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December 4, 2024 · 3:19 pm

The Pinnacle of Spiritual Growth—The Abiding

[Dive deep with me into the secrets of the Spirit of Truth. Let us light upon the flowers of His garden and not flit onto the deceptive blossoms of the tares.]

The abiding is the apex of the spiritual life cycle. When God abides in you, you cease to feel bound up in the prison of your earthly body. God’s desire is for us to surrender and let His Spirit take up residence in our hearts and minds. This is the ultimate growth that His elect will reach. Those who are chosen for this honor will read on.  

Conversely, a 30-fold child of God wavers and is “tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine.” They do not have their “senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (Hebrews 5:14). They have need to be taught again the “first principles of the doctrine of Christ.” Spiritual “young men” and young women are walking in these principles. These are contained in the apostles’ doctrine (Heb. 6:1-2) [The book, The Apostles’ Doctrine, is available without price here: Ordering My Free Books in Paperback | Immortality Road].

Misconception of the Godhead

Children of God can’t grow very fast when they are bogged down with false concepts about God. That is why Christ in His first words to audiences, commanded them to repent of false teachings. Top on the list of false concepts is the misconception of just what the godhead is.

You could take a poll with this question: “If you could see into heaven’s throne room, how many gods would you see sitting up there? Most proclaiming Christians would say two or three–persons. This is the fruit of the trinity doctrine.

However, the Word says that there is only one God. The Spirit cries out to us: “Hear, O Israel: the LORD [YHWH] our God is one LORD” (Deut. 6:4). Only One. But many would ask, How can that be? You have the Father, the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit. It looks like three. Yes, great is the mystery of godliness.

The Father Yahweh is an invisible Spirit (John 4:24). One Spirit. He inhabits the Son of God. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself” (II Cor. 5:19). The Father shows Himself through the Son. When you see the Son do something wonderful, it is the invisible Spirit Yahweh doing it. All the miracles Christ performed were really done by the Father Yahweh who abode [dwelled] in the Son.

Everything that the Son of God did, it was not him doing it. The Son said that it was the Father inside of him doing the miracles. Christ’s fleshly body was the veil that concealed the Father who dwelled inside of him. “No man comes unto the Father, but by me,” Christ said. “The fullness of the godhead dwelt bodily,” the Spirit through Paul said.

No wonder Christ said, “It is expedient that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you, but if I depart, I will send him to you (John 16:7). We have seen that the Comforter is the Spirit of truth (John 14:6-17).

And we know that the Holy Spirit of truth is the Father. Why? Because the Son said that the Father is inside the Son. Christ said, “…The Father that dwells in me” (John 14:10).

Consequently, Christ at the Last Supper said that he had to finish the job he had to do, and then leave, for this purpose: He had to go so that the Father, the Holy Spirit, could come and enter the apostles’ bodies. Yes, the Father is the Holy Spirit!  Remember these words spoken by the Son? “God is a Spirit.”

The Promise of the Father

For “the fullness of the godhead dwelt bodily” in Christ’s body (Col. 2:9). Therefore, the Son contained the fullness of deity. After the ascension of Christ, the disciples waited “for the promise of the Father” (Acts 1:4). The Father was the promise; the Father came down at Pentecost and baptized those assembled in the upper room—with the Holy Spirit and fire. “Our God is a consuming fire.”

That is what Christ confirmed. “Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work [the miracles]” (John 14:10).

The crux of the matter is this: If you can’t believe that the Father dwelt in the Son and did the works, then you will never believe that the Father could dwell in you and do the miracles that Christ said we would do. He promised that we would do greater miracles than what he had done. That’s what he said.

Getting this right is so important for your spiritual growth. One must repent of any doctrine that pushes aside the truth of who God is. The Father is Yahweh, and He dwells in the glorified form of the Son of God. He dwells in the dimension we call heaven. Getting this right is so important that Christ pleads with us all: “Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works sake” (John 14:11-17). Kenneth Wayne Hancock

[You are called to dive deeply into His teachings. To do that effectively, you must slow down and savor His word, for Christ is the living Word (Logos). Christ is the purpose and plan of God. He wants us to study—not jump from here to there in His word. It helps to slowly read aloud words of truth found in the scriptures and in His teachings. This wards off alien thoughts, those careless interlopers who interrupt our sacred time with God. Time is growing short. Pray that Yah would send forth laborers into His great harvest.]

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November 30, 2024 · 2:54 pm

Two Ways to Prove that You Really Love Christ

Then Comes the Abiding

How does the abiding come into us? God promised that He would abide in us after certain conditions were met. It is a conditional promise. We are not talking about doing something to attain salvation. As a child of the King, we already have salvation. But to grow past spiritual childhood, to have the Spirit grow in us and dwell in us—that is conditional. Christ is saying, “If you really love Me, then you can manifest the agape love that I am. But you must prove to Me that you love Me.”

Two Ways to Prove that We Love Christ

At this growth level, Christ is trying our hearts, to see if He can trust us with His deepest secrets. He desires a clean vessel to pour His Spirit into.

Christ is looking for two criteria. Christ explains the first one: “If a man love Me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come into him and make our abode with him (John 14:23). “If a man love Me…” Here is the first condition. The person that loves Christ will “keep His words.   

If we love Christ by keeping His words, then the Father will love us. And the godhead will come and stay and dwell within us. This is the abiding.

The Father Himself has promised to live in us—if we keep Christ’s words! As we have seen before, the word “keep” is translated from the Greek word meaning “to guard, to preserve.” And the word “words” comes from the Greek word logos, which is the plan and purpose of God spelled out from the beginning. We know that Christ is the Logos, the Word “made flesh” that dwelt among us and still does in the Spirit. Christ is the Purpose enacted for us all to see.

We are told to guard, protect, cherish, and preserve His words, the Logos. We are to watch and guard His eternal purpose, which was with God in the beginning. And His purpose is this: God is reproducing Himself. When we guard the Logos, the Father will love us, and God will abide, stay, and remain in us. That is the abiding.

Why isn’t this happening much more often in the world? Because before you can guard and preserve His eternal plan and purpose, you must know what His plan and purpose is. We are talking about “knowledge of the holy.” Those that love Christ will learn of the Logos.

And that brings us to the second way we show Christ that we love Him. You remember the story. The risen Christ has appeared to the disciples on the shores of Galilee. He asks Peter three times, “Do you love Me?” And Peter says “yes” three times. After each “yes,” Christ says, “Feed my lambs…feed my sheep…feed my sheep.” Christ was saying, “If you love Me, you will be feeding my lambs and sheep” (John 21:15-17).

But feed them what? We are to feed them the truth contained in the Logos. And the Logos is the very “mind of Christ.” From His mind comes His thoughts that reveal His plan and purpose. He wants to use us. Consequently, the Father will prune us like a vine, that we may bear more fruit.

Finally, we love Christ by guarding and protecting the truth, which is the Logos. We must cherish His mind, for it contains the boundless expanse of Love for us His people. He is the hidden treasure that is more precious than gold, diamonds and rubies. We love Him when we feed His lambs and sheep the vision found in His magnanimous heart. It is the vision of hope that He may abide and dwell in us forever.     Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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November 20, 2024 · 1:56 pm

How He Rids Sin from Our Lives

[An excerpt from the “Introduction” of the book The Unveiling of the Sons of God]

Our old sinful nature must die with Christ, our sin sacrifice, on the cross with Him. How do we get rid of the old heart that breaks the Ten Commandments? How does God eradicate sin in our lives? 

For the answer to the sin problem is the knowledge that we have everything we need to completely overcome it in Him. He is the head of all powers in heaven and in earth. He has power over evil spirits and wicked intents. He is totally in control of Satan, who is the prince and power of the air. Satan could only do what God allowed him to do in the first chapter of the book of Job. When His Spirit lives within us, then we have everything needed to completely overcome sin in our life. And you are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power.  Colossians 2:10.

He conquers sin in us when we just believe by faith that He has taken out our old hearts and given us new hearts.  When we believe the word of His apostle that He has performed a spiritual operation on us, we are delivered from sin. For through the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, God has performed an invisible spiritual operation on our old carnal heart and has gotten rid of our old sinful nature thereby.  The operation is a spiritual circumcision. “Circumcision” means “cutting all the way around.” First, He cuts our old sinful heart out, all the way around. Then we are buried with Him in the baptism into His death. In God’s eyes, He buries you with Christ, interring our old carnal nature with the sacrificial Lamb. Then, we believe that we are raised up with Him to walk in a brand-new life with His Spirit as our life within.

This is all by faith. We cannot see Christ literally dying and being buried, and we cannot see our old carnal, sinful self die, either.  We must simply believe having not seen these things, receiving this truth by faith.  When we do this, God looks on us with approval, for faith pleases God. “In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, buried with him, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you…hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses” (Colossians 2:11-13).

Belief in the Resurrection is the Key

Our victory hinges on our faith in the resurrection of the Savior—not just that the resurrection historically happened, but that along with Him, we were raised up from the dead as well. Then we can believe that we, too, can “walk in a newness of life.”  We can then believe in His resurrection in us! His resurrection is our resurrection, for it is now Him living in us. All we have to do is believe it.

Our belief in this truth puts us right with God. He looks down on us and says, “Well done,” and then He imputes our belief as righteousness onto our account with Him. He “reckons” us as righteous. He counts us righteous in His sight, apart from our clamoring around trying to keep the law. Only Christ can keep the law. Therefore, when we believe that it is Him living in us, we then in God’s eyes are right with Him.  We believe having not seen with our eyes, and this pleases God.

We can never please Him by trying to clean up our old carnal nature and thereby trying to keep the ten commandments on our own strength. This does not please Him, for it cuts Him out of the action and does not acknowledge Him for our deliverance. It is an attempt to clean up our lives without Him and His way of doing it. After realizing that we cannot keep the law successfully, we must confess our sins and surrender to our own deaths.  We must put our old lives on the cross with Christ.

We then believe in God’s word when He says He will give us a “newness of life” where old things are passed away and where all things are become new.  How can we fulfill that if we are still a slave to sin and sinning? This newness of life comes as we believe that it is in us. All we have to do is believe what has already been done by Him for us.  We cannot “do” anything for this new life. It is a gift from Him. We can do nothing for this new life, except believe in what Christ has done for us, and now in us.

For the culminating spiritual feat of Christ is Him coming down into our inner being, giving us a new heart, a new spirit. This is what God wants for us—a new life. But it won’t come by us working for it. It will not come as a reward but as an undeserved gift. All of our striving here on earth to “do this” and “don’t do that” in order to please Him will never work. For the deeds of the old-natured man cannot please Him. It is our walk of faith as Christ in us doing this or that—that is what pleases God. We must die to bring the life of Christ to life within us. This is what God looks down on and is pleased. In His eyes, this is what really counts.

And yet, this is only the beginning. This right state with Him is just the first step on the road to completeness in Him—on the road to full spiritual maturity, which is the perfection that Christ spoke about.

Since we are now risen with Him, we are in a position to seek those things that are above.  If we listen carefully, we just may be able to hear Him say, Come, let me show you a more perfect way… [Send for my book, The Unveiling of the Sons of God. It is free with free shipping. Just send your name, mailing address and the name of the book to my email: wayneman5@hotmail.com] Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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November 10, 2024 · 7:37 am

Tired of Playing Church? Hungry to Go Deeper into His Word?

Introduction to the Book The Unveiling of the Sons of God

The thoughts expressed in this book explore the deep things of God—things that can only be spiritually discerned. These things pertain to our perfection and how we get to that perfected state.  These deep things of God explore what He desires to do with us, His sons and daughters, after He takes us to where he wants us to be.  And all of this will be done right here on earth.

This book has been written as a tool for the future manifested sons and daughters of God. Its subject matter is of a mature spiritual nature. It is not for children who are “tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine.” This book is for those who have been called to partake of the strong meat of the word.  It is for those who are tired of “playing church” and want the real plan of God operating in their lives.

The inspired author of the book of Hebrews had much to say concerning perfection, but it was difficult to teach his readers, for they were “dull of hearing” and “slow to learn.” What he had to say was not what they thought in their own wisdom to be true. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food…Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God…Hebrews 5:12; 6:1. NKJV.

And so it is today. If the first principles of Christ’s teachings are not solid as a rock in a person’s life, the deeper things will not be understood by them. The foundation of any house must be solid, built upon the Rock.

This book is for those who have a solid foundation in the first principles of Christ’s teachings: repentance from dead works and faith toward God. It is for those who are “going on unto perfection.”

I can already hear the cries coming forth. Perfection? Did you say perfection? Wait a minute. You are talking about perfection, and I am still grappling with sin in my life? No way. No one can be perfect.

A typical response, and yet, the Savior Himself told us to “be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.” The apostle Paul says that God’s gifts to us were the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. And they are for the “perfecting of the saints…till we all come…unto a perfect man…and no more children, tossed to and fro” (Ephesians 4:11-14).

Many sincere Christians earnestly desire to walk with their Master like this, yet they cannot even think about their own perfection while still grappling with the sin question in their lives. They will justify their circling Mt. Sinai by saying, “Nobody can be perfect. You can’t be like Jesus!” To which I will reply, “Okay, but will you let me be like Paul or Peter or John?” They are the ones that taught us that we are to go on to perfection and not be children anymore in the word.

Yet, many questions abound in many hearts concerning sin. What is sin? What do we do about it in our lives? Can we overcome it in our lives? Is it possible to have the victory over sin while still here on earth? How do these questions relate to “repentance from dead works and faith toward God”? [Introduction to be continued]    Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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October 20, 2024 · 1:13 pm

Qualities of a Teacher of God

How does one discern who is a true teacher of God and a false teacher? First, a true teacher will reveal the eternal purpose of God, which is this: He is “bringing many sons [and daughters] unto glory.” God is reproducing Himself in a chosen group called His elect. They will share God’s vision of our perfection, which is spiritual maturity. It all starts with the conquering of sin and sinning in their life.

Repentance and Faith

God’s teachers will teach “repentance from sin and faith toward God.” These are the first teachings of the “the apostles’ doctrine.” They will expound to the “little flock” all seven of Christ’s doctrines. [For a deeper dive into this subject, I have written a book entitled The Apostles’ Doctrine which explains in depth the seven doctrines of Christ. To receive your copy, send your name, mailing address, and name of the book to my email: wayneman5@hotmail.com It is free with free shipping.]

His teachers will explain how to receive a new heart with a new spirit from God. This new heart obeys God’s Ten Commandments. Breaking them is sin. Unlike most pastors and teachers, they will not try to keep you a sinner. They will not limit God and His power to change us fundamentally at our core. They will show us how to “follow our example” Christ, guiding them through the “cross experience.” They will explain how we die with the sin sacrifice Christ, how we are buried with Christ, and how we are raised to walk in a newness of life–with Christ’s Spirit now within (Rom. 6:1-12).

True teachers will start by telling you that you can be like Peter, James, John, and Paul. They were sinners, all too human, and they were changed by His Spirit. So much so, that many miracles were done by the Spirit through their hands. Nevertheless, there will be many doubters and gainsayers. So, I will ask them this: If you won’t let me be like Christ, is it okay if I be like His apostles? That’s a good enough walk. They healed the sick and even raised the dead. Through their hands the Spirit worked miracles.

Laying the Foundation

God’s teachers will first lay the spiritual foundation on which a Christian is built as a habitation of the Spirit. We are the spiritual temple of God, the place for the Holy Spirit to dwell and abide.

So, what is the foundation of the temple? Later, in Hebrews, the answer is outlined in plain English. “Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection [maturity], not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works [sin] and of faith toward God” (6:1). These are the first principles of Christ’s doctrine, and they make up the foundation.

Herein lies a real checklist of essential knowledge for the Christian. A God-sent teacher can explain what “repentance from dead works” means. The God-sent office of Teacher is the Holy Spirit speaking through a son or daughter of God. They will explain how the one and only faith is Christ’s faith. There is only one faith (Eph. 4:5). And we are living “by the faith of the Son of God…” (Gal. 2:20). By His faith.

The reason there are not more of God’s teachers is because people lack knowledge of God’s purpose and plan. “For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat” (Heb. 5:12). God wants us all to be His teachers. But how can we be His teachers when we do not have the foundational doctrines of Christ?

The teachings of Christ in Hebrews 6:1-2 are “the oracles of God.” Because most don’t know them, they need to be taught “the milk of the word” and not the “strong meat.” The milk, the beginning foundational teachings, helps one to get stronger and more able to digest the meat of the word. A user of the milk of the word is “unskillful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But strong meat belongs to them of full age,” for they are able “to discern both good and evil” (5:13-14).

Teachers of God will not only lay the foundation for spiritual growth, but they will also teach us how to grow. For they understand that there are different growth levels in the body of Christ. Moreover, there are different offices of God in the body to help us reach spiritual maturity. The five offices of God are apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher.

These words about His teachers are not meant to doubt the sincerity of any teacher. It is a matter of receiving the hidden wisdom and knowledge from above and then sharing it with those whom He has called. Teaching is all about The Spirit of truth communicating through a vessel, as opposed to a person speaking things about Christ. Big difference. No matter where we stand with God, we must put on humility and learn from Christ. He is the Master and Teacher. He channels His Spirit of truth through humans that He has called into His service.

May our King Yahshua use you as a teacher and prophet. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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October 14, 2024 · 8:36 am

Living Inside the Spirit of God

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We spend most of our lives in the Third Dimension of phones and cars and money and jobs. This is, also, the dimension of gray hair and wrinkles, which are harbingers of the earthly body’s expiration date. For that is mankind’s destiny in the 3-D life—death and decay.

This dimension of our earthly life winds up in death. The grey-haired visage in the mirror rudely reminds us of this impending demise. Most await completion of their sad tale.

However, our Creator has subjected us all to this cruel mortality in hope that we will be delivered from these-soon-to-fully-decay bodies (Romans 8:20-23). God will deliver us from this “bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”

And, so, we wait, and this waiting produces more groanings, waiting “for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” In a word, we are waiting for the resurrection. This is the great change when we are raised up and receive our new spiritual bodies (I Cor. 15:52). This happens in God’s Spiritual Dimension. It translates us from the earthy 3-D world to the spiritual world of immortality. Spiritual fathers, who know Him “from the beginning,” will rule the nations with Christ. They will have overcome all growth impediments, and will produce 100-fold fruit.

The Heavenly Dimension for Earthlings

To get ready for this great day of Christ’s return, we must understand the heavenly spiritual dimension, where nothing is impossible to those in Christ. Getting there is being, like John, “in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day.” That is the spiritual place to be, and it is where our Savior wants us. “In the Spirit…” That phrase has been so overused by thousands of preachers that it has lost its meaning. “In the Spirit” literally means “inside of the Spirit.”

Notice that John was inside of the Spirit. The word “in” is translated from the Greek word en; meaning “inside.” [Strong’s number G1722. Thayer’s lexicon: “a preposition…in the interior of some whole…” For example, in Matthew 6:5, the Pharisees were “standing in the synagogue…” They were standing inside of the synagogue.

Being in the Spirit = being inside the Spirit. “God is a Spirit.” He is invisible and omnipresent. “We live, move, and have our being in him” [inside Him]. His presence is in His heavenly spiritual dimension. This is where the miracles flow and nothing is impossible.

God has saved us and given us of his Spirit, and we are “in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.” We are in this great Spirit God, if we have received His Spirit into our hearts. This gives us access to our Father. Before, we did not realize that we are inside of Him, inside of the Spirit. He in us and we in Him (Romans 8:9).

Understanding this opens the gates of agape love’s living waters. “…He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. “…That the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them” (John 17:26).

That is a wonderful oneness that waits patiently for us to believe Him, believe that we are literally inside of Him in His Heavenly Spiritual Dimension. Many call it the Kingdom of God.

Closing Thoughts

“And I will put my Spirit within you…” (Ezk. 36:27). Until we receive our new celestial bodies, we should “walk in the Spirit.” We should walk inside the Spirit (Gal. 5:16).  

In Christ, we are now spiritual beings with the capability of living in God’s spiritual dimension.

My prayer is that these teachings edify you. May you and I walk together in our King’s grace and Spirit. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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September 19, 2024 · 9:39 am

The Shelter of God’s Heavenly Spiritual Dimension

We enter His dimension, and we immediately leave the strife and confusion of the 3rd dimension. Escaping, even momentarily, the struggles of our present earthly existence, we luxuriate in the invisible palace of the Prince of peace.

A refreshing quietness seeps into us upon entering. Yahweh is there, though He remains invisible to our mortal eyes. Yet, we feel safe, as if mystical arms like wings enfold us. He is there with us. We thank Him for watching over us.

He seems to draw closer to us in His dimension. He hovers over His children like a hen gathering her chicks (Matt. 23:37). He said that He is the One that delivers us from all our fears. He is our shield; He parries and thwarts the arrows of our enemies.

Spiritual Enemies

Make no mistake. The enemies of the children of light are spirits that fly invisibly through the air with the wind. These evil spirits are invisible drones, loading our minds with thoughts that come from the wicked one and his dark forces. Satan is the ruler of this world system. And we once walked this earth “according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience…” (Eph.2:2). Through believing, we no longer tread the dark and sinister path.

Satan has been granted license to cause chaos and despair [See Job 1:6 and Psalm 82].  If people remain in the 3-D delusion, they are persisting prisoners, trapped in a five-senses nightmare.

Being “born from above” [“born again” in the KJV], does not completely free us from our 3-D prison. However, it does allow us to see and then to enter the Kingdom of God, which is the heavenly spiritual dimension (John 3:3,5) in which we enjoy and rest. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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September 4, 2024 · 12:51 pm

Sitting With Christ on His Throne!

[Chapter 2 of the Book The Eleventh Commandment]

God’s Purpose Fulfilled

Think about it. “The right to sit with Me on My throne…” These are Christ’s words. Some will overcome all doubts and fears, and He will bid them to come up to the throne and sit down with their King and Creator!

That is a serious promise. There is no greater honor than to sit with Him on His throne. This is it. This is the highest calling that can be attained in the entire universe: to rule with Christ during the Thousand Year Reign.

But those who will sit with Him must first overcome their old nature and any vestiges of it. They must forsake all else, “put their hands to the plow and not look back” to their first worldly life. They must “sell all that they have” and “give, expecting nothing in return.” This is where He rebukes and disciplines those He loves. He commands us to be earnest about these rebukes and to repent. This high calling is the ultimate walk on this earth. This is for all the marbles. There is nothing greater.

Yet God knows our indolence. He knows that we are foolish and are “slow of heart” to believe His word concerning His plan to reproduce Himself in us. He knows that it takes time to get rid of false thinking and to begin to think His thoughts. So He reminds us. He reviews His pur-pose and plan to fulfill it. For He knows that our minds are finite, poorly attuned to the Infinite One’s thought. Our Father said as much. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways…” (Isa. 55:8).

Even when a heart yearns for the truth, when new light dawns, often that heart refuses to believe. And even if the new truth is not rejected by us, it can fade in the darkness of trials and temptations. Such is the word about God’s purpose and His plan to fulfill it. We all need a review of what matters the most to our Father, according to His own thoughts.

His purpose for His creation is to reproduce Himself. You have heard it here before, but until it becomes the lyrics to the song our heart sings, we must hear it again. God is in the process of reproducing agape Love—in us. He will use the human being to do this—not an animal or vegetable or carved pillar of stone.
Because He does all things well, He has an exact plan to accomplish His purpose. He is sovereign and knows what He is doing. To fulfill His purpose, He will fill certain human beings with His Spirit, which is unselfish divine love.

They will be led by His Spirit to seek Him. First, He will place a desire in them to know the truth about our existence on this planet. They will seek for the meaning of life and will give up their old selfish life in ex-change for a ticket to join this spiritual quest. Little by little, their spiritual Father will answer their questions of Who? What? How? When? Where? Why? He will eventually lead them into all truth and help them solve all the mysteries of God.

The Initiation

Their initiation into this new spiritual family will begin at the cross where they will willingly yield up their old sinful selfish life. And from there He may use direct revelation to unveil His plan. But most often He will reach them through His teachers of truth. For they, like the apostles and prophets, are offices of God. They are God’s gifts to His body of believers “for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ” (Eph. 4:12). They not only teach true concepts, but also help those coming up to purge out false concepts about the Father and Son.
This relationship concerning the Father and the Son is the key ingredient of knowledge that we need to fulfill God’s purpose in the earth. He will fulfill His purpose of reproducing Himself when He fills you and me with His Spirit of agape Love. The Father calls this the “manifestation of the sons of God.” He will unveil these manifested sons at the end of this age. This is God’s grand gala when He reveals His handiwork. He will use His sons to help rule in His Kingdom, to be fully established here on earth upon His return.
Unlike what many Pentecostal and charismatic voices teach, this filling us up with His Spirit usually comes slowly and deliberately. First, His presence will only come into a clean temple. He will arrive after a proper foundation of sound teachings is laid. These teachings are called “the apostles’ doctrine.” They are the teachings that the early rain apostles had in their hearts. They were Christ’s teachings; His teachings were His doctrine. And His became theirs. [Send for my book The Apostles’ Doctrine. It is free with free shipping. Just send me an email requesting it by name with your mailing address in the USA. If you live overseas, I will send you a pdf. Send to wayneman5@hotmail.com ].

The Spirit Growing

Once we are fed the “milk of the word, which is Christ’s teachings, we begin to grow into inquisitive, spiritually healthy children, growing day by day. “Growing” signifies that the Spirit is growing in us. If we continue through much study and prayer, we will grow up to become strong men and women of God, just like the apostles and prophets.
So, how does the Spirit grow within our hearts? Christ the Master Teach-er has given us several commandments. The first one is the first word He spoke to the crowds. “Repent.” To repent from sin, all must go to the cross and let our old self die with Him. And then we are raised up with Him by believing in His resurrection, now within us. Our belief in His resurrection brings our own resurrection in Him. [All of this is explained in The Apostles’ Doctrine.]
After we get this solid in our hearts, Christ gives us several more “new commandments” to obey. Many of these are found in the four gospels. These will trigger the growth of the Spirit in our hearts. Obeying these “new commandments” is like when you feed your garden rich compost. It jump starts the growth of the Spirit within us. And this Spirit is the Father, and is Love, and is the fulfillment of His purpose of us becoming like the early apostles and prophets and Christ Himself. He said that we would do “greater works” than the miracles that He had performed.
Finally, obeying Christ’s commandments insures His growth in us through His abiding presence in us. “For without [Him] we can do nothing.” Obeying His “new commandments” enables us to obey the 11th Commandment: Love others the way Christ loved all of us. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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August 11, 2024 · 12:24 pm

Strive to Enter the Heavenly Spiritual Dimension

The Spirit is asking us: “Are you knocking on the door that enters the Heavenly Spiritual Dimension? This dimension is the Kingdom of the Spirit, the Kingdom outside of the limitations of the 3-D World that we are initially born into. Its invisible power engulfs the old five senses, material world, the world of delusion. The invisible Yahweh inhabits this new-to-us spiritual world.”

The Spirit is saying to us: The only way into this heavenly spiritual dimension is to enter it by the narrow gate. “For wide is the gate that leads to destruction.” He is asking us, “Are you striving to enter through the narrow gate? It will lead you to that rare dimension known as the Kingdom of God. Are you earnestly seeking and knocking and asking?”

Christ commands us, “Enter in at the narrow gate, for wide is the gate… and difficult is the way which leads to life, and few find it…” Few. That is sobering (Matt. 7:13-14).

Why is the gate narrow? The gate is narrow to prevent us from trying to carry the old baggage of false doctrines into the Holy Place. [Several of these false teachings are found here: false doctrines | Immortality Road (wordpress.com)]

He tells us, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues” (Rev. 18:4 NKJV). He is telling all Christians to leave behind the “difficult way” of the 3-D world and enter the Heavenly Spiritual Dimension. We need to ask, seek, and knock on that door, which is the narrow gate by which we enter into his Kingdom.

For we will discover that the invisible Yahweh is a Spirit that subsumes everything else in the created realm. Standing on the earth, Christ said, “Even the Son of man which is in heaven” (John 3:13).

The heavenly spiritual dimension is the Kingdom of God. It is the Kingdom of Spirit. To prove it, Christ said, “Not everyone that says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Or “…which is in the Heavenly Spiritual Dimension” (Matt. 7:21).

Therefore, Christ tells us to “strive to enter in at the narrow gate.” Strive means contend, fight, and struggle with your adversary to enter in at the narrow gate. Those who do not, He will reject, and “there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth” when He receives all the righteous into the “Kingdom of God and yourselves thrust out…” (Luke 13: 24-29).

We must fight the inclination to coast through our new Christian life like a young child who is impervious and carefree and knows nothing of the battle we are chosen to fight. We are to “walk in the Spirit, the Kingdom, the heavenly spiritual dimension.” We can’t see it with the naked eye, but we must “fight the good fight of faith” and enter it and experience the same thing that His people have always experienced.

“What is that?” you ask. Let your Holy Bible fall open, and begin reading, and you will be taken to this old—yet new—spiritual dimension of which we speak. The Garden of Eden is a good example. The Holy Bible is full of those who fought and strove to enter into the Kingdom.    Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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June 24, 2024 · 10:36 am

Christ Has Sent You and Me–Already

You have been sent by Christ to do the Father’s will (desire)…

Before we get into “being sent,” we should consider this: The deeper we go into the truth, the more we need to repeat its concepts. We need to rehearse it until our restless minds are corralled and come into obedience of the very concepts we are endeavoring to learn.

Such is the case with Christ’s words recorded by the apostle John: “My food is to do the will of Him that sent me and to finish His work” (4:34). Doing the Father’s will and finishing His work is the spiritual food that gives the Son spiritual strength. We will receive the same spiritual sustenance that fueled His walk when we know and do the Father’s will and finish His work.

The next major word in our study of this saying is “sent.” Christ said twenty-six times in the gospel of John that the Father had sent Him. It is obviously very important to him that we understand the concept. Twenty-six times! For example, He said, “He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on Him that sent me. And he that sees me sees him that sent me” (12:44-45).

The Father Yahweh has sent the Son, who is the earthly witness of the invisible Father. In our embryonic thinking, we only see Christ the Son, the Savior, being the one sent, and that is true. But modern Christian theology teaches that it is a one-off and was only good for Christ and a few of the early apostles.

But, according to His words, we have been sent, too. Christ is expanding the base by including us as those that are sent. He said, “He that receives whomsoever I send receives me, and he that receives me receives Him [the Father] that sent me” (John 13: 20).

Christ puts an exclamation point on this: “As my Father has sent Me, even so send I you” (John 20:21). In the same manner that the Father has sent Christ, even so, Christ has sent us. What manner did the Father send Christ? He sent him with power.

In John 17, Christ is praying for His disciples. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one… in us…” (17: 20-21). You and I have believed in Christ through the words of the early apostles. In the mind of Christ, we are one with His early apostles and with Christ and with the Father! We are sent in the same way.

Christ is still saying, I am sending you just like the Father sent Me. He sent Him armed with the truth. He sent Him with miracle working power. He sent Him to bear witness to the truth. He sent him to give testimony through the miraculous works—works that can only be done by the Father. He sent Him to give testimony that mankind may believe God. And He sent Christ to those prepared to receive him. KWH

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