NCCI Session 3 | Western vows vs Priestly Vows

Right, so just for the sake of the recording, welcome back to session three. This is the first presentation session. Last week, we were supposed to, it was more of a, a, a discussion supported by our presentation. But today, we actually going to be progressing with presentation. This is the first presentation session, and this is actually following up from what we were just speaking about regarding, um, identifying the transaction, differentiating between the transactional mindset from the personal oath mindset. And responding to a question Holy Brother Noah just asked there in the session, in the chat, are we really saved without this understanding? And what is being saved? And as we progress with these sessions, in particular, I allow the presentations or the information, the content coming at you, to really answer that question for you and to give clarity as to why what we've been taught in the Western culture, there is no way for me to really, for me to really, um, there, there's no way for me to really sugarcoat this, but why what we've been taught in Western culture is so pagan. And I say pagan with all the respect to other persons and their belief systems, but why it's so pagan.

And if you all really digested the content that we covered last week concerning personal oaths and what a world would look like from that personal oaths meaning everybody walking by their own integrity and committed to that integrity, if you really pay attention to that, you'd realize that this is just the whole problem in the world. King's world is just a corrupt world, a corrupt world because of the covenant, the contract mindset, the transactional mindset trying to acquire something that you are not of or that you are not reproducing yourself. It's, um, it's the, it's a way. Anybody familiar with the term "prass"? P-R-A-S-S. P-R-A-S-S is a term that is actually used to refer to someone who is stealing crops from somebody who they're stealing from crops you didn't plant, right? And this is what the king's rule is basically about, trying to acquire things from something that you didn't create, from relationships to the economic system, to, um, marriages, and more importantly, spirituality. And the thing is with spirituality, because the person that you're dealing with is not visible to you, you are most hurt and frustrated. Not to mention that God is spirit. Spirit functions by a principle. And so if you're not honoring God, you can't manipulate our spirits. You could manipulate a man, but you cannot manipulate a spirit being that is that is governed by its own nature.

So we are going to get into to to whether or not we could say that most Western believers, whether they're saved or not. And the answer might just be a little saddening, might be a little sorrowful in your heart. But glory be to God that we are actually coming into this understanding. And it is because of that that most believers are not able to really understand if the Holy Spirit is speaking to them or if they are actually also making the power of God transactional and not being the tree. Does that make sense? They're not being the tree. They want the fruits from the tree, but they don't want to be the tree. Or nobody's taught them that they have to be the tree. So even your Bible reading has been based on that. If you pay attention to what we covered last week, you notice that your whole Bible reading, and I was just in a coaching session last week, no, at the beginning of this week on Monday, and this is one of the topics that we were speaking about, how the whole Bible is to be read through the law of reproduction after your own kind. And you're reading Jesus's teachings through all of your life through a transactional mindset. And because of that, you are confused. You, we have been, we have been taught to read the Bible through this transactional mindset so much that we might as well have been Pharisees listening to Jesus when he, when this was taking place, because we are as confused as they are. And what we don't realize is that we were actually working, how they were working, transactional mindset. Why is Jesus? Everything Jesus is saying makes perfect sense through the law of reproduction after your own kind. You don't really need to find out what he means. You just need to read it through the law of reproduction after your own kind. Everything that he's saying is self-explanatory. It's telling you exactly how to do what he's doing.

So before we even go down that road and we end up speaking on, on a different note, last week we, we differentiated, we made a differentiation between covenant and contract. And we saw that covenant, in comparison, in contrast, in contrast to contract, covenant technically means that those two people with personal covenants are coming together to walk together. And therefore, one of the things that we definitely need to pay attention to, and what we're going to cover on, uh, what we're going to cover here today is what Elohim is, what the Bible refers to as vows and oaths. And the kind of vows that we were taught in Western culture too, right? We were taught vows from the king's perspective. And this session, in this session, we need to clean it up, or else I could be saying vows and some of you could put yourselves into vows that is not what the Bible is speaking about because you've been trained for the transaction. Even you, you could even, it is, yes, it is possible to take the idea of a vow and make it transactional. And you make it transactional where, where you're making vows of prohibition or vows in the pursuit of validation. When you think about what I'm saying, but some, most, most in most, most cases, Western culture has taught you vows in the context of prohibition, which means you don't do this to be validated. How many of us could say that you have, you have, this is the concept of vow that you have been taught? I vow not to do this. I vow not to do that. Yeah, that's, that's, this is why the session here today exists. Because if you took what we covered last week and you applied it to vows, vows of prohibition, you put yourself in another form of contract thinking, where you're keeping the vow to be able to acquire something.

Now, just out of curiosity, how many, how many of us could say that our minds went there after the session last week? Vows that you won't do this. There's a lot of curiosity. Someone, yes, has a. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Put it out. Put all the questions as well. Put all the questions as well. Now, this is why the session exists right here. Because I could have communicated to you the vows that we're speaking about, vows of the name, and just assume that you get it. But this is just another area where we need to make, to where we need to make tight. Because you could take vows of prohibition, and I, I can tell you that I have much experience with vows of prohibition in my life, and I have failed gloriously, gloriously, right? Nothing breaks. It's a yes. And those are vows onto not doing something. In the Bible, well, in most cases, well, let's, before I even unpack that, let's just, let's just jump into the session and get some clarity here, right? Are we ready? Ready. All right, let us proceed.

So the title of the session is, what is and is not a personal vow? What a vow is and what a vow is not. What our personal vow is in the context of the scriptures, right? Because if you leave this open, we can, we can draw from Western culture, and we can draw from the East, the Middle Eastern culture, or the ancient Israelite perspective. This is specific to what a vow is in the scripture. What a spiritual vow is in scriptures. And when I'm speaking about vow, we're talking about vow unto the Lord, a vow unto Yahweh, which we said is a personal vow, primarily, right? Primarily, what we're going to take a look at here is the definition of a vow. One of the things that the Bible, the Bible does in particular, it makes mention of vows and oaths. All right, vows are usually vows to things. Now, when I use the title vow last week, I mainly use vow to to summon in you an idea that is, I use the word vow to summon in you an idea that we are most, that we are, that we are most familiar with as Westerners. When we say vow, all of us have the same idea. So I use the word vow. But when you're going into the Bible, there's a difference between vows and oaths. And to be more specific, what what we call vows in the way that we used it last week, more fall under the category of an oath. But when we say oaths in the Western culture, it doesn't solicit the vision or the picture that I wanted us to have. Because when we make oaths, we don't really see it in the same way that we see vows. Does that make sense? And vows and oaths are usually used interchangeably. But when I say oath, for most people, when there's a picture that comes to mind, that doesn't actually carry the weight that that the word vow would carry. So today, what we're going to do is get some clarity as to what, what these two are, so that we can be clear. Then we're going to go back in the Bible to see where and what the Bible refers to as vows, which will take us into understanding what is a vow of prohibition, which is what most of us are accustomed to, you know, in the Western culture, and why vows of prohibition is not what the Bible is speaking about when it comes to this topic. And if you have, if most of you in particular have made vows of prohibition, I'm sure that you have failed miserably, right? You just, most especially if you is based on your spirituality. The vows of prohibition is technically falling into keeping rules for validation. The Bible pretty much speaks about vows to the name and vows to vision. Vows to the name and vows to vision, which is something that is completely different. And it gives you, it'll give you context as to why somebody like Abraham could vow to the, could make a vow to the name and go and lie to Pharaoh, and nothing happens. Not telling Pharaoh the truth, and it doesn't affect his relationship with God. How many of us could say you have read how Abraham lied to Pharaoh? Right? Lied. And your question, how is this okay? Why, why didn't God speak to him about it? How many of us could say that you, you have been a little confused in your Christianity because of that? Yeah. Not, not computing. Midwives and all. Right, right. They're not computing. Bothered you, right? It must bother you, right? Because you, you know God to be a perfect God. But the perfection that you applied to God was based on rule keeping. Was based on rule keeping, right? And not on what the Bible is speaking about. So in your understanding, God is perfect, and therefore, hey, Abraham lied. We could say that even Jesus lied. Take your time and digest that statement. You remember when, when Jesus's brothers told him, was, was ridiculing him and say, you're the Messiah, go up into Jerusalem and show them what you have. And Jesus said, I will, I will not go. And then after they left, he then went. You could see he lied. That wouldn't compute in the Western mindset either. Mmm. Doesn't compute. You say, how could Jesus lie? He lied to his brothers. He clearly lied to them. That's because of the transactional mindset that you've been taught the Bible through. And today, we get some clarity on what, what that is. And then we're going to take a look at Jesus's instructions concerning oaths. He speaks about making oaths in his teachings and in Matthew and says you shouldn't make oaths. We need to get some context to that so that we make sure that you're clear and you're settled and you understand what he's speaking about so that this is not confusing you all right.

The, the scripture examples of vows, I wouldn't actually go through it because I doubt we're going to have enough time to go through that here today. But I'll definitely post it on Discord post session, all right? As per usual, at the end of the session, you all would be, your assignment will be to, to, um, to summarize the session. And I look forward to the summaries of this, of this particular session. So let's start with definition, starting from with, with, with the dictionary. A vow here is defined by the dictionary as a solemn promise or act. Right? Solemn, right? Meaning coming from your heart. A vow that is contrary to your heart's desire is not a vow. It's technically a form of self-deceit, which is why rule keeping in Christian community, in the Christian denominational circles, is such a failure because it does not actually connect to your heart. It literally is, keep these rules to be validated by God with the assumption that you're an evil person. So your heart has one desire, and the rules is saying something else. And so what you are calling keeping rules to be validated by, by God, scripture would actually say that technically you deceive, you're deceiving yourself.

Another definition, the second definition you see here is one by which a person is bound to an act, service, or condition. To promise or to promise solemnly, to swear. Jesus is actually saying, swear, don't swear. We'll come into that. To promise solemnly and to bind or consecrate by a vow. Now, according to the concordance, the Hebrew word that is actually translated vow in this first mention is actually word "nadar," that means a promise to God, also concretely a thing promised, which is a conjugation or, yeah, say a conjugation of the Hebrew word "nadar" that means to promise positively to do or give something to God, which is to make a vow. Notice that it says to promise positively to do or give something to God. I'm going to say that again. Please pay attention to what I just said there, right? To promise positively to do or to give something to God. We're going to be coming back to that definition. And of course, the pictograph of the Hebrew word "nadar" is a vow made where one promises to perform an act if another performs a certain act. Right?

Now, so let's, let's get some clarity to that immediately, because when we hear that, our mind may have defaulted to transaction. This is not in reference to transaction. It is in reference to two persons committing themselves, making a personal vow to themselves, and then coming together to complete this vow, which means both parties, upon their integrity, are committing to each other. And therefore, don't have to be concerned, as we see, as we do in the Western culture, regarding contracts. So you don't have to be concerned about what the other person is doing. You just commit yourself to what you have committed yourself to fulfill that, while the person, they do that on their own. Oh, this is what I mentioned in the Bible. They just, just a while level. The Bible, you see the two words that you found in the Bible, one is translated vow, the other is translated oath. So we're not going to read what on the screen here. The Hebrew term meaning a vow appears in the Bible to describe a promise made to God to perform a certain action. The first mention of this verse, of this verb, of sorry, of this word is Genesis 28:20. This is the first mention. This is the first mention. Genesis 28:20 is where you get the definition that the Torah provides, that that the scripture is referencing. It says, to perform, to perform a certain action or to describe a self-imposed prohibition on something otherwise permitted, right? On something otherwise permitted, which means it's not forbidden by God. Something that you are deciding to commit to as your way of having a tangible application of this vow. The Mishnah contrasts the former type of vow with the "nedavah," a freewill offering, and distinguishes the latter from a "shvu'ah," which is an oath. Although the distinction between these two types may seem technical, it has significant practical implications. In a vow, a person restricts an item for themselves by declaring, "I take upon myself." In an oath, they restrict themselves to an item by stating, "I swear to this or not to this." Right? The scriptures primarily, and all show, the Bible primarily focuses on the second type of vow, which is the, which, which technically is what we'll, well, no, not that one in particular. We're speaking about the, the first, which is "nadar," that we're going to be taking a look at in Genesis, Genesis 28.

So we have your definitions. We, we have found your definitions. Now we're going to take a look at the first mention, because as you know, your first mention provides you the definition for the concept in the Bible. I, I would, would like to gently remind you that remember that when you're reading this text, that you're reading this text on it, from the perspective of reproduction after your own kind. Which means the first mention sets the precedent how the vow is presented in the Bible. And therefore, by reading it after its own kind, reading the text after the law of reproduction after your own kind, whatever is said of it, you can therefore expect that that is the nature of how this concept works. It first mentions Genesis 28. And reading from verse 10, it says, "And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place and tarried there all night because the sun was set. And he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed. And behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold the angels of Elohim ascending and descending on it." So Jacob is having clearly having a dream. "And behold Yahweh stood above it and said, I am Yahweh, Elohim of Abraham thy father." So this, now when we say Elohim, we tend to read it like one word, right? Which is supposed to be read Yahweh stood above it and said, "I am Yahweh, Elohim of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac." Which is the same, same as saying the Elohim, Yahweh, the Elohim of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. "The land wherein thou liest, to thee will I give it unto thy seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed." "And behold, I am with thee and will keep thee in all places whithersoever thou goest and will bring thee again into this land. For I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of."

Notice how God makes the final statement here, "For I will not leave thee until I have done which I have spoken to thee of." So this is God technically making our, making our vow to, to, to, to Jacob. And this vow is a personal, is something that he's, he's doing. He's doing to himself. This is not transactional. He's, he's making this vow to himself. Is everybody seeing this right now? This is not the first time that God makes a vow to himself and says that he's doing this on the basis of his own integrity. And it should be even, even simpler to understand if God is your father, and your father is doing this, this is how you're supposed to operate. Notice also that this is a vow to do something. Yeah. And what you see that it's a vow to do something, are we seeing this? This is so significant that I want to just pause and repeat what I just said. God is showing, God is making a vow here to Abraham, to, um, to Jacob, and it is a vow to do something. Is there any aspect of this vow that you're seeing here that he's speaking about that is saying that he will not do something? Any prohibitions to God that God gives himself? There is no prohibition that God gives himself. In, please take mental note of what I'm saying here, because as we proceed, it's going to make, going to make sense as we proceed. But I need to, to take mental note so it stays there. So as I unpack, you say in the right direction. Take note that God is promising to do something. There is no prohibition, which should be a huge flag for you. Not a red flag, a green flag, let's say. It's a green flag, and we'll explain why right now. It may not make sense what I'm saying, and why I'm pointing this out, but hold on. Let's move on.

Next verse, verse 16. "And Jacob awaked out of his sleep and said, Surely Yahweh is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." And Jacob rose early, raised up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. This is the first mention also of the word "anoint." The King James translation that you're reading here translated the same word that is translated "anoint" in the Bible with "poured oil upon." In the, in the Hebrew, in the original text, it says "anointed the top of it." This is the first mention of the, of the, um, the first mention of the concept of anoint. Jesus makes mention of this in John chapter 1, at the end of John chapter 1. He speaks to Nathanael, just as he was anointed, he baptized, and the Spirit came upon him. You can see that he was anointed there. The Spirit came upon him. And in speaking to Nathanael, he says, "Because I said that you were under the tree, does thou believe? Do you believe? You shall see greater than this. You shall see angels ascending and descending upon the Son of Man." And what I'm, the reason I'm pointing this out is to show, number one, this is included in the first mention of vows, which means your anointing works together with this concept. Please write that down. The anointing that everybody is pursuing through transaction, in the first mention of the concepts, the anointing comes with a vow to yourself. A personal vow is a vow to the name, which is a vow to Yahweh. So when you write that down, anointing therefore works with personal vow. It does not work with transactional thinking. Everybody hearing me? Or should I speak to those in the back right there? I just told you why you're not seeing the results of the anointing in your life. Anointing works with personal vow. Hold on to these thoughts because we're coming back at it. All right.

So, "And Jacob rose up in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it for a pillar, and poured oil upon it. And he called the name of the place Bethel." Pay attention. Bethel is actually in the scriptures, the word that means the house of Elohim. The name of the city was called Luz at the first. So which means he renames the Luz from Luz to Bethel. This is significant. Why is it significant? Because Luz actually means per, I think I included in the presentation, it actually means perverse thinking. Everybody hearing that? Luz actually means perverse thinking. It also means to cut off authority, to cut off authority. A slowing down here now. Taking this step by step. Luz also means to, to cut authority, cut off, right? Or to cut your authority. Why am I even pointing this out? The opposite of vowing to yourself, personal vow, vow to the name, is transactional thinking. Which means, in the first mention of this concept, where anointing is found, and we know the anointing is seen in Isaiah 61, the ability to, the Spirit of has come upon me because that Yahweh has anointed me, or Adonai Yahweh has anointed me to do this, this, this, this, this, and Jesus is executing this anointing in the Gospels. In the first mention of anointing, which is the first mention of a vow, well, first mention of the, the term vow, which is in verse 20, we see God making a vow to do something. There's no prohibition in what he's saying. He doesn't do, give himself prohibitions. He's vowing to do this. Yeah. And in vowing to do this, Jacob wakes up, says, "Surely Yahweh is in this place," which means to walk in Yahweh is to walk in Yahweh's vow to himself, no prohibitions. And then he calls the place the house of Elohim, the Gate of Heaven, renaming it with Bethel, because it was once Luz. And Luz means to cut off your authority, perverse thinking. What is my point here? That if this is the way of Enos, this is the way of the Enos, which is Abel, Cain's ways, transactional living. Which means if he renames it Bethel, Luz would have come from an non-Yahweh source. And therefore, it's saying that if you, your anointing works with personal vows where there's no prohibition, and if he renames it Bethel, it basically means that the opposite, the inverse of that, which is transactional living, we could call Luz. And transactional living will cut off your authority and therefore cut off your anointing. Let me give some time for that to digest in your mind. We following? If following, type "follow." This is heavy. This is why I'm slowing down here. This is heavy because most of us are not seeing what you want to see, and this has always been in front of you. How many of us hearing this for the first time? First, first time ever you're hearing this concept, right? So let it be registered in your mind here. Let it hereby be hereby registered in your mind that if you have been functioning with anything that is contrary to what this is saying, it is, it is the result of your powerlessness because you are making it transactional. And that is Cain's mindset. If you are functioning from the spirit, what prohibition can you give your own spirit? If God created it to do everything that it, that it possesses? Should I ask that question again? Let me ask those in the back. If you are moving from Cain's mindset, which is the, the transactional mindset, to get something from somebody through a transaction, by not being the spirit yourself, that person, you could give rules because inherently he is doing something that is unethical. He's trying to gather things that he did not create. But if you're functioning from the death of the animal nature, pay attention. If you function from the death of the animal nature and you're putting on the name, giving yourself prohibitions, is not calling God evil? Yes or no? And why therefore would you put a prohibition on the, on the spirit of Christ, or on the Holy Spirit, if everything that the Holy Spirit is, and everything that is in you, God has given you, God has made it part of the spirit? This is why when we look at people who are in struggles with drugs, alcoholism, we come in church and we tell them, you cannot drink. You just, you are just prohibition, prohibition, prohibition. We come into that, we come to that. I include definition on, on the presentation. Just, just, just hold one sec. When you tell people you can't smoke, you can't drink, you can't do this, and you can't do that, you have just taken away the power of the spirit to flow from you. You have just undermined the power of the spirit in them. The problem is not the action. The problem is the motivation behind the action. There's nothing inherently evil under the sun. When God created it all, he said it was good. What made it evil was when man changed his motivation, his reference point, to use what he's using because he's using a, a strange reference point, and he's therefore redefining the creation, and therefore redefining its use. The Apostle Paul makes mention of this. When God created man, he created man to have sex. This is a great example. Romans chapter 1. Paul, if you unpack it through the garden, what Paul is saying in Romans chapter 1 is that God created man to have sex. Therefore, a man and a woman does not know, they do not know how to have sex or the glory of sex without the Holy Spirit. But when men started to listen to the serpent and then take up the mindset of the serpent, which was the tree, and start to use the tree as a reference point to define himself, he began to dress himself up with leaves. And therefore, in dressing himself up with leaves, he redefines everything about himself, including sex. How would a tree have sex? The answer to that is what has resulted in homosexuality and lesbianism. It didn't come just like that. It came because they use a tree to define themselves. And if you use a tree to define sex, then what is given to you, the only thing that you would end up doing, not I'm not trying to be funny, even though it might sound funny, but if you're using a tree to redefine yourself and your sexuality is redefined by the tree, the only thing a tree could do is rub against each other. And Paul in Romans chapter 1 is communicating that the redefinition is what causes women to turn to women and men to men. And God left them to go along with it in the, in the, in the, in the corruption of the mind. Does this make any sense? Everything in the Bible makes sense. You just need to understand that your reference point is what is the evil, what is the source of the evil. What I said just now was, if God created man and woman with genitalia in the garden, and in genitalia, he is speaking, he's man's genitalia in the garden, then, and the breath of God, which is the spirit of God, is breathing to them, then man, they do not know the glory of sex until they are in the fullness of the spirit. Which means it doesn't matter how much sexual things you see on this earth, man still has not tapped into the glory of sex because they do not, not have the original spirit of the body to give them an idea as to what that sex is supposed to be. What is the fruitfulness and the glory of sex? Does that make sense so far? Right? Romans is talking to believers, not unbelievers. What rather, Rick, would you give me? Would you actually express to me the relevance of what you're saying there regarding what you've said so I can understand where you're coming from, please? All right, when he, when he changed the reference point and started to listen to the serpent, then he took up the mindset of the serpent, which was the tree, then he began to dress himself up with the tree, which means he's now defining himself by the tree. And this is why Jesus nailed himself to the tree, because the man started defining himself with the tree. If you're defining whatever you're defining yourself by, whatever your reference point is, you are using a, the source of your identity, and therefore the source of your definitions. Which means the man redefined who he is according to his own knowledge, using a tree. And therefore, if we come back to the idea of sexuality, he will re, he will therefore redefine sexuality according to the, according to how a tree would have sex. The tree does not have genitalia. So the, the closest thing that you can do with a tree with regards to sexual, to to actually understand the sexual activity of the body is for the trees to touch or to rub against each other. Think about it, because trees don't have sex like human beings. So if you're trying to use a tree to give context to your sexuality, then they have to, the tree has to have, make it, make it make sense from that reference point. Sexuality was born, um, or or alternate sexual, sexuality was born, let's say alternate homosexuality. But most, most cases in the, the Bible is speaking about homosexuality or bestiality that comes from a man using a tree to define his sexuality. Does this make sense? Right? Then, yeah, it's right there. Everything right there. Trust me, everything right there. So people in the church go out telling people in LGBTQ about that sin. Okay, okay. Not too sure. I might need some more elaboration. I need to, I need to follow say, but anyway, just provide me some elaboration there so I can follow you if it is you're asking a question, right? Um, all right. So if this is the definition, therefore, what, what people are doing that is causing evil on the earth is changing their reference points. That is causing a redefinition of the creation by virtue of their reference points. That is the source of the evil in the earth. There is no creation that exists that is evil. When it was created in Genesis chapter 1 and 2, God said that all of it was very good. Is this making sense now? Great. Now, if this is the understanding, if this therefore is in the understanding of what we're looking at, giving yourself a prohibition is saying that your spirit is evil. Your problem is not the prohibition. Your problem is that you need to redefine how that creation is supposed to be used according to Yahweh. So telling people that drinking alcohol is wrong is foolish. Telling people that sex is wrong is foolish. Telling people that watching this particular program or going this, this place is sin is foolish. The problem is not the alcohol, the sex, or the location. The problem is what is the reference point that you're using to interface with these things, and how are you defining it? Are you using it? Are you using your own reference point to define it, or are you using the principles of Yahweh to give you an understanding as to how you should interface with it and how it should be used? Is this making sense, everybody? Now, therefore, therefore, what this is telling you here is transactional mindset is a cut, is a severing of your authority, is a perversion of your mind, and your anointing is not going to function in the way it's supposed to function because you are technically agreeing with the king's mindset whilst you are in Abel's, whilst you are supposed to be living as an Abel. All right. So let me just repeat that before we move on. If this is named Bethel, and Luz means the cutting off of authority, then renaming this Bethel, which is the house of God, house of Elohim, means that personal vows is the source of your, of, of the power of your anointing. And Luz would therefore represent transactional thinking. And therefore, transactional thinking, or transactional relationship, or transactional operation, will cut off the power that you're looking for. It will, it will cut off your authority, and therefore your anointing is not going to seem as though it's working. Great. Everybody ready to move on and hold that thought now because we're coming up, we're coming back, we're coming back. Ready to move on? All right.

So let's go on in verse 20 here. "And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in the way that I should that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall Yahweh be my Elohim." That sounds familiar. Watch the vow. "And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in the way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall Yahweh be my Elohim." So he's making a vow to Yahweh, and he's telling Yahweh, this is what I would like you to do, and I will do this. "And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee." So watch the pattern here. There's a vow. He's making. In this vow, he communicates to God what God will do for him. He's making this vow to himself that Yahweh be his Elohim. He has chosen a memorial to me to mark this vow. And in gratitude for Yahweh fulfilling what he gave Yahweh to do, he decides to give a tenth, which is what you would call tithe. He will tithe what he has that that Yahweh gives him in gratitude for what the vow is. Watch it. Vow that communicates to God what you're expecting to do. What you're going to do. Memorial. Gratitude. All right. Now, remember, this is first mention. And first mention, therefore, means that we're reading this through the law of reproduction after your own kind. That means that what you just read here is how a vow should function by reproduction after its kind. So that you make the, so that, sorry, you get a vision. You have God's vision. What God's vision is, that vision in particular. You notice here is where God is saying that he is going to do something on his own integrity. It's clearly telling you, stay within the personal, the understanding of personal vow. Do not, do not change from Luz to Bethel. Means no transactional thinking anymore. Be the house of Elohim, which is personal vow. And so you're accepting God's will as that. And then he's making a vow saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep this in this way that I go, will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on," he makes a vow, he creates a memorial, and then he is in gratitude. How many of us heard Jesus say in Matthew 6, "Take no thought for tomorrow what you would eat or drink, or what you would put on, for that the Gentile seeks. But seek ye first the kingdom of Elohim and His righteousness, and these things will be added unto you." What you're looking at here is Jesus referring to this vow. For those of you who never heard that before, this is Jesus referring to this vow that God has given the task or given the, the, um, the responsibility of handling the food, the drink, and the clothes, whilst Jacob makes Yahweh's Elohim, which is the name and the vision that God has given him. How many of us hear now for the first time? I, I would like you all to see how interesting your Bible is, and how much you're overlooking, right? Because of transactional life. Which means the reason why Jesus in himself could do what he was doing is because Jesus was actually functioning from a personal vow to the Father. And that's why you're reading him and you can't understand what he's saying, and where is he getting this power from? God. Can you repeat that? What I'm saying is, if you remember in Matthew 6, where Jesus says, "Do not worry about what you eat and drink and not what you wear, for your Father in Heaven already knows this is what you, this is what you have need of." He says, "For these things the Gentile seeks after. He says, but seek ye first the kingdom of Him," which is technically saying, seek first the, the garden, the vision of God, and His righteousness, which is Jesus defined the righteousness in, in, in the Gospels as the prophecies of God, which is his visions. And all these things will be added to you. What I'm saying is, what you, what the reason why he's saying what he's saying there is Jesus is alluding to the vow. For the Jew who knows the scriptures, he knows they will know that he's referring to this vow. What he's basically saying is that if you come into a covenant with God, and God has vowed to himself, and you are vowed to yourself, stick to your vow, and let God do what he has vowed to do. Just like you occupy yourself with what you say you vow to do, God is going to do his side of it. Therefore, try not to get involved in what God vowed to do. Stay in what you told God to do. Now, Jesus is, is Israel. Hosea 11:1, the prophet Hosea identifies Jesus as the person of Israel. And if Jesus is fulfilling the scriptures concerning Israel, you could bet your last dollar that Jesus took this vow. And therefore, Jesus' preaching is preaching from the perspective of this vow that Jacob made. Everybody following that? Type "follow." Which means we could therefore say that Jesus, referring to this vow, had success with his anointing because he lived in Bethel and not in Luz. He lived in personal vow to the Father and not in transactional relationship with the Father. Follow that, right? The vow that Jacob made comes from the first dimension of the garden. All right, I need to reframe that question, please. Fruitfulness, can you reframe your question? I'm not too sure I'm following what I say. Right. So this is, this is this vow. So everybody following so far? Fruitful, multiply, right? So once say in Yahweh, once Yahweh is being referred to, you're referring to the garden, because the garden is the inherent nature of Yahweh, the Yahweh spirit. So that is like an understood here in, in, in the text. All right, right. So, um, saying everybody following this so far? Now notice how your transactional life technically, by these definitions here, transactional life is responsible for you, for you not seeing what to see, the power of the anointing in the way you want to. Everybody follow? Type "follow," right? So why is she doing that? So this is the vow. What, two, two chapters later, we see God responding. Remember, first mention means reproduction after your own kind. In Genesis 31, from verse 11 to 13, God responds to Jacob and says this: "The angel of Elohim spake unto me in a dream saying, Jacob: and I said, Here am I. And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee." Now notice, Abraham, who me, Abraham, Jacob is experiencing some injustice from his, from his uncle. You can read the story on your own time to get some context. He's experiencing some injustice from his uncle. God speaks to the injustice, and then he says, "I am the God of Bethel." Now, remember, Luz is the cutting off of authority, Luz is perverse thinking, which is transactional living, and not functioning by vow to yourself. So what God is saying, "I'm the God of Bethel." Bethel is the house of God, the Gate of Heaven, which is vowing to oneself, "where thou anointest the pillar, and where thou madest a vow unto me." We just read that in Genesis 28. Notice where the colon is. "Vow thou madest a vow unto me." "Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred." By the law of reproduction after one's own kind, this is basically telling you that when you make a vow to God, part of the, part of the first mention, or part, yeah, part of the first mention, or part of the definition of the first mention is that when you make that vow to God, telling God what he will do, make that vow with God, like, like Jacob did, indicating to God what you would like him to do, and he will do this. That it is understood by the law of reproduction after one's own kind that Yahweh is telling you, "Now arise, get thee from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred." Or in other words, arise and start fulfilling the oath, because what you have vowed to Yahweh, just the vows to Yahweh in you, he has taken it on as his vow, and he is working with you. So therefore, making the vow to the name and the vision of the name does not require that God come to you and say, "I have heard your vow." The scriptures communicate to you that once you've made that vow, it must be understood that it has begun, and you are to begin to act upon that vow with immediate effect. Everybody following this? All right.

Now, we're going to pick up a little piece. Now that we've unpacked that, let's pick up a little piece. Important points to note. Firstly, we just mentioned reading this, this Genesis 28 and 31 through the lens of reproduction after one's own kind makes the sequence of events, the spiritual function of a vow, which is you make the vow, sorry, you be clear on the vision. The vision is God's promises to you on his own integrity, that comes with, just as, just as you saw the anointing, he gets up, he marks.

The place, then he makes a vow to God, asking God to fulfill certain things. While he is making YW Elohim, he makes a memorial. And then, um, he makes him memorial. And then, what's the last thing he writes? In gratitude. Gratitude. That's the last one. Gratitude. Then he's giving tithes in gratitude.

Now, notice that tithes here are actually being shown to be given in gratitude. The same thing went on with this tithe, this tithe mentioned with Abraham and Melchizedek. Therefore, we can therefore say that if tithe is something that you're given in gratitude for, the covenant teaching tithes by transactional thinking is cutting off, technically, you could say, is a cutting off the anointing of the anointing of the tithes. That thinking, because you're redefining the tithes according to something that it is not supposed to be.

So, let me say that again. If the first mention of the vow here includes tithes as gratitude, and Abraham gave tithes to Melchizedek in gratitude, and you have been taught tithes through transactional thinking by the definition given by the first mention of this vow and the anointing, it means that the anointing or the purpose of the tithes, the reason why you're not seeing the results that you're seeing with tithes, is because you have been taught to use tithes in the pursuit of validation, to be blessed, and not that you're giving it by a personal oath in gratitude.

And unfortunately, since you, since Yeshua is the creator of Heaven and Earth, and you have Yeshua's Spirit, Heaven and Earth is not responding to what, how much you give. Heaven and Earth is responding to your heart's contentment when you give. Because a spirit is also heart. So, when you feel the contentment in your heart about your gratitude, it is really you sowing heart contentment and gratitude into Heaven and Earth. That causes Heaven and Earth to bless you financially, using money or products, items. You were not seeing blessings because you used transactional thinking for tithes. And transactional thinking is giving because you are told, "If you do this, you'll be blessed." That therefore left your heart out of the matter. There was no contentment of heart, nor gratitude. There was obligation. And because you were giving out of that, you did not sow heart to heart. You sowed money to heart. And your lack of heart sowing resulted in Heaven and Earth not reproducing and and and and increasing your wealth.

This is why Paul, understanding this concept, says in the New Testament that you should give with a cheerful heart. Because a cheerful heart means heart contentment. And if you sow heart contentment, you're going to reap heart contentment. With which your tithes, which is what you were not taught, then you would actually see something. So, Paul is actually saying, now, I'm not saying that tithes are supposed to be given in the New Testament. That is not what I am saying. I am not saying that. I'm saying that even if you were using tithes before, the transactional thinking, like a rule or a law, is what stopped you. Cut off the authority. Cut off the spiritual manifestation because you weren't doing it from gratitude. By these definitions, is that making sense? Have sense? All right.

So, reading this through the lens of reproduction after one's own kind makes the sequence of events, the spiritual function of a vow. So, that means that when you make a vow, it's good. Future of a memorial. And then function in gratitude. Yeah, function in gratitude, which is where your free will giving is coming, is coming into the New Testament. And and and therefore, there is no need for you to wait for God to verify the vow. The first mention actually establishes that the vow has begun the moment you have, you have entered into it. Post this session, I'm going to post verses in the Bible, most likely tomorrow, that is going to show you just what I'm saying here. That as soon as you make a vow, you're expected to act upon it because God has already taken that vow and is ready to work with you.

Point number two: Jacob sees a vision, then makes a vow to himself, then makes a vow himself, and then God makes a vow himself to Jacob. Notice God is not functioning by transaction. He's functioning upon his own integrity. You were taught that God is functioning through transaction. "If you do this, you'll be blessed." That mention of vow there, which is the root and foundation, the energy of covenant in the Bible, identifies that if you were doing transaction, this is the reason why you're not seeing what you want to see. You're not, you're not seeing the manifestation of the authority because your transaction cut off the authority. The authority comes from understanding that God has vowed to himself to heal you. There's no transaction that you can make to get healing from God, to see resurrection, to see blessing.

Is this making sense? Type sense, right? Stay close.

Point number three: The place was before called Luz. We mention here, Luz means authority, cut, are turning away from the truth. Okay? If Luz is the opposite of Bethel, and Bethel is vowing him to oneself, then Luz's transactional thinking, and therefore transactional thinking is turning away from the truth. I hope this, I hope this, I hope this is hammering this transactional thinking out to your mind and heart.

Number four: Jacob awakens and anoints the place as sacred, calling the place Bethel, the house of God. This means that Jacob, acting upon God's vision or his word, is a turning toward the truth with the understanding that God is doing this upon his own integrity.

Number five: Jacob vows a vow to make Yahweh his Elohim if Yahweh performs a certain act. Not transaction, personal vow. With, alongside personal vow, Jacob then sets a memorial. You could say that your baptism in water functions like that memorial as well. And then he commits to give God a tenth in gratitude. That means when that, when God keeps his side of this, he is giving back and showing in gratitude. He is showing gratitude to God by taking one from what God has given him and blessing others. Lastly, Jacob takes on. God takes on what Jacob commits to him in his vow as his personal oath to Jacob. It is, it is God. It does not need verification. This is how a vow works spiritually.

Giving a moment of silence. Last point, please. Sarah, Lisa, you mean to repeat the last point? Genesis 31. Right. Last point is God takes on what Jacob commits to him in his vow as his personal oath to Jacob, which means that when, when God, when Jacob makes an oath with God, or you make an oath with God, whatever you commit to him, he is taken on with, with you. And therefore, by the scriptural law of re, of, of, um, reproduction after one's own kind, this is how vows function in the Bible. And everywhere it's mentioned vows in the Bible, this is the understanding that as soon as you've made the vow, you are expected to act upon it because God has taken on whatever you have committed to him as his own to fulfill. Is that clear now?

You could say it's an agreement. Yes. I'll give an example. Personal example. In 2005, was one of the first times I actually had in my Pentecostal knowledge, the best time. My Pentecostal, my Pentecostal knowledge. No, no, that's actually used in the same context there, right? Well, authors usually. Well, in the ancient culture, vows has actually to do as doing something. Oath was actually to towards the person, right? So, I deliberately use vowed an oath here because God is also making an oath to, to you, to an oath towards you as well. All right? So, watch this. I, in 2005, was one of the first times that actually God called me away from what I was doing in my life. And this is on my Pentecostal knowledge. First time. That was the first time in my life I actually tested the Pentecostal information. And I was, I was praying. That was the first time I prayed for 10 hours a day, dedicated weekends, fasting, praying, sometimes a whole weekend, 48 to 72 hours. I am locked away, just in a fast, praying, studying the Bible, reading the Bible. In 2005, I mean, on of 2005, this is my first. This was my first investment into my spirituality seriously, like that. Actually, I, I remember clearly because I, I was looking for a job in 2005. And in December of 2004, God said, "I will take you away from your girlfriend, and I'm going to take you away from from the work, from from the workplace." And so, so said, so done. Everything happened like that. And in 2005, I looked for a job for a whole year. A whole year. Sent out resume after resume after resume after resume. No responses. And so, I found myself in a space where I'll just capitalize and dedicate myself to God until I find a final job. It turned out to be the whole year. Okay. Budget was low, but it was a good spiritual investment.

Coming on to the end of 2005, I was praying one day, and the Spirit tells me, tells me, "Make a covenant with me." Now, I had no idea of the New Covenant, and the way I can articulate it now. I was still in my Pentecostal launch, 2005. And this is what the Spirit told me to to do, to to make, to write a covenant. Write out the covenant. And all God wanted for me is, is from me, was that I was supposed to commit my heart, soul, mind, and strength to Him, and follow Him, serve Him to the best of my knowledge and ability. And He told me, "Write out every single thing that you you would like me to do for you." I grabbed my diary and I started writing out a covenant. And I said, "God, I will commit all of my heart, soul, mind, and strength to You, serve You to the best of my heart, best of my ability." Which is, which is what you notice that I'm functioning from, right? I live from that up to today. It's just become my lifestyle. But it started right there. And I wrote a list of things. Little did I know until I began to understand this information in the Bible, little did I know was that the Spirit led me to make an oath as Jacob made an oath. And God took what I wrote. I wrote it out. Listen, listen very carefully now. I wrote out this oath. According to Pentecostalism, I sinned a lot since I made that oath because of all the rules. I'm not supposed to do this. I'm not supposed to do this. I'm not supposed to see that. I'm not supposed to go here. I'm not supposed to do this. Supposed to pray every day, read the Bible every day. According to the Pentecostal rules, I sinned a lot after I made that oath. When I made it, I signed it. The Spirit told me, "Take it to your parents." I took it to my mother and my father. Told them what God told me. My father took it, he elevated it to to the heavens. And he said, "Father, we stand as parents, as test, as test, as um, witnesses to this oath, to this covenant that you that you have made with him." They prayed it, sealed it, and the oath began then, or the covenant began then.

It was in 2021, I sat down in the car, in a car park, and I was in conversation with somebody. And the conversation came up. And the person mentioned about covenant. Just before that conversation, I heard God say, "Come up into the New Covenant." This is since 2005. Count how many years it is. That is 5 to 15, that's 10. 2022, 7 years more. So that's 17 years later. I'm sitting down there, and I just hear the Spirit say, "Come up into the New Covenant." As in, upgrade into the New Covenant. That was the context. Upgrade into the New Covenant. And for the first time in my life, I sat down and I say, "Wait now, I forgot about the covenant." Literally. Not now, because I made the oath to commit myself to to to God, heart, soul, mind, and strength, to to all my heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to do this to the best of my ability and to the best of my knowledge. It was not something that I did like a transaction. It was me really committing to what my heart really wanted with Him. Now, unknowingly, because this information only came out through our research, what I'm sharing with you all here, that then began then was responsible for most of the manifestation that we were seeing. But when I started, I didn't figure it out until later on in the research. I just noticed that when I'm in this particular mode, like when I'm praying for people, for example, and I take on that person's healing as my personal responsibility, I would see results like, whoa, like, boom. But if I'm praying because, like, it's a transaction, it's laborious, and I couldn't figure it out until this became clear.

But what I'm, my point is, I made this vow in 2005. When I sit down in this car, bring, come back to mind, you know, I opened that covenant. According to the Pentecostals, I live in real sin. God knows. They would tell me, they would say I was in real sin, you know. Open that covenant, and not one thing that was written for God to do was not fulfilled. So, when I realized that was the case, this was a covenant guided by the Spirit in prayer. And when I came into the understanding, when I started to pay attention to now, to the New Covenant, how the New Covenant is running, this information I'm coming, I'm coming from here, I'm sharing with you all here, made perfect sense. And it gave me an understanding as to why. Notice, God didn't ask me to do any prohibitions. He just said, "Make your heart, soul, mind, and strength dedicated to me and to do this to the best of your ability and to the best of your knowledge." I have lived like that as a heart posture ever since. Not one thing in that covenant was not fulfilled. This is the context of scriptural covenants. Everything that you were taught in Western culture that you need to stay away from, and all the prohibitions that you are programmed with, is transactional thinking. And if you're coming into the New Covenant, you have to get rid of that. Is this making sense to everybody? Doing things unto the Lord, unto the name. All right, let's move on.

Now, notice the important points here. Is by the law of reproduction after one's own kind. This is how your oaths function in the garden. God takes on the personal oath with you. No need for confirmation. This is basically a garden law. Now, another thing that you have to notice is that there is no law, no vow of prohibition, nor any vow of validation. When we say prohibition, what are we speaking about? A prohibition is something that you are being told that you need to prevent from doing something. Even biblical vows of prohibition was never something that God said not to do according to the covenant. It was never that. And it sure in the New Covenant has nothing to do with that. In in the biblical vows, you chose what you wanted to stay away from in gratitude that God was actually with you, and gratitude that He was fulfilling what He's fulfilling while you fulfill what you committed to do. We were taught the opposite. Even in Western culture, people take vows like Mother Theresa. She signed, she and about seven others signed, signed a vow of poverty because the Catholic Church promoted the idea that the less you have, the more pious you are. She and seven others signed the vow and committed themselves to not enjoying anything that was luxurious. Hence her lifestyle with the group that she signed this thing with. This was a vow of prohibition. In the Western culture, we have, I mean, Westerners generally don't know about this. So they watch Mother Theresa and they say they want to mirror Mother Theresa. And then they take that vow, not knowing that she, that she actually signed that vow. And they apply it to Christ and say, "Well, Christ was poor, and therefore to be pious, you need to be poor." Which is completely opposite of the scriptural message. In Western culture, you were taught to take the rules that the church gave you and made it, and make it vows of prohibition. How many of you have stepped into vows of prohibition and failed with great [Laughter] glory? How many of us have done that? You kept the rules. No, I wouldn't say, "Woy." It's by design. You failed with great glory because you did something that is unspiritual. Let me say that again. You failed to keep the prohibition because you did something that was unspiritual. What you were doing was, was getting involved in these vows of prohibition for validation. Yes, sir or no? Be honest with yourself. It was unspiritual. Yes, because that you were actually doing it to be validated, so that God will be with you, God will be miraculous with you, or that God will bless you. That is not scriptural vows. That is Western culture and the idea of contract that was drafted into vow. And so the Western community created their own concept of vows based on transaction. They took the, the, the vow, which is supposed to be something from your heart, and even that they redefined according to their priority, which was transaction. Does this make sense? I was taught to do things from the heart unto the Lord. Is how I tend to do. So that I want to. So I want to. If you think that the vow of prohibition, you know, worked, you kept it, you kept it, okay, then that's your experience there. Yes. But what I'm saying is that vow of prohibition creates a criteria of validation, and that validation switches off your power. You're cutting it off again. You're dwelling in Luz, in Luz, or Luz. When it's Spanish, we say Luz, but in Luz, right? Wherever there's a prohibition in our culture, it actually comes with this idea of validation, which means you, in God's way, unknowingly. Now, if you did it and you were successful, then you did well. But nevertheless, or nonetheless, there was a validation thing there, a validation mechanism there. And that means that once again, we fall in line with the God's perspective. Making sense, everybody? Type sense. Now, when you make vows of prohibition, no, it makes you think you're most spiritual than someone else because it's accomplished. Number one, but look at. I include, I include here five of the main disadvantages that you usually find, us, encounter when you engage in something like that. The first is isolation from everybody else. Taking vows of prohibition, such as abstaining from certain activities or substances, can lead to isolation. Tell me, your religious denominations didn't separate you with this. This may occur when friends and family members do not share the same commitments, potentially leading to a sense of exclusion or misunderstanding. You read in the Bible how Jesus is sitting amongst publicans and sinners, but the denomination told you, "You need to stay out of the world." That's because of your vow of prohibition. Unspiritual. Secondly, increase temptation. That's why most Christians, most Western Christians are struggling with sin, because they're using God's word and God's laws as prohibitions. Vows of prohibitions, and therefore the prohibiting of the behavior makes you aware of the behavior. And the more you think about the prohibition, the same thing that you're trying to stop doing, you are keeping in your awareness. And your spirit, your spirit, your spirit works by change of awareness for change, not keeping the awareness. I'm saying, don't do it. Let me say that again. Your spirit works. Repentance is change of awareness, not keeping the awareness. Exactly. Don't push the red button, right? You don't get somebody to change by keeping them in their awareness and saying, "Don't do it." You get them to change by giving them an alternative logic that does not involve awareness of the button. How many say the first time, or you redefine the, the function of that button? So everybody understand that, right? Vows of prohibition, therefore, are working against your own spirit, right? The focus on avoiding specific actions. Yes, you have to. Not can you have to. You have to redefine the buttons. But the only way to redefine the buttons is to find the definition of the spirit that you are of, and then you can apply that to the, to the various areas of life, which is what we do in the 12 areas of mind renewal. The coaching training, that's what that is dedicated to, redefining those 12 areas of life, so you get a head start. And, and what does the framework of life look like through that redefinition? This is what is called mind renewal. So, increase temptation. Now, how many of us could say that when you were keeping the rules, you had more temptation, more than ever before, than you have now? Naturally so. Naturally so, because you did something that was unspiritual. That's not how it works, right?

Number three, judgment from others, as well as you judging others. Right? Most Christians who take from the Western Christian community, who take vows of prohibition, may face judgment or criticism from others who do not understand or agree with their commitments. You are also, you also by nature, because you feel validated by keeping the, the prohibition, you begin to judge and criticize others who are not keeping what you are keeping. Can I get an amen? Okay. This can be particularly difficult if it leads to strained relationships, which is why you have a problem with friends, family, and your own spouses struggling, and a lack of support from one's community, which is where most of us came from, denominations that alienated you. Pride enters in. Exactly. Pride enters in.

Number four, personal burden. Maintaining strict vows can become a significant personal burden. Many people fall into stress, anxiety, because of taking on prohibition laws, vows. Again, if it's not reproducing, it's not reproducing life and peace, it's unspiritual. The pressure to adhere perfectly, suffer. Oh, gosh, yes, brother. The pressure to adhere perfectly to these vows can be overwhelming and may detract from one's overall spiritual and emotional well-being. You become super obsessed with the rules. You have no relationship with God when you're doing that. You have a relationship with the rules, because what you're doing is that you become super self-absorbed on keeping this so that you could validate yourself and say, "Well, you have a good relationship with God." On spiritual, how, how, how, how many of us have struggled with that? Type S, right? Everybody here, once you came on Western Christianity, do you definitely struggle with that? And this is where, as holy brother Norman just says, pride enters in. Vows of prohibition can sometimes lead to a legalistic approach to faith. Look around the whole Western Christian community, legalistic. Not legalism for fruitfulness, or legalism to their nature, legalism for validation. From that has right, has arisen the movement such as religious trauma community, the, the religious trauma, um, the religious trauma community, or religious trauma movement. Thinking others are heathens. Exactly. Why? Because you engage in prohibition vows. This is nowhere in the Bible. In, please, let me just state that again. This is nowhere in the Bible. In, good Lord, no. In the Bible. All right.

Vows of prohibition can sometimes lead to a legalistic approach to faith, where the emphasis is placed more upon following rules and on cultivating relationship with God. I need to be very careful how I'm saying, cultivating relationship with God, because even that, you might be hearing me through Western perspectives. This can result in a rigid and joyless experience of faith, which may diminish the sense of grace and freedom that that Christianity offers. So, these are the disadvantages. What does the Bible require of you? A vow to the name and a vow to the vision. What do the name and the vision mean? How many of us could say that you have, and wrapping that up after this, right? How many of us could say that you have worked in an organization, and in the organization, they told you, "This is the vision of this company." When you make that vow, so you come inside and say, "You agree to work to the vision of this company." Have you ever worked in that vision, and they give you what not to do to get to the vision? Or did they communicate to you and say, "This is our vision. We welcome your ideas towards the vision, and you are free to do everything that you're doing in the office or in that organization unto the vision." Which one was it? Freedom onto the vision? Or, okay, the second, right? Which is freedom onto the vision. Here's how to operate properly. Okay, great. Do you know that this is what this is what a vow unto the name is? You are given Yahweh's vision, and the principle of the name tells you how to do it properly. There are no, there are no prohibitions. Therefore, when you make a mistake, it is not seen as sin or against you. It is seen as you haven't been unwise, and what you have done is revealed that you need to apply the principle to know how to apply the vision in that area of life properly. This is why Abraham could lie, and God is not, God is not concerned with it. Let me say that again. This is why Abraham could lie twice, and God did not address him, because Abraham may have made a mistake there, but it is onto the vision that he's living to, not rules to be validated by God. The vision became his personal. The vision of what God gave him, which is God's word, became his personal vow to himself, while Yahweh was fulfilling His vows according to His integrity. That's probably like a bomb in your mind right now. Let it sink in. Give me a few minutes, or rather, a few seconds. This is why the Bible says the righteous pay attention. The righteous, which is the one who is living by acknowledging that he is the bloodline of Yahweh, and he's committed to the vision, could fall seven times. It didn't say, it didn't say he sinned seven times. He said he could fall seven times and get up, meaning he was unwise, and he's learning how to apply the principle in that, the principle of God's name in that area for better results. The righteous, therefore, is not concerned about sin. Sin for the righteous is coming off of the vision. I silence for that one. Wonder silence. Mothers and educators know exactly in raising, in raising children, it's division is important. It, I would even go so far and say it's not even a test, but if you're seeing it as a test, you're looking for validation. It's more of learning how to be wise in that area. This is why the Bible says that Jesus grew in wisdom and grace. It didn't say he sinned. You are growing in applying the, the, the vision to that area of life. When you come into that perspective, then are you walking in Yahweh? That means that every single thing that you were taught by Western Christianity needs to be burnt with a very, very fire. They gave you, I repeat, how they gave you rules to follow that has nothing to do with Yahweh. It glorified you as a king. It glorified you as king. If you're coming into Yahweh, you are not concerned about the mistakes and prohibitions. There are no prohibitions. There is vision. This is why Jesus could technically, you could see that Jesus like his brothers, but God is not holding him responsible to that. Why? Because Jesus's mission is the, is the, is the priority. This is how Jesus could go and eat wheat on the Sabbath, because the, the vision is the priority. And once he's eating wheat to fulfill the vision, God has nothing to tell him. This is why David could come and eat the showbread because he is an oath to the vision, name, and vision. He can eat it, and God is telling them, telling him nothing. Why? Because he's on God's vision. He's on the mission of God's vision. There's nothing wrong that he could do once he is going towards that vision. The only thing he could do is be imprudent or be unwise and learn how to apply the, the principle of the name, which is what has been given to you, to know how to do it properly, to apply it there, and have better results. This is why Christ in the New Covenant is wisdom unto you and power, and not rules. It's wisdom and power, not rules for validation. This is why you see the apostles struggling with no sin, because they maintained the vision. This is how sin is not imputed unto you. Exactly. This is how sin is not imputed unto you, because once you come into the name, you come into the vision. This is how the apostles could go all over the place and be not concerned about whether God pleased or displeased, because the M, the mere fact that they're in the name and they've taken on that vision, like somebody going into a company and being told, "This is the vision of the company. Commit to this vision." They are living their life on that. Have you ever heard me come into a session and talk about, "I sinned"? I am not even aware of sin. I don't even live in an awareness of it. My preoccupation is, is what I'm doing in the, in the, in the line of that vision. Is what am I having a relationship according to the principle of Yahweh? Am I managing my money according to the principle of Yahweh? Is my life going towards the vision that I have committed to to fulfill for Yahweh? Read Romans 15. Paul says that he had two prophecies he took out from the scriptures, and he made that his life's goal. That immediately takes him off of sin talk. He is not even concerned. This is why the word sin in the New Testament is, um, is a travesty because of Western thoughts, because the word there is ham, is, is, is, is hamartia, that means to miss the mark, meaning your actions were not towards the vision that Yahweh has. Missing the mark means that you didn't do it. Whatever you did was not in benefit to the vision. Walking worthy of the Lord is walking in to the benefit of the fulfillment of the vision. When you are walking in benefit to the vision, you're walking in the name, which means the character. And character here is, is character is not what you were taught in Western culture either. In biblical and scriptural knowledge, character is principle. A principle remaining consistent. Every spirit is an expression of a principle. The consistency of that principle is the character of that spirit. Yahweh's character is integrity and equity, consistency with that. So, when I am functioning, what did, did, what I do there? Was it in integrity? And was it equitable for all? If it was not, how do I do it the next time? I miss the mark. How do I do the next time that it is done in integrity and equity? Integrity to life and equity for all is life and peace for all, as well as the purpose of the name. If I'm in the name, am I fulfilling the vision? And I'm doing that as a personal oath. Therefore, your oath in the Bible is onto vision, not to prohibition, not onto validation. Is this making any sense now? That right there ought to pull you out of the whole Western world and get you to understand that you have nothing to do with Western Christianity. You identify as an apostle, a priest, and this is where you live. And while they're struggling with sin, you're not even aware of it, because you're aware of the vision. Is what is my day planned towards fulfilling that vision? Is my daily routine serving that vision? Is my daily routine serving that name? Doing it onto the name is doing it onto the vision of that spirit, the vision that you choose to fulfill for Yahweh, right? So, vision vows to the name is vows to the principles of the name, the character of that name, and the purpose of that name. Vow to the vision of that name is to the inherent vision, the perspectives, and the objectives. You can find that in the promises of God. Paul went and he found a promise from the prophets. Do you know that Jesus called prophecies righteousness? And therefore, the kingdom of God is the kingdom of priests. So, to seek ye first the kingdom is to seek ye first the kingdom of priests and the prophecies of God. Notice that has nothing to do with prohibitions or anything for validation. And 100% guilt kept the followers in line with the authority of religious leaders on control. When you begin to do that, you are now walking in clear purpose and direction. Most of you, you have no idea as to what your purpose is, because of what you were taught. You were taught your life mission is to not sin. You have been lied to, unfortunately. Committing to a specific title, which is the name and the vision, provides a clear sense of purpose and direction. This clarity can help believers stay focused on their goals, to fulfill the vision, long-term and short-term goals, to fulfill that vision, and motivated, and motivated to achieve respiration and community objectives.

Number two, strengthen commitment. If you're making a vow, a vow can strengthen one's commitment to your faith and responsibilities because you're doing it onto yourself, not prohibition, but you vow, "I am going to establish this." On it, you're taking this on. This deepened dedication can enhance personal discipline. Discipline with personal vows is never difficult. The person who sees discipline as a sacrifice is somebody who is living a lie to themselves on a daily basis. Sacrifice is only used when your heart wants something else, but you're following God so that you can get it, so that you can get into heaven. If you are functioning by a personal vow, that this is your heart to fulfill this, this vision, discipline is seen as investment. And the more disciplined you are, the faster you get there. That's you begin to see it. Is that making sense? Right. Discipline and personal vows, 100% work together. It is one and the same, in synonyms. It has to be from your heart. And if it is from your heart, you don't see discipline. What you see is investment towards fulfilling what God says, fulfilling the vision. So you have no problem with discipline, no problem with perseverance, and you live at rest. Why? Because you know that your entire life's routine is heading towards the fulfillment of what that vision is. Heaven is in your life by a personal vow, not by following pro rules of prohibition. You vow to heaven to establish on the earth. You don't vow to what not to do, because your spirit is perfect. The problem is that all these rules give you an awareness that you should not have had. If you were aware of the vision, you will forget everything that you told that, that you are not supposed to do. Not only would you forget it, but the vision redefines its use. For example, if you have a vision, let me use me as an example here, not because I'm trying to elevate, put me up on a pedestal, please understand this, but I live this. This is my life. So it's easy for me to, it's easy for me to unpack this, right? There. Easy for me to unpack scripture because this is my life. If my vision is to cover the Earth with the knowledge of the name as the waters cover the seas, you think that I'm going to come, I am going to have sex with Jane, Mary, and Janet? I want you to pay attention to how the vision puts everything into perspective for you, right? If my vision is to cover the Earth with the knowledge of the waters cover the seas, and that is my heart's commitment, like I live and breathe to cover that on the earth in the name, you think that I would actually have random sex with people? Yes or no? No, because every, if I have random sex with people, that is not towards the vision, and now that is occupying my time when that time that I that I'm doing that could have actually gotten me into into Timbuktu already. See what I'm saying? If my vision is to do that, you think that my daily routine, my heart wants to do that? You think my daily routine is sitting now watching television? You think I'm watching television every [Laughter] okay? No, unless that television is being used for a drill or for exercise to help me practice identifying reference points, like I did before, which is very useful for that. I put on a Netflix movie and I sit down and I practice. I practice identifying reference points. 60 episodes of that, two weeks of that, and I feel like if I live a lifetime or five lifetimes with experience identifying reference points, you, I wouldn't miss that. That's how I use television to fulfill my spiritual objectives. My point is, you will do nothing in your life that is not towards fulfilling the objective. Nothing, because you see, you see this as investment towards fulfilling the mission. If, would I sit down and drink alcohol to get to get myself drunk? No, because every time I get drunk, I can't read the Bible properly, and I can't understand the Bible. I just waste six hours of my day. So drinking is never going to be on on the routine either. Is this making sense to everybody? The same thing. What spouse do I choose? B partner? If the spouse is not going with me in that direction, disqualified. So I am not distracted. I am never distracted. Is, is this making sense? If I had a setting relationship, and then now I have to deal with your priority, and your priority might be my big, like many different people, their big priority is to have a house, a car, picket fence, and a family. And I am supposed to cover the Earth with the name. You and I can't walk together, because I'm going to have to take time out of my time to come and sit down and give you hours for you to get the picket fence experience, while people in Timbuktu, Ghana, and the edge of Australia still waiting for the name to reach there. What I'm saying is, making an oath to the name and a vision does not afford you the time to think about prohibitions. Your life decisions will be made towards that face like a flint, exactly. Anything that is not lining up with that vision, I will dismiss. I wouldn't even think twice. There's never a time I'm going to think, "Boy, I really don't want to let this go. I don't want to let go this this activity, or I am so in love. I am so in love, and I I don't want to to break this." No, that comes first. The name is my priority, and the vision. So these things become easy decisions. You'll be surprised to know what commitment to the name and a vision will do for your life. You do everything, everything onto the name, onto the vision, which by default is onto the name. Making sense, everybody?

Number three, increase accountability. But ain't that the truth? Engaging involves often involves a level of accountability, both to oneself and to others. This can foster a supportive community if you have persons around doing the same. Exactly. Supported community environment where individuals encourage and hold each other accountable to their commitments and spiritual growth. My circle is very small. My circle is very small because there are very few people that will live towards integrity and equity of the name from their heart as a personal vow, and with all of their might and strength and education. Never, never, never make a decision that could even give them the idea that they're being inequitable or lacking equity, or or lacking integrity. Those people I have found to be very few and far between. My circle is very small. But if I'm towards that vision, or towards that name, and the purpose of that name, it becomes my standard in life. You remember when I, when, when we in a session, and I came up with, "That's the standard. This is the standard." My life is measured by the New Jerusalem. My wealth is measured by the New Jerusalem. Have I, have I attained to the Jerusalem wealth? No. Then we still have work to do. Have I attained to the name covering the Earth as the waters cover the seas? No. Then we still have work to do. Now, when you're living like that, you could take a break, take a breath, just like David paused to have a meal and eat the showbread from the temple. You think God is concerned with that? No. If Jesus wants to just pause by the by the ocean and just take a breath because he's working towards that vision, all of the, all of the breaks that you're taking is seen towards the vision being accomplished. You're taking a break so you can get more energy to continue on the vision. The power of the spirit is ever present, ever present. And therefore, if I come across now, I pray for you, you'll see results, whether immediate or slow, you're going to see results because the vision is me in the spirit, 100% of the times. There is no, no condemnation in that life. Only when you understand that would you understand why Paul says, "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in the name."

Enhanced influence and leadership. Holding a title, holding the name, and working towards a vision, or the vision of the name, can enhance influence and leadership. Do you know that that immediately qualifies you to be a leader? Anybody who's living like that understands how to lead, why? Because they understand what it means to hold themselves responsible to a principle and hold themselves responsible to the vision. Exactly. Yeshua took breaks, and no time for that, because you're busy with the vision. See, your life, life immediately has purpose. You said this can provide opportunities to inspire and mentor others, because I'm doing that, I can do these sessions, and I'm saying, I'm not saying this to put, I'm not trying to boast or to put any myself up on a pedestal or anything like that. What I'm saying is, I live the reality of this type of oath, that it caused me to live a disciplined life, to invest my time with strategy, to invest invest my time with with com, with with dedication. And so, if I'm supposed to give somebody advice, my advice is never going to be wild. It's going to be held responsible to the principle, because my life is held responsible to this principle of integrity to the name and equity for all. And because I live like that, I read the Bible from that perspective. So when I'm reading the Bible, it's easy for me to unpack the whole Bible. I can sit down whole night because the principles tell me what this means. It's not a mystery. 100%. My secret is the personal vow to the name. 100%. Zan is not special. It's just the name and the vision, right? So you can provide opportunities. It actually postures you in a space where you can inspire and mentor others, and foster change and growth, and live so that, um, others in particular could arise. Is this making any sense?

And lastly, personal fulfillment and growth. If, if you make a personal vow to the name, to the name, and to the vision, personal growth is a byproduct, because that becomes your life. That becomes pretty much your existence, your awareness. So everything that you're doing is to become more effective in the name. Your personal fulfillment becomes God's fulfillment. God's ful, the fulfillment of what God says becomes personal fulfillment. I genuinely feel like that every time I, every time I come into a session and we teach, and you leave with change, I feel personal fulfillment. That I have, that's my, that's my other grain of sun, my other grain of sun, or my other drop of water towards the fulfillment of the scriptures to cover the Earth with knowledge of the name as the waters cover the seas. Every time you all come to sessions, and we sit down and we talked about this, and we put it into perspective, that's my personal fulfillment to raise up priests to cover the name as He has covered the seas. So the best way to raise up priests is that I can't just cover the name. I need to invest into priests, leaders of the New Jerusalem, priest kings to spread out. So every time I come here, one, one drop of water back in the bucket again to raising you up as priests to walk throughout the Earth and to shake it. And there is, there is the fulfillment of covering the Earth with knowledge of the name as the waters cover the seas. Is this making sense? Purpose comes from the vision. You don't have purpose because you don't, you have not been taught the correct definition of walking in Christ. The whole Bible is full of visions. Without vision, you will perish. Your vision determines how long you live. So if you choose a vision that takes a thousand years to fulfill, by your personal commitment to that, just as you will your personal commitment to something, and you generate inspiration to do it, what you're doing is inspiring life force, the life force of the spirit to live for a thousand years to fulfill this. You ain't going to die now, just saying. Achieving goals aligned with one's faith can strengthen one's sense of identity. 100% on purpose. Contributing to overall spiritual well-being. This is how people actually even live in health. If you are living from a vision of Christ, you see Paul talking about he, you know, he's well. Jesus talking about he not feeling well. No. Why? Because they're living in the spirit every day by walking towards that vision. Everything that they're doing is towards that vision. So they are generating spiritual power to keep themselves alive. Is this making sense? All right. So we will pause here today. We will pause it today. And what I will do is open up the floor for one or two persons to speak, and then we'll wrap it up, because yet again, I'm 45 minutes over the time. All right, better today, but 45 minutes of any time. So would anyone like to. So we'll pause here. And your homework, as usual, would be to, if this is second assignment, this second assignment of summary of what we covered here today with regards to differentiating now the Western understanding of a vow, which involves prohibitions, and the biblical understanding of of a vow or an oath to the name, which is actually connected to taking on the title, living, living from the title to the best of your ability, and walking towards the vision, making a plan to fulfill that vision, and executing the plan. And we will conclude on that.