Supernatural Explosion! A Contract between Heaven and a few on Earth!

4/10/2025

(Interspersed through this below are some original songs and audio to further illuminate the topic. Don’t miss them.)

What Is a Covenant?

What is a covenant? Is it the same as a promise, a vow, or keeping your word?

Anyone who hasn’t seared their conscience knows that keeping your word, not breaking your promises, is part of God’s heart.

But is that all a Covenant is? Doing what you say you’ll do?

A covenant is actually much more than that. I might promise my dentist that I will shut the door on the way out of his office, and of course, I should keep my word by shutting the door on my way out. But, I am not in a Covenant with my dentist.

Think about it. God made a promise to Hagar, but she was not in on THE Covenant with Abraham. Of course, she received some residual benefits from being on the edge of the Covenant, but just not in things that really mattered. But GOD entering into a Covenant with us is a way bigger deal than Him just promising He will do this or that for us.

An Unbreakable Partnership

A Covenant is a partnership, a binding agreement between two people or peoples. That’s why making Covenant with Jesus is likened to marrying Jesus. The two must become ONE. In this way, a Covenant is way more transformative than a promise. A Covenant changes your life because you have bound yourself to someone else. And a Covenant is not to be broken. If you’ve made a covenant with somebody, breaking that covenant would cost your death.

This binding agreement also means your debts are my debts. Your assets are my assets. Your friends are my friends, and your enemies are my enemies. So since we have only debts and no assets, and He has only assets and no debts, then this decision to join Him in Covenant should be an easy one. A smart one. So, what’s the “catch”?

The “catch” is that you have to Trust Him enough, having at least a mustard seed size of faith, to throw the mountain of your SELF into the grave with Him. You must fall back into that grave in absolute surrender, forsaking all to be His disciple. Dead. All over dead… dead. That is the only person who can be buried with Him.

Only the Dead Can Be Buried

• Matthew 16:24-25: “Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.’” • Mark 8:34-35: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.” • Luke 9:23-24: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.” • Luke 14:27: “And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.”

• Romans 6:3-6: “Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.” • Romans 8:13: “For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.” • Galatians 2:20: “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” • 1 Corinthians 15:31: “I die every day—I mean that, brothers—just as surely as I glory over you in Christ Jesus our Lord.” • 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” Other Relevant Verses: • John 12:24: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” • 1 Peter 2:24: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.”

You can’t bury the living, it’s against the law

Only the dead can rest beneath the sod

No more ambition, no more demands

No more reaching out with empty hands

A dead man doesn’t bargain, doesn’t make a sound

He’s not pretending, just lying in the ground

No secret deals, no hidden plans

No trading with God for promised lands

I lay it down, not for what I’ll gain

Not for blessing, not for fame

I die to self because You’re worthy, Lord

Not for reward, but for love alone

No expectations, no comparisons left

No more striving, no more self

A dead man’s not waiting for a better deal

He’s given up all, and that’s what’s real

A dead man doesn’t bargain, doesn’t make a sound

He’s not pretending, just lying in the ground

No secret deals, no hidden plans

No trading with God for promised lands

I lay it down, not for what I’ll gain

Not for blessing, not for fame

I die to self because You’re worthy, Lord

Not for reward, but for love alone

You gave it all, You held nothing back

So I surrender, no strings attached

Not for a crown, not for a throne

But because You deserve it, and You alone

I lay it down, not for what I’ll gain

Not for blessing, not for fame

I die to self because You’re worthy, Lord

Not for reward, but for love alone

Only the dead can be buried, only the dead can rest

So I give You my life, and nothing less

No more pretending, no more disguise

I die to self, so You may rise

The covenant is faith, which is abandonment, which is... Jesus is everything. I don’t have a backup plan. He decides everything for me real-time because I don’t know anything, and...

Only Jesus can go to heaven, so I’m going to hide my everything in Him and “put on Christ,” be clothed with Jesus. The blood of Jesus washing me makes me look like Jesus to the Father. And only Jesus goes to heaven. “Nothing impure will ever enter in... but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life” (Revelation 21:27). “Without holiness no one will see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14).

If someone tries to bypass that death to self and the world and its lusts and passions, then God does not join them in the Covenant. There is no handshake. There is no deal. There is no downpayment guaranteeing an inheritance.

This is not about a list that you concoct that if I give up these things or do these things, then that’s the Covenant. Like the rich young ruler, it’s everything or it’s meaningless. There is no end, no depth to the bottom of the well.

There are people who genuinely believe “I gave up everything I could think of, so that must be everything..” No. Later on they say, “I found out that...” or “I didn't understand this” or “I didn’t know it was going to include that.” No. The well has no bottom. You’re either dead or not dead. A dead man does not renegotiate terms later on just because they realize there’s a different cost than they had anticipated.

When you’re a corpse, there are no rules. You’re just gone. If you get spit on and kicked after you’re a corpse, there is no new negotiation. “I wouldn’t have died if I had known I was going to get kicked in the ribs and spit on and insulted with people laughing at my grave. I wouldn’t have died.” Well, you’ve already given up the right to have that conversation. It doesn’t matter anymore. There’s no new negotiation by a corpse.

When Abraham walked through the pieces and made Covenant with Jesus, with Adonai, with Yahweh, did he have any idea that he would later be called to sacrifice his young beautiful son Isaac? Of course not! But did he hesitate? Of course not. He had made Covenant that there were no limits and no hesitations to abandon everything, even with new information.

And “those with the faith of Abraham are sons of Abraham,” Christians.

The Proof of Covenant

The down payment or proof (2 Corinthians 1:22, 5:5, Ephesians 1:14) that I have made the covenant (rather than trying to fool others out of pride, or human expectation, or for myself because I want something for myself such as friends, or freedom from guilt, or fear, or ambition, or the momentum of peer pressure...) is “The gift of the Holy Spirit.”

So “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the FAITH (2 Cor. 13:5), the FULL-ON TRUST that Jesus has kept the Covenant on my behalf.” “And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. This promise is for you and your children and all who are far away, to all who the Lord our God has called out to” (Acts 2:38-39).

Dead… Then RISE to Walk in Newness of Life

After we seal that Death by Being Buried With Him in Baptism, we rise to walk in newness of life.

If GOD has truly shown up and met us there and washed us and made us clean and deposited His Spirit in Us, then as part of this Covenant Agreement we live by a different Life Source.

“The mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.” (Romans 8:6)

“The Spirit testifies with our spirit ABBA!” (Romans 8:15)

We live in another dimension, running on a different fuel source than before. The focal point of what we live for, of why we breathe air, changes the day we become a Christian.

How to Know Who's On the Narrow Road

1 John is speaking of Covenant that involves life from heaven... a portal to heaven itself instead of mere information about heaven

But, What If I Fail?

Once we have hidden our life in Jesus rather than in the religion of knowing we’re doing the right thing, the tree of knowing…and once our only hope or identity is in Jesus and His blood, then we will see and acknowledge our violations of His character and have our motives laid bare regularly day by day with open hands.

And God is faithful to give you ever-increasing understanding of what living under His Lordship actually means.

You'll know more and more as you grow closer and closer to Him as Lord. But everything was decided the day you gave your life to him. And from then on, when you hear the word of the Lord, it's not a debate about what to do. That decision is already made.

I already decided that. “I reckon myself dead to sin.” That's over with. When my life belongs to Christ, it's not a new decision each time. The Decision is already made. That’s Covenant.

You may fail and you may disobey, but that's not the covenant. The covenant is that you never defend your right to be unlike Jesus. You never make excuses or try to compare yourself to others or find reasons why obedience isn't necessary.

Case by case you may not even know what obedience even is. That's not a problem either. The problem is when you know what God wants you to do but you reserve the right to be a God and do whatever you please. That’s a problem because the Covenant is that He is God and you are not. Done Deal. The Covenant is where the blood of Jesus washes you and keeps washing you - when you call sin what God calls it, confessing it, instead of defending anything that is unlike Jesus without concern for making it right.

Below is a song from The Covenant Is Absolute Surrender

Unto the Full Measure of the Stature of Christ, With His Family

We will continually be able to learn more and more to “abide in Him and He in us” and be “conscious of God” “praying without ceasing” (always aware of Jesus as a subroutine running in the background) because we are no longer hypnotized by the world system and its lusts and our eyes. The very separation from “the mind controlled by the spirit is life and peace” makes us aware of the path towards “the full measure of the stature of Christ.”

The gift of the Holy Spirit is Real. Don’t be drunk on vices, or the world, or fear, or wealth, or the praise of men, but be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Once we have chosen faith in Jesus rather than striving or knowing, rather than comfort or pleasure, once we have sealed the covenant and put on Christ as our only hope, then “we will not desire to deliberately continue in sin” because we feel the loss of our all in all and as we confess our sins, call it out for what it is, in this new agreement, new vow and contract and covenant, clothed in Christ, washed in His blood, He will “continually cleanse us from all sin.”

And we are granted a life that always was and always will be. We are granted this by HIS life, not ours, and by the Tree of Life, not the tree of striving and trying to be someone, protecting our comfort.

We have a 100% on our exam, and we have an opportunity to every day “make it our goal to please him” and grow into the unity of the faith and the full measure of the stature of the Son of God, being molded by the potter into the family likeness of Jesus as we yield, not strive. That’s all we want in life, in this present age.

Inside the Walls of Government and Provision of the Christ

So it's not where you're at, but it's what you decided the day you became a Christian, where you’re going.

I decided to go inside of the walls of the government, the lordship of the Christ, and the provision of the Christ as the Reigning King of the Universe.

I decided to go in there. I'm not going out of there.

It's not safe out there. I'm staying inside those walls of Government and Provision where Christ is. And when a decree comes down from the King of Glory into my life, I decided a long time ago what I'm going to do with it.

Seek the glory of God. Live to serve Him. Live and move and have your being in Him.

Pursue the Kingdom of God—The King’s Domain where the Lordship of Christ Reigns.

His Church/The Kingdom of God/The Ekklesia is not a bunch of Mickey Mouse complacency, but it’s the Glory of God being wrought out in individuals’ lives face to face in practical, real ways every day.

If you seek first the King’s domain, then you will also find the Provision of God.

The Covenant of Ongoing Lordship

Below is some audio of the same question asked by some college students in 1988…

Becoming Young Men

I write to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.
I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one.
I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.
I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning.
I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one. (I John 2:12-14)

1) I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

Little children are capable of stopping a sin temptation. They want to. Usually they will. Because it’s the right thing to do. They have a conscience.

2) I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning.

“Fathers” will nearly always resist temptations of radio, of lust, of fear, of pride, of laziness, of judgment, of jealousy... because they have known the Father intimately and they care and don’t want to hurt Him.

3) I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.

“Young men”—those who have pressed themselves to pass through 1) and 2), on towards Jesus and the full measure of the Stature of Christ, will understand and react towards “our battle is not with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers” (Ephesians 6:12) and they will know that they are not survivors “barely getting by” when they are tempted, but they mean to jab a spear in satan’s eye for the sake of all of their friends, not just thinking of themselves and what is “right and wrong.” They know the battle is far larger, and the gifts to Jesus are far more important than “just getting by”!

What is Covenant…

Recognizing our utter need
...which leads to abandonment into the only One who can heal us
...which leads to the gift of the Spirit and the washing by His blood
...which leads to the Family of God and the Overcomers who are in His presence “by the blood of the lamb, by their courage in saying so to anyone anytime, and they loved not their lives even to the point of death.”

•  Daily Dying or Daily “Trying”