1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,840 Hey there everybody welcome back to another episode of Redeemed Through His Blood Scott 2 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,080 and David Durfey here as always. 3 00:00:23,080 --> 00:00:24,080 Hello Dave. 4 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:25,400 How are you Scott? 5 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:26,400 Doing well. 6 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:27,400 Doing well. 7 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:28,400 Great day. 8 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:29,400 Great day. 9 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:30,400 Great day. 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:31,400 Beautiful day here on the Wasatch Front. 11 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,360 We're recording in the afternoon this week instead of the morning. 12 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,040 Dave's had a very full morning already. 13 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:38,040 Yeah. 14 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:39,040 So sweet. 15 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:45,360 I used to hear President Kimball talk about the rest of the Lord. 16 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:51,240 You know and the rest of the Lord was not that you weren't tired. 17 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:55,120 You know that you were not not physically tired. 18 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:56,120 Yeah. 19 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:02,840 I mean those brothers and I don't keep their hours and get up early or stay up late like 20 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:07,120 they sometimes do or have to or choose to. 21 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:15,120 But yeah I have the first session of the temple and you know what's interesting about that 22 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:20,160 and any temple workers out there can relate to this I'm sure is that when you have to 23 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:25,160 get up at 4.30 in the morning you don't sleep that great. 24 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,720 The whole night you're worried you're going to sleep in. 25 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:34,640 You're kind of on edge a little bit because you know 4.30 is coming really early. 26 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:44,240 And as a result of that you don't get a really sound sleep and it seems like I always wake 27 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,960 up concerned about that at 3.30. 28 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:53,440 So this morning I woke up at 3.30 and thinking you know it must be about time. 29 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:57,000 I woke up at 3.30 and couldn't go back to sleep. 30 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,080 So well you're up there and you're like well what's another hour sleep. 31 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:06,800 Yeah so I might as well read some scriptures or I was reading some things about redemption 32 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,680 this morning and 3.30 in the morning. 33 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:17,360 Well last week we extended an invitation last week we talked about began kind of a mini 34 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:22,080 series if you will here it'll be last episode this episode maybe one or two. 35 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:23,760 Just on revelation. 36 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:28,600 Personal revelation receiving revelation we started talking about 10 keys and you can 37 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,400 break them up however you want there's nothing sacred to the number 10 but I'm looking at 38 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,480 these thinking wow there's I can find four or five keys in each one of these keys. 39 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:44,040 So it just gives us a good pattern to follow an invitation to come more fully to the Lord 40 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:45,040 for example. 41 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:50,800 But a direct invitation that we extended to all of you last week and just kind of recap 42 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:59,600 one of the keys is to no deity to make covenants that's number two but the first one is to 43 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:06,120 identify our negative emotions and not let them not accept them not let them get in the 44 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,360 way of our personal revelation. 45 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:15,040 One of them we talked about Dave was fear the other one pride we talked about other 46 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,200 emotions as well. 47 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:18,200 Lost. 48 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:28,480 Right and jealousy coveting and being just any any kind of negativity in our lives negative 49 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:36,840 emotions and Scott I I just cannot stay strong enough and I know there probably are people 50 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:43,640 listening because I've had lots of people push back on this but people have more control 51 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:49,880 over that mankind individuals have more control over that than they think they do you have 52 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:55,480 more agency than you think you do when it comes to your emotions. 53 00:03:55,480 --> 00:04:01,360 It's just surprising to me how many people think that they just have to go with the flow 54 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,960 and if that's what they feel then that's what they have to do or if that's what they feel 55 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:15,600 that's who they are and it that is those are all lies it is true we are fallen we are sinners 56 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:22,760 we are mortal and it is true that we are going to feel negative emotions every day but if 57 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:29,160 you think you can't change it you're done so let's have Scott let me add I gotta be 58 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:35,680 super sensitive this we're not talking about chemical depression no we're not talking about 59 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:42,200 other things that people do not have control over I'm not I'm not talking about that I'm 60 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:50,720 talking about all of us for people who every every individual on this earth feels negative 61 00:04:50,720 --> 00:05:00,720 emotions most people who do not have a clinical or chemical imbalance or mental emotional 62 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:11,840 challenges medical situations I I just know all of us at some level and everyone has to 63 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:22,720 evaluate their their their lives but everyone at some level they are an agent and they can 64 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:33,320 choose at some level of how to replace those negative emotions with spiritual appropriate 65 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:44,880 emotions not by themselves you can't do it by yourself it is a gift from God and it is 66 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:51,840 by praying with all energy of heart which is the emotional center of our being to pray 67 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:57,760 with all energy of heart is Moroni instructs us in Maronite 748 to pray with all energy 68 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:07,720 of heart for love and when one is filled with love all those negative emotions just they 69 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:13,560 they're flipped that's that's the word that's the way I experience it they're just flipped 70 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:21,640 or they melt away or they're replaced but all people every individual has some control 71 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:28,880 over that Scott and they need to be everyone needs to be more mindful more intentional 72 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:37,800 and an act on and not be acted upon yeah and and I think our our invitation last week is 73 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:44,360 in direct alignment with that which was identify our negative emotions and then learn how to 74 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:49,760 not accept them work on not accepting those negative emotions so we need to identify what 75 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:55,120 they are and then work on through the power of Jesus Christ made available to us through 76 00:06:55,120 --> 00:07:00,240 his atonement administered to us through the Holy Ghost which we spent a lot of time talking 77 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:06,760 on last week as well then these things can you know be changed and fixed in our lives 78 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:15,480 take super sensitivity mindfulness right being aware of how I'm feeling and why and then 79 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:21,000 kind of peeling it back or walking it back and thinking why am I feeling this way why 80 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:28,800 am I upset what what prompted this fear what why am I you know you you have to really be 81 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:37,120 mindful but it's just I know the that life goes on and we all get so busy and we're 82 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:47,760 also kind of caught up in our challenges situations in life that sometimes Scott I I really believe 83 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:57,640 this that Satan really uses if he can put thoughts in our mind he can put feelings in 84 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:06,960 our hearts and when he when he causes us to think inappropriate negative thoughts or when 85 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:15,440 he causes us to feel negative inappropriate emotions he has some control over us I've 86 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:24,200 learned that for myself and it happens every day and every day I am aware of it and every 87 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:31,800 day I try to replace it with the with the help of God and the Holy Spirit and want everybody 88 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:36,480 to know that I hope they're experimenting with that that was the that was the invitation 89 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:40,240 right yeah that was the experiment with it you're not going to be no I'm not perfect 90 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:47,000 at it but we we have to we have to try and not give up trying and and just experiment 91 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,400 with it just see it as a grand experiment a lifetime experiment yeah but the more you 92 00:08:53,400 --> 00:09:01,640 experiment with it the more joy you will find in your life because and the more power that 93 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:07,440 you'll realize that you have not just within yourself but yeah the power that is available 94 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,880 to you through prayer and through the Holy Ghost through the atonement of Christ that 95 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:21,280 we can we can overcome so much negativity in our life Scott and man I our world is so 96 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:28,320 full of it and I just thinking it really engulfs us well and it is well first of all I mean 97 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:33,360 I know people you know people they get really obsessive compulsive around these kinds of 98 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,680 things and and they just think I've got to get my emotions squared away I heard if I 99 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:42,800 don't then I can't have the spirit yeah you know and and that's just that sorry if that 100 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,120 means if what we say makes anybody feel that way and I don't think it does but I think 101 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,480 that we do need to be aware and then on the other hand Scott there are others who totally 102 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,680 discount what we're saying exactly and they just say well I can't change I'm too old to 103 00:09:55,680 --> 00:10:01,480 change or I've tried that be I've you know I I can't do anything about it and they just 104 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:06,440 write it off and they're not willing they're not willing to do the experiment so you kind 105 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:12,760 of have those those two extremes and so I'm hoping that people just just really ponder 106 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:18,240 the significance of of what we're saying in the scriptures bear witness of this again 107 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:25,960 Elder Scott you know you cannot feel the Holy Ghost when you are filled with negative inappropriate 108 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:31,800 emotions like trying to savor the flavor of a grape while eating a jalapeno right exactly 109 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:38,040 yeah well I think that leads us in that last part especially kind of leads us into the 110 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:44,480 third key here identify this is the third key as we see it identify and replace the pavilions 111 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:51,920 of selfish inappropriate motives and prideful desires by declaring with all your heart not 112 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:58,720 my will but thine be done and accept God's timing so there's a lot there's a lot in this 113 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:05,720 one too Scott I take the the pavilions of selfish inappropriate emotive motives from 114 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:12,800 a talk by president Eyring when he was before he was in the first presidency I think anyway 115 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:19,520 the pavilions and that comes from a scripture in Liberty jail when God when Joseph Smith 116 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:26,560 cries out to God where art thou and where is the pavilion that cover thy hiding place 117 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:33,360 so president Eyring gave a talk on this what are the pavilions that keep us from God what 118 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:40,760 are the pavilions that keep God from us probably is a better question and he is he comes in 119 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:46,160 is really strong this I love this talk is one of my all time favorites he talks about 120 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:52,040 just inappropriate motives inappropriate so we've talked about inappropriate emotions 121 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:57,640 well that's tied pretty closely to inappropriate motives and I was sitting in the temple this 122 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:03,920 morning actually thinking about this Scott thinking about why are people here today why 123 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:11,480 did these people come out it is so it is so inspiring Scott to see people who come at 124 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:18,040 six o'clock in the morning and get their five thirty and get ready and get on the robes 125 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:23,160 of the priesthood and come up to the ceiling room and we have we have some of the same 126 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:29,320 people day after day week after week month after month and they're doing thousands and 127 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:35,320 thousands of names that they bring with them to the temple I thought you know some people 128 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:40,840 I think come to the temple now I'm just talking generally I'm not I'm not judging anyone here 129 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:47,600 just talking generally some people come to the temple for themselves to get more power 130 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:53,200 you know I don't I don't think that's necessarily wrong because president Nelson has given us 131 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:58,080 that promise right go the temple and you'll get this blessing and you'll get that blessing 132 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:05,600 and you'll get all these blessings right and and I I think that's I think that's really 133 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:12,720 wonderful that we're we're seeking blessings and seeking to be obedient and follow the 134 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:20,560 prophet and the prophets counsel but this little group this morning that I sat in front 135 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:29,200 of officiating in this session of ceiling ninety three year old man who took care of his wife 136 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:34,160 who had Alzheimer's for eleven years I've gotten pretty close these people by the way 137 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:40,880 I know a lot about them and they know a lot about me and every every every week every 138 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:45,440 time I see him how's your wife how's sister derpy how's she doing you know because they 139 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:50,240 they know she had a heart sweet yeah that's just sweet this is really sweet yeah anyway 140 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:58,080 these people sitting before me and there were there were seven of them all came to the temple 141 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:06,080 and I said well I just thought why did they come and in every case as I as I have come to know them 142 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:16,880 Scott anyway let me tell you about this night three year old he is amazing Scott and I said I 143 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:23,280 asked him one day how many children do you have well he says I have I have a six biological but 144 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:29,520 I've adopted seven others I said you've adopted seven others well people I haven't really legally 145 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:35,920 adopted them but but I have just told them that that I'm okay I'm your dad I am your dad from 146 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:43,600 now on I'm your dad and he's taken these underprivileged children in and and he says it's 147 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:49,840 taking me a lot of time and resources and Santa Claus he says is really poor at Christmas time 148 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:54,480 because I just have to make sure these kids you know know what it's like to have a dad 149 00:14:55,120 --> 00:15:00,640 anyway that's the that's the kind of thing I'm talking about and this woman whose husband died 150 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:08,240 her husband died of a heart attack when he was 54 oh my word and she raised eight kids that she 151 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:15,680 had biologically and two of her I think it was her sister and someone else that she adopted 152 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:24,880 her took in and raised so she raised 10 kids as a single mom from from 50 on anyway these seven 153 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:32,560 people are sitting there in the ceiling room in the ceiling you know around the altar every one 154 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:40,480 of them Scott did not come there for themselves every one of them came to move the work forward 155 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:47,440 and to help the individuals whose names they keep in their precious little temple packets 156 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:55,040 yeah or pockets or wherever right and they they want to offer these individuals redemption and 157 00:15:55,040 --> 00:16:02,480 salvation and they want these individuals to be able to progress in the spirit world and the spirit 158 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:09,920 world to them is just as real as this life is to them and they are there to to help and to serve 159 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:18,000 others and to do a vicarious work that they know those individuals cannot do for themselves so 160 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:24,800 they are there to do this Christ like service I mean the prophets have told us that the most 161 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:29,680 Christ like service we can render is in the temple because you're doing you're doing a work 162 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:36,160 like Christ did for us where he did something for us we could never do for ourselves to meet the 163 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:43,200 demands of justice and they're doing something for others that they can never do for themselves 164 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:53,680 so it's it's such a Christ like loving service I thought about their motives Scott and because of 165 00:16:53,680 --> 00:17:00,880 their pure motives they get so much more out of their experience in the temple and there's no wrong 166 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:05,840 reason to go to the temple don't misunderstand me there's no wrong reason we need to go there to 167 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:11,200 get the spirit we need to go there to get answers we need to go there to get revelation and power and 168 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:17,440 and blessings in our lives and in the lives of our families I know another couple who was there 169 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:22,160 actually this morning who goes there because they want to bless their children they believe in the 170 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:27,280 promise that if they come to the temple every week and every so almost every Thursday they're there 171 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:34,160 that's six o'clock in the morning and they come to do ceilings because they believe it it blesses 172 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:41,040 their children who are who are struggling who have different issues and and they they come to 173 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:51,360 bless their their children what are our motives and how can we make them just a little bit less 174 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:59,360 selfish how can we make them a little more holy as we as we try to make our motives more holy 175 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:07,280 it completely changes how we feel about the work and about the effects the work has on us 176 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:14,480 King Benjamin talks about the people that you were just referring to that come to your session 177 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:20,240 right these people that you have become so close to and the and why they are doing it you know and 178 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:25,200 again there's no wrong reason to come to the temple I've gone to the temple potentially for 179 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:29,680 all of the reasons that we've thought of or mentioned here and maybe even more that we even 180 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:36,640 some that we haven't but the real you know they come to to to help forward the Lord's work well 181 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:42,240 the reason they do that is because that they're deep love and conversion for him true right and 182 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:48,400 that's what King Benjamin reminds us of in moseyea 411 he says again I say unto you as I've said 183 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:53,280 before that you have come to as you have come to the knowledge and glory of God or if you have 184 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:58,800 known this his goodness and have tasted of his love and received a remission of your sins which 185 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:04,640 cause a thick seeding great joy in your souls even so I would that you should remember and always 186 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:09,600 retain in remembrance the greatness of God in your own nothingness and his goodness and long 187 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:15,600 suffering towards you unworthy creatures and humble yourselves even in the depths of humility 188 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:22,320 calling on the name of the Lord daily standing here it is steadfastly in the faith of that which 189 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:26,960 is to come which is spoken by the mouth of the angels and then he goes on and talks about how 190 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:33,520 we should always rejoice and how we retain or retain a remission of our sins as we do this 191 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:39,840 things and we have this remembrance as we serve yeah it's an outward expression of an inward 192 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:46,880 commitment that love that they have for what Jesus has done for them well King Benjamin was so great 193 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:51,840 on that teaching that to his people yeah that when we're in the service of our fellow beings right 194 00:19:51,840 --> 00:20:00,080 in the service of God so interesting that the Lord ends his ministry with maybe the greatest 195 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:05,200 parable of all which I think didn't just come to him I'm sure he thought about this parable for a 196 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:13,200 long time and gave it to his disciples on the Mount of Olives when when he tells the parable of 197 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:20,320 visiting the prisoner and feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and and in as much as you've 198 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:26,320 done it under the least of these my brother you've done it under me and that's why these people 199 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:35,280 do it Scott they they they serve they do it to serve not just to serve themselves but to serve 200 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:43,280 others knowing that in serving others they are serving God again there is no wrong reason to go 201 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:50,240 to the house of the Lord ever but there are some reasons that are holier than others and I just 202 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:57,760 again here's a little invitation since this is a coursework on receiving revelation is why do you 203 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:04,080 do what you do why do you go to do you go to church for for selfish reasons how can you make those 204 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:09,840 maybe a little less selfish how can you focus a little more upon your relationship with others 205 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:18,640 benefiting and blessing the lives of others and in and serving and worshiping glorifying God you 206 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:27,040 know how how can we be just a little when we say our prayers are our motives self-centered are they 207 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:34,160 are we are we in this just for us what do I what can I get out of it when I go to church or am I 208 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:40,640 going to church to kind of bless and help others am I going to church to serve and worship God I 209 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:49,440 mean I just think we really need to examine our motives and if we can consecrate our motives 210 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:55,760 make them a little more holy Scott it really changes the our ability to receive revelation 211 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:02,800 and one of the statements in this this third one is to be able to declare with all our heart 212 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:15,200 that I will be done I will not my will but dying be done you know CS Lewis CS Lewis used to say Scott 213 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:24,240 there's there's only two kinds of people there's only two kinds of people after this life there's 214 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:31,040 a there's two resurrections and there's two kinds of people those who wanted to do the will of God 215 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:38,320 and those who God said okay you go ahead and do your own do it your way yeah there's only two 216 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:45,760 kinds of people those who do the will of God and those who God allows to do their own will 217 00:22:48,400 --> 00:23:00,560 so are we doing our own will or are we doing God's will have we gone to the altar figuratively 218 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:09,600 speaking have we gone to the altar and have we offered him our will when have you felt that your 219 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:20,000 will was swallowed up in the will of the Savior that's that's what I think we have to really ask 220 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:26,160 ourselves and and again to experiment with and see if we can make some small incremental 221 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:33,600 progression in purifying our motives this is this won't happen all at once this is a work in progress 222 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:43,680 but as we do so I testify that we get closer to our heavenly Father we develop closer relationship 223 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:49,440 with Jesus Christ and we we receive the Holy Ghost and fill his presence more with us yeah 224 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:56,160 as we purify our motives you know this third key identify and replace pavilions of selfish 225 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:00,640 inappropriate motives and prideful desires by declaring with all your heart not my will but 226 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:10,640 thine be done and accept God's timing you know we we my mind I always kind of look for and find the 227 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:17,280 within this whole tapestry actually the weaving in of the 12 steps of alcoholic synonymous that's 228 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:23,840 helped so many of us myself especially but when we talk about these identifying these and replacing 229 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:29,200 these pavilions of selfish inappropriate motives and prideful desires that sounds like an inventory 230 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:35,360 to me right because there's no way that I can I I really do need to identify what those are 231 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:42,080 that this can't just be a casual approach and then if it feels like oh that might have been in a 232 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:49,520 a selfish pavilion or a pavilion of selfishness or a pavilion of this or that that might be that's 233 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:54,240 a way to approach it and that's better than not approaching it at all yeah but the best way to 234 00:24:54,240 --> 00:25:00,480 approach this is to be a take a proactive prayerful approach to it and and really just pray and ask 235 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:06,880 heavenly Father's direction please help me to identify the pavilions in my life that keep me 236 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:14,000 distracted or separated from me receiving your blessings especially the personal revelation 237 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:20,800 blessings right once we do that we will realize and we will see that this doesn't just have application 238 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:26,160 to our personal revelation this has this has direct application to our personal purity and 239 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:31,920 we're going to move into that next but that this has personal it does absolute application to our 240 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:37,360 personal purity because we sit down and we take it and the best way to do that is to categorize our 241 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:46,400 lives you know in my relationships in my work in my you know in in a a we do it financially we 242 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:52,640 do it with relationships we actually have an inventory around sexual conduct and and all 243 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:58,640 of these other things and you know we would you know it be it would serve us well to seek revelation 244 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:05,440 for those things that we should be inventorying categorically in our own lives and then it within 245 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,920 each one of those categories really take a self-searching and and this is the word I love 246 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:15,120 the most in the big book when it talks about doing an inventory a searching and fearless 247 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:22,160 inventory fearless because there will be fear and it'll come up yeah but that that fear will be 248 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:29,200 offset it will be answered by the spirit of the Holy Ghost as we're aligning and doing the things 249 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:35,520 that we're talking about doing here but once we have done that David then we can have a 250 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:43,360 assist systematic approach to kind of attacking and and and maybe that's not the right word but 251 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:48,640 maybe it's the most appropriate word too but attacking these character defects is what I like 252 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:53,520 to call them or these pavilions in our lives that keep us separated from this from the spirit of 253 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:59,680 the Holy Ghost yeah well there's a couple thoughts about what you just said Scott number one it's 254 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:07,520 interesting as you described this third step in a course on revelation that you in order to teach 255 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:13,440 a course on revelation you have to get revelation on each one of these steps yeah I mean the spirit 256 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:20,720 has to teach you each one of these you can't do on your own you need help from the Heavenly Father 257 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:27,280 through the spirit using the power of Christ and repentance in our lives we need we need to 258 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:35,280 receive revelation line upon line precept upon precept in each one of these steps in order to 259 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:42,000 come to a point in our life where revelation can flow into our life so that's the first thought 260 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:48,400 and the second thought is you said maybe we need to ask Heavenly Father to reveal to us some of our 261 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:55,200 inappropriate motives our pavilions I love that and sometimes Scott it would it would be really 262 00:27:55,200 --> 00:28:02,640 inspired of us to ask individuals we trust about what what are some of my inappropriate pavilions 263 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:09,440 and motives how can I change some of those what counsel would you give me I mean to go to 264 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:17,440 a wife could go to a husband or if an individual could go to you know a mother or daughter go to a 265 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:24,560 mother or a son to a father or whatever or a father do a son yeah I had that conversation 266 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:30,960 with my oldest son just yesterday yeah father to a son I'm asking him that's awesome yeah well 267 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:39,840 sometimes we need to be humble enough to do that I I had an experience uh sometime ago in I was in 268 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:46,960 elite position of leadership in uh seminaries and institutes as you know and I had a teacher come to 269 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:54,960 me once and was a little frustrated with some things and and wanted to talk to me about maybe 270 00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:04,080 some lack of progress or attention that he seemed to think he was not receiving and I I had to tell 271 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:12,480 him because I loved him and thankfully because we had a kind of relationship a trust a relationship 272 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:20,000 of trust that I could tell him you know here if you're can I tell you I I kind of I think preceded 273 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:31,120 it can I give you some counsel he said yes and I said as long as you know I I love you and I I 274 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:38,880 respect you and I see great potential in you I know the Lord loves you I'm going to I'm just 275 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:47,760 going to tell you you really need to be more humble and if you will be more humble and stop 276 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:59,200 seeking to move up the ladder and stop seeking to acquire more attention and receive a higher 277 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:07,040 position or seeking higher authority all of these inappropriate motives and pavilions that 278 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:15,840 he had that I had felt that he had displayed over the years if you will stop that you'll 279 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:25,040 have greater joy in your work it kind of crushed him a little bit and he asked me some clarifying 280 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:32,640 questions and we had quite a nice discussion about that he went home and he came back to me the 281 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:41,360 next day and wanted to spend some more time and he said I I told my wife what you told me last 282 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:50,080 night and she was so grateful that you had told me that because she had wanted to tell that to me 283 00:30:52,720 --> 00:31:00,800 for years she had wanted to tell me that and you know Scott to his credit he was different 284 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:12,320 it was amazing he changed he was he was happier he was different he he is his motives changed 285 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:20,400 because somebody needed to point it out and that's all I did I I take you know no credit for that 286 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:27,600 that's all on him but because two people had seen it maybe maybe you need to get a witness of two 287 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:38,240 people but he wow it was it was really sweet and really miraculous that he was teachable 288 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:46,400 and meek and humble enough to receive the counsel to be more humble and he was effect more effective 289 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:55,360 and I you know I just think sometimes we need to do that go to people that we trust and and ask for 290 00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:04,080 some counsel what they see because I think sometimes Scott we are so entrenched in old habits 291 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:11,520 thoughts thought patterns feelings those kinds of things that we don't we're not really we don't 292 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:18,640 see what other people see and it doesn't it doesn't always come across to others the way we think it 293 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:24,800 comes across to be able to to get others counsel on that all right and maybe go to a bishop maybe 294 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:31,360 go to a trusted priesthood leader yeah someone who and say how can I improve and really if you 295 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:36,400 really mean it and I really love your counsel go to the Lord and ask the Lord in prayer and 296 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:42,560 have a notebook ready to write down some impressions we could really make some progress on this 297 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:49,360 new invitation maybe to our listeners he'll give them to you if you ask for them yeah but be ready 298 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:55,040 for him you know and that's the thing you know we do have to humbly approach him and humbly means 299 00:32:55,040 --> 00:33:00,960 ready to receive his assistance ready to receive his help ready to align you know you another 300 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:06,000 another thing and it just came to me that that we should mention you know we talk about instruments 301 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:11,680 of grace and that how professional counseling can be a instrument of grace you know a lot of times 302 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:17,440 those psychologists and and counselors can be extremely helpful in helping us to identify 303 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:24,320 those pavilions as well yeah you bet all right should we move on to four let's go to four increase 304 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:29,760 personal purity and confidence in the presence of God by letting virtue govern your thoughts 305 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:36,880 unceasingly of course that's from dr. and covenants 121 verse 45 look unto him in every thought 306 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:43,120 again dr. and covenants 6 36 that's a that's a grand experiment by the way you've done that to see 307 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,520 if you can look unto him in every thought i know you've done that let's talk about that a second 308 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:53,360 and then and then i love this and david has a story behind how he came about this little phrase 309 00:33:53,360 --> 00:34:02,560 here but it says watch what you view because what you watch will become your view hi uh in the minnesota 310 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:09,520 farm northern minnesota driving down a two-lane highway going around a curve and there's this 311 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:19,360 uh i i guess it would probably be about a four by four foot sign you know uh on the side of the road 312 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:27,920 by a man's uh farm wasn't wasn't on his lawn it was it was just on the side of the road by his farm 313 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:35,200 and then i'm sure i right after that passed the farmhouse uh i always always thought i should have 314 00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:42,480 gone in and thanked him for that i i saw that and i i was able to quickly read it you know it wasn't 315 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:48,000 going too fast around the curve maybe that's why you put it on the curve slow you down slow me down 316 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:54,160 and um and so i i had time to read it and then i went back and wrote it down i turned around went 317 00:34:54,160 --> 00:35:01,360 back and wrote this down was that before you had a camera on your phone yeah it was i did not even 318 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:06,240 have because you could have just snapped i didn't even have a phone in my car so it was back in the 319 00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:14,000 old days yeah that was okay watch what you view because what you watch will become your view i 320 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:22,000 i've never heard that anyplace else and this old farmer had somehow learned that i wish i would 321 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:28,640 have taken time to talk to him about that and what that meant to him but is that ever true oh yeah 322 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:33,600 yeah well watch what you view because what you watch will become your view and how much more 323 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:40,320 true is it today than in the day that you saw it's a man right so true yeah and we're not just 324 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:46,320 talking movies here no we're not we're not just talking sitcoms here we're talking news we're 325 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:57,040 talking uh social media yeah social media all that stuff oh effects our view we are so flooded 326 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:02,320 with media choices i had a friend that was just here from dallas texas and the guy that i work with 327 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:10,960 and he he was going through my tv and he's like do you ever watch any of these channels and i says 328 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:18,320 i watched two or three of them i said we had this conversation that we just have so many you think 329 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,240 about it you know there's this app and there's that app and they're all streaming movies and they're 330 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:28,400 all streaming content not to mention the social media ones there's tiktok you know there's instagram 331 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:34,160 there's facebook and all of that there just can be absolute time what i call time toilets yeah right 332 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:41,840 and and so this stuff it's prevalent today and it's more prevalent today by far than the day that 333 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:52,320 you know about that the absolute sign yeah so i really i what do we spend our time watching 334 00:36:53,120 --> 00:37:01,200 listening to even what do we choose to observe and and you know there is this what do they call it 335 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:09,200 a negative bias and we all have a negative bias and people are more fascinated i mean 336 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:16,320 the news has monetized this and capitalized on this and makes billions on this well it's actually 337 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:23,920 changing our reality to a degree it changes your reality the negative view of things that people 338 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:30,320 because people know i mean corporations know that we're more attracted to the negative than we are 339 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:37,680 the positive the negative bias they've done so many studies and psychology on that that 340 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:46,480 that if you're don't believe it go go look at the studies but uh if you choose to just go with the 341 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:53,840 flow and if you don't if you're not intentional in what you watch or what you don't watch uh you 342 00:37:53,840 --> 00:38:00,880 are being influenced and to some degree controlled and one of the first things i experienced or 343 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:08,400 learned when i was called to be a patriarch scott was i had to learn eliminate all commercials from 344 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:15,600 my life um and that was on the radio as much as possible and on television for sure thank 345 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:23,120 thankfully i could do that with the uh you know vcrs or uh dvrs or whatever they call them where 346 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:30,000 i could record programs and uh eliminate commercials because i'm telling you in in 30 seconds 347 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:41,200 in 30 seconds or less you can hear on the radio or on social media or on the television you can see 348 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:48,480 or hear something that will immediately open up your mind to negative inappropriate thoughts 349 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:55,600 and emotions that satan once he gets a foothold can pour in more stuff once you open the crack of 350 00:38:55,600 --> 00:39:04,640 crack of that door uh other stuff will go flowing in and the door will be swung wide open and then 351 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:12,000 you've lost the spirit and you're in trouble yeah experience about that just yesterday i'm 352 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:19,440 watching a baseball game on tv and a uh commercial comes on and this particular commercial now i'm 353 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:28,480 a recovering alcoholic on october 26 so in less than a month uh about i'll have a total of 26 years 354 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:35,680 clean and sober 100 but i'm a recovering alcoholic i'm watching a commercial just last night and this 355 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:41,360 commercial was a commercial about an alcoholic beverage and they're pouring it in these glasses 356 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:47,920 over this perfectly clear ice three big ice cubes and there's a sound to it it all can be 357 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:53,200 powerful there's a sound to it and i'm beginning to conjure in my mind the smell of the campfire 358 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:59,680 that i can see and the buzz of the friends around and the laughter and sitting around the campfire 359 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:06,640 you know even with the closest of friends and i got to tell you that tipped me over for about 360 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:13,120 for a few minutes last night wow it did 26 years sober i was in the temple last week i said my 361 00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:19,680 prayers that morning yeah i you know i'm doing the things and i'm striving to have the experiences 362 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:25,040 in my life hypocritical i am for sure but i'm trying to have these experiences that we're 363 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:29,680 talking about in my life and and you know teach an institute and all that other stuff 364 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:38,480 but david i wanted to drink last night yeah wow i know scott i i we're all hypocrites we're all 365 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:44,880 sinners open sinners yeah none of us do this perfectly none of us are sinless yeah and but 366 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:53,280 if we could be more intentional right in what we take in through our eyes our ears our nose our 367 00:40:53,280 --> 00:41:01,040 physical senses if we could do a better job controlling that believe me we would be more open 368 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:08,720 to receiving the gift of the holy ghost personal revelation and strengthening our relationship 369 00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:14,800 with the godhead i it just is wrong to think i'm just going to turn on the tv and watch it 370 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:22,080 for a while right yeah we there's no control but boy k packer present boy k packer said we 371 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:26,560 all have the great and spacious building in our house and it's in that little tv box well that 372 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:33,200 little tv screen and when he said it that was a little it was a box and today there's nothing 373 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:39,360 little about our tv's today and we've got five or ten of them in a house and yeah it's it's it's 374 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:47,200 different we it's just getting there satan is in our homes in the choices of the media that we 375 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:53,200 choose to watch and that's the key there's no evil in the tv there's no evil in the box right there's 376 00:41:53,200 --> 00:42:03,360 no evil in any of that the evil is in what we let and and here's the choice it's in our power 377 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:09,120 we can act rather than be acted upon right the power the evil is in the choice that we make right so 378 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:17,120 the evil for me isn't in the thought i have a predispositioned for a desire to drink alcohol 379 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:22,240 because i am a alcoholic and for those of you who are not alcoholics don't try to understand that 380 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:29,360 but for those of you who are you'll totally get it and or they can all those out there 381 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:33,920 listening who have any other propensities or addictions towards anything right towards anything 382 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:40,000 can relate to what you're saying so it so it wasn't the thought the first thought to me was oh man 383 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,640 i could even taste natural man thought i could even taste it so that was my first thought 384 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:52,880 it's what i do with that thought exactly that determines whether or not i have dnc 121 45 385 00:42:52,880 --> 00:43:00,240 and dnc 636 at work in my life exactly and that is so for me that next thought needs to be i know 386 00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:04,640 and i love what you talk teach us about what chris does your sweetheart you know when bow your head 387 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:09,280 when chris has a difficult time you know when she's tempted or when she runs into these kinds of 388 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:14,320 things where she's fully reminded of her own fallenness she just bows her head and says thank you 389 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:19,280 she's thanking heavenly father for the atonement of jesus christ and her wouldn't it wouldn't it be 390 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:26,640 off thank you scott wouldn't it be awesome if every time we were tempted or had those negative 391 00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:33,840 thoughts come into our mind inappropriate thoughts emotions temptations which by the way are not 392 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:41,120 are not in and of themselves sinful no no one should identify should should identify themselves 393 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:48,640 with the temptations they receive no one should identify themselves by the inappropriate thoughts 394 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:57,120 feelings emotions that they feel as mortal fallen beings that is we all feel that that's 395 00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:05,280 that's who we are but that is not our eternal identity or destiny wouldn't it be awesome if 396 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:13,760 every time we had an inappropriate thought feeling temptation if we would bow our head 397 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:19,840 and say thank you thinking about well i'm really thankful for this temptation because it reminds 398 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:32,320 me of who i am dependent upon for my strength i'm so thankful that i had that experience or that 399 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:39,520 temptation because it reminds me of who i rely on it reminds me that i can merit nothing of myself 400 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:49,280 it reminds me of jesus christ and his atonement who i have faith in if we would just we need to 401 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:56,000 bow our heads more often right when we feel those feelings scott right for me i have to 402 00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:01,680 in addition to saying thank you which i am so grateful that i am able to do this but thank you 403 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:08,080 for me comes second for me it is heavenly father please will you take this away and he does 404 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:14,640 so please and thank you and then and even before it's taken away and thank you and then before it's 405 00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:21,760 taken away i have that prayer of gratitude and it's just a short heartfelt you know in my mind 406 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:26,080 it's sometimes and sometimes it's out loud it just depends but but i think that it's important 407 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:33,760 that we identify our pavilions we identify those glasses of brown beverage and with eye glasses 408 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:38,480 for me or whatever or whatever that is for and it's and it doesn't have to be an addiction it 409 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:43,120 can be a character defect of any kind right you know it can be the way that we treat other people 410 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:48,800 it can be our defensiveness it can be the chip on our shoulders it can be the way that we our sarcasm 411 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:57,360 our inappropriate humor or whatever any of whatever it may be our negativity our our lack of 412 00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:04,320 mindfulness our lack anyway yeah yeah yeah those sins of omission right which we're going to talk 413 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:11,200 about next day yep well i think this has been a good episode a good discussion dave do you have 414 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:19,200 any final thoughts no except i with this i i just want everyone to know i want everyone to know that 415 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:29,840 this is a work in progress a course on revelation must always be preceded by i want to say this 416 00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:40,080 earlier any course thought discussion class on receiving personal revelation must always be 417 00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:49,760 preceded by the overarching governing principles of revelation which we have talked about before 418 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:58,000 but just a quick reminder that it cannot be revelation cannot be manipulated we we cannot force it 419 00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:08,240 that it must be done in god's way it can't personal revelation cannot be about controlling or 420 00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:19,280 manipulating others in our lives it must be good it must be sincere it must be full of humility 421 00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:27,040 and meekness and it must be expedient we'll talk about that too next time please everyone understand 422 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:34,160 that we're we're in the same boat as you and we're trying to to improve but i know that these 423 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:42,400 principles if we'll experiment with them will strengthen our relationship with deity and as 424 00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:47,680 our relationship this is what all comes down to scott the one needful thing is our relationship 425 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:54,960 with deity and as we strengthen our relationship with deity we'll receive more personal revelation 426 00:47:54,960 --> 00:48:00,560 and direction in our life and that will make all the difference all the difference as we do that 427 00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:06,320 will fill peace will fill direction will fill purpose and the our can through our conversion 428 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:11,760 will fill the power of the atonement of jesus christ to work in each of our lives we're open 429 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:19,840 to receiving suggestions or questions again please send those to he redeemsus at gmail.com 430 00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,840 thanks for being with us everybody we look forward to being with you again next week and until then 431 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:39,760 be well