0:00:00 - 0:00:32 OK. So, um uh sometimes in signal processing, you get this pattern um that you could refer to as impulses and echoes. And um that's an interesting idea, but I mention it because a lot of times, well, I'll go broader with this than I was intending to the, what I share on this channel. Um I have a few 0:00:32 - 0:00:56 rules about one of those rules is that I try really hard not to say anything that I haven't already written and published. There are some exceptions to that rule. Um Sometimes talking about it helps formulate the ideas and facilitates writing uh better and more quickly than I otherwise could. Um But 0:00:56 - 0:01:19 for the most part, this is just water spilling over a dam that has been filling for a very long time. And um mostly it's just like the trickle that comes out from the bottom um or spills over the top. And um it reminds me of this rock face that's uh on one of the cliffs between town and my house where 0:01:19 - 0:01:40 there are mountains, they're very high. And um it, it, it compresses the water table and puts tremendous pressure on the groundwater and even though there's tons and tons of water up there from the snow pack. Um, there's just a, a, an oozing trickle on the rock face and, uh, it's quite pretty in the 0:01:39 - 0:02:02 wintertime. It all freezes in these cascading icicles. But you're getting some, some oozing water and that's it for now. Um, and that's just the way it is. But, um, when these echoes happen it makes it really difficult to, uh, for, for many reasons. It's very hard to turn this off. It's not like a fountain 0:02:01 - 0:02:21 , uh like a um like a hydrant, uh like a yard hydrant or a faucet where you can just turn it off and walk away and go about your business. Um It's kind of like a high pressure deal where it takes a lot of effort to turn it off. And even as you do, there's stuff that keeps coming out. Um And that's why 0:02:21 - 0:02:42 this impulse and echo idea. I think it's an accurate description of what I go through when I do share things. It's very hard to move on to other things because the spirit doesn't just say, ok, we're done. And so you're thinking about something and then you go because the world, the way our modern world 0:02:42 - 0:03:07 especially works is it doesn't afford you the opportunity to easily, keep easily, hold revelation from God as the top priority. So when God's speaking to you, you stop whatever you're doing, you go do what he's saying now um, that's no excuse. And it, it's, uh, you, you, it's unavoidable that if you 0:03:07 - 0:03:24 want to go into the stream of greater frequency and content of God's word, you absolutely have to change your life around so that you can yield to the spirit at all times. Uh, whatever that looks like and whatever that takes, however long it takes, whatever sacrifices it takes. It's, it's certainly worth 0:03:24 - 0:03:47 it. Um, because the spirit quickens all things and, and, and it's just not, it's not just the spirit, anything with God. That is the stream of improvement. That is the stream of what is best, no matter how unlike that, it might seem in the moment. Um If you stick with it, you'll, you'll receive cascading 0:03:46 - 0:04:08 evidences that what I'm saying in that regard is true. But anyway, um so these echoes, the, these echoes can, can be um, well, they just are, you can't call them frustrating or anything else. It's wonderful to get revelation. But when you get right in the stream of things, you just have to be ready for 0:04:08 - 0:04:30 these echoes because they come and if you ignore them, you get less. So here's some echoes that I have spent time since the last video writing. And um I'm supposed to say these things too. OK. So, back onto the topic of mixing and separating, you have the mixing bowl analogy and you're adding stuff and 0:04:30 - 0:04:57 then it gets mixed up and then you have to take things out that are less valuable. I'm gonna take that a little further. Um, so some of the changes that occur are the things that seemed good. Seem less good. Now, why? Because it's all relative. And, uh, I, I'll go ahead and say, um, there's this phrase 0:04:57 - 0:05:32 , moral relativism and when I say relative, I don't mean that when I say progressive, I don't mean the political, uh, ideology that sort of usurped the real meaning of the word. Um What I mean is that um truth is successive. It's hierarchical and um it's always about what's best based on your present 0:05:32 - 0:05:55 understanding which uh will improve over time and that causes things to shift. And I've made videos and I've talked about this in the glory of God is intelligence is I think a very important book. So if you haven't read that you might want to. Um And it's a meaty book, that book could have easily been 0:05:54 - 0:06:15 five or 10 times longer. Um But it was too long already. We just had to kind of be satisfied with touching on things and moving on and, and just packing things in and letting folks sort it out. Um I will return to some of those themes in greater detail, in different contexts, in books that are in progress 0:06:14 - 0:06:37 . Um But they, they won't supplant those things. It's, it's uh it's like being bombarded by radiation from all sides. It has a greater effect than just one directed stream. Um So good and bad they flip flop. I've, I've made videos about that too. I think I already said that. Um explaining it in at least 0:06:37 - 0:06:57 two different ways. Uh Like with buckets, you have a good bucket and a bad bucket and things move around, but also the goodness and badness of things changes. And so one idea that's been bouncing around my head for a long time recently, um That's probably an oxymoron bouncing around a lot in my mind 0:06:57 - 0:00:00 recently is the idea of Jesus cleansing the temple and how the theme is uh extreme when extremes are not extremes. So a lot of what we see in the scriptures, uh, we see good people doing exemplary people doing would be regarded as extreme or even illegal today, uh, or in different contexts. And, um, 0:00:00 - 0:07:41 and yet it was the right thing to do at that time and you ask yourself, why is it limited to the fact that our laws have shifted or whatever? Um, the answer is no. And that the principal reason that their behavior is so different and so extreme is that they understood consequences in reality far more 0:07:41 - 0:08:05 than we do, uh, on average and, and what's baked into our system. So, um, you know, uh, there's a time and a place where making a handmade whip and chasing people and, and lashing anyone you can catch and flipping over tables and making a real scene is exactly the right thing to do it and anything less 0:08:05 - 0:08:25 would be inappropriate and, and people weasel out of this one saying, whoa, that was Jesus. I don't know that there's a spot anywhere in the scriptures that says, don't do what Jesus did. I'm only aware of the opposite and, and I'm only aware of scriptures to say if there's a difference between you and 0:08:24 - 0:08:51 Jesus, that's something you should change. I don't see anything about the opposite. So if you see that, let me know and I'm happy to be educated. Um so good and bad, they can, they can change the, the the degree of good and bad can change as these new things are being mixed in. And um one thing that 0:08:51 - 0:09:17 that is worth highlighting is um something that was good can become really good. Something that was really good before can be re uh suddenly um juxtaposed with something even better that was in the new um amendments, the new things that were added, it could be way better than what was seen as previously 0:09:17 - 0:09:39 the best. So all of these kinds of changes and then you could do the same with the negative side of things and what before seemed ok, now seems really bad. And uh I I interestingly if you care to know um if you ask the question, which of these changes will get you in the most trouble. That that's an 0:09:39 - 0:09:58 interesting line of questioning both with yourself and what you're gonna go do just in your own private life. But then especially in what you say and do to influence others to come to the same understanding that you've come to, I'll tell you what people hate. It seems more than anything else is when 0:09:58 - 0:10:19 , what they thought was good is suddenly shown to be bad. That seems to be the, the hardest shift. So if you go to someone and you just kind of poke them and say, hey, there's this thing and it's bad and you knew it was bad, but I'm just reminding you it's bad. They're like, yeah, yeah. Ok. And they 0:10:19 - 0:10:37 might even come to see you once a week on a Sunday and the preacher up there saying, oh, we need to forgive our enemies and we need to help the poor and all these things you've heard 10 billion times and somewhere between, well, I do these minimal things so I don't feel guilty about it and, um, I've 0:10:37 - 0:10:54 heard this so many times. I just don't care anymore and I don't feel guilty about it. Somewhere between those. You're ok and you just, you keep coming, you'll give them money. Uh, you'll spend all your time there and it's cool. Right. And you'll own the fact that you're that flavor of religion and whatever 0:10:53 - 0:11:18 . You'll probably wave the flag if I'm this, I'm that, but the second someone comes along and says, hey, you think that thing or you know that thing that you do or don't do that you think makes you holy. It's actually abominable before God and God showed me this. So I have the tools to show you in clarity 0:11:17 - 0:11:43 and I can just give it to you. They will go crazy on you. Um And not in a good way, not in the way the band heart sings about. Um So why is that the case? Or should we be surprised that that's the case? There's a couple of scriptures that are really interesting because this is sort of a new idea. How 0:11:42 - 0:12:04 could something that I think makes me holy actually kind of make me a dirt bag. Um If you go to Daniel 10, for instance, you read about this is one example iii I kind of rag on the King James sometimes. I think um they did an excellent job considering the resources. It's amazing, but this is a place 0:12:03 - 0:12:28 where they nailed it. And that's when um it's phrased. Daniel says that when an angel came to him in glory all of a sudden, his comeliness was turned into corruption. I think it's a beautiful phrase. It's, it's very um it's almost visceral like it's a powerful way of saying it. So, um there are other 0:12:27 - 0:12:49 phrases too. I won't take the time to get into those scriptures, but it's a recurring theme and lo and behold, um Very holy people experience this. Daniel is used as an example of righteousness by name by God. So I, in whatever hierarchy there is like you're doing OK, if God uses you as an example of 0:12:49 - 0:13:17 righteousness, right, be like him. And uh so, um so it turns out i another theme that I keep, I keep dropping the phrase hidden holiness. Um And what I'm doing with all these phrases is I'm building a language, I'll tell you that I'm building a language. Um So the ideas are very big, but if we go through 0:13:16 - 0:13:37 them in long form and then we attach them to your experiences and then add some new things and then we, we develop this handle that has not been used by other people. So it's not um corrupted in your mind already. Um We, we put down a stake and say this is what hidden holiness means. And then all we 0:13:36 - 0:14:08 have to do is bring up the phrase and it all comes back, right? Um So, um so hidden holiness. Um One example of this is how does the person react to their comeliness being turned into corruption. And I will tell you this is more uh this is an easier, more accurate, direct way of predicting it. You know 0:14:08 - 0:14:32 , humans are, are the most complex creature on this planet. And yet you would be shocked once you start peeling back the layers and God teaches you some of these things about human nature, you would be shocked to learn how accurately and easily you can predict a person on, on how small a, a data set 0:14:32 - 0:14:53 . So the, the, the, with the tiniest set of observations, if this stuff has been beaten into you thoroughly enough, you can, you can see a person's whole life, past, present and future, you can see it as if it's right before your eyes. And, um, you can tell them things that they have never told a soul 0:14:53 - 0:15:18 . And I, I say, um, I've said in the past, if people knew how much of themselves they reveal in just a few words to one that has the spirit of God, they'd never open their mouths again. These are wicked people, but that's almost everybody. So um and it's a true thing. So the, the main motivation for 0:15:18 - 0:15:45 these folks is to hide because that's the way they deal with the fact that they're not who they know they could be. And while we're there, I'm just gonna go ahead and put that out there too. Please never misconstrue any criticisms I ever give anyone as uh tearing them down in any way. Every single time 0:15:44 - 0:16:15 I say something about anybody. There, there are rules that I follow. But one of them, the, the reason I say that is because I can see that they're actually better than that. Uh It's not on my notes. I actually have notes this time. I'm not just looking at random things to think, but I will bring up a 0:16:15 - 0:16:44 set of thoughts that, that uh are important. I wasn't planning on bringing this up, but the more you walk into the path of God, the more of him you see, he shows himself to you. Um And um this is actually on the next set of thoughts that's gonna be a separate video, this part. So I'll skip over that 0:16:44 - 0:17:09 . Um The more of him that you see, the more of him of you that you see and that goes the other way too. In fact, the other video will talk about the other direction of that relationship. The next video um here is something that you cannot escape from and it goes in a huge pile of stuff that I might call 0:17:08 - 0:17:33 the things you should be grateful for when it comes to where you stand with God. That could be phrased better reasons. You should be glad you're not closer to God than you are, right? Because we say we want XYZ and then when it's put right in front of us, we're like, I'm good, I'm good. So people come 0:17:33 - 0:17:53 to the tree of life and then they're ashamed. This is why because it's not what they thought it would be and what it is is actually what they don't want. So in this pile, now all these things are good. God is the epitome of good. It's just we hadn't figured it out yet, right? And if you don't have other 0:17:53 - 0:18:16 things in place like um unconditional trust in God as you get closer and closer, that becomes a bigger and bigger obstacle. Um So in this pile of things that you should probably be grateful for, uh you know, the fact that you're not closer to God is the following property that you cannot turn off as 0:18:16 - 0:18:45 you get closer. His light goes into your eyes and you can see, and I'm, I'm speaking figuratively here because I'm not talking about these eyes necessarily. Although I've met people who I believe, who really do see what I'm about to tell you. Um You can see more of the divine potential in all things 0:18:44 - 0:19:16 and in all people, um a great deal of what we observe in people today in terms of things that we too readily dismiss as mental health issues or other buzzwordy kind of properties. Ideas, too many of those things are actually spiritual properties that have everything to do with the quantity and quality 0:19:15 - 0:19:42 of people that have been reserved for the end times. That's a huge ball of wax that I'm not gonna get into more right now. But I'm telling you that's the way it is. Um So, um in that vein, there are people today. Now, the funny thing about each of these properties that um I I'll just mention one or two 0:19:42 - 0:20:11 here is that the same symptoms if you will uh can present for very different reasons. So I'm only talking about the good reasons they can be around. There are bad reasons too and there are other reasons, but there are people on the planet right now when they're walking around. It's like that movie Superman 0:20:10 - 0:20:34 with uh who's this guy? Henry Cavill, the first one in that series, there's a scene. So in that storyline, uh you, I mean, if you don't know about Superman, I don't know what rock you've been living under, but in that storyline, his superpowers don't really kick in until he hits puberty. So or something 0:20:33 - 0:20:54 like that as he gets older. So he's in school and it looks like maybe he's in elementary school and um he starts the, the superhero and super site kick in and it's just so overwhelming. They do a good job of cinematic effects to try to try to express what that would be like. He freaks out and he hides 0:20:54 - 0:21:15 a janitor closet and then his mom comes in and kind of tries to coach him back from the ledge figuratively speaking. And then later on, this comes back into the story because these people from who also escaped from his home planet come and uh they have protective suits or something, but they're in a 0:21:15 - 0:21:34 battle and they get knocked off. And so the the bad guy, um he's, he, he's just bombarded by all the supervision and superhero it all at once because he's a full grown kryptonian is a man. But um and Clark makes this comment about, oh, I've had my whole life to get used to it. How do you like it? And 0:21:34 - 0:22:03 then, you know, proceeds to kick his butt a little bit. And um I thought that, you know, God uses filmmakers like he does all of us and thank him for this. Thank God that he does this. Not only does he use us as much as we allow him to, he uses us as much as it would not violate our agency to do so a 0:22:03 - 0:22:35 as much as it would not minimize our potential benefit. He uses everyone. He uses the demon possessed, even he uses Satan himself. This is God's genius and his glory amongst innumerable other things because he's that good. So thank God for that. But uh he uses these filmmakers to put things in and the 0:22:35 - 0:22:55 other side uses them too. OK? But this is that discernment that mix everywhere you look, there's that mix and these nuggets are in there, you know, and even in movies that you might say are bad or whatever, it's like the leper that you can touch and heal. If you have the power of God within you, there 0:22:55 - 0:23:16 are ideas in that and maybe extracting them doesn't mean telling people to go see this movie. It's just for you internally, something changed because you experienced this, this information and now that changes something that you can share with others, you can bet that jesus' mortal life was filled with 0:23:16 - 0:23:53 experiences that are not directly conveyable to others and yet they changed him in a way that gave him the ability to convey those benefits in some partial fashion to others. That's actually the way covenants work. But anyway, so um excuse me. So in the movie Superman, um he gets hit with all of this 0:23:52 - 0:24:25 and this is something that is quite like the real version. Um a theme I've been hitting on lately and that I will continue to expand is the idea of differences between people and again and all of those that I bring up, I am not attempting to differentiate capacity. I'm differentiating actuality. In order 0:24:24 - 0:24:50 to help you see, your capacity is much greater than you thought, unfathomably greater than you ever thought. The amount of joy that you can feel, the amount of sorrow that you can feel. Those are obviously tied together, maybe not obviously, but it is they are tied together. The amount of holiness that 0:24:50 - 0:25:18 you can grow into. The amount of sacrifice that you can give for others and on and on and on. It's amazing how much human potential lies untapped only because people haven't seen an example. The power of example is another theme that you'll see me, write and talk more about and it is all about Jesus 0:25:17 - 0:25:47 . So um anyway, so super site super hearing, there are people on this planet right now, then when they walk around, all they can see and hear is potential for improvement. It's like almost a shouting voice to them, even if they don't hear it and even if they don't see it, it floods their awareness and 0:25:47 - 0:26:09 it is a, it is a thing that you have to get used to. I won't go as far as calling it painful. It is intense. Unfortunately, some people that have been sent here at this time for this reason, react to this by saying there's a pill for that. And I, that's a phrase I mentioned in a, a movie, a movie, a 0:26:09 - 0:26:31 video probably three years ago. And I only know because I randomly rewatched it the other day, uh, which I really don't like doing. It's, it's extremely demotivating to see just what things I've said before and then look at the response and I don't mean that how you'd probably presume, I mean that, uh 0:26:30 - 0:26:53 , I mean, it's, it's very demotivating to see things that you value so highly being taken so lightly, but it's not because of you, but I mentioned Jesus cleansing the temple. It wasn't because of him. It was because of his zeal for the father. And in a video I mentioned, uh, or made a short time ago 0:26:53 - 0:27:20 and I was talking about a book, I would crawl across the country on my hands and knees to get a copy of if I didn't already have one, it didn't know the things in it. I've read it. Um, if you ever ask yourself why you don't receive these things yet it's because you don't care as much. So, uh this, this 0:27:20 - 0:27:45 is completely related to the wheat and the chaff conversation because part of what has to happen for you to be winnowed is you have to be subjected to the winds and the fire. And the reason for that is not because God is cruel or I don't know what else you'd like to impose upon him. Uh for, for the harshness 0:27:44 - 0:28:08 of human experience. It's that there is only so much that can be done to, to persuade people to find value in what is actually valuable. And in many ways, the only way that can happen is beating you with oversized nunchucks, throwing you into the air, having the wind blow away everything you thought 0:28:07 - 0:28:29 was part of you or had any meaning in your life or value and then seeing the result and seeing how all that stuff that got taken out of you is super flammable and are taken away from you. It's super flammable. It's subject to something so prominent is a, it, you know, the ancients believed it was a fundamental 0:28:28 - 0:28:50 element because it was all over the place. And what's left has much, much more value than what you started with. But you, it had to be separated, taken out. There are things that you can only learn through experience. And if there were any other way God would, would make it possible. He'd pay the price 0:28:49 - 0:29:19 . People think uh uh you know, I've met a lot of people. I think it's a natural thought to think that God holds back. He never ever hold anything back. There is no price that he can pay that he has not already paid. And there is no price that he can currently pay that he's not already pay. He does absolutely 0:29:18 - 0:29:42 everything that can be done. The, the problem if I had to sum it up in the, the simplest terms is that the very things he does that no one else can do for our benefit that we otherwise would not have, prevent him from doing the other things that are sort of the only things we see, which are much lesser 0:29:42 - 0:30:05 things. And that's the opportunity of all the people who love him to serve him to serve others in this giant human chain that begins with the father and goes out to everybody in a, in a big sea of a flow of light. All right. Anyway, well, I'm trying to tie up some loose ends. I've introduced about a 0:30:05 - 0:30:30 million more. But um the getting back to the idea of Superman, uh so there are people who see these things and hear these things and uh as they go out and try to share what they, what they see, it's an extraordinarily painful situation because you can't turn it off and that I'm not just referring to 0:30:30 - 0:30:58 the information that's beaming into you all the time, what you actually see is, you see what you would do and say in their position and what God could do with you in their position. You see what you value what you would value, what you don't value all that projected out into a person or a thing. You 0:30:58 - 0:31:18 can walk through a park or, you know, a building site or some project at work and it's all the same. It's the light in your eyes that it comes from God and it comes commensurate with the quantity of light he's given you that you have access to. It's a bandwidth question and an experience and understanding 0:31:17 - 0:31:50 question. Um And uh you can't turn it off. So what ends up happening is you see this, how the light would work in their situation and it fills you with desire because when you're filled with light, all you want to see is the flow of light and um it consumes you in the best of ways and in attempting to 0:31:50 - 0:32:17 bring to pass more of the kingdom as it is in heaven on earth. In persuasive actions of trying to share uh motivation for the actions that are required to bring about the outcomes that you see in the eye of faith, you're almost guaranteed to end up in a situation where the fullness of what you see and 0:32:17 - 0:32:48 feel is blocked, partially in the best of cases and uh completely in the worst of cases and maybe in an even worse case, it's actively fought against. And when that happens, here's something you've never heard before. When that happens, how you feel is you feel as if you've done or haven't done what 0:32:48 - 0:33:19 they have done or haven't done. But with all your same understanding of God, so you haven't sinned, but you will feel as if you have and the reason is in some sort of metaphysical mechanics, the holy ghost through you is now offended by them, but they're too blind to see and feel that on the level you 0:33:19 - 0:33:48 do, they do feel it, but it's much more minimal because they're already sort of blind and, and, and uh uh constrained in what they can see and feel compared to what you can and you feel that pain gracefully. It's, it's temporary, but that's what you feel. And so it really is a price that you're paying 0:33:48 - 0:34:13 in extending light and truth to others in, in volunteering as a conduit for God to help reach others. And this is what Nephi was shown in the vision of the tree of life. And his angel guide talked about the love of God shedding itself abroad through the hearts of men. That's what I'm describing. It's 0:34:13 - 0:34:44 not put as clearly there, but that's, that's what it was all about is all about. So, um anyway, we come to see more good and more bad and this is so long. And so I hate making videos because I, I just can't turn this stuff off and everything that comes, I have to, I have to say it. Um, so I don't risk 0:34:44 - 0:35:17 not, not getting more. Um, but a point I don't want to close this out without saying is that as new stuff is added in and it's mixed up and separated again. Um One of the big problems people have is they hold to what was with something good before, but now has been revealed to not be what is good. Now 0:35:16 - 0:35:43 they hold to what was with good, but they perceived it as a whole as one good whole. And now it's been revealed to only be with what was good and they hold to it as if it's the good thing. Everything's about mixing and splitting and, and you only keep going up by spitting out the stuff that's no longer 0:35:42 - 0:36:06 as good as you thought it was as new things are added on. That's how you flow through and up, right? So at this is a huge pitfall. So many people fall for this. The saddest example of this are the people that have so much light that you can give them something that's not all that great and they will 0:36:05 - 0:36:29 extract immense value out of it. It's like uh someone's super thirsty and you give him this nasty putrid pool of water and they are just somehow extracting all this clean water out of it, but they don't. And this is where the analogy falls apart because it's so ridiculous. They can't see the difference 0:36:28 - 0:36:48 between the clean water and the filthy water. And as they're extracting it, the stuff left behind is even worse than what you started with. But they hold to all of it. They cling to all of it as misers of falsehood. Right. It happens. I've seen this so many times. It's like every day I see this and they 0:36:48 - 0:37:13 just can't see that the filth that's mixed into the water, they need to let it go. I'll end with this interesting idea. Um I I mentioned recently about familiarity and how it kind of blinds us. If you could read the vision of the treat, visions of the tree of life with fresh eyes. One of the things you 0:37:13 - 0:37:40 might notice is the connection between the fountain of water and the tree and the rod of iron because they are sort of described synonymously. And uh all three of them are the love of God. So they're three very different things. But you can, you can ponder that on your own, but zooming into the water 0:37:40 - 0:38:09 , it's filthy, is filthiness and it's a gulf that separates the wicked and the righteous and on and on. So how could a fountain that has filthy water be the love of God? And there's a lot you could talk about there. But staying on point, it's clean when it comes out. So when water flows down the river 0:38:08 - 0:38:33 , it's gonna be dirty towards the end because of all the sediment it picks up as it goes. There's adulteration happening in the flow. But that doesn't mean that that water didn't come from somewhere and wherever it came out of it was clean when it came out of the ground. So this is, uh, it's an inescapable 0:38:32 - 0:38:58 part of the nature of water that the further downstream you encounter it, the more dirt it's gonna have in it and you have to follow it upstream for it to become cleaner. If you hold to the dirty, nasty stuff, that's not part of what makes it valuable. You can't go upstream and I hope that that provides 0:00:00 - 0:00:32 OK. So, um uh sometimes in signal processing, you get this pattern um that you could refer to as impulses and echoes. And um that's an interesting idea, but I mention it because a lot of times, well, I'll go broader with this than I was intending to the, what I share on this channel. Um I have a few 0:00:32 - 0:00:56 rules about one of those rules is that I try really hard not to say anything that I haven't already written and published. There are some exceptions to that rule. Um Sometimes talking about it helps formulate the ideas and facilitates writing uh better and more quickly than I otherwise could. Um But 0:00:56 - 0:01:19 for the most part, this is just water spilling over a dam that has been filling for a very long time. And um mostly it's just like the trickle that comes out from the bottom um or spills over the top. And um it reminds me of this rock face that's uh on one of the cliffs between town and my house where 0:01:19 - 0:01:40 there are mountains, they're very high. And um it, it, it compresses the water table and puts tremendous pressure on the groundwater and even though there's tons and tons of water up there from the snow pack. Um, there's just a, a, an oozing trickle on the rock face and, uh, it's quite pretty in the 0:01:39 - 0:02:02 wintertime. It all freezes in these cascading icicles. But you're getting some, some oozing water and that's it for now. Um, and that's just the way it is. But, um, when these echoes happen it makes it really difficult to, uh, for, for many reasons. It's very hard to turn this off. It's not like a fountain 0:02:01 - 0:02:21 , uh like a um like a hydrant, uh like a yard hydrant or a faucet where you can just turn it off and walk away and go about your business. Um It's kind of like a high pressure deal where it takes a lot of effort to turn it off. And even as you do, there's stuff that keeps coming out. Um And that's why 0:02:21 - 0:02:42 this impulse and echo idea. I think it's an accurate description of what I go through when I do share things. It's very hard to move on to other things because the spirit doesn't just say, ok, we're done. And so you're thinking about something and then you go because the world, the way our modern world 0:02:42 - 0:03:07 especially works is it doesn't afford you the opportunity to easily, keep easily, hold revelation from God as the top priority. So when God's speaking to you, you stop whatever you're doing, you go do what he's saying now um, that's no excuse. And it, it's, uh, you, you, it's unavoidable that if you 0:03:07 - 0:03:24 want to go into the stream of greater frequency and content of God's word, you absolutely have to change your life around so that you can yield to the spirit at all times. Uh, whatever that looks like and whatever that takes, however long it takes, whatever sacrifices it takes. It's, it's certainly worth 0:03:24 - 0:03:47 it. Um, because the spirit quickens all things and, and, and it's just not, it's not just the spirit, anything with God. That is the stream of improvement. That is the stream of what is best, no matter how unlike that, it might seem in the moment. Um If you stick with it, you'll, you'll receive cascading 0:03:46 - 0:04:08 evidences that what I'm saying in that regard is true. But anyway, um so these echoes, the, these echoes can, can be um, well, they just are, you can't call them frustrating or anything else. It's wonderful to get revelation. But when you get right in the stream of things, you just have to be ready for 0:04:08 - 0:04:30 these echoes because they come and if you ignore them, you get less. So here's some echoes that I have spent time since the last video writing. And um I'm supposed to say these things too. OK. So, back onto the topic of mixing and separating, you have the mixing bowl analogy and you're adding stuff and 0:04:30 - 0:04:57 then it gets mixed up and then you have to take things out that are less valuable. I'm gonna take that a little further. Um, so some of the changes that occur are the things that seemed good. Seem less good. Now, why? Because it's all relative. And, uh, I, I'll go ahead and say, um, there's this phrase 0:04:57 - 0:05:32 , moral relativism and when I say relative, I don't mean that when I say progressive, I don't mean the political, uh, ideology that sort of usurped the real meaning of the word. Um What I mean is that um truth is successive. It's hierarchical and um it's always about what's best based on your present 0:05:32 - 0:05:55 understanding which uh will improve over time and that causes things to shift. And I've made videos and I've talked about this in the glory of God is intelligence is I think a very important book. So if you haven't read that you might want to. Um And it's a meaty book, that book could have easily been 0:05:54 - 0:06:15 five or 10 times longer. Um But it was too long already. We just had to kind of be satisfied with touching on things and moving on and, and just packing things in and letting folks sort it out. Um I will return to some of those themes in greater detail, in different contexts, in books that are in progress 0:06:14 - 0:06:37 . Um But they, they won't supplant those things. It's, it's uh it's like being bombarded by radiation from all sides. It has a greater effect than just one directed stream. Um So good and bad they flip flop. I've, I've made videos about that too. I think I already said that. Um explaining it in at least 0:06:37 - 0:06:57 two different ways. Uh Like with buckets, you have a good bucket and a bad bucket and things move around, but also the goodness and badness of things changes. And so one idea that's been bouncing around my head for a long time recently, um That's probably an oxymoron bouncing around a lot in my mind 0:06:57 - 0:00:00 recently is the idea of Jesus cleansing the temple and how the theme is uh extreme when extremes are not extremes. So a lot of what we see in the scriptures, uh, we see good people doing exemplary people doing would be regarded as extreme or even illegal today, uh, or in different contexts. And, um, 0:00:00 - 0:07:41 and yet it was the right thing to do at that time and you ask yourself, why is it limited to the fact that our laws have shifted or whatever? Um, the answer is no. And that the principal reason that their behavior is so different and so extreme is that they understood consequences in reality far more 0:07:41 - 0:08:05 than we do, uh, on average and, and what's baked into our system. So, um, you know, uh, there's a time and a place where making a handmade whip and chasing people and, and lashing anyone you can catch and flipping over tables and making a real scene is exactly the right thing to do it and anything less 0:08:05 - 0:08:25 would be inappropriate and, and people weasel out of this one saying, whoa, that was Jesus. I don't know that there's a spot anywhere in the scriptures that says, don't do what Jesus did. I'm only aware of the opposite and, and I'm only aware of scriptures to say if there's a difference between you and 0:08:24 - 0:08:51 Jesus, that's something you should change. I don't see anything about the opposite. So if you see that, let me know and I'm happy to be educated. Um so good and bad, they can, they can change the, the the degree of good and bad can change as these new things are being mixed in. And um one thing that 0:08:51 - 0:09:17 that is worth highlighting is um something that was good can become really good. Something that was really good before can be re uh suddenly um juxtaposed with something even better that was in the new um amendments, the new things that were added, it could be way better than what was seen as previously 0:09:17 - 0:09:39 the best. So all of these kinds of changes and then you could do the same with the negative side of things and what before seemed ok, now seems really bad. And uh I I interestingly if you care to know um if you ask the question, which of these changes will get you in the most trouble. That that's an 0:09:39 - 0:09:58 interesting line of questioning both with yourself and what you're gonna go do just in your own private life. But then especially in what you say and do to influence others to come to the same understanding that you've come to, I'll tell you what people hate. It seems more than anything else is when 0:09:58 - 0:10:19 , what they thought was good is suddenly shown to be bad. That seems to be the, the hardest shift. So if you go to someone and you just kind of poke them and say, hey, there's this thing and it's bad and you knew it was bad, but I'm just reminding you it's bad. They're like, yeah, yeah. Ok. And they 0:10:19 - 0:10:37 might even come to see you once a week on a Sunday and the preacher up there saying, oh, we need to forgive our enemies and we need to help the poor and all these things you've heard 10 billion times and somewhere between, well, I do these minimal things so I don't feel guilty about it and, um, I've 0:10:37 - 0:10:54 heard this so many times. I just don't care anymore and I don't feel guilty about it. Somewhere between those. You're ok and you just, you keep coming, you'll give them money. Uh, you'll spend all your time there and it's cool. Right. And you'll own the fact that you're that flavor of religion and whatever 0:10:53 - 0:11:18 . You'll probably wave the flag if I'm this, I'm that, but the second someone comes along and says, hey, you think that thing or you know that thing that you do or don't do that you think makes you holy. It's actually abominable before God and God showed me this. So I have the tools to show you in clarity 0:11:17 - 0:11:43 and I can just give it to you. They will go crazy on you. Um And not in a good way, not in the way the band heart sings about. Um So why is that the case? Or should we be surprised that that's the case? There's a couple of scriptures that are really interesting because this is sort of a new idea. How 0:11:42 - 0:12:04 could something that I think makes me holy actually kind of make me a dirt bag. Um If you go to Daniel 10, for instance, you read about this is one example iii I kind of rag on the King James sometimes. I think um they did an excellent job considering the resources. It's amazing, but this is a place 0:12:03 - 0:12:28 where they nailed it. And that's when um it's phrased. Daniel says that when an angel came to him in glory all of a sudden, his comeliness was turned into corruption. I think it's a beautiful phrase. It's, it's very um it's almost visceral like it's a powerful way of saying it. So, um there are other 0:12:27 - 0:12:49 phrases too. I won't take the time to get into those scriptures, but it's a recurring theme and lo and behold, um Very holy people experience this. Daniel is used as an example of righteousness by name by God. So I, in whatever hierarchy there is like you're doing OK, if God uses you as an example of 0:12:49 - 0:13:17 righteousness, right, be like him. And uh so, um so it turns out i another theme that I keep, I keep dropping the phrase hidden holiness. Um And what I'm doing with all these phrases is I'm building a language, I'll tell you that I'm building a language. Um So the ideas are very big, but if we go through 0:13:16 - 0:13:37 them in long form and then we attach them to your experiences and then add some new things and then we, we develop this handle that has not been used by other people. So it's not um corrupted in your mind already. Um We, we put down a stake and say this is what hidden holiness means. And then all we 0:13:36 - 0:14:08 have to do is bring up the phrase and it all comes back, right? Um So, um so hidden holiness. Um One example of this is how does the person react to their comeliness being turned into corruption. And I will tell you this is more uh this is an easier, more accurate, direct way of predicting it. You know 0:14:08 - 0:14:32 , humans are, are the most complex creature on this planet. And yet you would be shocked once you start peeling back the layers and God teaches you some of these things about human nature, you would be shocked to learn how accurately and easily you can predict a person on, on how small a, a data set 0:14:32 - 0:14:53 . So the, the, the, with the tiniest set of observations, if this stuff has been beaten into you thoroughly enough, you can, you can see a person's whole life, past, present and future, you can see it as if it's right before your eyes. And, um, you can tell them things that they have never told a soul 0:14:53 - 0:15:18 . And I, I say, um, I've said in the past, if people knew how much of themselves they reveal in just a few words to one that has the spirit of God, they'd never open their mouths again. These are wicked people, but that's almost everybody. So um and it's a true thing. So the, the main motivation for 0:15:18 - 0:15:45 these folks is to hide because that's the way they deal with the fact that they're not who they know they could be. And while we're there, I'm just gonna go ahead and put that out there too. Please never misconstrue any criticisms I ever give anyone as uh tearing them down in any way. Every single time 0:15:44 - 0:16:15 I say something about anybody. There, there are rules that I follow. But one of them, the, the reason I say that is because I can see that they're actually better than that. Uh It's not on my notes. I actually have notes this time. I'm not just looking at random things to think, but I will bring up a 0:16:15 - 0:16:44 set of thoughts that, that uh are important. I wasn't planning on bringing this up, but the more you walk into the path of God, the more of him you see, he shows himself to you. Um And um this is actually on the next set of thoughts that's gonna be a separate video, this part. So I'll skip over that 0:16:44 - 0:17:09 . Um The more of him that you see, the more of him of you that you see and that goes the other way too. In fact, the other video will talk about the other direction of that relationship. The next video um here is something that you cannot escape from and it goes in a huge pile of stuff that I might call 0:17:08 - 0:17:33 the things you should be grateful for when it comes to where you stand with God. That could be phrased better reasons. You should be glad you're not closer to God than you are, right? Because we say we want XYZ and then when it's put right in front of us, we're like, I'm good, I'm good. So people come 0:17:33 - 0:17:53 to the tree of life and then they're ashamed. This is why because it's not what they thought it would be and what it is is actually what they don't want. So in this pile, now all these things are good. God is the epitome of good. It's just we hadn't figured it out yet, right? And if you don't have other 0:17:53 - 0:18:16 things in place like um unconditional trust in God as you get closer and closer, that becomes a bigger and bigger obstacle. Um So in this pile of things that you should probably be grateful for, uh you know, the fact that you're not closer to God is the following property that you cannot turn off as 0:18:16 - 0:18:45 you get closer. His light goes into your eyes and you can see, and I'm, I'm speaking figuratively here because I'm not talking about these eyes necessarily. Although I've met people who I believe, who really do see what I'm about to tell you. Um You can see more of the divine potential in all things 0:18:44 - 0:19:16 and in all people, um a great deal of what we observe in people today in terms of things that we too readily dismiss as mental health issues or other buzzwordy kind of properties. Ideas, too many of those things are actually spiritual properties that have everything to do with the quantity and quality 0:19:15 - 0:19:42 of people that have been reserved for the end times. That's a huge ball of wax that I'm not gonna get into more right now. But I'm telling you that's the way it is. Um So, um in that vein, there are people today. Now, the funny thing about each of these properties that um I I'll just mention one or two 0:19:42 - 0:20:11 here is that the same symptoms if you will uh can present for very different reasons. So I'm only talking about the good reasons they can be around. There are bad reasons too and there are other reasons, but there are people on the planet right now when they're walking around. It's like that movie Superman 0:20:10 - 0:20:34 with uh who's this guy? Henry Cavill, the first one in that series, there's a scene. So in that storyline, uh you, I mean, if you don't know about Superman, I don't know what rock you've been living under, but in that storyline, his superpowers don't really kick in until he hits puberty. So or something 0:20:33 - 0:20:54 like that as he gets older. So he's in school and it looks like maybe he's in elementary school and um he starts the, the superhero and super site kick in and it's just so overwhelming. They do a good job of cinematic effects to try to try to express what that would be like. He freaks out and he hides 0:20:54 - 0:21:15 a janitor closet and then his mom comes in and kind of tries to coach him back from the ledge figuratively speaking. And then later on, this comes back into the story because these people from who also escaped from his home planet come and uh they have protective suits or something, but they're in a 0:21:15 - 0:21:34 battle and they get knocked off. And so the the bad guy, um he's, he, he's just bombarded by all the supervision and superhero it all at once because he's a full grown kryptonian is a man. But um and Clark makes this comment about, oh, I've had my whole life to get used to it. How do you like it? And 0:21:34 - 0:22:03 then, you know, proceeds to kick his butt a little bit. And um I thought that, you know, God uses filmmakers like he does all of us and thank him for this. Thank God that he does this. Not only does he use us as much as we allow him to, he uses us as much as it would not violate our agency to do so a 0:22:03 - 0:22:35 as much as it would not minimize our potential benefit. He uses everyone. He uses the demon possessed, even he uses Satan himself. This is God's genius and his glory amongst innumerable other things because he's that good. So thank God for that. But uh he uses these filmmakers to put things in and the 0:22:35 - 0:22:55 other side uses them too. OK? But this is that discernment that mix everywhere you look, there's that mix and these nuggets are in there, you know, and even in movies that you might say are bad or whatever, it's like the leper that you can touch and heal. If you have the power of God within you, there 0:22:55 - 0:23:16 are ideas in that and maybe extracting them doesn't mean telling people to go see this movie. It's just for you internally, something changed because you experienced this, this information and now that changes something that you can share with others, you can bet that jesus' mortal life was filled with 0:23:16 - 0:23:53 experiences that are not directly conveyable to others and yet they changed him in a way that gave him the ability to convey those benefits in some partial fashion to others. That's actually the way covenants work. But anyway, so um excuse me. So in the movie Superman, um he gets hit with all of this 0:23:52 - 0:24:25 and this is something that is quite like the real version. Um a theme I've been hitting on lately and that I will continue to expand is the idea of differences between people and again and all of those that I bring up, I am not attempting to differentiate capacity. I'm differentiating actuality. In order 0:24:24 - 0:24:50 to help you see, your capacity is much greater than you thought, unfathomably greater than you ever thought. The amount of joy that you can feel, the amount of sorrow that you can feel. Those are obviously tied together, maybe not obviously, but it is they are tied together. The amount of holiness that 0:24:50 - 0:25:18 you can grow into. The amount of sacrifice that you can give for others and on and on and on. It's amazing how much human potential lies untapped only because people haven't seen an example. The power of example is another theme that you'll see me, write and talk more about and it is all about Jesus 0:25:17 - 0:25:47 . So um anyway, so super site super hearing, there are people on this planet right now, then when they walk around, all they can see and hear is potential for improvement. It's like almost a shouting voice to them, even if they don't hear it and even if they don't see it, it floods their awareness and 0:25:47 - 0:26:09 it is a, it is a thing that you have to get used to. I won't go as far as calling it painful. It is intense. Unfortunately, some people that have been sent here at this time for this reason, react to this by saying there's a pill for that. And I, that's a phrase I mentioned in a, a movie, a movie, a 0:26:09 - 0:26:31 video probably three years ago. And I only know because I randomly rewatched it the other day, uh, which I really don't like doing. It's, it's extremely demotivating to see just what things I've said before and then look at the response and I don't mean that how you'd probably presume, I mean that, uh 0:26:30 - 0:26:53 , I mean, it's, it's very demotivating to see things that you value so highly being taken so lightly, but it's not because of you, but I mentioned Jesus cleansing the temple. It wasn't because of him. It was because of his zeal for the father. And in a video I mentioned, uh, or made a short time ago 0:26:53 - 0:27:20 and I was talking about a book, I would crawl across the country on my hands and knees to get a copy of if I didn't already have one, it didn't know the things in it. I've read it. Um, if you ever ask yourself why you don't receive these things yet it's because you don't care as much. So, uh this, this 0:27:20 - 0:27:45 is completely related to the wheat and the chaff conversation because part of what has to happen for you to be winnowed is you have to be subjected to the winds and the fire. And the reason for that is not because God is cruel or I don't know what else you'd like to impose upon him. Uh for, for the harshness 0:27:44 - 0:28:08 of human experience. It's that there is only so much that can be done to, to persuade people to find value in what is actually valuable. And in many ways, the only way that can happen is beating you with oversized nunchucks, throwing you into the air, having the wind blow away everything you thought 0:28:07 - 0:28:29 was part of you or had any meaning in your life or value and then seeing the result and seeing how all that stuff that got taken out of you is super flammable and are taken away from you. It's super flammable. It's subject to something so prominent is a, it, you know, the ancients believed it was a fundamental 0:28:28 - 0:28:50 element because it was all over the place. And what's left has much, much more value than what you started with. But you, it had to be separated, taken out. There are things that you can only learn through experience. And if there were any other way God would, would make it possible. He'd pay the price 0:28:49 - 0:29:19 . People think uh uh you know, I've met a lot of people. I think it's a natural thought to think that God holds back. He never ever hold anything back. There is no price that he can pay that he has not already paid. And there is no price that he can currently pay that he's not already pay. He does absolutely 0:29:18 - 0:29:42 everything that can be done. The, the problem if I had to sum it up in the, the simplest terms is that the very things he does that no one else can do for our benefit that we otherwise would not have, prevent him from doing the other things that are sort of the only things we see, which are much lesser 0:29:42 - 0:30:05 things. And that's the opportunity of all the people who love him to serve him to serve others in this giant human chain that begins with the father and goes out to everybody in a, in a big sea of a flow of light. All right. Anyway, well, I'm trying to tie up some loose ends. I've introduced about a 0:30:05 - 0:30:30 million more. But um the getting back to the idea of Superman, uh so there are people who see these things and hear these things and uh as they go out and try to share what they, what they see, it's an extraordinarily painful situation because you can't turn it off and that I'm not just referring to 0:30:30 - 0:30:58 the information that's beaming into you all the time, what you actually see is, you see what you would do and say in their position and what God could do with you in their position. You see what you value what you would value, what you don't value all that projected out into a person or a thing. You 0:30:58 - 0:31:18 can walk through a park or, you know, a building site or some project at work and it's all the same. It's the light in your eyes that it comes from God and it comes commensurate with the quantity of light he's given you that you have access to. It's a bandwidth question and an experience and understanding 0:31:17 - 0:31:50 question. Um And uh you can't turn it off. So what ends up happening is you see this, how the light would work in their situation and it fills you with desire because when you're filled with light, all you want to see is the flow of light and um it consumes you in the best of ways and in attempting to 0:31:50 - 0:32:17 bring to pass more of the kingdom as it is in heaven on earth. In persuasive actions of trying to share uh motivation for the actions that are required to bring about the outcomes that you see in the eye of faith, you're almost guaranteed to end up in a situation where the fullness of what you see and 0:32:17 - 0:32:48 feel is blocked, partially in the best of cases and uh completely in the worst of cases and maybe in an even worse case, it's actively fought against. And when that happens, here's something you've never heard before. When that happens, how you feel is you feel as if you've done or haven't done what 0:32:48 - 0:33:19 they have done or haven't done. But with all your same understanding of God, so you haven't sinned, but you will feel as if you have and the reason is in some sort of metaphysical mechanics, the holy ghost through you is now offended by them, but they're too blind to see and feel that on the level you 0:33:19 - 0:33:48 do, they do feel it, but it's much more minimal because they're already sort of blind and, and, and uh uh constrained in what they can see and feel compared to what you can and you feel that pain gracefully. It's, it's temporary, but that's what you feel. And so it really is a price that you're paying 0:33:48 - 0:34:13 in extending light and truth to others in, in volunteering as a conduit for God to help reach others. And this is what Nephi was shown in the vision of the tree of life. And his angel guide talked about the love of God shedding itself abroad through the hearts of men. That's what I'm describing. It's 0:34:13 - 0:34:44 not put as clearly there, but that's, that's what it was all about is all about. So, um anyway, we come to see more good and more bad and this is so long. And so I hate making videos because I, I just can't turn this stuff off and everything that comes, I have to, I have to say it. Um, so I don't risk 0:34:44 - 0:35:17 not, not getting more. Um, but a point I don't want to close this out without saying is that as new stuff is added in and it's mixed up and separated again. Um One of the big problems people have is they hold to what was with something good before, but now has been revealed to not be what is good. Now 0:35:16 - 0:35:43 they hold to what was with good, but they perceived it as a whole as one good whole. And now it's been revealed to only be with what was good and they hold to it as if it's the good thing. Everything's about mixing and splitting and, and you only keep going up by spitting out the stuff that's no longer 0:35:42 - 0:36:06 as good as you thought it was as new things are added on. That's how you flow through and up, right? So at this is a huge pitfall. So many people fall for this. The saddest example of this are the people that have so much light that you can give them something that's not all that great and they will 0:36:05 - 0:36:29 extract immense value out of it. It's like uh someone's super thirsty and you give him this nasty putrid pool of water and they are just somehow extracting all this clean water out of it, but they don't. And this is where the analogy falls apart because it's so ridiculous. They can't see the difference 0:36:28 - 0:36:48 between the clean water and the filthy water. And as they're extracting it, the stuff left behind is even worse than what you started with. But they hold to all of it. They cling to all of it as misers of falsehood. Right. It happens. I've seen this so many times. It's like every day I see this and they 0:36:48 - 0:37:13 just can't see that the filth that's mixed into the water, they need to let it go. I'll end with this interesting idea. Um I I mentioned recently about familiarity and how it kind of blinds us. If you could read the vision of the treat, visions of the tree of life with fresh eyes. One of the things you 0:37:13 - 0:37:40 might notice is the connection between the fountain of water and the tree and the rod of iron because they are sort of described synonymously. And uh all three of them are the love of God. So they're three very different things. But you can, you can ponder that on your own, but zooming into the water 0:37:40 - 0:38:09 , it's filthy, is filthiness and it's a gulf that separates the wicked and the righteous and on and on. So how could a fountain that has filthy water be the love of God? And there's a lot you could talk about there. But staying on point, it's clean when it comes out. So when water flows down the river 0:38:08 - 0:38:33 , it's gonna be dirty towards the end because of all the sediment it picks up as it goes. There's adulteration happening in the flow. But that doesn't mean that that water didn't come from somewhere and wherever it came out of it was clean when it came out of the ground. So this is, uh, it's an inescapable 0:38:32 - 0:38:58 part of the nature of water that the further downstream you encounter it, the more dirt it's gonna have in it and you have to follow it upstream for it to become cleaner. If you hold to the dirty, nasty stuff, that's not part of what makes it valuable. You can't go upstream and I hope that that provides 0:38:57 - 0:38:59 you some value to think about.