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April 6, 2013 · 7:01 pm

The Next Great Move of God

God will appear to certain individuals of His own choosing not many months or years hence. He always has; He always will.

How can I be sure of this? God’s history of His dealings with His people serves as a prophetic blueprint of what He will do next. “That which has been is now. And that which is to be has already been, and God requires the things of the past” (Eccle. 3: 15).

In fact, the Holy Bible is a record of God’s literal appearances to people. Before every great move of God, He has appeared to someone. He intervenes with His presence, shattering the dull, numbing grind of human earthly existence with His incomparable light. We humans evidently need this astounding experience in order for us to be sure that God really is real and means business.

These stupefying manifestations begin, appropriately enough, in the book of Genesis, the seed book of beginnings. There we see God speaking to Adam and Eve in the Garden. “And they heard the voice of the LORD God (Yahweh) walking in the garden,” (Gen. 3: 8). He was in a human form, “walking in the garden,” and they were afraid of His presence there. A bit later we see God having a lengthy conversation with Cain.

Before Yahweh destroyed by water the wicked, He talked it all over with Noah, who “found grace in the eyes of Yahweh” (6: 8). And “Noah walked with God.” And so it was that God confided in Noah His plans, instructed Him to build an ark, and established the Noahic Covenant with him, ensuring the continuance of His righteous seedline.

We next see Yahweh appear to Abraham, the father of our faith. “And Yahweh appeared unto Abram,” and established the Abrahamic Covenant with him, giving him and his heirs the Holy Land of promise (Gen. 12: 7). And “after these things the word of Yahweh came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward” (15: 1; 17: 1-19). And God makes a great move and promises Abram that of his own loins he will have a son in his and Sarah’s old age, and his seed will be as numerous as the stars of heaven. And Abram believed what Yahweh told him. And it was that very faith and belief that God appreciated so much that God “counted it to him for righteousness.”

This is huge. This is a great move of God as He shows mankind that just believing God and His word will establish us in a right standing with God. Getting right with God comes from believing Him. Period. This is when faith triumphs over man’s puny attempts in his own strength to keep the ten commandment law of God.

For the law was not given to us as a goal to strive for or a moral ideal, as it were. For we in our human strength cannot successfully keep the 10 Commandments. No. The law was given to man as a mirror to show him of his own unrighteousness and sins, and to show him his innate wickedness. “The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers…for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars…” (I Tim. 1: 9-10).

God granted to Abraham, because he believed Him and His promises, a new heart that keeps the commandments of God, which is when God counted his belief as righteousness, or being right with God.

What Does This Have to Do with Our Generation?

The take away for us in our generation? God has promised us a new heart and new spirit that keeps His ways and commandments if we believe Him. God commands us, “Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit.” How do we make this happen? By just believing His promise: “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you” (Ezk. 18: 31; 36: 26).

This new heart that does not transgress and break the 10 Commandments is called “righteousness” by God in the scriptures. It is the state of being right with God, and it is attained the same exact way that Abraham obtained it from God. By believing God.

And this way of receiving a new heart and new spirit from God that does not break His commandments is outlined in the New Testament scriptures. Although written in plain sight in black and white, you won’t hear those passages preached in the pulpits Sunday morning, for most pastors don’t believe it (for more on this read the “Introduction” of my book found here:

https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/ebook-the-unveiling-of-the-sons-of-god/ ).

No, most modern day pastors don’t believe that after letting our old heart and spirit die with Christ on the cross, that God will give us a new heart and new spirit that does not sin against him. The pastors don’t think God can do that. They don’t believe that “whosoever is born of God does not commit sin” (I John 3: 9). It is right there in black and white, but they don’t think it is possible. But I thought that “all things are possible to him that believes” (Mark 9: 23).

Do We Believe God Can Do It?

Abraham certainly did not let the “deadness of his wife’s womb” keep him from believing that God was able to keep His promise that they would have a child. He was 100 years old and Sarah was 90. Which is easier to believe? That a 90 year old woman, decades past the age of bearing children could get pregnant and deliver a baby or God being able to change our hearts to not sin against Him? Yet Abram “did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. This is why it was credited to him as righteousness” (Romans 4: 19-22 NIV).

Let us not waver either through unbelief of His promise to us of being His righteous sons. We simply must believe like Abraham did. That God will give us a new clean spirit if we believe Him; He did promise it to us if we believe that He will.

And so Yahweh appeared to Abraham and promised him much and established the way for Abraham’s spiritual children–us–to walk by faith in these last days. Faith. Belief. This is what is holding us back from becoming the manifested sons of God, the princes and princesses of the Kingdom of God. If we cannot believe Him that He will give us a pure sinless heart and spirit–a new heart that He promised–then how will we ever grow up into being like Him and those men of God that He appeared to?

Time would fail me to outline all of those men and women of faith that God appeared to–Moses, Joshua, Gideon, Samuel, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Paul–to name just a few. He appeared to them all before a great move of His in the earth. He will do the same today, for He changes not (Mal. 3: 6).

The Criteria

Wait a minute. That will be the criteria. He will appear once again to those who believe Him for a new heart and new spirit, which is being right with God. For Christ did say, “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much” (Luke 16: 10).

For a new spirit is just the beginning, as it makes us a child of God. We must keep growing spiritually into spiritual young men and fathers. For God will bring forth in the last days His kingdom. That is the good news. And ruling with Him right here on earth will be the over comers. “To him that overcomes, will I grant to sit with me in my throne.” Some will sit with Christ on His throne. That is a promise. But it will be those who are full of faith and belief, those who have bought from Christ “gold tried in the fire,” and “white raiment” to hide their nakedness, and have “anointed their eyes with eye salve that they may see” (Rev. 3: 14-22). Those are the over comers; those are the manifested sons and daughters of God; those are the ones He will appear to in these latter days to strengthen them and encourage them for the battle to take back the earth and establish His literal kingdom and government right here on earth. K. W. Hancock

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March 6, 2013 · 11:13 pm

“Don’t Lay Up Treasures on Earth”–Christ’s Words About the Time of the End

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth…but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,” said the Savior (Matt. 6: 19-20). Why did He tell us this?

Our first response might be that we need to think about God and not ourselves. True. True. But a deeper reason looms very large as we prepare for the sixth seal to be opened.

Certainly God’s sons and daughters see that the treasures of money and material wealth are fleeting and ephemeral, that the present money system of the world is a sham and a scam duping the masses into believing that they either have or are striving for real material wealth. We got that.

But also the Savior is warning us about striving for the treasures of power and prestige and fame and fortune.

Why not strive for this, other than God does not like for us to? The real reason is that this current world system–the governments, religions, and the economic systems–all of them will fail, fall, and crumble during the soon coming “time of the end.”

His directive to not trust and lay up the riches of this world system has held true for 2,000 years. In centuries past personal treasures failed through the death of the possessor of the treasures. He would die having to leave it all for the next generation to enjoy (Ecc 6: 2).

Solomon literally had it all. He was the richest man in the world with power, honor, and prestige. This included 600 wives and 300 concubines and palaces full of gold and precious stones. Yet he concluded that “all is vanity.” Everything this world can offer is just “chasing the wind,” which is what the Hebrew word translated “vanity” means. In short, a man will die and leave it all to–we can’t be sure who will get it, can we? Not really.

And then there is the very real possibility that your country will go belly up economically. In history, all–100% of the economies of the world–all who went to fiat paper money, their currencies failed, and untold fortunes were lost.

Treasures will fail also if revolution engulfs your country. The story is so common, that some say it is history, the taking of one civilization by another. And material treasures and fortunes are lost or taken by another…

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth…” Christ’s words ring down through the halls of history to our day. And our day has special significance, for it is very close to the time of the end. Christ’s return to this earth draws nigh. We are living in the last of the last days, the latter days.

And it is at this time of the end of this world system that the greatest loss of personal treasures will take place. For just before He returns, there will be “great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matt. 24: 21).

This “time of trouble” is horrendous. It is called by the prophets “the day of the LORD” (1). It is the total destruction of this world’s current economic, political, and religious systems. Those heaping up personal treasures of all kinds will not be happy, for they will lose it all.

But for His elect, His followers and supporters, after the cataclysm they will see Christ set up His new government. And because He is the King, it is called the Kingdom of Heaven, for like its King, this government originates from heaven.
There will be much work for His followers to do, for the earth will be in rubble after the asteroids and tidal waves and wars and calamities.

This last scenario is especially why He told His people to “seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you” (Matt. 6: 33).

Our take away from all this? Those still trying to chase the wind of earthly riches and treasures when Christ returns are going to miss it. They will miss His kingdom, and they will ultimately miss all of their dreams of riches and treasures for themselves and their families. It is going to be a sad day for those on the wrong side of history. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

(1) http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=day+of+the+lord&t=KJV

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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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June 23, 2012 · 6:08 pm

Partakers of the Divine Nature–The Holy Calling to Be the Sons of God

True Christianity is not about a person striving to attain a collection of good deeds and contributions like regularly praying, attending church, paying tithes and offerings, or volunteering time. The true walk with Christ is not an accumulation of good deeds in hopes of having a better relationship with God. It is rather a remembering what we already had with Him before our time on earth began.

Our salvation and deliverance from sin and the evil in our old life was given us by God before we were ever born here on earth!

We were called by God to walk with Him on this earth in our earthly bodies before we were ever born here on earth!

Sounds crazy, I know, and you are probably thinking, Wayne, you are going too far now. Come back to us. You are drifting up too far into the stratosphere.

But bear with me a minute. God has called us with a holy calling in accordance with His own plan and purpose, and we were in His plan and purpose and grace before our mothers gave birth to us here on earth!

Some may be asking, Where did you get this idea from? It’s right there in the Bible–the same one grandma and momma had. And this is what it says: “God who has saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began” (II Tim. 1: 9) [Compare this to my paraphrasing of it in the above paragraphs].

This “holy calling” to be God’s son or daughter does not come down to us “according to our works.” We do not attain it because of anything we have done or could do, but because we were already included in His purpose–His plan to favor us that way. It is called grace, and this grace was given to us in Christ before time began on earth. Remember what Christ said: “You have been with me from the beginning” (John 15: 27). The word “beginning” in the Greek is the same one used in John 1: 1: “In the beginning was the Word…” denoting the timelessness of the origin of all things.

We must remember how the LORD (YAHWEH) questioned Job intensely about the creation: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?…Who laid the cornerstone thereof when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” (Job 38: 4-7).

The “sons of God” rejoicing at the creation of the earth? Yes. Isn’t that kind of like before the world came into being? Yes. And who are these sons of God? The word of God says that we are the sons of God! “Beloved, now are we the sons of God…and when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (I John 3: 2).

Also, we know that “as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God” (Rom. 8: 14). That’s us, brethren! Things are going to work out great for us that love God. If God is for us, who can be against us? For “we are the called according to His purpose.” He knew us before! He gave us this destiny before! This destiny “to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom. 8: 28-29). Hey, I know I’m not the only one getting this right now because it says “many brethren” are going to be just like Him!

And let’s just say it out loud: We who He has “predestinated” to be like Christ–He has called us, “and whom He called, them He also justified, and whom He justified, them He also glorified”! (v. 30).

Glorified us! Notice this is in the past tense. Already done in God’s way of reckoning and doing things.

Wow! It is truly difficult sometimes for us to wrap our sometimes doubting little minds around these astounding promises, but there it is. His words, not mine. The “exceeding great and precious promises that Peter spoke of. That we “might be partakers of the divine nature” (II Pet. 1: 4).

And this is all in Christ. When we believe and trust in Him, then our inheritance manifests itself. Let us walk on in faith and assurance of these promises, not letting worldly man-thoughts hinder us from achieving what God already has spoken into existence for us. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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March 6, 2012 · 11:34 pm

Letter to the Future Sons and Daughters of God–You Are Not Alone

Yes, we do have a calling–a calling that sets us apart. It is a calling from God that makes us at times feel lonely, whether we are sitting in a megachurch with its tens of thousands or in our room longing for someone to fellowship with.

But wherever we reside, the more light that He gives us, the darker it gets around us. We try to share a revelation that we know is from God, and it is either rejected or attempts are made by our Christian brethren to redirect our thinking because they are so sure that it can’t be right because that revelation just does not fit the standard operating procedures of our denomination/fellowship/church.

And so it is a lonely walk, this walk with the invisible Father–this walk to sonship “until Christ be formed in you” (Gal. 4: 19). But, of course, we are never alone, as long as we look after the Spirit (John 8: 29).

This road to immortal kingship that we have been called to walk is not easy. Christ warned us to “count the cost,” to see if we are made of the right stuff for this difficult journey (Luke 14: 28). It is not easy. And few of the masses of humanity will find it. The Master taught us to “enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matt. 7: 13-14).

The Wide Gate That Leads to Destruction

Some will read that passage in Matthew 7 and stop after verse 14. But the real revelation comes in the next verse. Christ shows us who is opening up the wide gate that is swallowing up Christians by the hundreds of millions. In the very next breath after saying few will find this way of truth, He warns, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (v. 15). Go to where the many are entering through the wide gate–where the massive numbers of professing Christians are, and you’ll find that they are being led by false prophets and teachers, who come with a peaceful message about Christ that seems harmless enough. However, they will eat you up like a wolf with the end product of their teachings leading the masses to destruction.

Few are going to find this way of truth. So few, in fact, that the prophets of old thought at times that they were the only ones following “the true way.” Elijah, who was hunted down like an animal in the wild, cried in desperation, “Yahweh, they have killed your prophets and have digged down your altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.” To which God replied, “I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal” (Rom. 11: 3-4).

There are just a few of us, but we are not alone. Millions will be saved and will walk as babes and children of God in His soon coming kingdom. But there will be but a few thousand who will “walk with Him in white”–who will “follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes” (Rev. 14). Even though we are few and scattered to the four corners of the earth, the encouraging part in these latter days before He returns is that we have the internet. He did say that “knowledge shall increase.” We can communicate with brethren from around the world instantaneously.

Many of us have already experienced some things and have come out of churchianity. I rejoice with you and encourage you to continue your walk. Prove all things out–old things that you were taught back in the day about God, and also prove out new things that are introduced to you or that you get on your own. Prove out through prayer and study both things you believe to be the truth and also things you don’t believe to be the truth.

Remember: If some are not receiving any new truth, then one of two things is happening. Either they have all truth already and “have need of nothing”– or the Spirit is not guiding them into all truth. I doubt that the former is true. So that leaves some in the terrible position of God not fulfilling John 16: 13 in their lives: “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth.”

Christ is our guide on this quest for the Ultimate Truth, and with Him we are not alone. KWH

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February 4, 2012 · 9:13 pm

The Spirit of God and the Spirit of Antichrist—How to Tell the Difference

The human mind of a child of God wants to be sure—wants to not be deceived, wants to know that what is said to it is sincere and true. It is our nature for this to be—nothing less than the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help us God.

And this is especially so when it comes to religious things. Any time someone tries to tell us something about God, we fairly bristle with our protective coating—shielding us from a possible onslaught of deceptive devilish communication. We don’t want to be deceived and are so afraid of being so used that we just might miss a true word from God. We are, after all, warned by the prophets and apostles about false teachers and false prophets, “who shall bring in damnable heresies,” said Peter. Unfortunately, many will see a teaching new to them as false simply because it did not come from “our church.” Little do they know that many false teachings like the prosperity doctrine, the rapture, cheap grace, Christian sinners, not to mention the hocus-pocus heresies of the church of Rome–these not only stunt the babe in Christ, but they will shipwreck and sink the new Christian.

How Can We Be Sure?

Consequently, how can we know for sure what thought is from God and what is not—what is from the Spirit and what is from the spirit of antichrist? There is a passage of scripture that tells us how to discern between the two. This scripture shows us how you will know if it is the Spirit of God speaking through a human being or not, or if that uninvited thought that seemingly pops into our mind is from God or not. “Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God; and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God” (I John 4:2-3).

In order to know what these verses mean, we must know that “Jesus” was not the Savior’s actual name [See my books which you can find at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”]. His true name contained the Father’s name, for he came in His Father’s name. His name was Yahshua, which means “Yah, the Self-Existent One, is Savior” and is the same name as the patriarch Joshua. So, looking at this again, we see that the person who confesses that Yah is the Savior and the Anointed One and is come into His human abode in the Messiah—that person has the Spirit of God.

Denying that the great Spirit Yahweh was in the flesh of the Messiah Yahshua is the spirit of antichrist. They are anti-christ, or against this Anointing, which is truth (I John 2: 27).

We must always remember: The Messiah’s name was to be called “Immanuel”–meaning “God with us” (Isa. 7: 14; Matt. 1: 23). Yahweh with us. Yahweh in human form walking in our midst. Believing that in its simplicity opens the doors to His heart. All the other mumbo jumbo of so-called Christianity is so much manmade window dressing, ‘signifying nothing.’

We must all go back to the “simplicity that is in Christ.” “Simplicity” here means “absence from pretense” with a sincere belief in the truth that is in Christ. And that truth is that the great invisible Spirit called Yahweh by the patriarchs took up His abode in His Son, and they are one, and He will rule the literal Kingdom of God forever and ever–right here on earth (Luke 1: 32-33).

This sincere belief is the bow that will launch us as His arrows toward the glorious target of eternity–straight and true, just like He planned in the beginning. It will help us discern the Spirit of God and the spirit of the wicked one. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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January 30, 2012 · 6:01 pm

“Ye are gods,” said Christ–Concerning the Elohim and the Manifestation of the Sons of God

After performing many mighty miracles among the people, Christ was standing in the temple in Solomon’s porch. The doubters began to surround Him and said, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense. If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

Then He said to them, “I have already told you that I am He by the miracles that I have done in My Father’s name. They speak and bear witness of Me. But you don’t believe that the Father lives within Me and that it is He that does the miracles. You don’t believe because you are not of My sheep. You are of another herd and cannot hear my words. As I told you before [John 8: 42-44], when I spoke to you plainly: You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do…there is no truth in your father, the one you are following…for he is a liar and the father of all lies. Your father is a liar, and you are born of lies and are liars yourselves.”

Christ continued. “No, you are not of my flock, for they hear my voice and believe and follow me. And they will never perish, for they have eternal life. The Father has given them to Me. And no one can take them from Me, for I and My Father are one.”

“Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.”

Seeing their anger and the murder in their hearts, Christ said, “I have showed you many miracles from the Father. Which miracle are you stoning me for?”

“We are not stoning you for a miracle that you have performed, but for blasphemy because you are a man, and you are making yourself out to be God.”

And it was at this juncture that Christ dropped a bombshell on them, saying, Wait a minute. Is it not written in your law, the law that you take so much pride in, where I said, ‘You are gods.’ The Father called them gods. The very ones to whom He was sending His word back in the days of the patriarchs and prophets–those He called gods. The very ones who needed a Savior, who needed the law and the testimony, who needed help from their Creator to get right–those He called gods! And now you are going to tell the one who the Father has sanctified and made holy and sent into the world–you are going to tell Him that He blasphemes because I said that I am the Son of God?

But there was no reasoning with them. They “sought again to take Him, but He escaped out of their hand” [John 10: 22-39].

Christ was too much for them. They could not understand Him, for “had the princes of this world known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”

The Mysterious “Ye are gods” Statement

This confrontation is the backdrop for one of the most enigmatic statements that God-with-us ever made. “Ye are gods.” What does He mean that we are “gods”?

We must first go back to the passage of scripture that the Savior quoted in Psalm 82: 6. The word “gods” is translated from the Hebrew word elohim (#H430 in Strong’s Concordance), also translated “God” in hundreds of places. Christ said, “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are the children of the most High.” He’s saying that some had a spiritual existence with Him in the beginning. He’s saying that there is more to the sons of Adam than just their earthly purposes.

Man, a spiritual being, created by God to house Him fully, in vain tries to live a fulfilling life by the acquisition of earthly things, when earthly things cannot suffice a human being, a being designed to be the glory of God, who is an invisible Spirit.

Yet, unregenerate man slugs on in the slop of misguided desires and lusts. These passions are for things that will not satisfy nor endure.

The sons and daughters of God, however, realize that they were put here by a Being that is not of this earth. They see their reality is not earth-based. They realize that they cannot see true reality by looking through earthly eyes. Man can only endure by seeing things other than earthly things.

It is a heavenly vision, a heavenly faith, a heavenly destiny, a heavenly plan, a heavenly purpose, a heavenly blueprint, a heavenly design, a heavenly way, a heavenly thought of a heavenly Father, who is above all this on earth and is in us whom He has called.

To even get out of the old and to get into the new life, we must believe in a spiritual being who does the saving. We have to believe in a Being we cannot see with our earthly eyes. We must believe in someone who is invisible, who is not of this earth, someone who calls us somehow with a calling that is not of this earth, calls us with a heavenly calling, and urges us in mysterious ways to appear to choose His heavenly way against the ‘better’ judgment of our earthly unbelieving senses—a someone who brings us into a place where we will repudiate all that we see here on earth and “count it all as dung” that we may win an invisible race for an invisible heavenly spiritual Supreme Being.

An enlightened man takes in this light—light that nothing earthly is as it seems. Everything is tricky here, slippery, treacherous, hypocritical, deceiving. Man is crooked, undependable, self-centered and prideful.

Nevertheless,there is a group of human beings who are beginning to realize that this walk here is a spiritual thing and not an earthly thing. They realize that they are in the world but their spirit is not of the earth. They realize that they are really strangers here on earth, that they are not really from the earth, that they are heavenly and spiritual, that they have become blind to the earthly desires and temptations.

They realize that they are looking for their home which is a four square city full of light that has 12 foundations where it never gets dark. That city, the New Jerusalem, is their home, which one day will come down out of heaven and set down right here on earth. And they believe this having never seen it with their earthly eyes [Quoted from Chapter 8 of my book The Unveiling of the Sons of God which you can find at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”].

In a word, they begin to “walk in the Spirit.” They begin to believe what the written Word says and not what sinful man says that it says. And it tells us that God has “blessed us with all spiritual blessings and chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world,” and that He foreknew us and has “predestinated us to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” And that He has called us, justified us, and glorified us (Eph 1: 3-4; Rom 8: 29-30). Yes, God’s faith in His ability to make all this happen is strong. It is such a sure thing in God’s heart and mind that our spiritual maturity culminates in our glorification with Him, even to the point of us sitting with Christ on the throne of God! That is faith! We need His faith in us working in our lives–not our puny faith where we try to muster up enough to do whatever. He believes that we will come to full fruition as His manifested sons and daughters. He believes and says that we are gods! Incredible faith!

At present, we are not in our full spiritual elohim state of being, “when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (Job 38: 7). We in our spiritual state were with Him when the “foundations of the earth” were laid (38: 3-6). Those “sons of God” were the elohim–the “us” in “Let us make man in our own image.”

For the time being here on earth, He has “made man a little lower than the angels” in that we are mortal and can very easily die (Psalm 8: 5). “Angels” here is from the Hebrew word elohim again. Man is lower than our first spiritual estate with the Father because of our impending date with death.

And, yet, “you have crowned him with glory and honor.” It is a done deal in God’s mind. And you made him (Adam) to have dominion over the works of thy hands (v. 6). “Works” here are the “great righteous acts of Yahweh, the miracles and wonders. In other words, the sons of Adam, after their spiritual regeneration, have miracle working power. They have dominion over the same powerful acts done by Yahweh of old.

In Psalm 82, where Christ quotes “Ye are gods,” Yahweh is pleading with us the sons of Adam, to wake up to this high calling. He is saying:

You are not just human beings, not just a flesh body. You have a spirit in you that comes from Me. You are my offspring; Spirit brings forth spirit. You are elohim. I am Elohim. You are begotten of Me, and we now are all of One. The same great “works of my hand” shall you do (Psm 8: 6).

But look at you! You are scurrying about the earth as if you are just an intelligent animal! I stand in your presence. You all are My spiritual children and are a mighty congregation! But I am passing judgment on you elohim-gods today, for you are not acting like I act. You are not acting like Me, like I did when I was in the days of My flesh, when I judged righteously and justly. You act as if you are not like Me. We are one, but you act like you don’t believe that. You judge unjustly (v. 2) and you are partial to the rich and powerful and wicked of this earth.

Look out over the earth at all the poor and needy. These are they who do not have the spiritual riches of this knowledge that they are gods, like you do. But you don’t tell them. You don’t inform them of this truth. They are without Me, their Father, and you won’t judge to tell them the truth so that they can escape the clutches of the wicked (v. 3). My other children who are the earth-dwellers, who spend their years on earth with darkness as a constant cloak, without the knowledge and light that they are My spirit-children–they are lost and know not the way (v. 5).

Listen to Me. I have already said that you are gods (elohim), but if you do not change, you will die like the rest of the fleshly Adamites, who don’t have this spiritual knowledge. You are all the sons of the most High (v. 6 NIV). But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler (v. 7), if you don’t start walking like Me in human form. Rise up, my body of sons and daughters, my offspring, and judge the earth with Me, for I am the King of kings and the Master of masters. All the nations are your inheritance…..

He says that we are gods–that we are elohim. With the new heart and spirit that He has given us, we are coming back full circle–back to where we started in heavenly places in Christ. But we must “make our calling and election sure.” We must walk in full confidence after proving all things and study “to show ourselves approved” to be His heirs of the kingdom of God. The 100 fold sonship walk is for those of full age and maturity. It is time that we who are called to this walk put aside everything of the past and prepare our hearts and others’ for the coming of our great God and Savior Jesus/Yahshua, the Anointed One, the Christ. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

The Holy Spirit (in Us) Reproves the World of Sin–Let Your Light Shine–Conversations With the Seer

“Is the ‘Spirit of truth’ in the Bible the same as the Holy Spirit?” I asked the Seer during one of our daily morning meetings.

“Yes. Remember that ‘there is one Spirit.’ And there is one truth. Christ said ‘I am the truth.’ So, yes, they are one and the same.”

“It says that when the Spirit of truth is come, that he will reprove the world of sin. What does that mean?” I asked.

“To reprove is to expose or reveal. It shines a light on people’s innermost thoughts and sins.”

“How does the Spirit do it?”

“Because God is all-powerful, He can show things to us directly. But oftentimes He uses other people. Remember when the Savior sent out His disciples and told them to say to the people, Repent. The message first and foremost to all is ‘Repent.’ Why? Because ‘the Kingdom of God is at hand.’ It is right here, inside the very one that is telling you to repent,” the Seer said.

I paused a moment, trying to let his words soak in a bit. I finally asked, “I am having trouble understanding the kingdom of God being within someone.”

“God’s dominion is where His Spirit is. Wherever He resides is His domain or His kingdom. We receive His Spirit of truth when it comes down into us at our conversion to Christ. Those that are God’s children will definitely have His Spirit, according to the apostle John, who says that ‘he that does not have the Spirit of Christ is none of His.’ It is by faith that you receive a portion of His Spirit when you receive a new heart at your conversion.”

“How does that work?”

“It is all by faith, meaning that it happens by believing that it will happen–because God said so. It is not believing-something-into-existence that is against what God said. It is believing that we receive His Spirit because He said that it could and would happen. If you take step A, B, and C, according to His word, then D will happen–because He said it would–nothing more. He can’t go back on His own word.”

I asked, “So, after our conversion, He wants us to help others escape the darkness of their sins?”

“Think about it. How else is someone supposed to come out of the darkness of sin, except a person speak to them about their sinful lifestyle?” the Seer said.

“Yes, I guess we can’t expect God to verbally speak to us in a big booming voice from heaven telling us to quit sinning.”

“Exactly. He doesn’t do it that way, except in special instances where He speaks to one person, and then they go and tell others the message from God. Even God came down in human form and told us to repent. Do you remember what Christ said in John 15: 22? ‘If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin…’ See, the great Creator Spirit Yahweh came in a human being and spoke to them, and unless He had done that, ‘they had not had sin.’ In other words, their sinful nature would not have been exposed if He had not spoken to them about escaping the darkness of their sinful life and letting the light come into them. What words do you think He actually spoke to the people?” the Seer asked, his eyes piercing mine.

“Words about repentance?”

“Precisely. You see it all over the gospels. ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,’ He said to all He crossed paths with. And to finish that passage above in John, ‘But now they have no cloak for their sin.’ He is saying that by Him (His Spirit) speaking to people about their sin, they would not have become guilty; they would still have a cloak to hide behind, to keep their actions in the dark. But now that I call them on it, they have no excuse for continuing their sinful ways.”

“Because God has provided the way to escape that old sinful life. Just like I am doing.”

“Yes. You, my son, are a living example of how great a deliverance God can do in a person’s life, for you have changed so much since you first drove up on the land.”

“Thank you for your help,” I said.

“If you will recall, one of the first messages I gave when we first met was on repentance from sin.”

“That’s right. It was.”

“That is the message for a newcomer into the Kingdom. Leave the life of sin behind and take on the light in your heart. But, you see, God speaks through those who already have His Spirit. He will reprove those without Him of their sin, and this takes away the excuses for continuing in that sin. They must be confronted with this kind of love in order to become guilty, and therefore, repent and turn from the old life.”

“But people won’t like the message. They will reject us if we try to help them,” I said, remembering how I was rejected on my first few feeble attempts to tell others about what God had done in my life.

“Of course. Not many people want their darkness revealed by the light. All the way through John 15 and 16 Christ talks about how the world will hate us and persecute us. Ever wonder why? Because He has commanded us to ‘let our light shine’ and to ‘reprove the world of sin.’

“He says to not hide our light under a bushel. But what is ‘the light’ exactly,” I asked.

“The light is His Spirit come down into us that dispels the darkness of sin in others. When His Spirit has come into us, He in us will shine into the darkness of sinful hearts to help them by turning them from their sinful lives unto righteousness.” The Seer looked at me approvingly. “But let it shine into all the world. Yes, this Kingdom of God is hidden ‘to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.’”

“I was blind to God’s goodness once,” I said.

“Yes, we all were. The apostle Paul tells us that we are now light and that we should walk as children of the light, and that ‘we should have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them’ or reprove them [Eph 5: 8-11]. If we ‘do not quench the Spirit of truth,’ we will do this, for we are the ‘children of light’ and no longer in darkness.” He could see that I had a question. “Yes?”

“Why don’t more Christians reprove the world of sin? Why don’t the preachers preach repentance?”

“They are too busy teaching the opposite. They teach their congregations that they cannot stop sinning. They will tell them that they are sinners and will always be sinners. They will recite it with pride: ‘I’m a sinner saved by grace.’ In essence they are telling the people in the pews that God is unable to change them from darkness to light. But the scriptures speak otherwise. The word says, ‘With God all things are possible, to him that believes.’ Even to give us a new heart that will not sin against Him. ‘And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin (I John 3: 5).’”

“If you take something away, you don’t have it anymore,” I said.

“Yes, He is in the business of taking away our old sinful dark spiritual nature and giving us a new heart that does not sin against Him. Look. Christ’s Hebrew name Yahshua means ‘Yahweh saves.’ That is why He came in the flesh–to deliver us from sin and sinning. It says, ‘You shall call Him Jesus/Yahshua, for He shall save His people from their sins.’ What are Christians saved from if not from their sins? Paul asks this question: ‘Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid.’”

“It is hard to help others out of the darkness if we are still in darkness ourselves,” I said.

“That is it exactly,” the Seer said with a smile. The follower of Christ, who believes that he still sins, will be very reluctant to talk to someone else about repenting of his sins since he is a sinner himself and would be a first class hypocrite if he tried to dispel the darkness of sin in others. And so, sin abounds in others as Christians are too timid to stand in the gap and truly help those who are in darkness. And thereby they do not show to the world that they have the Spirit of truth in them. For ‘when the Spirit of truth is come, He will reprove the world of sin.’”

“People never even mention the word ‘sin’ anymore,” I said.

“I know. And yet, it is the very thing that God’s Spirit deals with; it is what His Spirit does. It deals with a person’s sin and exposes it and thereby helps that person come to repentance and change. To put it another way–if people in the world are not having their sin reproved, then the Spirit of truth is not residing in anyone, for He, the Light, will shine into the darkness and ‘bring the hidden things of darkness to light.’ And we as the children of light are to let our light shine. Which light? The light of His Spirit that resides within us by faith.”

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January 15, 2012 · 3:22 am

“You Gotta Die Before You Live”–New Song on the Cross Experience of Christ

People talk about the cross of Christ a lot in some churches, but few teach the central truth about what that experience does in a human life. Our old sinful self, our old heart, must die with Christ, “who was made to be sin for us.” We identify and repent of our sinful ways by surrendering to this death on the cross. Then we “are buried with Him” in an immersion of that old self into His death {water baptism being the type and symbol}.

Then, by believing that Christ literally rose from the dead the third day, we too can be raised from the spiritually dead, and we are then “raised to walk in a newness of life.”

HalleluYah! This is real biblical way to repent–“by faith in the operation of God that raised up Christ.” This is what this song is about. I wrote it back in 1975; it speaks of the great paradox–life out of death–just like a seed buried in the ground. This is a great mystery “kept secret from the foundations of the world,” and I am blessed to have been given it to share with the world–in a song.” Kenneth Wayne Hancock

You can see the video and hear the song that contains these revelations here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeDb5WdFHS0

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