Hi. My name is Kenneth Wayne Hancock. My friends call me Wayne or Wayneman. I have led quite a life. See my post “From ‘Highway to Hell’ to ‘Immortality Road’” ( http://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/3/ ).
My quest really started in 1968. I was a medical lab technician in the 18th Surgical Hospital (MASH) in Quang Tri, Vietnam. All I did in the lab was cross match blood for our soldiers who were shot up. I drowned and dosed the horror of the bloody war through drugs and alcohol everyday. The terror of war caused me, however, to begin to search for the meaning of life.
I got out of the Army in 1969, met and married my wife Linda Kay, enrolled in college in the East Bay in California, continued to play rock music, take drugs, and search for the truth. It was then that it was shown to me that one’s old ego, the self, had to die. So I studied World Religions and philosophy, but none had the answer on how to get rid of the evil monkey screaming in my ear demanding me to do bad things. I did not go to the Christian churches, for I was raised in them and did not believe they could help me (See my post “Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater” http://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/throwing-the-baby-out-with-the-bath-water/ ).
Then in 1971 a man told me that the old man “is crucified with Christ,” as in Romans 6:6. And that sparked a stupendous conversion to Christ. We became full time missionaries to Mexico and other places for 14 years. I was on an expedition to Mt. Ararat, Turkey, in search of Noah’s Ark and spoke to thousands giving lectures across the country and appeared on television many times.
We had five children to finish raising, so we finished our degrees, became teachers. I taught American and English Literature and Spanish for a number of years. I’m currently an Adjunct Instructor for a couple of local universities. I am an author of two books (available from amazon.com or the author, and viewable at my website Yahweh Is the Savior ( http://yahwehisthesavior.com/ ). Thank you for your interest and sharing your time with me.
20 responses so far ↓
michael morgan // March 16, 2008 at 7:11 pm |
wayne- I love the website. The older I get the more I understand your message. Keep it up and I will keep checkin in. See you soon.
m.morgan
wayneman5 // March 17, 2008 at 1:01 am |
Thank you for the words of encouragement, MM. KWH
Iver Tokoi // June 10, 2008 at 12:41 am |
Wayne, I hope you had a good time at the wedding, send me some pics if you have them on digits. I love the post of Lord’s Prayer.
fred zandberg // June 20, 2008 at 7:48 pm |
nice site
Gods will- will be done,his kingdom will come
praise God that ALL men shall be saved-because that is his will that none would perish.
this takes the sting of death away
also it takes away judgement on our part
its all about Gods lavish love.
nomore striving-just rest-God will work it out!
and the sons and daughters will be revealed to call into line the Kingdom of God.wow cant wait
blessings in the kingdom -fred
wayneman5 // June 21, 2008 at 12:49 pm |
Thanks, Fred, for visiting and commenting. It truly is an amazing plan and purpose God has for us His children. God bless you and yours. KWH
yhen // July 18, 2008 at 3:04 am |
hi sir wayne,
i am inspired by your site.
may the Lord use you more. and may you touch more lives.
god bless
wayneman5 // July 19, 2008 at 2:47 am |
Thanks, yhen, for the encouraging words. God bless you richly. KWHancock
blueivina // July 19, 2008 at 11:56 pm |
[Prince] Wayne,
Thanks for the comment on my blog. I could learn a lot from what you have written here, and am looking forward to it. Continue to do God’s will, and I am anticipating your future posts.
~[Princess] Shalena
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wayneman5 // July 20, 2008 at 7:10 pm |
Thank you for your comment, Princess Shalena. May God continue to bless you in your quest for truth. Kenneth Wayne Hancock
Jonathan // July 31, 2008 at 3:45 pm |
Hey Wayne
Thanks for dropping by my blog. I appreciate your meditations here, they’re thoughtful and heartfelt.
Blessings,
Jonathan
wayneman5 // July 31, 2008 at 11:18 pm |
Thanks, Jonathan, for your encouragement. Wayne
Adrina Green // August 21, 2008 at 2:53 am |
Your words on love are spot on, we must forgive and pray for God’s love to fill us to remain in peace. Love and Hate are propelling forces and at any time will propel us along like a train depending which one we are riding, you just cannot ride both and sometimes we might start out on love and end up on hate, but if we take the time to trace back to where we switched trains we will find what need forgiveness and love.
Just a thought on your end times, could it be the elect God talks about are those who are born again after the rapture. As I feel a pre-rapture is possible and that many who have been holding back will get this time frame to believe but will have to go through the tribulation. Cheers Adrina
wayneman5 // August 21, 2008 at 12:13 pm |
Thanks, Adrina, for your comment. You are exactly right; since God is love, we just need His Spirit to fill us up with His goodness. He said that He is looking for people to surrender to Him so that He can do this. The emotions of love and hate are very powerful and do propel hearts down different destinies. Re: the Rapture: I do believe that after Christ sets up His new government here on earth, He will send forth His representatives and that those who don’t know Him at the beginning of this millenial age, will have a chance to be born “from above.” God bless. KWHancock
spudsie // September 29, 2008 at 1:08 am |
Hey Wayneman! Thanks for dropping by my blog and commenting. You’ve led quite a life. I appreciate the insights you’ve posted on your blog. I pray that God continues to bless and use you. Spudsie
wayneman5 // September 29, 2008 at 2:00 am |
Thanks, Spudsie. I appreciate your encouragement. God bless you all. Wayneman
Trena Turner // June 15, 2009 at 12:11 am |
Wayne,
Hard to call you that with all the years of calling you Mr.Hancock. Just found your site through Kyla’s facebook. This week will finish up my BSN degree and will have some free time to look around your site. Would love to read your book. Will keep posted on your site.
Trena
Pastor Tony // June 29, 2009 at 2:32 am |
Its funny but heaven is not our home. Often we think about this life and imagine what it will be like when we’re finally in heaven with God. We imagine this place where everything is better and we will have no more worries. Somehow we have been taught that heaven is our home. I hear a lot of people talk about this. They say, so and so has gone HOME to be with the Lord. Or they talk about a rapture where they will be taken from this world to go home to be with God- as if there was something wrong with this physical earth.
The reality, however, is that God created us for the Earth. He made us physical beings not simply spiritual. If Heaven was our true home, why did He mess around with putting us on the Earth to begin with? Was His plan, “I will make this physical universe, place my favirote creatures of all (man) on Earth, tell them not to sin, but really hope they will so they can one day die and come to their real home with Me in Heaven” ? Doesn’t that sound crazy!
But what was God’s real plan? It was for His presence to be with us ON THE EARTH! What is the Lords prayer? ‘Your kingdom come, your will be done…Where? On the Earth as it is in heaven. God walked with man in the beginning. His presence was WITH them! So do people ‘go Home’ when they die? In a sense they do because they go to be with the Lord, but He wants us to be with the Lord HERE.
When you ask someone to describe eternal life, what do you think they will say? Often Heaven is one of the things mentioned when talking about eternal life, but Jesus had a very different perspective on this issue. He said that eternal life was KNOWING God and His Son (John 17:3). Man, God has created us to know Him- that’s pretty awesome.
But what about this whole Heaven thing? Well ‘to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord’ (2Cor 5:6), we know this to be true, but there is more to the story about this! Now most of us don’t have a death wish (on most days), but isn’t there a part of our thinking that says, “Man I just can’t wait to die and go to heaven where everything will be better! I won’t have all these stinkin worries! I won’t have to deal with all these people that are so messed up! I won’t have to deal with me who is pretty messed up too (hehehe)…” That attitude may not be officially taught, but it is sure evident with the way a lot of us live. But if we look at what Paul was saying in 2Cor here, we see that he was not longing ‘to be unclothed’ (to put off this physical body by dying), but rather he was looking ‘to be clothed upon’ with a body that was not subject to death!
2Co 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
2Co 5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
2Co 5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Do you see what Paul said there? He didn’t say to be clothed upon with our house IN Heaven, but FROM Heaven. God wants to do what He has said and that is to bring His Kingdom (His presence, His rule, His abolishment of sin) to the Earth.
Did you know that the Jews believed in a resurrection from the dead? We as Christians do too, but there seems to be very little teaching on this from what I can tell. But simply think about this, if our home is in a place called Heaven, then why is God going to raise us from the dead? 1Thessolonians talks about the dead in Christ rising first when He returns. This means that their bodies will be actually risen- their physical bodies. Hmm…where are all these bodies going to go? To a spiritual place or a physical place?
I guess the reason why this is so important, is because I fear that we have gotten a little drowsy and maybe even fallen asleep at times. I don’t want to see this happen! I really don’t want our generation to miss out on what God is definitely willing to show us if we are just willing and obedient to follow along and listen. And what is He wanting to show us? I truly believe that He wants us to walk and know Him as His Son did- Jesus. He wants us to inherit the earth and be transformed into one of His sons. Yes He wants to create a new Heaven and a new Earth, but that’s only His judgment of unrighteousness and sin- not to the removing of the righteousness of Christ which is in us begging to expand and take over our lives.
So if you have a burden- maybe you think ‘man I just know there is something more and it just doesn’t seem like were quite getting it’- then please pray! Ask God to reveal to our brother’s and sister’s hearts what He has in store for us. We ALL have such a cool and unique part to play. Ask Him to have mercy on us and wake us up from our drowsiness that has come from preoccupation in entertaining ourselves too much. Ask Him to open His word and reveal what His plans really are for us and what it is He has for us to do.
Maybe when we realize that God has something for us to do HERE…(i.e. helping to bring His REIGN and righteousness to the Earth and for Him to manifest His presence IN us)…maybe when we realize that God did not just create us to live good lives, do as much as we can for Him on this Earth, and then just die and go to heaven where we ‘really belong anyway’, then maybe we will really see some crazy stuff start to happen! WOW I cannot wait!!! Remember it’s who is IN Heaven that makes it Heaven not the place itself!! And God wants to live IN us! Holy mac-a-rel thats an amazing thought. But that’s the reality of Jesus’s kingdom.
wayneman // June 29, 2009 at 10:05 am |
Thank you soooo much, Pastor Tony, for your comment! I agree wholeheartedly with every word you said in the above post. I have written about this same theme many times on this blog. I wrote a whole series on what the Lord’s prayer is really about. Just type into the “Search” box, “Lord’s prayer” and it will take you to those articles. Please stay in touch, my brother. Right now the LORD is leading me in writing a series of articles on “the sons and daughters of God”–the elect who will stride the earth fully manifesting His glorious power very soon. We are called to help them realize their destiny as in “bringing many sons unto glory” in Romans 8: 18-21. God will be glorified in them, His crowning creation. It is a real vision and the time is at hand for them to come forth and bear 100 fold fruit. We who see this vision must pull together and get on board, which is seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, consciously working in the Spirit to accomplish His eternal purpose, which is nothing less than Him pouring Himself out fully into chosen vessels! Please stay in touch. Wayneman
Pastor Tony // June 29, 2009 at 10:44 pm |
If one is to come to immortality, there first must be an attaining of
incorruption. Before incorruption we must be perfect. Is this
possible? Not with man. Not by might or power. Not by our own works
of righteousness. It will only be accomplished in and throught Him.
Praise God this is His desire. May the following be a blessing.
The Goal: Perfection
“But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory
by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you
PERFECT, stablish, strengthen, settle you.”
1Peter 5:10
There is a beginning of the Work of God in our lives through
receiving or hearing the Word of God. This is followed by faith,
repentance and the baptisms of Water and Spirit. This is the new
birth or being born again (from above). We must then abide, follow
and obey as we are raised up and become disciples, servants, and
ministers of this Word. This is the process of sanctification, or
being made holy. It is also His salvation being worked in us and
manifested through us.
God has set forth the standard both in the Old Testament (Genesis
17:1) and later by our Lord Jesus Himself (Matthew 5:48). God wants,
desires and expects to have a PERFECT people. There is no skirting
the issue, no excuses for less, no substitute, no second best,
no “good enough”. Hebrews 6:1 provides the New Testament admonition:
…”let us go on unto PERFECTION”. Paul, in a declarative or creative
word of God at the end of his second letter to the Corinthians simply
says, “Be PERFECT”.
James repeats the same phrase in chapter one verse four of his
epistle. The Hebrew and Greek words reveal both the process
(Hebrew: SHALOME, Strong’s #8003/ Greek: KATARTIDZO, #2615) and the
result (Hebrew: TAWMEEM, #8549 / Greek: TELIOS, #5046). We must
remember and be reminded that this walk of salvation is God’s work,
His Word being made flesh. That is, “The Lord will PERFECT that
which concerneth me” (Psalm 138:8). We simply need to submit, obey,
and flow with His creative process.
“…and this also we wish, even your PERFECTION.” 2 Corinthians
13:9
It might be interesting to note here that scientists have recently
discovered a substance in certain cells, which acts as an “end cap”
and keeps the strands of DNA in their spiral form. Most cells in our
body do not have this substance and consequently wear out after some
number of cell reproductions, allowing the DNA to unwind and the cell
to die. This cell degeneration is considered linked with our own
eventual death.
The substance, which prevents cell death, has been named “telomerase”
(the TELO prefix being related to the word TELIOS). Telomerase
allows cells to reproduce indefinitely. These cells are immortal.
Two cell groups, which have this substance and the immortal
character, are the human fetus and cancer cells. Somewhere before
birth most of our cells lose this substance and we become mortal.
Selah.
The Lord Jesus, Bless you Bro Wayne P.S. I’am having a Revival in July I would like to invite you
wayneman // June 30, 2009 at 10:16 am |
So true. “Till Christ be formed in you,” Paul wrote. When we can say, It’s no longer I that lives, but Christ that lives in me. Thanks for the invitation…Wayneman