Session 2 | Contract VS Covenant

Right, so this is our official welcome to session two, second discussion of the New Covenant Coion Intensive. In the last session, we spoke about why covenants are necessary, and I believe everybody has become clear as to what is the function of covenants. And if you, in your, as a personal exercise, I would encourage everybody to take the information that we covered in that session, the introduction, which was covenants and why covenants are necessary, and simply invert it. Invert the content that we covered there, invert the takeaways that you've gotten from that, so that you can understand even deeper the struggles of not being in a covenant.

As we covered in that session, covenant was technically God's way of, through Moses, by the mouth of Moses, and by the hands of Moses, of taking a law of physics, what we call laws of physics today, and engaging your freedom of self-determination to be faithful to your own spirit. And which, by the way, brings us into today's session. What we're going to cover here today is actually an expansion of last session. And I think that I would say that last session brought you into an awareness as to why this is necessary, why this covenant is necessary. And for some of... Hold on. Is everybody here? Let's see here. Testing, testing. Is everybody hearing me? Let's see. Yes, now you're breaking up before. Yes, yes, now yes. And cutting out. Okay. Is everybody hearing me clearly? No, now me just close any other windows that could be harmful to the session. Now, yes. Right now. Good. Okay, great. All right. I may have had too many things running in the background. Let's close those things there. We should be good there now. Yes, clearly now. Right. All right.

So, as I was saying, what was the last thing you all heard? Last, last, last thing you heard, just so that I don't have to repeat myself unnecessarily. Can you, can you hear me? Determination to be faithful to your own spirit. All right. Irrah. All right. Law of physics. Great. Okay. Right. So, the last session in particular brought you into into clarity, into the clarity of why a covenant is necessary. And as I said, if you really invert what we, invert what we spoke about there in the last session, you'll realize that a lot of struggles will take place if we do not have a covenant. The covenant is not, I, I, one of the things that I, I, I, I would really pray that you take away from last week in particular, even as we go into this today, one of the things I really pray that you have, that that you take away, is the fact that covenants were not, were never for God. It was never, it was never meant to validate yourself to go to God or to acquire validation from God. I hope it became clear that the covenant is really about you. What is necessary for you to come back to being to your singular law of physics.

But the last session in particular, in bringing that awareness, that is the, that was pretty much the, the entrance into the first door. You know how in old castles, in old castles, you might have a wall that could be like 15, 20 feet thick, or the gates, sorry, the wall might be smaller than that, but the gates could be 50, 15, 20 feet, 25 feet thick. And you have door number one, and then you walk through a passage and you reach into door number two before you could enter into the city. Last session was door number one. This session is door number two. He asked for the sister Monica. Door number one brought you into an awareness as to the necessity for the covenant. Door number two is, if you do not understand what we cover here today, I don't care how much you watch that covenant is never going to be working in the way that you desire to work. And that is not of your fault, by the way. It's not because you're rejecting it. It's simply because the civilization of the W, of the Greco-Romans, does not work with what we're about to cover here today. As I can, I can, I can safely see in the Orient, such as countries like China and Japan, these countries have had enough history behind them to learn these principles because they study antiquity, and it has brought them to a certain level of wisdom that the Western world is, that the Western world is not really tuned into. Has the rest of the world has not really tapped into? And that's because, that's because if you all remember when Paul, you read your Bible and you see what's written in the Bible, but if you pay attention to the eras that, that, that Paul lived in, or the scriptures, or these, these letters were written in, and the biblical text in general, if you pay attention to the eras within which they were written, and you zoom in to the Apostle Paul, if you zoom in to the Apostle Paul, you see that Paul was the person that was dedicated to go to the Gentiles by Yeshua himself. And he went to the Gentiles. And one of the things that Paul does in the Greek, in, in the world of the Greeks, which is, you see it in 1 Corinthians, this is so important for you to understand your culture, in addition to what we covered last week. If you pay attention to Paul's, to what Paul was contradicting and standing up against in the very first letter to the Corinthians, was philosophies combating this idea that the gospel is demonstrated by power, not by words and pretty speeches and eloquence. It's power. Power that is experiential, something that verifies that this is true. And he was enforcing and emphasizing that the gospel is not eloquent speeches.

Now, because of this culture, most of us hear the term Greco-Roman, and you have no idea how much your civilization is working upon the very same things that the Apostle Paul stood up against. Yeah. And by standing up against it, it highlights the fact, he was standing up against it, highlights that if you are influenced by the same concepts, then he is speaking to you. Is this making sense? Does that make any sense at all? If you're influenced by the same principles from the Greeks and the Romans, then what he's saying applies to you as well. Applies to me, if I'm, if I'm actually influenced by that. It applies to everybody who is influenced by that in this civilization. And it is on that note that we need to speak about door number two. And door number two is the difference between contracts and covenants, spiritual covenants found in your Bible, and contracts that, as we know it in the Western world. If you run a search in your Bible right now for contract, let me use some local, some Caribbean English here, you're not going to find it on any page in the Bible, right? That's some local dialect meaning, you are not going to find it on any page of the Bible. And that's because the general idea of contracts that we use in the Western world was influenced in, was a, was pretty much a heavy influence in the Greco-Roman society. And because of that, contract, that contract, the idea of contract, or the concept of contracts, that we're going to talk about, but this is our presentation today by David. The idea of contracts, difference between contracts and covenants, is a world of difference with regards to how you understand what is written in the Bible. And I guarantee you that at the end of this comparison, the Bible is just going to make a whole lot more sense. And it is also going to highlight why we see Western Christians in general struggling to walk in God, struggling with sin, struggling with lusts and temptations. Why these apostles seem like these guys are walking and they are walking this thing and they are walking this thing with, with, with ease. Yeah. And it's because of the difference between the idea of contracts and covenants.

Now, we all know that the Western culture is based on moral validation, which is going to be naturally the next topic that we, that we touch on today. This is going to be a discussion accompanied with this presentation. This will be a first session that you'll have to summarize, by the way. So please pay attention. And from next week, which is next, next class, we actually start the actual lesson plan for this. So this here is these two things, the first door and the second door, would be the precursors for you to enter the city of covenants, let's call it the city of covenants. In the idea of contracts, how many of you, let's start with the contract and then we go to the covenant. How many of you have actually come to realize how transactional the world that you're living in is? Right? The idea of, of, of contracts pretty much means that you make an agreement for the exchange of goods and services, or even the exchange of something that you desire. How many of us have noticed that? Just type "notice that" in the comment section. The whole, it starts, yes, it starts with your birth certificate. Yes, sir. Yes. All right. This is the whole Western culture. Do you know what the problem with that is in most cases? Now, the benefit is you get what you want. The problem comes in where you begin to apply this to a relationship or a marriage. We use the word covenant when you're making the vows. The pastor would say, marriage is a covenant. But do you know that the dynamic that most people apply to the relationship is actually a contractual dynamic? That is, you make, you make a commitment, and because you make a commitment, this, this, this is, this is, this is literally what you are, what begins to happen in a dynamic where spirit is involved, right? Because in a, in a business, in a business contract, it's all about, you give me this, I give you that. You give me this, I give you that. And if the business, specifically before I come back to the marriage here, on the spirit, the spiritual connection there, if the business does not provide you with what, if you have a business and the other business does not provide you with the product or the services that the contract indicates, what happens? Do we not call it a breach of contract? Yes or no? Lawsuits ensue. You call it a breach of contract, and when there is a breach of contract, then there's a possibility of a lawsuit. And when, what do we do that lawsuit? Who, who do we go to see to settle the dispute of this lawsuit? A judge. You find lawyers, but you're going to be, and your lawyers are your legal representative, which is the lawyers. The lawyer is supposed to be you in the form of the law of, sorry, is the lawyer supposed to be you standing before the judge with legal knowledge? How many of us know that when a lawyer goes to trial, they put on a robe, put on a black robe, some of them even would even put on a wig, depending on where this is actually taking place. How many of us have seen that? Yeah. Do we, do you know what that robe represents and that wig represents? Just type yes or no in the comment section. Authority is a small aspect of it, let's say 40% of it. The person, opposition, the person. Right. Do you know that in the philosophy of law generally, when a lawyer goes to trial, an attorney goes to trial, and he puts on that robe, now this of course would be, we are, I live in Trinidad and Tobago, so we actually were a colony of, um, Britain before, Great Britain before. And so when in 1962, Trinidad and Tobago gained independence, as most countries have gained independence, instead of reinventing the wheel, they simply assimilate the pre-existing legislations to the country. Yes, everybody familiar with that, right? That is like history 101 right there. Similar legislations. And so our system is, is still very British, even though we are not, we are independent of Great Britain, the system is still British. And in that system, specifically in that system, when a lawyer puts on a robe, when the attorney puts on the robe and puts on the wig, if you are still following the, like in the traditional system, they put on the wig, do you know that that robe and that wig represents the client? That the, that the attorney has put on the identity of his client, so that when the judge is speaking to the attorney, that approach, that is actually presenting the case, or approach the bench, or extrapolating information, the judge, the philosophy is that the judge, when the judge, whatever the judge is seeing, is saying to the attorney that has put on the robe and put on your identity, whatever the judge says to the attorney is being sent to the client. How many of us heard that for the first time? Whatever he's saying to the, saying to the attorney in that robe, he's saying to the client. I have mentioned that briefly before. And therefore, the attorney does not take offense if the judge speaks harshly to him, because the attorney understands that that is directed to the client. This is why the, this is why the, the, the, the attorney will do a lot of work prior to his, to, to going to court. He's actually asking you a lot of questions so that he can frame the purpose of that is to frame his mind to accomplish what your, your end result, what, what your desire is for the end result. He asks you sufficient questions that when he stands there, he can maintain the vision of the end result and try as best as possible to get the end result using what the information that you've given him. He's trying to actually get the end result according to the frame of mind that you have actually communicated to him through your responses to his various questions. Right. So he stands there, and the judge is actually speaking to this. Now, I'm referring to all of this because we're going to come back to that, basically, when we begin to speak about covenantal identity. Remember this that I just mentioned here, because we're going to come back to this when we begin to speak about the covenantal components and the identity that the covenant provides you with. The reason I'm actually asking you who settles the matter, whether when you go to the court, and we know that it is the judge, it is because, pay attention to what I'm about to say here, it is because in most cases, the contract in the Western world comes with the, with comes with the expectation or the anticipation that the person that you are coming into contract with is going to be unfaithful to the contract. The standard philosophy behind creating, placing a judge to be the arbiter to this agreement, it's because there is an expectation in the Western culture. The contract, it does, now this is not communicated to you directly, but the presence of a judge is the communication of that philosophy. So that you're using this contract technically to bind the person. Listen up, because our judges present, we can therefore reverse engineer the philosophy and understand that you are using a contract. The mere fact that there is a judge means that you are using the contract to bind the person to their promise with the expectation that they are going to renege in some form of fashion. And when they do renege, the judge will settle that which is equitable according to what the agreement was within the parameters of the laws of the land. Is that making sense, everybody? No. How many of us could see it's the first time you hear that framed like that? So, now, if this is the case, if this is the case, when you begin, when businesses get into, when businesses get into agreements, when they get into contracts, now you'll understand why when one person stops immediately, it is considered a breach of contract, and then you find a judge to be the arbiter of this agreement.

The problem is, level two of what I'm saying here, the problem is that when you apply that to a marriage, automatically, because your entire society is based on this, and in this presentation, I have included aspects of the society where you have been using this, and because you're using it so much, and everything around you, you have framed a mind unknowingly based on this philosophy, based on this system of interactions, that when you come into a marriage, the first thing that you end up doing in this marriage, because of the idea, because of the idea, the foundational idea of contract, the very first thing that you do in this marriage, unknowingly, is that you begin to quantify the contributions of each, your contributions and your partner's contributions, and begin to measure. When I say quantify, quantify here means that you, you, you can slip into measuring how much your partner is doing and how much you're doing. And naturally, when quantification begins, you have things like people now begin to stand in the marriage and begin to assume the, as to assume the authority to validate the other person. A wife is supposed to do this, why are you not doing that? Why are you not doing this for me? A husband is supposed to do this, why are you not doing that? And why are you not doing this for me? Does that sound familiar? Does that sound familiar? Type "familiar". Now, by the way, with your best intentions, you could get into this marriage. And if you have found yourself ever validating your spouse, it is because this is how the Western world has framed your mind. You have an entire society and civilization is based on this concept. And you may very well love your spouse, but this concept of marriage, this concept of contract, is what you are applying to the marriage. If you have ever pointed out, in any form of fashion, that your husband should be doing this or your wife should be doing this, you fall into this category. Right now. And this, this goes even further, because you have quantification, and the quantification results in validation. And in this validation, literally, pay attention, literally, do you know that when you begin to validate, naturally, where they come, where validation happens, where validation is taking place naturally, as a naturally occurring phenomenon, you begin to limit your contribution to the marriage until the other person validates their right to receive more of you. If they begin, if you begin to, or your partner begins to quantify, validate, and begin to measure, now me to quantify a contribution dependent on how much they contribute, which is a normal phenomenon in Western culture. You hear it all over social media right now. It's the ugliest it has ever been in Western society, in my opinion, well, based on my understanding of the history of marriage culture in Western society, it's the ugliest right now. I am, I am, I am sincerely of the opinion that if this is not infancy of the civilization, this civilization is showing signs that it is coming to a crashing end. But that's a different story. What I'm saying here is that when you begin, when that begins to happen in a marriage, here's a huge factor that is standing in front of you that you may never have considered. And this factor is massively, massively impacting your relationship with God. Because the way you carry on, that your relationship in that marriage, believe it or not, is the same way you are carrying on your relationship with God. Don't ever fool yourself and think it's different. There's one principle in your spirit. And some of you may not have, you may not have great, great synergy with your spouse, but when you go to before God, you feel like you have great, in a junior prayer, you know why? Because God is not responding apparently, in an apparent manner, like your spouse can respond. So because God seems to be quiet, it seems as though you have a good prayer life. When technically, the same dynamic that you're applying in the marriage is the same dynamic that you're applying with God. Can I get an amen? I might be mashing some toes with this here, but it's with good, with what, good, but with good. How you treat your spouse, yeah, definitely 100%, 100% right. Can we get an amen? The room just got quiet. Right.

All right, here's the problem with the contractual dynamic is that you have made your, your marriage a transactional relationship. That's the first bomb dropping in the middle of the circle. You've just made your relationship, by a transactional relationship, with a transactional relationship. Do you know what happens? That if your marriage is, if the relationship is transactional, do you know that at no point in time your spouse has seen who they are really with? Therefore, your demands from your spouse, in your validation and quantification, is a demand that your spouse blindly invest into something that they do not know, that they do not know of. That means at no point in time in your marriage have you been, you have measured your spirit in the marriage. And therefore, number one, you are living a lie. I don't mean to be harsh, but we need to be blunt. You're living a lie. And number two, your spouse technically doesn't know who they have married. And in our Western culture, because of this transactional mentality, we have people that say, you will not have these benefits until you put a ring on my finger. Or the man saying, you're not going to have these benefits until you become my wife. Therefore, the person is technically being told, with me, you have to blindly invest and hope that what is inside of the box is magical. Abracadabra. I don't have any sound effects on magic right now, so we got just work with the Abra. Is this making any sense, everybody? Respond. Be true to yourself. Be true to yourself. Russian roulette is a good example, a good analogy to attach to that.

Now, number one, this is how you approach your relationship with God unknowingly. What does this cause? Pay attention. This is the factor here that is locking you from experiencing what you want to experience in biblical, in the biblical narratives. See these characters walking in power. Do you know it's that perspective that you're working with there that has locked you out of the kingdom? Has locked you out of the garden? Here's why: in a transactional dynamic, you are never living from your heart. You have entered into the relationship or marriage or coming to God. Hold on. But in marriage, it's more relatable. That's why I'm using marriage. It's more relatable because you see it. If you're not in a marriage, you're seeing it. You're seeing it on social media. And if you're not seeing it on social media, I guarantee you, if you entered into a marriage to the Western dynamics, which is based on this idea of contract, you have been using, you have been treating your like this. Be true to yourself. And I'm not saying that you're an evil person. I'm just saying you didn't have an alternative method of marriage, so you use what you have known. Does that make sense to everybody? That doesn't make you evil. That just makes you sincerely mistaken. Does that make sense, everybody? We have 15, 14 persons in the room. I need to see 14 cents on this on this chat here. Everybody respond. One, two, three, four, five, six. Where the next? Where the next? Seven, eight. Well, at least seven respond. Is that making sense to everybody? All right.

So what does this mean? What does this simply mean? It simply means that we are technically looking at something that is super important. The agreement, the contract mindset, can't really. But I understand. Amen. The contract mindset means that when you get into a relationship, you are never getting into relationship from your heart per se. What you, from the moment you begin to quantify or measure, listen up. If you, the moment you begin to quantify or measure, do you know what happens? You are technically using the person to get what you want. Let me say this again. Quantification in a relationship or validation of your partner means that you are using your partner to get what you want. That means that your heart is not really in the dynamic. And just follow me. Your heart is not really in the dynamic. You are using the dynamic to get what your heart really wants. Something. Once you, once you, once you deduct this, then you have to come, then you have to come to the stark reality that you do not love the person that you're really with. You love what you can get from them. You love, you love a feeling that you're supposed to have. And whatever you are quantifying, you love how that makes you feel. Now, in no form of fashion am I trying to invalidate your marriage. I'm not trying to say you're an evil person. I'm not trying to say that you're being wicked or you're being mean. I'm saying that you, you are innocently mistaken. And unknowingly, you have loved yourself. You have not loved the person. Is this making any sense? So technically, we could say that you have been in the dynamic. Let's just identify this, because if you don't identify it, you can't stop it. You can't. You have been in the dynamic and you really, if you, if you ever did anything that I just said, you really didn't love your spouse. You love how your spouse should make you feel, which means you love your feelings. You didn't really love them. Can we have an amen in the room? No. This is codependency. This is not different. This is me framing the codependency in a different way so that you could understand the difference between covenant and this. Let the amens come. Don't be afraid. We, this is not condemnation. This is identification for the purpose of invalidation.

Now, unknowingly, whilst we doing this, whilst you're being honest with yourself, unknowingly, this is the approach that you've been taking with God. The same way you, you're running this marriage is the same way you have been in relationship with God. Which is why you'll see most believers when they want something from God, they apply themselves, and when they don't get it, they get frustrated, they feel hurt, they feel as though God has abandoned them. God is far. Why is God not speaking to me? All of those emotions would take place in your marriage if your spouse just stopped speaking to you. Like, if your spouse didn't respond to you, you would speak, you would say all of that. And if your spouse didn't respond, you would feel frustrated, you'll feel hurt, you'll feel as though they don't love you. That's the same dynamic that you're applying to God. My assertion here to you tonight is that covenant does not work like that. No biblical covenant works like that. And if you're true to yourself, you realize that what you've been doing is applying the Western idea of contract to God. You have never, because you, the Western world didn't introduce you to that. Here's what took place in the Western world. You were told that you were a sinner. Let's just bring it down into a concise form, into concise identification here. You were told that you were a sinner. You continue to live your life as you were living it. Nobody told you anything about a covenant. The Western world cannot even explain what the covenant is and how the covenant works. Because in the Western world, when people speak about the covenants in the Bible, they will speak about contract. And even when I have done public videos, you've heard me say, use the word contract because I'm trying to get a particular point across. But to really understand how the covenant works, what we are about to speak here tonight is going to bring it into understanding so that you understand that the Western idea of contract, the basis, the foundation of that idea, is not the foundation of the idea of the covenant in the Bible. So you were taught, Jesus, you are a sinner, and you need Jesus to save you. And so you continue with your life. You use Jesus as a moral compass. And then you applied the idea of this, this contract that we're speaking about here, to the moral compass. Which is why you have been keeping all of these rules for so much, for so much time in your, in your denominational life, because what you're trying to do is to gain moral validation. You didn't love God. You loved moral validation. Just like in the marriage, you didn't love your spouse. You love your feelings, you love what the spouse, how the spouse is supposed to make you feel. And therefore, you didn't really love them. You love yourself. You love your feelings. In the same way, in Western Christianity, you were pursuing this moral validation, which means you didn't love God. You really loved the idea, the feeling of being morally validated.

In conclusion, what I'm saying in this idea is that you were taught to love yourself. You have never loved God in denominational Christianity. Is this making any sense? Now, it is a harsh reality to face, but productive in the direction that we're going here tonight. And that idea, you have applied to God. And so when you don't get response, you start to throw tantrums. Why is I? Why am I not being healed? Why is God not responding? Why am I going through this? Lord, you start to feel hurt. You start to feel as though God is not, God is not doing his part, or am I, am I not validated by God? All of those things are signs that you have been using the Western idea of contract, and it has been, and this is why you are actually not experiencing what the Bible, what these biblical characters are doing. The only person in the Bible that I can refer to that demonstrates how covenant works is Job. But because you were taught the contractual understanding of Western life, you cannot understand what's going on with Job. It befuddles your mind. It befuddles your mind because it doesn't make sense to you. So you're trying to find out, what did Job do to deserve that transaction? Again, you're seeing transaction. You're seeing transaction. And for many believers, they've used it to say, this life is a life of suffering, but you have to stay strong, stand in the law. Transactional thinking.

So let me show you something before we move on to covenant. Let's start with the definition of contract in Western culture in the dictionary. It says, a contract is a binding agreement between two or more persons or parties, especially one legally enforceable. Notice that what is enforcing it is an external entity, not you, but an external entity. Is everybody seeing that? Which means there is an, there's a third party that is enforcing this contract. Are we seeing that? Type "C" in that. According to the definition here, holy brother Rick, a binding agreement between two or more parties, especially one legally enforceable, which means there's a third party, which is the judge representing the state, as a person judging this, right? Just like the judge is representing the state. So you, as a priest, you represent the state of the New Jerusalem, which is in New Israel, right? Okay, watch this, watch this. Covenant here, notice it says, usually formal, solemn, and binding agreements are compact. Notice that this does not have a third party involved. And is everybody seeing that? Solemnity. Everybody seeing that? Which means from the get-go, there's a difference here. One has an external party, is a third party to enforce it. This one does not have a third party, which means it is not enforceable by anything external. Is everybody seeing that?

All right, let's now take a look at what you have been doing, what I just said there. Let's look at it in more, in some more structure. So this is contract, the idea of contract, which is the transaction mindset, right? In your society, this is what the contract, or the, or the philosophy of a contract comes with. In the Western idea of agreements, which is contracts, you have the expectation of unfaithfulness. Western contracts are based on the assumption that parties may not fully trust each other to uphold their end of the deal. The expectation of potential breach or unfaithfulness is a foundational aspect. Secondly, legal enforcement. Contracts are legally binding agreements enforced by a legal system. If one party fails to fulfill the obligations, the other party can seek remedy through courts or arbitration. Written and formal contracts are typically formal written documents that clearly outline the terms and conditions, obligations, and the rights, the rights of each party. And the transactional nature. Contracts often focus on the exchange of goods, services, or promises, and are usually specific in scope and time-bound.

Now, as I said, in regards to relationships, this then becomes a transaction, sorry, becomes a quantification of spirit. You are quantifying your own spirit. Sorry. History involves Roman influence. The Roman influence, the modern concept of contracts has roots in Roman law, which emphasized formalized agreements and legal obligations. Development in common law. Law, common law is a term that is actually refers to Old English law. I'm not going to get into that here tonight. If you would like to understand what common law is, please Google search it. It's always, it's very available on the internet. The common law system, particularly in England, and subsequently in the United States, developed extensive contract law to address a wide range of business and personal agreements.

In the society here are some areas where you have been living in transaction that has trained your mind to think about this transactional mindset:

Employment contracts: Jobs are defined by contracts specifying duties, hours, and compensation with expectations of performance. And if you do not conform to the expectations, you will face consequences for non-compliance. How many of us have lived that? Everybody here should say yes. Yeah, you've lived this.

Business deals: If you're an entrepreneur or you're just probably self-employed as well, business transactions involve detailed agreements outlining terms, conditions, and penalties, emphasizing mutual benefit. See, mutual benefit. This is programmed into your mind. And enforceable obligations.

Rental agreements: If you ever rented in your life, renting property involves leases with specific terms and conditions, including rent, rent payments, maintenance, and responsibilities, and eviction policies.

Health care services: This is involved in your hospitals. Medical treatments and services are often provided in exchange for payment or insurance coverage with detailed billing and reimbursement processes. So even your hospital system is working transactionally. And so, so many, so many believe, many persons would say, boy, they really care in the hospitals. The nature of the system is not to care, it is transactional. The same thing that you're applying to your marriage and to God unknowingly.

Educational loans: Student loans are agreements requiring repayment with interest, often dictating future financial obligations and credit worthiness. So far, everybody could say that this is, this, they have experienced with these things? Yes or no? If you have experiences with these, type "experience". Right. Try and stay close to your, keep right, because we're looking for your responses here.

Customer purchases: Now, I'm going through all of this so that you could see that this is all over your society. And when you're coming to covenant, it means coming away from that perspective. It's not just what the covenant says and apply a transactional perspective. It's a different way of living that this cost of coaching is going to introduce you to. This is something, by the way, I have never taught publicly. These are actually the foundations of your power and your life in Christ. Never really did this because, no, you don't have to live in any mountains, but I've never really did this because it requires responsibility to you for me to move you from where you are to where you want to go. And I cannot do that on a public life. Does that make sense to everybody? I can, I can hint to to many different things, but I can't do that on a public life.

Consumer purchases: Buying goods and and services involves clear terms of sale, return policies, and warranties. See, all of these things exist because there's an expectation of non, of unfaithfulness to the contract, ensuring consumer rights and seller obligations.

Credit card use: There's a big one. Depending on where you're living, credit card transactions involve agreements on credit limits, interest rates, fees, and repayment terms with legal enforcement of terms. Legal enforcement, why? Because you're expected to not fulfill your obligations.

Utility services: Utility services in, like electricity, water, gas, are provided under contract specifying rates, usage limits, and penalties for non-payment. Penalties exist, why? You expect it to be unfaithful. Notice I'm repeating the statement, right?

Subscription services: Like for those of you watching Netflix, Amazon, wherever, subscription services, subscription for media, software, and other services involve regular payments in exchange for access with terms for cancellation and renewal. Why is cancellation there? Because you expect, you expect to not to not be faithful.

Legal services: Hiring a lawyer involves a retainer agreement outlining services, fees, and payment schedules, emphasizing professional litigation and client rights. So you have to retain them so that they expect you to remain, they expect unfaithfulness. You have to pay for that.

Mortgages: There's a huge one ingrained into your system. Home loans and detailed financial agreements with terms for repayment, interest rates, and foreclosure conditions in case of default. In case of default, expectation of unfaithfulness.

Insurance policies: Opening and maintaining bank accounts involve agreements on fees, interest rates, and terms of service, defining both customer and bank responsibilities. You don't meet that, your account could get closed.

Marriage contracts: We just, I just used that as the example. People, some people enter up, enter into prenuptial agreements and legal aspects of marriage, often emphasize and often emphasize property rights, financial obligations, and conditions for divorce. Right? Somebody mentioned that this is related to divorce just now, right?

Vehicles: Vehicle leases are contracts outlining terms of use, monthly payments, mileage limits, and penalties for damage or early termination. Contractual transactional mentality.

Driving licenses: Exactly. Your whole society is based on this. Is there anything that I mentioned here, anything that I mentioned here that you have not experienced or seen in the society? Yes or no?

Profession: Why is he doing that? Professional services: Hiring consultants, contractors, or freelancers involves contracts specifying deliverables, timelines, and payment terms.

Real estate transactions: Buying or selling property involves legal contracts detailing price, terms of sale, inspections, and contingencies. You see how this is framed? Everything. The foundation of this is expectation of unfaithfulness.

Intellectual property: Licensing agreements for patents, trademarks, copyrights.

Religious membership: Is a good one. I should have put that there, right? It all, it is called the mindset of the world, but I'm specifically identifying these things so that you could identify it and not, trying to grasp smoke, right? Um, enforcement mechanisms and royalties for intellectual property as well.

Political lobbying: Lobbying involves transactions with lobbyists, advocate, with where lobbyists advocate for policies in exchange for financial contributions or political support.

Entertainment contracts: Actors, musicians, athletes either enter contracts defining roles, compensation, obligations, and clauses for breach of contract.

Your laws: The government as well, right? That is why the court exists because you are expected to be unfaithful. And why is that? In essence, the idea or the philosophy, let's stand back and watch what that is based on. It's based on the fact that you are an evil person, and there must be terms to bind you to not follow the influence of evil. So your whole society is designed to show you or to communicate to you subtly that you are an evil individual. How many of us heard that for the first time? And this is why you struggle to acknowledge the truth of Christ sometimes. Some of us, we have a longer struggle because the whole system inherently is designed to communicate to you that you are assumed, you are presumed to be an evil individual, and there must be contingencies involved so that the evil individual can be forced to be integrous. Even in our society, we hear things like when somebody's getting married, so somebody's getting married, they tell the man, she has made an honest man out of you. You hear that? Do you see how deep this goes? Are we seeing how deep this goes? This is your whole society. It's the transaction, the mind, the transactional mind, based on, based on the assumption that you're evil. Yeah.

I watch this. So I decided just to help you frame this properly. The impacts of this on your spirituality, why you're experiencing what you're experiencing, why you experience what you experience in your denominational life. Naturally, if you are not, if you don't know the name, this is what you experienced in your church:

Legalism over love: Emphasizing rule-following and contractual obligations and leading to a legalistic mindset in the pursuit of validation. By the way, that's why you are pursuing validation, that's why you're keeping the rules, the rule-keeping because you are assumed to be an evil person. And the church, the, the denominational church turns out to be very frank with you in that perspective. They use the Bible to communicate to you that your heart is desperately wicked, and so you have to keep these rules to prove yourself. That has been your spirituality. So rule-following and contractual obligation can lead to a legalistic mindset, overshadowing the love and grace, overshadowing the love and grace central to what the Christian faith claims to say that you have. So even love and grace is seen as transactional.

Fear of failure: Viewing moral validation as a contract can create a pervasive fear of failure and fear of divine retribution for breaking the contract. So as I read this, I want you to write in the chat if you have experienced this. Just type "E" every time I read it. Legalism over love, type "E" in the chat if you experienced it or if you have seen this or experienced this. Fear of failure, type "E" in the chat. Viewing moral validation as a contract can create a pervasive fear of failure and fear of divine retribution for breaking the contract.

Guilt and shame: Type "E" if you experience that. When moral lapses are seen as contract breaches, individuals may experience excessive guilt and shame, hindering spiritual growth and personal well-being.

Performance anxiety: Type "E". The pressure to constantly meet perceived contractual obligations can lead to anxiety and a performance-based faith.

Conditional acceptance: Type "E". Belief that God's love is conditional on meeting specific moral criteria can undermine the assurance of unconditional divine love and grace.

Loss of joy: A transactional approach to morality can sap the joy and spontaneity from one's spiritual life, making it feel like a series of burdensome obligations. Type "E". If you went through rigid thinking, viewing morality through a contractual lens and fostering rigid black and white thinking when it comes to validation, not nature validation, the ability to navigate complex moral situations with grace.

Superficial faith: Type "E". That rigid thinking has led to many wives being beaten, people being molested, sexually molested, raped because of rigid thinking. They're applying love like rules, and the person cannot, cannot discern when they are evil, wrong, because they're supposed to love the Satan too, love the molester, and they cannot come out of the situation because the law binds them to stay there and show love. Superficial faith: Emphasizing external compliance over internal transformation can result in a shallow, surface-level faith experience. Type "E".

Isolation: Legalistic and transactional approaches can alienate individuals from others who struggle or fail to meet the same standards, producing community support. Type "E".

Distrusting God: Is what you're experiencing most of the times when you're not getting your prayers answered. You start to experience distrust in God because you're viewing God as a distant enforcer of contract rather than a loving father that is in you. And it can erode trust and intimacy in divine relationships. Type "E" if you experienced that.

Spiritual burnout: How many of us experienced that? Type "E". Constantly striving to fulfill perceived contracted obligations for your moral validation can lead to spiritual exhaustion and burnout.

Inconsistent spiritual growth: A transactional approach may result in erratic spiritual growth with progress seen only through the lens of compliance and failure. Type "E".

Neglect of Grace: Focusing on moral contracts can obscure the central Christian message of Grace, leading into our works-based mentality. We're speaking about dead works here, works for validation.

Emotional distress: Which is what most of you are experiencing because of the transactional mindset. Fear of divine punishment for failing to meet contractual obligations can cause significant emotional, spiritual distress. What sister Jean put three "E"s. And that's since I have started doing this. Do you know that that is the one thing in particular that Marvel at how much religion?

Has actually emotionally distressed believers. Judgmental attitude, which is all those people on Facebook correcting, correcting your doctrine, assuming the authority to correct your doctrine. Viewing faith through a contractual lens can foster a judgmental attitude towards oneself and others, undermining compassion and empathy.

Last, lack of authenticity. Most of you have been following these things, and you can't be true to your heart because you're following rules for validation. So your heart is in hangs, and in your heart, you feel like you really don't trust God, but you're following God. You want to do things to get healing. You're using, you're even using faith as a transaction to get something from God. You're not authentically actually actually telling God, "Really, in my heart, I'm struggling with this idea. I'm struggling with the idea that you could move and change my financial situation. I'm struggling with the idea that you could heal me. I'm struggling with the idea that I could have dominion over that devil." You're struggling with the idea, but you're following. You even start to use faith as a transaction.

Type E, if that, if that is something that you have experienced. A performance-based approach can lead to inauthenticity, where individuals feel compelled to hide their struggles and shortcomings.

See that, reduced resilience. The pressure to constantly meet moral, meet moral standards can reduce resilience, making individuals less capable of dealing with setbacks and failures.

Weak sense of belonging. How many of you experienced that? Type E. If community inclusion is based on contractual moral performance, individuals may feel a weak sense of belonging and acceptance. Transactional relationships, like in your marriage, relationships within the faith community, may become transactional, based on mutual compliance and moral standards, rather than genuine care and support.

If, if your fellow, if your fellow Christian in the church is not following that, you alienate them or you judge them. And by nature, it is inherent in this perspective that you misunderstand God's nature, just like you misunderstand your wife's nature, or your wife misunderstanding the husband's nature, because you're so busy with the transaction that you're not even, you don't know them. You only know, you only love how you feel by receiving those things. Viewing God primarily as a contractual enforcer can lead to a distorted understanding of his nature, diminish in the experience of his love, mercy, and grace.

Do you know what all of this is based on? Watch your screen. The way of Cain. You are trying to acquire fruit of a spirit that you are not of, through transaction without investment into being the spirit. The whole Western society is based on this. How many of us, for the first time, it makes sense? The whole Western society is based on the pursuit of fruits through transaction without the responsibility to be that, to create it for yourself. And the society is framed to remind you that you are an evil individual. And this is the mechanism that we put in place to hold you evil. One to your word is the way of Cain. And the church, denominational Christianity, is framed in this perspective.

If this may, if this has just brought you into understanding, you join the dots. Amen. I hope I join the dots. All right, so we see the way of Cain. Cain left Eden. And this is the way of Cain. This is why Cain went out of the presence of God. If you've gone out of the presence of God, you are no longer identifying with the spirit of God. You are trying to acquire the fruits of the spirit of God without the responsibility of being the spirit of God. If that makes sense, type "There is no trust." Type "I" in the comment section. We should, I should see here at least 13 "I"s in the comment section.

Now, what therefore is the opposite of that in the Abel lineage? Hi. All right, I, I see, sister Mon, I see that you're seeing it. You're seeing it. All right. What therefore is contract based on what we just covered? No biblical contract is based on that. That is why the Bible, when you read it, you cannot understand it. That perspective is what has is let me just, let me, let me to be to be frank here. Let me use some colloquial language here. Taking a point across. That is what jacked up your, your spirituality. That is what jacked up your prayer. That is what jacked up your relationship with God. That is what has jacked up your marriage. That is what has jacked up your overall experience in God. And that's what has jacked up your understanding of the Bible.

You are trying. So let me explain something to you. Do, do you know that the Bible is written like a manual? A, does a manual give you the information and the reasons why it says what it says, or does it just give you the instructions as to what you should do? Does it tell you why? Does it justify the instructions? Yes or no? It gives instruction, but does it justify, like, does it give you the reasons? No, it does not. The only literature in Western culture that resembles the Bible is a man, is, is a manual. Here's what I'm saying. Pay attention. It does not provide you with the reasons why you should plug in this in this in this socket. It just tells you, plug this here, plug that here, plug this here, plug that here. Change, um, make sure that this is in the right position. Put, put this in. Do not, do not plug this in in this direction. It does not give you the reasons for the instructions.

Who will understand the reasons for the instructions? Not the electrician. Yes or no? Yes or no? The question is, if you give, if the, if you give the manual to an electrician, somebody who understands, or the manufacturer who has the logic of how this works, would he not understand? He or she not understand why you should do what the instructions say? 100% yes. Good. Right. Which means the electrician or the manufacturer has the logic or the wisdom that reproduced those instructions. Yes or no? They have the wisdom that reproduced the instructions.

Do you know that the Bible is written in the same way? The Bible is written only for a Yahweh who has the wisdom of self-existence and the eternal perspective to read the Bible and understand why these things happened. That's why we have 3,000 interpretations in the Bible today, because everybody is seeing the results of the wisdom, but they do not know the wisdom that reproduced those decisions. That means that you have to be in the right spirit to read the text. Inversely, that also means that if you are in the wrong spirit, the wisdom of your erroneous spirit is going to give reasons for what is going on in the Bible. Which means if you see God in a particular way in the Bible that is harsh, that is not necessarily true, that is you reading your own spirit in the text. Let it digest, because it's written like that. Whatever you see in the Bible that seems to be harsh and insensitive and all of that, the Bible is not doing anything. It is your, the wisdom of your pre-existing spirit that is reading the text and putting its own reasons to those actions. Which means you're watching a mirror of yourself. Just as if you're coming to the name, you will perfectly understand the reasons for these actions. Why James called it a mirror. In the same way, if you have the wrong spirit, you are going to read yourself, and you're going to, the reasons that you're given for these actions are technically insight into what your pre-existing logic is going to cause in the future once it develops sufficiently.

How many of us hear that for the first time? This is the nature of the text. This is the near the text. How you view God is how you view yourself. 100%. The only reason you don't know it as yet is because situations have not arisen sufficiently for your, your pre-existing perspective of yourself to expand and to grow as a big tree. And then exactly what you read about God in the text is exactly what you're going to see about yourself. The wisdom of your spirit that you're using is what is giving you that interpretation of the text. If I say that in public, I might get stoned, but it is the, that, but it is the reality of the text that you're reading. It is the reality. So for every atheist that's saying that's a, for every atheist that actually or or agnostic that says that's a bipolar God, I guarantee you, you are hearing a profession of themselves. They just don't know it. You see? Do you see why I'm saying that? That the, the assumption of intelligence in the Western world is arrogant. And what they're not realizing is that you, you are viewing yourself. For everybody who reads the Bible and says, "Well, God is so insensitive," you're reading yourself.

So why are we even, why are we even talking about that? How, how many of you, what is the opposite of covenant? And what is the foundation of covenant then? If this is not it, let me ask you a question. I want you to be honest with yourself. How many of you in your life, at any point in time in your life, whether in your teens, in your adulthood, you made a personal vow to yourself, an oath to yourself? What I mean is, there was something in your life that you experienced, and you vowed to yourself, "I'll never do that again," or "This will never happen again." And since then, you have vowed to yourself what you vowed to yourself, it has never happened again. And even if you ever found yourself where it seemed as though you started to veer away from what your vow, "It will never happen again," or you vowed that you were, this is the person you're going to be, this is, this is what I'm going to do from now on. How many of us could say, right? You made these vows, right? A personal vow. You don't have to say what it is, but it's something that probably happened to you, and you vowed that this is never going to happen to me again. I, is that for real, or are you actually joking? Never eat spr again. Is that, is that a serious vow or joking? Okay. All right. But you, but you've made a vow. Yes. Anybody here could say that they never made a vow in their life to actually not repeat an action, or they vowed to to to do something and they've never not done it? How many of us could say that? Nobody here has never made a vow, right? Okay. So everybody here could say that they made a vow.

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever needed anybody to validate that vow for you? Have you ever consulted anybody to validate that vow? I get a capital A, capital N, O from not one day. Okay. Absolutely not. Right. Another question. Second question. Have you ever felt the temptation to break the vow? Absolutely not. Yeah. No. Okay. Third question. If somebody, so, to my first question, my first question was, have you ever sought anybody's validation to approve that vow? Everybody said no, right? Yes or no? Everybody said no, right? Okay. Welcome to self-existent life. The second question was, have you ever felt tempted, tempted to break the vow? Like, you feel temptation. You said no. Welcome to self-existent life. Third question. If anybody, you, you communicated this vow to, ever put anything in your path, in your path disrespecting that vow, do you continue the relationship with them, or do, or did you sever it? You separate yourself from them. Yes, you sever it. That's what, welcome to Jesus's words. If your, if your hand, if your right hand offends you, cut it off. And if your eye offends you, cut it off.

The covenants in the Bible were approached through the mechanism of personal vow. That's why you see apostles, priests, and prophets never struggling. Did you ever struggle with your vow? No, you did not. You can choose to break the vow, but you never struggled with the vow. Why? Because it is a vow to yourself. The Bible says, "Vow a vow made to Yahweh." The mistake you made was you vowed to Yahweh in the sky. The Bible is speaking about vowing to yourself because your spirit in the covenant is Yahweh. So vowing to Yahweh is the vowing to yourself, flowing to your own spirit. That is the foundation of all covenants in the Bible. No matter what happened in your life, did you break the vow? Yes or no? Unless you willingly broke the vow. No matter what happened in your life, did you break the vow? Sorry, excuse me. No, you didn't. Welcome to Job. That is the purpose of the Book of Job, to show you the power of personal vows to Yahweh. The vow that a priest lives from. Now you're getting into Brother Norman. Now you're getting it. Job represents a priest in his vow to Yahweh. His covenant is a personal vow. That's why all of that could happen to Job, and Job is never going to shift. His wife shifted. His friends started on there with transactional talk. And one thing is consistent in Job: integrity. Personal vows and integrity are synonyms in your scriptures. Personal vows and integrity are synonyms in your scriptures.

To come into the covenant required that you personally vow to Yahweh. Do you know that this is in your Bible? But because you were framed in contractual transactional thinking, you read past it, and you didn't really, it didn't really make sense as it is hitting your heart right now. And that is why somebody who is in covenant involves to Yahweh, which is to the spirit of Christ in them, the spirit of Yahweh that they have invoked in them, they walk in power. This is why Proverbs, King Solomon in Proverbs, says to guard your heart, because your heart is what you vow to. You vow to your own heart that you will never do that again, and you don't care what happens, you will never break that vow. There's nothing that can happen to cause you to make that vow to break that vow. Yes. People in monasteries don't make the vows. Unfortunately, the vows that they make is never vows to their spirit. It's vows to an external agreement. So halfway, like you could, that the three quarters there, the quarter there, right? Watch this. If you were not a priest in Israel, if you were not a priest in Israel, do you know that you could become a Nazarite? And watch what it says in the Nazarite. Into the laws of the Nazarite, Yahweh spake unto Moses saying, "Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them." Now, a Nazarite is somebody who is living, approaching Yahweh like a priest. And a Nazarite is somebody who is approaching Yahweh as a priest without being a Levite, right? And Yahweh speak unto Moses saying, "Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, when either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite." What is the vow? To separate themselves unto Yahweh. When you read that, before you read that with the idea in your mind that that will separate themselves unto Yahweh in the sky, no. That separate yourselves unto Yahweh as your only, as your own spirit. Which means you're vowing a vow. In all Western culture, we would say that you made a personal vow to yourself. We also call it a personal oath to yourself. If you did not do this, you are stepping into the covenant as a liar, because that is the requirement to come into the covenant. Whatever the covenantal criteria is, you have to vow a vow to yourself that that is not to be broken. Which is why you see when, when Israel up, they move away from the covenant, it is treated with God moving away from them. Why? Because they broke their vow to to Yahweh in them. And therefore, they are rejecting Yahweh. And Yahweh says that you hate me. So you could say in Western terms that if you break your vow to yourself, you are breaking your vow to your own spirit, and you hate your spirit, and you prefer to live by an external motivating factor.

Do you know that there's a mention of vow in the New Testament? Notice, notice, I want you to notice Samson is a good example. I want you to, I want you to, I want you to pay attention to Samson. He's a good example. Notice that Samson vowed the vow of a Nazarite, which is to himself. And as soon as he breaks the vow to himself, the power stops. No, you didn't hear, you didn't hear what I said. Am those in the front didn't hear what I just said, right? Let, let, let me speak to those in the back, right? Let me speak to those in the back. Let me apply some church talk and some, some, some sermon talk to this here. If the vow is to your spirit, to yourself, Yahweh as the title of your spirit, when Samson broke the vow to Yahweh by having his hair cut off, he broke the vow to his spirit. Which means he made the vow his source of motivation, his source of decisions, decisions he made her his source of strength. He made her his Elohim. Did the power continue, or did the power stop? The power didn't leave a bit. The power left. What required the power to return? He had to return to the vow to his own spirit.

What am I showing you? Samson is an example of the fact that vowing, making a personal vow to the identity of Christ, which is, which is, which is the title of your spirit, yields power. It has to be a personal vow to your spirit. And as soon as you switch the reference point, the power stops. And when you come back to the reference point, it comes back into power. Jesus said it, "The light of the body is the heart." If the heart be single, meaning the vow to the heart is a single vow, your body will be filled with light. But if your heart is double, which means you have an allegiance to two sources of wisdom, your body will be filled with darkness. And if the light or the spirit in your body is darkness, how great is that darkness? Which means how great is death in you.

Here's the problem. None of you here have ever vowed to yourself because you never heard that before. How many of us hearing that for the first time tonight? And because you never heard that before, you never linked the success of your personal vow in your life that you'll never do that ever in life, you never linked that to self-existence. Because the Western culture does not live from that. So what have you done? You have lived a life where you were entered into Christianity, used Christianity to get what you want from God, whilst your vow is to your external sources of wisdom, whether there be money, social status. Like you had an experience where you were poor and you vowed to yourself, "I'll never be poor again." That is your Elohim. You vowed to yourself that she, that a woman will never do this to me again. That vow is your Elohim. Or the woman vowing, "A man will never do this to me again." That vow you made, your Elohim. And so you went into your Christianity, vowed that you'll never be seen as a poor person in society. I'll be seen as a, as a wealthy person. Social status.

Could you mention how to break a bad vow? Just make the decision. But the best way to break a bad vow is to make a new vow that releases you from the bad vow, because your heart could only hold one vow. Which means whatever pre-existent vow existed, vow to the name, in this case, and you will set yourself free from the last vow, because your heart could only take one vow at a time. Make sense? So most of you, therefore, the reason why you're not seeing power because the name is not your personal vow, like your vow, the vow for that which you said you will never experience before. This is the whole foundation and energy source of covenants in the Bible. The word vow could be found in the New Testament as well. It's found in the book of Acts, Acts 18. And Paul, after this, tarried there yet a good while, and took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria with Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow. The Amplified Bible gives you the understanding of that vow, a vow of abstinence. That's why Paul, that's why Paul could not touch a woman. Not because he had super strength. His means, his heart was single. When you, when you vow a vow, your heart is single and determined that you will never break that vow. Paul made a vow and shaved his head, cut off his hair in that vow. How many seen that for the first time? I guarantee if you're in church, you bypass that. [Laughter] You bypass that because it means nothing to you because you were taught transactional living. Job is what a vow to the name looks like. That is the whole purpose of Job, to show you the integrity and a vow in motion. A vow, a personal vow is the same as integrity, as I just said. Is this making sense? If you do not understand this right here, your covenant to you, biblical covenants to you, are useless. And because you never lived like that in the name applied to Christ, the same way you are required to vow a vow to the name. Do you know that's the same way God has vowed to bless you and to heal you? I wanted to take the same concept of the vow that you applied that you will never do. Every one of you have had some vow in your life at some some point in time. You made an oath to yourself. You vowed to yourself that that is never going to happen, or I'm going to do this. I'm never going to have this experience. And up to today, you've never broken, you've never broken that vow. Do you know that the covenant requires that both parties make a personal vow to themselves? Do you know that's why Abraham, when God made a covenant with him, Abraham cut the animals into halves, and the spirit of God passed through the halves of the animal, representing a personal vow and a personal vow to the name. Means that the animal nature has been divided. It's gone. It's been cut in two. Which means God walking through the animals showed that he has made a personal vow to bless Abraham and his seed. Have you ever broken your vow? The same way you never broke that vow. It's the same way God has vowed to give you health. Do you, do you know that Jesus on that cross was God's vow to you? Personal vow of God for you. But the only reason you cannot see that is because you were never introduced to that.

So if this makes sense, everybody type "sense." All right. So today, we're going all about half hour for me to just finish this, right? Is everybody okay with that? Because I indicated last, last, last class, we're stopping at 9:30 ET. Is everybody good with this? Type "good," just confirmation so that we can just complete this here. Vow to the name. Good, good, good. All right. So therefore, let's look at this. The ancient Israelite idea of agreements is covenants. The covenant is a personal vow. Let's start. Number one, personal vow of the heart. Covenants in ancient Israel were seen as deeply personal commitments, motivated by by an inner vow or oath of the heart to oneself, which is the same as an oath to God, because Yahweh was your spirit. This internal dedication was paramount. Faithfulness and loyalty is expected in a vow like that, just like you were faithful to that vow all of your life. Unlike contractual expectation of potential and faithfulness, covenants were based on mutual trust, loyalty, and faithfulness because they understood it was a personal vow. Do you know when you enter a personal vow based on your own experience, your heart does not consider any other option? How many of us could say yes? Makes sense, right? It doesn't consider any other option. The parties were expected to uphold their commitments out of a deep personal conviction and a sense of sacred duty. Sacred here is equal to the personal vow, because if you're into personal vow, you vow to your heart, it's sacred, it's set apart, there's nothing that influences that. Self-existent life, one priority. Exactly.

Ceremonial and symbolic. Covenants are often accompanied by rituals and ceremonies, which was an external. Now, I'm not going to explain the ceremonies here today. In our upcoming classes, I'm going to show you how the actual animals were used to reflect externally what a personal vow was, so that you could understand what it means to make a covenant. To make a covenant in the Bible is the same as saying cutting a covenant, which required cutting an animal. The term cutting a covenant. Sorry, I ran forward there. Covenants are often accompanied by rituals and ceremonies, such as sacrifices, to signify the solemnity and binding nature of the agreement. The term cutting a covenant refers to the practice of animal sacrifice, symbolizing the seriousness of the commitment, which is the seriousness of the personal vow.

These vows are comprehensive. A lifelong. Somebody posted in the comment section that just now, "Only death can separate it from your personal vow." That is 100% what you're reading in the Bible. Covenants were comprehensive and covering various aspects of life, and were often intended to be lifelong commitments rather than temporary arrangements.

The history behind that. You have biblical examples. Provides numerous examples of covenant, such as the covenant between God and Abraham. I just mentioned that, just Genesis 15. There is also a covenant mentioned in Jeremiah with regards to animals, which we will speak about later on, where God promises Abraham numerous descendants on the land of Canaan. That's God's vow to himself. Integrity to himself, just like your personal vow. Personal vow. Another significant example is the Mosaic Covenant at Mount Sinai, where God gives the Israelites the Ten Commandments. They were supposed to make that a personal vow. Does it now give you more context as to why them referring to Egypt showed betrayal to the vow? Does that all make sense? You have been seeing it through transactional living. And so when you, through transactional living, you're thinking that they're making a sacrifice. Anybody who says that life in Christ is a sacrifice has never, is not living from a personal vow. They're living from the covenant, the idea of contract, which means they enter into the agreement. The mere fact that you say sacrifice means that your heart wants something, but your moral validation does not allow you to. Somebody who has made a personal vow, do they say this is a sacrifice, or are they not investing into what they say? Are they not just living from their heart? Which one is it? You're investing with wisdom, and wisdom to not damage the vow. Yeah. Now it makes sense. What, why the problem in the willingness? The problem with this is that Israel definitely showed that their heart was not with Yahweh. So Yahweh couldn't live in them because their heart was, they had a personal vow. They were actually vowing themselves to the food in Egypt and everything from Egypt, and not to their spirit, which the covenant requires to identify with Yahweh.

So you also have social and religious dimensions. Covenants were integral to the social and religious fabric of ancient Israelite society. Personal vows. They were not just legal agreements, but were viewed as binding on a communal and spiritual level, reinforced by personal oaths. I would even change reinforce here and put "based on personal oaths of the heart." Do you know the word oath is found in your Bible with God? Let me show you. This is in your Bible. Z is not making it up. It's in your Bible. Oath, right? You have the oath with Abraham, and you have mentions of oath even in Acts. God has sworn to him with an oath, right? And now they came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves on one oath. See, we have bound our, our under a solemn oath, right? That's, that's them making a vow to themselves to fulfill this. These are, this is normal to the Israelite because the covenant is based on that, right? You have Hebrews 11. It speaks about oath as well. Hebrews, book of Hebrews, it speaks about oath. So I swore an oath in my wrath. This is all over the Bible. Now, I'm not going to go over all of this here today. We do this in a separate session, but definitely you, I encourage you to run a search in the Bible for oath and vow and see how this has been all over the Bible, right in front of you. What you have done with your personal vows, which is an oath to yourself, you're using the dynamic, but moral validation tricked you so that you are not living from the oath. This is, this is how I can safely say this is how and why I've had the results that I have had in my life, because I'm not doing this because I want something from God. The spirit, you know that actually the spirit pointed this out to me in my walk in 2019. The spirit actually stopped me and actually asked me, "Do you love me, or are you with me because you want me to give you money?" In 2019, never forget that moment. It's a defining moment in my walk in Christ, because I realized for the first time in 2019, after having encountered him in 2018, that Christianity has taught me to use God for what I really want. Do I really love him? And it was at that point in time I realized if I love God, I have to make an oath, a personal vow to the name. And that has yielded great results. We are here in this class today with this content, with this understanding of the Bible, because it was a vow to the name on my part. It is my standard, and there's nothing, no one that can cause me to come off of that. Only I could break that. That oath. Is this making sense? And when you make that oath, like Job, prosperity is sure. That's, that's what Job is trying to show you, that the oath, even where things are not looking like what Yahweh says, you, you don't break the oath. You, you make the oath to the name, and your healing is sure. It is sure. Your prosperity is sure. That you keeping that oath is called faithfulness. It's not a oath to God in the sky. I'm saying again, it's an oath to God as your spirit, which means it's a vow to yourself.

So let's take a look at what you remember. We showed you in society what it would look like, what you were living around. Let's take a look at the same things that we took a look at, the same topics. What a society would look like if everybody lived from personal vows to the name. Yeah. Watch this.

Employment commitments. Instead of a strict contract, employments would be based on mutual commitment to the success and well-being of both the employee and employer, fostering loyalty and long-term relationships. No transaction, it's an oath.

Collaborative business partnerships. Business deals would emphasize trust and shared vision with partners committed to each other's success beyond just the financial benefit. How many of you would like to live in a society like that? Type "NJ" for New Jerusalem. NJ for New Jerusalem.

Housing communities. Renting would focus on building a sense of community and mutual care between landlords and tenants, with a shared responsibility for maintaining the living environment. NJ or no.

Holistic healthcare relationships. Healthcare providers and patients and patients would form bonds based on trust, with a focus on overall well-being, overall well-being, rather than just services rendered for payment. Do you understand why a hospital system is what, how it is? It's because it's based on transaction, not personal oaths and personal vows to the well-being of, of, of others.

Supportive educational financing. N or no. Educational loans will be structured as partnerships with lenders invested in the student's success and offering support throughout the education and career. Wouldn't you like to live in a society like that?

Customer-centric commerce. Customer purchases will be based on building long-term relationships between buyers and sellers, with a focus on trust, quality, and mutual respect.

Responsible credit use. That's the opposite of what we live in our society today. Responsible credit use. Credit card companies and users would form agreements based on mutual respect and trust, encouraging responsible financial behavior and support during hardships. NJ or no. You would like to have that.

This is why the New, the New Jerusalem has to be established on the shared utility management. Utility services will be provided with a focus of sustainability and shared responsibility for resource management, encouraging conservation and mutual benefit.

Subscription trust. NG or no. Subscription services would be based on ongoing trust and satisfaction with providers, ensuring continual value and customers feeling respected and appreciated. Ng no. Ng no.

Ethical legal services. Legal services would emphasize a personal commitment to justice and fairness, with lawyers dedicated to their clients' well-being beyond mere transactional interactions. N here, no. New Jerusalem or no.

Community-based mortgages. Mortgages will be seen as a community commitment, with lenders and borrowers working together to ensure the stability and well-being of neighborhoods. New community, new Jerusalem. Yes or no.

Protective insurance. Insurance policies would focus on mutual support in times of need, with companies committed to genuinely protecting and helping their clients. Need them or no.

Relational banking. Banking services would prioritize long-term relationships, with banks acting as trusted partners in their customers' financial journeys. What would it look like if, if we have a banking system that can provide you with money, and that banking system has someone who is there by a personal vow to your financial success and can be your financial advisor for your investments? What would it look like? You're not trying to trap you into a long-term relationship so you could pay interest. They're actually guiding you for your, for your success. You would like to have a bank, a banking system like that, on it, that you don't have to sit down and try to figure that out. That is what in Jerusalem provides.

Marriage bonds. Marriage would be viewed as a deep personal and spiritual commitment, not to the person alone, but to yourself, emphasizing mutual growth, support, and a lifelong partnership beyond legal obligations. New Jerusalem or no New Jerusalem or no.

Do you know that when you're in a marriage, I've said this, I've said this in in one of my connection courses as well, especially with regards to relationship and marriage. Here's a, here's a, here's a telltale sign, a red flag to know that you're living in a transaction, a transactional relationship, and you're not living by personal vow, when you assume antagonism from your partner, or you prioritize the assumption of antagonism over the verification of intentions. Somebody write that down in the chat for me, please. The presumption. When, if you, if you prioritize the assumption of antagonism over the, the verification of intention, red flag. You're in the desert. Because if it is a personal vow, and somebody does something that is not, you would actually verify the intentions to interpret what took place, and not come to a conclusion on your own. I'm guessing the silences in the room is that I'm mashing some to again. Tick Tock, right? Does that make sense?

Vehicle sharing. Listen, vehicles. Listen, vehicles would focus on shared use and mutual respect for the property, with agreements emphasizing trust and responsibility. Personal vow.

A society based on personal vow. Collaborative professional services. Yeah, professional services would be based on mutual commitment to excellence and support, with consultants and clients working as partners towards excellence and support.

Community-focused real estate. How like New Jerusalem real estate. Real estate transactions emphasize building communities and long-term stability, with buyers and sellers committed to each other's well-being. New Jerusalem. You wouldn't you like that?

Creative collaboration. Licensing in intellectual property would be seen as partnerships in creativity, with licensers and licensees committed to respecting and enhancing each other's work.

Ethical political advocacy. Lobbying would be based on shared values and mutual commitment to the common good, rather than transactional exchanges of influence and money. How different would your country look if that was a reality? New Jerusalem or no.

Supportive entertainment. Contractors for entertainers would focus on nurturing talent and long-term career development, with a commitment to mutual respect, growth, and mutual success. Would you not like to see a society that is New Jerusalem?

I just gave you insight as to what the New Jerusalem life, based on covenant, which is personal vow to the name, would look like. If we have a society where everybody lived by personal vow to the name, integrity to self-existent life, and equity of self-existent life, for what would your personal oaths look like in your relationship with God, in your contract, in your, sorry, not in your contract, in your covenant with God, in a new covenant, deeper relationship with God? Why? Because you understand covenants as personal vows, and it fosters a more intimate and personal relationship with God, because it's a personal vow to God as your spirit. Increased trust, because you can, because you see that you can trust yourself with your personal vows, and God is in covenant with you, and you are his seed, you know that he has the same trust with you. He has the same personal vow with you, and therefore you have increased trust. Enhanced sense of community. Covenant emphasizes relational bonds, strengthening connections within the church community. Holistic faith. Faith emphasizing personal vows leads to a faith with that integrates heart, mind, strength, soul, and your body, promoting overall spiritual health. Greater peace. Trusting in God's covenantal faithfulness, because he is working by personal vow, reduces anxiety and promotes inner peace. Your mental health issues are fixed. Joy and relationship. Seeing faith as a personal relationship with God, personal vow to yourself, your faith is now a personal vow to yourself. What would your faith look like as a personal vow to yourself, instead of transaction? It is beyond mere obligation. Your faith will look like the faith of Yeshua himself. Assurance of salvation. The relational nature of covenant provides a stronger sense of security in God's promises. Grace-based living. Understanding the covenant emphasizes grace over legalism, reducing performance pressure. A balanced life. A covenantal approach promotes balance between faith and daily life. Why? Because faith is your life, and they, your whole life is in faith. Therefore, there is nothing outside of your faith. So I would even go further. I'm saying I'm saying balance just for your transactional mind to understand, but what it really is, is a holistic life. Inner healing as well as physical healing, emphasizing commitment and relational depth, encourage emotional, spiritual, and physical healing. Positive motivation. Actions are motivated by your vow, by the love to your, of your vow, and devotion to that vow, to vow to the name, rather than fear of breaking a contract. Silence in the room again, right? How many see, how many think they've seen this for the first time? Like, first time these things are actually within grasp to you. Here, first time it is within grasp, right? Flexible thinking. Meaning a relational approach allows for grace and adaptability in complex life situations. Why? Because your vow to the name means that you live from the integrity. Remember, personal vow and integrity are synonyms in the Bible. A personal vow to self-existent life, and that means a vow to the self-existent life in all creation, which means integrity and equity to self-existent life will always tell you what to do. Do you know that that is in the Bible? Proverbs 11 says, "The integrity of the upright will guide him." What does that mean? The personal vow to the name will guide you, just like when you made those personal vows, it guided your decisions. Yes or no? Yes or no? Yeah. Stronger identity. Personal vows affirm one's identity in Christ, why? Because you vow to the name, you can't fall out of that. You can't even feel, you don't have the luxury of feeling in the morning like, "I'm not in God," because it's a personal vow, right? Fostering self-worth and confidence. Resilient faith. Trusting in a covenant relationship with God builds resilience in facing life challenges, because it's a personal vow to the faith. You have a personal vow of faith. Deeper worship. Worship becomes a heartfelt response to God's love, enriching the worship experience. As I said, if you're living a personal vow, you never see a life of sacrifice. Sacrifice is not on your agenda. Sacrifice belongs to people who are desirous of something else, and they're doing this for validation from God. Spiritual growth is inevitable. A covenantal mindset, personal vow to, to the name, encourages continuous and consistent spiritual growth. When you, when you make a personal vow, you invest into educating yourself as to how to be, how to apply this vow in every area of life. You sit down and you predetermined, you think about what does it look like here. Most of you, when you made your vow, whatever the vow was, did you not sit down and think about how I'll apply that vow in this area and that area? You predetermined. Therefore, you predestined what the results were like. You predestined where you would go and where you would not go, so that vow is not broken, so that that vow never, anything, nothing comes close to it. Yes or no? Yeah. Reduce guilt. Sorry. Community support. Relational bonds within the church provide strong support systems for mental and spiritual health. Reduce guilt. Emphasizing grace and personal commitment. If you break the vow, what do you do? You never fall into condemnation. You fall into conviction, and that conviction causes you to educate yourself as to how to not make it happen, ever allow it to happen again. So you fall in, you find wisdom to guide you. Positive view of God. Seeing God as a loving father, not a distant enforcer, fosters a healthy view of, of God, and empathy and compassion. Understanding covenants enhances empathy and compassion, reflecting God's love in interactions with others.

What is all this based on? This is all based on the way of Yahweh, which is a personal oath to Yahweh, which is a personal oath to oneself, or one's own spirit, who is Yahweh, or Yeshua, or Christ, or Christ, that results in self-existent and eternal fruit. You are not trying to acquire it. Your personal vow to yourself ensures that you reproduce what you're looking for. You reproduce the promises of God, because devoted to the name means the promises of God become a personal commitment. And that therefore is the difference between your experience before tonight and your experience after tonight. Transaction. Now, do you understand why I said that without this, your covenant, a covenant to you, is useless? Is everybody understanding that? Type "understood." Right. That's why you don't see anybody in the New Testament struggling. I agree to a new walk in God. Amen. Amen. Amen.

So this is your assignment in front of you. Your assignment is to summarize the session, what we covered here in the session, in no less than a thousand words. Right? I don't want a paragraph of of 25 words. No less than a thousand words. The reason why I just want to emphasize that this is not just me giving you an assignment. Your summary of this session sees it in your mind. So I want you to rewrite what we covered here in your own words, making the differentiation between the life that you came from and the one that you hear here tonight. When you do that, that summary is going to help you to frame it and provide you with a landmark in your heart and mind that, that means that you're never going to turn back. Which means be invested in yourself into the summary and frame it properly in your mind and heart so that when you commit it to writing and you finished it, it's framed in your heart and mind. And so in that way, you could repent, meaning you could burn down the house that you were living in, walk away from it. And because your, your summary structures it well and invalidates it, you will walk in the other direction and never return to that house. You look for a new, you are walking into a new house. Does this make sense?

So over the next four days, I would like you to commit this summary to the New Covenant assignment chat. Commit your summary there and make a new thread for your summary so that you could follow all of the comments and the discussions that would ensue. Please, I encourage you to engage each other's summaries and talk about it. If you want my renewal, you have to reason, talk about it, reason it with others. Just write your summary and just stand there. Talk about it. Engage others. Engage with others. Foster community where your priorities, each is, is each other's well-being. Yes.

Secondly, I, I want you to write. This is a separate. This is assignment number two. Assignment number two is that you write five ways that you have been transactional in your divine identity, five ways you've been transactional in your divine health, five ways you have been transactional in your communication with God, five ways you've been transactional in your relationship with God, and five ways you've been transactional in your manifestation of the word of God. Doing this is going to help you with the dynamics that you have been using so that you can invalidate it. And then you're going to invert it and write how you're going to take each one of these five points and and write a tentative. I want you to think about what your vow would look like for these five areas. Not this. So the, the third, the second aspect of the second assignment is not for you to write five vows, for you to write what would a vow look like to your divine identity, your divine health, communication with God, relationship with God, and manifestation of the word. You're also going to post that within the community. These exercises again help you frame so that you could depart from that realm. Framing it helps you to identify it and invalidate it and burn down the house so that you can walk in the other direction. Is this making sense, everybody? All right. So that will be your assignment, and we bring this according here to an end.