When you are in covenant with God, He covers you.
[0:00] We're going to start in Jeremiah 31. Jeremiah 31. I'm going to try to just teach this without getting all excited and preach it.
[0:13] But you know how I am. Just do it. Okay. All right. So we'll see how this goes. Pray for me this morning. Jeremiah 31, verses 31 through 34.
[0:26] And it reads like this. The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
[0:37] It would not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors. For I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt. But because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, declares the Lord.
[0:51] This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people.
[1:06] No longer will they teach their neighbor or say to another, know the Lord, because they will all know me. From the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord.
[1:17] For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you, God. We give you glory. You put the word in, God.
[1:29] We pray that it falls on fertile ground. And at the end, you will get all the glory that is due to your name. Decrease me. Increase you. It's in Jesus' name I pray.
[1:42] Amen. Amen. The title of today's sermon is Contracts and Covenants. Contracts and Covenants.
[1:55] If you go through the Bible, there is a central theme that you will see from cover to cover. It shows itself about 300 times in the scripture from the front to the back.
[2:09] And it's an unusual word, but it's a word that is called covenant. It's called covenant. It's really what the Bible is about.
[2:20] It's the central theme. Covenant sometimes is hard to understand because we live in a culture and society that knows nothing about covenant. We live in a capitalistic society.
[2:34] We live in a society that really is about what we call contracts. In this society, it's capitalistic.
[2:45] It's about making money. It's about trying to get mine in spite of you getting yours. It's an all-about-me type of culture. And so we are familiar with contracts.
[2:57] And what a contract is, a contract is something that I give you a good or a service for currency. And so I would negotiate an agreement with you to see, here it is, how I can take advantage of you to get what I need.
[3:14] It's a contract. And so we see contracts all over the place. As a matter of fact, we got some professions where they call them contractors.
[3:26] That I hire a contractor to come and do a job and I give him currency for what he does. Now, in a contract, two people have an agreement.
[3:38] If I don't uphold my end of the contract, like provide you the money, then you don't have to uphold your end of the contract, which is to do the service. And vice versa.
[3:49] If you don't provide me with the money, I don't have to give you the service. It's a part of the contract. In a contract, we negotiate to see who can get leverage and who can take advantage of the other in a contract.
[4:04] But a covenant is different. In a covenant, I don't see how I can take advantage of you. I see what I can become for you.
[4:18] See, in a contract, when two parties come together, at the end of the contract, there's still two parties. They're separate. But in a covenant, when two parties come together, they leave as one.
[4:35] So in a contract, two stay two. And in a covenant, two become one. It's hard to see this covenant type of lifestyle, again, because of the culture we live in.
[4:50] We don't understand covenants. Because we know that we hear people say, if you're not getting what you need, you can just leave. If it's uncomfortable for you.
[5:04] If your feelings get hurt. If you get offended. Then you just take your ball and run. Come on. There's no obligation to stay when you're in contract.
[5:18] Oh, but when you're in covenant. It's different in covenant. See, that's why a great example of covenant is marriage.
[5:33] Marriage is a covenant, and many times we treat it as a contract. Come on. That when we went into our marriage, we went into it as if, if I don't get what I need, then I'll leave.
[5:49] And then a covenant is different. It's in spite of what happens, I'm going to still do my part because I'm in covenant. Covenant don't mean it's easy.
[6:01] See, I'm reminded of someone who had to ride up and down the highway to Charleston to take care of a spouse who was ill. That didn't feel good.
[6:14] It wasn't that it was easy, but it was covenant. Sister Barbara, we had a conversation not too long ago, and you told me how you do what you do at church, and you're here faithfully.
[6:28] You serve in the back, and you go home to take care of your husband as a caregiver. It's not that it's easy. What you do up here in your worship, it's not because everything is going well.
[6:43] It's because you honor your covenant. When you have a mother who can take care of a sick child who is ill or has a disability, it's not that it's easy.
[6:58] It's not that some days she want to give up. But when she looks at that child, she sees her covenant. And I want to help you understand your God.
[7:10] Because when you understand your God and your relationship, you can optimize what happens in your relationship. Your God is a covenant God.
[7:23] He's a God about covenant, not a God about contracts. And if we're honest, we have treated our relationship with God like a contract.
[7:36] God, if you don't give me this blessing. God, if you don't do this for me. Then I'm going to leave the church. I won't go anymore. I won't pray to you anymore. Because you didn't give me what I wanted.
[7:51] You're stuck in a contract. When God wants to transition you to a covenant. See, in a contract, I see how I can outsmart you in a contract.
[8:05] But in a covenant, I see how I can out-serve you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In a contract, I want to outsmart you. I want to see how I can take advantage of you.
[8:17] In a covenant, I want to see how I can out-serve you. Imagine what our marriages would look like if we out-served each other. If I see how I can assist you in what you're doing and you can assist me and we're in competition, not to see who can take the advantage, but we're in competition in serving.
[8:36] I'm trying to out-serve you. And so here in the scripture, in the scripture, God wants to show us that it's not about transactions.
[8:49] It's about transformation. That contracts are about transactions. It's us transactional. And covenant is about transformation. I want to change you. See, the word covenant means berith.
[9:00] It is the word that is used in Hebrew. It means to cut. So when you made a contract in the Bible, it is you will cut an animal down the middle and the two parties will walk down the middle of the animal to show that we're in covenant.
[9:17] So a covenant involves sacrifice. See, that's why marriage is so important to God. Matter of fact, when you say your vows, you do it at an altar.
[9:33] What happens at the altar is sacrifice, which means that everything in your marriage won't feel good because it's a sacrifice.
[9:50] You brought it to the altar. Well, whatever you bring to the altar, God can bless. That's why I bring it to the altar.
[10:03] I bring it to the one who can do more with it than I can. See, many of us are in marriage and you're trying to do all you can. And that don't work.
[10:16] You got to bring it to the altar and give it to the one who can. A three-quart strand is not easily broken. Oh, God.
[10:28] So this is a culture that doesn't like sacrifice. We don't like discomfort. We don't like anything that's going to make us uneasy. And because of that, we don't become what God has called us to be, a covenant people.
[10:41] And so there were a series of covenants in the Bible. And it speaks to what God is doing with his work here on earth. You have a covenant that he had with Adam in the beginning.
[10:55] And you see Noah with the covenant and how he brought the flood and he made a commitment to Noah that says that I would never destroy the earth like this again.
[11:06] And so he gave a sign of covenant, which was the rainbow. That's God's covenant. It's not a flag. And so you need to change your mind.
[11:23] It's transformation. Don't think about pride when you see a flag. You think about covenant when you see the rainbow. It's not pride. It's promise. The rainbow is promise.
[11:39] It was the sign. Whenever you see it, it is God's covenant to you that he would not destroy the earth like that again. It's a promise. And so you see Noah, the covenant with Noah.
[11:55] And I just don't throw a little tidbit in there. It was eight people who were on the boat. And eight is the number of new beginnings. So with his covenant, he created a new beginning.
[12:10] The next covenant is with Abraham. And you see God make a covenant with Abraham. And he tells him, look at the stars in the sky. He said, your descendants will be more than the numbers of the stars and more than the sand on the shore.
[12:27] He said, I'm going to bless you. I'm going to give you a name. I'm going to give you a land. I'm going to make a promise with you, Abraham. And the sign of that covenant has to be circumcision. That whenever I see that sign, I know you're in covenant with me.
[12:44] So the next one is Abraham. And we get a chance to partake in that covenant because we are children of Abraham, the father of faith. And so he makes a covenant with Abraham. The next one is Moses.
[12:55] He makes a covenant with Moses on behalf of the people. And the sign of that covenant is the tablets, the Ten Commandments. The tablets of covenant.
[13:09] And so with Moses, you see God establishing something with his people. And he says it in Jeremiah. When I led you out by your hand out of Egypt, I made a covenant with you.
[13:21] Oh, God, I want to teach this. The next one is David. David. He makes a covenant with you. He tells David that from here to the end of eternity, you would never cease to have someone on the throne.
[13:32] See, that was different in that time. Because David took over from a king who didn't see a lineage, see the kingdom. David broke in and was royal when he didn't have the blood to be royal.
[13:49] We partake in David's covenant. Because now you are a royal priesthood. And although at first you may not have been royal, when you come in covenant with God, he makes you royal.
[14:07] It's a part of the covenant. And then there's a new covenant. That was put in place by Christ. When he was sitting with his disciples in the upper room and they were having a meal, he poured a cup.
[14:24] He said, this is the cup of the new covenant. He let them know there's something new that's coming. And if you separate the Bible, you says Old Testament, New Testament, but it's really an old covenant and new covenant.
[14:39] That whatever is old, what I'm about to do is something new. Can I say something to get your mind off of the old and start thinking about?
[14:53] About the new. It's covenant time. It's transition time. I told this story yesterday. I did a video on it. And I think this is applicable. Thank you, Holy Spirit.
[15:04] I did as you might have heard when I talked about my son before. And he came to me. And I used this analogy yesterday. He came to me and he told me, Dad, I can't fit my clothes anymore.
[15:17] I can't fit my clothes. I'm growing too fast. I'm in transition. And I can't fit my clothes. And I said, what? No, no, that's not true.
[15:29] I didn't want to pay the money to go buy some more. But I said, no, that's not true. So I said, come on, boy, let's go to your room. And I opened up his drawer and I started to move some stuff out the way. And there was some clothes in there that still had tags on it.
[15:45] And I said, hold up, man. What do you mean you don't have clothes? There's stuff that still got tags on it. The problem was there were old clothes on top of the new clothes.
[15:57] And he couldn't see him. It took the father to come in his room because I know what I got him. I know what I put in him. I know what I've done for him.
[16:08] And I said, no, son. Your mind is stuck in an old season. If you ever take the time to look, you prepare for your new season. It's time for a new season.
[16:22] By covenant. Because of my promise to him, he didn't even know that his father had already prepared for his new season. He may not have been ready for it, but I already foresaw what he needed.
[16:36] So your father knows what you have need of before you ask. And although your mind has you stuck in an old season.
[16:48] He's preparing you for what's coming. You're only in transition. Don't give up while you're in transition. Don't throw in the towel in transition.
[17:00] See, I was telling him yesterday that, see, it's tough because in covenants are promises. And he would tell you your purpose and covenant. The problem is your present affects your purpose and your promise.
[17:18] Because sometimes you can't see your purpose and your promise in your present. It don't quite look like what he made the promise to Abraham.
[17:29] He was going to be a father of many nations. He hadn't had any children yet. It didn't look like. It didn't look like the promise. God has made a promise over you.
[17:44] And your family. And your marriage. And I don't care what the present look like now. Don't you let go of the purpose and the promise. God is going to bless your marriage.
[18:00] We're going to now be covenant people. I'm going to call us covenant keepers. No, we're covenant keepers.
[18:12] See, the Bible say in the last days that people are going to do all these type of things. But one word it says is that they will be covenant breakers. That is a sign of the times. But kingdom citizens shouldn't be covenant breakers.
[18:26] We should be covenant keepers. I keep my covenant. That I can't do certain things to you. Even if you do something to me, I hold covenant.
[18:38] That's why David didn't lay a hand on Saul when he had opportunity to. Because David is a covenant keeper. Saul was trying to kill him.
[18:51] And he had Saul dead to rights in the cave. And he cut a piece of his garment off and gave it to him and said, look. I'm not going to touch the Lord's anointed because I'm a covenant keeper.
[19:01] There's things I do in covenant. There's things I don't do in covenant. See, when you're in covenant, the thing you're in covenant to deserves the best of you.
[19:22] That's why, and I love what Pastor Landon said is that God will be whatever you need him to be. Because what happens in covenant, I don't, see, in contract, I see what I can get out of you. Again, in covenant, I see what I can become for you.
[19:37] I become something in covenant. That's why God says my name is I am. Because when you come into covenant with me, I am whatever you need me to be.
[19:49] That's why with Christ, he became sin. He didn't sin, but for you and me, he became sin because that was a part of the covenant.
[20:01] What can I be for you? For you to benefit. And so you see, the covenant deserves the best of you. It deserves the best of you.
[20:11] My wife, a couple of years back, and I tell this story, and she's like, oh, you make it sound worse than it was, but it hit me hard. And I shared this with the men before. I was in ministry a couple of years back, and everything was going great.
[20:23] Everybody had wonderful things to say to me and about me, and it was wonderful. And at work, I was getting promotions, and I'm climbing the ladder, and they're saying great things. And I got home one day, and my wife said something to me, and I got short with her.
[20:37] I had an attitude. And she stopped me, and she looked at me. She said, how does everyone, how are you patient with everyone else? And you can't be patient with me.
[20:50] She was saying, how does everyone else get your treasure, and you bring your trash home to me? Why do I have to watch you bless everyone else, and you don't come home and bless me?
[21:10] And so she was saying that the best of you should come to the place where you're in covenant. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. And we give ourselves to everything else.
[21:23] Amen. Amen. The best of ourselves to everything else. And we bring the leftovers home. Yeah, I'm coming home with you. Because it's about discipleship.
[21:38] It's about us getting to another place together. And if you can't hold your covenant with each other, how are you going to hold your covenant with God? Amen. Let me read this in Ephesians 5.
[21:53] Ephesians 5, verse 22 to 32. It says, Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church, and he is the savior of the body.
[22:08] Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for her, that he might sanctify her and cleanse her with the washing of the water by the word, that he might present her to himself, a glorious church, not having a spot or a wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
[22:40] So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.
[22:55] For we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
[23:11] This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ in the church. Nevertheless, let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
[23:24] So what it's saying is this, the same way you view your marriage is the same way you should view God. What if God, I'm talking to the man, what if God treated you like you treat your wife?
[23:41] What if God talked to you the way you talk to your wife? Oh, I like it when it's silent like this. It means it's like the covenant says, it's cutting.
[23:54] We're doing some surgery today. That if you treat your wife the way you should, see, the Bible says in first Peter, that the way you treat your wife, if you don't treat her the right way, your prayers will be hindered.
[24:08] That God, if you can't talk to her, he don't want you to talk to him. You have hindered prayers. If you don't treat your wife with honor, that's the weaker vessel.
[24:24] Not that she's weak, but God puts her in a weak position when she is subject to you. When she submits to you, she puts herself at a weaker position.
[24:35] That's not for you to abuse her. That's for you to honor her. Well, I'm getting some looks up here, but I want your marriages to be healthy.
[24:48] I want your covenants because there are blessings that come with covenant. There are covenantal blessings over your life.
[24:59] It's in Deuteronomy 28. He said, when you keep the words of this, you'll be blessed when you come in, blessed when you're going out, blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessed the fruit of, he said, I will bless everything when you're in covenant.
[25:11] But when you step outside of covenant, guess what comes with that? A curse. So how dare you say curse is at home when you want covenantal blessings?
[25:27] I knew I wasn't going to get any excitement with this one, but I got to do my assignment. It is about your covenant.
[25:39] We're not contractual people. I'm not trying to take advantage of you and you don't try to take advantage of me. We're in covenant. I see what I can be for you. You see what you can be for me.
[25:51] In covenant. That's what David and Jonathan had. They were friends, but they were in covenant. We got to be a covenant keeping people. Got to be a covenant.
[26:03] Quit treating everything like a contract. Start treating it like a covenant. Because there's things that happen in covenant. A name gets given to you in covenant. Your name changes in covenant.
[26:18] See, the Bible, in hermeneutics, what you do to understand the Bible, when you see a concept, you got to go to the law of first mention. You go back to where you first see it.
[26:29] So if God says your covenant, your marriage is like his covenant with his people, then you got to go back to where you see marriage first. You see it in Genesis. When you see the man that God had created, who had named everything, and he didn't find anyone that was for him.
[26:49] He said, I didn't name everything. God, there's no helper that's suitable for me. So then God put him to sleep. And he took something out of him to make what he needed.
[27:03] And he made the woman from his rib. So he fashioned her. And not only that, he brought her to him. See, that's what you see in marriage when the father brings his daughter down to Al.
[27:15] It's like God bringing Eve to Adam. He presents his daughter as God presented Eve to Adam.
[27:30] And then it stunned Adam. He said, Woo! My God! This is bone of my bone. Flesh of my flesh.
[27:42] I will call her wound man. Man with a wound. I need you to catch this.
[27:57] She is man, but she has a wound. Adam is man. He doesn't have a wound. He has a seed. And what happens is when the man with the seed and the man with the wound come together, they become one and then they produce something that is a sign of covenant.
[28:16] It's called children. Your children is a sign of your covenant. God. It was the thing that completed man because he took it out of man.
[28:32] And that's what God is saying. That man, you can't be everything you want to be by yourself. It's not good for man to be alone. So I got to bring the thing that makes you one.
[28:45] And that's Eve. God. And so you see the sign of the covenant which is your children. And so I love this because there is promises that come with the covenant and you can't get the promises if you stay outside of covenant.
[29:03] Because there's two types of covenants. There's a covenant where two people have something that they got to bring but there's also a covenant that only one person makes the promise that they'll do it all.
[29:13] And God in his covenant said, listen, when he made it with Abraham, he said, Abraham, I'm going to do it on your behalf but I'm making a promise with me because I know you can't keep it. In Hebrews, he said, because there was no one greater he could swear by.
[29:27] So God came to the table, he sat down and he put himself on the other side and said, we're going to make a promise with each other because I know Abraham can't keep this covenant.
[29:39] And God can't lie. So when he makes the covenant, he keeps it. So that's why Christ is so important. It's God sitting down with God on your behalf.
[29:56] So God said, hey, they got no sin, no, and Jesus says, I'll take care of that. They got to show me devotion, I'll take care of that. They got to sacrifice, I'll take care of that.
[30:09] So whatever blessing you was going to put on me, put on them because I'm here in their place. If you ever understand the new covenant, old covenants couldn't be kept.
[30:29] Man was too frail, man had too much evil. So God said, I'm going to do one better. I'm going to make the promise with myself. And that's the way that we're going to make it to heaven.
[30:43] Not because you're so good, but because you're going to join into covenant with the one who is good. And he said, listen, I'm going to make this agreement.
[30:59] And Christ said it when he was in the garden. He said, God, let this cup pass from me. I see what's in the cup. It's too much for me. But he said, nevertheless, not my will, but thy will be done.
[31:18] Today, I'm praying for marriages because when God makes a covenant, it's not for an individual, it's for a family. That's why in the Passover, they put the blood on the house because it wasn't for an individual.
[31:31] It was for the house. God is a God of families. That's why he said, I'm the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. There are fathers.
[31:42] That's why he says, I'm your father. You're my children because he's about family. I want you to understand you serve a family God, not an individual God.
[31:54] And I know the gospel is so individualistic now. My prosperity, my blessings, my word. Well, what about your family? It's not going to always be comfortable.
[32:08] See, I love messages about suffering and not getting what you want because you really see what we believe. This is a sacrificial way.
[32:21] This is a tough way. But through covenant, God is going to keep us because he's a covenant keeping God. And when you are a people who keep covenant, he keeps you because the covenant covers.
[32:38] So when you're in covenant with him, he covers you. He protects you. He keeps you. He don't just bless you. He bless your family too. Let's stand to our feet.
[32:51] Oh, this was good. I love the silence and the stillness because that's me. People are listening. And I pray to God. I need marriages up here.
[33:03] As we get ready for this, I need marriages who you felt like some of you may have thought that I'm about to throw. I'm done. No, no, no, no. We covenant. We're going to pray for covenant.
[33:13] I need marriages. Amen. Yeah, yeah. I need marriages up here. Marriages. Yeah, come on, bring it. I don't care if you had a fight this morning. I don't care. God is about to bless your covenant.
[33:25] And not only he's going to bless you, he's going to bless everything that comes out of your covenant. Yeah, yeah.
[33:37] This is what makes a strong nation. This is what makes a strong community. It's when we get back to where we're supposed to be in covenant because it's covenant blessings.
[33:50] Listen, Deuteronomy, and I want to speak this blessed, Deuteronomy 28, it says, now shall it come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God to observe carefully all his commandments which I command you today that the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth and all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
[34:17] Blessed shall you be in the city. Blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall you be shall the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and offspring of your fox.
[34:31] Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when you come in. Blessed shall you be when you go out. The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face.
[34:44] They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven. That seven is complete. That means they may come before you but I'm gonna make them scatter completely in seven ways.
[35:01] So whatever is going on in your marriage today we're transitioning into a new season. We will love each other.
[35:12] We will respect each other. I won't speak curses to you. God said, man, your wife is your favor. We talked about why will I fight against my favor?
[35:27] I can't fight favor. I gotta know how to treat my favor. Because when you treat them right everything with your children would take care of itself.
[35:40] God wants to bless you covenantially. Not transactionally. He wants to transform us today. And so I pray for all of those who are married and those who are in position to get married.
[35:55] We're covenant people. And so we got married couples here but if you know that you need to renew your covenant with God you got space up here too. You need to come and renew your covenant with God.
[36:09] God is waiting for you. It's covenantal blessings. Why? Why stay out of the ark of safety? That's what the ark was about. Come in and let me seal the door.
[36:25] So God wants to bless. Is there anyone who wants to give their life to Christ? I want to open that up. Say hey, I'm not in covenant but I need to be in covenant.
[36:37] And he's pricking your heart. Now is the time to come and covenant with a covenant keeping God. He won't break his promise. He said I would never leave you nor forsake you. I don't care what you do. I'm still your God and I'm still here.
[36:48] Just come and repent. And I'm faithful and just to forgive you and cleanse you of all unrighteousness. The altar is open. We're going to have strong families.
[37:04] God is going to bless. We're going to see the fruit of what God is doing. We will be free.
[37:15] Set free. Which means he's going to set us free even in our marriages. Prophetically. Hallelujah. I'm going to pray. I'm going to pray for marriages right now.
[37:27] If you can lift your hands. Lift your hands as a sign of surrender. I know you have tried. You're telling God I'll take my hands off of it. And I let you come in and you bless this.
[37:38] You bless this. Even if your spouse is not here you stand in the gap form. Hallelujah. We will have strong covenants in this church.
[37:53] Hallelujah. Let's bless. Heavenly Father right now in the name of Jesus. you say I will show you a mystery. You said as marriage is so is how you are with the church.
[38:06] You have married us. And even when we mess up you allow us to come back and say God we repent. We're sorry and you take us back because you love us. So God right now I speak against contracts in marriage and I speak the blessing of covenant over your people.
[38:25] Bless like you said in Deuteronomy 28. Bless their coming in and their going out. Bless the fruit that comes from them. Bless their fields and their bless oh God that even right now as they have their hands up in surrender they're receiving what they need and not just touching them it's touching their home right now.
[38:48] Oh God they're putting the blood on their doorpost right now. And God even in this period of transition even if your promise and your purpose don't look like they're present right now I pray for even children that are far off that by covenant they will come home.
[39:05] By covenant they will come into agreement. By covenant. Because the one who promised is faithful. And so we thank you God. there are some here who are even rededicating themselves to you.
[39:20] You said you will receive them by covenant. You have already paid the price you shed the blood. And so by covenant we believe you. By covenant we will walk with you.
[39:32] By covenant we thank you for this word God that it will be forever settled in the earth. And we glorify you as in Jesus name we pray. In Jesus name we pray.
[39:46] Oh God in Jesus by no other name but the name of Jesus. Because it's you that's going to have to come in and heal. It's you that's going to have to come in and set things straight. But we surrender to the name of Jesus even in our marriages in our home.
[40:03] And you will get all of the glory that is due to your name. It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen.