that knowledge. Then we add patience onto the temperance.

Patience. Patience. Oh, how we all need patience in this hurry-scurry world! This world that careens through our conscious hours robs us of this important godly essence–patience. The swirling, rushing pace of our 21st Century lives conspire against us in our search for truth. Patience is needed to even read this simple article on patience.

For all that we see and hear is temporary. We will be able to temper the appetites of our earthly bodies more easily when we realize how transitory–how utterly perishable our bodies are. When we believe this and wholeheartedly acknowledge the need for God’s promise of our immortal house from heaven, we will more easily shift our focus from the temporary to the eternal.

The Next Step in Adding the Divine Nature

And that next step is adding patience to the temperance. But in order to add patience, which is the ability to endure the sufferings of Christ, we must understand just what those sufferings are. Paul speaks of them when he writes, “The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Rom. 8: 18). This “glory” is, of course, that destiny of God’s elect after they have grown spiritually to full maturity, which is the evidence of them partaking of the divine nature.

But those “sufferings” spoken of by the apostle is the sojourn we are experiencing in these mortal earthly bodies. For “we have this treasure [of the Spirit] in earthen vessels” (II Cor. 4:7). And that is the root of our current spiritual problem. Our bodies are, alas, mere temporary bottles holding the water of the Spirit.

“This present time” in which these sufferings are being endured is our time now in our earthly bodies. Our perishable fragile mortal bodies will too soon return to dust. Now is our time of waiting with long patience, trusting God will deliver us from the long sleep that awaits us, tucked in dust in the tomb of the earth.

Temporarily housed in our earthly tabernacles at “this present time,” we have a universal thirst that yearns to be quenched. And that desire is to live on. And whether cognizant of it or not, we are waiting in “earnest expectation…for the manifestation of the sons of God” (Rom. 8: 19).

And so we who have a portion of His Spirit, for a dry season at present, find ourselves trapped in a shell that will die soon. And so we wait for our forerunners, the sons of God to be unveiled first, for they are the firstfruits. And so we are waiting for these offspring of the Almighty to come onto the scene.

For they will give His other children great hope when they are seen striding this earth–a hope that they, too, can be “delivered from the bondage of corruption,” which is the cruel slavery that our present mortal bodies inflict on us in our new spiritual journey.

Slaves to Our Own Mortality

Our earthly bodies are decaying as they grow older each day, and we are not free to ascend and descend at will. We are on a timetable, slated to expire, most likely before the age of 80–whether we want to or not. That’s slavery; that’s being in bondage to our own mortality. That is the “bondage of corruption.” In the earthly sense, we are slaves to our own decay and impending death.

In our youth we were not aware of this impending decay of our earthly body. Hence, we thought ourselves invincible and immortal. But as we get older and see our bodies deteriorate, we see that we become the slaves to our own bodily limitations. We begin to admit that we cannot do what we once did. Our age, brought on by the ravages of time, becomes our master and limits us and dictates to us what we can and cannot do. This is the “bondage of corruption.”

Aging is the accumulation of many miles and years on the human body. Aging is that onerous sign announcing our impending physical passing. But this daily physical decay of our bodies does not work on our spirits. We can take heart in this, that “though our outward man perish, our inward man is renewed day by day” (II Cor. 4: 16). And this renewing is the “partaking of the divine nature,” the adding to our faith of which we speak.

So why death?

And so we ask God, Why do we have to die? Why give us a mortal body, God? Why subject us to all this suffering? The short answer: God created us “subject to vanity.” He deliberately subjected us to mortality in hope that we would be delivered into immortality. He made us to suffer this mortal existence in hope that we would seek Him, who is Life Himself, and in so doing find eternal life, which is the fulfillment of His promise to them who seek Him and love Him.

God has dangled death ever before us so that we would seek Him. He reasoned that our looming demise would spur us to seek Him for answers to our dilemma. Surely we would call on Him, the Giver of Life, to help us solve this problem of mortality if we were confronted with the sadness of first, the loss of loved ones and then, finally, ourselves.

God provided a law ingrained into the universe, as sure as gravity, that if we seek Him for the truth, we would find it. “Seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you,” Christ promised (Matt. 7: 7).

And so, confronted by the sufferings of our mortal worries, we turn to God. And His words resound through the ages to our hearts and tell us the answer to the riddle of our faint existence. He tells us that He is the Fount from which the blessing of immortality flows. And it starts with believing in the resurrection of His Son. And latching onto that faith in Him begins our own new life, ending in the complete inheritance of a new spiritual body that will swallow up this old earthly one (I Cor. 15).

He seems to be saying, Surely when they see my Son arise from the dead, they will turn to Me in great hope that My resurrection power will one day raise them up as well.

His resurrection is our hope to escape the dusty tombs of death. And yet, the sufferings continue. And as He teaches us and helps us to endure all things, we add patience. For patience is that part of God’s nature that endures. It lasts. And as we continue our sojourn in these earthly vessels, He grants to us patience by infusing us with experiences that helps us endure, that gives us rather things to endure.

Yes, “tribulation worketh patience” or “suffering produces endurance” (Rom. 5: 3). Earthly wisdom shuns all sufferings. The wisdom from above prescribes it. That is why He allows us to suffer–so that we can become like Him. For He planned those very steps of suffering for Himself, and if we want to be His sons and daughters, we must suffer with Him. That’s a tough one. That is why “few are chosen” (Matt. 22: 14). Those chosen are the elect, and they will submit to the plan along with its sufferings, much like those chosen for our Special Forces endure the sufferings that the training entails. It all comes with the territory. To reign with Him we must suffer with Him (II Tim. 2: 12). Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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January 19, 2013 · 7:33 pm

More on Adding Temperance to Knowledge

In previous posts we have seen that in order to secure “an entrance…into the everlasting kingdom of our…Savior,” we must add certain spiritual attributes to the faith that God has endowed us with [1]. In so doing, we “give diligence” in making “our calling and election sure” [2].

We are told by the apostle Peter to add “temperance” to the knowledge of God and His plan for our perfection.

Since our very spiritual growth in Christ is in the balance here, a bit deeper examination of this word “temperance” is fruitful. It is translated from the Greek word egkrateia (#G1466). Thayer’s Lexicon states that it is “the virtue of one who masters his desires and passions, especially his sensual appetites.”

It is derived from a Greek adjective egkrates (#G1468), meaning “strong, robust; having power over; mastering, controling, curbing, restraining.” So “temperance” is from Greek words meaning “to have control over.”

So How Does the Holy Spirit Help Us Get Control Over Bodily Appetites?

Knowing the truth will make us free, Christ said–of whatever ails us [3]. “Ye shall know the truth…” Know. There’s that “knowledge” spoken by Peter again, as in “add to you faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge…” What knowledge? The knowledge of truth, which is the mind of Christ, simply put. Yes, the mind of Christ–His thoughts, plans, and purposes. He did say, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” [4]. So, first knowing Christ’s thoughts, plans, purposes and His word, and then doing them–this will make us free of and give us control over sensual appetites.

There is another “knowing,” and this one is huge. “Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [Him], that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin” (Romans 6: 6). Our old sinful self, in God’s eyes, was crucified with Christ on the cross. And our old sin-soaked heart, which was enslaved to sin, is now free from all fleshly pulls. This knowledge, straight out of the plan and purpose and mind of our Savior, is the truth that makes us free from unrighteous haunts. Period.

Now. The ball is in our court. We are forced by Him to either believe this truth, which is His word and plan written down in plain English, and thereby be freed from the slavery of sin and sinning, or we continue on in unbelief. That is the choice. Chosing to believe this truth opens up the way to add these spiritual qualities like temperance, that He has admonished us to add to our faith, thus enabling us to “go on unto perfection.”

Temperance, then, is an integral part of the character of one who is an elder of the body of Christ, one who is mature [5]. This is a description of a temperate man, one who has his earthly body under control, leading him to be able to “hold fast the faithful word as he has been taught.” After adding temperance, the man of God will have the power to not soon be shaken through any temptations of the devil. He will be able to walk in the power of the word of God.

The elect of God will begin to realize that gaining control over the earthly body is a necessary pre-requisite in fully becoming the manifested sons and daughters of God. And because temperance is one of the fruits of the Spirit, the stronger the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives, the more temperance we will exhibit (Gal. 5: 22-23). More Spirit in us, more self-control.

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance…And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the passions and lusts.” This last sentence is the very next verse, v. 24. Isn’t it astounding that the word goes right back to being crucified with Christ? In another translation we read, “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires” (NIV).

Here it is in plain black and white: There is a direct correlation of having the “fruit of the Spirit” operating in our lives and being crucified with Christ. In fact, the crucifixion with Christ of our old nature is the very key in receiving His Spirit, which in turn yields the fruit of the Spirit in our lives–one of which is temperance or self-control. It is much easier to control one’s self after knowing and then believing that it is dead.

Earlier in his letter to the Galatians, Paul writes, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me” (2: 20). And there it is. Our bodies live on now, but it is not our old selves anymore living in them. But rather it is Christ’s Spirit that lives now in us. And this life that we live is because of His faith in His own plan, now believed on by us, that by believing that He is raised from the dead, we too are now risen “to walk in a newness of life.”

It is this Rock that we are building up each other as the temple of God in the earth. This is the solid Rock foundation that we must build upon. Because the weather coming soon to this earth is going to shake and crumble all houses not built on the right understanding of His word, plan, purpose, and thoughts. If it is built on a faulty foundation, then the house will come crashing down. Tribulation is coming upon the earth, and it will touch us all. Only He is our safety net–not some imagination of a rapture that someone dreamed up in the 19th century.

The Great Tribulation is coming. We must prepare by first “knowing the truth.” For Satan is going to deceive many in these latter days. “Let no man deceive you,” Christ warned. For the “falling away” or apostacy is already in full odious bloom. The churches have been duped and lied to by false teachers and false prophets. Many pastors are ignorant of this deception and yet, they continue to pollute the flock and inoculate them with poisonous doctrines and concepts. But “the wise will understand” (Dan 12; 10).

[1] https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/the-additions-to-your-faith-prerequisites-of-receiving-immortality/

https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/add-to-your-faith-virtue-gods-strength-and-power-2-peter-1-5/

[2] II Peter 1: 10

[3] John 8: 32

[4] John 14: 6

[5] Titus 1: 7-9

So Much Unbelief–Is It God’s Doing?

Ever wonder why there is so much unbelief out there? You know, that stone cold stare of incredulity when you tell someone about Christ’s ability to “deliver us from the power of darkness” and to miraculously change our lives. Why is that? We can’t help but wonder how anyone could not believe in Him.

We have seen recently that it is God’s faith, His belief in Himself and His plan and His ability to perform it–it is His faith that He gives to certain individuals in the earth. It’s the “faith once delivered” to His people. After receiving it, we are admonished to “add to your faith” seven spiritual attributes that helps us “grow up into Him.” They help us to always be bearing the “fruit of the Spirit” [1].

And with these things come the true blessings God has promised. But why, then is there so much unbelief?

In fact, most Christians start out “setting the woods on fire”–telling everyone and expecting everyone to respond and believe them about our Savior. But most of us settle down a bit and scratch our heads and wonder, Why don’t more people believe?

Why So Much Unbelief?

Some may say, Well, their hearts are hard, and they have rejected Him. This is partially true.

Others might say, The devil has deceived the unbelievers. True again, but that is not the whole truth. This blessed news of living a forgiven, free, and happy life in Christ is hidden from the many “lost, in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light…of Christ…should shine unto them” (II Cor. 4:4). So, yes, the devil has blinded them spiritually so that they cannot believe. But that is not the whole story or the cause.

Still others, looking more deeply with eyes that only the Father could give, will see that it is God behind the current glut of unbelief in the world. What? I say this not as an accusation against God, but more in awe of His ways, which are past finding out. I’m going by what He said in His word.

“All Things Are of God”

The apostle John saw this deep truth and expressed it. “But though He had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him…Therefore, they could not believe.” They could not believe? Why couldn’t they believe? They had all the miracles proving that it was God in Christ doing it all. But they could not believe. Why? “Because Isaiah said, He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them (John 12: 37, 39-40).

God has blinded them? Yes. He is behind it; that’s a tough one. John was quoting and elucidating what the Spirit was saying through Isaiah (6: 9-11). And how long will the deafness and blindness of the masses last? How long will the unbelief reign in the hearts of mortal Adamic man?

“And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate. And the LORD (Yahweh) have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land” (v. 11).

The masses will continue on in unbelief until the great catastrophes of the time of the end come upon the whole earth. When destruction comes upon the people, then they will cry unto God, and then their hearts will turn and believe.

Catastrophes That Happened to Ancient Israel Warn Us of Things To Come

We need only look into the scriptures of truth to see the type and shadow of our modern day reality. The children of Israel in the “Old Testament” serve as a painful example of this, for “that which has been is now, and that which is to be has already been” (Eccl. 3: 15). “These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come” (I Cor. 10: 11, NIV). If we want to know how it is all going down in our day, we need only to look in the scriptures.

Many will begin to seek God and to believe Him when the disasters come to this earth, just like in the days of old. The nation of Ancient Israel would enjoy the blessings of God, then they would get fat and complacent and forget God, and then He would allow other nations to conquer them and desolate their lives, and then they would cry unto Yahweh, and He would hear and come down and deliver them. There would be revival for a time, and then the cycle would begin again.

We are in that same cycle right now. We are growing fat and sassy. Look at America, allowing our representatives in government to allow and fund the killing of our innocent children, and they have taken prayer and thanksgiving to the God of the Bible out of our schools. And the people have allowed this! And they have taken our complete money system out of the hands of the people’s representatives and given it over to a private banking corporation, a central bank. I won’t even get into all the military adventures that have cost millions of innocent lives, with all their false flags.

We have sinned as a nation in so many ways, and most of us are complicit in these atrocities through our lack of courage. Most have drunk the kool aid they have given us and have taken the government as our sole benefactor. We have grown fat and lazy and do not “look to the Rock from whence we are hewn.”

And so, at the end of this age, which is coming very soon, God will bring us down. He will break the pride of our power and humble us through unimaginable catastrophes where cities will be wasted and destroyed during the horrendous “Great Tribulation Period” that will come upon the whole earth. And it will touch all those who are alive on the earth; that includes Christians, His elect, those He has chosen out to first believe in Him [2].

There is an elect, a remnant, those chosen by Him to be “a kind of firstfruits,” those destined to be the first to trust in Him and believe Him. And it is left to us to edify each other as best we can, sharing truth with those who can believe at this time. Maybe all of the above is why Isaiah cried out, “Who has believed our report? (53: 1; John 12: 38).

And it is left to us that have His faith to add to it the seven spiritual qualities that will help us grow into full maturity. Somebody is going to do it; it might as well be us.

Of course, the churches do not teach this. You won’t hear this on Sunday morning anywhere, but I’ll stick with Isaiah and John. They saw deeply into the heart of God, revealing secrets to those who can believe at this present time. For most can’t–at this time. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

1. https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/the-faith-of-god-in-himself-now-in-us/

https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/the-additions-to-your-faith-prerequisites-of-receiving-immortality/

https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/add-to-your-faith-virtue-gods-strength-and-power-2-peter-1-5/

2. https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/no-pre-tribulation-rapture-gods-elect-on-earth-during-tribulation/

https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/dont-depend-on-the-rapture-all-christians-going-through-great-tribulation/

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December 15, 2012 · 3:39 pm

Add to Knowledge Temperance–On Being Puffed Up

Someone on this earth will sit down on the throne of God alongside our Savior and will be a ruler in the government that the King will establish in all the earth. In fact, a whole company of over comers have been “predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son” (Rom. 8: 29). Fully matured, they will stride this crippled earth after the Great Tribulation. In God’s stead as His ambassadors of the literal Kingdom of Heaven will they rule with Him, for they will have His Spirit fully developed within them. These are the “partakers of the divine nature” who will do the King’s business after the disasters that will smite the earth.

“No man takes this honour unto himself” (Heb. 5: 4). It is God’s doing. He has a plan and He is quite capable of helping them carry out His own plan. And that plan and purpose is to share Himself with His creation. He is Love, and all Love can do is love and share and give.

Those of us who have been called to this “high calling of God in Christ” have been left a textbook explaining how to receive immortality. We now are in the process of studying it and taking it to heart. We need this instruction in order to receive the proper training and education to be an effective ruler with Christ in the soon coming Kingdom of Heaven right here on earth. That textbook is found in the “scriptures of truth,” the Holy Bible, which is God’s letter to us, a guidebook He showed to His prophets and apostles. And He is now showing it to us who believe, who have faith.

Adding to our faith

The apostle Peter instructs those of us who have been called to “partake of the divine nature” (II Peter 1: 3-4). He relates that God promised us immortality, and it is by these promises, that we can get rid of our old sinful nature and receive His divine nature. And God’s nature grows and matures in us to the point that in the end, it will be all Him. The divine nature grows in us through receiving more true knowledge of Him and His plan. And part of that is the additions to our faith.

“Add to knowledge temperance”

The apostle Paul wrote that “knowledge puffs up, but charity (agape love) edifies” (I Cor. 8: 1). This puffing up is the sound of an inflated ego that has no place to go with the knowledge; there is no desire to flow the knowledge on out to others. Agape love, conversely, flows out of its heart of love and shares and builds up fellow Christians, helping them in their walk with God.

The novice in Christ will get the bighead after gaining some of the true knowledge of God. There is an innate tendency in the old nature of man and spiritual babes in Christ to have one’s pride inflated upon receiving this knowledge, which has “been kept secret from the foundation of the world” (Matt. 13: 35).

This knowledge flows out of the mind and heart of God and sheds light on the very mysteries of the acquisition of immortality. This information is precious–so rare and fine a treasure, in fact, that “few there be that find it” (Matt. 7: 14). A beautiful four lane highway is leading many to destruction. “But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it” (v. 14 NLT).

Knowledge of these things will puff a person up. Why? Because they are still thinking that they are the object of God’s blessing and not the channel of it.

Therefore, knowledge of the holy things must have temperance added to it. Self control must be added. And the major lesson we must learn is that our little powerless self did not come up with this knowledge on its own. It was not delivered to us for any great thing that we are or have done. No. It is pure grace flowing out of God’s heart to us. It is all Him, favoring and having “mercy on whom He will have mercy” (Rom. 9: 15). It is all Him. It is our privilege to be a channel of this knowledge on out to His people.

Beware of False Teachers

Paul warns in another place about getting “puffed up” by knowledge. He warns new Christians not to get entangled by men who teach a “philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ (Col. 2: 8).

He is saying that men will deceive young Christians through all kinds of worldly earthly thoughts. But Christ is all you need, which is knowledge about who He is and what He has done for His people.

“You are complete in Him” (v. 10). You don’t need mumbo jumbo bells and whistles and gimmicks of worship, as it were. “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the godhead bodily.” And through His sacrifice of Himself, you have been circumcised spiritually. His Spirit invisibly cuts out your old sinful Adamic nature, and He gives you a new heart. “Buried with Him by baptism, wherein also you are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of of God, who has raised Him from the dead (v. 11-12).

False teachers are “puffed up”

One who teaches false doctrines tries to “beguile you,” and is “vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind” (Col. 2: 18). Remember that they “come to you in sheep’s clothing.” They appear as “messengers of light.” They have a little smidgeon of truth, and it has puffed them up as they imagine vain things about God and ways to worship Him.

How does a false teacher or preacher first go astray? He gets all “puffed up by his fleshly mind.” “Fleshly” here is from the Greek word sarx. It is a mind controlled by the “flesh” (sarx). This denotes the old nature, natural thinking man, unregenerate man. He has an earthly mind. “He that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth; he that comes from heaven is above all…for He whom God hath sent speaks the words of God” (John 3: 31, 34).

The phrase “of the earth” points to the same origins as Adam in the garden, made of the dust of the earth, clueless as to the heavenly destiny for mankind. These false teachers are puffed up with a bit of God’s knowledge, yet remain Spirit-less when it comes to the truth of God.

So, yes, temperance must be added to knowledge. This entails, of course, self-control in all areas of a Christian’s life.

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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December 8, 2012 · 5:35 pm

Add to Virtue Knowledge–The Additions to Your Faith

We have seen that some Christians are called to “go on unto perfection.” These are the elect, the ones chosen by God to be “a kind of first fruits” of His glory. They are the trailblazers into that spiritual country of immortality and will serve as princes and princesses in God’s soon coming kingdom that will subdue all of man’s governments and will fill the whole earth.

We have seen that these sons and daughters of God will not be content with “playing church,” but will forge ahead in study and prayer, searching for that hidden wisdom of God. They are the ones who are searching for “a better [country], that is, an heavenly” one. They are on a quest to enter into the heavenly New Jerusalem that will come down here to earth and will be the habitation of immortals, who are those who have spiritually matured.

They will understand that to fully partake of the “divine nature,” they will have to go beyond that initial flush of faith we Christians have all experienced. These will see that the full spiritual maturity calls for additions to their faith. Just possessing in one’s heart a strong conviction that God is real and working in one’s life is not the nutrient that will foster the spiritual growth, which leads to the harvest called “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

And make no mistake, brethren, glorification is where the elect are heading. It is in the mind of God; it is already done in His books. We need to embrace this truth and make the necessary sacrifices that will bring about this maturity.

We have seen that in order to go on with Him on this path, we must add certain spiritual attributes to our faith. Peter tells us to “add to your faith virtue,” which is that quality that helps us be proactive and not passive in this walk. Virtue is that warlike energy that takes the fight to the enemy. It gets us off the couch and into the fray. It is the very strength and power of God’s Spirit [For more see these two articles https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/add-to-your-faith-virtue-gods-strength-and-power-2-peter-1-5/ https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/the-additions-to-your-faith-prerequisites-of-receiving-immortality/ ].

Adding knowledge to virtue

The second addition to the faith is adding knowledge to virtue. God does not want us running out there cutting and slashing with the “sword of the Spirit” at just any old thing that pops up. Nor does He want us to be gullible and believe everything we hear about God. We must have knowledge added to the zeal.

Many “little children” of God, energized with their new found faith, want to get out there and change the world. So they rush out and tell everyone they meet about their experiences in God. This universal reaction comes out of a heart that means well. But like Paul says, “They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge” (Rom. 10: 2).

There is a “knowledge” then that young Christians need to be in agreement with. If we strike out on our new found Christian walk without this knowledge that the apostle refers to, then we will wander off onto a path that detours us away from the road to the celestial city.

Some detours

What are some of these detours? They are imaginations; they are false teachings about the plan and purpose of God. The apostles and prophets continuously warn us about not believing false teachers and preachers.

One detour takes an unsuspecting young Christian to “Neverland.” It is the mythical concept that just accepting Christ grants us a ticket to heaven and not to the bad place. They are promised by their teachers that they will go to heaven and stay in heaven forever with God. That’s about it. They are never told that Christ is coming back here to earth–what a stupendous event! And He is bringing all the dead in Christ with Him. They have never considered it. And what about those who are alive when He touches down on the Mount of Olives? What happens to His followers who are alive? And what happens to the people who survive the Great Tribulation Period? What happens to them here on earth? All this never enters their minds.

Another detour that hinders Christian growth is the false promise of a rapture. Total escapism. Not going to happen. But people rush out in their zeal and believe this because it sounds good and logical. Yet, they never study it out and prove it one way or another to themselves. It is tricky. They have a zeal for God, “but not according to knowledge” [for more on this go here https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/?s=rapture ].

So what is this knowledge Peter’s talking about?

To answer that question, we must be prepared to dig deep into the scriptures of truth. Knowledge is a noun translated from the Greek word gnosis (#1108) meaning “knowledge.” We see it in the English words “diagnosis” and “prognosis.” The verb form of this word (#1107; #1097) means “to make known.” So the noun means “that which is made known.”

But there is a lot of “knowledges” out there. Which knowledge is he talking about?

So what has been made known? What exactly is this knowledge that the apostles were so keen on? First, God has “made known” to us through Christ’s resurrection the “ways of life,” as in the path we will take to arrive at a state of immortality or everlasting life. Literally. Not “crystal blue persuasion,” “floating around heaven all day.” No. God has given us the knowledge on how to obtain immortality. That is how big this concept is. There is a true way into His kingdom/government as His elect sons and daughters. We can see this in the book of Acts where Peter is quoting David, “Thou hast made known to me the ways of life” (2: 28).

Christ’s resurrection, where His earthly body did not remain in the grave–this is our hope, that as He promised, we, too, can receive immortality. But there is so much of this knowledge to learn. True knowledge of how we will attain immortality does not come willy-nilly. If our earthly jobs require a modicum of seriousness and sobriety to master and perform, how much more does our training to be His fellow rulers in His kingdom?

After all, Christ promises this to some: “To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also over came, and am set down with my Father in his throne” (Rev. 3: 21). You mean some of us will literally sit on the throne with Christ? Somebody will, and He said, Whosoever will may come. Kings and queens sit on thrones. But to be sitting on the one and only throne designed by and for immortals. That’s getting out there. Need more faith? Maybe we need these additions to the faith, to grow it, to feed it, to enlarge and strengthen it.

What else is God “making known” to us? “That He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory.” Some human beings that He calls “the vessels of mercy” He has already prepared to receive “glory.”

Nothing more glorious than everlasting life. The “glory that He has for us is immortality. He is making known this knowledge of these true spiritual riches that some will be glorified with Him at the end of this age! That is what He is making known right now (Rom. 9: 23).

He is making known the mystery of His will. “That God would make known what is the riches of the gloryof this mystery…which is Christ in you, the hope of glory…even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations but now is made manifest to his saints (Col. 1: 27, 26).

This “glory” spoken of here is spelled out in Romans 8: 18-31. It speaks of the adoption, where we mortals shall be redeemed by God through resurrection and receive a new spiritual body that cannot die like this earthly body that is physically corruptible. God gave us a destiny unto this glorious state beforehand, that we would “be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren” (v. 29). And if we are, indeed, one whom He has predestinated, then He has called us, justified us, and He has also glorified us (v. 30). This “glorification” is all about receiving an immortal spiritual body. [Read more in I Cor. 15 and here: https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/the-high-calling-of-god/ ].

There is so much more that He has “made known” to His children. We are told to add this knowledge of His plan and purpose to the virtue/zeal and on to the faith. Adding knowledge then is all about first learning His true plan and promises and incorporating them into our thinking. This takes true teachings, much study, and much communication with our Savior. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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November 27, 2012 · 8:43 pm

The Additions to Your Faith–Prerequisites of Receiving Immortality

Just having faith in Christ is not enough. Now, wait a minute. Hear me out before you jump.

Some have said, “Faith in Christ is all you need.” To get into the first level of a walk with God, that is true. But things must be added to the true faith in order for us to fully manifest God’s divine nature in us, according to the apostle Peter.

He says that we must make certain spiritual additions to the faith, so that we can be “partakers of the divine nature…Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity (agape love)” (II Peter 1: 5-7).

Peter goes on to say that if these additions “be in you and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren (idle) nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus (Yahshua) Christ” (v. 8).

In other words, without these additions, we will not grow up “unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (Eph. 4: 13). Nor will we without these additions “be filled with all the fulness of Christ” (Eph. 3: 19). Why? Because the person without these additions listed above “is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins” (II Pet. 1: 9). These additions, then, serve as a kind of eye salve that anoints our eyes that we may see the spiritual road ahead of us.

In fact, the way we “make our calling and election sure” is to add these very things to our faith! That is why this is so important to the overcomers of all things. For if we add these things to our faith, we “shall never fall” (v. 10). The addition to our faith of these things is the key that unlocks the door to the “entrance…into the everlasting kingdom” of our God (v. 11).

Who was Peter writing to?

Peter is writing not to everyone, but to those “that have obtained like precious faith with us” (1: 1). He is writing to “those who have already received by divine allotment” this equally honored and precious “conviction that God exists and is the Creator and Ruler of all things, the Provider and Bestower of eternal salvation through Christ” {Thayer’s Lexicon}.

It is God who has placed this faith, this “conviction” that He is real, in our hearts. It is not something we “muster up.” It is all Him. It is His grace to us, which is to say, God favors us with knowledge of Him and His plan and word. This brings light to our eyes and strength to our hearts. God gives grace to some during this end time era with spiritual knowledge of Him. This is His grace to us.

Now He gives this grace in accordance to “His divine power” which gives to the recipients “all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him” (1: 3). For He “has called us to glory and virtue.”

Glorification = Immortality

God has tapped us on the shoulder in some way to bring us to the stage of spiritual growth called “glorification”! Yes, this spiritual road we have begun to walk down is leading us into being glorified with Him! This is sonship; this is rulership with Him in His kingdom.

We have to add these things listed by the apostle Peter, if we are to fulfill our calling to be His manifested sons and daughters, His ruling family that He has called us unto. That’s how important they are to Him, first, and should, therefore, be important to us. Important enough to seriously study them out.

But the big take away of this opening chapter of II Peter is this: This conviction that God is and is in control through Christ–this faith, this conviction must have other attributes added to it, in order for us to fulfill our calling as His sons and daughters, the princes and princesses, sitting with Him in His throne.

Peter knows full well what it takes to “make our calling and election sure.” He knows that our initial experiences based on God’s favor and grace in showing a bit of Himself to us and thereby “calling us out of darkness into His marvelous light”–he knows that those early experiences and revelations will not take us across the finish line in this race “for the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil 3: 14).

And it is through this knowledge of the holy things of God that we are given “exceeding great and precious promises” (II Pet. 1: 4). God has promised to give unto us His followers immortality, or eternal life. Immortality is it. It is the biggest gift, the greatest promise the Immortal One can give to a mortal. There is nothing greater for one who will die than to be granted eternal life.

And this immortality that God has promised us is what the aforementioned “glorification” is all about. And Peter says by the Spirit of God that we are called “to glory and virtue.” And God promised this to us from time immemorial. “In hope of eternal life, which God, which cannot lie, promised before the world began” (Titus 1: 2).

All of this notwithstanding, in order to receive this precious promise of immortality, we must add certain spiritual components to our faith, to our conviction that God is real and true. These additions are the elements of the very nature of God Himself.

How do we do this? First we must study them out and receive the knowledge of just what they are, and then, reckon them added by faith.

Two points are worthy encouragers for us on this road to immortality. First, He said of us in His prayer in John 17: 22: “And the glory which You gave Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.” In His mind, it is a done deal. He is saying, I have already given them glorification, which is immortality. With this, they are one with the Father and Son. It is also good to know that “He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world.” He has full confidence in His plan, which includes us. But the first step is to add to our faith virtue. What virtue is comes next time. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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October 6, 2012 · 8:48 pm

Who Are the Elect of God? Hint: He Has Chosen the Weak Things

This teaching that a person must willingly submit their life to the death of the cross with Christ–it seems foolish to the worldly mind. But this cross experience is the equalizer, for it places all of mankind in the same location before God. And that is a place of weakness.

To admit that you can’t make it anymore in this old world, that your old life is selfish and devoid of true love, that you are in need of someone stronger than you to lift you out of the mire of evil thoughts and actions–that is weakness.

The worldly mind would think, how utter pathetic! How weak and helpless! But it is this very weakness that God has chosen! “God has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the things that are mighty” (I Cor. 1: 27).

The apostle Paul is saying that God has chosen those who know they are weak, for the Word also declares, “God resists the proud but gives grace/favor to the humble” (I Pet. 5: 5).

How does a person know if they are one of the elect or chosen ones [“the elect” and “chosen ones” come from the same word in the Greek http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G1588&t=KJV ]? This is an all important question, for since God does choose out certain individuals, and we are to “make our calling and election sure,” we do need to sincerely explore His election or choices to do His work in the earth. (II Pet. 1: 10).

And this leads us back to this question. Who does God choose to be in His elect? God has chosen the weak, the ones who have endured the sufferings of Christ. These are they who have willingly submitted their old selves to be “crucified with Christ” (Gal. 2: 20; Rom. 6: 6-11).

God has chosen these weak ones. They are the elect of God, chosen by Him to turn this world upside down–to “confound the things that are mighty.”

The power comes into a Christian’s life after we humble oursleves “under the mighty hand of God.”

God has chosen this extremely humbling form of death for His elect to prove them to see if they be found worthy. For crucifixion is the most humbling of all ways to die. Thank God He provided our Savior Jesus/Yahshua the Anointed One to bear the physical, literal crucifixion for us. Then it is our turn to follow our Example and yield to the spiritual crucifixion that puts an end to our old spiritual nature, to our original sinful old heart. We do this by faith and begin to walk in the new heart we receive from Him. Through study of His Word and communicating with Him, we grow in this grace/favor that He has bestowed upon us, seeking “first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.”

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September 29, 2012 · 8:32 pm

We Are All “Damaged Goods”–On Becoming a Fountain of Mercy

Very rarely will we ever come to know someone so intimately that they would reveal their innermost darkest secrets with us. When it does happen, they tell us about how they were hurt as a child in some way.

Digging a little deeper into the human psyche, we will come to the conclusion that all of us are damaged goods. Everyone has been either molested, abused–either sexually, mentally, emotionally, or physically–lied to, or used in some nefarious way where our trust in mankind and his institutions have left us cold and bitter.

So knowing that we are all damaged goods, we can now look at everyone differently–not as an adversary, but as someone needing love and understanding. They are not just someone else to use, but as another human being who needs consolation, compassion, healing, and redemption. For only love from above can buy back the lost and wasted years of fear and doubt and dismay in this vexing world. Only agape love can lay down its life for its friends. Only Christ’s love in us can heal the pains and hurts of an injured heart–injured by another lost and injured soul.

But we, with God’s help, can end the vicious cycle of hurt. We can become a part of the solution and not the problem anymore–the problem of being the victim. We can join up with Him and be a part of Christ’s cadre, His body of people with new hearts, forgiving and loving and understanding hearts that can conquer all pain and suffering and stand with Christ as one of His elect in the new kingdom of love that He is bringing to this earth.

But the catch is that it starts with us to whom He has revealed His plan and purpose to–you and me. Right here. Right now. A rebirth of mercy one toward another. Mercy from on high trickling down through us–mercy that is born from the knowledge that every single one of us walking around today–right there in our town, in our neighborhood, in our city, and, yes, even on our facebook list of friends–everyone is damaged goods–injured spiritually in some way, vulnerable, though few would admit it. And we all have the same need, which is God’s love–a love from above that will only distil like dew upon this earth through the mercy and compassion we show toward each other. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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September 22, 2012 · 11:51 pm

The Manifestation of the Sons of God–When?

The “manifestation of the sons of God” is what the whole creation is waiting for–whether they know it or not (1). And with these powerful Christians striding the earth like the pattern Son Christ, great miracles will be performed as a magnificent witness to the errant inhabitants of the earth*.

These 100 fold followers of Christ will do the “greater works” that He promised some of His followers would do (2). “He that believes on Me, the works I do, shall he do also; and greater works shall he do,” He said.

Greater Works than Christ?

Greater works? What works did Christ do? He performed mighty miracles that are legendary now–raising the dead; healing those with palsy; curing severe cases of insanity and leprocy–you name it. And his early apostles did the same, for they had His same Spirit and growth.

But how can anyone do any greater things than what Christ and a handful of His early apostles did? The answer to this question lies in the harvest time of this world age. What they did was fruit borne after the “early rain” or “former rain” of the Spirit just after the Resurrection. The fruit after the “latter rain” of God’s Spirit poured out of the mouth of His sons during the time of the end of our age will be abundant (3).

For tens of thousands of sons of God will do the miracles. That is how His followers will do “greater works” than Christ did. The sheer number of miracle workers will be how those greater works will get done. There will be 144,000, to be exact. There will be 12,000 from each of the lost tribes of Israel (4). They will be the first humans to receive immortality and have God’s glory revealed through them. They will be immortal, striding the globe healing the hurts of suffering mortals (5).

Harvest Time Is When the Manifested Sons Will Come

They will come onto the scene in our age, right on time–the time of the end. It will be harvest time. The present world system, the evil “vine of the earth,” will be uprooted, squeezed, and burned (6).

Great calamities will bring this world system to an end, and many people in many lands will be hurt thereby. This time is called in many books of the prophets “the day of the LORD,” or more correctly put, “the day of Yahweh” (7). It is mentioned 31 times in the O.T. and speaks of a day of God’s vengeance and the utter darkness at the heighth of man’s government on earth. God will reign down heavenly missiles onto the earth, and the rich men’s futile attempt to rule the world will come crashing down (8).

God Taking Vengeance

But this day of vengeance wreaked upon mankind by Yahweh is so heart wrenching, so utterly unspeakable that few talk about it; it is that depressing. In fact, Christians in most denominational churches have gladly received the false doctrine of a rapture that they believe will preserve them and prevent them from going through the Tribulation Period, which is that seven year “day of the LORD.”

We are talking about the demolishing of mankind’s godless socio-economic-political system. It will be coming down, not as much through man destroying man, but through the trumpets and vials of wrath that pummel the earth in that day. Movies and television have served as a kind of herald of the coming disasters, as we see on screen the asteroids hitting earth. It is coming. And Christians will have to go through it (9).

God will be wreaking vengeance on the ungodly of this world system called “Babylon the Great” (10). It will fall by God’s own hand though mankind will try to thwart its destruction. But man never could prevent “acts of God.”

Right now, things are changing rapidly. Few can keep up with the technology which will usher in the counterfeit new world order. As Thomas Friedman wrote in his The World Is Flat, the technology of the last 10 years ios shrinking the planet. And as it gets smaller, it gets easier to rule from a centralized government.

One World Government and Ruler Must Come First

Make no mistake. The new world order, the one world government, must come first to this earth before Christ comes back to set up His government, the Kingdom of God. It must come first, as the counterfeit in His plan always comes first. And the Anti-Christ, the false Messiah must come first, as well, before the true King Jesus Christ, Yahshua Messiah, returns.

100, 50, even 20 years ago the satanic kingdom could not stretch around the globe, but now it can. The Information Age will usher in satan’s rise to total centralized dominance. Power will be given to one man to rule the entire world system. He has man names other than the Anti-Christ: the devil incarnate, Satan incarnate, “the man of sin,” the “king of the north,” the Assyrian. He will be the apex of satan’s power in the earth’s history. Many types have foreshadowed his rise to power: Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, and Hitler, to name just a few. But it was not the time. They all had that same spirit of satan; they were kith and kin of him, but the time of their rise prevented them from worldwide dominion.

That time is now. And because satan’s kingdom is divided, many want-to-be’s are vying for world dominion. Western Europe/U.S.A./Zionist Israelis are at war with the Islamic fascists, and much more in-fighting will take place before the Anti-Christ steps out of the smoke and ash and takes center stage for seven years. It is at this time, when God is raining down hailstones and asteroids, that satan will make his play at being very God. Good news is he won’t succeed. God will bring Him down.

The Sons of God Come on the Scene

All the countries of the world will be going up in smoke, “men’s hearts failing them for fear.” It is during this seven year tribulation period that God will bring forth His manifested sons. They will be that glorious witness to all human beings from God. They will be nothing less than the saviors of mankind. God in His infinite mercy will do this for us all. The world and everyone in it will literally be brought to their knees, humbled to their core. It is then that God can reach them, and He will do it through His manifested sons at that day–the “day of Yahweh.”

These immortal sons are God’s firstfruits of the great harvest of God’s offspring. There is always a firstfruits in God’s plan. These sons are the first to receive their new immortal bodies; the first to “not taste of death,” the first to dwell in a heavenly spiritual body, where “no weapon formed against them can prosper” (11). God’s very nature is formed in them.

They will go out all over the planet bringing forth glad tidings of God’s government coming. They will “preaching good tidings to the meek. They will bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim libery to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound” (12). And they will give those suffering “beauty for ashes, and the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.”

But this beauty will come out of the ashes of a destroyed man’s world system. This is God in human form times 144,000. It will be a powerful dose of love, joy, and peace for the earth and its lowly inhabitants.

And why does all this destruction come to the earth? God says that He will take vengeance on the evildoers. In so doing, His children will be broken hearted when they see the world wide destruction, and in their brokeness, they will turn to the Rock of their salvation, and they will be healed. It has always been that way. Moses warned the children of Jacob/Israel about getting too fat and sassy and turn from God’s laws and ways to serve other gods. Then when they got conquered and lost everything, they would “cry unto the LORD,” and what? He would raise up men of God to lead them out of the misery.

This is what the Bible stories from Exodus through Kings and Chronicles is about–examples for us to learn from.

And so now we find ourselves, like our Israelite forefathers, being brought low by the rich international banking cartel, who have devalued our money, taking our silver and gold circulating coins and our silver certificates and giving us an ever shrinking fiat currency, that is not worth much more that the paper it is printed on. And we will be squeezed and squeezed until we either bleed to death or cry out unto our Maker and Savior. Same song, different verse. Except we are fast approaching the end of the song. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

* [see my book The Unveiling ot the Sons of God found at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”]

1. Rom. 8: 18-23

2. John 14: 12

3. James 5: 7; Joel 2: 23; Zec. 10: 1

4. Rev. 7: 3-8; 14: 1-5

5. Rom. 8: 18; II Cor. 5: 1-4; I Cor. 15: 51-55

6. Rev. 14: 18-19

7. Isa. 13: 6; Jer. 46: 10; Ezk. 30: 3; Joel 1: 15

8. Rev. 8; Rev. 16; Rev. 17

9. See https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/no-rapture-further-proof/

10. Rev. 16: 19; 18: 21

11. Isa. 54: 17; Matt. 16: 28

12. Isa. 61: 1-5

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September 8, 2012 · 1:38 pm

What Is Life All About? (Conversations with the Seer)

(Formerly in Israel, if a man went to inquire of God, he would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” because the prophet of today used to be called a Seer.” I Samuel 9: 9)

One time I asked the Seer, “What is life all about? What’s really going on? Why are we here?”

And then the Seer answered in a sweeping monologue.

First of all, there is a Creator, a Supreme Being with a plan and purpose. Modern man will just have to get over it and accept that there is Someone higher in the food chain. Just look around. Things that are alive come from living things. If anything ever lived, it owes its existence to something else that was living–of its own kind. Every living thing reproduces itself. Since every living thing gets its life from another living being, then an Initial living being, a Supreme Being, had to have given life to all the living.

It is only logical. Two pieces of granite cannot reproduce. Only the living things of creation are reproducing, and their pro-creating drive has been ignited by the Creator, the Life Giver.

But the kicker, though, is that the Creator has put in motion all this reproduction as a type or metaphor of what He is doing with Himself. The Creator’s plan and purpose is written into the quintessential action of every living thing–procreation. His plan and purpose is written into nature, and it is just waiting there to be deciphered.

So what does the secret writing of both nature and the scriptures reveal as to what God is saying? Answer: Hey, creation, I’m reproducing Myself, too! You didn’t think I was going to let you have all the fun of raising a family, did you? I have a family, too.

And this is how I am going to do it. My essence is Love. And I desire to magnify and reproduce Love. So, in order to reproduce the real Spirit of Love, which is Me, I will create a special being that can contain Me.

I’ll create this special creature, the human being, male and female. And I will place within them both a desire to procreate. I will make them capable of loving with a heart that longs for love. And their lives will be like a play, lived out on the stage of this earth.

But this play will seem like a tragedy in the first few acts, for the human beings will have tragic flaws. As my crowning creation, humans will be extremely complex characters. In their inner being, they will want to do good, but their innate selfishness will thwart their intents to do that good and right thing.

Some humans will eventually come to their wit’s end. They will do craven acts of unkindness, driven by the first nature I have given them. Their foolish and selfish heart will drive them to cheat on their spouses, steal from their fellow humans, and tell falsehoods to further their own selfish desires. And other sins they will do.

But some will feel horrible about their actions. Their consciences will torture them. They will long to do good, despite succumbing to the temptations of the old nature. It is from these who feel the need to repent that I will choose to reproduce Myself in. They will know that they have done wrong and will search for a place of repentance and redemption as desperately as a lost man in the desert seeks water.

And they will find forgiveness of all their past evil deeds and thoughts. Then I will give them of My Spirit, which is their new seed beginning in the garden of their hearts. And through this new spirit within, they will blossom in love. And this love will be shed abroad, by them forgiving their fellow human beings–especially those who are still using them for their own selfish desires.

They will learn to bless those who hurt them and persecute them. They will love their enemies and do good to all unenlightened human beings. They will forgive everyone in their old Adamic past, and they will reach out and love any and all. And they will love Me who gave them a new chance–an opportunity to become one of My children, one of My princes or princesses.

And they will walk on this earth, shining forth this spiritual light of My own reproductive perfectness. For I will multiply Love, which is my nature, through their realization of the great deliverance I have brought them through. They will be fountains of forgiveness, shedding forth the refreshing water of life to all so called.

And in due time, I will change these redeemed ones into my immortal offspring. For they will be those human beings who have believed My word. In the face of all the gainsayers, they will have persevered despite the doubts of those who persisted in pernicious ways.

And then I said, “So this is what the Bible is all about.”

“Exactly. It is not about sanctimonious ceremonies in “castles midst the poverty” once or twice a week. It is about Life, an abundant Life, a life that will last forever. It is all about God sharing Himself with His creation. And this Life is the play foreseen and written by God and revealed to a few. It is a real play produced and directed by God. He wrote it eons ago, and we as the principal players in this drama should submit to the Director. The sooner we do, the sooner we will be a part of the Greatest Hit of the Ages.” Kenneth Wayne Hancock

*Romans 8: 28-30; Ephesians 3: 11-19

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