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March 4, 2009 · 10:11 pm

God’s Faith Once Delivered to the Saints

Faith is extremely important but often misunderstood. It is not us believing in something. That is not the true faith of God. No. The true faith of God comes from Him to us, not from us about Him. It is His belief in Himself that He gives to us.

Faith Is Not Something We Have to Muster Up

It is the “faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). Faith is a spiritual commodity from God that has been delivered to the people of God. Who delivered it? The Creator Yahweh did. Faith is not something that has to be mustered up by His people. We rather must receive it from Him. It is something that originates from out of His nature and is given to us. “For every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights.” That includes faith.

It is His faith that is transplanted into our hearts. It is not something we muster up and finally believe about Him. His faith in us is the first part of His divine nature to enter into the human heart. But what is it exactly? Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1.

God Has Assurance in the Things that He Hopes For

“Things hoped for…” Because we are naturally egocentric, we think that it is the things we hope for. No. What does God hope for? What are the desires of His heart? What has He purposed? Long before we were ever born, He saw us in our down-trodden state of sin and misery. He also saw us rise with Him by His Spirit to vanquish sin and death in our lives. He believed that this was a reality—that this was substance—having not yet seen it come to pass. He believed and so therefore spoke and said that it was so. He believed the best about us and His plan—not having seen the evidence yet of its fruition. We as changed individuals are evidence that the invisible Supreme Being is real. We are His witnesses that He is God. And if He believes in His work in us before it comes to full fruition, then we should, too. He is our example.

His divine nature is positive, full of faith and power. All of His promises are “yes.” Nothing negative flows from His heart. He is positive; His attitude is positive. In fact, He calls those things that are not, that do not exist as yet, as though they did exist. He said that He will be all in all eventually. We should then, right now, begin to walk around as if He already is all in you and me. This will take belief that “it is no longer I that lives but Christ that lives in me.”

He is positive, giving “life to the dead and calls that which does not exist as existing.” This is He. This is how He thinks. He is positive about His capabilities. He has absolutely no doubt about His reserves and His resolve to get done what He wants done. And what He wants done is the multiplication, the reproduction of Himself, within His creation. He is an invisible Spirit; He wants to see Himself in action in human form. This is the witness that He talks about in Isaiah. We are to be His witnesses that He is the invisible Spirit/God. His faith believes that not only we can change, but that we will change—that we are changed! He seeks people to worship Him in this spirit and attitude and in this truth. He needs people to worship Him in this way—to believe the way He believes.

And it is to this faith, His faith, that we are to add several more spiritual qualities as outlined by the apostle Peter (II Peter 1: 5-8). These are the more advanced facets that the Holy Spirit gives to those going “unto perfection,” which is full maturity in Christ. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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February 9, 2009 · 1:39 pm

We Were with God in the Beginning*

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When we partake of His Spirit, we are drinking into what we had with Him in the beginning.

His Spirit in us transforms us day by day into what we were when we were with Him back then. We are restored by faith, back to that relationship we had with Him before the worlds were ever formed. Before the earth was ever made, before the seven day creation week, before the sabbath day was instituted–we, His children were there with him in spirit.

For what are we really without Him? Our bodies without His presence within are so much earth and dust. When we receive a portion of His Spirit, we receive into these earthly shells a spark of the divine One.

He who was from the beginning now takes up His abode in our earthly bodies, and the only “I” now is His Anointed One (Christ) in us. For after our own cross experience with Him, it is no longer the old selfish “I” that lives, “but it is Christ that lives in me.”

As we continue to walk this way, we can pray as Christ prayed, “Father, glorify me with the glory I had with You before the world ever began” (John 17:5).

We Must Go Back

But we must go back, back, back into time–before the temporal, before the temporary shackles of our earthen bodies, before the clamor of the flesh’s demands and desires, before the worlds were ever slung into their ethereal pinnings–when we sat around with our Father, rejoicing with Him about the beauty of His plan, “when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (Job 38: 7).

We must go back there, before Satan was ever commissioned by the Father to be the “accuser of the brethren.” Before Satan became the prince and power of the air, sent down to try us and force us ultimately back to our Father for deliverance.

For we have all strayed like sheep away from our Shepherd. We have strayed from the spiritual pastures we had with Him before He created the pastures of earth.

When we return and let Him gather us and restore us back into His heavenly-minded fold, then we will know what it means to have “our conversation in heaven.”

Passing the Test

When we walk in this truth–that we were with Him in the beginning–then we have passed the test–the test to see if we will believe the lie that we are only animal and not children of God, or believe the truth that we are only temporarily in a mortal state before our change to immortality comes.

This is the crux of the matter. When we are stripped of everything and reduced to our lowest state, do we believe that we are His spiritual children, with all the rights and responsibilities or do we believe the lie?

For this lie must be refuted by our walk on earth. Others must see “our good works and glorify the Father.” They will see that, yes, there is a God, for only God can shine the light of joy and love through a person like that. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

*{“…and your old men shall dream dreams…” Received in a dream, Feb. 8, 2009}

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January 25, 2009 · 4:55 pm

Add to Your Faith–How to Make Your Calling and Election Sure

After obtaining “like precious faith” with the apostles of Christ, we must make several additions to that faith in order to be fruitful in God’s plan. These additions are spiritual additions and can only be added by His in-dwelling Spirit within you.

It is by adding these certain spiritual traits to our faith that we can make “our calling and election sure.”

God has promised us that we can be “partakers of His divine nature.” To secure these promises we must add these spiritual attributes. If we don’t add them, then “we will be barren and unfruitful.” We will not show that heavenly power and light through our vessels if we don’t.

What are these additions? They are found in II Peter 1: 5-7. To faith, add virtue; to virtue add knowledge; to knowledge add temperance; to temperance add patience; to temperance add godliness; to godliness add brotherly kindness; to brotherly kindness, add charity, which is agape love from above.

Those that lack these spiritual additions to their faith in Christ are blind and have “forgotten that they were purged from their old sins” (v. 9). In other words, the guilt of sin and ungodliness will haunt them. His salvation lies dormant in them, and they are subject to negative thoughts hurled through their minds by our enemy Satan, the ruler of the air waves.

But if we make these additions to our faith, we find an “entrance…into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (Yahshua) {v. 11).

To comprehend virtue, the first addition, we must study it out, and then apply it, calling upon Him for His strength, for it is only by His Spirit that we can accomplish anything. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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December 3, 2008 · 7:20 pm

Conversations With the Seer–What Is Sin in God’s Eyes?

(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)

“Just what is sin then?” I asked the Seer. We had been talking about the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the “sin” question had come up.

“Sin is the breaking of the law,” he said (1).

“Which law?”

“The Ten Commandments. If you are breaking one of them, then you are in a sinful state. The apostle Paul of Tarsus proves this when he wrote, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet (2). Here he equates sin with breaking one of the Ten Commandments. Coveting or desiring your neighbor’s possessions or wife is a sin, prohibited by the Ten Commandments. There are nine others. Breaking any of them is sinning.”

“But I’ve been taught that sin can be anything from dancing to drinking wine, from getting angry to not doing something that I am supposed to do.”

“Shuffling one’s feet on a hardwood floor does not necessarily mean one is sinning. Remember King David, flooded with complete joy, danced in the streets; he did not sin. The Savior Himself drank wine in the homes of sinners and publicans (3), yet He committed no sin. He also got angry at the moneychangers at the temple, yet without sin.”

“Why don’t the preachers teach this?”

“They either do not know the truth, or they have turned from the truth and continued on in man’s traditions. I do not judge them. We all have a Judge who will examine us in light of the knowledge given us by Him.”

“You mentioned dancing and drinking wine. Why would that not be sinning?”

“God looks on the intents of the heart (4). If dancing is used for sinful and lustful purposes, then it is suspect. Same goes for drinking a glass of fermented grape juice. Righteous indignation is not the same as selfish anger.”

“Sin then is a spiritual condition.”

“Yes. It is a spiritual condition of the heart, of the core of a person. But sin does not have to be permanent in the human being. A ‘new heart’ composed of His Spirit can be transplanted into the human being through repentance and faith toward God (5).” He saw that I had enough to chew on, so he stopped speaking.

I thanked him for the visit and walked away with some answers, but they seemed to germinate and sprout into more questions–questions for another day. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

1. I John 3:4

2. Romans 7: 7

3. Luke 19: 2

4. Hebrew 4:12

5. Ezekiel 36: 26-27

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October 24, 2008 · 10:13 pm

The Kingdom of God–Not a Worn Out Phrase

The phrase “kingdom of God” has been used so much by so many people from so many different religious backgrounds that its real meaning may have been lost. Heretofore, most have understood the phrase to mean “God’s kingdom,” or the kingdom that belongs to Him. And this is true, it does belong to Him and His children. However, there is another way to look at that phrase, and that is “the kingdom of the Spirit.”

It says in John 4 that “God is Spirit.” Therefore, “kingdom of God” can be construed as “kingdom of Spirit.” Or, in other words, it means a form of order and government headed by a Sovereign entity that is comprised of Spirit. The Master did say that “the flesh profits nothing; it is the spirit that makes alive.” “All is vanity,” in other words, except the invisible spiritual things.

We are admonished that we should seek first this invisible spirit kingdom. Also, the only true worship of the Father is in spirit and in truth. It is not any old spirit worship, but it must be spiritual and truthful. It won’t be anything remotely having to do with earthly natural things.

True worship is an invisible connection between our spirit in the human heart and the Eternal Creator Spirit. It is the connection you cannot see. You cannot legislate it, tax it, build fine buildings in order to coax true worship into your midst. It is an invisible agreement between the Creator and His special spiritual creation, Adam. “The true worshippers must worship the Father in spirit and in truth.” They must find out the truth about His invisible Spirit reign within, for “the kingdom of God (Spirit) is within you.”

It is a realm of the heart, an inner sanctum full of true thoughts about the true nature of things. “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation.” You can’t see it with your fleshly eyes. It is not of this earth. Consequently, when we look out over this earth, anything we see, be it ever so religious, cannot be or have anything to do with the kingdom of Spirit (God).

“Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights.” The kingdom of God is a dimension and realm that our five senses don’t pick up on. It is not of this earth. It must first be believed on, and then it will begin to manifest itself to the understanding of our hearts. We will never see it first with our earthly eyes and then believe. Faith must be exercised—believing having not yet seen with the fleshly eyes. The kingdom of God is a government of God, who is Spirit, and who rules in our hearts by His very essence, which is spirit. Kenneth Wayne Hancock {For more on this topic see this earlier article https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/not-of-this-earth/ and the one dated 3/17/08 }

Wisdom Is the Fear of the LORD

Wisdom is the main thing, but what exactly is it? It seems so mystical, so ethereal, so other-worldly. It is just a little bit intimidating and mysterious when you try to figure out what wisdom is according to man’s conception of it.

Job 28:28 states, “…Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.” It couldn’t mean to be afraid of God, so I consult a dictionary and find that “fear” means reverential awe and respect. “Awe” is defined as an emotion of reverence, respect, dread, and wonder inspired as by authority, genius, great beauty, or might. So then, the scriptures say that the main thing, the principal thing is to be in awe of our Maker.

When we realize just who He is and how powerful and wonderful He is, then more awe will come over us. Solomon, who had it all as far as worldly riches was concerned, summed it all up in Ecclesiastes 12:13: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.” Be in awe and respect Him and keep his ten commandment law, and you will be doing your duty.

Awe and respect of God—that is wisdom, and that is the key to open the door to God’s heart. But what are we humans in awe of? Movie stars, sports stars, beautiful women, handsome men. Hollywood is awesome? Sports stars and music stars of pop and rock are awesome? We humans have sold out to very poor gods who cannot deliver. These movie and music idols offer nothing to their worshippers. But they are modern mankind’s idols. Isn’t it amazing that modern man idolizes personalities who make millions by being something other than what they really are? Our movie idols are phony; they are not real.

Our god is

who we are in awe of

Our god is who we are in awe of. Man has it built into his makeup to be in awe of something. It is man’s nature to think that something or someone is awesome. Sometimes it is a star; sometimes it is himself. But man is in awe of something or someone.

To be in awe, then, is the first step in worship. So, it turns out that man is in awe of almost everything except God. Humans will go onto a mountaintop and exclaim how awe-inspiring the view is and how the waterfall in the distance is awesome. Man is in awe of things of the earth and this world. Therefore, man just doesn’t have any true wisdom from above because to be awestruck of the LORD (Yahweh) is wisdom.

So how do we get wisdom? “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering…” James l: 5-7. Faith is assurance that He will do what he said He will do without you having to see or feel it beforehand. Faith believes and is assured before you receive whatever you ask for. When you waver, you are not totally sure that He will do what He said He would do.

So, we then ask Him for that emotion of being in awe of Him, instead of some worldly figure or thing–and we ask with assurance.

This may sound like a dumb question, but one may wonder just who is He and what has He done to warrant such awe. Go outside on a clear night and count the billions of stars. With the new Hubbel space telescope, the astronomers have reported recently that there are 12 billion galaxies like ours! That’s galaxies like our Milky Way which have hundreds of millions of stars—one of which, of course, is our sun. Now I know why the Great Creator was perplexed by the ancients’ worship of the sun. The sun is small fry—very small potatoes.

We’ve got to get back to the Supreme Power that created all of this flabbergasting universe. And when we begin to get a tiny glimpse of the majesty of this kind of power that created all things, then that’s the beginning of wisdom. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

(from Chapter 2 of my book Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality found here: http://www.yahwehisthesavior.com/yah.htm )

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September 9, 2008 · 2:26 pm

“Faith Toward God”–The Second Apostles’ Doctrine

We are told to repent from our old life in the first apostles’ doctrine, but how do we do it? How do we really change our old selfish ways, and let the old self die? The second apostles’ doctrine teaches us how to do it.

How do we get rid of the old sinful life and get into the new life in Christ? We reckon it done by faith/belief. How do we start walking in a brand new life? We reckon it done by faith. Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ (Yahshua Messiah). Rom. 6:11.

We’ve got to reckon it done! The word “reckon” is #3049 in Strong’s. It means “to account it, to count it as such.”

God wants us to reckon it so, but He does it first! When we turn to Him, then He counts us righteous in His eyes even in our imperfect state. It is His nature to “call those things that do not exist as though they did.” Rom. 4:17, NKJV. If He is this positive, then He would want His children to be the same.

He wants us to follow in His footsteps! God “accounted” righteousness to Abraham because of his belief—before Abraham was righteous! “Accounted” here is the same word as the one translated “reckon.” We are commanded to RECKON some things done. Now we have to reckon our sinful self gone—by belief—as though it were already done—for that is how God looks at it! By belief! Reckon it done through Him and His faith. He said it. Let it be done. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Rom. 4:3. Yahweh imputed, reckoned to Abraham the ability to live in a upright manner, keeping Yahweh’s laws and not sinning, by just believing that Yahweh had done it! We make it so hard through our hard heart of unbelief. He is looking for childlike faith, the belief of a small child. All we have to do is just believe that Yahweh has provided a way for us to actually put the old life to death and start living a new life in Him (read more from my book on this subject at http://www.yahwehisthesavior.com/yahch30.htm ).

When Christ died, our old sins died with Him that day. When He was buried, we were buried. And when He arose, we arose with Him. It is already done in God’s eyes. We just have to receive this new life by faith and belief. It hinges on our belief in Christ’s resurrection. By us believing that He was raised from the dead, we are raised with Him to walk in a newness of life.

The old ministers of centuries past knew this and preached and wrote about this–Luther, Wesley, Murray, et al. But in the last days, there will be a departing from the faith–the faith that reckons it so, believing in the life-changing power of the cross experience. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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September 2, 2008 · 10:40 pm

The Apostles’ Doctrine–Curriculum of God’s True Teachers

Teachers of God will expound His way, while false prophets and false teachers lie to the flock of God. The true teachers are gifts to mankind from God (Ephesians 4: 11). They are precious and very few in number. If we seek, we will find one, and we will hold them dear.

But how can we tell the true from the false? The true teachers will have a grasp of the apostles’ doctrine (Acts 2:42). They will know how to explain in detail how one repents, how faith works in us receiving a new heart. In short, they will have true knowledge of the “principles of the doctrine of Christ” (Hebrews 6: 1-2).

Yet they will also know that one must leave those first principles in order to “go on unto perfection.” The Spirit that is within them will “lead us into all truth.” They will know that it is Christ in them who actually is the real Teacher.

Many in “church circles” talk about wanting the same life as the early church in the book of The Acts of the Apostles. They see the miracles and wonders performed and long for that same divine power to hold sway on the earth today. They want, however, to circumvent the procedure used in those enlightened days right after Christ’s resurrection. They want to accept Christ, be baptized, and then they want to set the world on fire with God’s power.

Before the miracles come from God, pre-requisites must be done. “And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles” (Acts 2:42-43). Here you see the progression of things: the doctrine, fellowship, breaking bread, prayers, fear of God, and then came the wonders and signs.

“We Don’t Want Doctrine–Just Jesus”

It was the apostles’ doctrine that the early converts stayed in. They did those teachings. For “doctrine” is translated from the Greek word didaskalia, which means “teaching; that which is taught.” Beware of those who will say, “We don’t want doctrine, we just want Jesus!” If they could only realize that the Savior Himself was referred to as a “Didaskalos,” meaning “Teacher, Master.” The same root word! People who say, “We don’t want doctrine” are really saying they do not want the real Christ and what He taught.

The true teachers of God will teach true repentance from sin in one’s life and how faith works to give us a new heart and new spirit that pleases God in not sinning against Him. And this is just the first principles “of the doctrine of Christ” (Hebrews 6: 1-2).

This is not a new thing that I write about. Read it for yourself in Martin Luther’s writings, “The Sermon on three-fold Righteousness [http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/3formsrt.html ; in the sermons of John Wesley ( http://wesley.nnu.edu/john_wesley/sermons/040.htm ), founder of the Methodist Church; from Andrew Murray, 19th Century Scottish Missionary and author http://www.victoryoversin.com/murray/like/lc24.htm ); or in my book The Apostles’ Doctrine [free copies available].

So, turn away from anyone who doesn’t teach the apostles’ doctrine, that says that you cannot be a righteous son or daughter of God. Don’t believe them. They will try to drag you down into the same spiritual slop that they are stuck in. Find yourself a true teacher and study out the apostles’ doctrine, for those are the teachings of Christ. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

* “Sermon on Three-fold Righteousness” at http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/3formsrt.html

Parable of the Mustard Seed–How God’s Government Grows

This parable reveals the secret of how the Kingdom of God grows. It starts out as a tiny seed of faith in the hearts of His believers and then multiplies and spreads its rule to fill the whole earth.

Two things to remember about the parables of Yahweh. First, they reveal hidden secrets to only those who are supposed to “get it.” Second, they are about the “good news” that God is the King of His kingdom, and it is coming to this earth with a vengeance, literally (See post “Parables Conceal the Mysteries of God” at https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/parables-conceal-the-mysteries-of-god/ ).

And this parable is how it grows into planetary dominance. “The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof” (Matt. 13:31-32).

The key to understanding this parable is found in another statement by Christ about a mustard seed. “If you have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove” (Matt. 17:20). Here He links “faith” to a mustard seed. The literal seed is small, and our faith/belief is small at first, also.

Here’s the breakdown:

A man took mustard seed and sowed it into his field = Christ placed the word, the seed of faith-in-His-resurrection into our hearts which is in our earth-ly bodies. “The field” = the world (Mt. 13:38). So now God’s children have His faith in them and they “are in the world, but not of the world.”
The mustard seed grows = our tiny little belief in Christ grows. Our testimonies win others and help others know Him. More people are born of His Spirit and enter His spiritual kingdom.
And the mustard seed grows into a tree = The children of the kingdom of God grow into a strong entity, governed by His Spirit.
And the tree filled the whole earth = Here the kingdom of God, who is a Spirit living in our hearts, will grow and grow until someday soon Christ will literally return and set up the throne of His father David in the earth.
And the birds of the air shall lodge in its branches = These birds are the worldly goat nations who will not have fully accepted Christ as their King. The prophets speak of a time during the 1000 year reign of Christ when nations who do not give honor unto the King will have their rain withheld until they learn to humble themselves in His presence.

When Christ returns to His true followers, He will set up rule through them over the whole earth. All the prophecies point to it. This kingdom is the gospel proclaimed by Christ and His prophets throughout the ages. This is the stone kingdom “not cut out with man’s hands” that shall smash all of man’s corrupt governments.

His kingdom starts with a new spirit and new heart that He gives to those who willingly allow their old self to die with Christ (see http://www.yahwehisthesavior.com/sonsintro.htm “Our Old Nature Must Die on the Cross”).

“The kingdom of God is within you” because His Spirit now abides in His children and governs them. When we receive Him in our heart, the Kingdom of God comes to earth! His Spirit in us is the “seed beginning” of His earth-wide rule and reign.

Yes, it is small now, like a grain of mustard seed. Christ is that seed growing in us, growing into a mighty kingdom wherein dwells righteousness. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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