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“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

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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(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

[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