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August 15, 2009 · 2:27 pm

Conversion to Christ–Just the First Step Towards Glorification

God’s offspring, His future manifested sons and daughters for these last days, will realize that conversion to Christ is just the first step on their spiritual journey back to their Father’s heart.

Their conversion, yes, is an astounding miracle performed by the Spirit of God, whereby their old heart is cleansed from sin and sinning, as they stand before the King justified by their faith in Him and His power to change lives. This true conversion experience is giddy-wonderful, filling our souls with an inexplicable peace and love.

Charles G. Finney described this experience of justification in his memoirs: “I felt myself justified by faith; and, so far as I could see, I was in a state in which I did not sin. Instead of feeling that I was sinning all the time, my heart was so full of love that it overflowed. My cup ran over with blessing and with love; and I could not feel that I was sinning against God. Nor could I recover the least sense of guilt for my past sins. Of this experience I said nothing that I recollect, at the time, to anybody; that is, of this experience of justification” ( http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/religion/conversion.html ).

Justification (just-if-I’d never sinned) is truly wonderful. It is our ticket to Immortality and a Life in the presence of the King of the Universe. But it is just the first step. And it is here that many “babes in Christ” remain, for they are taught that this is all there is by well-meaning, unenlightened teachers. [For more see https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/the-manifested-sons-of-god-overcoming-the-law-of-sin-and-death/ ]

“Be Converted”

The sons and daughters of God will see that conversion is something even more grand than justification. Being converted to Christ sets our feet on the path “to the glory we had with Him before the world began.” Through it we revert back to what we had with Him before the worlds were ever created. We are “called unto glory and virtue.” After being “justified by faith,” we are to “sanctify ourselves,” setting ourselves apart for His purposes. In turn, those who become sanctified may enter the rarified realm of glorification.

Yes, a few of His followers will be glorified, just as our example was. The apostle Paul wrote of “the glory which shall be revealed in us.” A few will complete Christ’s spiritual life-cycle; they will “suffer with Him” now, that they “may be also glorified together” (Romans 8: 17-18). Yes, some of His followers will grow to the point that they will be “glorified together” with Christ! You can read it in plain English in any translation; they all say the same thing.

These that are “glorified together” with Christ are manifested sons and daughters of God (v. 19). This is the “high calling.” There is no greater calling on this planet than to be one of these. For they will “sit with Him on [His] throne” and will become “heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” (Rev. 3: 21; Rom. 8: 17).

Suffering With Christ

But this calling is only to those who “suffer with Christ.” They must first suffer their own crucifixion, allowing their old self and old heart to die with Christ on the cross; to be buried with Him into His death, and by believing His resurrection, we believe that we are raised from the dead, from the death sentence caused by all our past sins. We then receive His Spirit by faith. This is justification (Romans 6: 1-16).

We then must suffer the Spirit of God to “purge out the old leaven” from our thinking. We all in our old lives have been taught erroneous doctrines and teachings. Coming off of these things that we were taught and believed our whole lives is difficult, but very necessary. Difficult because of what friends, family, and acquintances will say. We will suffer rejection from loved ones as we make a stand for truth. They will not understand and will try and talk us out of our newfound beliefs. It is all in the parable of the sower in Matthew 13. All false doctrines and concepts must be gotten rid of. This takes much prayerful study. This also takes humility to learn from someone else who knows the way and has been sent to help teach the future sons and daughters of God. This is part of the sanctification experience, the second leg on our journey. Only those who make it through to the end of this process will go on to glorification.

All this is a process that yields an astounding spiritual transformation in a few good men and women. They will do the “greater works” that Christ spoke of (John 14: 12). They will shine as “lights in the midst of a wicked and perverse nation.” The darkness is thick, but God, who is light, will pierce the darkness through, and will bring in a wonderful new government to earth. And these manifested ones will rule and reign with Him. Incredible, I know. But that is what The Book says. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

Christ in You–The Treasure in Earthen Vessels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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August 2, 2009 · 1:21 am

Conversations With the Seer–Who Will Do the “Greater Works”?

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

“Christ did say, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also,” I said to the Seer. We were talking about how followers of Christ today could grow to a point in which they could do the same miracles of healing and raising of the dead that the Savior and His apostles did (1).

“That promise is true,” the Seer said, “but what does it mean, to believe on Him? Even the devils believe in one God and tremble. Many believe that He existed, that He was a prophet, that He was a wise teacher. Although important, it is not enough that we believe that Christ existed, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day. Christ gives us His followers a commandment: ‘Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me.’ Those who go and learn what that means–they are the ones that will do the greater works.”

“How could we do anything greater than healing the sick and raising the dead?” I asked, thinking that would be difficult to top.

“He is bringing many sons unto glory. Multiply these works by thousands of us doing them—those are the ‘greater works.’”

“Never saw it like that before. So what does ‘believe on Him’ mean then?”

“Christ was saying this: The Father that dwells in me speaks the words through me and does the works. The Father is a Spirit; He is everywhere. The Son is a vessel that walks in this knowledge and also contains the Father/Spirit. We who have received His Spirit in our new hearts, we, also, are in the Father, and the Father now is in us.

“Christ commands us: ‘Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.” This is a commandment. In fact, this is one of his new commandments that His apostle John tells us about. He is saying, The things I do only God can do, so believe what I am saying to you about the Father being present right now in Me. These miracles done through me—it is the Father in me that is doing them.”

“He did say, I and my Father are one.”

“Precisely. Those that obey this new commandment and believe that it was very Yahweh, the great Creator, walking, teaching, healing, through the Anointed One Christ—they will do the same works that He did.”

“Just accepting Him as their personal Savior is not going to do it,” I said.

“No, it won’t. We do the receiving of Him; He does the accepting of us. Big difference.”

“The Great Creator Spirit poured Himself into the man called the Christ,” I said.

“Believe that and you will be given the Spirit as well. Speaking of all of His followers down through the ages, He prayed, ‘That they may be one, as we are.’ And His prayers will be answered.” KWH

(1) John 14: 9-20; 17: 11.

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July 10, 2009 · 8:59 am

“Let This Mind Be in You”–Thinking the Way Christ Thinks

We are to have God’s purpose in mind. But therein lies the problem. How do we know what God’s purpose, plan and priorities are? The answer is found in the writings of the apostles and prophets. And they speak of “the elect,” “the sons of God,” and of the wonderful works that God will do through them at the time of the end.

God Will Make It Happen

Because it is His plan and He is all-sovereign and all-powerful, He will make it all happen and come together. He will call out His sons and daughters, bidding them to come away a while and learn of Him. He will draw them away from the cacophony of man’s thoughts and rumblings and the vain trappings of the Spirit-less life and feed them with wholesome spiritual food.

Putting on the Mind of Christ

Shouldn’t we be thinking on the things that God is thinking about, too? We are admonished to do this. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus/Yahshua.” We have to allow His mind to come into us and take over.

What was in His mind? He knew that He was in God’s form, that His body was the temple of God, the place for God to dwell in. Christ knew that His Father Yahweh meant all along to come fully into Him and dwell in Him. He knew that He was the heir, that He would inherit the Spirit of God Himself! This was in His thoughts and mind. And we should have the same mind and thoughts as Christ did.

But Christ humbled Himself, knowing that humility is the way a human should walk on earth. He submitted Himself unto death. Now we are asked to follow Him in a “baptism into His death,” where sin and its sin nature dies with Christ.

Doing this, we will the become “blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world” (Phil. 2: 5-15).

Christ is our example, and He was always “about His Father’s business,” which is bringing forth His sons and daughters. We now should make the “Father’s business” our business. If we do, you know that He will be pleased. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 6, 2009 · 6:16 pm

Abraham Lincoln’s School Book–The Holy Bible

I thought of President Lincoln this morning over coffee and scriptures. I pondered about how much the Bible played a role in shaping him, both during childhood and his final difficult years.

He was self-taught, and his primer was the Holy Bible. It is easy to see its influence in his writings. Practically every thing he wrote exudes the wisdom found in the scriptures of truth. That is why his words still move us, still inspire us, still cause us to stop and shake our heads and say, “That’s the stuff of greatness.”

His words are great, for their truths are mined from the Rock of Ages. He quotes Christ’s very own words in the “house divided against its self” speech. He alludes to the themes of forgiveness and reconciliation and mercy—universal concepts that the Great Teacher taught.

Style and Themes

His literary style was simple, yet elegant. His word choice often was plucked from the pool of Elizabethan English the King James translators provided, illuminating a clear path of expression.

Themes of brotherly love, unity, fairness, faithfulness, and hope that President Lincoln employed came straight from the “Good Book”—words he read from childhood, words contained between black leather covers, words inspired by God and carefully preserved for all to study and spiritually prosper thereby. To get to the heart of Lincoln, one must go through the mind of God contained in the Bible.

Reading his speeches and letters, one’s heart soars. Yet he himself would tell us that this phenomenon is not because of any craft or genius that he possessed, but rather because of all those lonely hours by candle and fireplace light, reading the words of the patriarchs, prophets and the apostles.

But Some Have Turned Away

But now in this modern age, many powerful and influential people in government and the media have turned away from the scriptures Lincoln read. The same Book sits there on their shelves collecting dust, gilded pages never turned. They have shied away from it, tossing it into the pile of other “politically incorrect” positions. And for this, they rarely quote it, nor allude to its glorious stories of mortal man triumphing against all odds through the mercy of its God.

I dare say that if Lincoln were raised from the grave, he would shake his head in disgust at our leaders’ lack in taking “the counsel of the LORD.” I’d like to think that he would upbraid them as Christ did the hypocrites, who paraded in their pharisaical robes, while inwardly clothed in the filthy garments of deceit and greed. I believe that Lincoln would be heartbroken and grieved that we, the descendants of a once thankful and humble people, inhabiting the choicest lands on earth, had become “fat and had forgotten God.”

So let us not be ashamed to read and savor the same inspired words that guided President Abraham Lincoln. If those precepts were good enough and fine enough to steer him through our nation’s roughest seas, surely we of a less noble intellect can harvest from the Bible’s fruited fields, spiritual food able to sustain us during “the perilous times” that lie ahead–the “time of the end,” spoken of in President Lincoln’s school book, the Holy Bible. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 2, 2009 · 3:17 pm

Manifested Sons of God Dig Deep and Lay Foundation on the Rock

The sons and daughters of God will grow up spiritually. They will have “overcome the wicked one” and all his tricks. Their eye will be single, seeing only the eternal purpose of their Father and His desire to reproduce Himself through “Christ in us.”

They are “born from above,” of “that incorruptible seed, the word of God.” They will [dig] deep and [lay] the foundation on a rock,” so that when persecution, harassment, troubles, and others’ unbelief come against them, they will remain unshaken (1).

The depth of their search for truth and their commitment to do what the truth commands–this is what distinguishes them from those who “also ran.” They not only hear Christ’s sayings, but do them. This is laying the foundation on the Rock and not the sand.

Concerning the way of truth, Christ said, “Few there be that find it” (2). But He also said, “For many be called, but few chosen” (3). So that opens the door for you and I.

So these elect for these last days will “go deep” and fully answer the call, making their “election sure”. They will do this by adding virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and agape love to their faith. This is how they will become “partakers of the divine nature” (4).

In their spiritual journey, they will receive a new heart that contains the Spirit of God. They will be led by the Spirit, which is a prerequisite of being one of His elect (5).

It’s All About What He Wants

God has an eternal purpose in reproducing Himself, and these chosen ones are at the very core of it. All of us professing Christians need to put our own personal aspirations and dreams for our lives into perspective. We need to see things from the King’s point of view. See what His priorities are, see what He wants done, see what He desires for His creation, and then, put Him and His vision first.

You Would Do This for a New Boss

To be a valuable employee at your new job, would not you be wise to learn what your boss is trying to accomplish and then, keeping that purpose in mind, spend your work day diligently endeavoring to help him do it?

So it is with God and His purpose. I am trying to get the word out about God’s purpose in “bringing many sons unto glory” (Hebrews 2: 10). This is what this blog is about–to raise awareness as to what the scriptures say is in God’s heart and what His purpose for us is.

I do not have personal designs on being one of the manifested sons who will walk in 100 fold glory as seen in Revelation 14. I will be quite content to be used to teach them and nurture them, helping them to grow up into Him. Everyone must be taught.

The apostle Paul, in fact, laments that there are not more teachers of the truth. “For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God…” (Heb. 5:12).

I do not know how old the sons and daughters are. They could be 20, 30, 40, or 60 years old at present. They may be 10 or 12 years old right now. But one thing I do know. We who have this knowledge must, by His Spirit, publish it for them and help them grow up spiritually to become what God wants them to be.

All Christians from all walks of life need to be working with this purpose in mind: to be of service to the King and His desires. If we do this, He will be pleased and will help us help Him accomplish it all. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

Luke 6: 47-48
Matt. 7: 14
Matt. 20: 16
II Peter 1: 3-10
Romans 8: 14

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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