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August 13, 2011 · 6:07 pm

“The Father’s Heart” Chapter 15 of the Book YAH-IS-SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY

Step Four—Knowledge of the Father’s Heart—His Plan and Purpose

“I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill my will.” Acts 13: 22.

“The counsel of Yahweh standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.” Psalms 33:11-12.

Chapter 15 The Father’s Heart

We are learning that the Savior’s Hebrew name is Yahshua, which means Yah-Is-Savior. And we are learning that He is the Road to Immortality. And we have learned that the steps along that Road are degrees of Wisdom and Knowledge about Him. We learned in “Step One” that Wisdom is to be in awe of the Creator—to have a reverential respect and trust for Him. In “Step Two” we learned the Knowledge of His true name and what it means to us on this way. “Step Three” gave us the Knowledge of God’s nature, His eternal Godhead—just who He is. We are now ready to take Step Four: Knowledge of His Eternal Plan and Purpose.

“Step Four” is perhaps the biggest step, for it stretches our small hearts and minds and enlarges them so that they can be able to see through God’s eyes. “My thoughts are not your thoughts, saith Yahweh.” We must realize that God has His own agenda. We humans have our own agenda, too. We are like Him in that we have a purpose for our own life. But very few of us have the same purpose for our lives as does our Heavenly Father. And herein lies the problem—for us. He has a Master design and purpose in making us and everything else in this universe, yet He is willing to use much patience in waiting for us, His crowning creation, to come into line with His purpose.

His purpose is clear and straightforward: He is reproducing Himself through a select group of human beings. Yes, He loves us and wants to save us from our selves and our selfish desires and actions. But that is only a very small part of His eternal purpose and plan—a tiny piece of the cosmic puzzle that is His heart.

What is in the Father’s heart? What desires lie there waiting to be manifested? The answer lies in the word “Father.” “Father” implies engendering, procreating, reproducing, for there cannot be a father except there be offspring. Or to state it in another way, one must have offspring in order to be a Father.

Now many claim that God is their Father. Almost all of the untold thousands of denominations of Christendom assent to that. They want to claim Him as their Father and yet deny the law of harvest He spoke into existence: “Each seed bears its own kind.” If they were His children, then they would be like Him; they would have His mind. They would share the secret desires of His heart by having the same plan and purpose that He has. The Father’s heart contains His plan and purpose: to reproduce Himself until He fills the whole universe with Himself. And He has created mankind to be the instruments that He will use to do this. He will use only His crowning creation Man to manifest Himself through.

For Those Weaned from the Milk of the Word and Want the Meat

God’s great eternal plan is this: He is bringing many sons and daughters unto Himself. They will do the ‘greater works’ that Christ promised some of His followers would do.

That is His purpose and plan, to multiply Himself. After all, He is the Seed, the Word, made flesh, and falling into the ground and dying, and thereby bringing forth much fruit. That is what the Son {the Father/Spirit Yahweh clothed in a human form} said, and He is the Seed.

Two things stand out on this quest for the truth. First: Oneness, not a Trinitarian concept. There is Father, yes, Son, yes, and Holy Spirit, but they are not three distinct persons. In other words, there are not three of them sitting up there in the throneroom. The Father is the Holy Spirit, and He is invisible, and He dwells now in the glorified heavenly body [I Cor 15: 35-50], which is our destiny upon His return to earth.

Second: Knowing His true name unlocks the door to answered prayer. But just knowing that the God of the ancient Hebrew partriarchs was Yah or Yahweh and the Son Yahshua is not enough. We must know what the names mean. Utmost importance.

Beware of this one thing: Most who are finding out about the sacred names of God are being led away into “Hebrew roots movement.” This is a trap because they are seduced away from the oneness of God; they are taught that there is a ‘twinity’ and not a trinity. They are also led away by teachers of the law. Now this sounds noble and good, but we humans cannot work real hard to ‘keep the law’ and thereby be more accepted by God. No. We must die with Christ, receive a new heart and the Spirit, grow in grace, walk in His word, and grow up into the sons and daughters of God who will do the ‘greater works’ that the Savior Yahshua did! This will not be done by very meticulous sincere people trying in their own strength to keep the laws of God. The Law [10 commandments] ‘are not made for a righteous man, but the unrighteous.’ His Spirit in us is quite capable of keeping the law by us believing He can. Faith. It is elemental to our walk with Him…Just a heads up on your walk. Kenneth Wayne Hancock….[for more read my books found here at the top of my blog].

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April 10, 2011 · 8:30 pm

Book: YAH IS SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY Chap. 1

[Below please find the first chapter of my book, Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality. I will be serializing it as posts in this weblog, ImmortalityRoad. After posting each chapter, I will be placing them in a page at the top of the blog, saying, BOOK–YAH IS SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY.]

Step One— Wisdom

“And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom…” Job 28:28.

fear, n. A feeling of reverential awe, especially toward God. New Century Dictionary.

Chapter 1

Getting Wisdom, The Main Thing

The first step we need to take on the road to immortality is to somehow get wisdom. The scriptures say that “wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding.” Proverbs 4:7. With these words, the Spirit is telling us that the absolute main thing that we need to receive is wisdom. We cannot get to God without it. We cannot find Him without it. It is the principal thing! He didn’t say to first get love or peace or go to meetings or tithe or anything of the kind. He said that wisdom is the main thing.

To get into a treasure house literally overflowing with rubies, emeralds, sapphires, diamonds, and gold, all you need—the main thing that you need—is the key that unlocks the door, that opens the way into the treasures. Wisdom is that key.

And so we see that wisdom is that principal thing. It is the key that unlocks the door to the spiritual treasure house of God. Without it we cannot get any further in our quest to receive of His storehouse. We’ve got to get wisdom.

Many people have tried to enter into the vaults of the Supreme Being where His treasures are stored. Many have wanted to explore the unsearchable riches of the Messiah, without wisdom. Many people have tried to clone the Messiah or make temples and buildings to please Him, without wisdom. Mankind sometimes uses interesting but futile chants, hums, repetitions, songs, shouts, “slayings-in-the-spirit” and the like, but the Almighty is not impressed by them. He seeks people to worship Him in Spirit and in truth.

Many have twisted the word “riches” to mean only money: filthy lucre, mammon, riches of this world, wealth that the world and Satan can give (“I’ll give you all the kingdoms of this world if…”) . And yet, Wisdom cries to us in Proverbs 8:18: “Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.” The durable riches, those that will last, are with wisdom. And the righteousness that will last and endure is with wisdom, as well. In the end man will be destroyed “that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches…” Psalms 52:7-8.

The true riches

Wisdom says, “Riches and honor are with me.” What riches? We know that it’s not this world’s riches. It’s not money. We are to seek after wisdom

and understanding as we would jewels and gold and silver. What are these true riches that come with wisdom? Paul says in Colossians 2:3 that all of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid in the Savior.

The “true riches,” simply put, is nothing less than the full glorification of many sons and daughters at the culmination of this age. We are talking about immortal offspring walking the face of this earth in the image of the heavenly One who also tread this earth some 2000 years ago.

The Messiah appeared many times to the patriarchs. He walked and communed with Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob/Israel, Moses, Elijah, and many other prophets before His incarnation almost 2000 years ago. Immortality, communing with the Creator—that is what the true riches are. That is what comes with wisdom. Wisdom is the key that unlocks the door to receive the true riches.

The mystery of the unjust steward

The Savior spoke of the true riches in a parable in Luke l6, the parable of the unjust steward. The manager was wise in that when he found out that he was going to get fired, he cut all the people who owed his boss money a sweet deal. This reduced the amount of debt owed to his boss. It was his last act before his dismissal. And the Master commended him because he had done wisely. Because in worldly money matters, in things not of the Spirit, unrighteous people are wiser than His spiritual little children.

There is a way to handle money wisely and in a righteous manner. We live on earth in earthen vessels. Money buys food and sustenance. We are to be a good and honest caretaker of someone else’s goods. “If you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon (riches), who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?” Luke 16.1-12. If we can’t in an honest manner take care of the earthly things like money and goods, then He will not give us the true riches which is our own inheritance. And this inheritance is his nature, his immortality and life within us.

It says that the dishonest manager was wiser in his generation. Sin and dishonesty were generating his actions out from within his corrupt heart. But he had a “wisdom.” There was a wisdom that this dishonest man had that children of the Father do not have. What did he do that was so wise in the unjust realm? He had respect of the power of the rich men that he had to work for.

If his current boss were going to get rid of him, news would leak out as to why he was being fired. It would soon get around that he was untrustworthy and dishonest. So, he used that same dishonesty to help his employer’s creditors, to discount what they owed to him. This, of course, endeared him to those other rich men, for they had saved money through him. This would help him find a new job with one of them.

The Lord says that we need to be wise in a righteous and honorable way, the way he was wise in a dishonest way. We need to have awe and respect of our boss, the Creator, who is the Father of spirits, so that when the time comes when we are put out of the stewardship of our earthly bodies, He will grant unto us the true riches of immortality and His presence.

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The Key to Answered Prayers–from “Conversations with the Seer”

“I don’t get why we have to pray all the time. Pray without ceasing? Who can do that?” I asked the Seer. In his teachings each week at the Mission he had been stressing the importance of prayer.

“You are right. A man can’t do that,” he said.

I was shocked that he would concede this point so quickly. “I know the word says that we are to be ‘praying always,’ but I’ve tried, and I just can’t do it.”

“You won’t be able to do these requests that the Father has made of us concerning prayer, in your current way of thinking,” the Seer said. “That is why you are perfectly correct when you say, ‘I can’t do it. Nobody can.'”

“Then why does God tell us to do something that’s impossible to do?”

“Ah,” the Seer said knowingly, smiling kindly at me. “This is where the error of your thinking manifests itself. The Master Himself said, ‘With God all things are possible.’ Also, the apostle Paul said, ‘I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.'”

“I don’t get it. You have taught that the last piece of the armor of God in Ephesians 6 is ‘praying always.’ I just don’t see how it works.” He could see, I am sure, my frustration, for I really had tried to do it.

“Look. You left out the most important part of that verse. It says, ‘Praying always…in the Spirit.’ Christ is alive evermore and He through His Spirit is interceding for us all. He is the High Priest, and His prayers will be answered, believe me. But Christ is not just praying for us; He desires to pray through us. When you let go of the sensation that it is you that’s doing the praying and believe that it is Christ in you who is doing the praying, then you’ll get somewhere.”

“‘Christ in us, the hope of glory…'”

“For, you see, the key to praying like God wants us to pray is to believe that it is ‘no longer I that lives, but Christ that lives in me.’ How does Christ live in us? By His Spirit that He has given us. We must first truly believe that we have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in our hearts. Then we must believe that it is the Spirit of Christ in us praying–not us praying in our own little strength.”

“We’ve got to get out of the way and let His Spirit in us do the praying?”

“Yes, and everything else. Paul said, ‘I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth 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.’

“It always goes back to faith in God,” I said.

“Always. Faith is looking to and believing in the Invisible. You can’t see the Holy Spirit of Christ in you, and yet, you still believe that He lives within you, and that it is no longer ‘you’ that lives in your body, the temple of God. Let the High Priest pray through you, intercede through you. We are to be God’s kings and priests, and this is how you do it. But it takes faith.”

“Yes. Lots of it,” I said.

“This solves your original frustration about how do we ‘pray without ceasing’ and ‘praying always.’ In man’s strength, it is impossible, but the Spirit of Christ lives on, earnestly desiring to pray through another son and daughter of God, yearning for them to get the revelation that through His Spirit, they can be priests unto God in His wonderful kingdom of righteousness, which is reigning spriritually now in the hearts of God’s children, but soon will be expanded upon Christ’s return to the whole earth. Remember: Christ will definitely get His prayers answered. Let Him through His Spirit pray through you and you’ll have your prayers answered every time.”

“So what does Christ pray for?”

“It is pretty much summarized through His model prayer, known as the Lord’s Prayer. But you have to strip away the old leaven associated with that prayer, for the wicked one has made it into a ritual and an incantation. But more on this later.” KWH [For more on what Christ prayed for, go to the “Archives” at the bottom of the left hand column under “June and July of 2008”]

Finding the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel”–Why It Matters, Part II

In part one of this article, we saw that finding the “lost sheep of the House of Israel” does matter to God because of Christ’s very words: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel” (Matt. 15: 24 NIV). That is who Christ is sent to, to the twelve tribes of Israel. If they are not in the earth today, then Christ cannot fulfill His own calling! For being sent to them is part of His calling.

Furthermore, the Spirit of God in Jeremiah promises to bring them back to Jerusalem (32: 37-40). He is pouring out His heart to “the children of Israel and the children of Judah,” (v. 30) telling them that their sins have provoked His anger, that He should remove them from the Promised Land. Only because of “all the evil” that they have done did God exile them to the four corners of the earth. But, He says that He will bring back a remnant of them and “will gather them out of all countries…and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.” He goes on to say that He will plant them back into the promised land.

The Lost Sheep Are Not the Israelis

To the untrained eye, it looks like that the Israelis have fulfilled the above prophecy. But this cannot be because the Jews were never lost! They have always called themselves Jews. It is the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel that were lost in history. Where did they go? Where are they today? That is one of God’s mysteries that He is revealing today.

God’s servants knew in their day. The apostle James wrote to them 700 years after their captivities: “To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting” (James 1: 1). Many Christians today believe that they are Gentiles and not Israelites. If they are
Gentiles, then the book of James is not written unto them. Why then do they persist in reading someone else’s mail? James wrote a letter to the twelve tribes. James would not have written to them had he not known of their existence and their location.

Huge Proof that Lost Sheep Are in the Earth Today

But some will persist in saying, Oh that is all ancient history. What difference does it really make whether the lost sheep of Israel exist or not? The answer is that the destiny of a remnant of all 12 tribes of Israel is literally spelled out in the Book of Revelation–twice!

Thousands of Israelites are sealed by God and are given a special calling in Revelation. If it really doesn’t matter about the literal offspring of Israel being around today, then why does Christ make reference to them by name twice in the book of The Revelation?

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to shew unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass” (Rev. 1: 1). And a part of these eminent things to happen is the appearance of thousands of descendants of fleshly Israel being called out to do a special spiritual work in these last days.

Where in Revelation Are They?

We find them mentioned in the 7th and 14th chapter. These cannot be the modern-day Jews, for the Jews only came from the House of Judah, which only had two of the 12 tribes, and they were never lost; they along with everyone else knew they were Jews.

During the tribulation period, the four angels on the corners of the earth are admonished to “hurt not the earth…till we have sealed the servants of God in their foreheads…an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of Israel” (Rev. 7: 4). Then they are all cited by their specific names: 12,000 from each tribe. “Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand,” and so on for the rest: Reuben, Gad, Aser, Nepthalim, Mannaseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zabulon, Joseph, and Benjamin. Twelve thousand from each tribe with a very special calling for the latter days.

They appear again in Revelation 14 where we see these 144,000 with the Lamb of God Himself! They are about to do a great work in the earth. They meet Christ on Mt. Sion, “which is Mt. Hermon,” 125 miles north of Jerusalem. Again: These are not the Jews because they come out of all twelve tribes!

Now the Big Question

If it doesn’t matter whether the Lost Tribes are still in the earth, then why are they the very ones whom God will seal ? How will they be called? How will God’s prophecy concerning them be fulfilled if it doesn’t matter?

Bottom line: It does matter to the Creator. We are told to “let this same mind be in you that was in Christ.” As we get more of His thoughts and mind and Spirit, then we will begin to grasp the significance of finding and alerting the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel as to their destiny. [To read more on this go here: https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/finding-the-lost-sheep-of-the-house-of-israel-why-it-matters/ and here: https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/abraham-father-of-many-nations-but-which-nations-are-they/ They are just two of several articles on this subject. For more go to “Categories” and scroll down and click “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.”] Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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October 16, 2010 · 4:52 pm

“Be Ye Perfect”–Christ’s Impossible Command?

Christ gave us this command to “be perfect.” And, of course, the knee jerk response comes, “Wait a minute. With all due respect, that can’t be right. Nobody’s perfect. Nobody can be perfect. So why would He give us a command that’s impossible to keep?”

This is where some will begin to toss Christianity into the trashcan, never realizing that ‘Be perfect’ is a paradox, which is ‘a statement seemingly absurd yet really true’ (Dictionary.com).

But some will dig down to a deeper level and find that one man was and is perfect–Christ. And they’ll see that He was perfect because of the Spirit that filled Him. And they’ll understand that He has now given His Spirit to the sons and daughters of God, who will realize that they can grow in faith where “it is no longer I that lives, but Christ that lives in me” (Galatians 2:20).

And armed with this knowledge, they will see that “with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26). They’ll see that the glass is not half empty nor half full, but brim full and running over with the living waters of His Spirit.

It will dawn on these princes and princesses of God that “no idle word” proceeds out of the mouth of God. They’ll take this admonition to heart: “Let us go on unto perfection” (Hebrews 6:1-2). And they’ll learn that there is so much more to God’s spiritual house than the foundation of “repentance from dead works and faith toward God,” which are the first steps of “newborn babes in Christ.”

They’ll realize that they have received in their hearts the seed of perfection. Christ is that Seed. And now that Seed is growing, for “one plants and another waters, and God gives the increase.” This growth is likened to a planted seed of wheat or corn. It comes up, “first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear.” And then harvest will come when He will have been perfectly reproduced in us. And we then in full maturity will have completed the life cycle of God. And that is perfection.

The princes and princesses of God will realize this in the command: “Be perfect.” For they will see these two words as His challenge to “overcome all things” and walk on down His road to the Heavenly City. They will answer the challenge and embark on this quest for perfection. Because He said to. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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August 7, 2010 · 5:26 pm

God’s Eternal Purpose: “Bringing Many Sons unto Glory”

The thoughts and intents of the Father’s heart are without beginning and end. His purpose has existed through all time and has never wavered, has never changed. His intention toward His creation is everlasting.

It is forever the same and will always be true and valid. His purpose will always go on; it will never stop. It will come to pass; nothing can prevent His eternal purpose from finding full fruition in this earth and in the heavens. His purpose is, of course, the perfect example of the definition of “eternal” (Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, 2^nd College Edition).

God not only has, but is the definitive word on what will transpire here on earth and in the entire universe. “In the beginning was the Word…and the Word was God” John 1:1. “Word” is translated from the Greek word Logos, meaning “(1) a thought or concept; (2) the expression or utterance of that thought” (note, Scofield Reference Bible, p. 1114). Therefore, in the beginning was the thought or concept, and that thought or concept was the Supreme Being. And that thought, that Word, became an utterance of that thinking. And that Word, that Thought, would unfold into a living reality throughout the universe.

Those thoughts, expressed in words, comprise the purpose of God. His purpose is the road His creation will travel. His thoughts are His counsel, and they shall stand forever and will come to pass. The counsel of Yahweh standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Psalms 33:11.

Both “purpose” and “thoughts” are words in English translated from the same Hebrew word machashabah, #4284 in Strong’s Concordance. His thoughts are His purpose. They express His intentions, His plan, His purpose. And these thoughts, this purpose, are an intention directed personally and deliberately by God toward His people. It is a plan that involves people right here on earth. David knew this intimate truth that God hovers in thought abundantly over his people. Many, O Yahweh, my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward; they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Psalms 40:5. David was well aware of God’s purpose, which definitely concerned him and all of Israel.

And the Word, the Purpose, the Thoughts of God “became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth” John 1:14. The Word/Purpose/Thoughts of God was made flesh; He is called the Son of God, and He is full of grace and truth. If we can tap into the truth of God’s purpose, if we can conceive of His plan, then we will know the thoughts and intents of His heart. And when we think those thoughts, and have the same intention and purpose that He is and has, then we are well on the way of pleasing the Father.

Knowing of God’s eternal purpose, which is the grace and truth that the Word-made-flesh was full of, will bring light to us. For the Word-made-flesh is Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. John 1:9-11.

The Purpose Incarnate was walking around on the earth He created with the people He had chosen to reveal Himself through, and the majority rejected Him. But some will receive Him, and they will receive power to become like Him. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. John 1:12.

Received Him? Who is He? He is the Word, the Thought, the Purpose of God from the beginning put into earthen vessels. Receive His thoughts and intention and purpose and you are receiving Him. And you will then receive power to become His sons. And the sons will have believed on His name. The sons will not only know His real Hebrew name Yahshua, but they will believe what His name means. More on that later.

His Purpose Is Sharing Himself with His Offsprin

Yes, Yahweh has a purpose. He has thoughts toward certain chosen vessels, His sons and daughters to be. To get them into His camp, He deliberately contacts them or calls them. He lets them know He is real in some way. He puts a desire and a hunger in their hearts to know the truth as to why they are here. He feeds their hunger with small portions of the truth, and they grow. And soon they begin to realize that everything seems to work out for them. Even through the bad times, the times of suffering, both of their making and through no fault of their own, God seems to bring some good out of it. They realize that they are maturing and becoming less selfish. They begin to love this invisible God who has provided a plan to deliver them from their sinful selves. Where once they were destroying themselves and their families, they now are enjoying more peace and harmony in their lives. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28.

At first, his offspring may not realize that they are a special creation descended from Adam, who was created some 6,000 years ago in God’s image. Other men had been created by God earlier. We know this because Cain was cast out to the east of Eden after murdering his brother Abel, and there he took a wife from those people. But the descendants of Adam had a special destiny in God’s heart. God had His eye on a few of these Adamites before they ever were born on earth. Unknown to them at first, He would call and choose out a few whom He knew beforehand. And He gave them a destiny before their entry into a mortal earthly fleshly existence. He predestinated them to be made into the exact image of the Son of God, the Word-Thought-Purpose of God. They are to be His siblings, his brothers. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be con-formed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 8:29. For God knew his own before ever they were, and also ordained that they should be shaped to the likeness of his Son. 8:29. NEB.

And those that He predestinated to be exactly like Himself, those are the ones that He first contacts or calls. And, as far as He is concerned, it is a done deal. It is His Thought toward them that they should be like Himself. What He has purposed, who can prevent it from coming to pass? To those that He called, He gave them a new heart that does not sin against Him. He justified them. They are in His sight justified from all of their despicable past actions. They, of course, must witness this on earth by believing the word of God about His Son, who is the sacrifice for our sins, whose shed blood slays the sin within us. It is already done and over with in God’s mind before it ever happens here on earth to His children! And to those called ones who He has justified, He in His thinking, in His heart, has already glorified! More-over, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 8:30. He chose them long ago; when the time came he called them, he made them righteous in his sight, and then lifted them to the splendour of life as his own sons. 8:30. Phillips.

This is God’s Doing and Not Ours

God the Word has thought it all out and has purposed it and planned it to happen according to His predetermined counsel. Nothing accidentally happens. He is calling, justifying, and glorifying His elect, the chosen few. They will be “conformed to the image of His Son.” They will shortly be glorified and have their mortality swallowed up by His miraculous eternal life! God is for them! He helps them to do His plan, and this personally pleases Him. He gives them what they need and when they need it to become what He has pre-determined for them to become. In the face of all this, what is there left to say? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not grudge his own Son but gave him up for us all—can we not trust such a God to give us, with him, everything else that we can need? Romans 8:31, Phillips.

Not According to Us, But to His Own Purpose

We cannot do anything to become a part of His purpose and plan. God is saving some and calling some with a holy calling, but it is not because of anything “good” or “evil” that they have done. You cannot work at it in order to be accepted as a son or daughter. You work at it because you realize you are chosen by God. You cannot give enough offerings or go to church tirelessly and endlessly and expect to be one of the chosen ones by your efforts. To be called to be like Him, to be chosen as one of his sons is not according to our own works. It has nothing to do with what we have done, do, or ever will do. He calls us to be His immortal sons and daughters in accordance with His own purpose that was given to us in Yahshua His Son before the world began. 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 Yahshua the Messiah before the world began. II Timothy 1:9.

Our perfection and sonship in Him was given to us before the creation of the world. Therefore, we were in existence before the world began! We had to have spiritually been with Him in the beginning in order to have received the holy calling of sonship from Him. It is he who brought us salvation and called us to a dedicated life, not for any merit of ours but of his own purpose and his own grace, which was granted to us in Yahshua from all eternity. 1:9. NEB.

The Inheritance

The sons and daughters of God have obtained an inheritance. Our destiny is to inherit all things and to reign with the King of the Universe. Now this inheritance that some are to receive is a destiny that He has pre-arranged for that elect few. He has predestined them for greatness. He has selected these chosen few before the world ever was, to be like Him. And their lives—their destiny as His sons and daughters—have been predestinated in accordance with His own purpose. He thought it through before the world ever was, and He purposed and planned it all out to the finest detail. He then began to work all things after the counsel of His own will and purpose. For God has allowed us to know the secret of his plan, and it is this: He purposes in his sovereign will that all human history shall be consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in Heaven or earth shall find its perfection and fulfillment in him. And here is the staggering thing—that in all which will one day belong to him, we have been promised a share (since we were long ago destined for this by the one who achieves his purposes by his sovereign will), so that we, as the first to put our confidence in Christ, may bring praise to his glory! Ephesians 1:9-12, Phillips.

Summary

The great Creator, the Giver of life, has a definite plan and purpose in creating all things. He has revealed His purpose over the last 6,000 years to only a few human beings. We call them apostles and prophets, and they by inspiration of the Spirit of God have left us some writings that tell of His purpose.

They tell of His promise to humankind of a life everlasting—an eternal life where our frail, flimsy earthen bodies will be replaced by a glorious spiritual body in which those blessed ones will live with the Heavenly Father as His spiritual sons and daughters, His heirs of His kingdom.

The apostles and prophets speak of the following concepts that are a part of the perfecting of His sons and daughters:

Purpose—No accidents. He has an eternal purpose in reproducing Himself in His children.
Predestination—He has given a royal destiny to a few human beings before they were ever born here on earth.
Foreknowledge—He knew who they would be before they were born into this earth.
Election—Same word as “chosen.” He chooses or elects certain human beings to fulfill His will.
Grace or Favor—He favors the ones He has chosen. They are predisposed to respond to Him, and He showers great grace on them, or He favors them with a depth of knowledge about His purpose and how He is going to perform his plan.
Kings and Priests—The elect or the chosen ones will acquire immortality according to His will and become like Him. They will do the “greater works” as His ruling royal family. They will be His immortal offspring, able to mediate the glorious blessings of His Spirit to the rest of creation. They will be His inner circle, His cadre, His round table of rulers in His exact image, able to love mankind in the same powerful way that He did.
Sovereignty—He is sovereign and can do whatever He desires to do and whenever He decides to do it, in order to accomplish His purpose, plan, intention and thoughts.

[This is Chapter 2 of my book The Unveiling of the Sons of God. If you would like to read more, I have it online at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…” ] Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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May 27, 2010 · 5:58 pm

Fateful Decisions Determine Who Comes into Existence

It is amazing to realize how personal choices are so fateful–full of fate–not just for the one who chooses a certain path or makes a decision in life, but for those who literally come after them. In fact, some of our choices actually determine just who comes after us on the planet!

For example, I asked my dad, Scott K. Hancock, who was in his late seventies at the time, “Hey, Dad, you were quite the ladies man in your day. Was there a woman who you let slip through your fingers?”

He looked at me funny as if to say, Well, my son is in his fifties, and I am about done on earth, so I guess it’s all right to tell it. “As a matter of fact, there was a girl back in Corsicana, Texas during the War. Her name was Thelma Mae. I should have married her, but I didn’t. I got cold feet and stood her up. That was a mistake.” I could tell it was difficult for him to talk about.

I said, “Yeah, but what about me? You married Mom and had me right after the War. If you had married that girl, I would not exist! This very conversation we are having right now would not be taking place.”

“I guess you are right,” Dad said, righting himself, withdrawing back into taciturnity, no doubt wondering what had gotten into himself for sharing anything so personal.

“I am glad that you didn’t marry her,” I finally said. And that was about all we said that day, for I had already seen the windows of communication being shuttered over his countenance. A couple of years later, Dad died. That was 2002. We never talked any more about it.

I shared our talk with my wife Linda. “If Dad had done right, if he had kept his word and promise to Thelma Mae, our kids–all five of them–Danny, Noah, Sara, Hannah, and Joby–would not exist. And our grandkids–no Cody, Austin, or Baby Katy. It would be a totally different universe. Linda, you would have existed, of course, but not you you. We are the sum total of our experiences, so subtract our 40 years together, and who then would you haver been?”

Linda just looked at me with that quizzical beginning of a smile that said, He’s out there again, but I love him.

“So my Dad’s betrayal of that girl some 65 years ago created a parallel world that permitted nine human beings to exist that would not have existed otherwise. How can good come out of something bad–something so bad that it would haunt my Dad all those years?”

Then I thought of God’s foreknowledge. He knows all things beforehand. There are no surprises for Him. And then the scripture, “He puts it into their hearts to fulfill His will.”

I talked to my Mom about this story, and she filled me in with the details that Dad did not share.

Dad and Thelma Mae had written each other for four years during World War II. They were betrothed. She had worked and had saved up, and her trousseau was full. All was ready with the wedding dress, linens, and fineries. Even furniture awaited their housewarming. When Dad did not come back for her–and that without a word–she was heartbroken.

Instead, Dad married my Mom Louise in December 1945 and immediately took off to Califorinia for a brand new start. I now know the reason for the sudden departure was as much personal as it was for financial considerations.

My Mom told me that a couple of years after their move, my grandmother wrote them a letter. That would have been about the time, ironically enough, I was born. She said that Thelma had died. Mom said she read the letter, and it didn’t say much more than that. Mom asked Dad who the girl was, and he said, “Oh, it was just a girl he had known back then.”

Mom said that after moving back to Texas in 1955, she had spoken to a woman she met at church in Oak Cliff that had known Dad and all the Hancocks of Kerns, Texas. She filled Mom in on what had happened to Thelma Mae. She had died of a broken heart in 1947. She just wasted away. Probably took pneumonia because she wouldn’t eat and take care of herself. She was buried in her white wedding dress, and on her breast was laid my Dad’s 8 x 10 Army photograph and a stack of love letters he had written to her.

Oh, my God. The sadness that my Daddy endured for the rest of his life–a sadness that paved the way for me and my family’s existence! How unsearchable are all the ways of this life, for I was born out of a betrayal–possibly the most hurtful of all the sins. I would not have come into existence had not my father made that fateful choice and its accompanying regret–a remorse that he carred with him to his grave. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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November 11, 2009 · 5:00 pm

Conversations With the Seer–How Do I Get Closer to God?

(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)

I asked the Seer, “How do I get closer to God?”

And he said, “You’ve got to ask Him to take you to that place–that special place where He dwells, where we can commune with Him.

“What is that place you speak of?”

“It is in a corner of His kingdom where He rules and reigns. It’s in a spiritual world, invisible to mortal eyes.”

“It sounds very mystical and mysterious to me.”

“All true seekers must by definition be mystics. For they believe that it is possible to transcend our first estate as humans and finally become one with the Higher Power. That is their goal, their hope, their belief. And so it has been throughout the ages. Philosophers, prophets, and sages of every ilk the world over have known that a spirit world exists. They knew that a spiritual place apart from our five senses is out there somewhere–a place where the unexplained things intrigue the mind of man. There are many ways that seem right, but only one way leads to the celestial home, and that is Christ. He is the way to that special place. He and He alone is able to take us by the hand and lead us to where we want to be.”

“I want to get there, but how do I?”

“It is not a physical place that we can travel to and enter, like a concrete city with its buildings of brick, mortar, stone, and colored glass. Nor is it where the ocean’s waves lap at our ears with its endless breath. Nor is it in the green cathedral forest, where the congregants stand erect, lifting their verdant arms up to the light blue ceiling, listening to the crunch of our footsteps and the whispers of our wonder at being in their presence. No, this is not the special place where God will meet us.”

“Where is that place then?”

“It is that quiet country that spreads forth its boundless plain in another dimension where God dwells. Because He is an invisible Spirit, to experience His presence, we must finally come to that special place.” It was as if the Seer was speaking in riddles. The words, separated from each other, made sense, but when strung together, they spoke of something inviting, but covered in a fine mist.

I finally said, “I’m reminded of a line in that song, I really want to see You, Lord, but it takes so long, my Lord.”

“Yes, that sums up nicely the soul of the seeker, how we all feel, or have felt. To our finite mind, time is slow. That inkling of a ray of the light of truth that we glimpsed when we were twenty may not be fully illuminated until we are sixty. The knowledge that we need to love others, for instance, and not our selfish selves, may come to us when we are young, but how to incorporate the love-from-above into living takes time. We must learn to forgive, appreciate, and in so doing, love others in all their human frailties. This may take a lifetime. And it is this needed patience on our part that shipwrecks hope.”

“I do want to be a loving human being.”

“Of course, you do. But before being comes doing, and before doing comes knowing. Knowledge comes first.”

“What knowledge are you speaking of exactly?”

“First, knowledge of the Creator’s plan and purpose must be attained. Then we must get knowledge as to how we corrupt humans fit into that plan and purpose. We must realize that we are special to Him. We are ‘the apple of His eye.’ We are in and have been in His thoughts before time was ever stretched and measured out over the earth. We are blessed for we know that plan.”

“What is His plan for us?”

“The teeming masses swarm to the latest thing that will tickle their greed or assuage their fear, and most, alas, will not come to the knowledge that God has created them for one major purpose: He wants to reproduce Himself in us! While the majority of humans plod their own path or someone else’s path, He is quietly calling out a few with plans to transform them into vessels that will display Himself. That is what His ultimate purpose is about. All those who get on board with what He is doing, will be at peace, for they will be on the same page as the Great One.” KWH [To be continued…Let your thoughts be heard; make a comment. To read more go to my books here http://yahwehisthesavior.com/unveiling.htm ]

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November 2, 2009 · 4:03 pm

A Childlike Faith in God Is What We Need

This world and the people of this world are sick. The malady comes from a steady diet of doubt. Almost all of the systems of man–the media, politics, education, and even religious denominations–almost all are starving God’s people and feeding them the poisonous pablum of lies. And the major lie is that either there is no God or, if there is, He is untrustworthy and His word is no good.

It is getting so bad that people are afraid to speak of God; it is not politically correct to believe in the Savior. The atheists, marxists, maoists, and communists have done a job on the American people–so much so that people are reluctant to even demonstrate for our great republic founded on Christian principles. No matter what Pres. Obama says, America is a Christian nation, but we have lost our way.

But some are finding the way. In the midst of all of this immoral morass, God is still in control. He has a plan, and it does not matter to Him just how dark the sky seems to us, He will bring His plan to pass. He will raise up a few good men and women who will believe Him and His promises found in the Holy Bible. Christ is coming back to earth soon. He is searching for those with “like precious faith.” He is looking for those who believe Him and take Him at His word. “When the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18: 8). I believe He will.

A Childlike Faith

He said to let the little chidren come to Him for the Kingdom of God belongs to them (Matt. 19: 14). Why to them and those like them? Because they don’t doubt. They believe. It seems that the older we get, the more doubts enter into our hearts. But the little child believes. Ralph Waldo Emerson knew this and believed that we adults could go back to a childlike state to see the world through a prism of belief or faith.

For God is calling out His future sons and daughters right now. They will be His future rulers with Him in the world government that He will set up right here on earth. And the very quality that we need in order to fulfill this calling is a childlike faith.

I was talking to my two grandsons, Cody and Austin, 12 and 10, the other day. They had been playing a “Civilization” video game and asked me, “What are ages?” I explained that they are major chunks of time marked by a certain characteristic of that era of time. Now we are in the Information Age. We have just left the Industrial Age, which started back in the 1800’s.

“Well, what does A.D. mean?”

“It is an abreviation of the Latin Anno Domini, which means year of our Lord, or since Christ was born. Isn’t it amazing, guys, how man’s dates are reckoned by Christ’s life here on earth? He was so great that everyone acknowledges Him when they give a date.”

I looked at my two grandsons. Not one doubt clouded their shining faces. Their childlike faith readily believed that Christ was so important to mankind that man would include Him in every date in their history. No doubts fogged their thinking–just clear belief, unfettered by negatives, unhindered by man’s puny fears and foibles.

And then I smiled and realized that God has the last laugh. Always has, always will. Every atheist, marxist, and maoist that picks up a newspaper today will be faced with this year of our Lord, 2009 A.D. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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