Immortality Road

God’s will is His wish, desire, and purpose. It is to reproduce Himself. His will is strong, like a mighty invisible river that flows from His heart throughout the earth.  He is the cause of all things; His desire causes His vision for His universe to come to pass.  Nothing can stop His will from being done. Nothing can stop Him from accomplishing what He has set out to do. The King will make his wishes reality.

Consequently, if we have a purpose in this life that is not in His will, we will feel thwarted.  Futility will haunt our endeavors.  It will be as if we are paddling a canoe upstream.  We will thrash about, working hard, but we will be struggling against the current.  And that current is His will.

Knowing and surrendering to His will makes our burden light, as Christ said. He said that we are offspring of the King. Our future in Him fulfills His purpose. Our future is painted in scripture: “Christ in you, the hope of glory…Bringing many sons (and daughters) unto glory…That you might be filled with all the fulness of God…Perfecting of the saints…”

These words describes us. He believes in us. So let’s believe Him with His own faith. His will is to present His sons and daughters to the world at the end of this age.  He will accomplish His purpose “in earth as it is in heaven.” 

His Game Plan

God’s will is His game plan. He will win. The Kingdom of Light will overtake and destroy the kingdom of darkness. Like Gideon’s army, He will use human beings that are weak and powerless in their own eyes and know they need Him to overcome the adversary the devil.

Through this victory of good over evil, He will receive great glory as He helps His body of sons and daughters do this. His name will be honored and glorified. All will know that Yahshua means Yah Is the Savior.  And He shall enact what His very name means as He saves us from destruction in the latter days.  Yah will deliver us out of the ashes of a smoldering world system.

Christ spoke plainly about the Father’s will.  “And this is the will of Him who sent me that I shall lose none of all that He has given me, but raise them up at the last day.”  He promised us that He would raise us up at the last day!  He would raise up God’s sons; none would be left behind; none would be forgotten, whose names were written in the book of life.

Christ wants us to pray with this understanding.  This is why He included the Father’s will in His model prayer. When we pray with this knowledge, the Father will perk up His ears and will listen to us.

Let’s be honest. We have all tuned out our own children at times when they are talking foolishly or ignorantly. We did not take them seriously, nor do we even remember what they were talking about. It is no different with our Father and us. It is only when we get on His page. Then He will answer when we pray, “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” 

Yet, our Savior knows our frailty. So He has provided heavenly bread to sustain us on our journey. We will need to ask Him for His spiritual bread…

[This is Chapter 11 of my new book. The working title is The New Commandments of Christ. I hope to have it published in the spring of 2021. Obeying His “new commandments” is so important to anyone who desires to grow to the “stature of the fullness of Christ.” KWHancock

Just hold me like this

So we can feel both our hearts beat as one

With this embrace, know our life has begun

Since the moment you touched me.

When you hold me like this,

I can feel your heart beat close to mine

In perfect rhythm that goes with the rime

Of my words, “I adore you.”

When you hold me like this,

My heart sways in Eternity’s arms

And I know that there’s nothing can harm

Us in Love’s special hour.

Just hold me like this

In our embrace now we’re frozen in time

In perfect comfort, a love that’s sublime

When you hold me like this.

[Spanish words and music by Mario Clavell; English words by Kenneth Wayne Hancock]

Note: I wrote these lyrics a year ago—words to convey to the English speaking world the beautiful sentiment of this Latin standard. I am an incurable romantic. I believe in love, the love from above. Man and woman, if they are blessed, will taste a morsel of this divine love perhaps once in their life. It is this that the human heart longs for. Books, movies, and songs depicting this need for love will always be with us.

I believe that this rare emotional love is a metaphor of Christ’s love for us all. He said for husbands to love their wives as He loved us. We all yearn to be loved, and some of us yearn to love—to love with the love from above. To fill this aching vacuum in our hearts, the poets and composers write songs depicting this love. And they always will.

[Listen to Roberto Carlos sing this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UHhmK6n9s0

A trial of our personal faith just may come like this: Someone who is very close to us—a spouse, a mother, a father, a son, a daughter, a best friend—accuses us of a foul deed that we did not do. And this person lashes out and stabs us with sharp words that cause extreme heartache. And the wound causes our joy to evaporate, and our peace is invaded as chaos fills our mind. And we harden our thoughts to protect our heart from the attack. And as our defense builds, we marshal enough resolve to make sure this breach of trust will never happen again.

But as we assemble our spiritual defense, we are sowing the seeds of our own spiritual decline, for we have placed ourselves in the land of the unforgiving. We cannot forgive someone if we are preparing ourselves to not at any cost be hurt by them again. The irony is that we hurt ourselves by trying to prevent any more pain.

So we begin to dry up spiritually. We pray and ask God to help us, for we are losing our bearings and are sailing away from His harbor of peace. In desperation, we ask for forgiveness. “I’m sorry, Father. Forgive me for drifting away from you. Why have I done this, Father?”

And then He in a still small moment reveals the truth to us. “You want me to forgive you of this in your life. But I cannot until you forgive the one who hurt you.”

And then you realize why He told you to pray for that one who has despitefully used you. When you pray for them, you forgive them. As Christ said at His death: “Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.” By asking the Father to forgive them, the Son showed that He was forgiving them. He also said that if we do not forgive each other, then the Father will not forgive us.

So the trial is not that we have been wounded by hateful words, but whether we will forgive that one who has hurt us. As we forgive, our heart changes, and we book passage out of the land of the unforgiving.

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

I wrote a song called “Beauty for Ashes” back in the seventies during my missionary days. The tune was original, and I adapted the lyrics from Isaiah 61:1-4. It has been 48 years since then. There’s such beautiful imagery in that passage written down for us by the poet and prophet.

I thought again of those lyrics and marveled at their meaning: “The Spirit of the LORD God is upon me.” Why is the Father’s Spirit on Isaiah? “Because the LORD (Yahweh) has anointed me.” What is the scriptural definition of the “anointing?” The anointing is truth (I John 2:27).

We have all wondered and even asked God for His Spirit. Here it is. God gives His Spirit to those whom He has given the truth. But having the truth means having the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That means there must not be any false concepts concerning Christ, who is the truth (John 14:6). This is why the scriptures of truth incessantly warn us to purge out of our minds false doctrines, teachings, concepts and traditions. We must get rid of them in order to have Him—the Truth. Christ is the Anointed One; He is the truth.

Many sincere Christians desire that God anoint them. And He wants to. But they have to understand just what the anointing is. It is the truth about who Christ, the Anointed One, the Truth, is, and what He is about according to the holy scriptures of truth. That would include His purpose, plan, and will.

The Spirit of Christ in Isaiah says that the Spirit is upon the prophet because God has anointed him. God has given him the anointing, which is the truth.

Now for what reason? What is His purpose in anointing us? “To preach good tidings unto the meek.” “Meek” means the humble and downtrodden in spirit. We shall bear the good news of His kingdom coming to the “poor in spirit.” He has sent us to heal the brokenhearted; to free those still slaves to sin, freeing them from their prison of self; to proclaim the correct year leading to His “day of vengeance [Great Tribulation Period];” and to comfort those who mourn, both now and during that time of “Jacob’s trouble.”

But we shall be there for them, and we shall “give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He might be glorified. And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations” (Isa. 61:3-4).

Sounds like His anointed ones will have a lot of work here on earth after great tribulation shatters the land. “Thy kingdom come, Father. Thy will be done…

One of the most trite and worn-out expressions in the English language is “In His name.” What does it really mean?  All through our Christian walk to date we have uttered that phrase or a variation of it. “In the name of Jesus.” “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.”

We ended most every prayer that we’ve ever prayed with a form of “in His name.”  We have recited it almost as an incantation, as if it had magical qualities that would bring healing and comfort. Now let us investigate and study these three words in a new light.  “In His name…” In, inside, within the true name.  He is pointing us to go into His name.  Take His Hebrew name, Yahshua, and go into that name and extract the meaning from it.

His name means literally, “Yah is salvation” or “Yah is Savior.”  But to all who received him, who believed in His name, He gave power to become the children of God. John 1:12.  Here, “receiving Him” and “believing in His name” are synonymous.  

A message in His name to be believed 

“Believing in His name” implies that there is a message to be believed, a truth inherent in His name. We have seen that Hebrew names are prophetical. We have seen that the Savior was named Yahshua because “he shall save His people from their sins.”  And Yahshua means “Yah is Savior.”  So what is the message contained within His name?  That message is “Yah is the Savior.

His name is loaded with meaning.  Inside that name is the meaning and efficacy needed to bring a person into the Spirit of the Father and to bring the Spirit into the person.  “Believing in His name…” The children receive the Spirit by believing in what His name means (by believing in His name). 

We believe that Yahweh or Yah, the Eternal Spirit, came down to earth and poured His essence into a specially set apart human form to sacrifice Himself so that we could take on His spiritual nature. For I am Yahweh thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour…I, I am Yahweh, and besides Me there is no savior…Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. Isa. 43:3, 11; 45:15. 

Yes, Yah did hide Himselfwell in a flesh body some 2000 years ago.  But He makes it very clear from the above passages in Isaiah that He is the Savior; He is the Creator.  The apostle John makes it very clear that the Spirit-filled human flesh body that he had walked with for three and a half years did the creating.  In the beginning was the Word…All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made…He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not…And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…John 1:1, 3, 10, 14. 

Believing What His Name Means

There is no contradiction here.  Yah did the creating, the forming, the redeeming and the saving.  And Yah, clothed in human flesh, took the name “Yahshua,” Yah-Is-Savior.  The very name of the Messiah points to the fact that it is the Father Yahweh who is doing the saving.  Yah was in that vessel, the Messiah, reconciling the world unto Himself.  The Spirit, Yah, pours Himself into His temple and works out of it to the world.

When a person believes in the name of Yahshua, he is believing what that name means—that Yah is the Savior in human form.  In fact, the act of believing in the name of Yahshua is a miniature of the Creator’s plan of kingdom redemption.

If one has really received Him, that person will have believed in His name, which is to say, will have believed that the Father Yah was in human form, and that combination, Yahshua, is bringing salvation to the world.   

He who believes in Him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. John 3:18.  When one does not believe in the Messiah, he is not believing in the meaning of His name.  For He said, “He that rejects Me, rejects Him that sent Me.”  If you reject the Son, you are rejecting the Father that dwells within the Son, for that is exactly where the Father Yahweh is. “Know ye not that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?” He asked.      

The phrase “in the name,” then, has profound meaning.  First, we cannot believe in His name if we do not know His name.  If we seek, He will reveal to us the meaning of His name.  This knowledge, in turn, is an important key that will unlock the door.

The Savior’s name is Yahshua, Yah-Is-Savior.  To believe in His name is to believe what His name actually means: Yahweh, the self-existent One that cried through Isaiah, who appeared and spoke to Noah, Abraham, Moses, and many others, offered up His perfect human incarnation and became the Author of eternal salvation for His people.

[This is taken from Chapter 9 of my book Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality. You need this book. Order your free copy with free shipping by sending your mailing address to my email:  wayneman5@hotmail.com  Be sure to include your name, street address, and the title of the book. No mailing list, no follow up. It is just me here. God bless you. Kenneth Wayne Hancock]

I have found a surefire cure for depression.  It is simple, natural–well, it is really spiritual–and it is free.  No money, clinics, or doctors needed.  The only physician involved in this cure  is the Great Physician.

The cure?  Depression is cured when the sufferer just sits down and thanks God for his blessings.  For a state of depression and a grateful heart cannot co-exist.  There is no such thing as a depressed praiser of God.

As the Savior taught, at the bottom of most maladies we will find a spiritual cause.  Think about it.  When was the last time you saw someone depressed, sitting there on their couch and saying to you, “My friend.  Thank you for coming to visit.  I was just thinking about you.  You know, I thank God for the wonderful friends and family I have.”  That grateful heart cannot utter a depression-filled negative thought.  A depressed grateful person is an oxymoron.  Those two cannot go together.  Impossible.

Depression, sadness, and worry spring from self-centered  thinking.  A depressed person only thinks of themselves.  It all centers on self.  Woe is me! they will say.  Self-pity, fear of what others think, and selfish thoughts cannot exist in a mind and heart that is thankful to God.  It is impossible.

So what can the depressed do?  They simply must stop the negative thinking, just for a moment.  Then think about God and say, “Thank you, God, for _________________.”  Everyone can fill in the blank with one thing.  Sunshine, air, food, a son, a daughter, a wife that has stuck with them through thick and thin, a husband who works and brings home bread and milk.  Hey, fill in the blank with something, and in that very instant of thanksgiving, the depression begins to lift.

The darker the hour, the more need to thank Him.  “In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus (Yahshua) concerning you” [1].  Everything.  The “good” and the “bad.” 

For we must realize that God has deliberately built in hardships and sufferings, so that our belief in Him may be purified [2], and that joy may abound within us.  But most people get down, blame others, or blame themselves, instead of seeing this truth: “Acknowledge Him in all our ways, and He shall direct our paths” [3]

We then, should realize that when negativity attacks our minds through self-centered thoughts bringing on depression,  we should simply thank God.  For depression is caused by negative thoughts that cannot co-inhabit a grateful mind.      Kenneth Wayne Hancock

1. I Thess. 5: 18
2. I Peter 1: 6-7
3. Proverbs 3: 6

Christ’s New Commandment issues organically out of God’s purpose. Every thought and action has a purpose. God’s purpose is the reproduction of Himself. “God is love.” Therefore, His purpose is to reproduce agape love.

God has a plan to accomplish His purpose. It is to use human beings to reproduce Himself in. Because it takes time, His plan has been written down and has come to us in the Holy Bible. But unfortunately, it is a closed book for most readers. It is full of mysteries because people do not know God’s purpose in creating the earth and the human beings teeming on its surface.

Christ said, “A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another, as I have loved you, that ye also love one another” (John 13:34). In short, we are commanded to love each other like He loved us.

So, how do we obey His command? We have been taught that we cannot be like Christ. Yet, He tells us to be like Him, to love like Him. Do we look at John 13:34 and turn our backs and say, He really didn’t mean what He said? Or do we ask Him to open our eyes and hearts to solve the mysterious command?

We better obey Him. He is the great Teacher. He created all things, so surely He will show us how to obey His New Commandment (Col. 1:16). He does this by giving us a series of specific commands, or commandments, that we can study out and apply in our lives.

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

His New Commandment is to love each other the way He loved us. Under this overarching Commandment are many other commandments. When we obey them, we will have loved each other with Christ’s love. Christ knows that it is a big order to fill for us. So He breaks it down into smaller steps. We ask Him for more of His Spirit in order that we may forgive, thus loving that person who has offended us. For it is only His Spirit now growing in us that does the loving.

The first section of this book will give more background information. The second section will address several of Christ’s new commandments in detail. We will not attempt to elucidate all of the new commandments of Christ. They are like pearls just under the sand, waiting for the pilgrim to discover them. It is our hope that this book will bring awareness of the commandments and their importance for our spiritual growth, that it may be used to carry us all on down the road to immortality, that God may reproduce Himself in each of us.

{This is the Prologue for the new book that I am working on. It is called Christ’s New Commandment. Our job as Christians is to help each other grow till it is fully “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27). Be sure to order one of my books. They are free with free shipping in the USA and a pdf to requests from overseas: https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/donate/ }

Many Christians proclaim that they “go by every word of God.” But sadly, that is not quite true. A more accurate statement would be that they go by every word that they think they understand. They go by every word, except those passages in scripture not understood by them.

The danger here is that not-understanding-a-passage leads to ignoring it. For huge portions of the Bible just lay there, ignored by billions of professing Christians, just waiting to be read, understood, and believed. But the ignorers don’t have the keys that open up passages of scripture because the keys are found in the books that are ignored.

Moreover, many dismiss entire books, especially from the “Old Testament,” saying that those books have no bearing upon born again Christians. And so they espouse the reading of the New Testament. But Christ’s word is a sword of sharpened irony. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4; Deuteronomy 8:3). Christ was referring to the Old Testament books because the New Testament books in AD 26 were not yet written. In essence, He is saying that the books of the Old Testament is the word of God.

So we see that a vast expanse of uncharted spiritual territory lays before us. And God is telling us that, yes, we can take the land. “Taking the land” incidentally is one of the keys taken from the Old Testament books. It alludes to the children of Israel conquering the Holy Land. Their trials and tribulations in the taking of the land are written about extensively from Moses through David and on through the prophets and apostles. “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples [types; representations of things to come]: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come” (I Cor. 10:11).

“All these things that happened unto them” provide keys to unlock the mysteries of God. What happened to the Hebrews has been meticulously written down and preserved for you and me, to help us grow spiritually in these last days. God uses His people’s natural earthly experiences as types and shadows of the spiritual battles that He has in store for us today.

To what end? That we in these last days might grow up to be just like Him, thus fulfilling His purpose of reproducing Himself, reproducing Agape Love in the earth. The “old” books are what the apostles studied, and they wrote how that they elucidated the light of Christ. If we ignore them, we ignore them to our own hurt.

The Lost Sheep of Israel

The “keys” found in the Old Testament books unlock rooms of understanding in the mansions of our God. Another of Christ’s quotations languishes unread, untaught, and ignored. And yet, there it is, saying in every translation the same thing. “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt. 15:24 ESV). These words of the King are ignored by billions because their priest/pastor/preacher has never taught them their meaning. In fact, understanding is blocked by false concepts and traditions.

Digging deeper, first, because these are Christ’s word, they are God’s words. And His words are important! Remember about going by His every word. And His words need to be understood. If this is our first exposure to this passage, and we do not quickly understand it, then we must not ignore these words of God! [I rarely use exclamation marks, but these words deserve to be exclaimed.]

Christ says that He was only sent to the lost sheep of Israel. The “lost sheep” must be very important to Him. His mind and thoughts were on the “lost sheep of Israel.” We are told to have the mind of Christ. This is how you have His mind. You think about what He was concerned about, and He spoke of them. No idle words found from Christ’s lips.

Wanting to have Christ’s mind, questions naturally bubble to the surface. Who are the “lost sheep of Israel? Why are they lost? What happened to them? Are they still around today? Do the early apostles speak of them? These are just a few questions we could ask as we “dig deep” into this mystery. Think of this as a treasure hunt, with a few clues dropped along the trail for us to follow.

Who are they? The main clue is that they are lost. They are the natural children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Old Testament books tell the story of the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel. They give the detailed history of the twelve sons of Jacob/Israel. They were slaves in Egypt, and were delivered by Moses under God’s direction. God told them to take the land occupied by pagan nations, a land named after Canaan. They did take the land, each tribe receiving a land grant from God.

For about 500 years they remained a kingdom with twelve tribes, but it split into two kingdoms in c. 950 BC. The Kingdom of Israel in the north with ten tribes and the Kingdom of Judah with two tribes plus some Levite priests were two separate governments, armies, kings, and priests. One can read about them even warring with each other. This went on until about 721 BC when the Kingdom of Israel (ten tribes), the Northern Kingdom, was conquered by Assyria. These ten tribes sinned greatly as a nation and were carried into captivity into northern Mesopotamia—Assyria.

It is here that they began to lose their identity. They lost the true Sabbath through their sinful pagan ways. They became the “lost sheep of the House of Israel.” They were spiritually and physically lost. They began to migrate “north and west” of Jerusalem, but they lost their identity as the children of Israel. This caused them to forget all of the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their offspring.

The Old Testament writers, inspired by the Holy Spirit, took great pains in preserving their roots and their history. Knowing their history is the key that will solve the mysteries about the “lost sheep” that Christ was sent to. But it takes digging deep. Those who do not will not find the key to understanding, and they will wind up ignoring Christ’s words: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.” But His sheep will hear His voice and will hunger for the truth found in His words.

This takes study, deep study. And you can study this out. The “giants are not too big.” We can take the land. God is looking for a few Joshuas and Calebs [That is another OT story, a type and shadow that speaks about you and me.] They said that we can do it. His sheep will hear His voice and will hunger for the truth found in His word—every word.

Here is another clue in discovering the “lost sheep of the House of Israel.” Some people will say that the Jews are the lost sheep. But this is not the case. For the Jews were of the Kingdom of Judah (two tribes) and were never lost. They were dispersed and scattered, but they kept intact their identity. In fact, they kept the Torah, the five books of Moses, the feasts, the times, etc.

Finally, for a New Testament witness, the apostle James writes a letter to the Israelites. “To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting” (1:1). The apostle Paul, also, spoke of them, quoted by Luke in the Acts of the Apostles. Speaking about the resurrection, Paul says, “…Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night hope to come” (26:7).

James, Paul and Luke evidently were digging deep into the mind of Christ. They studied His thoughts, and thereby changed the world.

But you won’t hear this in church. They don’t understand it, and so they ignore it. And so I must ask with respect: How are they going by every word of God?

[For more on these things: https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/lost-tribes-of-israel-in-earth-today-three-scriptural-proofs/  and https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/?s=lost+sheep ]

Kenneth Wayne Hancock