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June 23, 2012 · 6:08 pm

Partakers of the Divine Nature–The Holy Calling to Be the Sons of God

True Christianity is not about a person striving to attain a collection of good deeds and contributions like regularly praying, attending church, paying tithes and offerings, or volunteering time. The true walk with Christ is not an accumulation of good deeds in hopes of having a better relationship with God. It is rather a remembering what we already had with Him before our time on earth began.

Our salvation and deliverance from sin and the evil in our old life was given us by God before we were ever born here on earth!

We were called by God to walk with Him on this earth in our earthly bodies before we were ever born here on earth!

Sounds crazy, I know, and you are probably thinking, Wayne, you are going too far now. Come back to us. You are drifting up too far into the stratosphere.

But bear with me a minute. God has called us with a holy calling in accordance with His own plan and purpose, and we were in His plan and purpose and grace before our mothers gave birth to us here on earth!

Some may be asking, Where did you get this idea from? It’s right there in the Bible–the same one grandma and momma had. And this is what it says: “God who has saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began” (II Tim. 1: 9) [Compare this to my paraphrasing of it in the above paragraphs].

This “holy calling” to be God’s son or daughter does not come down to us “according to our works.” We do not attain it because of anything we have done or could do, but because we were already included in His purpose–His plan to favor us that way. It is called grace, and this grace was given to us in Christ before time began on earth. Remember what Christ said: “You have been with me from the beginning” (John 15: 27). The word “beginning” in the Greek is the same one used in John 1: 1: “In the beginning was the Word…” denoting the timelessness of the origin of all things.

We must remember how the LORD (YAHWEH) questioned Job intensely about the creation: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?…Who laid the cornerstone thereof when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” (Job 38: 4-7).

The “sons of God” rejoicing at the creation of the earth? Yes. Isn’t that kind of like before the world came into being? Yes. And who are these sons of God? The word of God says that we are the sons of God! “Beloved, now are we the sons of God…and when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (I John 3: 2).

Also, we know that “as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God” (Rom. 8: 14). That’s us, brethren! Things are going to work out great for us that love God. If God is for us, who can be against us? For “we are the called according to His purpose.” He knew us before! He gave us this destiny before! This destiny “to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom. 8: 28-29). Hey, I know I’m not the only one getting this right now because it says “many brethren” are going to be just like Him!

And let’s just say it out loud: We who He has “predestinated” to be like Christ–He has called us, “and whom He called, them He also justified, and whom He justified, them He also glorified”! (v. 30).

Glorified us! Notice this is in the past tense. Already done in God’s way of reckoning and doing things.

Wow! It is truly difficult sometimes for us to wrap our sometimes doubting little minds around these astounding promises, but there it is. His words, not mine. The “exceeding great and precious promises that Peter spoke of. That we “might be partakers of the divine nature” (II Pet. 1: 4).

And this is all in Christ. When we believe and trust in Him, then our inheritance manifests itself. Let us walk on in faith and assurance of these promises, not letting worldly man-thoughts hinder us from achieving what God already has spoken into existence for us. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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October 2, 2010 · 4:13 pm

Simplifying the Worship of God–Offering the “Calves of Our Lips”

How does God want us to worship Him? The biblical answer is really very simple, but humans lean to their own understanding and make it extremely complicated.

They put worshippers in the bondage of certain conditions and offerings and meetings three times a week where you have to come to the ‘house of the Lord’ because no other place will do and money, money, money and pilgrimages and forced prayer times and hocus pocus rituals and incense and holy water and fastings and observances and physical sprinklings and beads and prayercloths and sundayschool and bar mitzvahs and idols and images that ooze and gotta-read the Bible everyday and giving our children to be brainwashed into another manmade religion and, and…

Is that what God wants us to do to worship Him? To blindly follow what others have imagined that we should do?

God does not need us to give Him or His “ministry” money; He owns the whole earth and everything in it. The only thing that He does not have is our grateful heart. And that is all He wants. He wants us to just sincerely thank Him and praise Him for all that He has done for us.

Why do we not thank Him? It is because we do not believe that He has delivered us and saved us from a disastrous and futile existence. He has already done this; all we must do is believe it. He has delivered us from sin and from sinning. All we need do is walk in His grace and mercy. Those who do this will thank Him, for they know what a deep pit they have been lifted out of. And they are thankful to Him for His love to them.

And so they continue to call upon Him in “the day of trouble,” and He delivers them, and they thank Him, and in so doing, together they create a circle of glorification of God. God is glorified through us thanking Him (Psalm 50: 15).

We are admonished to “offer unto God thanksgiving” (v. 14) and to “offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually..the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name” (Hebrews 13: 15).

The thanksgiving and praise we give to God are the sacrifices we give to Him now in this present age. Our offerings should not be money but thanks and praise. We now should offer “the calves of our lips” instead of the animal sacrifices under the old testament (Hosea 14: 2).

We simply thank Him now, sincerely from a broken and contrite heart.” And He hears us and has compassion on us and is near to us. This is worshipping Him in Spirit and in truth. KWH

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August 21, 2010 · 4:21 pm

Life Out of Death–The Ultimate Paradox

A paradox is “a statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually valid or true.” Life coming out of death is a paradox. Yet any seed must lose its identity before it will spring back to life in another more glorious fruitful form. The seed rots and dies in the moist earth and then, through a miraculous Lifeforce, it multiplies itself at the harvest. One grain of corn yields two or more ears of golden corn.

God is wanting this to play out in our mortal lives here on earth. The death of self is the only sacrifice that God will accept from us. He wants us to be a part of Christ’s body, but the only way to get that Life that lasts forever is through a spiritual death.

This death is the baptism that the apostle Paul talked about–being baptized into His death, so that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we to can be raised to walk in a newness of life [ 1 ]. It is His resurrection in us that is our only hope of transcending the grave. For the only pay that we will receive in our old selfish life is a certain physical death. “The wages of sin is death” [ 2]. So we need to die now and avoid the rush.

Let’s get it done. Many are teaching that you can never get rid of sin in your life. Where does it say that? I thought that “all things are possible with God.” If it is “no longer I that lives, but Christ that lives in me,” then “Is Christ the minister of sin? God forbid!” [ 3]. Let’s “present our bodies a living sacrifice,” for this is the reasonable thing to do in gratitude for all He has done for us [4 ].

Let’s identify our old self with the sin sacrifice of the Lamb of God. He took on our sins on Himself on the tree, providing a way for us to be made free from the old sinful cravings and dark selfish actions that we were a slave to all our lifetime [ 5]. We are going to pay for our sinful selfish actions sooner or later. He said we would. The upside is that He has provided a way for us to take on His Life after we let our own selfish nature die on the cross.

Most have not heard this true message of what the cross is all about. They are told that Christ is our substitute. No, He is our example, and we are to follow His steps [6 ]. This “preaching of the cross” is just a bunch of foolishness to those who are dying in their sins, whether they know they are or not [ 7]. But to us who He is calling and choosing, it is an absolute lifeline, and it is the power of God to change lives. It is the only way for us to complete what we have been put here on earth for.

What we are doing here

And what is that, you ask? He is using an elect chosen few of His redeemed ones from all of humanity to reproduce Himself through [8]. He is going to take only those who have submitted themselves to the death of the cross; He is taking them into His heart to reveal His very essence to them. They will be in awe of Him and revere His name and will bow to His magnificence as He overshadows their earthly physical plight to do His immortal work on them and then through them. Those who submit to Him will be changed into His glorious image as His own sons and daughters when He returns to this earth to set it all in order [9 ]. They will rule with Him and be in His inner circle while the rest outside wait for their word on the day’s business of the King’s Government.

Now that is the Life that He’s talking about. To be His son or daughter, to be a prince or princess by His side as He trains us up to be rulers with Him in His kingdom soon to fill the whole earth. That is the great destination, the wonderful reaping of our initial humble planting of ourselves into death with Him on the cross. For “if we have been planted together with Him” into His death, we shall also be raised together with Him in His resurrection [ 10].

Dying with Him does not make sense to the world

Yes, dying with Christ is utter foolishness to the worldly mind. But to us who He is calling and choosing, it is our ticket to the big show. And we will be on the stage of this earth, together with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Noah and Job and Isaiah and Jeremiah and Peter and Paul and all of His sons and daughters who have followed Him in this death of self [11]. If He was good enough to literally and physically die for us, why then should we not spiritually die for Him and, better yet, allow Him to live out His life in us?

In so doing we are then made free from sin. And as we take in His Spirit into our new hearts through belief in His resurrection, sin shall not have dominion over us, for we are made free from it and its power over us [ 12].

But how?

It is just too simple and yet, too wonderful to just believe. Our small, weak, finite minds fail to grasp just how to do this. How do we get our old self to die and then receive a new life in Christ? We have to just reckon it so. We have to count it as a done deal. He has. He said that it was already done; the “works were finished” [ 13]. All we need to do is agree with Him and walk in this truth. He said that our old man “is crucified with Christ” [ 14]. Notice that is with an –ed, meaning that it is already done and over with in the past. That’s how God looks at things; that is how his faith and belief works. Now we need to believe what He believes about us. It is His faith in His own power in our lives that is the key. We just need to believe what and how He believes, and we will be changed into His image. We are now alive unto Him who said that He has raised up all who believe Him [ 15].

Life out of death is the ultimate paradox. The Savior said that very thing. “He who seeks to save his life shall lose it. He who loses his life for my sake shall save it” [ 16]. You will not hear this message in the vast majority of churches; they are trying to increase numbers–not lose membership. For “few there be to find this way of truth” [17 ]. Yet, those to whom He is granting His grace and favor to at this time will hear this and they will respond and take their old self to the cross, thereby enabling the new man to grow into His likeness. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

Romans 6: 6
Rom. 6: 23
Galatians 17-20
Rom. 12: 1
II Corinthians 5: 21
I Peter 2: 21
I Cor. 1: 18
https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/the-law-of-har…oduces-himself/
II Cor. 3: 18
Rom. 6: 5
Matthew 8: 11; Luke 13: 2
Rom. 6: 18, 22; 8: 2
Hebrews 4: 3
Gal. 2: 20
Rom. 6: 11-13
Mark 8: 35; Matt. 10: 39
Matt. 7: 14

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March 21, 2010 · 3:43 pm

Abraham, Father of MANY NATIONS–But Which Nations Are They?

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The Lost Tribes of Israel have to be in the earth today. They are only lost to those who do not have an ear to hear and an eye to see.

Scholars say that after being taken into captivity around 720 B.C., they were totally dispersed and never heard from again. They say that they melted into all of the other peoples of the earth and that they no longer exists as the direct descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (whose name was changed by God to Israel).

That simply cannot be true, for many prophecies in scripture say that these descendants of Abraham would become nations. And not just any old run of the mill nations either. For Abraham was told by God, face to face, “Thou shalt be a father of many nations” (1).

But Abraham had just one little problem; his wife was barren and he had no heir to fulfill this prophecy. And he was running out of time, for he was about 100 years old, and his wife Sarai was 90 and well into menopause. It was difficult to believe, but “he believed the LORD (Yahweh); and the LORD reckoned it to him as righteousness (2)

From then on, God looked on Abraham as His righteous son. Here is the first seed lesson of what God’s faith can do–just believe God–the thing hardest for man to do. And in that same passage God gave him and his offspring all the land from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates.

Now, he just had to get this family started. Still no first born son…until that day when God yet appeared to Abram again. This time God made a covenant with Abram. In fact God changed his name to Abraham, “for a father of many nations have I made thee.” Many nations. And I will be your God and “establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant,” or agreement (3).

And it was then that God blessed Sarai and changed her name to Sarah, meaning “princess,” and told her that He would give her a son “of her,” and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.”

And their miracle son that God promised them came a year later as spoken. And they named him Isaac. And this great promise of nations and kings was renewed by God to Isaac. And then Isaac blessed his son Jacob with these words: “And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land…which God gave unto Abraham” (4).

Later God appeared to Jacob to renew His covenant of nations with him. “And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins”.

Who are these “many nations”? “Declare if thou hast understanding.” In the seed book of Genesis, prophecies spoken by God to Abraham declare that he will be the father of many nations. Can we discover who these nations are? Did not Christ say, “Seek and ye shall find”? Can we read the other prophecies about these nations that developed out of the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel and come to the knowledge of just who these nations are in history?

Scripture cannot be broken, for God cannot lie. He spoke of many nations out of Abraham. This could not be the Jewish Israeli state, for it is only one nation, and the Jews have not been a nation since 70 A. D. But it was “nations.” Christ spoke of the “Lost sheep of the House of Israel.” They are so important that He said He was only sent to them (6). We must find out, for they are the key that unlocks the prophetic utterances for these last days. KWH…to be continued

1. Genesis 17: 4

2. Gen. 15: 6

3. Gen. 17: 7

4. Gen 28:3-4

5. Gen 35: 11].

6. Matt. 16: 24

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November 2, 2009 · 4:03 pm

A Childlike Faith in God Is What We Need

This world and the people of this world are sick. The malady comes from a steady diet of doubt. Almost all of the systems of man–the media, politics, education, and even religious denominations–almost all are starving God’s people and feeding them the poisonous pablum of lies. And the major lie is that either there is no God or, if there is, He is untrustworthy and His word is no good.

It is getting so bad that people are afraid to speak of God; it is not politically correct to believe in the Savior. The atheists, marxists, maoists, and communists have done a job on the American people–so much so that people are reluctant to even demonstrate for our great republic founded on Christian principles. No matter what Pres. Obama says, America is a Christian nation, but we have lost our way.

But some are finding the way. In the midst of all of this immoral morass, God is still in control. He has a plan, and it does not matter to Him just how dark the sky seems to us, He will bring His plan to pass. He will raise up a few good men and women who will believe Him and His promises found in the Holy Bible. Christ is coming back to earth soon. He is searching for those with “like precious faith.” He is looking for those who believe Him and take Him at His word. “When the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18: 8). I believe He will.

A Childlike Faith

He said to let the little chidren come to Him for the Kingdom of God belongs to them (Matt. 19: 14). Why to them and those like them? Because they don’t doubt. They believe. It seems that the older we get, the more doubts enter into our hearts. But the little child believes. Ralph Waldo Emerson knew this and believed that we adults could go back to a childlike state to see the world through a prism of belief or faith.

For God is calling out His future sons and daughters right now. They will be His future rulers with Him in the world government that He will set up right here on earth. And the very quality that we need in order to fulfill this calling is a childlike faith.

I was talking to my two grandsons, Cody and Austin, 12 and 10, the other day. They had been playing a “Civilization” video game and asked me, “What are ages?” I explained that they are major chunks of time marked by a certain characteristic of that era of time. Now we are in the Information Age. We have just left the Industrial Age, which started back in the 1800’s.

“Well, what does A.D. mean?”

“It is an abreviation of the Latin Anno Domini, which means year of our Lord, or since Christ was born. Isn’t it amazing, guys, how man’s dates are reckoned by Christ’s life here on earth? He was so great that everyone acknowledges Him when they give a date.”

I looked at my two grandsons. Not one doubt clouded their shining faces. Their childlike faith readily believed that Christ was so important to mankind that man would include Him in every date in their history. No doubts fogged their thinking–just clear belief, unfettered by negatives, unhindered by man’s puny fears and foibles.

And then I smiled and realized that God has the last laugh. Always has, always will. Every atheist, marxist, and maoist that picks up a newspaper today will be faced with this year of our Lord, 2009 A.D. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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October 25, 2009 · 4:57 pm

The Manifestation of the Sons of God–What the World Needs Now

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This world has one major need right now at the beginning of the 21^st Century. The world doesn’t need another politician telling the people what they want to hear. The world doesn’t need a steady robust economy to help it through the hard times that have been prophesied upon it. No. The world needs the sons of God to arrive on the scene. They must come forth for these last days.

The whole creation, the apostle Paul wrote, (whether it knows it or not), is anxiously awaiting the sons of God to come upon the world stage. For the sons of God will have something that all mortals walking the face of the earth must have. They will have the key that will set the whole creation free from the chains of a certain physical death. These children of the Most High are God’s elect, His sons made in His image, and they are what this world needs. They are the ones who will have cut through all of the deception and vice in this world system. They alone will see the Spirit and walk in the Spirit and be filled with the Spirit of the living Yahweh. They will build the old waste places and build the spiritual walls to the heavenly city.

Why the World Needs the Sons of God

The creation has purposely been subjected to mortality by its Creator God. The impending gloom of a certain death is no accident or aberration of God’s original plan. It has been His will all along for death to come to all living. And then, a few mortals will be brought by Him to an awareness of the abiding power of His spiritual presence and will become His actual spiritual children. He will change them and will engulf them with immortality one day soon. And it is through them that the whole creation will finally come to know this glorious liberty from a certain physical death. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. Romans 8:19-21, NIV.

Every living thing on this planet will die; the whole creation will decay and go back to dust. And we, this earthly creation, are “in bondage of corruption,” as it says in the King James Version.

The word “corruption” is translated from the Greek word phthora, #5356 in Strong’s. It means “decay.” Its root comes from #5351 phthio, to waste, shrivel, or wither. We, the creation, are bound to become decaying matter someday. And all of us, be we religious or not, are groaning under the impending physical doom that awaits us.

All of us have a built in desire to live forever. Every ancient culture, without exception, was concerned with this impending gloom of an early exit from life. All the ancient religions were concerned about how to secure immortality for the mortal. And so it is with religions today. Man keeps on waiting, waiting, waiting for something real that will happen in order to deliver them from a certain death.

The creation is like the wife of the Creator, who is in the deep pains of childbirth. She is struggling to deliver her children, the sons of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Romans 8: 22-23, KJV.

The whole creation is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the sons of God because they are the first ones who will be released from mortality’s chains. They will be the first ones who will not have to taste death. And then after they are made known, the creation can look forward to its redemption. That is how important the sons of God are. When they are adopted or placed as sons, then a new era begins—an era where immortals will stride the earth, showing forth God’s way.

We Who Have Some Truth Also Desperately Need the Sons of God

Just look around us. What do we see in every corner? We see lurid trash in political high places, filthy-minded movies and TV. There is no shame to the world system. And it is not getting any better. So we try to lock in on the word of God. We endeavor to glimpse a truth here, a truth there. Some of us are trying to lead a holy life, but we “see through a glass darkly.” We know, or should know that we are not walking in all truth. For if we were, we would be bearing the same spiritual fruit as the prophets and apostles of God. And we can’t seem to get in agreement and one accord with other sincere followers of Christ.

As a large body of people, we can’t see eye to eye enough to get together. Divisions abound. We, if we are blessed, have a place to meet with a few other people who share some of our own beliefs, but something is dras-tically missing. The unity of the Spirit is only a dream, for one group does not see eye to eye with another. We are to be in one mind and one accord, and yet, who is to say just what that one mind is? Who has the authority to say for sure anything? Who has a sure word? There are several thousand “Christian” denominations, and they are growing exponentially daily. There is probably a different concept of God and His plan for every one of His professing followers.

And it appears that the enemy is gaining ground, and we, the body of Christ, because of our disagreements and lack of unity, are seemingly losing ground as far as any “great move of truth” is concerned.

So what is the answer to this dilemma? It is as if Yahweh Himself is needed to come down and just flat appear to His select few, whoever they are! That would clear up the dim vision of those He has chosen. They would definitely “get on the same page” after that shared glorious experience. In the light of His own countenance and glow filling the room each would be in, He would straighten out off-concepts, purge out old leaven, old hypocrisies, and false concepts of Himself. There would be no self-delusion if the King Himself came down to a handful!

Then a fire would well up from out of their bones! Then they would cry to His people in His stead. They would be His voice with his word welling up and out as springs gush out making rivers where dry land once was.

That is what we all need. We need a sure word. We need the Captain of our faith Himself to get a cadre of His brothers to catch on fire and, in turn, ignite the world. We need a group of people baptized with the Spirit and with fire. We need them! We groan within ourselves, longing for someone to stand in the gap between God and the world.

That is the only thing that will ever turn this world upside down—if the people of the world were ready and knew they had a need for God in human form, had a need for the sons of the living God.

This whole creation is crying and groaning looking for someone sincere and true to believe in. The heroes are gone; the people run to their idols of music and movies. Those are their gods—gods who cannot see or hear them and their longings and needs, for their gods can see no one but themselves. The whole creation does not know it, but they are groaning and longing for the manifestation of the sons of God. And these sons will walk with the Lamb wherever He goes, for they shall be like Him. These are they who will do the greater works that the Master spoke of.

It All Hinges on the Sons, But Do They Know Who They Are?

Yes, the manifestation of the sons of God is of extreme importance in God’s plan, but do they know who they are? Do they realize their calling that He has placed on them? Do they know that He knew them long before their earthly sojourn began? Do they at present realize that He has already given them a glorious destiny—a destiny that has them justified from sin, set apart for this special work, and also glorified from heaven? Does God’s elect, His chosen ones, know these things?

Have they called on His name and restored their heart back to Him? But if they haven’t believed on Him, then how are they to call on Him? And how can they believe on this God if they have never heard Him, never heard His Spirit, never heard Him who is the Word? They are going to have to hear Him being spoken out of the mouth of another son in order to believe on Him. And how shall these prospective sons hear unless there be a preacher? And who is really going to be effective as a preacher? The world is full of preachers. Anyone who thinks they have heard from God calls himself a preacher. The future sons will be reached by those who proclaim the truth. And these proclaimers will be sent. For whosoever shall call upon the name of Yahweh shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent?

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Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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October 16, 2009 · 4:25 pm

Conversations with the Seer–Heirs of God and Joint-heirs With Christ

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

I asked the Seer, the Teacher of Righteousness, “The Scriptures say that we are now heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ (1). How do we become that?”

“It is all in Him. For in the end He will be all in all (2). We must decrease; He must increase in us to the point that He is all (3). At that time it will only be Yahweh in His fullness walking around in us here on earth. There will no longer be any more ‘us’ involved.”

“We will cease to exist?”

“In essence, yes. For we now have the same testimony as the early apostles when we say, ‘It is no longer I that lives, but Christ that lives in me’ (4). We now live by His Spirit of the anointed truth dwelling within our new hearts.”

“How does this happen?”

The Seer looked into my eyes and on down into my heart, searching for sincerity. Having found it, he answered, “It is by faith. By believing, having not seen as yet.”

“How do we step out in faith?”

“We must reckon it so. We must count it as done (5). The Creator has revealed His truth to us. He has said that our old sinful lives are a thing of the past. They are crucified with Christ on the cross. We must reckon it so by faith in what He said, even if we don’t understand it fully. The understanding and comprehension of how it happens takes place after we reckon it done.”

“You mean, Just like that! Reckon it so and it is done?”

“When we reckon the truth of God accomplished in our lives, we are merely doing what God has already done. For He had faith first in His own plan and ability to accomplish it in our pathetic little earthly lives (6). He gave us this destiny before of old, before we ever came forth from our mother’s womb. He knew us and pre-destined us for this very purpose: to work out a glorious future in our lives, guided by His very Spirit” (7).

“So we count it done in our lives?”

“Whatever He said in His word concerning our walk with Him on this earth–we have merely to believe it by reckoning it done by His Spirit, not by our own power. And He will, like He did for Abraham, account it unto us for righteousness.”

“Abraham, the father of our faith.”

“Yes. But why was he the father of our faith? Because he believed God, and it was accounted unto him for righteousness by God (8). God said that He could live a righteous life right here on earth, and Abraham just believed Him, and it was so. Many promises are made by God to His people, but they don’t believe it, and therefore, it never happens.”

“Like what?”

“Man’s wisdom teaches that a person cannot stop sinning, but the Spirit spoke through His apostles and taught the opposite. The truth says, Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin (9). Man limits God’s power through his unbelief in what God said. They have no faith. They believe what fearful and unbelieving man says and not what God says. They believe that man is still a sinner because they teach that natural man with his old Adamic heart retains that old heart after his ‘conversion.’ They never get to the root of the problem. They never get old Adam to the cross where their old heart can die with Christ.”

“But they say that they believe God.”

“Yes, but their words betray them, for they only say, and do not. They do not believe the simplest of His words, ‘With man it is impossible. But with God all things are possible’ (10). Even to live a righteous life. For you see, we must realize that Christ was made to be sin for us (11) so that we could recieve His Spirit and walk with Him. They don’t teach the truth of how we must identify our old sinful heart with Christ that day, die, and through faith in the operation of God that raised up Christ from the dead, walk in a newness of life–new in that it is a life that is free from sin and sinning (12). When He died, our old self died and the sinful core of our being with it.

“Since they never teach the truth that old man Adam dies out at the cross, then they can’t fathom a person living without sin in their lives. When actually it is no longer our original sinning self that lives, but now the Spirit of Christ that lives in these mortal bodies! This is what they don’t believe.”

“So then, those that don’t believe this first principle cannot be the heirs of God?”

The Seer looked at me and smiled. “Precisely. A vessel cannot inherit God while still thrashing selfishly about the earth, interested only in pumping up their own ego.”

“The heirs of God, then, reach that spiritual plateau through humility.”

“Precisely,” said the Seer. KWH

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Romans 8: 17
I Cor. 15: 28; Eph. 1: 23
John 3: 30
Gal. 2: 20
Rom. 6: 11
Eph. 1: 12
Eph. 1: 11
Gal. 3: 6
I John 3: 9
Mark 9: 23
II Cor. 5: 21
Col. 2: 12

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October 7, 2009 · 12:58 pm

Receiving Immortality and Overcoming Death, Our “Last Enemy”

The saddest, darkest, and most hopeless day is to believe that when we and our loved ones die, then that’s it; there’s no tomorrow. Death is our “last enemy.” And Death stalks us, and our minds scurry away from it. Our mortal condition haunts us and causes us to at times run and hide from having to think about Death.

But God has made a promise–that all those who believe in the Savior will be rewarded in receiving immortality. This is our hope (1). Our day of adoption into this immortal realm is when we receive our immortal spiritual bodies in the future on a certain date (2).

Many of His followers will have to face the fact that their earthly bodies will expire before that glorious date comes (3). The encouraging part is that He has given a portion of His Spirit to them. They carry His Spirit within their mortal bodies. And with it, they not only “put to death” old deeds of the flesh, but also bear spiritual gifts to the unenlightened–to help them enter into the truth.

For His promise to us is that even if we die this earthly death before that certain date in the future, He will grant unto us a new immortal body and with it everlasting life. So whether we die or whether we live on till He come back, we are assured in our hearts, when we believe that He will do what He said He will do in granting us immortality.

He grants unto us His mortal believers His Spirit, which is a down payment, a kind of spiritual earnest “money,” if you will, until that day (4). We then wield the Spirit as a sword, cutting off every thought of minds that come against the truth. Every grudge, every insincere gesture, every fear do we deal a death blow. In so doing, we shall have an abundant door provided unto us to enter His Kingdom of the Immortals (5). Kenneth Wayne Hancock

Romans 8: 23-24
Romans 8: 15
II Cor. 5: 1-4; 4: 7
II Cor. 1: 22
II Peter 1: 11

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August 8, 2009 · 1:22 pm

In Him Was Life–The Light of Men

God, the creative Life Force, has now made it possible for His very Life essence to be placed into the human beings that He has created. He is Eternal Life, and “God is a Spirit.” And when He places Himself in a human being, that person has eternal life dwelling in him. The promise is unto us of immortality. But there is only one way to attain this most precious of gifts.

Only one way, and Christ is the way. He alone is the Road to Immortality. He said as much. “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The Father, who is that original Spirit Life Force, dwelt bodily and fully in the man known in the English speaking world as Jesus Christ. That is why Christ continued and said, “No man comes unto the Father, but by me” (John 14: 6).

His disciple Philip asked Him to show the Father to them. And He responded, He that has seen me has seen the Father…the Father that dwells in me, He does the works. Then Christ commands them to believe Him that the Father is in Him (John 14: 9-11). Those who can do this will go on to do greater works than what even Christ had done (v. 12).

Christ is the mediator between the Father and mankind. He alone was predestined to overcome all things and provide the way into the Most Holy Place of the Father’s Presence, which is the Spirit coming into us and us coming into Him.

So this notion that Christ Jesus, who actually was called by His Hebrew name Yahshua during the 1st and 2nd centuries–this notion that He was just another great teacher or enlightened sage must be discarded once and for all. Anyway, if He was such a great teacher, then why doesn’t everyone believe His teachings? If He was so enlightened, then why doesn’t everbody follow Him?

In Him Was Life

The scriptures of truth declare that “in Him was life.” Christ had and has eternal Life residing in Himself. And this Life Force, which is the Spirit/Father, is Light. “In Him was life; and the life was the light of men” (John 1: 4).

It is here that it gets sticky for the human race. For they are living their lives in the darkness of hidden sins and lies, and “the Light shines in the darkness,” and the darkness of men’s souls has never quenched, nor overcome, nor ever put the Light out. For the Light is the very Life Force of the Father, who is immortal.

How does the Light shine into the darkness of the human heart? It exposes the sin and evil that dwells therein. The Light shines into the heart of darkness and convicts it of sin and forces it to change, to repent. And it is here that most of the masses of humanity lose interest in Christ and His message of regeneration; they feel that they are okay and have no need to change.

Yet the Savior and His apostles’ message was, “Repent of your sins.” His forerunner, the prophet John the Baptist, witnessed to all at Christ’s appearance at the river, “Behold, the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world” (John 1: 8). He was saying that Christ has the Father in Him and He is the true Light that will search out the dark hidden recesses of your heart and soul. He will provide the way for you to not have sin plaguing you daily. He will take away your sin and anyone else’s that hears and obeys Him. He will literally “save His people from their sins,” which is exactly what His Hebrew name Yahshua means–“Yahweh is the Savior.” Yahweh, the Father, dwells fully in the Son, and He delivers us from sin and sinning.

His Spirit-Life-Love is Light insomuch as it exposes evil, selfish darkness. When a person in darkness rejects the Light, then condemnation follows. Christ and those He dwells in do not condemn anyone. They merely allow Him to live His righteous life in their daily walk and leave the judging to Him. A person is condemned when he rejects the Light by loving darkness and evil rather than drawing near to the Light. In fact, everyone who does evil hates the Light and does not come to the Light because they don’t want their evil deeds to be exposed. “Everyone that does evil hates the light, because their deeds are evil” (John 3: 17-21).

One must get past the veil of Christ’s flesh and see the Father in Him, and thereby allow the healing Light of truth cleanse our hearts and set us upon the right path. This takes humility–a commodity sorely lacking here on earth. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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August 4, 2009 · 11:41 am

Christ in You–The Treasure in Earthen Vessels

Every stimulus that bombards our five senses works to prevent us from glimpsing the true Light. It is no accident that this happens; the great Creator made it this way so that His spiritual offspring would have spiritual struggles to overcome, thereby making them stronger. This is His doing and not ours; we would not do it this way. “His thoughts are not our thoughts.”

It is the overcoming of sin that lies at the heart of the Christian experience. Man’s thought says to us, No one can stop sinning in this life. This is pure self-projection, for the scriptures of truth speak otherwise. They speak of a deliverance from sin. “He that is dead is freed from sin” (1). And, “He shall save His people from their sins” (2). And “He that is born of God does not commit sin, for His seed remains in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God” (I John 3: 9).

This is what actually distinguishes the children of God from the children of darkness. I have written extensively about the “cross experience.” For it is there that one must come and surrender their old sinful selfish ways and just let them die with Christ, who bore them there; and be buried with Him, and be raised with Him. Or rather, through belief in the “operation of God” that raised Him up, we also can be “raised to walk in a newness of life” (3). This is “where old things are passed away,” where “all things are become new” (4). This is bottom line.

For it is His Life that counts. He doesn’t want a re-directed, re-furbished, re-cycled old selfish life. No. Our old life has to completely go, completely die out. He wants His life taking root and growing up in us. And finally, God wants His Spirit, the Spirit that is in Christ, to grow and flourish inside of us to the point that we become just like the Son of God. There it is. That is His plan and purpose. But only a few will have the faith to believe it and walk in it.

This is the secret kept from the foundation of the world–the secret that all seekers have wanted to know down through history. It is the treasure kept hidden in plain sight in this old world, a vast spiritual chest of knowledge much more precious than gold and diamonds. “And few there be that find it” (5).

Why? Because one cannot find this elusive spiritual treasure when moved by selfish motives. For one will not be given the map to find it if one seeks it selfishly. “Only the pure in heart shall see God” and His purpose and plan to reproduce Himself.

One can even read about this treasure in plain English, like you are reading this right now, and if their eyes have not been anointed with eyesalve, they can read the words, but the message will lay thud-like on leadened ears.

Here, then, is the secret of this “sacred mystery which up till now has been hidden in every age and every generation, but which is now as clear as daylight to those who love God. They are those to whom God has planned to give a vision of the full wonder and splendour of his secret plan for the nations. And the secret is simply this: Christ in you! Yes Christ in you bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come” (6). And those things include His government and righteousness filling this earth–precious things that we, His children, the overcomers will inherit. He is our Father; therefore, we are His heirs, heirs of all things!

But before all this happens, we have to get over ourselves and realize that we are nothing; it is all Him, all Christ. Once we receive that, we can find rest. KWH

Romans 6: 7
Matt. 1: 21
Romans 6: 4
II Cor. 5: 7
Matt. 7: 14
Col. 1: 26-27