0:00:00 - 0:00:20 This, this video is, is intended to give you a lens on things. And I guess God's really serious about that because uh I was intending to just give you a lens on some on the process here of, of receiving revelation and hopes to help you see what's possible and, and um inspire you to reach for it in your 0:00:20 - 0:00:42 own life because you can have it. It's God is impartial. So if you act according to the same rules, you will, um I should say law, you'll get the same result. But I think he was, he was serious in making that more revealing than, than otherwise because I've wasted 20 minutes trying to record this. The 0:00:42 - 0:01:03 , the first time I got into it, I, I realized I hadn't redacted um this person's name and I don't think I want to share that. Uh everything else is exactly how it stands in this actual document. And then the second time I wasted 20 minutes. Um because at the end of the 20 minutes, my headphones turned 0:01:03 - 0:01:29 off for no reason. So I switched to the wired headphones and um I'd say in general, um you know, you, you see that I'm producing a high volume of things. But um what you don't see is that there's probably 25% loss right now between technical difficulties or, um I guess we'll, we'll leave it at that but 0:01:29 - 0:01:55 , but sometimes things just don't work and I'll delete instead of publishing or editing. I don't really edit anything. Uh As far as videos go, I just don't have the time to do that. The value of streaming it out and just putting it out there um is much greater than I I in my assessment, I know that there 0:01:55 - 0:02:16 are people who would disagree. It's much greater than if I took the time to polish things and only publish the Polish things. There's just too much information to do that. So uh there'd be too much loss. OK? So let's get into this and let me repeat myself. Uh Although to control expectations, I can't 0:02:15 - 0:02:34 promise this will be any more polished than it was the first time. Um So I was cranking away here. I'm two hours into the process this morning and things were really flowing and the Lord says, stop what you're doing and show them. And so I'm obeying that. Um It's, it's theme, it's a recurring theme with 0:02:34 - 0:03:00 him that he's asking me to show things because um or an example of this is, is a couple weeks ago, actually, it might have been months ago now, but I had a very normal five minute revelation. Um And right after that because I just keep rolling whatever. And he said, no, I want you to stop and try to 0:02:59 - 0:03:19 unpack this so that people can see the volume of what I can tell them in such little time. And I said, ok, so I tried and I this video exists but it's not published. I haven't deleted it but I'm still on the fence. Whether it's going to be helpful or not, you might say, well, didn't God tell you to make 0:03:19 - 0:03:42 it? He told me to try. Um, but, you know, he does leave an awful lot up to us and we have to figure it out. But, um, I think it's too much for people to handle and this is the thing. It's, it's when you start talking about the internal process is it's much, much, much harder um to structure that in a 0:03:42 - 0:04:05 way that's communicable and helpful. Um That's, that's a deep topic. So let's try to keep it focused here. Ok. So obviously you can pause this and read this. There's no secrets here. Um If, if, if something seems crazy or clunky, I ask you to just give it time. That's not the purpose. I'm not showing 0:04:04 - 0:04:22 you these things to show you the information, I'm showing you these things to help you see the process. Uh again, so that you'll find the incentive to pay the price to have them for yourself. It's a funny thing. This is a gospel pattern. It's a very important principle. All good things come from above 0:04:21 - 0:04:44 . So if they come from above, how, how can you receive them? There's a false notion that, that God could just plop down anything. I've talked about this before bringing blessings down out of the mountain. I'll talk a lot more about it later, but it's really challenging for him to do. Um because when 0:04:44 - 0:05:06 you try to do that, it ends up being harmful to people because of how they decide to react. When you give a kid dynamite, he doesn't go build a city, he blows his friend up or his hands off or himself up. Um So there's some, there's some, there's a process to help people use what comes from above to 0:05:06 - 0:05:26 their own blessing and the blessing of others. But part of that process is giving people a taste of what it's like and they'll be limited in how they can understand it, how well they can understand it. Um And how accurately they see the value, but it's the best that we can do. And uh that's the challenge 0:05:25 - 0:05:52 is, is that you're asked to pay a price that exceeds what seems worth it because you can't be shown the full value of what it would buy until you do it. That's John 717. Um And then so the only thing you can do is give people a taste and hope it's, it's, well, you give them a taste of what's better and 0:05:52 - 0:06:13 you show them more about the limits of what they have. That's how you do it. So that's what we're gonna do right here. Um, ok, so I kicked this off, this is my notes file. This is the first place I dumped things. I've mentioned it before. It's right now. It's about 400 pages. Um, but that can vary by 0:06:13 - 0:06:40 100 pages in a day easily. Um, so I think I've processed 3000 pages this year um between writing and getting moved into where they go. Um It might be more than that anyway. So I was, I was uh this is tm I, but I started the day on the toilet and that's where I checked my youtube comments and uh that's 0:06:40 - 0:07:07 a nice thought, huh? Um There was one about um there was one about uh uh expressing some, some support. Uh it, it some folks getting angry at things recently and um this is what the Lord told me to say in response. And then he said, I want you to copy this into your file because um you'll use it later 0:07:07 - 0:07:26 . And I said, OK, and there's some suggestions he made as I copied it. So I applied those. This is still a work in progress. Everything here is everything ever is. Um But I did that. I copied that and then um he started to show me some connections between some things in the scriptures and a guy who's 0:07:26 - 0:07:44 been making comments on the channel. So I started writing this and this, this will be probably the genesis of, of something much bigger and more important and out of this will probably emerge something specific that I say to this person and or about this person. But I'm pretty sure that uh uh uh the 0:07:44 - 0:08:09 , the main goal is what I will extract from this as a general principle which will end up in books and videos. Um, I had, this is not linear. This is, I jumped around here. I had, um, a thought, a chain of thoughts about separating the core of the gospel from all of the appendages and how that's important 0:08:08 - 0:08:37 when we're, when we're estimating the value of other people's ministry. And, um, some, some, it's, it's kind of a spin out of this topic. Um And, and another key that we can use to keep ourselves on track and not make mistakes in that regard or minimize the mistakes we make. This is a set of maybe five 0:08:36 - 0:08:58 emails that I sent to myself, um, yesterday evening. And, uh, I don't write in the evenings. That's family time and it's good because my brain is not in a spot to write in the evening after all the day's events. But if God speaks to me, I'll write it down. So I capture it and this is a chain of emails 0:08:57 - 0:09:20 . I just pasted it in here. It's extremely concentrated and rough and um most of what's here could be elaborated on extensively. Um Something, I mean, this, this handle refers to a section of a book I've written. It's not published. That chunk is probably 200 pages long. And so I'll have to go and, and 0:09:20 - 0:09:39 think about and distill and extract ideas and tie this all together. Um At some point during this, the Lord said open up to John nine and this is a chapter I've alluded to often and I've had a strong desire to go and tell you more about what's in the book of John. Uh I think that first started about 0:09:39 - 0:09:57 a year ago. Um But I've just been holding off because there have been more important things and, and so I started doing the sideshow, it's got three sides right now. But as I was writing this, he was giving me more ideas and that's you have to be open to nonlinear communication, you have to find ways 0:09:56 - 0:10:18 of capturing it. And so if you saw, if I recorded my screen as I was writing this, maybe that's something I should do at some point you'd see just jumping around there, this flood of ideas. Um All of this happened in what seems like 10 minutes, everything I'm showing you and it spans a lot um along there 0:10:18 - 0:10:40 somewhere. Um I had a thought to put this scripture into one of these youtube comments. And um and then as I did that, the Lord said this also needs to go under this heading. This, this is a handle somewhere. It's probably in this file somewhere. I have no idea where I'll have to go find it. I wrote 0:10:39 - 0:11:04 about three pages on um on Jesus telling Pilate that his kingdom is not of this world and if it was his servants would fight for him. And um the Lord revealed a whole bunch of new things to me on that yesterday, including tying to it, maybe this is most of it tying to it. Things that I did not realize 0:11:03 - 0:11:19 were directly related. And so he said this is related, you need to put it there. I said, OK, and then I wrote a note to myself and so I'll use these bars in the headings. I try, when I write the, the rough notes, I'll, I'll, I'll try to summarize it in a heading. You see, this one doesn't have one yet 0:11:19 - 0:11:41 to do. Um But uh I'll write action invitations to myself. So I know that I, I need to do something specific with this. Sometimes it'll be find this certain topic and mix it in. That's what this is. Um, sometimes I can't distill what I've written into one idea, one heading. And so I'll chain together 0:11:41 - 0:12:06 two or three with this bar. And, um, I do the same thing with chapters for the books and then I'll break it down later. Um, and I'm always, I'm trying not to duplicate. And so it's really hard when you've got truth exists in a network, it's not a linear chain, it's a network. And um so it's really hard 0:12:06 - 0:12:27 if you want to describe a whole body of ideas without repeating yourself because it's self referential, it takes a lot to try to do that. Um And we don't have a form of writing that matches that unfortunately. So you have to come up with a representation that that does the best it can to convey what 0:12:27 - 0:12:57 cannot be conveyed in that way. So that was that then this is gonna be fun. So I've had the thought many times in who knows how long that if only people understood machine learning, I could explain an awful lot in very little time. But um they don't. And so I think I'm gonna go ahead and, and make AAA 0:12:57 - 0:13:17 tutorial a very brief tutorial on that so that we can use that language together. And that's always fun. Like teach something unknown and confusing so that you can teach unknown and confusing things by referring to it. That's why I haven't done it yet. But II, I just keep hitting all these topics and 0:13:17 - 0:13:39 I added another one here, but um you'll see, you'll see what it's all about with that. Um This, I was searching for something on my blog yesterday and I hit this post that, you know, I do not remember the things that I publish for the most part. And, um, that's a good thing for the most part for reasons 0:13:38 - 0:14:01 I won't get into, well, I'll get into them. I think if I remembered them all, it would certainly be harder to have hope because some of the things that I've said have been so plain and so valuable that, um, the inadequate response to them would be extremely disheartening. It wouldn't stop me but it would 0:14:01 - 0:14:25 make it a lot less fun. Um Not that I would describe any of this as fun, but it is fulfilling. Um Anyway, so I, I was shocked because I, I, and this happens often, it happens both ways where I will, I will think I've spoken a lot about something. It turns out I've said nothing about it and I will think 0:14:25 - 0:14:40 that I have said nothing about something that was the case here and I actually wrote a blog post on it. So I pasted this into here and I need to go make sure that this is in wherever I'm talking about these knife edge topics, which I think is sprawled out across several books right now and I'll have 0:14:40 - 0:15:03 to fix that. Um So I'll go back and, and make sure that that's there and that's it for today. Oh, I did. This is really important too so that you see how brief this is, right? But it turns out that uh these bullets, I read these and I know exactly what I mean. But to explain it to someone else is gonna 0:15:03 - 0:15:20 be really long. Like you've probably heard this before. If I said faith can't coexist without, you'd be like, yeah, I know that that's a platitude. I've heard a million times. Yeah. But do you really understand what it means? And I could write a lot about that. Um Or this all power comes through faith 0:15:19 - 0:15:37 , you might say like, well, I could point you to scriptures that say that. Yeah. But do you really know what it means? Like if I asked you, how does Satan lose his power? Could you answer that question? I know my kids can because I taught them. But um I don't know. And I think I talked about this in 0:15:37 - 0:15:58 that series I made on overcoming temptation but um I'm not sure how well that was uh we say received. I don't know how many people watched it and I don't know if you pulled this out of it. But anyway, th this was a revelation as I was reading John to do that presentation that I showed you. I was working 0:15:58 - 0:16:21 on the Lord took me out of that. It, it was like a half a second, but there's a huge volume of information where I mean, I can make an hour long video easily about this and that there is a half a second revelation. Um Just unpacking this idea of it was, it was a principle, it was tying in too much. Uh 0:16:21 - 0:16:41 to many other things and then it was a vision of the future. And basically what, what's going to happen is there, there are these Charismatic Christians out there who do miracles right now, you may have seen them on youtube and um you know, they have a hit rate so they attempt things that don't happen 0:16:40 - 0:17:11 . Um but they're not disheartened, they keep at it and sometimes they do miracles and uh that's going to, to diminish. And the Lord explained to me that the reason is that um as, as, as the principles of miracles become better understood and more fully revealed, they will lose their power to have faith 0:17:10 - 0:00:00 in what are lesser understandings of how that works. Because all things work through faith. When doubt is increased power from lesser truth must decrease. And this is another application of a principle. He's been hammering pretty hard for me lately, which is this idea of, well, you could, you could, 0:00:00 - 0:18:00 you could call it replacement truth. Um I, I've mentioned this for a very long time. You can search that phrase in the glory of God is intelligence. For example, I'm sure it's on my blog too replacement truth. Um We tend to limit God in what he can tell us and how and one limitation that many people 0:18:00 - 0:18:25 have is that they are un they're not open to, they're only open to new truth that um supports what they already believe. And so it either has to be completely unrelated to all the things they currently believe and then there's no interference or it has to only augment what they already believe. Augments 0:18:25 - 0:18:48 aren't the best word because I think it is an augmentation when you have something better find something better. But I think you get what I'm saying. Um, unfortunately, the greatest things are the furthest from what you currently believe and, and they crush um what, what's already there. And uh you can't 0:18:48 - 0:19:11 just say I'm good with what I've got. Uh once something greater is offered, you are obliged to receive it because the, the path before you is not keep what you have or accept something better. Uh The truth is a sword. It's a wedge. You'll also see that word wedge used extensively in glory of God as intelligence 0:19:11 - 0:19:37 . Um But I, but I have not by any means taught the smallest part of what the Lord has taught me about this. Um I think that book came out six years ago now, but whatever it was, um I have no idea. It's all blurred to me. You know, it, it's, it's not uncommon for the Lord to teach me so much in a day 0:19:37 - 0:20:01 that I feel like he's taught me more than he's ever taught me before. Cumulatively. So five years, a really long time, they talk about dog years, I guess revelation years would be something much more concentrated than that even. Um Anyway, there are a lot of thoughts tied to that. But, but this is a 0:20:01 - 0:20:24 theme that um when something greater comes along, your choice is you don't have the choice to stay the same. It's a, it's a, it's a fork in the road and you have to take 11 goes up, one goes down. And this is, for example, the scripture that says, um to him that has will more be given and from him that 0:20:24 - 0:20:55 , that hath not will it be taken away? Um So, or, or the many references Paul makes to one's mind being darkened, proportional to the light they turn away from. So, um this is a very important principle because I, I've seen, you know, I saw a presentation, I'm not gonna name names, but a person who has 0:20:54 - 0:21:22 , who a lot of people have been exposed to um taught an idea that I forgot was, was pretty mainstream in the L DS church. Um This recently came to my attention. That's this idea. Uh So in L DS doctrine, there's, there, there are three kingdoms uh in heaven, three levels of heaven if you will. And um 0:21:22 - 0:21:46 this, this guy said, um you get to choose which one you want and some people don't want the celestial kingdom, which is the highest one and that's OK. And they want something less. And I thought, yeah, they all believe that don't they? But it's not true. Uh You have to accept the greatest thing you're 0:21:46 - 0:22:15 showing because um so I didn't mean to get into this, but since we're here, um as you reconcile your life to God, he will reveal greater things to you. And as he does, you become responsible for those things. It's very plain in the scriptures, you know, greater light, greater accountability. Uh So if 0:22:15 - 0:22:39 you know about something better and don't live it, you don't get to keep the thing you had before you lose some of that too. This is very important and I could go into great detail about exactly how this works after we die. But um suffice it to say that that um while you do, you know, adopting the language 0:22:39 - 0:23:07 here, you do inherit the kingdom whose law you live in life, um you can't just hold to something lesser and say I'm good. It's, it's, you won't get that lesser thing. You'll get something less than that every single time. And this is true practically, it's true hol democratically. Um What I mean by that 0:23:07 - 0:23:31 is, is in the macro and micro. It's true in the big picture like when you die the day of judgment. And it's true in every moment of your life. When those forks in the road appear, there's not a third choice that it stayed the same. You will change every time. Truth is put before you, you, you will change 0:00:00 - 0:00:20 This, this video is, is intended to give you a lens on things. And I guess God's really serious about that because uh I was intending to just give you a lens on some on the process here of, of receiving revelation and hopes to help you see what's possible and, and um inspire you to reach for it in your 0:00:20 - 0:00:42 own life because you can have it. It's God is impartial. So if you act according to the same rules, you will, um I should say law, you'll get the same result. But I think he was, he was serious in making that more revealing than, than otherwise because I've wasted 20 minutes trying to record this. The 0:00:42 - 0:01:03 , the first time I got into it, I, I realized I hadn't redacted um this person's name and I don't think I want to share that. Uh everything else is exactly how it stands in this actual document. And then the second time I wasted 20 minutes. Um because at the end of the 20 minutes, my headphones turned 0:01:03 - 0:01:29 off for no reason. So I switched to the wired headphones and um I'd say in general, um you know, you, you see that I'm producing a high volume of things. But um what you don't see is that there's probably 25% loss right now between technical difficulties or, um I guess we'll, we'll leave it at that but 0:01:29 - 0:01:55 , but sometimes things just don't work and I'll delete instead of publishing or editing. I don't really edit anything. Uh As far as videos go, I just don't have the time to do that. The value of streaming it out and just putting it out there um is much greater than I I in my assessment, I know that there 0:01:55 - 0:02:16 are people who would disagree. It's much greater than if I took the time to polish things and only publish the Polish things. There's just too much information to do that. So uh there'd be too much loss. OK? So let's get into this and let me repeat myself. Uh Although to control expectations, I can't 0:02:15 - 0:02:34 promise this will be any more polished than it was the first time. Um So I was cranking away here. I'm two hours into the process this morning and things were really flowing and the Lord says, stop what you're doing and show them. And so I'm obeying that. Um It's, it's theme, it's a recurring theme with 0:02:34 - 0:03:00 him that he's asking me to show things because um or an example of this is, is a couple weeks ago, actually, it might have been months ago now, but I had a very normal five minute revelation. Um And right after that because I just keep rolling whatever. And he said, no, I want you to stop and try to 0:02:59 - 0:03:19 unpack this so that people can see the volume of what I can tell them in such little time. And I said, ok, so I tried and I this video exists but it's not published. I haven't deleted it but I'm still on the fence. Whether it's going to be helpful or not, you might say, well, didn't God tell you to make 0:03:19 - 0:03:42 it? He told me to try. Um, but, you know, he does leave an awful lot up to us and we have to figure it out. But, um, I think it's too much for people to handle and this is the thing. It's, it's when you start talking about the internal process is it's much, much, much harder um to structure that in a 0:03:42 - 0:04:05 way that's communicable and helpful. Um That's, that's a deep topic. So let's try to keep it focused here. Ok. So obviously you can pause this and read this. There's no secrets here. Um If, if, if something seems crazy or clunky, I ask you to just give it time. That's not the purpose. I'm not showing 0:04:04 - 0:04:22 you these things to show you the information, I'm showing you these things to help you see the process. Uh again, so that you'll find the incentive to pay the price to have them for yourself. It's a funny thing. This is a gospel pattern. It's a very important principle. All good things come from above 0:04:21 - 0:04:44 . So if they come from above, how, how can you receive them? There's a false notion that, that God could just plop down anything. I've talked about this before bringing blessings down out of the mountain. I'll talk a lot more about it later, but it's really challenging for him to do. Um because when 0:04:44 - 0:05:06 you try to do that, it ends up being harmful to people because of how they decide to react. When you give a kid dynamite, he doesn't go build a city, he blows his friend up or his hands off or himself up. Um So there's some, there's some, there's a process to help people use what comes from above to 0:05:06 - 0:05:26 their own blessing and the blessing of others. But part of that process is giving people a taste of what it's like and they'll be limited in how they can understand it, how well they can understand it. Um And how accurately they see the value, but it's the best that we can do. And uh that's the challenge 0:05:25 - 0:05:52 is, is that you're asked to pay a price that exceeds what seems worth it because you can't be shown the full value of what it would buy until you do it. That's John 717. Um And then so the only thing you can do is give people a taste and hope it's, it's, well, you give them a taste of what's better and 0:05:52 - 0:06:13 you show them more about the limits of what they have. That's how you do it. So that's what we're gonna do right here. Um, ok, so I kicked this off, this is my notes file. This is the first place I dumped things. I've mentioned it before. It's right now. It's about 400 pages. Um, but that can vary by 0:06:13 - 0:06:40 100 pages in a day easily. Um, so I think I've processed 3000 pages this year um between writing and getting moved into where they go. Um It might be more than that anyway. So I was, I was uh this is tm I, but I started the day on the toilet and that's where I checked my youtube comments and uh that's 0:06:40 - 0:07:07 a nice thought, huh? Um There was one about um there was one about uh uh expressing some, some support. Uh it, it some folks getting angry at things recently and um this is what the Lord told me to say in response. And then he said, I want you to copy this into your file because um you'll use it later 0:07:07 - 0:07:26 . And I said, OK, and there's some suggestions he made as I copied it. So I applied those. This is still a work in progress. Everything here is everything ever is. Um But I did that. I copied that and then um he started to show me some connections between some things in the scriptures and a guy who's 0:07:26 - 0:07:44 been making comments on the channel. So I started writing this and this, this will be probably the genesis of, of something much bigger and more important and out of this will probably emerge something specific that I say to this person and or about this person. But I'm pretty sure that uh uh uh the 0:07:44 - 0:08:09 , the main goal is what I will extract from this as a general principle which will end up in books and videos. Um, I had, this is not linear. This is, I jumped around here. I had, um, a thought, a chain of thoughts about separating the core of the gospel from all of the appendages and how that's important 0:08:08 - 0:08:37 when we're, when we're estimating the value of other people's ministry. And, um, some, some, it's, it's kind of a spin out of this topic. Um And, and another key that we can use to keep ourselves on track and not make mistakes in that regard or minimize the mistakes we make. This is a set of maybe five 0:08:36 - 0:08:58 emails that I sent to myself, um, yesterday evening. And, uh, I don't write in the evenings. That's family time and it's good because my brain is not in a spot to write in the evening after all the day's events. But if God speaks to me, I'll write it down. So I capture it and this is a chain of emails 0:08:57 - 0:09:20 . I just pasted it in here. It's extremely concentrated and rough and um most of what's here could be elaborated on extensively. Um Something, I mean, this, this handle refers to a section of a book I've written. It's not published. That chunk is probably 200 pages long. And so I'll have to go and, and 0:09:20 - 0:09:39 think about and distill and extract ideas and tie this all together. Um At some point during this, the Lord said open up to John nine and this is a chapter I've alluded to often and I've had a strong desire to go and tell you more about what's in the book of John. Uh I think that first started about 0:09:39 - 0:09:57 a year ago. Um But I've just been holding off because there have been more important things and, and so I started doing the sideshow, it's got three sides right now. But as I was writing this, he was giving me more ideas and that's you have to be open to nonlinear communication, you have to find ways 0:09:56 - 0:10:18 of capturing it. And so if you saw, if I recorded my screen as I was writing this, maybe that's something I should do at some point you'd see just jumping around there, this flood of ideas. Um All of this happened in what seems like 10 minutes, everything I'm showing you and it spans a lot um along there 0:10:18 - 0:10:40 somewhere. Um I had a thought to put this scripture into one of these youtube comments. And um and then as I did that, the Lord said this also needs to go under this heading. This, this is a handle somewhere. It's probably in this file somewhere. I have no idea where I'll have to go find it. I wrote 0:10:39 - 0:11:04 about three pages on um on Jesus telling Pilate that his kingdom is not of this world and if it was his servants would fight for him. And um the Lord revealed a whole bunch of new things to me on that yesterday, including tying to it, maybe this is most of it tying to it. Things that I did not realize 0:11:03 - 0:11:19 were directly related. And so he said this is related, you need to put it there. I said, OK, and then I wrote a note to myself and so I'll use these bars in the headings. I try, when I write the, the rough notes, I'll, I'll, I'll try to summarize it in a heading. You see, this one doesn't have one yet 0:11:19 - 0:11:41 to do. Um But uh I'll write action invitations to myself. So I know that I, I need to do something specific with this. Sometimes it'll be find this certain topic and mix it in. That's what this is. Um, sometimes I can't distill what I've written into one idea, one heading. And so I'll chain together 0:11:41 - 0:12:06 two or three with this bar. And, um, I do the same thing with chapters for the books and then I'll break it down later. Um, and I'm always, I'm trying not to duplicate. And so it's really hard when you've got truth exists in a network, it's not a linear chain, it's a network. And um so it's really hard 0:12:06 - 0:12:27 if you want to describe a whole body of ideas without repeating yourself because it's self referential, it takes a lot to try to do that. Um And we don't have a form of writing that matches that unfortunately. So you have to come up with a representation that that does the best it can to convey what 0:12:27 - 0:12:57 cannot be conveyed in that way. So that was that then this is gonna be fun. So I've had the thought many times in who knows how long that if only people understood machine learning, I could explain an awful lot in very little time. But um they don't. And so I think I'm gonna go ahead and, and make AAA 0:12:57 - 0:13:17 tutorial a very brief tutorial on that so that we can use that language together. And that's always fun. Like teach something unknown and confusing so that you can teach unknown and confusing things by referring to it. That's why I haven't done it yet. But II, I just keep hitting all these topics and 0:13:17 - 0:13:39 I added another one here, but um you'll see, you'll see what it's all about with that. Um This, I was searching for something on my blog yesterday and I hit this post that, you know, I do not remember the things that I publish for the most part. And, um, that's a good thing for the most part for reasons 0:13:38 - 0:14:01 I won't get into, well, I'll get into them. I think if I remembered them all, it would certainly be harder to have hope because some of the things that I've said have been so plain and so valuable that, um, the inadequate response to them would be extremely disheartening. It wouldn't stop me but it would 0:14:01 - 0:14:25 make it a lot less fun. Um Not that I would describe any of this as fun, but it is fulfilling. Um Anyway, so I, I was shocked because I, I, and this happens often, it happens both ways where I will, I will think I've spoken a lot about something. It turns out I've said nothing about it and I will think 0:14:25 - 0:14:40 that I have said nothing about something that was the case here and I actually wrote a blog post on it. So I pasted this into here and I need to go make sure that this is in wherever I'm talking about these knife edge topics, which I think is sprawled out across several books right now and I'll have 0:14:40 - 0:15:03 to fix that. Um So I'll go back and, and make sure that that's there and that's it for today. Oh, I did. This is really important too so that you see how brief this is, right? But it turns out that uh these bullets, I read these and I know exactly what I mean. But to explain it to someone else is gonna 0:15:03 - 0:15:20 be really long. Like you've probably heard this before. If I said faith can't coexist without, you'd be like, yeah, I know that that's a platitude. I've heard a million times. Yeah. But do you really understand what it means? And I could write a lot about that. Um Or this all power comes through faith 0:15:19 - 0:15:37 , you might say like, well, I could point you to scriptures that say that. Yeah. But do you really know what it means? Like if I asked you, how does Satan lose his power? Could you answer that question? I know my kids can because I taught them. But um I don't know. And I think I talked about this in 0:15:37 - 0:15:58 that series I made on overcoming temptation but um I'm not sure how well that was uh we say received. I don't know how many people watched it and I don't know if you pulled this out of it. But anyway, th this was a revelation as I was reading John to do that presentation that I showed you. I was working 0:15:58 - 0:16:21 on the Lord took me out of that. It, it was like a half a second, but there's a huge volume of information where I mean, I can make an hour long video easily about this and that there is a half a second revelation. Um Just unpacking this idea of it was, it was a principle, it was tying in too much. Uh 0:16:21 - 0:16:41 to many other things and then it was a vision of the future. And basically what, what's going to happen is there, there are these Charismatic Christians out there who do miracles right now, you may have seen them on youtube and um you know, they have a hit rate so they attempt things that don't happen 0:16:40 - 0:17:11 . Um but they're not disheartened, they keep at it and sometimes they do miracles and uh that's going to, to diminish. And the Lord explained to me that the reason is that um as, as, as the principles of miracles become better understood and more fully revealed, they will lose their power to have faith 0:17:10 - 0:00:00 in what are lesser understandings of how that works. Because all things work through faith. When doubt is increased power from lesser truth must decrease. And this is another application of a principle. He's been hammering pretty hard for me lately, which is this idea of, well, you could, you could, 0:00:00 - 0:18:00 you could call it replacement truth. Um I, I've mentioned this for a very long time. You can search that phrase in the glory of God is intelligence. For example, I'm sure it's on my blog too replacement truth. Um We tend to limit God in what he can tell us and how and one limitation that many people 0:18:00 - 0:18:25 have is that they are un they're not open to, they're only open to new truth that um supports what they already believe. And so it either has to be completely unrelated to all the things they currently believe and then there's no interference or it has to only augment what they already believe. Augments 0:18:25 - 0:18:48 aren't the best word because I think it is an augmentation when you have something better find something better. But I think you get what I'm saying. Um, unfortunately, the greatest things are the furthest from what you currently believe and, and they crush um what, what's already there. And uh you can't 0:18:48 - 0:19:11 just say I'm good with what I've got. Uh once something greater is offered, you are obliged to receive it because the, the path before you is not keep what you have or accept something better. Uh The truth is a sword. It's a wedge. You'll also see that word wedge used extensively in glory of God as intelligence 0:19:11 - 0:19:37 . Um But I, but I have not by any means taught the smallest part of what the Lord has taught me about this. Um I think that book came out six years ago now, but whatever it was, um I have no idea. It's all blurred to me. You know, it, it's, it's not uncommon for the Lord to teach me so much in a day 0:19:37 - 0:20:01 that I feel like he's taught me more than he's ever taught me before. Cumulatively. So five years, a really long time, they talk about dog years, I guess revelation years would be something much more concentrated than that even. Um Anyway, there are a lot of thoughts tied to that. But, but this is a 0:20:01 - 0:20:24 theme that um when something greater comes along, your choice is you don't have the choice to stay the same. It's a, it's a, it's a fork in the road and you have to take 11 goes up, one goes down. And this is, for example, the scripture that says, um to him that has will more be given and from him that 0:20:24 - 0:20:55 , that hath not will it be taken away? Um So, or, or the many references Paul makes to one's mind being darkened, proportional to the light they turn away from. So, um this is a very important principle because I, I've seen, you know, I saw a presentation, I'm not gonna name names, but a person who has 0:20:54 - 0:21:22 , who a lot of people have been exposed to um taught an idea that I forgot was, was pretty mainstream in the L DS church. Um This recently came to my attention. That's this idea. Uh So in L DS doctrine, there's, there, there are three kingdoms uh in heaven, three levels of heaven if you will. And um 0:21:22 - 0:21:46 this, this guy said, um you get to choose which one you want and some people don't want the celestial kingdom, which is the highest one and that's OK. And they want something less. And I thought, yeah, they all believe that don't they? But it's not true. Uh You have to accept the greatest thing you're 0:21:46 - 0:22:15 showing because um so I didn't mean to get into this, but since we're here, um as you reconcile your life to God, he will reveal greater things to you. And as he does, you become responsible for those things. It's very plain in the scriptures, you know, greater light, greater accountability. Uh So if 0:22:15 - 0:22:39 you know about something better and don't live it, you don't get to keep the thing you had before you lose some of that too. This is very important and I could go into great detail about exactly how this works after we die. But um suffice it to say that that um while you do, you know, adopting the language 0:22:39 - 0:23:07 here, you do inherit the kingdom whose law you live in life, um you can't just hold to something lesser and say I'm good. It's, it's, you won't get that lesser thing. You'll get something less than that every single time. And this is true practically, it's true hol democratically. Um What I mean by that 0:23:07 - 0:23:31 is, is in the macro and micro. It's true in the big picture like when you die the day of judgment. And it's true in every moment of your life. When those forks in the road appear, there's not a third choice that it stayed the same. You will change every time. Truth is put before you, you, you will change 0:23:30 - 0:23:46 . You don't have a choice in changing. You have a choice in how you're going to change anyway. I'll tie that up, um, or we will end this now and, uh, hopefully for whoever this was for, hopefully you get what you were meant to get out of it.