At 50.00, you speak of your "mountains" on your mission. I was Catholic, one of those mountains, and am grateful for the truths I learned then as I grew up, that enabled me to recognize the restored gospel. And...like you, my missionaries only taught me the restored gospel and said nothing about the Catholic Church. They taught with great respect for my religion and with the spirit. So here I am now, a Latter-day Saint for 48 years listening you your brilliant teaching.
I believe Jesus will teach me how to forgive my abusers. He lead me through the abuse and is teaching me what real love is like. I’m working on creating my own unshaken faith and forgiving those who were supposed to show love to me.
The Savior has enabled me to forgive abusers. The process you are in is holy and sanctifying. It's a tender and beautiful process. I'm so glad you are on this journey. It's so worth it and it will bring you closer and closer to Jesus. I salute you in this brave work,!!!
Thank you Brother Halverson. As a lifelong LDS who had a long dark period, your videos have had an enormous impact in increasing my education and testimony. I can't thank you enough. I'm going through both your New Testament and Book of Mormon videos this year, and it is extremely rewarding.
Brother Halverson, part of this lesson was a perfect answer to prayer that I have been seeking. I thank the Lord that He has prepared you to teach so many of us in marvelous, inspired ways. He has blessed you with beautiful wisdom, thank you for sacrificing to share it with us.
As a hispanic Utahn I've struggled with my prejudice toward white lds Utahns because of what I suffered growing up in the church. Thankfully my faith has always been in the Savior and not in man. I'm very involved politically now and it's been hard again to be feeling "tribal" and especially in todays political climate. Thank you for helping me understand these words from the book of Jacob. I had never been able to understand things the way you were able to clear up for me. I'm going to study those versus again with this new understanding.
Jared I just wanted to tell you how much I value what you do. Because you have been blessed with an incredible talent to teach, I have also been blessed.
Thank you Bro Hal for so much insight and guidance!! Words cannot say how much I love learning from you via the Spirit😊. Will be so excited for 100k Unshaken Saints! Hurrah!
Thank you Bro Hal for this episode. You did a great job delicately but boldly dealing with the evils of abuse. What makes this subject even more challenging is that we often find in the mental health world that those being abused also become abusers. So in many cases, both ends of Jacob’s message can be directed to the same person, recognizing that it is only through Jesus Christ that forgiveness and healing can come both for the victim and perpetrator. A word of caution as well. Since Jacob directs his comments to “beloved brethren” it may imply that abuse comes by the hand of a man only. Women can also be the abuser.
So glad I’ve found your videos. I appreciate your insight and how you talk about how polygamy breaks chastity laws. It always has and always will. I did chuckle a little bit when you talk about how there’s a reason ch 5 is the longest chapter, as if it was originally written that way instead of divided up later. 😉 Thank you for all your hard work to share the gospel of Jesus Christ!
I always think or see questions to ask myself when listening to you. 2 questions to ponder and journal on for me this week. 1. How can I become the first fruit of Christ? And 2. How can I recognize and take counsel from the Lord?
I was not physically abused, it was mental. The first time my husband was unfaithful, it was not my fault. The fact that it continued to happen was my fault. Why should he stop bad behavior when there are no consequences. A couple time I used his bad behavior to justify bad behavior of my own. In a couple of your lessons when you mentioned feeling doomed. I have felt that on many occasions. I have felt there is no hope for me. I am working very hard at forgiveness, but I am struggling with forgetting. I don’t know how to trust anymore. I can’t forget my own actions and feel the Lord can’t either.
Big hug. Be patient with yourself. There was a story about healing from abuse that I remember reading in the Ensign on my mission. The sister was counseled to "leave a space for forgiveness" so she could accept it when it came. Hopefully you can leave your own space for forgetting.
"Replace the misapplied love of your abuser/spouse with the perfect love of your Father" or Replace the MISSING love of your spouse with the perfect love of your Father. There is no love in abuse. There is no love in betrayal, infidelity, neglect, rejection.
I have a question when you say the next Nephi isn't the original Nephi's son. In Mosiah 25:13 says the kingdom was only conferred on those who were descendants of Nephi. Doesn't that mean it would have to have been his son? Maybe I am reading it wrong or something. Love your lessons they are awesome.
Why does Jacob 2:24 indicate it was abominable for David and Solomon to have many wives and concubines when Doctrine and Covenants 132:1,39 says Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and many other servants of God from the beginning of creation until this time [July 12, 1843] also had many wives and concubines?
What makes you think your faith is respectable? Jesus Christ says 'Faith is worthless since you can't expect mountains to move in obedience to your orders.' Claims of free-will & morality are the magic cop out, for a deity failing to get the respect of everyone. The proper & moral thing to do; dismiss & rebuke the believer, those suggest we all travel better with one foot in fantasyland: grant them ownership, of the vocabulary, of the narrative; according to their whimsical interpretations. Tell me, what is good about indoctrination of children, with a fantasyland & its vocabulary? Can you really expect everyone to pretend your God made Mormons so Christians would feel like Jews? "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree:" Galatians 3:13 What truth is found in fiction depends on the reader. Let those with ears to hear, My sheep hear My voice. Pretending, is not truth, or knowing good & evil, & clearly not a trait we want in leadership. Interpretation of fiction might say; Moses is the world's worst navigator & leader, having God & Faith in his vocabulary. Jesus Christ says 'Faith is worthless since you can't expect mountains to move in obedience to your orders.' The magic performed by Jesus is all a joke, since the sign of Jonah is the only one given. Believers are a wicked generation gathering around notions of signs like a resurrection. Jonah was a believer, who offered his life, as a sacrifice? by those who outnumbered him in belief, in magic. The lesson is about how bad faith is.
@Stupidityindex I hope you have prayed about your interpretation of scripture (the few you named...we can swap scripture for scripture but we all have prayer and our own relationship with God). Christ speaks in analogies often for fairness...those who have ears to hear. You can only be accountable for what you understand. Study it out. Pray ...blessings 🕊
@@KrystalShurling How can it possibly be ethical, not to condemn the believer in god? "My sheep hear My voice" is the mindset of slavery. Jesus Christ is failing for 2000 years to convince Jews God puts the New Wine of Christ into the old Jew wineskin. We know them by their works: They indoctrinate children. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. They use the vocabulary of fiction, expecting everyone to pretend God made Mormons so Christians would know how Jews feel. Jesus was alarmed at this gathering crowd, a wicked generation seeking signs. Jesus is reminded the only sign given is that of Jonah. It is by faith in God Jonah offered himself a sacrifice, belief in calming the storm. Jonah 1:15 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. 16 At this the men greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice (perhaps his family & friends or a goat) to the Lord and made vows to him.
A little behind on on the vids...I've always thought that one evidence that the old testament prophets knew the name of Christ was that they used the name Joshua. It means 'God with us'. They knew that was to be the Lord's name (Christ said Abraham saw his day) and they used it for some of their sons just as some Hispanics name their sons Jesus (Greek for Joshua).
I love the context to why Jacob uses the words he did. I find it interesting - the Book of Mormon was written for OUR day - and was translated by the gift and power of God - so why the difficulty with phrases that on their surface are racist - and we wrestle to explain logically? Maybe we need that wrestle to incentivize us work harder and seek deeper to understand - ?
Please don't teach with the idea that the man is always the abuser. My son has loved his wife and done everything to appease her. She is a narcisist and will not accept that she ever does anything to say she is sorry. She has tormented him for. 22 1/2 yr She has now kicked him out even tho he did grocery? Cooking, laundry, children homeschooling. The children are crying to be able to keep Dad. It is wrong to assume that the woman is always right. My son is the righteous one here.
You are right. I’m so sorry your son has gone through so much for so long 😢 it breaks my heart to hear stories like this one. I hope your son can be blessed one day with someone that truly appreciates him and will turn his tears into joy and happiness
Some super interesting videos that also add knowledge. Is Genesis History. Christian scientists that prove the Bible timeline through science and math. Movies from The Thinking Man, investigating and proving Old Testament history.
I pray that this isn't your final say on the matter. There are some things that are VERY hard to forgive and, without Christ, may indeed be unforgivable, but He has said: `I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you, it is required to forgive all men." (D&C 64:10) Sister, forgiveness is not about the other person; the forgiveness is for you. I pray that if people in your life seem impossible to forgive, you find peace in the Savior and can ultimately forgive, and "ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil." (Luke 6:35).
This is so tiring. I think the most racist and self-righteous people I know, would hear this and feel justified in their bigotry. And plenty of decent people, used hearing cries and accusations from satanic minions, now get the finger of scorns and accusation from "gospel teachers" as well. Maybe we just have to get our enthusiastic condemnations in around topics that the world and the devil say we should accuse and condemn?
At 50.00, you speak of your "mountains" on your mission. I was Catholic, one of those mountains, and am grateful for the truths I learned then as I grew up, that enabled me to recognize the restored gospel. And...like you, my missionaries only taught me the restored gospel and said nothing about the Catholic Church. They taught with great respect for my religion and with the spirit. So here I am now, a Latter-day Saint for 48 years listening you your brilliant teaching.
I believe Jesus will teach me how to forgive my abusers. He lead me through the abuse and is teaching me what real love is like. I’m working on creating my own unshaken faith and forgiving those who were supposed to show love to me.
Blessings 🕊
Heavenly Father will guide you to the therapists and treatments that will help you to heal. Jesus has the power to heal you through them❤
Gives me so much hope to hear testimony like this thank you💖
The Savior has enabled me to forgive abusers. The process you are in is holy and sanctifying. It's a tender and beautiful process. I'm so glad you are on this journey. It's so worth it and it will bring you closer and closer to Jesus. I salute you in this brave work,!!!
God bless you on your journey!❤
Thank you Brother Halverson. As a lifelong LDS who had a long dark period, your videos have had an enormous impact in increasing my education and testimony. I can't thank you enough. I'm going through both your New Testament and Book of Mormon videos this year, and it is extremely rewarding.
Brother Halverson, part of this lesson was a perfect answer to prayer that I have been seeking. I thank the Lord that He has prepared you to teach so many of us in marvelous, inspired ways. He has blessed you with beautiful wisdom, thank you for sacrificing to share it with us.
As a hispanic Utahn I've struggled with my prejudice toward white lds Utahns because of what I suffered growing up in the church. Thankfully my faith has always been in the Savior and not in man. I'm very involved politically now and it's been hard again to be feeling "tribal" and especially in todays political climate. Thank you for helping me understand these words from the book of Jacob. I had never been able to understand things the way you were able to clear up for me. I'm going to study those versus again with this new understanding.
Jared I just wanted to tell you how much I value what you do. Because you have been blessed with an incredible talent to teach, I have also been blessed.
My heart is full,everytime I really listen to you, I'm filled with the spirit and I learn what God wants of me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you Bro Hal for so much insight and guidance!! Words cannot say how much I love learning from you via the Spirit😊. Will be so excited for 100k Unshaken Saints! Hurrah!
Thank you Bro Hal for this episode. You did a great job delicately but boldly dealing with the evils of abuse. What makes this subject even more challenging is that we often find in the mental health world that those being abused also become abusers. So in many cases, both ends of Jacob’s message can be directed to the same person, recognizing that it is only through Jesus Christ that forgiveness and healing can come both for the victim and perpetrator.
A word of caution as well. Since Jacob directs his comments to “beloved brethren” it may imply that abuse comes by the hand of a man only. Women can also be the abuser.
Thank you so much. Hope in Christ and have faith in Him.😍👏
Because of you, I am beginning to love Jacob❣
Thank you Bro Hal and congrats on reaching 100k followers!
So glad I’ve found your videos. I appreciate your insight and how you talk about how polygamy breaks chastity laws. It always has and always will. I did chuckle a little bit when you talk about how there’s a reason ch 5 is the longest chapter, as if it was originally written that way instead of divided up later. 😉 Thank you for all your hard work to share the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Another fantastic lesson! Thanks bro Halverson!
Please never stop doing these. ❤
I always think or see questions to ask myself when listening to you. 2 questions to ponder and journal on for me this week.
1. How can I become the first fruit of Christ? And 2. How can I recognize and take counsel from the Lord?
I love your knowledge and how you help people with faith crisis 😅
Blow our minds, Jesus!!! Seems there are people that think this today!
Thank you…another beautiful lesson!
I feel such a kinship to Jacob.❤
I was not physically abused, it was mental. The first time my husband was unfaithful, it was not my fault. The fact that it continued to happen was my fault. Why should he stop bad behavior when there are no consequences. A couple time I used his bad behavior to justify bad behavior of my own. In a couple of your lessons when you mentioned feeling doomed. I have felt that on many occasions. I have felt there is no hope for me. I am working very hard at forgiveness, but I am struggling with forgetting. I don’t know how to trust anymore. I can’t forget my own actions and feel the Lord can’t either.
Big hug. Be patient with yourself. There was a story about healing from abuse that I remember reading in the Ensign on my mission. The sister was counseled to "leave a space for forgiveness" so she could accept it when it came. Hopefully you can leave your own space for forgetting.
I find listening instead of reading gives me a more sense of story. It’s much more seamless because the verses are not noted in the audio.
"Replace the misapplied love of your abuser/spouse with the perfect love of your Father" or Replace the MISSING love of your spouse with the perfect love of your Father. There is no love in abuse. There is no love in betrayal, infidelity, neglect, rejection.
I think here he may be referring to the abused love towards their abuser.
Thank you
Can you link the two talks by Elder Scott that you refrenced? Thanks!
I have a question when you say the next Nephi isn't the original Nephi's son. In Mosiah 25:13 says the kingdom was only conferred on those who were descendants of Nephi. Doesn't that mean it would have to have been his son? Maybe I am reading it wrong or something. Love your lessons they are awesome.
Why does Jacob 2:24 indicate it was abominable for David and Solomon to have many wives
and concubines when Doctrine and Covenants 132:1,39 says Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses,
and many other servants of God from the beginning of creation until this time [July 12,
1843] also had many wives and concubines?
Watch the previous episode. It is God's to say, not man's. The rule is one spouse - the exception only comes from God Himself.
What makes you think your faith is respectable? Jesus Christ says 'Faith is worthless since you can't expect mountains to move in obedience to your orders.'
Claims of free-will & morality are the magic cop out,
for a deity failing to get the respect of everyone.
The proper & moral thing to do;
dismiss & rebuke the believer,
those suggest we all travel better with one foot in fantasyland:
grant them ownership,
of the vocabulary, of the narrative;
according to their whimsical interpretations.
Tell me, what is good about indoctrination of children, with a fantasyland & its vocabulary?
Can you really expect everyone to pretend your God made Mormons so Christians would feel like Jews?
"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us: for it is written,
Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree:" Galatians 3:13
What truth is found in fiction depends on the reader.
Let those with ears to hear, My sheep hear My voice.
Pretending, is not truth, or knowing good & evil, & clearly not a trait we want in leadership.
Interpretation of fiction might say;
Moses is the world's worst navigator & leader,
having God & Faith in his vocabulary.
Jesus Christ says 'Faith is worthless since you can't expect mountains to move in obedience to your orders.'
The magic performed by Jesus is all a joke,
since the sign of Jonah is the only one given.
Believers are a wicked generation gathering around notions of signs like a resurrection.
Jonah was a believer,
who offered his life,
as a sacrifice?
by those who outnumbered him in belief, in magic.
The lesson is about how bad faith is.
@Stupidityindex I hope you have prayed about your interpretation of scripture (the few you named...we can swap scripture for scripture but we all have prayer and our own relationship with God).
Christ speaks in analogies often for fairness...those who have ears to hear. You can only be accountable for what you understand. Study it out. Pray ...blessings 🕊
@@KrystalShurling How can it possibly be ethical, not to condemn the believer in god?
"My sheep hear My voice" is the mindset of slavery.
Jesus Christ is failing for 2000 years to convince Jews God puts the New Wine of Christ into the old Jew wineskin. We know them by their works: They indoctrinate children.
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
They use the vocabulary of fiction, expecting everyone to pretend God made Mormons so Christians would know how Jews feel.
Jesus was alarmed at this gathering crowd, a wicked generation seeking signs. Jesus is reminded the only sign given is that of Jonah.
It is by faith in God Jonah offered himself a sacrifice, belief in calming the storm.
Jonah 1:15 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.
16 At this the men greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice (perhaps his family & friends or a goat) to the Lord and made vows to him.
abuse of the New and Everlasting covenants for personal gratification or status as opposed to the true meaning and purpose God intended.
Google podcast is set to be retired this week (April 2, 2024). Could you please consider adding TH-cam music to your list of uploads as a replacement?
A little behind on on the vids...I've always thought that one evidence that the old testament prophets knew the name of Christ was that they used the name Joshua. It means 'God with us'. They knew that was to be the Lord's name (Christ said Abraham saw his day) and they used it for some of their sons just as some Hispanics name their sons Jesus (Greek for Joshua).
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I love the context to why Jacob uses the words he did. I find it interesting - the Book of Mormon was written for OUR day - and was translated by the gift and power of God - so why the difficulty with phrases that on their surface are racist - and we wrestle to explain logically? Maybe we need that wrestle to incentivize us work harder and seek deeper to understand - ?
Please don't teach with the idea that the man is always the abuser. My son has loved his wife and done everything to appease her. She is a narcisist and will not accept that she ever does anything to say she is sorry. She has tormented him for. 22 1/2 yr
She has now kicked him out even tho he did grocery? Cooking, laundry, children homeschooling. The children are crying to be able to keep Dad. It is wrong to assume that the woman is always right. My son is the righteous one here.
You are right. I’m so sorry your son has gone through so much for so long 😢 it breaks my heart to hear stories like this one. I hope your son can be blessed one day with someone that truly appreciates him and will turn his tears into joy and happiness
He's talking about what is happening in Jacob. I encourage you to simply apply this TEACHING to what applies to your situation.
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Perhaps that is why Jacob said that the Lamanite 'wives love their husbands'? It could be that some of the Nephite wives were like your in-law.
Some super interesting videos that also add knowledge.
Is Genesis History. Christian scientists that prove the Bible timeline through science and math.
Movies from The Thinking Man, investigating and proving Old Testament history.
Some things are unforgivable.
I pray that this isn't your final say on the matter. There are some things that are VERY hard to forgive and, without Christ, may indeed be unforgivable, but He has said: `I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you, it is required to forgive all men." (D&C 64:10) Sister, forgiveness is not about the other person; the forgiveness is for you. I pray that if people in your life seem impossible to forgive, you find peace in the Savior and can ultimately forgive, and "ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil." (Luke 6:35).
let the Lord decide, He always has the last say@@dr.stevewatts7528
Skin colour disappeares in friendship!
This is so tiring. I think the most racist and self-righteous people I know, would hear this and feel justified in their bigotry. And plenty of decent people, used hearing cries and accusations from satanic minions, now get the finger of scorns and accusation from "gospel teachers" as well. Maybe we just have to get our enthusiastic condemnations in around topics that the world and the devil say we should accuse and condemn?