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November 2, 2023 · 7:53 pm

Outline for Teaching and Evangelizing

God’s Purpose

  1. To reproduce and multiply Himself
  2. He is Agape Love
  3. Therefore, His purpose is to reproduce Christ’s Love
  1. The Plan to fulfill His Purpose [See pp.41-48 in The Royal Destiny].
  2. Law of Harvest—You reap what you sow. God does, too.
  3. Human beings used as the medium to reproduce Himself in
  4. The Word is the seed. Matt. 13, The Parable of the Sower
  5. The Word/Seed Son fell into the ground for three days and three nights in the tomb.
  6. Christ died on the cross and was raised from the dead.
  7. He desires us to spiritually die with Him on the cross. Belief in His resurrection germinates the Seed, the Word of God, in us (Romans 6:1-12).
  8. We now become “babes in Christ.” This puts us on the road to growth by His Spirit within.
  9. Spiritual growth is measured by three levels—30, 60, 100-fold growth. Knowing, Doing, and Being. “Children, young men, fathers” (I John 2:13-14).
  1. What we must do to have the Spirit grow within us. We cannot do anything to earn the salvation of God. But we certainly must do things to grow to be like Christ.
  2. “Continue steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine” Do what they did. Their doctrine was Christ’s teachings (Acts 2:42-43) [See book The Apostles’ Doctrine].
  3. Add to your faith  (II Peter 1:4-[See book The Additions to the Faith]
  4. Obey Christ’s “new commandments.” [See book The Eleventh Commandment]
  5. “Purge out the old leaven” so that we can become holy. Repent of false doctrines and concepts about Christ our King.
  6. “Put on the whole armor of God.”
  7. If we do these things, we will grow, or His Spirit will grow in us, that we “be no more children, tossed to and fro, carried about by every wind of doctrine” that the devil throws at us. Doing all these things builds a sure foundation.
  8. Study His word, His thoughts, His purpose, His plan. God’s approval is given to those who study, who “accurately handle the word of truth” (II Tim. 2:15).
  9. The above are the “first principles of the oracles of God,” the “elementary truths,” the “milk of the word.” Strong meat comes after mastery (Heb. 5:12-14; 6:1-2).
  10. “If you do these things, you shall never fall.” This provides “an entrance” into that dimension that Christ and His apostles walked in (II Pet. 1:10).

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September 25, 2023 · 11:24 am

Husbands and Wives—Conversations with the Seer

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

Brotherly love, the sixth addition to the faith, begins at home. Loving one’s wife is loving one’s own self. She is one flesh with her husband. This is the first step in loving others. That first step is usually the hardest one. It takes us changing.

Change in us may begin its work in a flash moment, but it completes its work in decades of walking down Love’s humbling path.

I was having marital problems. I was young, stuffed with the pride of youth that directed my tongue. So, I broke down and decided to seek help.  I barely had enough time to sit down, and before I had spoken a word, the Seer asked, “Troubles with the wife?”

“Yes.  How did you know?”

“The Spirit, if your heart is attuned, picks up on these things.  It’s really not difficult to discern because ‘all things come alike to all.’  We all come up the same way” [1].

“My wife is always bringing me down. It’s frustrating. I’ll get a wonderful revelation about God, and I am so enthused, and I try to share it with her, and all she has to say is, ‘Yeah, that’s great, but would you help me, please? Could you do something around here?  Help straighten up the house. Check on the kids.’  Things like that.”

The Seer just looked at me as if looking through a window at the wind blowing through a white oak tree. “We on our spiritual walk back to the Father’s heart must not get too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good.”

I looked at him as if he were speaking Chinese. “What?  What do you mean?”

“It is all about taking the heavenly things like love and mercy, and putting them into action here on earth.  Christ did it and then taught it” [2].

“She makes me mad,” I continued.  “It’s like she deliberately throws on me all this negativity, like a wet blanket. Instead of rejoicing with me, she just smothers me. I try to correct her and get her to stop, but that just sets her off and we start fussing and fighting.”

“Oh, you mustn’t try to stop her,” the Seer said. “Goodness, no.  Never try to prevent someone from doing God’s will.”

“God’s will?”  I asked.  “A wife so earthly minded that she can’t get past the pots and pans and diapers is doing God’s will?”

“They are your pots and pans and your children’s clothes. Let me explain what is spiritually happening. God Himself has created your wife exactly the way she is in every respect. He has made her to be your absolute complement. She, with all her faults and all her many unappreciated virtues, is exactly what the Great Physician ordered–for you and your perfection.”

“My perfection?” I asked.

“She’s your help meet, isn’t she?” [3].

“Yes.”

“Well, then, she is being a good help meet because she’s helping you meet God. Look. She is merely speaking what is in the script written by God–as if He had with a thoughtful quill inked upon her DNA the lines she speaks to help you mature spiritually. And her reactions to you and her ‘negative’ comments to you about your ways are all ordained, scribed, and orchestrated by God to get a rise out of you.”

“It does that,” I said. “But she should be honoring her husband and not putting him down all the time.”

“You don’t need a wife that praises your every word or whim. That would not bring you to perfection. In fact, it would ruin you for God’s purposes.”

“I still don’t get it.”

“You see,” the Seer continued, “You have many faults that must be purged out of your life before full spiritual maturity comes. God uses wives to help us grow from a babe in Christ to a young man. A ‘woman shall be saved in child bearing’ [4].  She not only rears your earthly children, but also helps to rear the spiritual child of God in her life–you, her husband. She cannot change the way she has been created. She is saying exactly what the Father has entrusted her to say to you.”

“It just makes me mad,” I said.

“There. Right there in that thought–that unjust anger is an example of the kind of things that God desires to erase out of your life. And your wife will continue to bring it out–not to be mean, as you suppose. She has to. She doesn’t even realize that God is using her for the purpose of burning out the dross that lurks around your new faith. Yet, she will continue saying her lines as a faithful player on the stage of life–until you get it.”

“Get what?” I asked, still not understanding the depth of the matter.

“When you finally understand these words I’ve spoken and believed them, then you’ll have gained several precious life lessons. Number one. That God is totally sovereign and in complete control. He uses anyone and anything He desires to effect a change in one of His chosen ones–one of His elect sons of God. Two. God’s ways are not our ways. We would not perfect us the way He does. We would much rather sit in the sunshine munching Oreos as the way to make big changes in our life. Third. We need to be grateful for God’s love to us. He has chosen us as His offspring. He did not have to pick us to reveal Himself in us. So, just be grateful for your wife and don’t be bitter towards her [5]. God is using her to do a great work in you.”

“It doesn’t seem so great right now,” I said.

“When you receive this truth that I’ve shared with you, you won’t get angry and frustrated with her. You’ll know the truth that it is all God’s doing, flowing out from His heart of love. Right now you are buffeted for your own faults [6]. What will you do when you are persecuted unjustly?”

“I don’t know.”

“When it happens, just know that it is still God doing His work of perfection in you.” The Seer paused. “But, enough of this now. Tell me. What is your wife’s favorite candy bar?”

“Almond Hershey.”

“Tell you what. Go buy her one. And with no fanfare, hand it to her and tell her that you love her.”

I did what He said. And that little gesture generated a smile on her face that said, “He understands.” But all I understood that day was the magic of chocolate.  She would receive several Almond Hersheys throughout the years. But it would take decades for me to finally understand and appreciate the message he gave me that day.  [This is Chap. 55 of my new book The Additions to the Faith.]

  1. Eccle. 9: 2
  2. Acts 1: 1
  3. Gen. 2: 18
  4. I Tim. 2: 15
  5. Col. 3: 19
  6. I Peter 2: 20

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September 16, 2023 · 9:30 am

Christ’s Dream, Cause, and Vision Redux

What cause would be worthwhile enough for you and me to give up our current goals and aspirations to take up that cause?

Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream–a vision of a world of racial equality and justice, and he went all in to help make it come true. What dream, what vision would put you and me all in?

For what cause would we be willing to wager our entire existence on, to see it  come to pass?

Christianity was founded by a personage that laid it all on the line, that put it all out there for His Father’s cause. And that cause was to bear witness to the truth that He was the King of the Kingdom of God (John 18: 37). And now He asks us His followers to do the same thing: to go all in for the cause of truth, to lay down our lives as He did.

But instead of a physical bodily sacrifice, we are to “present [our] bodies a living sacrifice.” The death we experience is the death of our old selfish lives, and in their stead He resurrects in us a “newness of life” where “old things are passed away and all things are become new.”

How does that happen? Because we now have a new cause, a new vision, a new dream for our lives here on earth. In Christ we no longer languish under the  load of our petty little dreams of self-respect.  For in Christ the old, weak, selfish, small-hearted goals are replaced with His thoughts, His goals, His dream, and His vision.

But herein lies the problem. What exactly are God’s true cause, dream, and vision? There are over 2,000 denominations, each with their own interpretation of Christ’s vision for us and this world.

The Solution to the Problem

Which ones are false and which one is true? The answer is found in Christ’s very own words. He placed a premium on the words. “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned” (Mt. 12: 37 NKJV).

He also said, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (12: 34). What a person is all about will come out of their mouth. So to know Christ’s vision and to understand His cause, we must study the words that He spoke concerning His goals. And we then must make them ours. That is what He said to do.

So what words came out of His mouth? From the beginning of His ministry, He “began to preach and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Repent of your old selfish sinful ways. For it is time to change and get a new cause, a worthwhile cause, a new vision, and a new dream for your life, for I the King am come to you. My kingdom is very near you right now. The new cause and vision is standing before you right now. Therefore, repent and turn from wickedness and receive a new vision for life on earth free from sin and injustice–beginning in you! Your old selfish life is not worth it. It ends in the dusty tomb of death, just another existence, forgotten forever in a generation or two. Get this new vision of walking with Me in My “kingdom wherein dwells righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Mt. 4: 17, 23).

“And Jesus (Yahshua) went about all Galilee, teaching…and preaching the gospel…” Which gospel? The Catholic gospel? The Baptist gospel? The charismatic gospel? No. It was the “gospel of the kingdom.” He proclaimed the good news of His government coming to earth with Him as its Sovereign (Mark 1: 14).

His kingdom is a literal and spiritual government, instituted by God. It is literal! It will literally be established on this earth in the near future upon Christ’s return. Now He is the King in exile, waiting for His followers to mature “till Christ be formed in us.”

We all need to shout this to ourselves and to the whole world: “It’s the kingdom, stupid!” Christ spoke of it incessantly, scores of times. When he spoke about being “born again,” it was so that we could enter the kingdom of God. Preachers talk a lot about “born again,” but rarely do they speak of His kingdom, which is the gospel, the good news.

It is all about the Kingdom of God. All of the parables, the secrets kept from the foundation of the world, concern His kingdom. They answer the who, what, when, why, and how about it.

When will we all awake out of the slumber? When will we stir ourselves up and start running the race set before us? It is when we “purge out the old leaven.” The old leaven is the erroneous teachings about Christ that block and cloud over His true expression of  that which He spoke of–His kingdom. He is returning for His kingdom. His kingdom is His cause, His dream, His vision.

His government is so important to Him that He said this: “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” and everything else will be supplied. Go all in for His cause and vision, and He will have our backs when it comes to the earthly life’s necessities. We don’t have to strive for them. He’ll give us what we need to bring His cause to fruition. He has our back when we have His!

When we make His dream ours and work for it, when we make His cause ours and strive for it, when we make His vision ours and seek first for it–then He will know that He has our hearts and we then will become men and women “after God’s own heart.”

For we must remember this: Somebody will sit down with Christ on His throne, on the throne of this very kingdom that He spoke continually about. Somebody “redeemed from among men.” Somebody delivered from the slime pits of sin and cleaned and groomed and prepared in spiritual maturity to rule with Him for a thousand years right here  on earth. Is that someone you and I?

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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August 28, 2023 · 2:20 pm

“Rich Men North of Richmond” Awakening—Habakkuk’s Vision of What Comes Next

(Journal entry, 2-22-03)

Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” has aroused the sleeping masses. Hearts are shaken, emotions are welling up in gratitude that someone out there has said what they are feeling.

There is a reason for this awakened response to this song. It is founded on scriptural themes. The prominent theme is the evilness of the rich men, the kings of the world system. The rich men will have their judgement in God’s good timing. The apostle James said of them, “Woe unto you rich men who heap treasure together for the last days” (5:3). All the while “they promise them liberty, but they themselves are the servants of corruption” (II Peter 2:19).

At his free concert, Oliver Anthony led off with a quote from David’s Psalm 37. Its main theme is trusting God, knowing that “Yahweh laughs at the wicked, for He knows their day is coming.” So, “do not fret because of evil men…for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away” (37:1,13 NIV).

In lieu of all the pain in just surviving the system, to get to that spiritual state of trusting and not fretting, He says, “Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light” (Eph. 5:14).

All this notwithstanding, we His elect, we who are the called and chosen to be His mouth as watchmen, we must first awaken, yes. But we must rise from being spiritually dead. Remember Christ saying, “Let the dead bury the dead.” And then Christ will give us light. He is the light; His way, truth, and purpose we must learn. We must sit at the prophet’s feet and learn how Yahweh prepares us for the arduous tasks ahead after awakening from spiritual sleep.

The prophet is Habakkuk. Small book, seldom read. Through the prophet, Yahweh’s voice cries to us and lays the prophetical vision of how the awakening fits into Yahweh’s end time scenario. Let us let the Spirit through the pen of the prophet teach us how to be His watchmen.

Overview Chapter One

Habakkuk the prophet sees the following in a vision. He is crying out to Yahweh, wanting answers as to why the wicked hold all the power on earth. He is wondering why God does not pay the wicked back with what they deserve—punishment. It seems like God is letting evil doers get away with it (1: 2-4).

Yahweh answers Habakkuk’s pleas with more oppression! God is raising up the Babylonians to roll over God’s people Judah/Israel. The Babylonians were evil impetuous people, full of violence. Yet they are used by God to punish the children of Jacob/Israel, who have turned and served other gods (1:5-12).

Habakkuk says that God makes men as fishes. The Babylonians are like fishermen who catch men with their hooks and nets, which they worship as gods. The Babylonians offer “sacrifices unto their net and burn incense unto their drag.” They worship their gods that can “catch” men like a fish. “Sacrifices” and “incense” are symbols for religious worship. So, Babylonian worship straight out of “Mystery Babylon the Great” is the false world system and its false doctrines of the religious denominations. These false doctrines are what catches people like fish. The false political and religious system gathers men like a net gathers together fish. This “net” “slays nations” (1:17)

And yet, Habakkuk was brought to realize that it was Yahweh who was raising the Babylonian army up. He was allowing them to prosper at the expense of His chosen people who had sinned against Him. This is what Habakkuk could not understand.  

This dominance of the world system over all of us is the Babylon of our day. Yahweh could destroy it today. Of course, He has that power. We like Habakkuk wonder, “How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but You do not save? Why do You make me look at injustice? why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. Therefore, justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted” (1:2-4). What a description of the world today!

The Babylonian net goes beyond just the Kingdom of Judah in 600 B.C. It prophetically reaches into our day, as the world system continues to slay nations and peoples. This is the spiritual prophetic context that the masses are awakening from.

Chapter Two

Habakkuk awakes unto this knowledge that God is allowing Babylon, the world system, to spread its degradation throughout the earth. And so, he says, I will watch, observe, and peer into the distance, to see what He will say to me concerning my lack of clear vision about Babylon’s dominance over God’s people. I will stand upon my watch…and will watch to see what He will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved (2:1).

But Yahweh answers, “Write the vision and make it plain upon tables” that whoever reads it–whoever understands the vision–may run. The vision is yet for an appointed time.” The “vision” shows the destruction of the rich men who control the world system. It also shows the revealing of the “manifestation of the sons of God” and their part in God’s scenario. It also shows what shall happen to the whole earth and all the nations upon it.

For the revelation [vision] awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay. (2:3). The vision shows us the end of evil and the evil rich who destroy men’s souls. Justice will be served upon them at the “appointed time.” The vision will come on time. What is meant to happen to man and the earth is what God has foreordained, and it shall come to pass exactly when God plans it. And the righteous man will live by faith, not by sight. We shall continue in God’s plan though we cannot see with our eyes the end fruit of God’s doing. We will trust Him, though His thoughts are not our thoughts.

The rest of Chapter Two describes the reach of the rich men. Mystery Babylon uses wine [doctrines] and wealth [deceitfulness] to deceive the nations. Chapter Two is a description of those whom the devil controls.

The Book of Habakkuk correlates with Revelation 18 and should be studied together. In Chapter 18 we see the fall of the world system at the time of the end. It shows the rich men mourning their losses of all that they merchandized in: Everything fine like “gold, silver, precious stones” and all the beautiful, exquisite things, “and souls of men.” The rich men of the earth have bought and sold the souls of the masses! At the appointed time, they will lose it all in one hour! Rejoice over her, you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her [the world system] (18:16-20).

Chapter Three

The vision of the destruction of the rich men and their desire to dethrone God is given. It reaches through 2600 years to our day. It is a far-reaching prophetical vision. It is a prayer request for God to do his work here on earth, putting an end to the evilness as outlined in Chapter One and Two. Even after hearing God speak of what shall take place, even after knowing what God will do, even after Habakkuk expresses longings for God’s wrath on the evil ones–it still is a fearful thing to him. In fact, Habakkuk pleads, “In wrath remember mercy.”

The vision then is a vision of Yahweh’s wrath that He will exact on the inhabitants of earth! It is a vision that is to take place in the latter days. It will be at the “time of the end” of this present world system as outlined in Revelation. At that time the vision will speak. The events of the time of the end will scream out to the elect and will let them know. The events that enfold during the latter days will not lie to us; they will fulfill exactly what He always said would happen (v. 3).

The “Rich Men” song has done a good job of awakening the masses as to the problem of the rich persecuting the middle classes and the poor. First, one must wake up and see who your enemy is.  Awake thou that sleepest. Then one must turn to God and repent of their sins, letting their old self die with Christ on the cross. Rise from the dead and begin to follow the King Christ who will teach us the deep things that only the Light can give us. And Christ shall give thee light. The Light shines on us His purpose and plan and teaches us how to become His watchmen.

The “Rich Men North of Richmond” Awakening is a necessary first step. The people are waking up from the anesthesia of the kool aid fed to them by the rich men who own the world and billions of “the souls of men.” The prophet Habakkuk shows us that there are more steps that the Light will reveal to us…at the appointed time. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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August 24, 2023 · 10:07 am

Yahweh’s “New Thing”

[from journal entry, 7/20/2003]

“I will do a new thing,” says the Spirit (Isa. 43:19). At the beginning of every new major movement of God in this earth, God has appeared to a person or persons, chosen only by God Himself. All through scripture, God has literally come down in His human form and has stood and spoken to man.

He has appeared unto one of His elect and has manifested Himself to him; He has revealed himself intimately to chosen vessels. We call them prophets and apostles. God has used these elect, these chosen ones, to speak through down through history. He would fill them with the sight and sound of Him and detail it in a vision to them.

At these appearances, the patriarchs and prophets at first were dumbfounded. In many instances.  they thought that they had died–so great was the glory of God manifested to them. They would be struck dumb, blind, and, in general, they would experience a life-changing event. They had seen and heard Him! These revelations propelled them on to fulfill their ministry for that time. First, God got their attention by the revelation of his glory to them. Then He would relate to them what He wanted done or said.

Yahweh Always Does It This Way

Should we believe that He would do His end time movement any other way? He said that He was the same “yesterday, today and forever” and “I change not…” (Heb. 13:8; Mal. 3:6). He will move the same way as He did through thousands of years; He will appear to those He chooses to do His work in the earth.

From the Garden of Eden to this very day, Yahweh has made a special visitation to the remnant of His people. He gives them power and encouragement through His presence in their lives. All the major players in the Bible have received a supernatural visit from Him. I believe that this is the reason that they and their stories grace the pages of the Bible. His appearances bolstered their faith to accomplish the tasks that He would have them do.

Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob/Israel, Joseph, Moses, Gideon, and David, and all the prophets—all were visited by our Creator. They heard His voice and saw His form. The apostles walked with Him daily for three and one-half years, and He appeared to Paul several times (I Cor. 15:3-8; Gal. 1:11-12).

Take Moses, for example. He waited in the desert tending flocks, waiting and waiting for forty years. And then it happened—the burning bush and the voice of God calling him to the work ahead. Later, Yahweh spoke with Moses “face to face” along with seventy elders of Israel who “saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear as the sky itself” (Ex. 24:10 NIV; Ex. 33:11). Who was this form? Who was this God that came down and visited the men of the nation of Israel/Twelve Tribes? The Father is an invisible Spirit, so the form that appeared to them must be who? [Tell me your thoughts in the comment section.]   

All these men and women in the past laid up spiritual treasures of wisdom and knowledge for us.  Even greater exploits are awaiting our slumbering faith as we begin to open our eyes and see that “that which has been is now, and that which is to be has already been, and God requires that which is past” (Ecc. 3:15).

Yahweh is doing a “new thing” in the earth. Appearing to one person is not new. The new thing is this: He will appear to thousands of His followers, thus, empowering them to preach the everlasting gospel of the Kingdom of God before the Great Tribulation begins in earnest. He always sent a warning to the people through His prophets/mouthpieces. He will come to His first-fruit company of thousands of sons and daughters.

Christ said that we would do “greater works” than what He and the apostles did. I believe that Yah will make appearances to His elect, not just one or two at a time, but thousands during our era of the “latter rain.” How else are we to get on the same page? How else will we be loosed from the sullen chains of doubt? Yahweh is coming to His elect.

Yet the doubters say that no one can be like the early apostles, much less like Christ. Doubt is sown from the pulpits. This unbelief stymies spiritual growth. Don’t listen to them. They will harm you in your walk with God.

The Spirit is still crying, “Come out from among them” and purge out the old leaven teachings soaked with falsehoods about Yahshua, the Anointed One—if we desire to be visited by our Maker and be a part of the greatest move in the history of this blood-soaked earth. Yes, Yahweh is doing a “new thing.” That we all may be one…

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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August 21, 2023 · 8:08 am

“Children, Have Ye Any Meat?” Christ Asks

[Chapter 12 excerpt from my book, The Apostles’ Doctrine]

“Children, Have Ye Any Meat?”

Christ’s question to His disciples is incisive, cutting right down to the heart of the matter. He is asking, Do you have the vision of what the Father desires to do with you and the rest of His creation? Do you know His purpose and plan? Are you still satisfied with the surface of things like the people that are guided by their natural minds (Heb. 4: 12).

For natural man is shallow. His pretensions are petty; his plans are seeped with selfish thoughts. His heart is haunted by a covert lust that lingers in his intentions. Natural man is self-centered and encumbered with earthly things. He is a mere depression on the surface of life’s land-scape, a wallow that cannot contain the “latter rain.” When he hears the floods of heaven coming, he will sit up in the mud, lost and alone—but not abandoned. For God wants to take him to the land of the deep things of God (Gal. 5: 19-21).

But before that can happen, old man Adam must be born from above, or else he “cannot see” the deep things of God. Unless he is “born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into” the deep things. And those deep things are the blessed things that pertain unto the kingdom of God. For the realization of God’s Kingdom on earth with Christ as its King is the meat of the word. For it is in this kingdom that God will multiply Himself in us, His elect. We saw earlier that the deep mysteries of God concern His kingdom and government here on earth. The things that God has prepared for those of us who love Him are things about His kingdom and how He will rule through Christ.

So, there it is—the deep things, the mysteries that are revealed to us by His Spirit. It’s the kingdom of God. The literal government coming to this earth, headed by the glorious Monarch Christ, worthy of all praise. This worldwide kingdom is what all the patriarchs and prophets looked for. And because of their faithfulness, “God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He has prepared for them [and us] a city.”

This is New Jerusalem (Heb. 11: 14-16; 12: 22). Of which deep things the apostles have much to share but can’t because most Christians are still babes in Christ, little children mostly alive for what they can receive from their spiritual Father. In their needs, they are like natural man. They need the milk of the word and not the strong meat of the “deep things.” The milk is the apostles’ doctrine (Heb. 5: 10-14; 6: 1-2). The strong meat concerns the weightier matters of the kingdom.

The Ultimate Morsel of Meat

The time is short, so perhaps I should share this with you at this time. I firmly believe that even the aroma of heaven-derived secrets is the meat that satisfies us and encourages us with a hope that enters into the bosom of our Father.

This book is about the apostles’ doctrine, which is the milk of the word and is absolutely necessary for Christians to grow. As we have seen, they are Christ’s very teachings, the very ones He shared during His ministry on earth.

The apostle presents these teachings in Hebrews 5: 11—6: 2. He says that you cannot handle the strong meat of the word because you are babes (vs. 12-14).

He then mentions the strong meat just before he lines out the milk teachings. Speaking about Christ’s priesthood, he says that Christ is “called of God a high priest after the order of Melchisedec (5: 10).
The mention of another higher priesthood, the order of Melchisedec, causes the apostle to say in essence, “Melchisedec is the meat, but you have got to be sharp, full of faith, walking in the Spirit before I can share more of this strong meat with you.

But the apostle can’t help but share some of the meat concerning Him. He encourages us to remain steadfast in the faith and not fall away (6: 6). As with Abraham, God has promised us eternal life with Him in His kingdom. God has confirmed this by an oath. By believing His oath to us, we have great hope now.

And our hope steadies us as we cross the crashing seas of this life. Our hope in God’s word of promise is an “anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil” (6: 18-19). For we have our forerunner already there serving as “a high priest forever—after the order of Melchisedec. After Melchisedec’s order (v. 20).

Who Was Melchisedec?

We, the ones He has chosen to reveal all of this to—we want the meat…. [The Spirit answers this question and much more in The Apostles’ Doctrine. Request your free copy with free shipping. Email your name, address, and name of the book to wayneman5@hotmail.com]. May Yah bless you and yours. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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August 9, 2023 · 12:58 pm

Those with Eyes to See and Ears to Hear—Where Are They?

(from Journal, 6-24-2003)

Possibly the greatest frustration for a Christian is when people reject their witness and testimony of Christ and His love. He has placed a burning desire to share the love that Christ has shared with us. We all expect others to respond to the preaching of the good news through our lips and are disappointed when they don’t. Some of us newly minted Christians even ran out there with our hair on fire trying to convert everyone.

When it did not happen, in utter frustration, we ask, “Why don’t they believe?” The answer from Christ’s lips is so counterintuitive that very few preachers even go there; you won’t hear it preached on Sunday morning.

Why won’t they believe? The simple answer: They have not been given the spiritual tools to be able to perceive at this time the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. The mysteries are spiritually discerned. It is through their unbelief in Yahweh that their eyes are blinded. Once their heart believes, then the scales will fall from their eyes, and they will be able to see the “things God has prepared for those that love Him.”

Why can’t they see? The Holy Spirit in John answers the question directly: “Therefore they could not believe because…He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them” (John 12:40).

The Spirit is quoting His own words through Isaiah: “And he said, Go, and say to this people:
Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive. Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed” (6:9-10).

So, God gives some people, most people—at this time—a spiritual sleep, a slumber of unbelief.  This unbelief blinds them spiritually so that they cannot perceive the things of God. We must be patient, enduring the rebuffs and rejections, knowing that every incident dovetails into His grand scheme of things. It is all working for good as we wait on Him to renew our strength.

Parable of the Sower

A parable is a “dark saying” that purposely clouds the meaning for some hearers. Christ spoke in parables to prevent the masses at that time from understanding the message of the kingdom. The disciples asked Him, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” Christ said, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.” He chooses in His unfathomable knowledge the likes of us and has given us knowledge of the mysteries of life. And to those of us who now have the knowledge of His secrets and mysteries, He gives even more (Matt. 13:10-15). It is all Him.

The above explains Matthew 13’s The Parable of the Sower. The word is sown into four types of earth: the wayside where the fouls (Satan’s minions) gobble up the word; the stony places where the lack of topsoil causes the seed to not bear fruit; the thorns where the seed/word is choked out by the cares of this life. But the last is the good ground of a good and honest heart and which bears three levels of spiritual fruit production: 30-fold children; 60-fold young men and women; and 100-fold spiritual fathers and virtuous women. We don’t know what kind of ground the people have when we witness to them. If it is the former three types, then it gets grim.

If it is good ground, then fruit of various levels of production will be harvested. We are not to figure out which type of ground it is. We are to sow His seed and let Yahweh do His wonders. That is our job. For His word will not return to Him void but will accomplish what He wants done. “One plants, one waters, but it is God who gives the increase.”

We should not, therefore, huff and puff and try to convert the world. We do what we can while maintaining rest in Him. This is trusting Him that He will reach those whom He will reach. In the meantime, we study that we may be ready to feed His lambs and sheep the words of truth.

The Arm of Yahweh

In frustration, Isaiah lamented: “Who has believed our report? To whom is the arm of Yahweh revealed?” (53:1). Believing in Yahweh as the Savior will reveal to us that Yahshua was the arm of Yahweh. Yahshua (Christ) was the “expressed image of the invisible God.” And by believing in this report that Yahweh raised that human vessel from the dead, we are saved from sin and sinning. Yahweh saves us by raising up the man Yahshua. By believing in this resurrection, we tap into the Root of eternal life.

The election has obtained this right state with God through faith in His resurrection. Yah has blinded the rest of Israel [twelve tribes]. “Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles (nations, the ethnos) be come in” (Romans 11:25).

We can see Yah’s ordering of His Vision for His earth in that last sentence. The Twelve Tribes of Israel, though lost, are in the earth today. They are blind as to their identity as the “lost sheep of the House of Israel.” They will stay spiritually blind until God’s ordained timing for them is fulfilled after a certain number of Gentiles have come into His Kingdom.

He ordains everything. We may not fully comprehend His plan, but we must rest our minds, knowing that “He does all things decently and in order.” The One who knows the number of hairs on our heads surely knows how to fulfill His will in earth as it is in heaven.

The original question was this: Why don’t they believe? The answer: It is not their time yet. Yah is fair and just. He has a time for everyone. “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”

The frustration will subside when we begin to believe that everyone slated to repent and turn with their whole heart to God has a timing pre-ordained by Him. If you can perceive the above, then “blessed are your eyes for they see.” This should give us rest.      Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 30, 2023 · 10:40 pm

Hidden Manna Is Spiritual, Not Material

 (from a journal article, 3-6-18)

“To him that overcomes, I will give to eat of the hidden manna…” (Rev. 2:17)

The manna that fell in the wilderness was a physical food that Yahweh sent down to earth to literally feed the children of Israel. It serves as a type and shadow of the true bread from heaven.

Yesterday’s concept of physical manna will not suffice the spiritual hunger of those whom He has called and chosen in these latter days. The children of Israel called manna “the bread from heaven.” Though it fed their physical bodies, it was not the real bread from heaven, the spiritual bread that comes down from heaven in the form of the Truth embodied in Yahshua, the Son of God.

Today Yahweh is giving us the “hidden manna.” It is the Truth about what God did with the flesh body and blood of His Son. It has been kept secret since the foundation of the world; Christ calls it “the hidden manna.” It is hidden from interlopers who think that they see, yet they are blind.

In essence, Christ said, My flesh is the bread of life. It is the spiritual food that if a man consume the spiritual truths contained in the sacrifice of My earthen, fleshly body, then he will receive eternal life. And My blood is drink indeed (John 6:35-37, 48-58)

The Problem: Understanding the Function of Christ’s Body and Blood

Hundreds of millions of professing Christians look on his body and blood after the flesh. They have the hocus pocus ritual of the Eucharist, or Lord’s supper, where they believe some man-made wafer and a sip of wine magically become the literal body and blood of Christ, activated with the hands of priests that sin. Many millions partake sincerely without knowing just what it all means. They think that the bread in this ceremony is latter day physical manna. This “manna” is not the “hidden manna” because it is a physical disc that is taken by mouth. Hidden manna can’t be seen, by definition; it is spiritual and invisible. That is why it is “hidden.”

Christian denominations who do not believe the wafer and the wine are translated into the literal body and blood of Christ, still look on the Lord’s Supper after the flesh.

But yesterday’s manna will not suffice today’s needs. Today’s “hidden manna” is the word of truth concerning Yahweh’s plan and purpose. Today Yahweh is revealing His whole plan that fulfills his purpose of multiplying Himself. He has His doctrines and teachers who teach the new light that Christ calls the “hidden manna.”

For this manna is the spiritual–not physical–bread from heaven. This bread from heaven came to us in the form of the Son of God. This manna has been hidden for ages and eons. We speak about a cosmic mystery, a “mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people” (Col. 1:26). It comes in the form of the Word, the Logos, the Spirit of Christ revealing Himself as the Father’s plan to fulfill His purpose. Christ Yahshua is Yahweh’s plan to fulfill His purpose of reproducing Himself—in us. “It is all Him. Christ, the Anointed King, in you and me! That is the mystery now revealed to whomever He chooses to reveal it to. Astonishing! [“And they were astonished at His doctrine.”]

The “hidden manna” is given when the Spirit of truth reveals more truth and understanding about God’s plan. It will not be given to those soaked in erroneous teachings. The “Word (Logos) was made flesh and dwelt among us.” This interaction of the Spirit in the many membered body of Christ, the church, is the Logos/ Word’s logical explanation of the plan illuminated by inspired words. However, repentance from being associated with false doctrines comes first. The overcomers in their personal Pergamos church age will receive the “hidden manna” (Rev. 2:12-17).

The revealing of His purpose through the “hidden manna ultimately is this: The mystery of the hidden manna reveals His eternal purpose: “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27). After all, He tells us that “man is the glory of God” (1 Cor. 11:7). Yahweh will reproduce Himself (Love); He is using a group of human beings to do this. When His Spirit of truth grows fully up in us, then God will be glorified. When He completes in us His will, which is manifesting His Spirit of love completely through us, then the Father will be glorified.

The Father is such a Giver of good things; He has it in His plan that His Son and His first fruit, manifested sons and daughters must be glorified. They must receive their immortal spiritual body first—then the Father will receive full glory. Yahweh, our Father, has such humility in His love for us.

For His ways are hidden. His purpose and plan have been kept secret, hidden from the insincere eyes of phonies and fair-weather saints. Only those who go through the cross experience will be allowed to partake of the “hidden manna.” Only those whose faith in Christ has been purified in the furnace of trials will overcome. Only those who are “[purging] out the old leaven” doctrines of this world’s religious and political systems—only those will receive the “hidden manna” that feeds those who are diving deep into the heart and mind of God. That hidden spiritual manna is the Spirit of Truth—Christ.

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 26, 2023 · 9:12 am

Forgiveness Is at the Heart of Repentance

(from Journal,  5-11-15)

Repentance is the first step on the path of righteousness. “Unless you repent you shall all likewise perish,” (Luke 13:5). Repentance is a grave concept, not to be misunderstood. A seeker of God must not get this wrong.

Nevertheless, the way to repentance is guided by the warm arms of forgiveness. For had not Christ forgiven us all, we would never be able to come to the altar of repentance from our sins.

Many believe that past sins are forgiven them by God, but they don’t believe that the sin nature within them—the old nature that produced the sin—is gone away for good. And therein lies the problem—the recurrence of sin in a person’s life. Why does sin keep cropping up? It is because of unbelief that our old sinful self has died with Christ on the cross. Through this unbelief, the old heart will still produce sin, the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

Sins Sent Away

The word “forgiveness” is translated from the Greek word aphiemi, a verb which means “to send away or depart.” Christ has sent our sins away.

We see this in the types and shadows of the old Mosaic law. One remembers how the Aaronic priest laid his hands on the scapegoat, transferring the people’s sins onto the goat. And then the goat was sent away into the wilderness, taking their sins with it. The scapegoat was a type of the Lamb of God “who takes away the sins of the world.” Christ had the heavy responsibility of being that Sacrifice. Christ took upon Himself all the sins of humanity. Shockingly for some, He died as a lost man that day; I say, in the similitude of a lost man. “For He was made to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2 Cor. 5:21).

He was our scapegoat offering. He has forgiven us in that He has sent our old selfish heart away. He is saying to us, Thy sins are forgiven. Your sins are sent away; they are departed and gone. They are no longer there. “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11).   

Forgiving the Debt

The Greek word translated “repentance” has another nuance of meaning. It means to “to forgive a debt.” When we owe someone money, for example, we have a debt until either it is paid or until the debt is forgiven. When forgiven, the debt is gone, poof! It is no longer a reality; it no longer exists.  

It is the same with the old heart that sins. That person has a debt to love his fellow man, for God has said, “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law” (Rom. 13:8 NIV). That is our debt: to love our neighbor as ourselves.

And yet, sin is the opposite of love, and it resides in unregenerated man. These are those that Christ has commanded us to love. We are to love the unlovable, those who have hurt us. We love them by forgiving them. This is how our debt is paid.

But our debt can never be paid by trying to do good works in our own strength. Yahweh takes away our sin through the sacrifice of His Son. We can repent through His grace to us.  This happens when we identify our sinful nature with Christ. Then the sin dies with Christ, and by belief/faith in His resurrection in us, we now walk in a “newness of life” (Rom. 6:4).

Once this revelation sinks in, then we can say as Paul did that it is no longer I that lives but Christ that lives in me (Gal 2:20). We need only read and believe Romans 6:1-15 and not question it.

When we do this, the sin will depart forever. The debt is paid. Our sins are forgiven. For good. All gone. Departed. Christ is big enough to make this happen. No more sin in our lives. It is a wondrous thing. This is His doctrine, and it is astonishing!

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 23, 2023 · 10:33 am

Repentance from Sin–How to Be Freed from Sinning

“He that is dead is freed from sin…” (Rom. 6:7) [from Journal 4-23-15]

We’ve been digging into the heavier concepts lately—things like “healings, casting out unclean spirits, power, and authority.” These studies are a glimpse of our destiny. They are waymarks of our spiritual growth. But before these come mightily into and through our lives, we must make our calling and election sure by shoring up the “first principles of the doctrine of Christ.” Therefore, I thought it expedient to review the foundational first works that Christ preached before we get ahead of our skis.

The first words that Christ spoke as He came into a village was, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” And then He would say, “Have faith in God.” These are the first two teachings of “the apostles’ doctrine” (Acts 2:42; Heb. 6:1-2). Christians coming into His body must first repent of their sins. But they have been taught a watered-down conception of what “repentance” means. They say that feeling sorry for your sins is repentance. Not so. The same thing has happened to the word “sin.”

The false teachers say that you cannot live without sinning. But the scriptures say, “Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin…” (I John 3:9).

Concerning the Sin Question

But someone will ask, “How then do I live without sinning? I’ve been told that I can’t, that I’ll always sin. That’s what they’ve told me.” Confusion abounds about the sin question, so not many people discuss it, much less preach it.

Christians have been taught to call every shortcoming that we have as sin. But “sin is the transgression of the law” (I John 3:4). Which law? The Ten Commandments.

It is a spiritual law. These commandments deal with heavy, dark actions of the heart. They are given to show man what sin is. We are talking about murder, stealing, adultery, coveting, having other gods before the God of Moses, and others. These Ten Commandments were not made for a righteous man, but for the sinner. Let the apostle expound on this: “We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine” (I Tim. 1:9-10).

Nevertheless, many people say that eating too much is a sin, that impatience is a sin, that drinking a glass of wine is a sin, that losing your temper is a sin, that shuffling your feet on a sawdust floor is a sin. These are faults perhaps, but not sins. There is a big difference in the gravity of the offenses. It is like comparing a third degree misdemeanor with a first degree felony.

Considering this, we need to examine ourselves and ask, “Do I steal? Do I lie? Do I commit adultery? Do I hate and murder people or want to kill someone for selfish reasons? Go down the list of the Ten Commandments. Now think again about faults and shortcomings that you have.  Do you see the difference?

Sins are weighty things that make up this spiritual law. It is a law that natural man cannot keep on his own strength and merit. The sinner’s ineptness thereby is revealed. But the Spirit has shown us the way.

The New Heart

The Ten Commandment law can only be kept by God’s Spirit residing in the new heart of a Christian. And many of us have had the Spirit come down in a new life-giving way. And in God’s eyes, we are His sinless children. And He watches over us, and He cares for us and helps us when we neither know how to go in or come out. In other words, He looks on the heart and judges after the new heart that He has given us. He knows that we are immature and need the milk of the word so that we can grow up to be like Him and His apostles and prophets. We have faults and shortcomings, but we have been changed at our core.

And, perhaps, some sincere followers of Christ are still in sin. I am not their judge. I am not anyone’s judge. However, I am content to share the light that He has given me over these past 50 years.

The unregenerated human heart is a sinful one–lies, adultery, thefts, idolatry, coveting your neighbor’s possessions. But the new heart from God at our new birth from above is an astonishing miracle done by the invisible hands of our Savior. It is an amazing spiritual heart transplant. And we need to be able to explain how this happens.

His will is for us to grow to be like Him and His apostles. To do this we must know and do the foundational principles of Christ’s doctrine. We have a need to be rooted in the first works of repentance and faith before we go on to deeper doctrines. They go hand in hand and form the very matrix for the other teachings to grow.

Without faith, you cannot please God (Heb. 11:6). Why? Because God is an invisible Spirit. We cannot see Him, but we can see the effects of His presence within a person. We cannot see Him, but we take notice and are astonished when we see a man transformed by this Pneuma/Spirit we call God. He is the man who used to be a soldier who cursed worse than a sailor. He was an adulterer, a druggie, and a thief but was changed into a praise giving grateful follower of this invisible God.

I used to be that sinner. But I had a mentor that explained to me how to repent from sin by taking my old selfish sinful self to the cross and letting it die with Christ, and being buried with Him, and by faith in His resurrection, be raised to walk in a newness of life (Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12).

You have read Romans 6:1-12. Read it again. “Knowing this that our old self is crucified with Christ.” We have been baptized into His death. When Christ died, sin died. When we die with Him—over and done with—our old sin nature dies with Him. That is repentance from sin.

Having faith in His resurrection is believing in our own resurrection. “I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me…by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me” (Gal. 2:20). That is repentance from sin and faith toward God. These two concepts must be rock solid in our hearts before the Spirit takes us into deeper living waters.

It all boils down to believing in Christ’s resurrection—not just His own personal resurrection, but our being raised to walk in a newness of life, too. He has faith in His own power and plan. He is waiting patiently until we all have this truth firmly in our hearts.   Kenneth Wayne Hancock

For much more on this check out these articles:

Repentance from Sin and Faults–But What’s the Difference? | Immortality Road (wordpress.com)

Christ Says, “Repent!” Repent from What? “Sin.” How Do I Do That? | Immortality Road (wordpress.com)

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