1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,120 Well, hi everybody and welcome to Redeem Through His Blood. 2 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,680 In this podcast we discuss hope healing and redemption through the Atonement of Jesus 3 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:21,680 Christ. 4 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:27,320 I'm Scott Durfey, also joined today by my partner in this project, our teacher, Brother 5 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:28,320 David Durfey. 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,560 Good morning everyone. 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,600 Grateful to be able to share these thoughts with you this morning. 8 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,000 Just a couple of things that I'm going to ask real quick. 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,960 If you won't mind still sending us your questions. 10 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:45,160 We've had some great questions and comments that we'll be getting into in upcoming episodes, 11 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:47,000 one that we'll be talking about even today. 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:56,680 But you can send those questions, comments, encouragement, ideas, even give us your criticism. 13 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,280 We're trying our best to get better at this all the time and we want it to be as good 14 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,800 of experience as we possibly can make it for you. 15 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:09,200 We don't have a survey process, which is what I'm kind of used to in my professional setting. 16 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:14,680 And so we're just going to ask you to unofficially or yeah, just unofficially, if you wouldn't 17 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:20,080 mind just sending us some emails and give us some ideas on what you think would be better, 18 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,240 how we could do better and how we could definitely make it more engaging for you. 19 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:31,280 I know Scott that no one can criticize us more than we criticize ourselves. 20 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:37,040 I think we're our worst critics and when we listen to these and we listen back to them 21 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:49,800 as I did recently to one of one of our episodes, I feel always inadequate and in my inabilities 22 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:56,960 and my weakness, so don't be afraid to help us by bringing things to our attention that 23 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:02,440 maybe we might have overlooked even though again, where I think our own worst critics. 24 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:10,840 Yeah, and along those lines too, if you would just please try to listen to the message more 25 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,360 than the messengers here and we'll try to get better. 26 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:19,280 Yeah, we really do appreciate your participation and listening and you know, honestly, we have 27 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:27,120 received hundreds of great comments, both emails and from people in person, but you 28 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:31,600 know those great comments keep us going, but it's the comments that help us get better 29 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:32,600 that help us get better. 30 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,760 And so we invite that from you. 31 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,760 Last week we talked a lot about faith. 32 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,800 We're going to continue that again today. 33 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,800 I just want to recap quickly and I'll have Dave hop in here as he feels appropriate to 34 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:53,800 kind of emphasize and re re focus maybe on as we draw our focus deeper into this topic, 35 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,440 refocus again on some of the stuff that we talked about. 36 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:01,880 So you know, we talked a lot about the lectures of faith over the last couple of episodes. 37 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:09,520 We this is a great treatise treatise Dave called it to that has been written in the 38 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:19,960 school of profits back in Kirtland, Ohio at the school of the profits 1833 1833 at the 39 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:20,960 school of the profits. 40 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:21,960 I've been there. 41 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:27,000 In fact, that was their last fall with Dave and others of our family and other room of 42 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,200 the new K Whitney stores where that school of profits was held. 43 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:37,000 You know, just just real quick too, along that many years ago, my first visit to Kirtland, 44 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,120 Ohio was with a bunch of guys that I work with. 45 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:47,640 For those that don't know, I do speak professionally going around the country doing seminars on 46 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,920 financial things and we were in that area. 47 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,880 And while we were there, decided to make a visit to the Kirtland temple and to the school 48 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:57,960 of the profits and things of that nature. 49 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:03,680 And I had had such a reverence for the things that I had been studying that had been taught 50 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:09,360 in that school of profits that when I walked in that room, I felt the spirit and I felt 51 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:14,920 the spirit like this maybe a handful of times in my life outside of the temple. 52 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:19,000 But when I walked in there that first time and I was with other men that I was working 53 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,640 with and it was unusual, but they were all LDS as well. 54 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:28,560 But as we walked in there and they close that door and we stood in silence, the hair on 55 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,480 my arms just stood straight up. 56 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:37,840 The spirit was so strong and I think that the lectures on faith are an indication of 57 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:42,080 the type of things that were so spiritually revealed there. 58 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:46,280 But you know, we recapped that lecture number one talks about what is faith. 59 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:51,520 We talk about power, it talks about power and how it's an action word and how faith 60 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:56,320 requires action and then two through five, it talks about lectures that is two through 61 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:01,200 five, talks about the character attributes and perfections of God. 62 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:07,040 We have spent a lot of time talking about that in our early episodes of this podcast. 63 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:08,680 Encourage you to go back and visit those. 64 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:16,960 And then six talks about how he knows that are how we let me rephrase that talks about 65 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:21,280 how we can know that our life is pleasing to God. 66 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:27,040 I think that is, I think that through David to know that my life is pleasing to God. 67 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,640 I think that would solve every problem I have. 68 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,560 Yeah, for sure. 69 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:37,640 It's not easy to do, but that's kind of the third according to lectures on faith, the 70 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:44,240 third and final process that one must go through in order to have the faith of power to know 71 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:50,680 that the course that we are pursuing is pleasing to God. 72 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:51,680 That's not easy to do. 73 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,440 That's not comfortable either. 74 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,480 It's kind of putting your will on the on the altar of God. 75 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:01,400 Yeah, which is a big task at least, right? 76 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,360 Finally hard decision to make. 77 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,520 Yeah, because it's more than a decision. 78 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:07,720 It requires action. 79 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,600 It requires follow through. 80 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:15,160 It requires commitment and all those things that as humans, I don't know, I'm human. 81 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,800 I think everybody listening probably is too. 82 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,560 And I think that you would agree we struggle with those kinds of things as humans in general. 83 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:27,320 Finally in lecture number seven, it talks about the joys, the benefits, the results, 84 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:35,080 the blessings of living a life of faith and developing that faith and and learning more 85 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,880 about our Heavenly Father's will for us through it. 86 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:46,200 Well today we're going to be moving in to talking a little bit about faith again. 87 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:54,560 Before we do, we do have a question and can we pause for just a minute and let me kind 88 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:03,280 of bring us back one step back further, which is the reason we're doing this kind of this 89 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:10,040 is where we're at in the in our course of study is that we have talked about the events 90 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:11,720 of the atonement. 91 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:17,880 We've talked about the effects of the atonement conditional and unconditional. 92 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:24,880 And now we are speaking about how to access the atonement of Jesus Christ or the power 93 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:36,160 of Christ through his atonement through by our participation in the doctrine of Christ, 94 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:46,240 the doctrine of Christ being first faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, second repentance, 95 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:53,320 third baptism by immersion for their mission of sins and third or fourth, fourth receiving 96 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:58,400 the Holy Ghost and fifth to endure to the end. 97 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:07,120 So we're in just in the beginning stages of talking about the doctrine of Christ, which 98 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:12,920 is which is the key to accessing the power of Christ through his atonement. 99 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:18,120 Yeah, and I think I'm so glad you brought that up, David, because as we go through this, 100 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:24,800 these several podcasts and I've had this comment from many people say, I am just really grateful 101 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:30,560 that you build from one step or one concept or one precept to the next and then to the 102 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,160 next and so forth. 103 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:37,280 And so, you know, this is a good time to perhaps encourage you that if you are just now joining 104 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,920 us first off, we want to say welcome. 105 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:44,520 We hope that you'll stick around and find benefit and hope and healing in the things 106 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,200 that we have to offer here. 107 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,800 But we also would encourage you to go back. 108 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:54,560 I shouldn't say but I should say additionally, we encourage you to go back. 109 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:57,280 Maybe even start with the episode number one. 110 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,960 Now episode number one is about Easter, the Holy Week. 111 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:07,400 It has to do with the triumphal entry and everything that took place day by day, the 112 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:08,680 week of Easter. 113 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:13,640 That's when we started culminating first week week before Easter. 114 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,720 Yeah, and that Easter and that came out for Easter. 115 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:22,880 And then from there, we begin to build on knowing ourselves, knowing him, understanding 116 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,440 the importance of all of that. 117 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,120 From there, we move into the events. 118 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:35,160 We spend a whole podcast talking about the the Garden of Gethsemane, the experience there 119 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,720 and all things around it as best we can. 120 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:44,840 And then the subsequent one to that, we talk about the crucifixion, the subsequent one 121 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,560 to that we talk about the resurrection. 122 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:51,800 And now we're talking about so that was all about the events. 123 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:55,360 Events of the atonement of our Savior. 124 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,240 And now we're talking about the effects. 125 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:04,160 This is our, I believe this will be our fourth, maybe even our fifth episode as we begin to 126 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:05,560 talk about the events. 127 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:09,720 And so, you know, as we talk about not the events, the effects as we talk and how to 128 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:14,240 access and how to access it as we talk about these things, that's the key. 129 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:15,240 How do we access it? 130 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:16,920 Because that's what we get asked all along. 131 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,760 You know, this if we don't talk about how to access it, if we don't talk about how do 132 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:27,680 we apply this in our own lives, then we are in a really interesting academic endeavor. 133 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:32,800 If we learn how to put on the atonement of Jesus Christ through the administration of 134 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:39,480 the Holy Ghost, if we learn how to develop faith through study, through prayer, through 135 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:45,720 participation in covenants and so on and so forth, then we're really learning how to 136 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,520 put on the atonement of Jesus Christ. 137 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:52,440 My wife, Deb and I, and I've talked about this multiple times, have been doing for the 138 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:58,280 last two years what Dave here has been doing for 40 years prior to his retirement. 139 00:10:58,280 --> 00:10:59,480 And that's teaching institute. 140 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:04,440 And as we've been teaching this, the question that we get, and we did this last week, we 141 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:05,440 opened it up to Q&A. 142 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:10,720 And what we do is we have people who will text us in the class, will text us questions. 143 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:16,840 More than half the questions have to do with how do I heal my life? 144 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:18,240 How do I repent? 145 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:22,200 How do I change my heart through the atonement of Jesus Christ? 146 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,760 We know about it, but how do we do it? 147 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,200 How do we put it on? 148 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,480 How do we actually participate more than just mentally? 149 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,600 How do we participate in those things? 150 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,160 And that's what we've been talking about. 151 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:38,160 So as we move into that, Dave, can I read this question and then we'll start moving 152 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,200 into the rest of the episode here? 153 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:46,560 Yeah, maybe just one comment comes to my mind, Scott, is that when we talked about the events 154 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:55,600 and all of the suffering of Christ in his willingness to live a sinless life, all of 155 00:11:55,600 --> 00:12:02,360 his suffering in Gethsemane and the events between Gethsemane and especially the culmination 156 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:07,760 of his suffering on the cross being worse, even worse than Gethsemane, because there 157 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,760 were no angels there to strengthen him. 158 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:18,000 And then his resurrection, just thinking about those events fills me with immense gratitude 159 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,040 for Jesus Christ. 160 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:28,360 Then as we spoke about the effects of the atonement, we spoke about all of the unconditional aspects 161 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:37,000 of the atonement of Jesus Christ and how we are all covered unconditionally by the atonement 162 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:43,280 of Jesus Christ, not just because of a physical universal resurrection, but because of all 163 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:50,960 of the negatives in our mortal lives that are the result of a fallen world, of a telestial 164 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:58,920 world and all of the abuses that we suffer as a result of that. 165 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:03,480 All of that is covered unconditionally by the atonement of Jesus Christ. 166 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:11,480 We talked about the Hebrew word for atonement, which means to be covered. 167 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:21,880 In order to really understand that is to be filled with this immense vision of God's 168 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:29,040 plan of redemption, His mercy, His grace, His love, His perfect love. 169 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:34,160 I don't know what it does for others, but I know what it does for me. 170 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:43,000 Again it fills me with this gratitude for and love for my Heavenly Father, His plan of redemption, 171 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,400 my Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ. 172 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:57,280 And it's this gratitude and love for them, Scott, that gives me the motivation and the 173 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:05,440 desire to move a little further and not just be covered by the atonement, but using your 174 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:14,680 words just a moment ago to put on the atonement, which are the conditional aspects of the atonement, 175 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:22,520 which take a conscious effort and choice and work on our part, which moves us into the 176 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:31,280 doctrine of Christ to be able to choose and exercise and increase our faith in Christ 177 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:36,200 and in His name, which we'll talk about today, to be able to repent and participate in the 178 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:40,320 ordinances and the covenants of the gospel and do indoor to the end. 179 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:48,000 Those are choices that we must make in order to be able to put on the atonement and to 180 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:54,360 receive all of the full blessings of the atonement of Jesus Christ in our life. 181 00:14:54,360 --> 00:15:03,160 But the motivation to do that comes by understanding the events of the atonement, His suffering 182 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:07,920 and the effects, unconditional aspects of His atonement. 183 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,600 Yeah, it's exactly right. 184 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:15,560 And that's exactly why I have extended the invitation to go back, go back to those early 185 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,800 episodes and really get a feel for what it is. 186 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,240 What we'll be talking about today, I believe will be great. 187 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,440 What we talked about last week, I believe was great. 188 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,620 But standing alone, it's only so great. 189 00:15:29,620 --> 00:15:34,280 With that deeper understanding, with that culmination of the things that we've talked 190 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:41,200 about beginning with even really episode number one up until now helps this to become more 191 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:42,200 complete. 192 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:47,000 Yeah, so I think you have a few questions we can discuss. 193 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,040 I have one. 194 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:52,280 I'm just going to read the question part of this. 195 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:58,640 This is written to us by a young lady that we both know and love. 196 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:03,960 She says, for years I have struggled trying to get a prayer answered and I don't understand 197 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:08,160 why I have not yet been granted this righteous desire. 198 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:13,080 I've tried asking a different way and still nothing. 199 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:20,400 So she's obviously Dave experiencing perhaps maybe a little frustration, perhaps maybe 200 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:26,280 even she didn't say this, but I can only imagine how I would feel and how I have felt as I've 201 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:31,040 experienced similar things, maybe even a little discouragement. 202 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:35,240 Maybe wondering, are you really there, you know, going back to that primary song, Heavenly 203 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,520 Father, are you really there? 204 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:41,960 You know, where do you, Dave, what would you say to this question? 205 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:50,040 Well, I think there are several parts that we need to kind of break down to understand 206 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:57,120 the question and to try to give a sufficient answer. 207 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:06,240 To be able to really trust in God and to exercise faith in him means that we trust more in his 208 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:11,800 will than in our own, that we desire his will more than our own. 209 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:18,240 We talked last time about the faith of power is not to get what we want, but to be able 210 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:22,440 to accept and carry out his will. 211 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:28,320 So this person says that they've been praying for, did they say righteous desire? 212 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:29,320 Righteous desire. 213 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:30,320 Okay. 214 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:36,560 So righteous is a relative term. 215 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:47,720 I'm sure it is righteous, but sometimes we want what we want and we don't take into consideration 216 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:54,920 what God really wants and especially when he wants it. 217 00:17:54,920 --> 00:18:04,080 So to be able to really exercise faith in God through prayer, we need to not just have 218 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:10,240 faith in him and in his power, but we need to have faith in his timing. 219 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,600 And that's something that we don't always see. 220 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,360 That would be one, one part of this. 221 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:26,680 Another part of this is oftentimes our righteous desires include other people, other events 222 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,840 or people in our lives that we don't have control over. 223 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:38,640 And we don't have power over others agency and neither does God. 224 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:42,200 God cannot change the agency of others. 225 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:48,640 It's kind of like Elder Oaks once kind of explained in his, in his amazing article, 226 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,240 which we should all read and review from time to time. 227 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,440 It's called timing, the Lord's timing. 228 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:55,960 It's in the enzyme. 229 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:01,280 You can just Google present Oaks and the word timing and you'll find it. 230 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:05,520 But he kind of counsels missionaries that they better be careful about setting goals 231 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,640 for baptism. 232 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:12,560 Monthly, monthly baptism goals may not be appropriate because other people's agency 233 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,760 are involved in that. 234 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:20,640 And we can't, we can't control other people's agency and God chooses not to do that, to 235 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,600 do that as well. 236 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:28,080 This person says that they've kind of changed how they've kind of prayed about things, but 237 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:35,760 maybe instead of praying for an event to happen or for a change to occur or for some great 238 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:45,760 thing to take place, maybe we should pray to how to know our role in bringing about 239 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,040 an event. 240 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:55,600 How for example, I shared many, many episodes ago about the night I was praying that changed 241 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:59,400 my son, changed my son. 242 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:09,240 And I was chastised by the spirit and the spirit whispered, stop praying for me to change 243 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:14,920 your son and start praying for me to change you. 244 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:23,960 And I immediately, I immediately changed and I said, bless me that I'll be a better dad. 245 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:28,400 Help me to know how I can be a better dad. 246 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:33,040 And then Scott, we have to learn the discipline to listen. 247 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:37,920 If we're, if we're going to ask that question, and I think it's really appropriate not just 248 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:44,560 to pray to help me be a better dad, but maybe it's even more appropriate to pray, help me 249 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:51,840 to know, give me the knowledge I need to be a better dad. 250 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,520 Bless me with revelation. 251 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,960 Then we should pause and we should listen. 252 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:06,520 This is called inspired inquiry, revelatory response. 253 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:11,760 That was a talk given by Elder Bednar in general authority training many years ago. 254 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:16,280 And I know a area 70 who was at that training. 255 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:24,400 And I know after he told me what he had learned as a new general authority and being trained. 256 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:31,760 I remember turning, looking at his wife and saying to her, so has he, meaning the new 257 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:38,400 general authority, my friend, has he changed how he prays? 258 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,720 And she looked at him and he kind of nodded and she looked back at me and she said, yeah, 259 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,280 he now prays with a notebook. 260 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:45,280 Oh, wow. 261 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:46,280 Yeah. 262 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:47,280 Okay. 263 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:48,640 That's a different level of prayer. 264 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:49,640 Yeah. 265 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:53,680 To, he said, I've had to learn the discipline to listen. 266 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:58,440 And so he prays, and I think the brother and do this, and I think we should do this more 267 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,200 often than we do. 268 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:08,720 And some of us have never done it to pray with a concern, some, a righteous desire and 269 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:18,720 not just God do this, but with the prayer, how can I help bring this about acting in 270 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,520 faith? 271 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:28,000 How can I bring about thy will for a person or to cause an event? 272 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:36,200 And then listen, pause and listen and maybe write down a few notes. 273 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:42,680 One more thing I'll say about this and then you can take your shot at it is I've always 274 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,120 loved the scripture in Dr. and Covenants section 46. 275 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:51,040 It talks about the gifts of the spirit and a little bit at the very end of the section 276 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,040 on how we can receive the gifts of the spirit. 277 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,880 So this is a doctrine covenant section 46. 278 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:03,840 And I'm going to, I'm going to begin with verse 28. 279 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:10,160 And it shall come to pass that he that asketh in the spirit shall receive in the spirit. 280 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,080 Now, just think about that for a minute. 281 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:22,680 Maybe if we're not receiving in the spirit, maybe we're not asking in the spirit. 282 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,760 Verse 30, I skipped 29. 283 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:33,480 Verse 30, he that asketh in the spirit asketh according to the will of God. 284 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:34,480 Right. 285 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:43,600 Therefore it is done even as he asketh and again, I send to you all things must be done 286 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,160 in the name of Christ. 287 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:47,800 Talk about the name of Christ. 288 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:55,920 Maybe shortly whatsoever you do in the spirit and he must give thanks unto God in the spirit 289 00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:02,480 in the spirit for whatsoever blessings you're blessed with and he must practice virtue and 290 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,640 holiness before me continually. 291 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,640 Even so, amen. 292 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:16,360 I think that's a great recipe on how to receive answers to prayers or how to pray. 293 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:23,960 And so when we say we pray with righteous desires, are we are we following that formula 294 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,480 and recipe given to us in doctrine covenants 46? 295 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,280 Yeah, I like that. 296 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:34,960 Something that we've talked about really is about aligning our will with our Heavenly 297 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:41,600 Father's will and his will, you know, you you said it and so I won't readdress it, but 298 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,280 I will mention it again. 299 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,960 You said it that oftentimes when we have these types of prayers and I don't know what the 300 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,040 situation is here exactly. 301 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:54,920 I'm projecting my own personal experiences into this question because, you know, when 302 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:59,440 I hear questions like this, I'm like, Oh, boy, I can definitely relate to that. 303 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:04,360 And when I have been able to when this has been relatable to me, it's usually because 304 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:05,960 there's another person involved. 305 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,880 It's usually my prayers and righteous desires for another person and that those prayers 306 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:16,680 and righteous desires for that other person are always to come back to Heavenly Father 307 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,280 to get on the path, whatever that is, which is definitely a righteous desire. 308 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:25,120 And that's a righteous desire and so how can how can I be convinced otherwise? 309 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:26,120 Right. 310 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:31,880 And so when I say I have a righteous desire and then I think, Well, are my righteous desires 311 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:36,800 in a line with his his desire would also be that that would be the case. 312 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:42,040 And so you brought up the whole, Well, yeah, but God can't take that will from him. 313 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:47,240 When you said that your friend, a new general authority at that time was now praying with 314 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:56,400 a notebook, it reminded me, you know, my experience in the church has been pretty vast, but quite 315 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,600 limited because of my sin, because of my decisions, because of things that I've done wrong, which 316 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:10,520 drove me, thankfully, actually, Heavenly Father led me, thankfully, 23 plus years ago, two 317 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:17,680 rooms of recovery where I have still where I still participate quite regularly, weekly, 318 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:23,560 at least, and usually daily in contact with other people who I'm helping and who I'm serving 319 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,240 and by so doing, helping myself. 320 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:33,880 But we have steps and the there's 12 of them, the 11th step, I'm just going to read it verbatim, 321 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:39,360 we sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as 322 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:40,720 we understood him. 323 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,320 I'll pause right there. 324 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:47,200 There's there's a there's a really important component here that we need to understand 325 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:52,960 him going back again to our podcast several podcasts ago when we begin to talk about how 326 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:57,920 important it is that we know him so and we know how he knows us. 327 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:04,320 And then it goes on praying, praying only for a knowledge of his will for us and the 328 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:10,840 power to carry that out, his will for us and the power to carry that out. 329 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:18,640 I know for sure that a righteous desire that I sometimes have, I have it in this moment 330 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,800 and I maintain it most of the time. 331 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:28,160 But that right to my most righteous desire is to align my will with his know what that 332 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,000 will know what his will for me would be. 333 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:36,160 And then I pray for that power to carry that will out when I've done that. 334 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,680 It's not always looked exactly how I would have designed it. 335 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:46,920 But when I've done that, it has without fail led me to a peaceful resolution, regardless 336 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:52,440 of the outcome I've learned it's important for me not to be in the outcome business when 337 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,240 it comes to others. 338 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,640 The only outcome business that I have any business participating is is in the outcome 339 00:27:58,640 --> 00:27:59,640 business of my own. 340 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:05,160 I do that by trying to understand his will for me and praying for the will to pray for 341 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:06,880 the power to carry that out. 342 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,200 Yeah, that's that's really awesome. 343 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,200 I love that. 344 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,080 That's kind of a description. 345 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:19,720 What you just read is a description of the power of faith or the faith of power to know 346 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:20,920 the will of God. 347 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,080 And I just think sometimes we pray I do this too. 348 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:25,640 I think we all do this. 349 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,000 We're we're just human. 350 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,960 And we always kind of pray for this kind of want list. 351 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,880 And some of those wants may definitely be righteous. 352 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:42,440 But we we should strive to pray to know the will of God. 353 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:51,080 And as we learn to ask by the spirit, we will receive by the spirit. 354 00:28:51,080 --> 00:29:00,240 That's I've I've experienced that a few times in my life where my prayers are less wordy, 355 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:09,480 less me speaking and more me listening and really feeling what God feels. 356 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:18,240 I really think the greatest miracle that we can experience is being able to see ourselves 357 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:26,760 the way God sees us and to be able to see others who we love as God sees them. 358 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:27,760 Right. 359 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:37,440 And sometimes got just experiencing that will fulfill our righteous desires and will totally 360 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:44,000 change our relationships and will totally change our prayers when we understand that 361 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:52,240 this isn't just God's son or God's daughter or this is I mean this isn't just my son or 362 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:59,040 my daughter, but this is also God's son and God's daughter and that he's got them. 363 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:04,720 And I've shared some experiences with about that with my own son who went to prison to 364 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,400 be able to see him the way God sees him. 365 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:18,600 That then goes above faith into what we call hope, which is an assurance of God's promises 366 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,840 for that individual. 367 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:27,960 And eventually to see them as God sees them is the gift of charity to be able to see someone 368 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:34,800 and feel for someone what God sees, how he sees and what he feels for them. 369 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:41,120 I believe that is the definition of the gift of charity and maybe what we should be praying 370 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:51,200 for more often is seeking revelation on how we can obtain the gift of charity to see ourselves 371 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,720 and others the way God sees us and those we love. 372 00:30:54,720 --> 00:31:02,360 That kind of clarity would alleviate so much turmoil, so much heartache and you know anxiety. 373 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:07,040 You know we live in a world David where anxiety is so prevalent. 374 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:12,960 One of the main issues that is brought up frequently as we're teaching young single 375 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:18,680 adults at Brigham Young University and UVU for Institute, one of the main things that 376 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,080 gets brought up is anxiety. 377 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:25,080 Well that anxiety comes because we aren't sure of our future. 378 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:31,080 We aren't sure, which none of us can be completely sure, but we're lacking the most important 379 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,920 component of that. 380 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:38,120 Being assured of our future is nice, but it's not important. 381 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:44,780 What is important is knowing that we are connected to our Heavenly Father, that we're living 382 00:31:44,780 --> 00:31:53,440 our life according to His will and His direction and there comes the comfort of the Spirit. 383 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:59,840 Well you know in Moroni chapter 7 what you just described is hope. 384 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:01,840 You know the gift of hope. 385 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:09,240 You know we use hope in our vernacular, in our culture as kind of a weak word. 386 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,960 We synonymous with hope is the word wish. 387 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,760 I wish, I wish, I wish. 388 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,920 I hope. 389 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,920 It's not used that way in the scriptures at all. 390 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:28,280 And actually you know the Hebrew, the Greek, the way it's used in the Book of Mormon is 391 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,560 hope means assurance. 392 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:37,880 Hope means we can, we get a glimpse of the end from the beginning. 393 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:43,680 And I love how Moroni describes it in Moroni chapter 7 when he talks about the gifts of 394 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,840 faith, hope and charity. 395 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:53,920 And he says here, and again my beloved brother, and this is verse 40 in Moroni chapter 7, 396 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,960 I would speak unto you concerning hope. 397 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:03,440 How is it that ye can attain unto faith, save ye shall have hope? 398 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:09,440 Well he begins this discussion, I won't read more, our readers hopefully can go and review 399 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:16,960 this, but he talks about the connection between faith, hope and charity. 400 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:21,600 You know these are separate gifts of the Spirit but they are inextricably linked. 401 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:28,360 And I, in verse 40 he says how is it that ye can attain, he doesn't say obtain. 402 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:29,360 Attain. 403 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:34,320 Attain unto faith, save ye shall have hope. 404 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:42,960 Well I've looked up the word, I've studied the history etymology of the word attain. 405 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,560 It means to endure. 406 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:55,040 So what he's really asking here is how can ye endure in faith if you don't have hope? 407 00:33:55,040 --> 00:34:02,240 And it's really true, if I can't kind of see, get a glimpse by the Spirit as a gift of the 408 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,880 Spirit, I can't do this on my own, it comes by revelation. 409 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:12,040 If I can't kind of see the end, something of the end, something of a glimpse of how 410 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,800 through the atonement of Jesus Christ and His mercy and grace, how this is all going 411 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:23,240 to turn out, man it would be really tough to endure in faith. 412 00:34:23,240 --> 00:34:30,360 But when we can receive revelation and obtain the gift of, obtain the gift of hope, we can 413 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,880 attain unto faith or endure in faith. 414 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:39,080 So if we're struggling with that, that is your recipe, that's the anecdote. 415 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:45,000 If we're struggling with that to have the Spirit to attain that type of hope through 416 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:51,440 a conscious effort, through a conscious contact, like I just read a few minutes ago, praying 417 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:56,360 only for a knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out, there can be 418 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,440 great benefit to that. 419 00:34:58,440 --> 00:34:59,440 So. 420 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:07,520 Takes great revelation, takes patience, we can't dictate or manipulate revelation in 421 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:08,520 our life. 422 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,000 We've learned that. 423 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:16,520 It comes in really quiet moments, we need to spend more time in not just expressing 424 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:26,920 our righteous desires and our will, we need to spend more time listening for His desires, 425 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,720 His knowledge and receiving His will. 426 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:36,000 That takes listening and revelation, lots of meditation. 427 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:41,680 Well, so we move now into more on faith. 428 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:48,880 And I think this is a perfect jumping off point to do that as we conclude that part 429 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:49,880 of it. 430 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,680 Hopefully that answer was helpful. 431 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:59,960 Hopefully it can provide some perhaps some insight and so forth. 432 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:05,920 So for those of us who sometimes struggle with that, maybe that can can be of help. 433 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:10,680 Last week in the week prior, we began to talk about faith and we did talk somewhat about 434 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,120 faith in the name of Christ. 435 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:18,480 So so far we we know that the first principle of the gospel and the first principle of the 436 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:24,600 doctrine of Christ is faith, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and faith in the Lord Jesus 437 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:31,320 Christ might some be somewhat different than faith in the name of Christ, faith in His name. 438 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:40,600 I just want to read real quick, this will be recognizable to many to those who aren't. 439 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,360 This is a prayer that is part of prayer. 440 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:47,400 I'm not going to read the whole thing just because of the sacred sacred nature of the 441 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:48,400 prayer. 442 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:49,680 But I am going to read a portion of it. 443 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:59,120 This is a prayer that's offered upon our sacrament or upon our our last supper remembrance that 444 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:04,000 we participate in as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on us 445 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,880 on a weekly basis every Sunday. 446 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:13,040 We do this in remembrance of as we were as he commanded us to do it actually at his last 447 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:14,200 supper. 448 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,120 And this is part of it. 449 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,120 We're making covenants. 450 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,520 We're actually renewing covenants here. 451 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:25,560 And this is what it says with it and witness unto thee that they are willing to take upon 452 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:32,320 them the name of thy Son and always remember him and keep his commandments which he has 453 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,480 given them. 454 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:38,000 And here's the promise back to us that they may always have his spirit to be with them. 455 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,000 Now what does that mean? 456 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:44,120 To always have his spirit to be with them, to always have his spirit to be with us. 457 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:48,240 We go back to the administration of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. 458 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:51,760 That is how it is enacted in our lives. 459 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,920 That's how we put it on. 460 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:58,920 And so again, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son. 461 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:04,320 That's a requirement for us in order for us to be able to participate fully in the blessings 462 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,800 of this covenant that we are here by renewing. 463 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,520 So David, where do we go? 464 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:16,400 Well willing, willing to take upon them the name. 465 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:21,740 That obviously is looking forward or into the future. 466 00:38:21,740 --> 00:38:27,920 So what does it mean to really take upon ourself his name? 467 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:33,560 And what does it really mean to have faith in his name or faith on his name? 468 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:39,360 So that's what we can discuss, Day Scott. 469 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:46,520 I've just been impressed over many years of study and I think it goes back to a book 470 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:47,680 that I read. 471 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:54,320 I think I've been studying this, thinking about this, pondering this for probably 25 472 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:55,400 years, Scott. 473 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,040 Half your life. 474 00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,000 I wish. 475 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,000 I wish. 476 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,040 Maybe, maybe a little less than half a year. 477 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,520 Or yeah, quite a bit less. 478 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:17,160 So anyway, in 1997, I happened to be in Rexburg, Idaho and I saw this book for sale. 479 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:23,440 It was at Bia Walmart, which I thought was kind of weird, but Utah town and being there 480 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,960 at BYU Idaho for some meetings. 481 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:33,640 You called it a Utah town, which folks in Rexburg may take exception to that. 482 00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,840 Sorry to our Idaho friends. 483 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,120 Certainly a influence, right? 484 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:45,040 A Mormon town in Rexburg at BYU Idaho and I had some time to kill one evening. 485 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:50,520 I went in there and there was this book that I'd never seen before and it was entitled 486 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:59,400 His Holy Name by Elder Dallin A. Chokes, who had been an apostle for 13 years, was called 487 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:06,560 in 1984 and one of my favorites and I picked up his book and I thought, well, this is probably 488 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:14,080 just some conference talks he's given and I read the preface and this preface really 489 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,560 affected me, Scott. 490 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:21,440 And so it's become kind of a personal study of mine. 491 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,200 This is what Elder Oaks writes. 492 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:31,720 When I was called as an apostle, I went to the scriptures for illumination on my responsibilities. 493 00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:38,000 I found that I was called to be one of the special witnesses of the name of Christ in 494 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,000 all the world. 495 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:47,480 Dr. Incom's 107, verse 23, a witness of Christ I could understand, but why a witness of the 496 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,000 name of Christ? 497 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:56,960 Sensitized by this unanswered question, I have been amazed at how often scriptural teachings 498 00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:05,520 on very important subjects refer to the name of Jesus Christ rather than to just the Savior 499 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,720 Himself. 500 00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:15,400 There is something important here, something here to for rarely discussed in our literature. 501 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,280 Then he continues. 502 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,160 This is the paragraph that really got me. 503 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:25,920 This book, this little book and I think it's 99 pages long. 504 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:33,840 This little book is the product of more than a decade, 10 years of prayerful study and pondering 505 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:41,720 on the meaning and significance of scriptural references to the holy name of Jesus Christ. 506 00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:44,480 Wow, I got thinking about that. 507 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,760 And of course I purchased the book and couldn't wait. 508 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:54,120 I read it before I ever left the Rexburg Idaho and went back to my home in Lakeville, Minnesota. 509 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,680 I read the book, I pondered it, I looked up the scriptures. 510 00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:07,680 It's just been a passionate study for me for 25 years now. 511 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,400 And I think it's really significant. 512 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,760 I hope it will be to our listeners. 513 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:19,280 But it was amazing to me as I began to make this study of how many times, how sensitized 514 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:27,120 I became by the phrase that is over and over again, dozens of times in the scriptures, 515 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,320 let's say faith in his name. 516 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:36,120 It doesn't just say faith in Christ or faith in our Savior or faith in our Redeemer. 517 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:37,720 It says faith in his name. 518 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:41,120 I'll give you just a couple of examples of this. 519 00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:48,320 We just read from Moroni 7 and in that chapter alone, it's multiple times in this chapter. 520 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:53,400 So just briefly, I'll skip around. 521 00:42:53,400 --> 00:43:00,400 In Moroni 7 38, for no man can be saved according to the words of Christ, save they shall have 522 00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:05,400 faith in his name, faith in his name. 523 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:11,440 And then it talks about redemption and in so many other places throughout the scriptures, 524 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:20,000 New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, it talks about the power of faith, 525 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:26,120 not just in Christ, but faith in the name of Christ. 526 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:33,600 In King Benjamin, you remember in King Benjamin's address, he called all the people together, 527 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:39,040 not just to reign his son as king, taking his place. 528 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:45,280 But we learn in chapter one of Mosiah that he brought them together to bestow upon them 529 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,040 a name. 530 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:53,320 And over and over again in King Benjamin's address, he talks about the importance of 531 00:43:53,320 --> 00:44:01,240 the name in verse nine of chapter three, he says, and lo, he, speaking of Christ, cometh 532 00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:09,600 unto his own, that salvation might come unto the children of men, even through faith on 533 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,760 his name. 534 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:19,440 Faith on his name bringeth exaltation, which usually the word salvation means in the Book 535 00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:24,880 of Mormon, salvation exaltation, I believe in the Book of Mormon are almost always synonymous. 536 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:31,040 And over and over again in this amazing discourse of King Benjamin, he talks about the power 537 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:35,720 and the importance of the name of Christ. 538 00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:42,640 In verse 17, he says, there's no other name given nor any other way nor means, whereby 539 00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:50,240 salvation can come unto the children of men only in and through the name of Christ, the 540 00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:52,920 Lord of omnipotent. 541 00:44:52,920 --> 00:45:00,720 In chapter, if I skip over to chapter five, and I think we've read this verse before, 542 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:06,760 after all of those who have taken upon themselves the name, which King Benjamin bestows upon 543 00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:13,600 these people, which I believe is more than just being baptized, Scott, in this experience 544 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:18,360 with King Benjamin and his people, they're near the temple, they face the temple. 545 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,440 I think this is really a temple discourse. 546 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,360 You know, maybe I'll pause here for just a minute. 547 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:31,240 There's two ways for us to take upon ourselves the name of Christ. 548 00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:34,320 And one of those is by baptism. 549 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:39,240 And he describes that here in Mosiah chapter five, verse seven. 550 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:44,800 And now because of the covenant which he have made through baptism, ye shall be called the 551 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:50,100 children of Christ, his sons and daughters. 552 00:45:50,100 --> 00:45:55,440 For behold, this day he has spiritually begotten you, for ye say that your hearts are changed 553 00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,600 through faith on his name. 554 00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,760 Through faith on his name, are you changed? 555 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,040 For ye are born of him and have become his sons and daughters. 556 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:13,340 So we can become the sons and daughters of Christ through baptismal ordinance and becoming 557 00:46:13,340 --> 00:46:16,360 members of his church. 558 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:22,800 And verse eight goes on and says, and under this head ye are made free. 559 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:27,400 And there is no other head by whereby ye can be made free. 560 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,520 There is no other name given whereby salvation. 561 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,560 Or we could say exaltation cometh. 562 00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:42,960 Therefore I would that ye should take upon you that ye should in the future take upon 563 00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:48,840 you this willingness to take upon ourselves the name of Christ. 564 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:55,000 Which I would that ye should take upon you the name of Christ, all you that have entered 565 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,440 into the covenant with God. 566 00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:03,800 And over and over again he refers to the importance and the power of taking upon ourselves the 567 00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:05,320 name of Christ. 568 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:14,080 So when we, when you read the scripture of the sacrament prayer, that we are willing 569 00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:18,580 by partaking of the sacrament, we show that we are willing to take upon ourselves the 570 00:47:18,580 --> 00:47:21,840 name of Christ. 571 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,680 We took upon ourselves the name of Christ when we were baptized. 572 00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:32,920 But when we renew that covenant as we participate in the sacrament, the ordinance of the sacrament, 573 00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:37,440 we are looking forward to the temple. 574 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:44,480 And when we go to the temple, Scott, we are told in doctrine, covenant section 109 in 575 00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:52,960 the dedicatory prayer of the Kirtland temple, the first temple in this dispensation. 576 00:47:52,960 --> 00:48:00,680 We are told multiple times in that section in that dedicatory prayer that when we go 577 00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:07,680 to the temple, the house of the Lord, we take upon ourselves his name. 578 00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:12,240 And it's in the house of the Lord through the ordinances and the covenants that are 579 00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:18,560 received there that we become joint heirs with Jesus Christ. 580 00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:23,560 Dave, let me, let me read those, can I? 581 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,760 I think it's important because I think that in order for us to really catch the enormity 582 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:31,240 of what you're about to say or what you're currently saying here, it would help us to 583 00:48:31,240 --> 00:48:32,240 read this. 584 00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:36,200 So remember, this is the dedicatory prayer at the Kirtland temple. 585 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,080 And I'm going to start in verse 21. 586 00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:39,800 I'll do a little bit of skip. 587 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:41,240 Actually I'm going to start in verse 22. 588 00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:42,560 I'll do a little bit of skipping around. 589 00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:45,120 I'll try and let you know when that happens. 590 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:52,320 But it goes on, and we ask the Holy Father that thy servants may go forth from this house, 591 00:48:52,320 --> 00:49:01,520 from this house armed with thy power, and that thy name may be upon them, and thy glory 592 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:02,560 be round about them. 593 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:07,360 It seems like that those two things may be kind of conjoined there, the name and the 594 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:09,280 glory, right? 595 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,320 About them and thy angels have charged over them. 596 00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:18,560 And then I'm going to skip to verse 24, we ask the Holy Father to establish the people 597 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:26,600 that shall worship and honorably hold a name and standing in this thy house. 598 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:31,440 And then again in 26, that no combination of wickedness shall have power. 599 00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:36,720 This is going to be comforting, and I think that we can derive a great deal of hope and 600 00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:41,280 inspiration in our own personal lives as we consider this final verse that I'll be sharing. 601 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:47,720 Here, that no combination of wickedness shall have power to rise up and prevail over the 602 00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:49,440 people upon whom. 603 00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,760 Now let's just pause for a second. 604 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:56,440 What kind of combination of wickedness shall have power to rise up and prevail over this 605 00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:57,440 thy people? 606 00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:59,560 Let's consider that in our own lives. 607 00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:05,640 What combination of wickedness shall have power to rise up and prevail over me, Scott 608 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:11,680 Durfee, over my family, over my friends, what combination of wickedness shall have power 609 00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:13,360 to rise up and prevail? 610 00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:17,200 Yeah, so this is one of the great promises, right? 611 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:24,440 That President Nelson and the prophets and the brother and sisters are leaders within 612 00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:26,360 the church. 613 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:35,520 Keep reiterating and repeating is this promise that if we go to the temple more often. 614 00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:41,080 We'll have greater power to overcome the temptations of the adversary. 615 00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:42,960 So go ahead and read that verse again. 616 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:47,360 I'm going to read the entirety of 26 that no combination. 617 00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:53,120 So this again is in 109 section 109 of the Doctrine and Covenants Restoration Scripture 618 00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:59,200 verse 26 that no combination of wickedness shall have power to rise up and prevail over 619 00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:06,960 thy people, what people upon whom thy name shall be put in this house. 620 00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,280 Yes, what a promise. 621 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:10,780 What a promise. 622 00:51:10,780 --> 00:51:16,000 The name shall be put upon us. 623 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,880 We take upon ourselves the name. 624 00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:27,040 So Scott, in our culture, almost all cultures of the world, we take upon ourselves a name 625 00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:35,680 and that name is sacred, especially in the ancient cultures, Semitic Middle East cultures. 626 00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:42,680 Name was sacred and it has great meaning and great significance. 627 00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:52,400 For example, if I'm born, I take upon myself the name, the surname of my father. 628 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:58,240 And I must, so my last name's Durfee, your last name's Durfee. 629 00:51:58,240 --> 00:51:59,240 That's really sacred. 630 00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:02,880 That means something to have that name, right? 631 00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:10,000 Put upon us to have that name and to try to hold that name in honor and to keep that 632 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,400 name honorable. 633 00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:23,080 Now in our culture, when one is married, a woman takes upon herself the name of her 634 00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,440 husband. 635 00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:32,040 They share the same name in order that they may become one. 636 00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:41,800 They take on the same contractual covenant relationship. 637 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:46,560 One of the things that come from that, Dave, is they're identified one by the other. 638 00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,040 I mean, their identification, they become one. 639 00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:55,440 So as we take up on the name of Christ, that becomes part of our identification. 640 00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:56,720 Yes. 641 00:52:56,720 --> 00:53:02,840 And we're promised that we will be joint heirs. 642 00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:07,360 We're joint heirs with Christ. 643 00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:16,160 When I go to the temple, this is the thought that motivates me the most, that I ponder 644 00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:20,680 continually when I'm in there, is what I'm doing. 645 00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:32,200 And it's in a way, it represents, and is symbolic of the ancient marriage of Israel to God, 646 00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:37,280 to Yahweh in the Old Testament, or Jesus Christ, Jehovah. 647 00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:44,920 And when I'm going to the house of the Lord, I'm reenacting this marriage or this covenant 648 00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:46,200 relationship. 649 00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:52,280 So we're not just no longer are we when we go to the house of the Lord, are we just 650 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:58,360 sons and daughters of Christ as we become when we're baptized. 651 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:04,640 But when we go to the house of the Lord, we become more than sons and daughters. 652 00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:09,140 We become joint heirs with Christ. 653 00:54:09,140 --> 00:54:17,180 So when we talk about the name of Christ, and when we talk about having faith in Christ 654 00:54:17,180 --> 00:54:25,520 versus having faith in the name of Christ, Scott, think about what that means and the 655 00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:33,880 power and the difference that can make in our life, that we are his and he is ours, 656 00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:39,960 that we are one joint heirs in Christ. 657 00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:44,680 There's just so many sacred things that could be said about this that I hesitate that we 658 00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:48,680 can't really talk about because we'd have to be in the house of the Lord and the temple 659 00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,440 to talk about them. 660 00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:56,480 But as our listeners maybe return to the house of the Lord, or maybe some of our listeners 661 00:54:56,480 --> 00:55:02,880 haven't yet gone to the house of the Lord, the whole purpose of that is to be able to 662 00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:11,520 enter into a relationship with Christ that is more intimate than just being baptized 663 00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:16,360 and to take upon ourselves his name. 664 00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:24,800 So everything that the gospel is about is to enter into a covenant relationship with 665 00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:32,880 Jesus Christ, becoming a joint heir with him that we may return to our heavenly Father 666 00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:37,280 and our heavenly home with Christ as a joint heir. 667 00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:44,520 I think it's important that we understand the differentiation here and it's complex, 668 00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:50,560 it's multifaceted for sure, but I think that we can begin understanding the difference 669 00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:58,320 between faith in Jesus and faith in the name of Jesus by understanding the power that's 670 00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,880 attached to the name of Jesus. 671 00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:06,200 Not that there's not power in Jesus, there is power in Jesus, that's where the power 672 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:07,200 of the name comes from. 673 00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:11,640 That's where the power of the name comes from, but it is through the name. 674 00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:18,360 It is the power and the faith in the name of Christ that allows us to become as you said 675 00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:19,360 at joint heirs. 676 00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,640 Well, I invite our listeners to make a study of this. 677 00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:30,000 It doesn't have to be a 25-year study off and on as I have done or Elder Oates, a much 678 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:35,960 more intense study for 10 years, which he did, to understand his call as an apostle and 679 00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:42,120 what it means to be a special witness of the name of Christ in all the world. 680 00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:49,480 I invite our listeners to make maybe something of a study and to begin to at least identify 681 00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:57,640 how many times in the scriptures they read the term in the name or on his name, faith 682 00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:01,840 in his name, faith on his name. 683 00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:10,240 That is over and over and over again in the scriptures and for many it's somewhat hidden 684 00:57:10,240 --> 00:57:14,080 and it's part of the mystery that I think is hidden. 685 00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:20,860 I think the word mystireia in the Greek means kind of an ancient ordinance or a kind of 686 00:57:20,860 --> 00:57:29,520 acting out, reenacting the marriage, the covenant marriage. 687 00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:37,200 So I just invite our listeners to begin to notice it as they study their scriptures and 688 00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:45,920 to begin to give it more attention because I think it can help us to increase our focus. 689 00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:52,240 We talked a lot about that a few times ago, in order to have faith in Christ we must change 690 00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,680 our focus. 691 00:57:54,680 --> 00:58:01,800 Well to focus on the importance of what it means to take upon ourselves the name of Christ, 692 00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:11,360 our willingness and our actions taking upon ourselves the name of Christ changes my focus. 693 00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:20,960 I think of this often and it uplifts me, it inspires me, it draws me closer I know to 694 00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:27,520 Jesus Christ when I ponder what it means to take upon ourselves his name. 695 00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:34,800 Wow, an awful lot to talk about this week and we are bumping right up against our commitment 696 00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:38,880 to trying to keep these at about one hour. 697 00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:40,080 Great stuff today. 698 00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:44,440 You think maybe we will need to talk more about this next time? 699 00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:52,600 You know something else that I have kind of a passion about, it's a discussion which we 700 00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:57,680 should have some time about what it means to call upon the name. 701 00:58:57,680 --> 00:59:06,280 Over and over in the scriptures we read that phrase, to call upon the name of the Lord. 702 00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:11,760 Well that will lead us into what it really means to repent because calling upon the 703 00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:17,600 name of the Lord means more than just praying in the name of the Lord. 704 00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:24,920 I know it means that in the very simplest, lowest level, calling upon the name of the 705 00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,000 Lord means to pray. 706 00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:34,200 But it's a much more active prayer filled with faith and Amulet describes it calling 707 00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:42,440 upon the name of the Lord is faith unto repentance that we go to him with a broken heart and 708 00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:44,160 contrite spirit. 709 00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:49,320 So I don't know maybe that's all we need to say but it's an interesting study to really 710 00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:53,200 study what it means to call upon the name of the Lord. 711 00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:54,880 I think we need to talk about that. 712 00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:56,680 I think that I've just made a note. 713 00:59:56,680 --> 01:00:01,280 I think in our next episode we will talk about calling upon the name of the Lord because 714 01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:04,040 you know if we think about it, what are we talking about here? 715 01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:08,920 Our purpose and our mission here is to understand how to invoke the blessings and the power of 716 01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:11,760 Christ through His Atonement in our lives. 717 01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:17,240 And if we understand how to call and the importance of calling upon His name, I think that will 718 01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,760 further enhance our development around that, don't you? 719 01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:21,760 Yeah. 720 01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:28,720 It's an important part of what our title of our podcast is, is redemption through His 721 01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:32,760 blood and calling upon His name includes that. 722 01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:34,200 All right. 723 01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:36,160 Any final thoughts for us today? 724 01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:39,760 I've probably said more than I should have today. 725 01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:44,320 And you have left us wanting more so we're looking forward to that. 726 01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:46,280 I hope our listeners will study it. 727 01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:51,560 There are so many scriptures we could have read on this subject that we did and I hope 728 01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:56,360 they'll be led by the Spirit in their study and find those verses. 729 01:00:56,360 --> 01:01:00,960 It was just a few months ago that David introduced this book that he's been making reference 730 01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:06,480 to to me very beginning when we even first started talking about and entertaining the 731 01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:09,280 idea of doing a podcast like this. 732 01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:15,760 And I can tell you, he may have read it in one sitting, but there is he didn't study 733 01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:17,560 it all in one sitting. 734 01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:18,560 It's so full. 735 01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:20,280 Yeah, I didn't sleep that night. 736 01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:22,120 I didn't sleep that night when I started into this. 737 01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:24,200 It really had a profound effect on me. 738 01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,280 And you know, one last thing. 739 01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:32,800 In essence, what Elder Oaks kind of concludes in his book is that we are saved by faith 740 01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:34,760 in Jesus Christ. 741 01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:41,280 But we are exalted by faith in the name of Jesus Christ. 742 01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:42,280 Yeah. 743 01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:43,280 Yeah. 744 01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:50,080 So faith in the name of Jesus Christ is what allows us to participate in the crowning ordinances 745 01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:52,760 of the gospel within the walls of the temple. 746 01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:54,960 It's a covenant relationship. 747 01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:56,520 Exactly. 748 01:01:56,520 --> 01:01:58,080 What a great podcast. 749 01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:02,120 It's I think it's been again to it's been that way for me. 750 01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:03,120 These all are. 751 01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:04,120 I learned so much. 752 01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:08,680 I learned so much from the spirit right here in our little recording studio slash office 753 01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:09,680 in my home. 754 01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:12,960 And we're just grateful for the opportunity. 755 01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:16,400 We gave gave us a couple of challenges last week. 756 01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,120 I just want to remind you of one. 757 01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:24,960 He reminded us that it would be important or a good exercise for us to consider the things 758 01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:31,600 in our life that we could eliminate things that we should stop doing or things that we 759 01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:37,720 should start doing in order for us to have our will swallowed up by our Heavenly Father's 760 01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:38,720 will. 761 01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:42,280 He extended that invitation to us last week and I hope that we've participated in it. 762 01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:43,440 If we haven't. 763 01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:48,360 Here's another reminder and this is something that perhaps would be an ongoing participation 764 01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:55,320 maybe part of a daily study in meditation and now now today he's also invited us to 765 01:02:55,320 --> 01:03:01,320 study what it means to take upon us the name of Christ to understand what it means to do 766 01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:05,400 things in his holy name and all of that. 767 01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:06,960 So great day today. 768 01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:10,160 We're looking forward to being with you again next week. 769 01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:16,800 My invitation to you would be to do all that we can to maintain that conscious contact 770 01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:23,920 with our Heavenly Father to deeper under our understanding of him as we go along in every 771 01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:33,960 possible way that we can and then by so doing letting his will be ours and praying only for 772 01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:39,040 an understanding of that just to understand what his will is for me and then the power 773 01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:46,000 to carry that out empowers me to live a life of peace a life free of turmoil even when 774 01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:49,560 things get challenging and I'm grateful to know that today. 775 01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:50,680 Thanks for being with us. 776 01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,080 We look forward to being with you again next week. 777 01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:54,840 May God bless you until then take care.