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May 6, 2011 · 4:16 pm

YAH IS SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY CHAPTER 5 “The Importance of His True Name YHWH”

Every year here in southwest Missouri in November, an onslaught of hunters converge into the tens of thousands of acres of hardwood forests in hopes of bagging a prize buck. Imagine yourself in the middle of a 2000 acre tract alone in a deer stand. You hear the sounds of other hunting parties, for many have the same thing in mind as you do. You hear the word, “Daddy,” faintly off in the distance, and then it fades into the whisper of the wind in the leaves. You don’t pay it much mind.

I dare say that if you had heard your name coming through those trees, be it ever so faint, it would have gotten your attention. It would have generated thoughts immediately! Who could that be? Is that one of my kids? What are they doing out here? Are they hurt? Do they need me? And chances are that it would have sparked a search for that voice until you had found that person who had called your name.

Are names important? In this scenario a certain name is. The use of our name gets our attention. It could have been anybody’s daddy from anywhere, but when our name is uttered, we perk up.

I can’t help but think of our Father in heaven. We have been made in His likeness, in His image, both physically and emotionally. If our attention is corralled, galvanizing us into a desperate action by the mere mention of our name, could it be that His attention could be gotten in the same manner? Could it be that if only we could call upon the Creator and our Father using His real name, His given name, the name He said was His name forever—would that perk up His ears to our prayers, to our requests, to our cries?

The scriptures say that if we humans know how to give good gifts unto our own children, how much more will the Father give to those who ask Him. If we could respond to a faint cry of our own name in a deep forest, is it a big stretch to believe that the Almighty God, who is Love, could not be moved in His heart by hearing His own name expressed by one of His little ones?

The substitution of titles for YHWH

Now we know His real name. YHWH, pronounced “Yahweh,” is not a new revelation unto man. The name of the God of the Hebrews has been known for many centuries, but the translators have deliberately substituted the titles “LORD” and on occasion “GOD” and “JEHOVAH” for “Yahweh.” This is despite the passage quoted above, “Yahweh is my name forever.”

But Yahweh already knew that men would try to change His name throughout the ages. That’s why He said that it was His name forever and how we will remember Him. His name is His memorial unto all people in all times. You know His real Hebrew name, and you will begin to remember Him. His name Yahweh has been set up from the ancient times as a way for His people to bring Him back into their memories. The Hebrew word for “name” is shem, #8034, meaning “reputation; memory; renoun.” It was sometimes used as a synonym for “memory” (“Name,” Vine’s Expository Dictionary).

Believing in His Name

Just how important is the name of the Supreme Being? “But as many as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons (children) of God, even to them that believe on His name,” (John 1:12). Two major points are to be considered from this passage. First, when we receive Him, we are given authority and power to become the Spirit-Creator’s children. A comma sets off the second part of the verse. It is set up like an appositive, which renames what just went before in the verse. The second part of the verse says, “even to them that believe on his name.”

In other words, those who receive Him are those to whom He gives power and authority to become His offspring. And these are equal to those who believe in His name. His name is very important then. Those believing in it are equated with those who have received Him, who have received His Spirit (“I will come to you,” He says in John, speaking of the Comforter, the Spirit). Those believing in His name are those who are to become His children. The Creator came in human form; the Word was made flesh. “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” He came unto His own people and they did not receive Him. But some will.

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April 30, 2011 · 8:04 pm

The Elect of God–The Seekers of Truth

It is like we, the elect of God, are down here on earth where God has placed within our hearts a thirst and hunger for the truth. We have to know the truth. This search for truth is what keeps us going. It is the only thing seemingly that matters to us. Everything else is just cosmetics and window dressing.

“Great is the mystery of godliness,” the scriptures say, God being the greatest mystery of all. And so the seekers search Him out. And throughout the expanse of the earthly years that He has given us, we discover little bits of truth like pieces to the puzzle. We are like children adding a crystal to our tin box that it might lay with a seashell or a discarded brass key. We know these bits of truth are a special treasure and we hold them dear.

And these little bits of truth, if we endure, begin to add up and, like a jigsaw puzzle, begin to take shape. A picture of the landscape of spiritual reality emerges as we put things together.

We begin to see this panorama of God’s purpose and plan to reproduce Himself inside His sons and daughters. And then we begin to walk in it, thereby exercising His Spirit in us. And then He smiles, pleased with our belief, and says to those around Him, “See there. They are getting it! They are believing my word, and so I will answer their cries and grant their requests.”

And so our faith grows as we see that God really is real and personal. It is no longer just book learning intellectualism. No. He is real, and no one can take that away from us.

And so our appetite for the truth about who God is and why we are here is whetted, and our hunger is unabated. We need more of Him, who is the Truth. That is it. That is the truth. I am the way, the truth, the life…Thy word is truth…God is truth…

God has placed within us this unquenchable need to know the truth, which is Him and His plan, which entails the heavens and earth and all that is therein. This need for truth within us was placed there by God. It is His doing. And someone will say, What about the others who are not desperately seeking the truth? To that we must say that we are not to judge another man’s servant. They were created by God for His pleasure, and although our eyes are dim as to all mysteries, we will continue to trust Him that He knows what He is doing. He is our Father, and we are His children. We will submit our finite thinking to His mind, which is magnificent.

For it is all His doing. “His ways are past finding out.” Just knowing that it is all summed up in His name, which is holy and is to be reverenced. For the secrets of His universe are expounded in His name–His original Hebrew name–Yahshua, “for there is no other name given whereby man must be saved.” Find out what it means and you’ll have the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. KWHancock

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April 17, 2011 · 1:52 pm

YAHWEH IS SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY CHAPTER 3

Chapter 3

How to Receive Wisdom

But as we saw in James 1:5-7, the obtaining of this awe and reverence and respect is tied to our asking Him for it in faith, in full assurance that He will answer our prayer.

Here we have three extremely important concepts inextricably intertwined: wisdom, faith, and prayer. Wisdom is the main thing. And because we all start out lacking it, we need to ask Him for it. Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights. But we must ask for wisdom in faith, in full assurance in our hearts that God not only hears our request, but also grants our request and gives us awe and respect of him. That is prayer. And it is a lovely circle because when He gives us a bit of awe of Him, then that is a direct answer to our prayer of faith, which in turn gives us more awe (wisdom) of Him. This is a beautiful circle.

James outlines for us in the first chapter some necessary knowledge about wisdom, faith and prayer. First, he is writing to the 12 tribes which are scattered abroad. He then says that it is a necessary thing that our faith be tried (1:2). It will be tried by temptations that come. But we are to look at these temptations as a source of joy because it brings patience into our lives. Patience is that part of His nature (2 Peter 1:4-7) that helps perfect us. She performs a perfect work, if we let her (v.4). Then in the very next verse the apostle says that if any of us lack wisdom or, in other words, if any of you are not letting patience do the work of perfection in you through a lack of awe and respect of Him, then, by all means, ask Him for wisdom in faith, and He will give it to you.

In v.14 we learn that every person is tempted when we are drawn away from that guiding awe of the Supreme Being by some desire that we allow ourselves to go after. And when that lust or desire has conceived it brings forth sin. There was a seed, a thought, a word of desire of something contrary to the Ten Commandments that conceived, and it brings forth the evil fruit of sin, the breaking of the 10 Commandment law of God. And death is the final result of sin.

In verse 16: Don’t err. Don’t make a mistake in what I’m about to write to you, James is saying to us: Every good and perfect gift comes down from above from the Father of lights. We cannot manufacture what it takes to become perfect; we cannot in our own thoughts and work and effort here on earth accomplish the great work that He wants done through each of us who are called with His heavenly calling. It will come down from heaven through prayer, through fearing and being in awe of such a majestically powerful and loving God.

And then, through moving with fear, we can do the deeds that show that we have the faith and assurance that He is living in us and through us.

We need to get wisdom; it is the principal thing. Without it we will not get anywhere on the road to immortality. We must realize that wisdom is to be in awe of the Great One, the One who created billions of galaxies. We realize our need for wisdom, and then simply ask Him as a little child asks his loving parent. The child fully expects the mother or dad to give him what he is asking for. We need to ask our spiritual Father the same way for wisdom. Father, help me to be in awe of You, You who have created all things in this profound universe. Help me to realize just how powerful You are and to respect your ways. Father, will You give me wisdom?

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February 27, 2011 · 3:10 pm

The Key to Answered Prayers–from “Conversations with the Seer”

“I don’t get why we have to pray all the time. Pray without ceasing? Who can do that?” I asked the Seer. In his teachings each week at the Mission he had been stressing the importance of prayer.

“You are right. A man can’t do that,” he said.

I was shocked that he would concede this point so quickly. “I know the word says that we are to be ‘praying always,’ but I’ve tried, and I just can’t do it.”

“You won’t be able to do these requests that the Father has made of us concerning prayer, in your current way of thinking,” the Seer said. “That is why you are perfectly correct when you say, ‘I can’t do it. Nobody can.'”

“Then why does God tell us to do something that’s impossible to do?”

“Ah,” the Seer said knowingly, smiling kindly at me. “This is where the error of your thinking manifests itself. The Master Himself said, ‘With God all things are possible.’ Also, the apostle Paul said, ‘I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.'”

“I don’t get it. You have taught that the last piece of the armor of God in Ephesians 6 is ‘praying always.’ I just don’t see how it works.” He could see, I am sure, my frustration, for I really had tried to do it.

“Look. You left out the most important part of that verse. It says, ‘Praying always…in the Spirit.’ Christ is alive evermore and He through His Spirit is interceding for us all. He is the High Priest, and His prayers will be answered, believe me. But Christ is not just praying for us; He desires to pray through us. When you let go of the sensation that it is you that’s doing the praying and believe that it is Christ in you who is doing the praying, then you’ll get somewhere.”

“‘Christ in us, the hope of glory…'”

“For, you see, the key to praying like God wants us to pray is to believe that it is ‘no longer I that lives, but Christ that lives in me.’ How does Christ live in us? By His Spirit that He has given us. We must first truly believe that we have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in our hearts. Then we must believe that it is the Spirit of Christ in us praying–not us praying in our own little strength.”

“We’ve got to get out of the way and let His Spirit in us do the praying?”

“Yes, and everything else. Paul said, ‘I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.’

“It always goes back to faith in God,” I said.

“Always. Faith is looking to and believing in the Invisible. You can’t see the Holy Spirit of Christ in you, and yet, you still believe that He lives within you, and that it is no longer ‘you’ that lives in your body, the temple of God. Let the High Priest pray through you, intercede through you. We are to be God’s kings and priests, and this is how you do it. But it takes faith.”

“Yes. Lots of it,” I said.

“This solves your original frustration about how do we ‘pray without ceasing’ and ‘praying always.’ In man’s strength, it is impossible, but the Spirit of Christ lives on, earnestly desiring to pray through another son and daughter of God, yearning for them to get the revelation that through His Spirit, they can be priests unto God in His wonderful kingdom of righteousness, which is reigning spriritually now in the hearts of God’s children, but soon will be expanded upon Christ’s return to the whole earth. Remember: Christ will definitely get His prayers answered. Let Him through His Spirit pray through you and you’ll have your prayers answered every time.”

“So what does Christ pray for?”

“It is pretty much summarized through His model prayer, known as the Lord’s Prayer. But you have to strip away the old leaven associated with that prayer, for the wicked one has made it into a ritual and an incantation. But more on this later.” KWH [For more on what Christ prayed for, go to the “Archives” at the bottom of the left hand column under “June and July of 2008”]

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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August 7, 2010 · 5:26 pm

God’s Eternal Purpose: “Bringing Many Sons unto Glory”

The thoughts and intents of the Father’s heart are without beginning and end. His purpose has existed through all time and has never wavered, has never changed. His intention toward His creation is everlasting.

It is forever the same and will always be true and valid. His purpose will always go on; it will never stop. It will come to pass; nothing can prevent His eternal purpose from finding full fruition in this earth and in the heavens. His purpose is, of course, the perfect example of the definition of “eternal” (Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, 2^nd College Edition).

God not only has, but is the definitive word on what will transpire here on earth and in the entire universe. “In the beginning was the Word…and the Word was God” John 1:1. “Word” is translated from the Greek word Logos, meaning “(1) a thought or concept; (2) the expression or utterance of that thought” (note, Scofield Reference Bible, p. 1114). Therefore, in the beginning was the thought or concept, and that thought or concept was the Supreme Being. And that thought, that Word, became an utterance of that thinking. And that Word, that Thought, would unfold into a living reality throughout the universe.

Those thoughts, expressed in words, comprise the purpose of God. His purpose is the road His creation will travel. His thoughts are His counsel, and they shall stand forever and will come to pass. The counsel of Yahweh standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Psalms 33:11.

Both “purpose” and “thoughts” are words in English translated from the same Hebrew word machashabah, #4284 in Strong’s Concordance. His thoughts are His purpose. They express His intentions, His plan, His purpose. And these thoughts, this purpose, are an intention directed personally and deliberately by God toward His people. It is a plan that involves people right here on earth. David knew this intimate truth that God hovers in thought abundantly over his people. Many, O Yahweh, my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward; they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Psalms 40:5. David was well aware of God’s purpose, which definitely concerned him and all of Israel.

And the Word, the Purpose, the Thoughts of God “became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth” John 1:14. The Word/Purpose/Thoughts of God was made flesh; He is called the Son of God, and He is full of grace and truth. If we can tap into the truth of God’s purpose, if we can conceive of His plan, then we will know the thoughts and intents of His heart. And when we think those thoughts, and have the same intention and purpose that He is and has, then we are well on the way of pleasing the Father.

Knowing of God’s eternal purpose, which is the grace and truth that the Word-made-flesh was full of, will bring light to us. For the Word-made-flesh is Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. John 1:9-11.

The Purpose Incarnate was walking around on the earth He created with the people He had chosen to reveal Himself through, and the majority rejected Him. But some will receive Him, and they will receive power to become like Him. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. John 1:12.

Received Him? Who is He? He is the Word, the Thought, the Purpose of God from the beginning put into earthen vessels. Receive His thoughts and intention and purpose and you are receiving Him. And you will then receive power to become His sons. And the sons will have believed on His name. The sons will not only know His real Hebrew name Yahshua, but they will believe what His name means. More on that later.

His Purpose Is Sharing Himself with His Offsprin

Yes, Yahweh has a purpose. He has thoughts toward certain chosen vessels, His sons and daughters to be. To get them into His camp, He deliberately contacts them or calls them. He lets them know He is real in some way. He puts a desire and a hunger in their hearts to know the truth as to why they are here. He feeds their hunger with small portions of the truth, and they grow. And soon they begin to realize that everything seems to work out for them. Even through the bad times, the times of suffering, both of their making and through no fault of their own, God seems to bring some good out of it. They realize that they are maturing and becoming less selfish. They begin to love this invisible God who has provided a plan to deliver them from their sinful selves. Where once they were destroying themselves and their families, they now are enjoying more peace and harmony in their lives. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28.

At first, his offspring may not realize that they are a special creation descended from Adam, who was created some 6,000 years ago in God’s image. Other men had been created by God earlier. We know this because Cain was cast out to the east of Eden after murdering his brother Abel, and there he took a wife from those people. But the descendants of Adam had a special destiny in God’s heart. God had His eye on a few of these Adamites before they ever were born on earth. Unknown to them at first, He would call and choose out a few whom He knew beforehand. And He gave them a destiny before their entry into a mortal earthly fleshly existence. He predestinated them to be made into the exact image of the Son of God, the Word-Thought-Purpose of God. They are to be His siblings, his brothers. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be con-formed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 8:29. For God knew his own before ever they were, and also ordained that they should be shaped to the likeness of his Son. 8:29. NEB.

And those that He predestinated to be exactly like Himself, those are the ones that He first contacts or calls. And, as far as He is concerned, it is a done deal. It is His Thought toward them that they should be like Himself. What He has purposed, who can prevent it from coming to pass? To those that He called, He gave them a new heart that does not sin against Him. He justified them. They are in His sight justified from all of their despicable past actions. They, of course, must witness this on earth by believing the word of God about His Son, who is the sacrifice for our sins, whose shed blood slays the sin within us. It is already done and over with in God’s mind before it ever happens here on earth to His children! And to those called ones who He has justified, He in His thinking, in His heart, has already glorified! More-over, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 8:30. He chose them long ago; when the time came he called them, he made them righteous in his sight, and then lifted them to the splendour of life as his own sons. 8:30. Phillips.

This is God’s Doing and Not Ours

God the Word has thought it all out and has purposed it and planned it to happen according to His predetermined counsel. Nothing accidentally happens. He is calling, justifying, and glorifying His elect, the chosen few. They will be “conformed to the image of His Son.” They will shortly be glorified and have their mortality swallowed up by His miraculous eternal life! God is for them! He helps them to do His plan, and this personally pleases Him. He gives them what they need and when they need it to become what He has pre-determined for them to become. In the face of all this, what is there left to say? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not grudge his own Son but gave him up for us all—can we not trust such a God to give us, with him, everything else that we can need? Romans 8:31, Phillips.

Not According to Us, But to His Own Purpose

We cannot do anything to become a part of His purpose and plan. God is saving some and calling some with a holy calling, but it is not because of anything “good” or “evil” that they have done. You cannot work at it in order to be accepted as a son or daughter. You work at it because you realize you are chosen by God. You cannot give enough offerings or go to church tirelessly and endlessly and expect to be one of the chosen ones by your efforts. To be called to be like Him, to be chosen as one of his sons is not according to our own works. It has nothing to do with what we have done, do, or ever will do. He calls us to be His immortal sons and daughters in accordance with His own purpose that was given to us in Yahshua His Son before the world began. 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 Yahshua the Messiah before the world began. II Timothy 1:9.

Our perfection and sonship in Him was given to us before the creation of the world. Therefore, we were in existence before the world began! We had to have spiritually been with Him in the beginning in order to have received the holy calling of sonship from Him. It is he who brought us salvation and called us to a dedicated life, not for any merit of ours but of his own purpose and his own grace, which was granted to us in Yahshua from all eternity. 1:9. NEB.

The Inheritance

The sons and daughters of God have obtained an inheritance. Our destiny is to inherit all things and to reign with the King of the Universe. Now this inheritance that some are to receive is a destiny that He has pre-arranged for that elect few. He has predestined them for greatness. He has selected these chosen few before the world ever was, to be like Him. And their lives—their destiny as His sons and daughters—have been predestinated in accordance with His own purpose. He thought it through before the world ever was, and He purposed and planned it all out to the finest detail. He then began to work all things after the counsel of His own will and purpose. For God has allowed us to know the secret of his plan, and it is this: He purposes in his sovereign will that all human history shall be consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in Heaven or earth shall find its perfection and fulfillment in him. And here is the staggering thing—that in all which will one day belong to him, we have been promised a share (since we were long ago destined for this by the one who achieves his purposes by his sovereign will), so that we, as the first to put our confidence in Christ, may bring praise to his glory! Ephesians 1:9-12, Phillips.

Summary

The great Creator, the Giver of life, has a definite plan and purpose in creating all things. He has revealed His purpose over the last 6,000 years to only a few human beings. We call them apostles and prophets, and they by inspiration of the Spirit of God have left us some writings that tell of His purpose.

They tell of His promise to humankind of a life everlasting—an eternal life where our frail, flimsy earthen bodies will be replaced by a glorious spiritual body in which those blessed ones will live with the Heavenly Father as His spiritual sons and daughters, His heirs of His kingdom.

The apostles and prophets speak of the following concepts that are a part of the perfecting of His sons and daughters:

Purpose—No accidents. He has an eternal purpose in reproducing Himself in His children.
Predestination—He has given a royal destiny to a few human beings before they were ever born here on earth.
Foreknowledge—He knew who they would be before they were born into this earth.
Election—Same word as “chosen.” He chooses or elects certain human beings to fulfill His will.
Grace or Favor—He favors the ones He has chosen. They are predisposed to respond to Him, and He showers great grace on them, or He favors them with a depth of knowledge about His purpose and how He is going to perform his plan.
Kings and Priests—The elect or the chosen ones will acquire immortality according to His will and become like Him. They will do the “greater works” as His ruling royal family. They will be His immortal offspring, able to mediate the glorious blessings of His Spirit to the rest of creation. They will be His inner circle, His cadre, His round table of rulers in His exact image, able to love mankind in the same powerful way that He did.
Sovereignty—He is sovereign and can do whatever He desires to do and whenever He decides to do it, in order to accomplish His purpose, plan, intention and thoughts.

[This is Chapter 2 of my book The Unveiling of the Sons of God. If you would like to read more, I have it online at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…” ] Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 20, 2010 · 2:10 pm

“Greater Works” Comes by Believing Yahweh Dwelt Bodily in Christ

The time was growing short. The Savior knew that He had but a short time to be with the disciples that He had chosen to reveal Himself to. He began to comfort them with words that would reassure them that His imminent death was not the end.

He told them to not be troubled. Just believe in God and in Me, He was saying. Trust Me. It is going to get rough, but stay in the ship. After the crucifixion, I will rise again after three days and three nights. I’m going to prepare a place for you, and I will come back for you so that you can be where I am. Anyway, you already know the way to that place where I’m going.

Then Thomas spoke up and said, “We don’t even know where you are going, much less the way to get there.” Thomas was evidently thinking of a literal geographical location.

“Thomas, I am the way to get there. I am the truth, and I am the life. I am not only the way to get there, but I am the destination, as well. If you realized just who and what I am, then you would know who the Father is and where He is.”

“We will be satisfied if you just show us the Father.”

“After all you have witnessed me do, don’t you realize that the Father is the only one who has done these miracles through these hands? Look at me. Look past the flesh, and when you see the invisible Me inside, that spiritual force that lives in my body–when you have really seen Me, you have seen the Father. For the Father is living inside of Me, and it is He who is doing all the mighty works that you see me do” (John 14: 1-10).

He was reaffirming that the Father is Spirit, or how else can the Father be dwelling in the Son? You cannot stuff the body of the Father into the body of the Son. The Father, then, has to be a Spirit who dwells in His Son, which is the Spirit in a human form.

Christ’s New Commandment

Then He gives us a command in v. 11. “Believe Me.” Believe what? “Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” Believe the truth of my words that the Life is living in me, and that I am the way for you to get this Life, who is the Father.

Then He makes a promise in v. 12. “Whoever believes me when I say that the Father is in me–that person will do what I have been doing. He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do because I am going to my Father.” He who believes the Savior’s words that it was Yahweh Himself, the great Eternal Spirit Creator, who was dwelling in Him–that believer will do the same things that the Savior did! What an astounding promise!

This promise has to be to those people who know and the believe the truth about the Father being an ivisible Spirit residing in His body–us. “And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, I will do it that glory will come to the Father (v. 13).

What Are We to Ask?

Two questions arise that need clarification. What exactly are we to ask? And what does it mean to ask it in His name? What are we to ask? We are to ask Him to do the same things through us that He did in human form! We are to ask for the greater works to be done by His Spirit in us–that the Father may be glorified.

The believers in Yahweh-is-the-Savior [“I, even I am the LORD (Yahweh in the original Hebrew); and beside Me there is no savior.”]–believers will do greater works than what He did 2,000 years ago in His incarnation as the Son of God. The Father, who is that great invisible Spirit, who dwelt in the Son and did the works, the miracles, the wonderful gifts to men of healing and deliverance from demons, wants to do the same works–only on a much greater scale through a body of many sons. And so we will do the same works by the Father, the Spirit, dwelling within us. It is not by our might, nor by our strength, by “by my Spirit saith Yahweh” that the works will be done.

The Main Pre-requisite

So it boils down to receiving more of the Spirit, more of the Father within us. And the main pre-requisite in receiving the Spirit is obeying the Son of God, for He gives the Spirit to those who obey Him (Acts 5: 32). He continues speaking in v. 15, “If you love Me, you will keep my commandments.”

What had He just commanded the disciples? He had just told them to believe Him when He said that the Father is in Him. “Believe also in Me,” He said. He told them to believe Him and His word as to just Who was in Him. “Believe Me!” That was the commandment.

He was telling them: You believe in God and you know that He is the Father/Spirit. This is good. Now believe that the Father is in Me! Believe Me! For it is the Father speaking to you right now through my very lips!

This is the commandment that He wanted us to obey–believe that it was Yahweh clothed behind His special veil of flesh.

After Believing This, What Comes Next?

Immediately after this order to believe that the Father is in him, He says that He will arrange for the Holy Spirit to come down to us, to “be with us forever.” Forever. This signifies that once a person really receives the Spirit of truth, who is the Comforter, that He will never depart from us. He will abide with us forever!

Bottom line: We must believe that “God was manifested in the flesh”–that Immanuel was God with us, walking on this planet in a human flesh body. The Creator is Yahweh, who is an invisible Spirit that hides Himself behind a veil of flesh. This is exactly what He did in the man Yahshua of Nazareth. Now He is asking us to see past the His fleshly body [which has been changed into His spiritual body anyway] and believe that the Father was in Him, residing a brief time in that mortal flesh. He walked among the special people of His creation. Yahweh is the Word, and He was made flesh and dwelt among us. And He has promised that all those who believe this word about Himself will do the same things that the Savior did. And thousands of sons doing the same works that the Savior did will the “the greater works.”

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July 11, 2010 · 2:24 pm

His Faith–Once Delivered to the Saints

We have seen that we are to look upon the invisible things and not on the things that are seen with our earthly eyes. Faith is one of those spiritual things that is invisible. But there are many misconceptions as to what faith really is. Everyone has their own imagination as to what faith is.

But faith is an invisible spiritual thing that has already been given to God’s elect. It is a special gift from Him to His future sons and daughters that will help them grow up into Him.

It is the “faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). Faith is a spiritual commodity that has been delivered to the people of God. Who delivered it? The Creator Yahweh did. Faith is not something that has to be mustered up by us His people. We rather must receive it from Him. It is something that originates from out of His nature and is given to us. “For every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights.” That includes faith.

It is His faith that is transplanted into our hearts. It is not something we manufacture out of our own will and effort that leads us to finally believe in Him. His faith in us is the first part of His divine nature to enter into the human heart. But what is it exactly? Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1.

“Things hoped for…” What does Yahweh hope for? What are the desires of His heart? What has He purposed? Long before we were ever born, He saw us in our down-trodden state of sin and misery. He also saw us rise with Him by His Spirit to vanquish sin and death in our lives. He believed that this was a reality—that this was substance—having not yet seen it come to pass. He believed and so therefore spoke and said that it was so. He believed the best about us and His plan—not having seen the evidence yet of its fruition. We as changed individuals are evidence that the invisible Supreme Being is real. We are His witnesses that He is God. And if He believes in His work in us before it comes to full fruition, then we should, too. He is our example.

His divine nature is positive, full of faith and power. All of His promises are “yes.” Nothing negative flows from His heart. He is positive; His attitude is positive. In fact, He calls those things that are not, that do not exist as yet, as though they did exist. He said that He will be all in all eventually. We should then, right now, begin to walk around as if He already is all in you and me. This will take belief that “it is no longer I that lives but Christ that lives in me.”

He is positive, giving “life to the dead and calls that which does not exist as existing.” This is He. This is how He thinks. He is positive about His capabilities. He has absolutely no doubt about His reserves and His resolve to get done what He wants done. And what He wants done is the multiplication, the reproduction of Himself, within His creation. He is an invisible Spirit; He wants to see Himself in action in human form. This is the witness that He talks about in Isaiah. We are to be His witnesses that He is the invisible Spirit/God. His faith believes that not only we can change, but that we will change—that we are changed! He seeks people to worship Him in this spirit and attitude and in this truth. He needs people to worship Him in this way—to believe the way He believes.

A key scripture regarding the nature of His faith is Romans 4: 17. It sometimes is advantageous to read it in several translations. God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. KJV. God, who gives life to the dead and calls that which does not exist as existing. The Scriptures. God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were. NIV. God who brings the dead to life and whose command brings into being what did not exist. TEV.

Nothing good exists within us—except His Spirit, if so be that we have received His Spirit. By believing that He is—not only that He exists, but also that He is where He hopes, intends, and expects to be—in us.

Tapping into this faith of His will bring His Spirit down into us. You cannot receive the Spirit by just keeping the law, or trying your best to keep the law. Human effort in trying to keep the law (the ten commandments) will not bring His Spirit down into us. The work of our selves, of our flesh, profits nothing in the end. After all, it would be just us trying to accomplish a spiritual law made for a spirit to keep. It is the spirit that makes alive…the flesh profits nothing. The words I speak, they are spirit and they are life…Does God give you His Spirit because you observe the law or because you believe what you heard? Gal. 3: 2. NIV.

Paul is trying to tell the foolish Galatians that no amount of us trying to keep the letter of the law will bring His Spirit into us. Trying to keep the law in our own strength will never perfect us. Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 3:3.

No. We shall receive the Spirit by believing what we heard—by faith. We have to be like Abraham, who believed in the promises without wavering. Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 3:6. Abraham believed the promises. But what promise? “I will walk in them and will be their God and their sins I will remember no more.” Hebrews 8:12. The promise we are to believe is the promise of God giving us His Spirit.

Some of us are so afraid of being like “them”—the mainstream denominations with their cheap grace. But Yahweh is saying to us that you are not like them. You have respect to my laws and ways and precepts and you know my name. But although your conscious effort to keep my laws and honor my sabbaths are good intentioned, that alone should be the fruit of the state I want you to be in. And that state is a state of your old nature not being there in the temple of your body, but rather my Spirit, my presence. I have promised you my Spirit, my presence. That is all you need. When I am there in you, I’ll keep my laws in you. If any man have not the Spirit of Messiah he is none of His. You do not have to worry about that. My servant Paul kept the feasts and preached law keeping. He forbad sinning. Shall we continue in sin that grace (favor) may abound? God forbid. Romans 6:1-2.

It is absolutely not the way to go to try to keep the torah and 10 commandments without first seeking to receive the promise of His indwelling Spirit. The law, the torah, was given 430 years after the promise to Abraham—the promise that God would live in us and help us live righteously and godly. And the law cannot “set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise…” (Galatians 3:15-18, NIV).

What was the purpose of the torah (the law)? It was added because of transgressions until the seed to whom the promise referred had come. We are that seed—rather Christ in us is that seed. When we believe, the seed germinates and grows within us. The promise is receiving His Spirit by believing that He has given it to us—as we follow on in His steps.

We do this by faith. We do this by believing His word about His faith, His nature. His faith works both ways. If He has confidence in us before we ever bring forth the fruit, then we should believe in Him even though we have not seen Him in the flesh. This is our trial of the faith. Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. I Peter 1:8.

And during the time of our sojourning here on earth, we are to add His divine nature to the faith that He has delivered unto us. His divine nature is built upon His faith. No wonder not many have added it, for they have tried to add it to their own faith in Him instead of adding His divine nature to His faith. Peter says that we are “partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

The Word is the seed. And that seed is growing in us by us believing His word that says that His word is growing in us. This is the faith once delivered to the saints. This is the way He thinks about His power to change our lives—by His Spirit. Now we walk in His faith/belief when we believe the same thing about ourselves that He believes about us. That is His faith. That is His faith which was once delivered to the saints. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

[This is Chapter 19 of my book The Unveiling of the Sons of God. To read more go to the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”]

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June 27, 2010 · 7:52 pm

How the Old Self Dies–Baptism into His Death

We may not realize it yet, but we are blessed, for we have seen that our old self needs to go. Many try to redirect or re-channel its activities. Sometimes we try to clean it up, but He wants it to die.

He said to repent and be baptized in water. Yes, water baptism is a symbol of something else, yet we should still do it. But few know what the real baptism is. Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Messiah Yahshua were baptized into His death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. Rom. 6:3-4. NIV.

Going down into the water is a symbol of the mortal life we now live in this flesh. Coming up out of the water is a symbol of the new spirit-being life we shall live which is the immortal life that we are called to.

Water is a symbol of our mortality. Our first physical birth is an immersion in a bag of water. We are born of water. We mortals are about 75% water. We begin in our mother’s womb in water. During water baptism we are baptized into His death. To live in this mortal body is to die. This watery entombment we call a body is really a deathtrap. It by its very nature has to die. The Messiah’s earthly body was composed of the same watery stuff that our bodies are. And He died. He had to die by reason of the nature of his shell during His earthly tenure. This watery, flesh and blood body cannot inherit immortality and go into the kingdom of the Eternal One. To be made of water is to be mortal, to be awaiting death, for water is extremely unstable, subject to every whim of nature’s forces.

To sin is to die. Mortality is to be able to die. Therefore, our mortality is to sin. Sinning insures a human of not receiving a new spiritual heavenly body. But now He has enabled us to live a life where we do not have to sin, if we receive His Spirit. Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust (desires) of the flesh (this old mortal body). Gal. 5:16. NKJV.

He was made to be sin for us

We, then, when we go under in water, are symbolically being immersed into this watery mortal state of sin with Him. We “are buried with him by baptism into death.” Rom.6:4. God calls those things that are not, as though they were. We are dead already (Yahshua told the disciples, “Let the dead bury their dead”). He calls it before its actual physical death when we consent to and experience it (in revelation). The water is the symbol of our earthly mortal bodily state. This spiritual death of our old self comes now in this revelation before the fruit of death comes to our earthly bodies.

In conjunction with this, few know that the Messiah, the day of His death, actually became sin for us—he who had never sinned. He was the sacrificial Lamb who was set to be sacrificed before the world ever came into existence. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. II Cor. 5:21. NIV. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Rev. 13: 8.

The levitical priest, in types and shadows, laid his hands on the sacrificial goat, thereby transferring Israel’s sins upon it. So did the Father place all of mankind’s sins upon the body of Messiah. When He died, the body of sin died; our sin died that day. To whom is the arm of Yahweh revealed?…Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all…It pleased Yahweh to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see His seed. Isa. 53:1,6,10.

We make the Lamb’s soul an offering for our own sins by realizing that it was us in our sinful state hanging on the tree that day. We must be immersed in this knowledge. We must believe that our old self—that old monkey on our back, that old demon that we were, that selfish, egotistical, self-absorbed, sorry excuse for a human being—that old thing that we were is now, in God’s eyes dead. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Rom. 6: 6.

[This is ch. 28 of my book, Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality, which you can find at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”]

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June 11, 2010 · 3:55 pm

Repentance–Departing from Evil–Pre-requisite of Immortality

A few of us humans will achieve immortality when we are given a new spiritual body at the time of the resurrection, the time of the Messiah’s return. But not everyone that says that He is Master of their life will become immortal. It will only be those who are alive and have the Spirit of God dwelling in them in a reality, or those who had the Spirit of God dwelling in them at the time that their earthly bodies fell asleep, these also will be given a new immortal spiritual body during the first resurrection.

You have a mortal, fleshly body at this time, but God Almighty has unlimited power and he is quite capable with the mere power of his word to give you a new spiritual body as it has pleased him in his eternal plan and purpose laid down since before the beginning of the world. (II Cor. 5:l). He will have called many, but few are chosen for this the greatest of all honors—to be one of the many sons and daughters that God is bringing to glory. It is a great love that will bestow this on a select few, for few there will be to find this way of truth. It is quite easy to find the way that leads to destruction, misery, and desolation. A narrow gate awaits those who enter the way that leads to love, honor, and glory.

The sole criteria in achieving immortality is that we receive the Spirit of God somehow into our bodies. But therein lies the problem for mankind. The Spirit God will not dwell in unclean temples. The human body was created for the express purpose to house the Spirit of God, the essence of Himself. God made his crowning creation, man and woman, to house Himself. Mankind is to be His temple.

However, God cannot dwell in the fleshly, earthly tabernacle called the human being until He cleans out the temple first. The old carnal nature dwells in unregenerated man. Man in his original fleshly state is abominable before God.

If He were speaking directly to us He would say, “Your actions toward your fellow man make you filthy before God. The inside of you is dirty. It is your heart that needs cleansing. Your nature of selfishness is an abomination before God. You lie, cheat, steal, kill, commit adultery, want other people’s worldly possessions; even their sons and daughters and wives and husbands. Nothing is sacred to you humans anymore, but then it was always that way. I gave you a simple ten point law and you refuse to keep it because there is nothing in it for yourself. You worship other things besides Me, your Creator God. And you don’t keep the one day that I said to keep holy, the sabbath. A very simple law, but a very profound law.

“You humans basically worship yourselves, think of yourselves first, put your thoughts for your lives first. Always first, first, first. And before you realize it, there is little if any thought for, or even about Me in your thoughts. You see, your thoughts make the temple, your body, unclean. Your center is not right, is not on Me the Creator, and so, man and woman live out their little mortal existences, leading their little desperate rut-like lives, never glimpsing the truth of the potential of what could be for them. And that potential is immortality, never ending life, everlasting life, eternal life, a life of infinite years.

“But man’s problem is that he wants his own life to go on without end. He wants his own selfish little existence to continue unabated with everyone worshipping him and centering in on his every whim and inordinate desire. He wants to live forever in his way of getting for himself. And yet he doesn’t realize that that way of life cannot last forever. The way of getting selfishly will end up in death. Labor in the fields of selfishness, and all you are paid is death. In all man’s thoughts these things should not be, but that’s the way of all man’s flesh that doesn’t heed the higher call. This is man’s grief—that he can’t take it with him. This is the proverbial vanity of vanities. No profit under the sun of all one’s labor spent upon oneself.”

So God cannot live in the midst of all that selfishness—a lawlessness that is called sin, for the breaking of the ten commandments is sin. And God hates sin because it is so against His nature. He wants to live in man and woman, but He can’t because when man is full of himself, then there is no room for God. Selfish action is a selfish spirit and is the opposite of God’s Spirit, which is the action called Love.

So there again is man’s problem; he wants to live forever, but wants to live his own selfish life forever, and this thinking breeds mortality, the way of death. In order to gain immortality, man must have God’s Spirit living within him. But the Spirit of God will not dwell in temples (bodies) that are unclean (have actions done in them that are sinful in breaking the l0 commandments). Mankind that comes as far as this knowledge on the road of life comes to a fork in the road. He must chose to either remain as he is and how he has been living, or he must seek a way to repent, to change the error of his ways. In other words, he must find a way to stop breaking the l0 commandments.

And men have tried in the past to do just that to keep the ten commandments of God. They have failed miserably, for they have tried on their own strength and power to do so. It is impossible to keep them without God’s help. We are created that way, so that we must, in order to please Him, turn to Him for his power and strength to keep His holy law. The mightiest of body and the noblest of mind found among men cannot obey the law without His Spirit doing it in and through them.

One would ask then, “What can a person do in order to keep the law?”

First, he must through a broken and contrite spirit and heart be sorry for the way he has treated his fellow man and God. This sorrow can grow and eventually yield a desire to not do those things again. He will then repent of his sins, turn away from that way of getting for himself, and throw himself on God’s mercy to forgive him. God is rich in mercy and wants to receive his creation back into the fold of His plan and purpose. If they are sincere, He will forgive them and cleanse them from the filth and uncleanness.

We are cleansed by the shed blood of the Lamb, Yahshua, Yah-in-human-form, who gave Himself up in sacrifice for us.

It all hinges on faith and belief in the sacrifice that God has ordained–the only sacrifice that can take away a person’s sins. The sacrifice is the Lamb of God, the only one who lived a sinless life. If you can really believe that your sin was placed upon him the day of His death, that when He died, your sin died with it, and that when He was buried, your sinful life was buried, and when He was resurrected, you also were raised again to walk in a newness of life—if you can believe all this, then you can receive into your body (temple) that same Spirit and power that raised Him from the dead. It takes belief, faith.

If you ask Him, He will give you a portion, an earnest, a down payment of His Spirit. And that Spirit will come into you to replace that old spirit and will grow like a tiny seed in a large garden. You must water it with your prayers and feed it with your study. And that little portion of His Spirit will grow up into a full-fledged son and daughter of the Spirit who will someday be transformed in a twinkling of an eye and will be changed when immortality will come down out of heaven to swallow up that which can die.

For without God’s Spirit dwelling within us, we are only a member of the walking dead who spend a few nightly whispers with loved ones and then bury their dead and wait to be buried in turn. Without that entity, the Spirit of God, that makes alive whatever it touches and lives in, we are just as good as dead. Without His Spirit, if we are walking around, we do it on borrowed air in an incredibly delicate and fragile shell. And our shell will in a few moments, comparatively speaking, go back to dust from where it came, and our brief stint at self-glory here on earth will not be remembered anymore. Every thing that man says and does without the Spirit of God is vain and of no profit in the final analysis. KWHancock [This is chapter 27 of my book Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality. You may read more of this book which you can find at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”]