0:00:00 - 0:00:21 I received an email from a friend with one question that was broken down, but it's 12 pages of thought here and because of his faith, I thought that we could go through this together and bless the lives of everyone else who can get something out of it. I don't think there's anything particularly personal 0:00:21 - 0:00:40 here or identifiable. I did go through it, but hopefully, I didn't miss anything. So let's just go through it. Ok. He says it was great to meet you a couple weeks ago when you came to Utah. Thank you again for the ways you try to open up the scriptures and bring people closer to Christ. That's just we'll 0:00:40 - 0:01:02 pause there. There were people who uh who enjoyed that. It was harsh. I know it was harsh. Um We, we have to do what we have to do. I continue to try and understand and appreciate the significance of the things you are sharing and admit that this is sometimes difficult for me. Don't feel bad about that 0:01:02 - 0:01:36 . Um This is a gradual unfolding and I think you would be shocked. Let me say that in a different way. I am almost positive that all of you are going to be shocked to a degree that maybe you've never been shocked before in some future at some future date. When you look back and realize just what just 0:01:36 - 0:02:09 what was available when that you, what you'll see is that this was just the whole time, all of this was already here and that you just came to see it wave after wave after wave. But you'll let me explain this with a, with a, a microcosm example. Someone recently sent me an email and said, I don't remember 0:02:08 - 0:02:32 the particulars. It was something like I just reread this one book that you wrote that I read when it came out and it's been a year plus whatever since I read it first. And I can't, I thought I understood it when I read it. I can't believe everything that's in this book. It's like I can pause on one 0:02:32 - 0:02:54 sentence and I just see all these things there just packed into this sentence or this paragraph that I didn't catch the first time through. But I thought I was understanding what it said. I hear this a lot and now zooming out from the microcosm. You're going to see the things that I have taught like 0:02:53 - 0:03:27 that you're going to see this, this process that took years that from the very first, it was all there and everything else was just um expansion and other angles and more detail. So don't feel bad this is definitely necessary and, and it is necessary to struggle through it. Hopefully, we won't struggle 0:03:27 - 0:03:40 through this email. Goodness, it's been three minutes. We're still in the first paragraph. All right. There's one particular struggle I'm having that. I would appreciate any insight you'd be willing to offer. This is not an easy question to formulate because it brings together many different strands 0:03:40 - 0:03:59 of ideas. Pause. Thank you to the person that wrote this. You know, who you are. Thank you for taking the time to do this. You have no idea. Every minute you invest in thinking about these things before sharing your question. And I'm not inviting anyone to endlessly churn on something that they should 0:03:59 - 0:04:33 send. But every minute you spend thinking about this makes it doesn't just make my life easier. You're grossly expanding the bandwidth that you can receive in that probably doesn't make sense, but it's like it's making the window bigger. Um It's very important to take the time. So thank you. And you'll 0:04:33 - 0:04:51 see the one of the reasons I'm sharing this. I want you to know that there are people out here out there that think like this and it's a call to everyone to come up to that. That's not a call to feel bad if you're not like that. Even though you're doing your best, it's, you know, I had a conversation 0:04:51 - 0:05:13 with a friend of mine just yesterday or the day before about um about stupid people who can help it and stupid people who can't help it. Um, there are, for example, there are handicapped people out there and like no one makes fun of them really. And if you do, you're an absolutely terrible person, they 0:05:13 - 0:05:33 can't help it. And you don't, you don't get angry at a baby when a baby poops its diaper, you just clean up the mess and, and move on and you enjoy all the good things about a baby. Babies are great, right? But, but when a when a when a fully functional person poops themselves for no good reason, you 0:05:32 - 0:05:54 have every right to get upset, very upset, very upset. If you're, if you're totally normal, 14 year old son walks into the room and drops a bomb in his pants, you're gonna be very upset, right? You can just imagine how upset you would be. I think it's hilarious because I would be very upset and understandably 0:05:53 - 0:06:18 . Right. But you'd be surprised and how often that's the case when, when people are just so lazy, you want to understand the mysteries of the universe and what you're willing to do is just kind of blurt out whatever, on an email or, or whatever a call, whatever it is and just expect it. I this is a true 0:06:17 - 0:06:39 story once. So I push people away when they want to have conversations, everything else, whatever it's there's their barriers and it's for their own benefit. Surprise. Right? Everything is, but sometimes people push through the barrier but it gets higher over time because of the nonsense that I've seen 0:06:38 - 0:06:57 . So one example of this nonsense, once a guy pushed through the barrier and he's like, can we arrange a call? Whatever I said here are two options this week, this day at this time or this day at this time. And he's like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ok. Picked one. So, you know, two hours out, five hours out 0:06:57 - 0:07:19 , whatever from the call. I'm actively organizing my schedule so I can be available at that time. Get to that time and he's chatting with me and it's very clear he's driving somewhere. Ok, fine, whatever. And then he picks up, take out while we're on the phone. I'm like, this is what in the questions 0:07:18 - 0:07:39 he was asking me were like, really important, deep mystery kind of questions. There were things that I'm very confident no one on this planet knows outside of me. It's a big deal and I know what I had to pay to learn those things to receive those things. And what was it worth to this guy? He was willing 0:07:39 - 0:07:58 to p to have me on the phone while he went and got take out. Come on and you, you know, people like this wonder why they don't get answers to their prayers. Why can't you figure that out from God? Well, jeez, if all you're willing to do is give God a part of your brain while you're going to get take 0:07:58 - 0:08:23 out, then it's probably not gonna go very well for you. Right. Duh. Anyway, I should have marked where we were with the cursor here. Um, ok, as such, I'm sure it's even less easy to provide an answer, but I'm going to ask in any event, that's faith just because something's hard, doesn't mean you shouldn't 0:08:22 - 0:08:42 do it right. If you want a quick primer, you can jump to the end of the email where I list the main questions I walked through in this email. That's great. Executive summary. Thank you. Ok. To set the stage. Let me begin with the first question. How do you know when you have fully repented of your sins 0:08:41 - 0:09:05 ? One answer that you've given to this question is that you don't feel guilt. Um I think, and I, I should have searched up with thought.org uh to make sure, but I think that he's probably referring to the Q and a session of one of those talks that I gave recently, which uh as far as I know were recorded 0:09:05 - 0:09:29 , there might be a bootleg somewhere. Um And I think someone asked me something like, how do you know that you've repented of your sins? I don't remember the detail. I, I, but I think in the answer, I said something like, well, I don't feel guilty. I, I never feel guilt um, about things I've done in 0:09:29 - 0:09:53 the past or haven't done. Ok. Um Now he goes on to say my struggle with this is that there are people such as sociopaths that don't really feel guilt for the wrong. They do. Um There are two ways we can proceed with this one. I could read through and then backtrack and try to capture things. Um I think 0:09:52 - 0:10:21 what I'm gonna do is tell you a better answer to how you can know if you've repented and then we'll keep going through this email. So, um here's, here's a better answer if I can. Oh, I closed it. Um Let me pull up the scripture here. Uh This is DNC 5843 by this. You may know if a man repenteth of his 0:10:21 - 0:10:51 sins, behold, he will confess them and forsake them. That's pretty cut and dry, isn't it? How do you know you've repented of your sins while you don't sin anymore? This is a pause for effect if you can't tell. So, so, um that's it, right. Uh Whether you feel guilty or not, that that is uh uh uh freedom 0:10:50 - 0:11:08 from guilt is a blessing of being forgiven of your sins. But he correctly points out that there are an awful lot of people who do not feel guilty for things they should feel guilty about. And actually he goes through some wonderful examples here. So let's go ahead and read those. But II, I hope that 0:11:08 - 0:11:34 the point is clear. If you don't sin, you have repented. If you continue to sin, you have not and what is sin? It's doing less than the best that you know. And so as you walk, so you, you ask for forgiveness of your sins, um as you walk from that point forward, you're going to be actively thinking about 0:11:33 - 0:11:56 what's the best I can do in any situation. And when you hit those decision points and you have option A which is the best in anything else. The question is, what do you go with as you walk through that you're going to look back because maybe option A seemed the best and then you went through the gate 0:11:55 - 0:12:15 and did the thing or didn't do the thing. And in retrospect, you're like, oh, you know what would have been even better? That's OK. You're still living without sin that feeds into the next time you're in a situation like that. So hopefully that's clear. Please let me know in the comments if it's not 0:12:14 - 0:12:33 or shoot me an email. Um So let's keep reading. I think a great example of this is King Noah and his people in the book of Mormon. They were religious temple building people that were led by priests that claimed to teach the law of Moses based on this. They had seemingly every reason to believe they 0:12:33 - 0:12:54 were doing what is right. And I would not be surprised if they all went about their day with no pangs of guilt at least until a beedi pointed out their wrongdoing. OK. A and, and this, this can be the case from time to time. But this person who emailed me, he's, he's definitely got his pulse, his finger 0:12:54 - 0:13:18 to the pulse of where everything is going because this is a point in a future book which is that angels meaning messengers from God. One of their roles is to help people feel guilty about things they should feel guilty about. And that's a wonderful cluster of ideas because um there are many flavors of 0:13:18 - 0:13:38 Christianity these days that, that where people go around saying things like guilt is not an effective mechanism for gospel teaching. And that's, I'm not gonna be able to cover this whole idea here. I'm just really throwing it out there because uh I'm honoring this person's faith by giving another increment 0:13:37 - 0:14:02 on a whole lot of things we're gonna get through this email. Um Every one of us has the light of Christ inside of us. And what happens is when we are around other people that have more of it than we do it supercharges our light. OK. That's the way it works. We could talk about this at length, but there 0:14:01 - 0:14:24 it is in brief and so you can be going through your life in a way where for whatever reason, you don't feel guilty about a certain thing that you should feel guilty about when that person comes around that has more light than you, you're going to feel guilty. This actually happens all the time. If you're 0:14:23 - 0:14:44 the person, I could say that better if you're the person with greater light and to the extent that you have greater light, you're causing this to happen all the time, when Jesus walked around on this earth, he was constantly causing people to feel guilty about things that they didn't feel guilty about 0:14:43 - 0:15:06 before and he didn't even have to say anything about it. Most of the time his presence alone made these people feel guilty. Now, did they recognize what was going on? No, they did not. How did they respond to it? They hated him. If you want to know more about this, read John chapter three, especially 0:15:05 - 0:15:30 the second half, don't stop on verse 16, but I will be explaining all of this at length later on. So one function of an angel is to boost the spirit of God within a person by proxy. So by their presence, it's not that God's spirit is coming into them because of their worthiness because they're not worthy 0:15:30 - 0:15:54 , but via the other person, it's radiating and they're feeling it and it's boosting and they, they are going to have the opportunity to respond to that boosted light. This is so incredibly important, even if you don't understand it, it's still vital for the purposes God's purposes to be accomplished 0:15:53 - 0:16:14 in this life. It's why we're all mixed up. It's why all manner of beings are here rubbing shoulders. It's so that people have the opportunity to respond to greater light than they would otherwise have access to. And that's the mechanism for doing it. Read moon I seven. I did a very long presentation 0:16:13 - 0:16:33 on that. You can go check that out again. That'll be one of those things that you look back at and you're like, wow, he was saying all of this before. I just didn't get it. Ok. Uh I believe this is the state of most of the wicked, correct, namely that they have no awareness that they are wicked. Correct 0:16:32 - 0:16:54 . This is one of the shockers. This is the shocker that, that, um someone says to you, hey, guess what? You're wicked. Now, that's not the way to say it, but they could say things like, hey, this one thing that you thought was totally fine, it's not totally fine. Or this one thing that at one point in 0:16:54 - 0:17:11 time you realized was not totally fine and then you ignored it so long that you couldn't see it anymore and you felt comfortable with it even though it was bad and it's still as bad as it was. Uh guess what? It's still bad or you can do it all this in the other way and say, oh, this good thing that you 0:17:10 - 0:17:38 ignored, it's still good, you still need it or whatever, right? I believe that relatively few people consciously ie on the surface level intend to do wrong. That's true. They intend to feel good right now. You see, it's, it's like, um, I have a generator and it can either run on propane or gasoline and 0:17:37 - 0:18:09 we are like that too. We have a switch and we can either seek to feel good right now or, um, seek to feel good for the longest duration and, and that's one type of language, one type of uh one currency that we can seek, that we can measure or we can, we can flip the switch and, and start talking about 0:18:08 - 0:00:00 uh good and evil or righteous and wicked without realizing we're talking about the same thing. It's the same generator that's running. I don't know if that makes sense. Maybe that just made it more confusing. But people don't, their, their internal senses, they don't operate on righteous and wicked. 0:00:00 - 0:18:53 They, they seek, uh the natural man will seek to feel good right now and the spiritual man will seek good, seek to feel the best over the longest duration of time. And that's the conflict. And most people don't see that as a moral conflict, but it is a moral conflict. That is the thing that is the natural 0:18:53 - 0:19:13 man versus the spiritual man. So they don't see it as wicked. They're just thinking, well, no, I'm just doing, I'm just trying to feel good right now and they don't even see it as that. You'd have to show it to them like this is what your motive is. I could prove it. Look all right. Des, despite being 0:19:13 - 0:19:30 in a state of not really being aware of their sin, the people of King Noah, most certainly knew on a deeper level, at least King Noah and the priest knew for a Beedi calls them out on this when he says, you know that I speak the truth about their sin. Mosiah 1229. So on the one hand, they are blind and 0:19:30 - 0:19:51 don't know their awful state. But on the other hand, they do know the thing is if you're operating in the blind state, the surface level state, I'm not convinced you would feel guilt or at least you wouldn't recognize it as such. Yeah. Um, the key thing to realize here, um I'll try to inject it into 0:19:51 - 0:20:13 this conversation. Ok. There, there are two things. One light and truth is sequential and progressive, which means you're not gonna feel guilty for something that lies several steps ahead of where you are, of course. Right. Um And that goes the other way too. In the other way, Paul was talking about 0:20:13 - 0:20:30 this. He's like, hey, who cares if the meat you're eating was, was given as a sacrifice to a, a heathen God or not, it doesn't matter. But if you're around people who think it matters, then you should probably not eat it. Right? Because you don't want to make their lives harder than they already are 0:20:30 - 0:20:54 . Right? So that's the other way anyway. So you're not, obviously not gonna feel guilty about things that lie ahead of where you are. But the other thing is when you willingly turn away from the light, you always lose a piece of your awareness. It's like a dimmer switch. You cannot willingly do less 0:20:54 - 0:21:24 than your best without dimming your ability to see what is best. The pertinent result of this for this conversation is that many people don't feel guilty about things because they've turned away from knowing they were bad before. Does that make sense? And so they're a bit, they have seared, the, the 0:21:24 - 0:21:45 spirit of God, their conscience, whatever you wanna say, they've seared, it made it weaker, they've put scales over their eyes, they've put fat around their hearts. It doesn't matter what scriptural form of phrasing we wanna use. They're all talking about the same idea. Their, their, their light got 0:21:45 - 0:22:12 darker, right? So once you move away from that, now we come back to the role of angels. How can you recover that? Well, the most likely way to recover it is someone better than you coming along, at least in that way, coming along and saying, hey, there's a better way to do that or uh I'm not so sure 0:22:12 - 0:22:33 you should be doing that or have you ever thought about, you know what that costs you or whatever way it comes out and their presence. It's not just the words they say. Although that's a, that's definitely a piece of it, but their very presence will spike your conscience and prick you and you'll feel 0:22:33 - 0:23:01 convicted. This is why wicked people hate righteous people because they've worked so hard to hide from greater light and truth. And here it comes busting into their conscience like the kool aid man through b brick wall. Oh, yeah. I think that was the line anyway, the wicked person who doesn't feel guilt 0:23:00 - 0:23:22 is only one side of the coin. On the other side. I believe there are people who feel guilt about things that don't matter. Yes. And this is another role of angels, right? How many times did Jesus tell people? Don't worry about it. You're good, don't worry about it. You're good. Now, what kind of person 0:23:22 - 0:23:44 would you have to be to deliver that message to somebody? That's an interesting question. So, uh what I mean by that is if someone says that to you in whatever form it may come. So I just said, don't worry about it. What if the person said thy sins are forgiven me? And now all of a sudden people's hackles 0:23:43 - 0:24:07 are going up. Those are the feathers on the back of a chicken's neck. The hackles. It's a fun word to say too. But if your hackles are going up by that and be careful and go reread the New Testament because when Jesus said that to people, those folks who heard him say it, whether it was the people who 0:24:07 - 0:24:29 were being forgiven or the people around him whose hackles were raised. They did not know that he was the messiah. He said that as a holy man or a priest or a prophet, he said your sins are forgiven you and people lost their minds. They said, oh, who gave you authority to forgive sins? And that's when 0:24:28 - 0:24:50 he said, oh, you don't think I have authority to do this. Well, let me just heal this guy so I can prove to you if I can heal him, obviously, I could do the easier thing, right? So it's a role of angels to help people not feel guilty about things they shouldn't feel guilty about. And some of you have 0:24:49 - 0:25:10 received this ministry continuing the quote. For example, many people, especially religious churchy, people create an impossibly long laundry list of things they believe they need to be doing all at the same time and doing it perfectly because they fail to carry this impossible load. They're overcome 0:25:10 - 0:25:33 by constant feelings of inadequacy and guilt. Yeah. So one of the main tools that you have because of this book that I wrote called Joy on Purpose is the understanding that prioritization frees you from this uh Jesus taught this, talking about weightier matters. I gave a talk on that called the same 0:25:33 - 0:25:53 thing. But the idea is that life is a zero sum game because you don't have unlimited time and resources you have to structure your life actively intentionally according to the things that matter the most. And then all that guilt goes away this specific kind that he's now talking about the laundry list 0:25:53 - 0:26:15 of things that you need to be doing. Those are actually can be often are distractions carefully constructed by the adversary and his minions to distract you from much more important things. And because you feel like a dirt bag all the time, you don't have the confidence to take life by the jugular and 0:26:15 - 0:26:37 do these things that are much more important, right? Like you, you, you, I don't know, you, you might not be the best person in the world at keeping your sink clean. Uh But that shouldn't rob you of the confidence of spending quality time with your kids. And you just, you know, you stare at your sin 0:26:37 - 0:26:52 and you're like, man, I'm such a pig or whatever you say. I just, I don't do anything, right? And da da, da, da da and you go into the spiral, the whole purpose is to keep you off of the most important thing. But if you got it all sorted out because you've actively searched. That joy on purpose is a 0:26:52 - 0:27:14 very, very important book. The tools in that book will cut so many chains off of you in your life if you just read it for is, is with a mind open to how important it might be. And if you try those things that are said in that book. If you apply those principles and those lessons, you're going to find 0:27:14 - 0:27:47 many chains falling off of you. That book was not a deviation from this ministry. It was very much a needed piece of it. So, please don't take that lightly. Uh, I'm just gonna skip a little bit about that, um, which is painful cause this whole thing is very, very good. Um, ok. And, and the point is just 0:27:46 - 0:28:10 , uh, re rehash that, that can guilt be a real test for whether or not you've repented. Yeah. No, it can't. The real test is, have you forsaken the sin? OK. To the next point, this brings up another question. Is it possible to fully repent of your sins, fully do what Christ would in your place to the 0:28:10 - 0:28:26 degree of light and understanding you have but not know it. This is a really good question too. I know he's not the only person that has these questions that is, can you be doing everything you are supposed to be doing based on the light you have but still, still feel guilty because you think you are 0:28:25 - 0:28:49 supposed to be doing more. Um One response you might give is that if you think you're supposed to be doing more than that is what you think Christ would do in your place. And so you aren't actually living up to what you believe Christ would do again. This Yeah. And he gets it. If a person has an impossibly 0:28:48 - 0:29:15 long list of DS. And don't, again, this is where Joy on purpose is your ticket. You have to rank these things when you rank them by the importance, everything just clarifies. It becomes much easier, much clearer, much. So I apologize. I don't know if you can hear the dog barking in the background. I 0:29:15 - 0:29:40 don't know what's going on. Um, but here I want to transition or switch over to lectures on faith to address this point. Um It's a long quote, I'm sorry. It, it, the point is to quote it, I could simplify it in a sentence or two, but that would kind of negate the whole point here. Um This is, what part 0:29:40 - 0:30:05 is this from, this is from the sixth lecture. Um So it says in the last days before the Lord comes, he is to gather together his saints who have made a covenant with him by sacrifice. Psalm 53 through five. Our God shall come and shall not keep silence, a fire shall devour before him and it shall be 0:30:05 - 0:30:26 very tempestuous round about him. He shall call to the heavens from above and to the earth that he may judge his people. Gather my saints together unto me. Those that have made a covenant unto me by sacrifice. I'm gonna pause here. Um I'm gonna try to remember to explicitly send this to my friend, Mark 0:30:25 - 0:30:49 . So Mark, if you're watching this, you made a video recently where you at the very end of it, it was a long one. You said something about the Lord coming back so that I don't want to misquote you. But the idea was that he was gonna come back and do more so that Zion could come the point I wanna make 0:30:49 - 0:31:16 here, that is directly from this quote, but you could make the point from many other sources. He is not coming back to redo what has already been done. He's coming back four and two. The people who have already lived up to what he has already given, we have to live up to that before he comes or we will 0:31:16 - 0:31:39 be destroyed at his coming. And I'm sorry that this is sort of might seem orthogonal to this email, but I hope to show you that it's not gather my saints together unto me. Those that have made a covenant unto me by sacrifice past tense. What is the sacrifice? Verse 10? Those then who make the sacrifice 0:31:38 - 0:31:57 will have the testimony that their course is pleasing in the sight of God. And those who have this testimony will have faith to lay hold on eternal life, skipping down. But those who do not make this sacrifice cannot enjoy this faith because men are dependent upon this sacrifice in order to obtain this 0:31:57 - 0:32:21 faith. Um skipping down a little more. Those who have not made this sacrifice to God do not know that the course which they pursue is well pleasing in his sight for whatever may be their belief or their opinion. It is a matter of doubt and uncertainty in their minds and where doubt and uncertainty are 0:32:21 - 0:32:54 , their faith is not. Nor can it be. I want to put this in a much clearer way. When you are living fully submitted to God, you have absolutely no doubt about it. I will say a lot more about this in the future. But when you rank all the things you could do sorted by the global good they would do as far 0:32:54 - 0:33:22 as you understand it, it will leave you without any doubt that you are living this sacrifice that these quotes discussed. And that's not an optional thing. That is what it means to live. The gospel. Anything less is less than that. And when you live that way, whatever falls off the list because you're 0:33:22 - 0:33:51 focusing on the most important things. It will absolutely not make you guilty at all at all. You will hit your pillow every single night knowing that you have done everything in your power and beyond that because you'll have God's power to accomplish his will. And if you don't feel that way, you're leaving 0:33:50 - 0:34:14 it, things on the table, you're leaving things on the field and that's a good analogy, leaving things on the field. If you've ever played a sport, you know what that means, right? Don't leave things on the field. And you won't feel that way. And this is not a recipe for overdo it, it's just what it means 0:34:13 - 0:34:38 to do. It. God doesn't want you to overdo it. He just wants all of your hard right minded strength. That's it. Right. Don't leave anything on the table and, and as you get again, this is enjoy on purpose. As you get more exhausted as you go through the day, you pivot to other things. You know, if I'm 0:34:38 - 0:35:04 sitting here writing for 14 hours straight in my little cave and I come out of here at like 4:15 p.m. And, uh, I just, my brains are leaking out of my nose. I cannot crawl forward anymore in writing. I will go and do something else that is on my to do list, but it matches the energy I have left to give 0:35:03 - 0:35:28 . Maybe I'll start putting things away that I left out on this one project table or something. Right. That's what I do. If you came to my house, you would see me go through this routine, right? Or live this principle and you can live it too. Ok. I'm gonna skip ahead a little here. Um Oh jeez, we are 0:35:28 - 0:36:09 only on page three. I'm gonna have to break this into parts. Um, ok, so the next chunk he, he zeroes in on a very important, honest question. It's great. How can you know what you think or what you don't think? How can you know if you're being honest with yourself, the question of honesty is actually 0:36:08 - 0:36:36 what the next book is going to be all about. So I'll defer to that. Um, it's going to be a substantial book, so we'll wait for that. Um, I think I can skip over this next part. Yeah. Uh, there are more questions about honesty. He, but he's just right on. I'm telling you the Pulse. How do you know when 0:36:36 - 0:36:54 you're being honest with yourself? Um This is, this is a real question, right? Self deception. It's a huge deal and remember all the things I said earlier about. If you turn away from the light, you're, you're not only are you going to head in the wrong direction, but you will lose your awareness that 0:36:53 - 0:00:00 you did, you won't even be aware that you're off track or you'll be less aware. I'm reading through and just seeing what we've addressed what we haven't. Uh Here's another huge chunk of honesty. There are times that I don't like hearing the things you share because I feel condemned by them. Perfect. 0:00:00 - 0:38:08 That's a good thing. Um Yeah, this is, this is very good. So Kudos for the writer, Kudos, for the writer, um he gets into some thoughts about differences between people and this is something that I am also going to defer to a later date because I have at least one entire book written about this. So that's 0:38:07 - 0:38:39 good. He's on the Pulse seeing that that's necessary. But um, we're gonna, we're gonna not address that at the present time and, and that it's not just uh differences between people but how to notice this, what to do about it and how to prevent yourself from treating that information in the wrong way 0:38:38 - 0:39:04 . So, living so that it's a blessing to know the difference instead of being high minded or uh manipulative with that. Ok. So I think we addressed the question, how do you know if you've truly repented you forsake the sin? Um How do you know when the feelings of guilt are justified based on wrongdoing 0:39:04 - 0:39:24 rather than on a mistaken thought about what you're supposed to be doing? You have to gain a greater understanding of what good means. That's another book that's coming. Um It's really important and then as you clarify that and get better at assessing the worth of things, uh you will not feel guilty 0:39:24 - 0:39:45 about things that you shouldn't feel guilty about and all the while you can um benefit from other people that might know more about that than you do. Is it possible to fully repent of your sins? But not know it? No, it's not. You'll know. How do you recognize the voice of God? The voice of God is the 0:39:45 - 0:40:07 voice of improvement. And so if something is giving you sufficient reasons to believe that a course of action or a change of thought or a change of feeling is better than what you currently do. Then you should treat that as the voice of God. How do you know if you're being honest with yourself? That's 0:40:06 - 0:40:29 the next book. What is the difference in the relationship between a person's potential and whether they are a high value person? That's a subsequent book. Uh What is the difference between a person being high value and having relatively high degree of light? So, holiness and light are two different things 0:40:28 - 0:00:00 . Holiness includes light, but you can have light and not be holy and I'll leave it to a future book because that's discussed there. Um Is it possible to be a relatively high value person without having fully repented of your sins? Yes and no. But I think according to what you're asking, yes. Again, 0:00:00 - 0:41:19 you can have tons of light but not be holy and, and it doesn't make that light worth anything less. It just means that it's of a limited length of time that you'll have it because you'll lose what you don't live up to. How do you honestly assess and accept your place on the spectrum? Talking about the 0:41:19 - 0:41:39 wide variety of, of people? That's a future book. Um How do you avoid delusions of grandeur and feelings of pride and inflated self importance if you're higher on the value spectrum that's go going to be in that book as well. And essentially the key is to know what's above you. Uh as long as you know 0:41:38 - 0:42:07 , your limits and what exceeds them that will help you see yourself as you are. Uh How do you avoid thoughts of envy and feelings of despair and resentment towards others when you are lower on the value spectrum, you have to better understand the value of what is better. Um That doesn't probably sound 0:42:07 - 0:42:33 terribly deep or helpful, but as you come to see who you really are and you come to understand good better than you do. Uh a piece of that is you learn to see all of the limits in your life problems that you don't have solutions to questions. You don't have the answers to uh challenges that overwhelm 0:42:32 - 0:43:00 you virtues that you're not willing to exercise all of these things and more and as your awareness of the consequences of those limits increases, you will absolutely value what is better than you. An enormous part of the end times process is the glorification of God, which is just a scriptural way of 0:43:00 - 0:43:27 saying everyone needs to better understand what's actually good. And the unfortunately, the way most people will need to do that is through great suffering. And then he asks a great, you know, the interview question, is there a question I should be asking that I'm not asking. Uh Is there anything you 0:43:27 - 0:43:45 believe that I am missing? Um Is there something before me, I'm just not seeing. Is there a different question I should be asking? But haven't I think this is a good, good coverage. Um You, you've, you've perfectly nailed several of the books that are coming out in the relatively near future. And so 0:43:45 - 0:44:07 that's great. Um, so good job I'll end this here. How, how far along are we? 43 minutes? So we're under an, an hour. Um, so great questions and I hope that these answers helped. Um, and that this was a nice foreshadowing of things to come and hopefully it's starting to dawn on you just how much work 0:44:07 - 0:44:33 is before us. Uh I think at last count, I, I expect to have at least 24 books to, to write and I can't accurately anticipate the pace for these things, but it, it's going to take me a long time. So, uh I appreciate the support of everyone who's helping uh financially so that I can take the time to do 0:44:32 - 0:44:59 that. And uh my hope is that as the value of these things becomes more obvious to more people that more will participate in uh supporting this financially. So that or, or because they value, they'd like to keep me writing rather than spending time doing other things. Um that it, they value what I'm producing 0:44:58 - 0:00:00 enough that uh that preference is there. So, thank you. And uh I hope this helps.