This is a rerecord. The first time I tried to make this video, everybody and their brother decided to walk through where I was and I don't think that's the cloud of witnesses that Paul was talking about. Um we read in second e 5 33 1 that when a man speaketh by the power of the holy ghost, the power
of the holy ghost carry it unto the hearts of the Children of men. What does it take to get a message into someone's heart? It takes sincerity in D and C 100 verse seven, we read but a commandment I give unto you that you shall declare whatsoever thing you declare in my name, in solemnity of heart, in
the spirit of meekness in all things. Now, one way of reading that is that ye shall declare whatsoever thing you shall declare my name, comma and solemnity of heart. And that in and of itself is an important instruction in sincerity, solemnity of heart. But it also says that ye shall declare whatsoever
thing you declare space in my name or according to the character of Christ. So the recipe to generate the testimony of the Holy Ghost is to live the testimony of Christ. To demonstrate what Jesus would do in your place to live according to how he would as far as you understand with reasons because you
actually try to figure these things out. You spend time trying to figure them out. You build up a model of what he would do in your place. And what would he do in your place? The Lord doeth nothing. Save it be for the benefit of the world. Jesus is optimized for the greatest global benefit. So many of
you. And I'm not gonna say many of you men. Although I know that to be the case, there are also many women in this situation. You're in a marriage where you feel like you're out of things you can do to make things better where s sometimes it feels like every minute of every day, maybe there's some gaps
between there. You feel like you're overrun by the seemingly reprobate attitude of your spouse. They routinely do things that they know they should not, they routinely refuse to do what would be helpful to you. They are not doing their best. They might even lie to you. They might gaslight you and completely
negate all the good things that you do say horrifically bad things about you that they know are false and treat you like utter garbage, at least from time to time. And sometimes all the time they might go off on emotional tirades completely unhinged and they might not even say they're sorry once they
come to their senses and you might re respond to all this in the way that you should by trying to be a better person. You know. Um I've said from time to time that the best thing that men can do is to be perfect, to be perfect for your wife to not give her anything that she can righteously criticize
you about. And that's where you start. That's the beginning. And people say man, that's a high standard. Yes, it is. But it is what we're meant to do. And it's part of the equation of, of what we really need to do to help people. The reason for that is it has everything to do with this. Now, why am I
going into this one? I know because the Lord has shown me that many, many people are in this situation and no one has given you the tools to overcome the situation. And the Lord says, free my people, free my people. And when he frees you, you will have the power because of that. The the means through
which that freedom came, you will have the means to free others. And this is how the love of God sheds itself abroad in the world where people freely share what they've freely been given across people and across situations, across domains, it flows through transforming to fit whatever the need is that
love of God, the charity of Christ. That is what cuts the chains. So what does it take to declare what you declare in the name of Christ, in solemnity of heart, in the spirit of meekness in all things. Because that's what takes your word into the hearts of people via the Holy Ghost. I'm going to give
you the phrase that you need to live, to be able to sincerely say to your wife, to your husband, two child, to your parent, to a stranger and to your most bitter enemy. It actually, once you did, you have to be able to respond to their attacks by saying everything I have done has been for your greatest
benefit. And I have left nothing undone that I thought would cause you joy if you can say that and say it sincerely because it's true and the truthfulness of it has been carved into your heart and soul through sacrifice, after sacrifice, after sacrifice, that to you were not sacrifices. Because every
single one you just wish there was more you could do. You wished there was more you could do if you live your life that way where the the presupposition is that the needs and benefits of other people are more important than yours, not just more important than what give you greater joy. Then when you
say those words, it will cut through the chain. The chain is always the same thing. It's the lie and the lie is that you can have the joy that your soul tells you is possible to have in any other way than loving others, loving others, more than yourself is the only way you can have a fullness of joy
. And Jesus knows this and the father knows this. And the father sent the son that as a completely innocent man, as a man, he could be lifted up on the cross, a spectacle of unmerited suffering, the punishment of people that he had only ever helped. That every step he wished with his whole being that
there was more he could do. But he was working in limited, in, in the in the constraints of the limits of the people he was around. He poured his heart and soul uh continuously into everyone he met and they responded by hanging him on a cross. Some people saw that some people responded to the love in
the first place to varying degrees and other people only responded when the contrast of the innocence of this man penetrated their presuppositions about their own goodness and faultlessness. The man hanging beside Jesus said to the one who is chiding him, leave him alone. We deserve this, but he's done
nothing wrong. You have to live impeccably, not for yourself, but so you can free the ones you love from the chains that bind them. So that as they and others persecute you for living in the name of Jesus, no matter how thick the walls of the lye are the love that you show can cut through that. Now,
the more innocent you are not that any of us are innocent by nature, but through the blood of Christ, we can be forgiven of our past and live perfectly in his present will as you live without sin and as you dedicate your life and love to everyone around you, you gain the power so that when you say these
words I've done and I continue to do everything I do for your greatest benefit. Without regard to myself, you will cut through those chains and, and they can be of greater and greater thickness. The more you do, the greater the evidence you're giving that what you're saying is true and that the power
that you live according to and by is greater than that lie, that lie cannot withstand it. The greater your love, the greater, the evil you can overcome. And here's the kicker. None of this forces anyone to change. But the greater the evidence you give, the more wicked the person has to become to turn
away from it like Judas betraying Jesus, he had to turn away from an awful lot of light to do that. So increasingly the reactions become polar where someone's either really gonna change. A as in a delta, a movement from where they are, doesn't mean they're gonna be uber righteous all of a sudden, but
they'll move a lot from where they are or they'll move the other way a lot from where they are. And so the, the, the only reactions that come from the greatest manifestations of love, which can only happen under the greatest manifestations of hate. It's either going to push people the two truly change
and leave behind all the lies or they're going to try to kill you. Those are the only two extremes that can happen. So the greatest signal, that's the response to the extent. It's a lesser signal. The evil may overcome your good. They might be more evil. Then your good can catalyze so that you might
not get through. The holy ghost might not be able to get through to them because you're not good enough yet. You haven't suffered enough yet in great enough innocence. But those of you who live this way, you're going to see the chains fall down, you're going to see people who were written off as hopeless
completely and utterly changed their lives. And some of those people will end up being the brightest lights. But there's a sacrifice that's required. Charity overcomes all things. But charity isn't something that's just cheap. It's consummate, greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life
for his friends. Not that he sometimes inconveniences himself, but that he consecrates everything for his friends. So I want to challenge you to live your life in a way where you can say that and then you're going to find that God can use you as an instrument to do great good in this world.