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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

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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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February 26, 2009 · 5:27 am

Don’t Let “The Cares of This Life” Choke Out God’s Vision of Sonship

With so many things screaming at us today–unemployment, recession, depression, the stock market collapse, mortgage crisis, layoffs, bills, family problems–no wonder it is difficult to keep the center of our thoughts on God’s plan and purpose.

Most do not know His eternal purpose, but even if they did, that knowledge would be drowned out by the “cares of this life” (Matt. 13: 22-23). And His vision for us on earth is choked out by fears.

But His eternal purpose remains steadfast. We must keep reminding the sheep of His pasture of their calling as His heirs–His sons and daughters. For His eternal purpose is that He is “bringing many sons unto glory.”

For if we keep His thoughts in mind, we shall never fall to the evil conspiracy that runs amok on every level of earthly existence.

You Shall Know the Truth

But our adversary, the devil, does not want us to glimpse the truth, for he knows it will make us free of the fear that is flung into every heart on this earth. Still Christ’s own promise is this: “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8: 32).

What truth is He talking about? He said, “I am the truth.” So let’s examine Christ (the Truth) a moment so that we can know just what truth really is. Yes, He is the Son of God, but He promised that we, too, would be His sons and daughters. “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).

Two points here that we must keep in mind in order to overcome the negative onslaughts that undermine us. First, God will give power to those who receive Christ–power to become just like Him, a son and daughter of God. Second, these will believe on His name. Very important. His original Hebrew name is Yahshua (like the patriarch’s English name “Joshua”). And this name has a specific meaning–a meaning that we need to believe!

The Meaning of the Savior’s Hebrew Name

“Yahshua” means, “The Eternal Self-Existent One (YAH) is the Savior (SHUA). The “Truth” is this: Yahweh dwelt in and walked around in the man known as Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And He, Yahweh, is the Savior (II Cor. 5: 19; Isa 43: 11).

They are one. And that is exactly what Christ said. “I and my Father (Yahweh) are one.” The Father resided in the body of the Son. Now we are the Son’s body, and by the Spirit’s presence, the Father now resides in us.

This is how “The Truth,” Christ, is being multiplied in a body of many people. The apostle Paul said that we will be glorified, and that this whole earth is waiting for this very event–“the manifestation of the sons of God” (Romans 8: 18).

Heirs of God, Joint Heirs with Christ

The vision that we shall be His heirs in His kingdom, clothed with a new spiritual body like Christ’s–this is the great theme of Paul and the other apostles’ writings. Some will become like Christ! There–I said it.

So the question then becomes this: Who of all the six billion on earth will answer this “holy calling” of sonship? Who will “lay their hands to the plow and not look back? Who will “sell all they have” in order to make their “calling and election sure”? Who will tell Him, “It is I, Lord, send me”? Who will “study to show themselves approved”? Who will be feeding His lambs and sheep the true spiritual food when He comes back to earth to establish His government? Who will “stand in the gap” and lay it on the line, unafraid of what man can do to them? Who will be found worthy in the end to do the “greater works” that Christ spoke of?

The future sons and daughters of God are in the earth today. The last question we need to answer is this: Am I going to be one of them? Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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February 12, 2009 · 6:48 pm

We Were with God in the Beginning–Part II

Why This is Hard to Believe

The children of God were with their spiritual Father in the beginning, so declares the holy scriptures {see Feb. 9, 2009 post). This message is difficult to receive when a person, dwelling on the earth and its pulls, is full and fat, and is “doing great,” and is living high-on-the-hog.

He has need of nothing, he thinks. But he does not know that as a selfish earthbound mortal, he is really blind to the heavenly way. He is wretched in his blindness to spiritual matters, for he can never be happy being earthly-minded. He is poor, for he lacks the Spirit that was in the beginning. And he is naked, strutting blindly on the earth, willingly ignorant of the truth about what is really happening “on earth as it is in heaven” (Rev. 3: 17).

This is the state of mankind now in this prosperous 21st century. And the only thing that will wake up God’s people to Him is that He allows the engineering of an economic fall–one that will strip the toys and gadgets from the lost sheep of the House of Israel.

In the Old Testament stories, it was always an economic collapse brought on by crooked politicians that finally pierced through the hard hearts. When they became destitute, “then they cried unto the LORD (Yahweh).”

And He heard them and came down by making His Presence known to a prophet, who in turn, led His people away from the moral and spiritual abyss and led them back “to the beginning”–back to the pastures of the Father’s heart.

How to Get Back to the Beginning with Him

We will be restored back to what we had with Him in the beginning. How? We believe that we receive His Spirit–after we surrender our old self on the cross and let it die with Christ, who was the sin sacrifice (Romans 6: 1-6). This is the first step. Then through just believing God and His love granting us a new life, heart, and spirit, we begin to walk in this new life–His Life now incarnated in us.

We believe that His Spirit within us now cauterizes eventually all connections to our earthly past. And then by faith (belief), we leave the bars and chains of earthly thinking with its negative demands, and we begin to walk in the Spirit, in the spiritual state that we already “had with Him before the world began.”

The Truth

For the truth is that we were with Him in the beginning. The “We” here is the portion of His Spirit that we are now, not our earthly body.

For after receiving Christ, anything we are is “new” to our current earthly reality, but “old” in that our new existence in Christ is one we shared with Him before time as we know it began.

A person instructed in the Kingdom of God will, consequently, “bring forth out of his treasure things new and old” (Matt. 13: 52). The “old” is our spiritual relationship we had with Him before our earthly sojourn began. The “things new” is living now through His Spirit within our hearts–right now here on earth.

This sin-free spiritual walk in Christ is “new” and rare, for few have been priveleged to glimpse this; few have been given the eyesalve to anoint the earthen eyes that they may see. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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February 9, 2009 · 1:39 pm

We Were with God in the Beginning*

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When we partake of His Spirit, we are drinking into what we had with Him in the beginning.

His Spirit in us transforms us day by day into what we were when we were with Him back then. We are restored by faith, back to that relationship we had with Him before the worlds were ever formed. Before the earth was ever made, before the seven day creation week, before the sabbath day was instituted–we, His children were there with him in spirit.

For what are we really without Him? Our bodies without His presence within are so much earth and dust. When we receive a portion of His Spirit, we receive into these earthly shells a spark of the divine One.

He who was from the beginning now takes up His abode in our earthly bodies, and the only “I” now is His Anointed One (Christ) in us. For after our own cross experience with Him, it is no longer the old selfish “I” that lives, “but it is Christ that lives in me.”

As we continue to walk this way, we can pray as Christ prayed, “Father, glorify me with the glory I had with You before the world ever began” (John 17:5).

We Must Go Back

But we must go back, back, back into time–before the temporal, before the temporary shackles of our earthen bodies, before the clamor of the flesh’s demands and desires, before the worlds were ever slung into their ethereal pinnings–when we sat around with our Father, rejoicing with Him about the beauty of His plan, “when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (Job 38: 7).

We must go back there, before Satan was ever commissioned by the Father to be the “accuser of the brethren.” Before Satan became the prince and power of the air, sent down to try us and force us ultimately back to our Father for deliverance.

For we have all strayed like sheep away from our Shepherd. We have strayed from the spiritual pastures we had with Him before He created the pastures of earth.

When we return and let Him gather us and restore us back into His heavenly-minded fold, then we will know what it means to have “our conversation in heaven.”

Passing the Test

When we walk in this truth–that we were with Him in the beginning–then we have passed the test–the test to see if we will believe the lie that we are only animal and not children of God, or believe the truth that we are only temporarily in a mortal state before our change to immortality comes.

This is the crux of the matter. When we are stripped of everything and reduced to our lowest state, do we believe that we are His spiritual children, with all the rights and responsibilities or do we believe the lie?

For this lie must be refuted by our walk on earth. Others must see “our good works and glorify the Father.” They will see that, yes, there is a God, for only God can shine the light of joy and love through a person like that. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

*{“…and your old men shall dream dreams…” Received in a dream, Feb. 8, 2009}

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January 25, 2009 · 4:55 pm

Add to Your Faith–How to Make Your Calling and Election Sure

After obtaining “like precious faith” with the apostles of Christ, we must make several additions to that faith in order to be fruitful in God’s plan. These additions are spiritual additions and can only be added by His in-dwelling Spirit within you.

It is by adding these certain spiritual traits to our faith that we can make “our calling and election sure.”

God has promised us that we can be “partakers of His divine nature.” To secure these promises we must add these spiritual attributes. If we don’t add them, then “we will be barren and unfruitful.” We will not show that heavenly power and light through our vessels if we don’t.

What are these additions? They are found in II Peter 1: 5-7. To faith, add virtue; to virtue add knowledge; to knowledge add temperance; to temperance add patience; to temperance add godliness; to godliness add brotherly kindness; to brotherly kindness, add charity, which is agape love from above.

Those that lack these spiritual additions to their faith in Christ are blind and have “forgotten that they were purged from their old sins” (v. 9). In other words, the guilt of sin and ungodliness will haunt them. His salvation lies dormant in them, and they are subject to negative thoughts hurled through their minds by our enemy Satan, the ruler of the air waves.

But if we make these additions to our faith, we find an “entrance…into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (Yahshua) {v. 11).

To comprehend virtue, the first addition, we must study it out, and then apply it, calling upon Him for His strength, for it is only by His Spirit that we can accomplish anything. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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October 21, 2008 · 11:14 am

Wisdom Is the Fear of the LORD

Wisdom is the main thing, but what exactly is it? It seems so mystical, so ethereal, so other-worldly. It is just a little bit intimidating and mysterious when you try to figure out what wisdom is according to man’s conception of it.

Job 28:28 states, “…Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.” It couldn’t mean to be afraid of God, so I consult a dictionary and find that “fear” means reverential awe and respect. “Awe” is defined as an emotion of reverence, respect, dread, and wonder inspired as by authority, genius, great beauty, or might. So then, the scriptures say that the main thing, the principal thing is to be in awe of our Maker.

When we realize just who He is and how powerful and wonderful He is, then more awe will come over us. Solomon, who had it all as far as worldly riches was concerned, summed it all up in Ecclesiastes 12:13: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.” Be in awe and respect Him and keep his ten commandment law, and you will be doing your duty.

Awe and respect of God—that is wisdom, and that is the key to open the door to God’s heart. But what are we humans in awe of? Movie stars, sports stars, beautiful women, handsome men. Hollywood is awesome? Sports stars and music stars of pop and rock are awesome? We humans have sold out to very poor gods who cannot deliver. These movie and music idols offer nothing to their worshippers. But they are modern mankind’s idols. Isn’t it amazing that modern man idolizes personalities who make millions by being something other than what they really are? Our movie idols are phony; they are not real.

Our god is

who we are in awe of

Our god is who we are in awe of. Man has it built into his makeup to be in awe of something. It is man’s nature to think that something or someone is awesome. Sometimes it is a star; sometimes it is himself. But man is in awe of something or someone.

To be in awe, then, is the first step in worship. So, it turns out that man is in awe of almost everything except God. Humans will go onto a mountaintop and exclaim how awe-inspiring the view is and how the waterfall in the distance is awesome. Man is in awe of things of the earth and this world. Therefore, man just doesn’t have any true wisdom from above because to be awestruck of the LORD (Yahweh) is wisdom.

So how do we get wisdom? “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering…” James l: 5-7. Faith is assurance that He will do what he said He will do without you having to see or feel it beforehand. Faith believes and is assured before you receive whatever you ask for. When you waver, you are not totally sure that He will do what He said He would do.

So, we then ask Him for that emotion of being in awe of Him, instead of some worldly figure or thing–and we ask with assurance.

This may sound like a dumb question, but one may wonder just who is He and what has He done to warrant such awe. Go outside on a clear night and count the billions of stars. With the new Hubbel space telescope, the astronomers have reported recently that there are 12 billion galaxies like ours! That’s galaxies like our Milky Way which have hundreds of millions of stars—one of which, of course, is our sun. Now I know why the Great Creator was perplexed by the ancients’ worship of the sun. The sun is small fry—very small potatoes.

We’ve got to get back to the Supreme Power that created all of this flabbergasting universe. And when we begin to get a tiny glimpse of the majesty of this kind of power that created all things, then that’s the beginning of wisdom. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

(from Chapter 2 of my book Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality found here: http://www.yahwehisthesavior.com/yah.htm )

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