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June 26, 2009 · 11:52 pm

The Manifested Sons of God–Overcoming the Law of Sin and Death

The scriptures speak of a special destiny for certain human beings who overcome the pitfalls of their carnal mind. And the world is waiting breathlessly, waiting for these rare individuals to appear on the scene (1).

They are called the sons and daughters of God, for God is their spiritual Father–not in word only, but in power. For they will have changed at their core; “old things are passed away” in their new shining life. They will have picked up The Book and just believed it and walked in it, and they will change history.

The End of the Carnal Mind

The apostle Paul saw their day, which all signs tell us is our day–the latter days. He saw a group of individuals who through faith would walk the way Christ walked this earth–in purity of purpose, in honor and integrity. The way they would do this is by receiving a new spirit–God’s Spirit into their hearts. God’s Spirit will lead and guide them. Consequently, they will be called the true children of God, for those “who are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God” (2).

These offspring of the Most High, who dwell on earth today, will overcome being carnally minded, which is death. For “the wages of sin is death” (3). Therefore, the carnal mind stems from a heart that sins.

The Old Heart

This old heart is the spiritual condition that a person is born with. It is the core center of natural man Adam and all his earthly offspring. This old heart is the well from which the mind draws up evil selfish thoughts by the bucket fulls.

Without a spiritual heart transplant, one will continue sinning. Temptation arises, and like a bull led by a nose ring, the natural carnal minded man and woman succumbs to the temptation.

The Law of Sin and Death

And hereby hangs a law, as inexorable as the law of gravity. It is called “the law of sin and death.” It is quite simple to understand. If you continue in sin and sinning, you will die.

But someone will say, “Well, we are all going to die eventually anyway, so what is the difference?”

Yes, “it is appointed unto man once to die.” The first death will come for the vast majority–the death of our physical bodies (unless we are alive in Christ when He returns and we are changed). But it is the “second death” that we need to be concerned with. For it is the snuffing out of any memory of us and the hope of life in the next dimension–the era of the immortal ones walking on this earth.

So natural man is strapped with his old sinful nature, and try as he might, he cannot rid himself of it in his own strength.

But God has provided a way to escape this hellish condition–a way to be freed from the inevitability of this “law of sin and death” (4).

There is another Law that negates the sin and death law. It is called “The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus.” Receiving His Spirit “makes us free from the law of sin and death” (5).

The children of God will go through the “cross experience” whereby the old heart we are born with will be surrendered up. A spiritual death will occur as they identify their old self with Christ, who was sent “in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,” through which God “condemned sin in the flesh” (6).

And all this is done in us when we just believe it. This spiritual state of being “right with God” is when He dwells in us and keeps His own laws in us. When we walk in accordance with His Spirit, we do not break His Ten Commandment Law (7).

A chosen few, the future manifested sons and daughters of God, called the elect, will experience the above. They will go deep and answer the “high calling” and make their election sure (8).

These are the sons of God, shining as lights in a dark and “crooked and perverse nation.” Again, we must ask ourselves, Are we one of them? Kenneth Wayne Hancock

Rom. 8: 17-19
Rom. 8: 14
Rom. 6:23
Rom. 8: 1-5
Rom. 8: 2
Rom. 8: 3
Rom. 8: 4
Phil. 3: 14; II Peter 1: 10

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June 24, 2009 · 12:46 am

The Sons of God–What They Are and Are Not

The sons and daughters of God are not just once a week church-pew-occupiers. They are the offspring of the King of the Universe. That makes them princes and princesses in the Court of the Creator. They are not lukewarm Christians who seldom if ever study His word or pray.

They are not just the tag “Christian,” to distinguish themselves from a Muslim or Hindu. They are “born from above.” Their origin is from a special heavenly realm, and they know it.

They know that their lives have been touched and changed by the mighty hand of God. They are not doubtful and fearing, but rather confident in God. They are not “tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine.” Their soul is anchored in Him.

They live their life as if God really does see them and their actions. For they know that their actions have their source in Him because “it is no longer [them] that lives, but Christ that lives in [them]” (1). They are no longer merely “holding a form of godliness, but denying the power” (2). For they know that “God has not given [them] the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (3).

They Know that God Is Leading Them

They know that all along life’s journey, God is leading them on a definite spiritual path of growth, whose end product is that they “all come to the unity of the faith…unto a perfect man..till Christ be formed in [them]” (4).

They sense that God is guiding them, though He stays hidden in the background, unobtrusive, never loud and pushy, always quietly pulling the strings of their hearts, touching them, tenderizing them, steering them into yet another way-station where they might rest from the rigors of their spiritual sojourn.

He is invisible there, helping their faith, stretching them, trying them, proving them, seeing if they are made of the right stuff needed to become a ruler in His kingdom.

They will come to realize all this. This high calling will dawn on them, as the “day star [arises] in their hearts.” This is when they will cease to be “babes in Christ” and begin to grow up into Him. God’s vision for His earth will crystallize for them and they will be changed into His image at the end of this age. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

Gal. 2:20
II Tim. 3:5
II Tim. 1: 9
Gal. 4: 19

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June 20, 2009 · 11:26 am

Where Do the Manifested Sons of God Come From?

They are born of humble origins and inauspicious beginnings; they start as any other sinful human being. The vast majority will not come from the powerful elite class, for “not many mighty, not many noble are called” (1). God is rather choosing out the weak of this world, ones who have little power or influence. He does this so that when He reveals Himself in these chosen ones, they’ll know it is Him and not them doing the greater works.

Called to Transcend

They will have been called by their heavenly Father to transcend merely dwelling on temporary earthly delights for themselves.

During their initial selfish sashay upon earth, they will eventually see that enough is enough. For how many women must one man bed until he finally realizes that sex without the heavenly component of love is senseless, fruitless, and meaningless. And how many men must one woman lay with before she sees the futility of her physical submission.

Awaking Out of the Mud

The future offspring of God will awake one day and try to wash up from the mud-caked sin that smears their inner spirit. They will hear the LORD cry, “Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes” (2). They will at once want to change, to clean up, to attire themselves in clothes not meant to attract another’s attention, but just to modestly cover the shame of their nakedness.

They will want to change, but they will not know how exactly. They will try to change themselves for themselves, but they will see that doing things for your self is just that same sly selfishness dolled up for another run.

They will finally see that they can’t change themselves–for themselves. They’ll see that as long as their old self is still there, it will selfishly devote its life for self-aggrandizement. That is all the old nature can do.

Don’t “Become a Better You”!

The world is full of people trying to become better. They are encouraged by feel-good false teachers to do so. But the sons and daughters of God will see through this. They’ll realize that the “You” in Become a Better You! has got to go. The “You” must willingly surrender its sovereignty over its body. The “You” must not be re-directed or “made better.” God commands that the old “You” repent, by dying on the cross with Christ.

It’s a tough sentence–this self-imposed crucifixion. But the future sons and daughters of the Creator will become desperate enough to just believe what the scriptures of truth say. They will surrender their old selfish existence up to God. They will abdicate themselves as sovereign of their own life. They will present their bodies back to God to allow His Spirit reign in them.

Life Out of Death

True life out of death. Since God’s Spirit will not dwell in unclean temples (bodies), our old selfish heart must go. And the only way to get rid of it is on the cross. Through belief in His resurrection, the Spirit enters our hearts after we are immersed in His death (3).

At first hearing this, many will draw back. This is why the Master said, “Few there be to find this way of truth.” For “many are called, but few are chosen” (4).

After the surrender, the Spirit grows up in a person. Lessons are learned; small battles with the adversary are fought and won; “senses are exercised to discern both good and evil.” Fiery trials of their belief in Him come and go, lending their purifying qualities to the gold-like faith they are walking in.

Their knowledge increases about His government (kingdom), and they continue growing “up into Him” until eventually “Christ be formed in you” (5).

The manifested sons of God are destined to emerge in these latter days. It is the crowning event of our age. The casting call is going out. The sons and daughters of God will be the stars of the show, and God will choose all unknowns for these roles. The question still is, Are we one of them? Kenneth Wayne Hancock

I Cor. 1: 26
Isa. 1:16
Rom. 6: 1-6; I Cor. 1: 18
Matt. 20: 16
Gal. 4: 19

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June 17, 2009 · 4:48 pm

The Rise of the Sons and Daughters of God–The Last Shall Be First, and the First Shall Be Last

During the destruction of the Satanic One World Government coming soon to this earth, God shall debut His crowning creation–His sons and daughters (See “Time of the End…” posted June 13, 2009).

The prophets of old and all the apostles spoke of their time, which now is our time in the earth. They are the fulfillment of God’s eternal purpose in reproducing Himself in the laboratory called earth. They saw into our time, when God would bestow immortality to a select few (1).

Seeing into the Future

They saw into the future and saw the chosen ones destined for completeness in Christ, perfected because of His Spirit dwelling fully in them. The apostle Paul said that, aware of it or not, the entire created realm here on earth is “waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God” (2). The world is groaning for heroes to arrive on the scene. You can see it in popular culture, books, and movies. We all want someone to look up to, to lead us out of the political confusion and economic morass we find ourselves in.

All the prophets and apostles saw our day, saw our era when our Father would end the evil reign of our adversay and usher in the return of the King Jesus (Yahshua) along with the princes and princesses of God. For we must remember that He has promised us that we will sit on thrones as judges in His kingdom. The overcomers “will sit with Him on His throne” (3).

These overcomers will stride forth, rising like a phoenix out of the ashes of what is left after the Great Tribulation and bring glad tidings of real peace to the remaining inhabitants of the earth after tribulation.

“The Last Shall Be First” and “The First Shall Be Last”

God has saved the best for last. “The first shall be last,” said the Master. And these sons and daughters are the first who were in the Father’s heart before the worlds were ever created. They were in His heart before the Play ever started here on earth and are the end product of His plan to reproduce Himself. They will come forth during the last act of The Play. Their entrance onto the world stage has been reserved for our present time–the “last” days. These also will be the first to “not taste of death”–mortal death. For their bodies will be changed “in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trump” (4).

And “the last shall be first.” These glorious offspring of God will be the last on the present scene here on earth. They will come forth during our present era of time. They shall be the first to “not taste of death.” They’ll be the first to be fully manifested, fully matured with the Spirit of God dwelling in them in its fullness.

We now must all pull together to nurture each other, for who knows? Your brother or sister in Christ just may be one of these future princes or princesses of God. I should be our goal in life to be yoke-fellows with Christ to help implement God’s plan in the earth. For these sons and daughters of God will be called out of their present sinful condition, and thr0ugh many growing pains, they shall walk with Him in white.

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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I Peter 1: 10-12; II Peter 1: 21
Rom. 8: 18-19
Rev. 3: 21
Matt. 19: 13; Mark 9: 1; John 8: 52; I Cor. 15: 51-52

A Simple, Sincere Prayer Away from “The Answer”

This world is in trouble. America is bankrupt. It is all teetering on the brink of destruction. Families and homes are being wrecked through unemployment, brought on by insidious, covert forces. And yet, all of us earth-dwellers are a whisper away from receiving real answers to our problems.

Humankind is one simple sincere prayer away from contacting The Answer, who is the Author of the Book of Life. One simple, sincere communique to the Great One. Just one prayer, one humble request based in true knowledge would yield a release from the stresses and fears plaguing us.

But which god? “For there are gods many.” We need to ask the one true God. But we are to “ask in faith–nothing wavering…Ask, believe, and you shall receive.” That is the scriptural Rx for answers. But the catch is that we cannot ask God for things for our self, “to consume it upon our on lusts (desires).” He doesn’t hear the prayers of the selfish or prideful.

The Renunciation of Self

First, then, there must be a renunciation of our own selfish desires, and then we are to ask the Father and petition Him with our “simple, sincere prayer.”

But man is so full of himself that one of two things happen as he stands so close to receiving The Answer to Life’s Problems. He either is consumed with his own ego (old self), or he would pray to another god or another concept of the true God, which cannot give him The Answer.

Only One Religion Gets Rid of the Old Self

Only true Christianity–not Churchianity, not the watered-down pablum of Christendom–provides a way for a person to get rid of the old selfish heart we are all born with. It is done at the cross, which is not taught anymore in denominational churches like it once was 100-200 years ago.

At the cross, we surrender up to God in revelation our old self, identifying its sinful ways with Christ, who took our sins upon Him and actually died as a lost man that day at Calvary. When He died, our old self died; when He was buried, our old life was buried; when the Spirit entered into Him and raised Him from the dead, we, too, were “raised to walk in a newness of life” by His faith now entered into our new heart.

Now It Is All About Him

And now, after this experience, we communicate with that God, who walked fully in the man Christ. We call on Him with a simple, sincere prayer, asking for more light that He may reveal to us how better we may serve Him, how better we may be of help to Him as He fashions His earth and the people in it.

We then in our simple, sincere prayer seek to help Him bring in His government into this old earth. His soon-coming kingdom–this is His plan and purpose, which is contained in His book, that He, the Author, has already written.

We, then, are a simple, sincere prayer away from touching the heart of the very Creator of this entire universe! He knows our “frame is dust.” He knows we are weak and have great needs that only He can fill. And He is only a simple, sincere whisper away from us. We need only to take that first step. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

“He Who Commits Sin Is a Slave to Sin”

Q: What Is Sin? A: The Transgression of the Law

“But Deliver Us From Evil”–From the Evil Within the Heart

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May 14, 2009 · 12:59 pm

The Law of Harvest–How God Reproduces Himself

The Eternal Purpose of God: He is reproducing Himself. The laboratory that He is working in is the earth. He has created human beings to help accomplish His purpose. He created their bodies out of the moist clay of the earth. All things are now in place for this reproduction experience. But how does it work?

It works through the Law of Harvest. “Whatever you sow, that shall you also reap.” Therefore, God, who is the Seed (the Word, the Logos) has planted Himself in these earthen vessels called humans.

To do all this, God created a special creation Adam and his offspring, who He created in His own image. These are to be vessels of honor, vessels that would house His Spirit, which is the Seed, the Word of God.

“Greater Love Has No Man Than This…”

One might ask, “Why does the immortal God use mortal man to reproduce Himself?” To express the essence of His nature, which is Love, one must give up one’s life. For “greater love has no man than this than to lay down his life for his friends.” Sacrificing one’s life for another is the greatest love. But the Creator, by His very immortal nature, cannot die. So then, how can God express the greatest Love, which is His essence?

The Great Creator Yahweh, of course, thought all this through. In fact, in His plan, He scheduled a grand appearance of Himself in a mortal human body. He chose a special person, Jesus (Yahshua) of Nazareth to house Himself in. God, the Spirit of Love, would humbly walk among us to show us the way to be like God. God, the Word, “was made flesh and dwelt among us.”

Christ Is the Seed That Falls into the Ground and Dies

This anointed vessel, called Christ and the Messiah, is the Seed. He was planted in the earth three days and three nights. And just like a seed in your garden springs forth, He arose out of the earthy grave and ascended back from where He came.

Yahweh had to come in a body that would and could die in order to show the greatest love. Without Him giving up His human life on the cross, He could not reproduce Himself, for “except a seed fall into the ground and die, it abides alone. But if it die, it brings forth much fruit.”

We humans, then, can avail ourselves to be used by our Maker in His reproduction process. But first we must surrender to this purpose. We must allow our old selfish heart and life to die on the cross with Christ, be buried with Him in revelatory truth, and then, by believing that Christ was raised from the dead, we can begin to “walk in newness of life.”

We then begin to bear much fruit. And those who do this will become His fully manifested offspring and will rule this earth with Him during the Kingdom Age when Christ returns. These have surrendered completely and have Him fully grown up within them. These are the ones who God has reproduced Himself in. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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Grace and Faith and the Manifestation of the Sons of God

The Eternal Spirit (Yahweh) chooses out certain individuals to reveal Himself to, and they, in turn, become a witness for Him. He chooses them out through no merit of their own. There is nothing they can do before the fact to warrant His election of them. They have already been selected before they ever came out of their mother’s womb.

It is not to the strong or swift in this world. He elects or chooses, in fact, those who are weak in this world’s eyes. In other words, when He was choosing out His disciples, He did not choose the emperor Caesar, the Roman governor, or the Jewish High Priest. He chose out lowly, “uneducated” fishermen from Galilee.

God Does the Choosing (Electing)

He does the choosing; we don’t. “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit,” said the Savior.

So He chooses out certain people in the earth to reveal His plan and Himself to. He “favors” these people by revealing Himself to them. He gives grace unto them—spiritual gifts. He deals with them and shows them of Himself. Without this favor, they are nothing. Without His favor (grace) they remain the walking dead. Without Him favoring them by showing them His plan, they would remain lost in the daze and maze of this world system. Without His grace, gifts, and favor man remains in the guilt and depravity and bondage of his sinful carnal nature—remaining there in that prison until the light of day deliver him—by His grace or favor.

How do we find this favor, this grace? It is to be found in the Savior, who was “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). “Grace and truth” came by Him. Knowing who the Savior really is and what He accomplished for His people is the key in understanding His favor. But the kicker is that one can’t comprehend His favor unless He has given that person favor. One has to have His favor in order to eventually comprehend it.

Predestination

Some human beings are “predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son.” These are the “greatly favored” ones. They have a singularly marvelous calling, a magnificent fate in Him. And yet, all of us who are called and chosen share in God’s favor. For the “manifestation of the sons of God” is the final harvest of the Tree of Righteousness that Yahweh the Husbandman has planted some 6,000 years ago. When the 144,000 sons of the living God stride forth in their resplendent immortal glory, they will be the final harvest that all of the prophets, patriarchs, apostles, and us have sowed toward for all these millennia. We all have shared in and have been blessed by Yahweh’s incomprehensible favor or grace.

For He is the Potter, and He makes the human vessel the way He wants to. And to be created a vessel unto honor—for Him to mold us, a mere piece of clay, into something that could hold the living spiritual water that is His essence—is humbling, yet thrilling.

The Savior was “full of grace (favor, gifts) and truth.” Our favor is found in and emanates from the Savior. For “grace and truth” came by Him. It is a favor, a gift, a benefit, a grace from Him that our sins could be blotted out, that we could have “no more remembrance” of past sins. “Your sins and your iniquities I will remember no more,” He said. “And I will write my laws upon your heart.” That is a promise and a favor unto us. Deliverance from darkness is a gift, a grace, a favor from Him to us.

(This is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of my book, The Unveiling of the Sons of God found here: http://www.yahwehisthesavior.com/sonsch5.htm or click “My books online in the right column under “Blogroll”)

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May 3, 2009 · 12:29 pm

“My Grace Is Sufficient for Thee”–So What Is Grace?

“Grace” is one of those biblical words that have been so overused that for many, it has lost its true original meaning. Every denomination has its own spin, but what does it really mean?

To find out we go to the apostle Paul’s writings. We find him enduring a severe trial which has caused him great suffering. False prophets at the church in Corinth are slandering him. They have said that he is a false teacher, that he is taking for himself the offerings that have been collected for the poor believers in Jerusalem. They are challenging his apostolic authority.

And so he feels that one more letter is necessary to help those there. This second letter to them will be a vindication of his apostleship, for he knows that if they do not believe him about the Savior, then they will be the losers.

But Paul will not be caught in the trap of appearing to be bragging in a carnal manner. He will tell them about the visions and revelations that he has had of Christ without boasting according to the flesh (2 Corinthians 12: 2-5).

The Messenger of Satan

Paul also relates to them that he realizes that God sent to him a messenger of Satan to torment or buffet him “lest he become exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations” that God had given him. God first blesses him with wonderful visions of Him and then out of love uses Satan to keep Paul humble (v. 7).

Paul says that he asked God three times to take the evil agent out of his life, but was only told by Him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness” (v. 9). The spiritual strength that I want to demonstrate through you cannot be perfected unless you are weak, according to your flesh, God was telling him. So Paul was content with having physical hardships and weaknesses. For he knew that then God’s power would rest on him. “For when I am weak, then I am strong” (v. 10).

So What Is “Grace”?

But Jesus (Yahshua) had said to him, “My grace is sufficient for you.” What is this “grace” that is our sufficiency? “Grace” is translated from the Greek word charis, #5485 in Strong’s. Definition: “Of manner or act, especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life, including gratitude: Ie—acceptable, benefit, favor, gift, grace(-ious), joy, liberality, pleasure, thank.

In 2 Cor 1: 15 charis is translated “benefit”—“I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit.”

Charis is also translated “favor” six times. To Mary the angel said, “…Thou are highly favored,” or graciously accepted, or much graced. “Thou has found favor with God” (Luke 1:28, 30). Luke later says that the Christ “increased in …favor with God and man,” still using word “charis.”

The word for “gift” or “gifts” is directly from this same word and is used more than twenty times. It is #5486, charisma. It is used to speak of God’s gifts unto men and the spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12: 1-31.

So we see that God’s grace to us is his favor to us, his goodness to us in giving us the truth. He favors (graces) us with the truth, teaching us that “denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.”

It is through this grace that God chooses out His future sons and daughters, who are called “the elect.” He fills them with His Spirit, and they become His witnesses in the earth for these latter days. Theirs is a destiny preordained “before the foundation of the world.” They will walk His walk in the earth and, thus, help bring in God’s new government. They will do this by faith—believing this eternal purpose, having not first seen it with their natural eyes.

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

(This is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of my book, The Unveiling of the Sons of God found here: http://www.yahwehisthesavior.com/sonsch5.htm If this has been helpful, share it with others or make a comment. Bookmark this site, and please visit again)

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April 5, 2009 · 10:35 am

Overcoming by the Word of Our Testimony

Those who overcome the evil do it by “the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony” (Rev. 12: 11) {See March 30, 2009 post}.

Faith in the cleansing power of Christ’s blood will set us into the position of being a testimony of God’s power in the earth. First, to overcome we must be cleansed from sin, and then give testimony that God is real in our lives–that He is in control, that He is all powerful.

In other words, we must be a witness as to what He is doing, where He is going and taking us all, what His plan and purpose is, what He expects from His creation, what is His endgame. We must go on record; we must take the witness stand here on earth and give our testimony as to what God has done in our life, and what He shall do in the lives of His true believers, and to those who will not believe in Him. That takes surrender, study, and prayer.

It Is All About “Christ in You”

The “word of our testimony” is the same thing as this: “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” It is all about “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” It is all about the Spirit of the living God walking around in us. This is the word of our testimony. It is when we grow to a point when our actions are the Spirit of Christ living out His life in us. Then we are poised for the final overcoming, or the final victory.

The first victory is the victory over sin and sinning. By believing this testimony that God gave us of His Son–that those who have faith and believe that God placed mankind’s sins on Christ, and when He died, our old heart and spirit died. And when Christ was buried, our old lives were buried. And when Christ was raised from the dead, we also were raised from the dead! A new life, a new walk, a new way, a new purpose–now poised to receive the ultimate blessing reserved for all of His overcomers–nothing less that immortality!

The Seven Levels of Overcoming

The outline of the seven levels of overcoming are found in the church ages in Revelation 2 and 3. These two chapters detail what we are to overcome in this new life and what the rewards are for the victors.

And those who are victorious to the end have this astounding prophecy given over them by Christ Himself: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne” (3: 22).

Those that are unafraid and go on to overcome all things–they will sit as princes and princesses on God’s own very throne!

And if that were not enough, we who get this ultimate victory, we who allow God to fully manifest Himself in us–we shall inherit all things. “He that overcometh shall inherit all things” (Rev. 21: 7).

Who Will It Be?

So–somebody will sit with Christ on His throne and will inherit all things–the greatest of which is immortality. The question, then, is this: Who will it be? Is it you or I who have just met on this page? Will we be there as the immortal possessors of the universe, the sons and daughters of the King of the universe?

Or will we be among the “fearful and unbelieving”–those who will soon be eternally forgotten–those who wind up as just another broken common vessel that the Potter has discarded–broken potsherds having never made it to the kiln, never glazed with glory, never used to beautify His house. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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March 4, 2009 · 10:11 pm

God’s Faith Once Delivered to the Saints

Faith is extremely important but often misunderstood. It is not us believing in something. That is not the true faith of God. No. The true faith of God comes from Him to us, not from us about Him. It is His belief in Himself that He gives to us.

Faith Is Not Something We Have to Muster Up

It is the “faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). Faith is a spiritual commodity from God 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 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 muster up and finally believe about 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.

God Has Assurance in the Things that He Hopes For

“Things hoped for…” Because we are naturally egocentric, we think that it is the things we hope for. No. What does God 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.

And it is to this faith, His faith, that we are to add several more spiritual qualities as outlined by the apostle Peter (II Peter 1: 5-8). These are the more advanced facets that the Holy Spirit gives to those going “unto perfection,” which is full maturity in Christ. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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{This is an excerpt from my book The Unveiling of the Sons of God, which you can read here: YahwehIsTheSavior.com/sonsch19.htm }.