The Art of Fooling Yourself.
How not to sleep through life’s greatest inheritance.
“All things are possible to him who believes.” · Mark 9:23
The connection nobody had made
There are good books about grace. There are sharp minds who explain how contracts, presumptions and trusts really work. But a book that joins both worlds at the root, and suddenly makes the Bible read crystal clear, did not exist until now. Truth has never been told this precisely, this literally, and this kindly.
The legal world as a mirror
Presumption, silence as consent, trusteeship, a receipt: the language of law reveals how people take themselves captive. No paperwork wars, no enemies. Here, the law serves as evidence, never as a battlefield.
The New Covenant, word for word
Who is speaking? To whom? Under which covenant? Three questions re-sort your whole Bible. And the most famous sentence spoken from the cross gets a legal reading: “It is finished” means, in the original, “paid in full.” Receipt included.
The clean untangling
For 1,700 years the Old and New Covenants have been blended together, until nobody could say anymore what actually applies. This book separates the layers, verse by verse, until the inheritance lies readable on the table.
The cage is open. And the bird is asleep.
The whole world is waiting for Jesus. But Scripture turns the direction of the waiting around: creation eagerly waits for the sons of God to become visible. This book shows what stands in the way, and it isn’t what you think. It’s you. Friendly, thorough, and with real tools, it tells how we take ourselves captive, who lives off that, and how the heir in you wakes up.
The mirror and the game
The little sentences that govern your life. The strongholds in your thinking. And an accuser without power who lives entirely off your capital: your faith, your words, your silence.
The clean-up
Three questions that re-sort your Bible: Who is speaking? To whom? Under which covenant? And a Friday on which a receipt was written and an administrator was disarmed.
Claiming the inheritance
Your seat, your new nature, your word, your rest. And the wide-awake everyday: pulling roots, forgiving, guarding your heart, standing above the weather.
At the kitchen table: six talks with Thomas
Between the parts, you sit in on a conversation. Thomas, an honest skeptic, asks exactly the questions you’ll have at those points yourself:
- “And you’re saying I’m fooling myself?”
- “So it’s my own fault, then?”
- “That sounds too easy.”
- “And what if I fall asleep again?”
No question gets brushed aside; every one receives an answer that holds. And in the end Thomas stands where his biblical namesake stood: at the clearest sentence any human being ever said about Jesus.
The book
Twenty-six chapters in five parts, six kitchen-table talks, and a short closing. Every chapter ends with a little test you can run immediately, and a Going Deeper box that unlocks one word from the original languages or the legal world. Coming 2026 as a paperback, an e-book and a complete, fully narrated audiobook.
Listen: the introduction
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Introduction · about 6 minutes
The whole world is waiting for Jesus. But do you know what has to happen first?
“The world is not waiting for a better Christianity. It is waiting for you, the heir in Christ.” From the introduction
Questions people ask us
Is this a book against the church?
No. It attacks nobody: no church, no pastor, no human being. It follows a single principle: build something new that makes the old unnecessary. If you like, read along with your Bible open and test every claim yourself.
Do I need to be a theologian to understand it?
No. The book talks like a friend at the kitchen table. Every term from the original languages and from the legal world is explained on the spot, and every chapter ends with a little test you can run immediately.
What is legal language doing in a book about faith?
A great deal, and that is the discovery. Terms like presumption, trusteeship and receipt reveal how the accuser operates, and why he has stood empty-handed since one particular Friday. You need no legal background at all.
When does it come out, and what does the waiting list cost?
2026, as a paperback, e-book and audiobook. The waiting list is free and gets you exactly one email: the launch announcement. No ads, no drumfire.
The author
(c)mike von oberbauer has been writing, composing and producing around the New Covenant for years. He reads Scripture against the original text and everyday paperwork word for word, and this book grew out of that double reading lens. It is published by Inspired Devotion & Music (idm24.com), his own publishing house and label.
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