August 24, 2023 · 10:17 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).

Moses

Take Moses, for example. He waited in the desert tending flocks, waiting and waiting for forty years after His expulsion from Egypt [see the Book of Jasher]. 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 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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August 2, 2023 · 1:07 pm

The Bread from Heaven—Doing His Will

(From Journal, 3-11-18)

Christ said, “I have food to eat that you do not know about” (John 4:32 ESV). The disciples knew about earthly food. Therefore, Christ was speaking of a spiritual bread, a bread from heaven. So, we see that food = bread = manna. That food is the “hidden manna,” the invisible heavenly bread.

What is this bread from heaven? Let Christ teach us: “My food/bread/manna is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work” (John 4:34). In other words, the heavenly food, the bread of God, is the doing of the Father’s will and finishing His work. This is what will sustain us on our pilgrimage.

Our trek here on earth is to do His will. Christ prays: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.” Most speak these words but have no knowledge of what they mean. His will for this earth is for His Kingdom to literally come and for His throne to be established in Jerusalem, the city of the great King. Yahshua is Yahweh in human form; He is the Anointed One. He is the “King of kings.” Most do not know of His will, yet. When this stone Kingdom arrives, and when the King prescribes orders to establish righteousness throughout, then He will have finished the works. The kicker: He is using us to fulfill His will.     

His will is extremely important. “Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Those entering the kingdom of heaven are doing His will; they obey Christ’s directives on how His government will spread throughout all the earth.

“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (John 4:4). Doing-what-His-word-says is the food we are nourished by.

But many are not being fed, though they go to the church buildings every week. Notwithstanding, a few at present are learning what His will is and the word that explains His plan. The word that God speaks tells of His purpose, and His plan to accomplish it. His will is His intention to fulfill His purpose, which is to reproduce and multiply agape love, which He is. His word is the logical explanation [the logos] of how He will accomplish it. His word through the Spirit of Truth leads us into all truth. His word is the spiritual bread of life that feeds us and gives us overcomers strength to make it to His throne. 

Prayer that Fulfills His Will

Prayer is communing with God, who is our Creator, our Father, the great Spirit of love and truth. We enter His courts with praise and thanksgiving, acknowledging that He is “our Father,” that we are only one member of His royal family.

The loins of our mind must be girded with truth, for He is the Spirit of truth. Prayers uttered in error fail to move Him, but prayers founded in His truth works with Him and His plan and purpose, and those prayers penetrate the brazen dome of heaven and enter into His ears.

Prayers that exalt His will for His creation are answered. And what is His will? It is His intention to bring it all into Christ, that love be multiplied, that He who is love, would be reproduced throughout the universe. If we ask Him with this in mind, He will answer and give us what we need to finish the Father’s work.

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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)

[My books go into to these things much deeper. Send for a free copy with free shipping.  Ordering My Free Books in Paperback | Immortality Road (wordpress.com)

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July 18, 2023 · 11:57 am

God’s Sovereignty in Hardening Hearts and Casting Out Unclean Spirits

(from Journal, 3-18-19)

As His sons and daughters, we will see an unclean spirit in someone who needs deliverance. But before trying to help them, we first must have wisdom and knowledge from above. We must understand that they are spiritually afflicted by Satan and his minions.

This is major league stuff. Those evil spirits are fallen angels that we are dealing with. We must have understanding–which is “knowledge of the holy” about who these spirits are. They are ministering spirits for us, the heirs of salvation. Are not all angels our servants (Heb. 1:14)? All. The evil spirits in this case are providing an opportunity for us to show forth the power of God–in His timing—that He might be glorified in the showing of His mighty power to heal. We better know what we are doing before attempting to cast out an evil spirit. Remember in Acts when the spirit jumped on the unprepared follower?

At first glance, we might think that this is a bit outlandish for God to do this–that He would allow affliction—on saints and sinners alike. But we need to reflect upon pharaoh’s experience with Yahweh. He was the king of Egypt, and he was used by God to make a name for Himself. God hardened pharaoh’s heart against God’s very own will, but for a master purpose. God sent an evil spirit into pharaoh to block the children of Israel from escaping bondage.

It was God who hardened his heart. But this provided the ultimate backdrop to showcase God’s mighty miracle working hand in delivering Israel from slavery. We must remember this: God caused many Egyptians to perish: Egypt’s first born, the Chariots lost in the Red Sea, the victims of the plagues, and others. It was all part of His plan to reveal Himself to His creation.

Yahweh is sovereign, and all of us humans—past, present, and future—are His creation. He can and will use us in any way that He chooses to fulfill His will, plan, and purpose. We all need to get over ourselves with all this battling God for the preeminence in this life. We humans were created for His pleasure, not ours. We think that we have a say in our lives, but we really do not in the end. “The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh” (Prov. 16:33).

“For the scripture says to pharaoh,’ for this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth’ (Rom. 9:17; Ex. 9:16). Things in God’s plan are not open to those who by their own strength and sheer will, endeavor to please God. Nor is it to those who run for the prize of pleasing God. But it falls upon those whom he has chosen to show mercy to” (Rom. 9:16).

The point is that He uses whomever He wants to use for His purposes. And if He chooses to harden a heart to further His purpose of making sons and daughters, He will do it! Just like he did with pharaoh. This should strike fear and awe of a God who would do this to accomplish His purposes. We should not be surprised. We do the same thing. You plant a garden, and then you harvest it. You decide whether to eat the vegetables or can them or sell them or give them away. You call the shots concerning your garden. God calls the shots concerning His Garden.

But most human beings either think they are in control, or they give up and become driftwood, floating aimlessly, tossed upon the waves of fate, without knowledge of the tree from whence they came. Still God has a purpose and plan. He will still use His power to cast out evil spirits and heal whomever He desires. And in this epoch, He said that He will use you and me. Praise Yah! HalleluYah! kwh

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 15, 2023 · 9:47 am

Faith and the Power to Heal

[From Journal entry, 3-17-19]

Christ desires us to walk in the same power to heal that He and His apostles walked in. That is our high calling. He wants us to spiritually grow to the point that the power of the Spirit is not only present, but also active as a miraculous life force.

This power went out of Christ into the woman stricken with a blood disease. He was walking in 100-fold power and did not need to raise His voice and shout, “Be healed!” The woman believed, and her faith in the Savior’s nature and authority pulled the power to heal her out of Him.

So, what were the major elements in this demonstration of his power toward the woman? At that moment in time, her belief matched the Savior’s. For we know that He fully believed in His own power and ability. For His power was like igniting dynamite. In fact, the Greek word for power here is dynamis (Greek 1411).

The match that ignited the power was the woman’s faith (belief) that Christ could and would heal her. There were many who touched the Savior in the press of the crowd. But she was the only one who was healed. “For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.”

“He said to her, Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

Several times Christ would ask the person if they believed that He could heal them. In fact, He cleared the area of all unbelief before He could heal anyone. “And He could not do many mighty works because of their unbelief” in Nazareth. “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country” (Mark 5:24-43; 6:4-5). The people who knew you when will only see you after the flesh, judging you through their memories of you before your conversion to Christ. They will not believe that God is in you doing the healing.

Consequently, belief is the main ingredient. Secondly, the disciple must have authority and compassion. “He was moved with compassion. And healed their sick” (Matthew 14:14; Matt. 9: 36; Mark 6: 34).

The unbelief must be expelled before God heals. Christ always cast the evil spirits out before he started healing. Perhaps when He got rid of the unbelieving doubters, he was casting away the evil spirits–like when He only took three disciples to the raising up of Jairus’ daughter.

All this notwithstanding, where is the source of this power to heal? It comes from  Yahweh. All things are of Him. How do we grow to the point where He would use us in this manner?

He has placed in our hearts this desire to help others, to heal their wounds and their suffering. We have the desire. You and me. And I write this “not that I have already obtained [the power to heal at will] or have already become perfect, but I press on…” (Phil. 3:12).

Healing is one of the gifts of the Spirit (I Cor. 12:7-11). It is an action of the Spirit of Yah streaming out through us. He has promised His sons and daughters that He would use them to heal. We are but channels of His power.

But first, we must acquire knowledge about His power and how and why He uses it at certain times of His choosing. We must know this: “There is a time for every purpose under heaven.” There is “a time to heal” (Ecc. 3:1-3). We will know the time; He will show us. That is why I am not running all over the country right now trying to sincerely heal people. Healings will come in God’s good time.

We must remember the prophets and patriarchs. Moses tended flocks for forty years waiting for his destiny to deliver His people. He was eighty at the burning bush. His time had come after much patience/endurance. Same for Joseph. He suffered for many years in Pharoah’s prison until the time was ripe. Then Yah enabled him to interpret the king’s dreams. He endured, knowing that “he who waits on Yahweh shall renew their strength.”

So, let us dig deep and prepare ourselves for that glorious day of healings and miracles. Let us wait upon Him, and let us learn together from our Teacher, the Spirit of Truth.

Please share a comment as the Spirit of Truth reveals things to you. I would love to hear from you.

Finally, it is not to say that our Father the Healer has not already touched our lives many times. We have been talking about where few ever go in their growth, the few who like eagles soar to the heights of the 100-fold growth that Peter, John, and Paul experienced.

We must prepare ourselves against that day when He flows through us like He did with His apostles. On the day that the power arrives, there will be a throng around us, with crowds of people pressing upon us, clamoring to be healed. There will be viral videos as these miracles are performed by our hands. Perhaps even a sick woman in the crowd will say, “If I could just touch their garments, I would be healed.”

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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