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I was asked by a reader of this blog this: “Do you help with addictions?

I wrote the following…

I can only tell you about how God cured my addictions [grass, acid, tobacco, booze]. I was looking for answers after surviving the war in Vietnam. Through Christ’s wonderful mercy, He saw past my drug-fueled life, and showed me a sign to look for. The religion or philosophy that had the old self dying and dead [with the body still living], that would be finding the truth. I would follow that, for I knew that the truth would cure me of an early grave.

I searched for four solid years. I could not find the “death of the old self” in any religion; I was slipping into nothingness, nihilism, when I finally found my sign.

It was a Bible study out in the piney woods of East Texas. I was visiting my mother who asked me to attend. I went with her, just to “get her off my back.” It was in a humble little cabin, 15 people there. My attitude was, “Okay. Show me what you got.” The teacher then read from Romans chapter 6 these words: “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Christ, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”

Right then, I stopped him. “Are you saying that the old self, the old sinful ego has died with Christ?”

“Yes, that is exactly what has already happened in God’s eyes. All we have to do is believe it. It is done. ‘He that is dead is freed from sin.’”

It was that night that I learned about identifying my old self with His death, burial, and resurrection. I took a leap of faith and believed that He gave me a new sinless life. [Read Romans 6:1-11.] Believing this changed my life. It was like all my addictions fell off me like shedding a corrupt system that had me trapped for so many years. I was 24, and I never looked back–through the lean and the fat years. That was 53 years ago.

I am my own greatest witness that Christ and His love is real and very forgiving. I am living proof that He can deliver us from addictions. Addicts are the most selfish people on earth. To be delivered, they must believe that their old sinful selfish heart is “crucified with Christ.” It is put to death. Then it is buried with Christ; then by believing Christ’s resurrection, they are “raised to walk in a newness of life.” The addicted must only believe that the old sinful self is gone and that they now receive a new heart.     Kenneth Wayne Hancock

Understanding the elusive meaning of the word “faith” is the key to open up the mysteries of spiritual growth. We think that we know about it already, and we have a tiny piece of that knowledge. But there is so much more to it than what we have been taught.

“Faith” is Christ’s belief system; it is what He believes. It is not just us believing in Him. It is believing the things that He cares about. He wants us to enter into His rest.

We, the children of God, need to rest. We need to “be still and know that He is God.” We are “tossed to and fro,” and we scurry about entangled so easily by the cares of this world and its entrapments. “There remains a rest to the people of God” (Heb. 4: 9). But what is this rest that God promises His children, and how do we get there?

We enter into rest through belief. But by believing what exactly? Many believe on the Son of God, and yet they are still struggling, still exhausted by the constant onslaught of the world. Believe what?

We need to take our faith and belief to another level. We need to grow to a point where we believe that it is “no longer I that lives, but Christ that lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God” (Gal. 2: 20).

First, as the apostle Paul tells us, “Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith…Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you…” (II Cor. 13: 5).  We are to look inside of our own hearts to see where we need to be. Have we really experienced the cross where our old self dies with Christ? Have we taken the plunge and died with Christ? We need to believe this. Is our old life buried with Christ? We need to believe this. Then “through faith in the operation of God that raised Christ from the dead” we, too, have been raised to walk in a newness of life (Col. 2: 11-14). We need to believe this.

So, when we believe that it is the Spirit of Christ living and walking around in our bodies, then we let Him do His works. We cease to do our own thing. And this is when we enter into His rest. This is when we observe the Sabbath day. This is how we keep it holy. “For he that is entered into His rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His” (Heb. 4: 10). Read this again, for herein is a revelation that few on the earth have. It is a precious promise straight from the throne of the King. Slow down and savor these words.

How can this be? What does the above mean? When we begin to really allow Christ to walk in us and let Him do His work through us, then we will have stopped doing our own thing as if we were still alive [Remember, we have died with Christ on the cross as in Romans 6: 6]. We have “ceased from [our] own works, as God did from His.” This is the rest. This is the keeping of the true Christian Sabbath day.

Ceasing from our own works means that we are no longer there dictating what our physical bodies do all day long. We no longer are imagining that this pleases God or that pleases Him. No. this rest is when we are out of the picture, when we have allowed God to take control of our thoughts and actions. At this stage we are doing His works, for He in us is doing His works. This is entering into His Sabbath rest. This is the Christian Sabbath. Amen!

How Do We Do This?

As we believe His word, we do enter into His rest. And His rest is His confidence and belief that the plan contained in the Seed/Word/Logos has come, is coming, and shall come to pass just like He created the “incorruptible seed, the word of God” in the beginning.

He believes in us more than we believe in Him. Or rather, He believes in His plan working itself out in our lives–even though we don’t even understand it fully yet.

He knows that His thoughts, which are formed into words, “will not return unto Him void, but will accomplish” what He sent them to do. And believing this solidly, God now rests and waits with great patience on us to finally believe the same thing. “There remains therefore a rest [keeping of the sabbath, from the Greek word sabbatismos] to the people of God” (Heb. 4: 9).

This new “Commandment keeping” replaces the old covenant. It is just like the Son’s faith replaces all the tired, old, material ways of worship. Adding to His belief system meshes into this.

[This is Chapter 19 of my new book THE ADDITIONS TO THE FAITH. To receive your free copy with free shipping, send your name, mailing address, and title of the book to my email address: wayneman5@hotmail.com. You can read it on this page of my blog: https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/the-additions-to-the-faith/ Kenneth Wayne Hancock

(The Preface of the Book)

I have written a book entitled The 11th Commandment. I know. You, like me, thought there were Ten Commandments. Not eleven. After all, it was Ten Commandments that Moses received on Mt. Sinai. In a Christophany, in a miraculous display of power, Christ our Savior wrote them with His finger on stone tablets.

And now you are being told that there is one more, the 11th Commandment. The natural question would be, “What is the 11th and where did it come from?” Christ is the All-Knowing and has the answer. But instead of His finger carving tablets of stone again, He wrote the 11th Commandment with His own blood onto the tablets of our hearts.

It reads: “A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another” (John 13:34). Love each other like I loved you. The 11th Commandment is this “new commandment” Christ gave us. We read the words, and it sounds simple enough. But how to love like Christ escapes us. Doubts creep in. Nobody can be like Christ. Why would He command us to do the impossible?

This book answers these and other questions: How do we obey the 11th Commandment? How do we love others like Christ loved us? We will see that in the scriptures, Christ gives us smaller commandments, that when obeyed, add up to the keeping of the 11th. Christ’s 11th New Commandment issues organically out of God’s purpose, which is to reproduce Himself—Love.

Christ is the answer to all questions in our search; it begins and ends with Him. He said, “Seek and you shall find.” Seek God and His purpose in multiplying Himself. Every word that He spoke pertains to this purpose. Christ is the Seed Son. He compared Himself to a grain of wheat that dies and then springs to life and grows to full maturity bearing “much fruit.” Thus, the law of harvest is complete. Since He is the Seed, then the harvest will be Christ fully formed in us. We will be just like Him, for each seed bears its own kind (John 12:24; Gal. 6:7).

God has a plan to accomplish His purpose. It is to use humans as the medium to reproduce Himself through. Because it takes time, His plan has been written down and has come to us in the pages of the Holy Bible. But unfortunately, it is a closed book for most readers. It is full of mysteries because people do not know His purpose in creating the earth.

For example, He commanded us to forgive each other (Mark 11:25). When we forgive, God’s Spirit grows within us, much like our muscles grow when we use them. God’s purpose is for Him to grow in us to a point that it is all Him inside of us.

His New Commandment is to love each other the way He loved us. Under this overarching Commandment are many other new commandments. When we obey them, we will have obeyed the larger 11th Commandment: Love each other the way Christ loved us. Christ knows that for us, it is a big order to fill. So, He breaks it down into smaller steps.

To continue our example, we ask Him for more of His Spirit to help us forgive another, thus loving that person. For it is only His Spirit now growing in us that can do the forgiving and loving. We do not strive to obey His new commandments to obtain salvation or reward or to be pleasing in His sight. We obey that He may grow in us. By obeying them, we develop His “divine nature” within our new heart.

How the Book Is Organized

The first section of the book gives more background information, elucidating the spiritual setting of these New Commandments. The second section will address a dozen of them.
There are many more sprinkled throughout the New Testament. It is the author’s hope that this book will encourage readers to explore and investigate other commandments that the Spirit will show them. Joy comes when He reveals a new one to us as we study His word. They are like pearls just under the surface of the sand, waiting for us to discover them.

It is our hope that this book will bring awareness of Christ’s new commandments and their importance for our spiritual growth. When we keep them, we are obeying the 11th Commandment. May it be used to help carry us all on down the road to immortality, that God may reproduce Himself in each of us, thus fulfilling His purpose for you and me. Understanding all this prepares us for bearing much fruit. This is the 100-fold fruit bearing that He has for His sons and daughters. But it all starts with understanding God’s eternal purpose. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

[Order your free copy with free shipping of this book. Just send a request with your name, mailing address and the name of the book to my email address: wayneman5@hotmail.com]

“The Additions to the Faith” explains how we are to grow spiritually. Growing is a process, and this book explains the process. This book is for those who believe they are called and chosen to be like the early apostles.

The apostle Peter admonishes us to add to our faith certain spiritual qualities of the King. In order that we may “partake of the divine nature,” we are to add virtue to our faith, and “to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness charity (agape love).” He goes on to say that we will be blind without them. But with them we will “make [our] calling and election sure, and that will ensure our entrance “into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (II Peter 1: 3-11).

Today, Peter would tell us that these additions are not little romper room words to be pasted on a bulletin board. Rather they are facets of a jewel of great price, and that jewel is His very character. These additions are aspects of God’s divine nature. A shallow perusal will not do. They must be studied and prayed over and sought with a whole heart in reverential awe.

Peter sums it up by saying, You better take heed to what I am saying to you. I have a “more sure word of prophecy.” I know what I am talking about because I was there with our Savior on the Mount of Transfiguration, and I beheld His glory. I am speaking to you now as “a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts” (1: 16-19).

God has miraculously preserved Peter’s words to us for all these 2,000 years. The Spirit still speaks through him to us. We need to study this out thoroughly, or we are going to miss something very big in God’s plan.

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Origins of Christmas Season Found in “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT”

[A joyous yet cautionary tale]

Sara was born in Linares, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. She was almost born on the road to Linares. She came rather rapidly once her time had come to enter this world. That was February 1, 1974. Sara’s first adventure was almost being born on the side of a mountain.

We were living 62 kilometers up the mountain from Linares on Hwy. 60–due west in the Sierra Madre mountains. It took one hour to travel those 37 miles, no matter if you were going uphill or downhill. The road was steep, so steep and curvy that going 20 miles an hour sometimes would throw you against the side of the van.  

It was a beautiful drive most of the time. Kilometer 62 was our address and was exactly a mile high, cool and dry in the winter. But just one hour away lay the sultry tropics of Linares. The city was surrounded by enormous orange and grapefruit orchards for as far as the eye could see.

The week before Sara was born, my wife Linda had false labor. She thought it was time. “Hurry, Wayne! It is time to go to the hospital!” So, we ran to the van and drove like crazy to get there in  time, only to find out that the baby was not ready. Disappointed, we drove on back to the mission and resumed our day-to-day activities.

The days clicked on. Linda got bigger and bigger and still no baby. She would have some twinges and pains here and there, but nothing serious seemed to be happening. Or at least she thought that.

Linda kept waiting and waiting, thinking it was just false labor again. Things got serious on February 1^st. The contractions were getting harder. At first, they were four minutes apart, and then two minutes apart.

“Hurry! This must be the time!” Linda moaned. We sped down the mountain faster than usual. I know I was jostling her way too much. The extreme rocking motion probably helped to bring it on even faster. Down, down, and round and round we sped down that mountain, and all the while Linda was crying out in pain, “It’s coming! It’s coming! Hurry! Oh, God, it’s coming!”

We pulled into the hospital driveway in front of the receiving ward. Thank goodness that it was on the near side of the city on our highway. The side doors flew open. I called out for help. Medics rushed over. We got Linda onto a gurney, and they wheeled her swiftly down the hallway to the maternity delivery room. All the while, she was moaning in a wild-eyed blonde frenzy.

It was not five minutes after we got there that Sara came into this world. It happened so fast that they did not even have enough time to take Linda’s dress off and put her into a gown. I shouted to the nun nurses, “I want to come into the delivery room!”

“No, you cannot come in here. You must stay outside the doors.” The double doors had glass windows about eight inches above my eye level. So, I had to jump up and take a split-second glimpse of my first daughter being born. I didn’t have time to jump too much because the baby came quickly.

Usually, Linda had a difficult time because our babies had such large craniums. But, thank God, not Sara. She came so quickly that she just popped out, and there it was, the miracle of procreation once again gracing the stage we call earth. Hello, crazy daddy, jumping up and down to catch a glimpse of the precious little miracle. And finally, there it was!

“It’s a boy!” I shouted out at the top of my lungs. “It’s a boy!” I was announcing boldly through the cracked door to all the attendant nuns and to the radiant mother herself, now holding her new infant.

“No, it’s not,” said Linda calmly, patiently smiling at the ecstatic father. “It’s a girl.”

“But,” I said, looking down between the baby’s legs.

“That’s the umbilical cord wrapped around her.”

“I thought it was… that’s OK! It’s a beautiful baby girl!”

This is one of the most memorable adventures, not just as missionaries to Mexico, but in our entire life. Sara has been adventurous ever since. I guess it is in her DNA.  

Kenneth Wayne Hancock