Brother Jared….how blessed I feel to be one of your Unshaken students…these lessons have helped my understanding in a remarkable way. Having fallen away from the church for 19 years…I look back six years ago to my realizing that I truly had fallen off the ladder. Now, in the light of repentance, and an intentional devotion to the Lords example..the new heart within me..at 70…is my most cherished possession. One rung at a time, one prayer at a time, each day at a time with a perfect brightness of hope….Thank you for your dedicated faith…this is clearly part of this light…Keep up the good work❤️😇 David
Our stories are very similar! I was inactive for slightly longer than 19 years - at 70, I too have a new heart within me - and Brother Jared has played no small part in this! Bless you, my brother in the gospel!
My husband and I love your style of teaching and explaining the scriptures. We are so greatcul for the time and effort that you give to us. You are a God send in more ways than you know. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Words cannot express how much I get out of your lessons. I don't care if they are long. I actually get more out of them when you detail them like you do. I will be forever grateful to be one of the unshaken.
Thank you for not skipping over Dinah’s story. It deserves to be told, and shared. It’s included in the Bible for a reason. Too many women understand this heartache. Too many women within the church deal with this, and often in silence. So, Thank you.
Brother Halverson I have felt that when I have attended the 12 step ARP program that at times it is more sacred than being in the temple. There is such empathy towards others that you can't help but realize that you come to truly see the people therefore as God sees them and gain an understanding of what Christlike love is!
The twelve steps are steps of repentance and humility…essential qualities of the Lord. As a recovering alcoholic, I implement these everyday…one day at a time…seeking Gods merciful wisdom….Thank you for your insightful comment 😇👍
Jared, I can't thank you enough for the last couple of lessons. I have been going through some severe trials the past year, and your lessons have helped me tremendously; particularly the last two. Your teachings about how, like Abraham, our trials are fitted just for us and how we are climbing nearer to God through these trials have helped me through. May the Lord bless you and your family for your faithful service!
I feel so much closer to those people in the Old Testament and closer to the Lord. Thank you for helping me feel some of what they felt. The scriptures are coming alive in the special lessons. Thank you Brother Halverson. Thank you for your preparation and time.
I remember a brother from my Young Single Adult Ward, who share this thought during his Testimony, regarding his Service Mission. He came to realize that when we perform Ordinances like Baptism, the Sacrament, or performing work in the Temple, We Make Covenants. But as we serve others inside or outside our callings, we are Keeping our Covenants! Thank you for helping me notice things within the text that we might not already see. I think there are times when I am like Rebecca and I can see the possibilities for blessing, even if I don't know how it will quite work out. Other times, I can be like Isaac and have tunnel vision for how things should be. Again, I can be like Esau, frustrated and stubborn. Other times, needing reassurance from Family, Friends, and Members that all will work out and that God is aware of me, much like Jacob. Thank you again for the Spirit that you bring and additional perspectives from the Scriptures and your personal history. 🙂❤
There just are not words to express enough my gratitude for the understanding and witnesses of the Spirit that flowed over me as you took us through these chapters. To understand Israel, his sacrifices, the foundation of the 12 tribes of Israel, quiet assurances of the Savior’s love to each of us as prodigal sons and daughters - these hours have been truly a gift from heaven!
You have thanked your listeners for taking the time to listen/watch your RUclips videos as long as they are but they are full of beautiful truths and doctrines. Thank YOU for taking the time to record/edit these powerful messages and insights. So many of us are blessed to listen and learn by the Spirit as we watch/listen to your videos.
Thank you so much, Bro. Halverson, for many precious insights you opened to me thanks to your dedicated work! And for the tangible charity you radiate when pondering and praying for each one who might be afflicted in ways that relate to different situations occurring in the scriptures. May He bless you and your loved ones abundantly for this service you're rendering so lovingly! ❤
I found my testimony of a personal Christ in a women’s shelter. I am so very grateful to this day that I had to run from an ex because it brought me into the arms of my beautiful Savior. While in the shelter late at night I would listen to this Christian CD (Selah) a friend had given it to me shortly before I left my ex. My ex had threatened to kill me as soon as he found me and kill me and my two young sons and then turn the gun on himself. I knew what this man was capable of and I was beyond terrified. I put all of my fears into my prayers and I would plead with God and bawl my eyes out. After praying one night I laid back down and there was a song on the CD called Hiding Place I’d never heard. It was the words in that song and the peace that came over me that let me know that my prayers had been heard and I knew from that night on we would be okay. it’s been 17 years since that night.
Oh my do recognize that position too well. Been apart for 9 years and struggling to sever that final chains but he's impossible to serve while homeless on drugs. Sometimes it seems hopeless. I really appreciate how well he handled the topics here.
Thank you, Brother Jared. I'm really touched to remember that Jesus is our perfect elder brother who wants us to be on our way home to our Father and is waiting to embrace us with tears of joy.
Oh how I loved this lesson Bro. Halverson. My soul delighted in all the insights I found within these precious scriptures. My soul truly is nearer to God ...thank you Bro. Halverson. God bless you for all your dedication and willingness to share with each of us weekly.
I don't think there is any real evidence that she wasn't loving in the beginning. I think that Rachel had to learn to be more loving and not jealous. It was probably rough for Rachel having to share her husband after being tricked by her father and not getting kids for so long, but at least she had the love of her husband. That should have been enough. We also don't know if it even was rough for Rachel, she was willing fro five him up for a plant and she told him she'd rather die without children than just live with him without any. That doesn't sound like a woman who was as madly in love as Jacob was. I think Leah and Rachel were both pit against each other by their somewhat well meaning father and both behaved pretty badly but I don't think the playing field was level at all for Leah, she got a very raw deal. When it says in the scripture she was unloved, I'm pretty sure it means that he was not in love with her, he loves her but was not in love with her and that had to of been really rough.
Oh my word, this is so special. I never understood the words of that hymn, the message on purity, covenant, all of this lesson and every lesson deeply touches me. Thank you so much. Drop by drop step up by step up line upon line I go forward. Feeling the Savior near. Knowing he knows my name. Knowing the stones in my life, surely brought me closer to Him. Love you Brother Halverson.
I have just finished listening to the podcast version of this week's material. I'm so grateful you charged ahead and discussed the chapters that were skipped in the Come Follow Me curriculum. As an adult convert to the Church the Old Testament has always been hard for me to read and understand. Your perspective on some of the more brutal aspects of the histories are not only enlightening but comforting at the same time,. Thank you.
Redoing Genesis. Thank you for covering this book above and beyond of what the curriculum required. It is very important to me and my husband. He is new to the church. 😊
What a beautiful notification to start my morning! Thank you Bro. Halverson for your time, diligence, and love of the gospel! You are a shining example of faith.
Thank you for teaching me the scriptures, i so very much appreciate you . It's my favorite part of my week to hear you and understand the scriptures from you. You are a gift in my life and I thank you for helping me to understand the scriptures and making them become more meaningful.
Jared, that was so beautiful thank you for your persistence in putting out these amazing messages on Come Follow Me. I am the ward organist and we are definitely singing Nearer My God to thee tomorrow.
Thank you so much for breaking down your lessons into chapters! It makes it so much easier to go back and rewatch or listen to a portion that I want to review
Brother, I am so happy to be one of your student this year. It is really helping me with so many insights testify in me by the power of the Holy Ghost as a Sunday school teacher. I pray that God will continue to give you strength and restless effort through the power of the Holy Ghost to bring out more wonderful insights for His loving children to grow spiritually.
Brother Halverson, you completely opened my eyes to that hymn!! I never understood that message except in little bits and pieces!?! Now I see where it fits biblically and it really helps me understand Jacob's ladder in a day-to-day living sort of way. Thank you so much for all the time you spend sharing your heart and your wisdom and understanding in down to earth, ordinary ways that make the gospel more bite-sized and easy to apply in my life. Thank you so much. I also really appreciate what you said at the beginning, when you were sharing what your wife thinks about pride, about how it really stinks coming out of the mouth. You paraphrase her so much better but I understood your meaning.🥰
Thank you for including Genesis 34 and teaching us about Dinah. I really appreciate that you are willing to dive into the difficult stories. Always in awe how much I learn from you!
2:59:50: dusty, dust! I woke up this morning with the word "dust" in my mind. And I started to search this word in the gospel library app and read some search results to figure out, what the Lord wanted me to know or learn. There were already some keywords that came with it. And now I continued this Unshaken Episode where I stopped yesterday, and it started with more insight and thoughts and truth about "dust"! We have a God of miracles! Thank you, so much, my Unshaken teacher, my Unshaken friend, for AGAIN letting God speak to me through you! May God bless you and your family!!! ❤️
You are doing such a tremendous amount of good to increase my faith as well as so many I refer to this channel. Thank you for your amazing spirit of love and true devotion to God and His word through the scriptures. How blessed we are to have them and to have the privilege to study with you.
You are an incredibly humble person. And I know you don't like hearing that, because you're...humble. But it is so refreshing to see this, because it seems like humility is one of the main things lacking in the world right now. Humility could transform each individual, then the world. You are so great about modeling what it is to seek true understanding of your "neighbor", and to not assume ill intent behind actions you may perceive as a slight. You aren't looking to go on the defense when faced with opposition. Instead, you seem to say, "Can you help me understand how you feel?" to those who see things differently. Your lessons are great. Not only are they full of context (which I REALLY enjoy), but the real life applicability is front and center, and doesn't take a backseat to the history of the scripture (which, again, I really appreciate, and may be occasionally heavy handed with in my lessons). I feel like I am having a faith transition at this point in life. Sometimes I wonder if it will carry me away from the church, which I hope doesn't happen, because I have found so much growth and healing and truth here. But every time I turn on your episodes, you convey something that reaffirms to me that even with a transition, I still have a place in the church. Thank you for that.
That 40 year old quote from then Elder Eyring means the WORLD to me!!! It encapsulates so much of what my heart is feeling today. Thank you for bringing it forward. It soothes my soul.♥️
I love that description of Leah as being tender-eyed. For me, I consider that description to mean someone having compassion and empathy. Someone who did see the inside of someone rather than judge the outside as you stated. To have tenderness of the soul would be a great gift ♥️
Oh how blessed I am as I look forward in Bro. Halversons discussions of his knowledge and teachings with thy Spirit of the scriptures. I'm touched nourished edified n given so much more understanding of what he discusses thru thy Spirit of each lesson. I look forward each day as I listen to him explaining in a more simplex manner of God's chosen in the scriptures. I get confirmations as Bro. Halverson clarifies verses n chapters of what I need to hear for myself. And I'm so deeply grateful for his talent the way thy Spirit blesses him to share the way he speaks truths n brings understanding to my spirit. This is the very most I have felt clarification of the scriptures in all the times I have read it. This is brought to life so clearly I feel I'm right there in it. I love new understanding towards the stories of real Covenant people's lives. I feel I know them personally. Bro. Halverson you are amazing. I feel your sweet spirit. The Bible has come to life for me. God's Blessings be with you in your righteous endeavors. I always look forward to the next lesson. And chapter 34 was very hard for me but I understand now where I hadn't before. WOW!! Thank your wife n family for all the time you put into these lessons for us.
Thank you so much for ministering to me and so many. I love your two sides of a coin and proving the contraries, and reminders of how to treat those who have hurt us, and soo much more. I am one of your loyal Unshaken followers.
Unshaken is my greatest blessing as a positive result of the crazy covid chapter! Bless your ❤️, Br. J! (And may your precious family be blessed for relinquishing the time this takes you away from them.)
Your reference to your son’s service mission, to his service in addiction centers and homeless shelters and that God is to be found there was one of the most powerful testimonies I have ever experienced of Gods love and sharing Gods love. It will be a life changer for this 72-year-old. Thank you and please thank your son.
Wow Jared that was so good, you did it again, I am going to relisten again, I just love the way you explain everything, I feel like I am there with those people.
"How can we support you in the next leg of your journey? I am not saying we throw departure parties, but to let people leave in love. I think will allow for a return, far better than getting the last word in." ❤ Showing unconditional love to all, unconditionally.
I was thinking about Leah and the quote "the eyes are the window to the soul" describe her perfectly. She seems to be very tender hearted, full of love, forgiveness and hope.
I have been so inspired by your video lessons Brother Halverson. Thank you for sharing your light - the light that you have received from God. I have been especially enlightened by your description of the journey of faith. Every journey needs a soundtrack, and for one as great as each individual’s faith journey, only an epic selection of songs will do. Here is my proposed song list. Creation (Simple): I am a Child of God Then Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog) Fall (Complex): Dark Side (Kelly Clarkson) Then Even When (Hilary Weeks) Atonement (Simple): Write Your Story (Francesca Battistelli) Then How Great Thou Art There are many Esther’s whom God is preparing for the last days - “for such a time as this.” I know you are one. I pray that the Lord keep uplifting you and that you keep sharing your light and knowledge from Him.
It is a blessing to have found you and this channel. I am so touched by the spirit every single lesson. Thank you. I wish I could read and highlight and revisit your lessons. Hopefully it is being written somewhere on the pulpit of my memory.❤️
Old love really is the best. Congrats on 23 years. My husband and I are 26 on 3/23. As for old love, a few years ago we were at a country music concert/show (just some local bands (East Texas). There were 3 types of couples on the dance floor. The awkward new relationships who tended to circle around the edges dancing stiffly. The middle aged couple who you could tell were familiar with each other and danced as bonded partners. And then this one older couple. At least early 80's. Every dance he bowed and asked for her hand to dance with him. I'm sure they didn't need music either. And when they danced, they became 1 on that floor. You couldn't tell where one ended and the other began. Just that perfectly in step/tune with each other. And when the song ended and it was time to sit and catch their breath for the next one he would lead her back to her seat and bow to her and thank her for dancing with him. I can't wait for the rest of forever with my husband.
Dear Brother Jared, as I listen to your lessons gratitude feels in my heart that you have the talent to teach, and I am grateful to understand the scriptures. Again thank you.
A belated happy anniversary to you and your wife. May you be blessed with eternal bliss for your sacrifices to help us on our journey back to our Heavenly home. Thank you for yet another inspiring lesson. We are extremely grateful.
Thank you Brother Jared. I do not have the words to express my gratitude I feel, for your ability to teach and express your insights so adequately. This helps me to understand the scriptures better and apply it’s teachings in my life better. It is helping me to value the much I have been given and to go out and help gather Israel more diligently.
Thank you for addressing chapter 34. Although certainly a difficult topic, ignoring it altogether reinforces the shame and secrecy that often further victimises survivors of rape.
I'm a Stake Called Seminary teacher with no previous teaching experience, your lessons have helped me tremendously! I truly appreciate the depths that you delve within the scriptures. Thank you for blessing me and my class!
I personally LOVE longer videos! The longer the better! I have just found your channel in the past 1-2 months and I look forward to listening every single week. You have helped me get excited about the Old Testament and I'm sad when the video for the week ends and I have to wait for the next!
I was just introduced to your videos. I’m so touched and as you shared about your son teaching in addiction recovery I wanted to share with you…. I remember the moment that I had in a alcoholics anonymous meeting as I sat there mad that I had to be there for my own addiction I was comparing myself to them, saying that I am not like them! The Holy Ghost whispered to me right then “ in these rooms they get to know Me!” That moment I was changed and recovery became a very real journey with God. He definitely comes to where we are…even if it’s an Alano Club in downtown San Diego! Thank you!! God bless!
Thanks for dealing with the difficult stuff!! It's worth the longer lesson. I have gained so much more "meat" instead of milk from your lessons. THANK YOU!!
Br Halverson, thank you for your time and preparation in making these scriptures come alive to us. To see the struggles and wrestling Jacob had with all the various opposition he had in his life. How he trusted in his God and Savior for his renewal. My parents who were both deaf from early childhood due to illness had a simple faith in the Lord and his promises. He taught by precept and example to the best of his ability. I look at their faith, their lives, and their hopes for us. Just as Jacob ( Israel) did for his family. He trusted in God that he would keep his promises if he did all he could to follow his commandments and instructions. We are all climbing that ladder to the Savior one rung at a time. Thank you for this hope.
At 1:18.00 where Brother Halverson begins by speaking about trials... this old thought came to mind which I have always LOVED... Think of an old clothes line: "If all our problems were hung on a line, You'd choose yours, and I'd choose mine"... in other words, we don't always see others struggles. Sometimes they remain hidden in the "laundry room"... but put them all out on a clothes line and they become VISIBLE to EVERYONE... it's then that we get some perspective and realize that our trials are individual to us and we may not wish to have the "trials" of another. Especially when we realize that we may not have the skill set to deal with their trials... but we DO have the skill set to deal with our own personal trials!
I am just so blessed to be watching these videos and have these beautiful Holy Bible Studies You do such a wonderful job and your personal tutoring and stories really help Don't Stop please ❤️❤️❤️❤️📖📖🙂😇
Thank you so much for this lesson, you have reconfirmed to me, Gods care for us as we struggle through mortality with all it's trials, and yet find peace in Christ.
I’m so excited for this lesson! I love any commentary on Jacob’s ladder. I have never forgotten the parable of the crystal stairs in your uncles book, “The way back to heaven,” or Avraham Gileadis insight of this ladder in “Isaiah decoded.” I’m excited to add your incredible perspective to my understanding.
I always interpreted "tender eyed" as being easily brought to tears. Sensitive, emotional, or possibly struggling with depression. Leah may have been lovely, but lacked the confidence and strength that Rachel carried herself wth.
I thought it might of had to do with her soul, the eyes are the window of the soul, so tender eyes may have meant she was kinder or more compassionate, sensitive, or vulnerable. We will never know what it really meant.
I’m teaching genetics to my biology students right now, and to get spotted/speckled cattle, you need to have either at least one parent that is spotted/speckled, or you can have two differently solid-colored parents. As far as I can tell from these scriptures, Jacob didn’t have much in the way of diversity (no white, no brown, no spotted), so it’s likely that the only way for him to get spotted/speckled cattle would be through mutation. Mutations are common, but random, so getting the right mutation when you want it (especially in each individual organism) is nothing short of miraculous, suggesting that Jacob had to really trust that God would provide the thing he desired.
It's interesting to me that so many of life's basic principles are so woven into and throughout the book of Genesis. of course they should be as it's the foundation of all humanity upon the earth. I also love how you employ your talent in storytelling to weave them so masterfully into your presentation. We have so much to learn about how Comparison & Competition leads us into Criticism & Complaint. Thank you for putting the word of God into such a real life context so we can learn these things more fully.
Where do you find time to do these for us? It delighteth my soul every time, brother Halverson. Thank you for your effort and devotion, in the gospel of Jesus Christ . 🙂
My husband and I in our 3rd and 2nd marriages have been married for as long as you and mum and dad got married 5 April 1950 and are still living in their own home. Faithful couple.
Beautiful. Thank you so very much. Absolutely love your conclusion with the background of the composer of the beloved hymn, "Nearer My God to Thee." Will definitely include that in our Gospel Doctrine lesson this week.
I love all your lessons! But this one especially special to me. You tell the stories as if you were right there and know what the characters are thinking and feeling. I have always felt a little sorry for Leah but now I understand her better because you explained the meanings of her sons name. I like your take of the parable of the lost sheep. I also like that you said your revelation came like a two-by-four instead of a still small voice. I was always surprised that the shepherd had left the 99 to seek after the lost one. I had never thought that the sheep were"thinking" like the righteous brother who stayed home. Disapproving and resentful of the way their father attitude! I like how you were one of 99 until Jesus asked you to name some of the 98! There is only one truly righteous Son and God sent Him so the others could return. I will have to think some more about what I do for God. Am I appeasing God so I can earn my forgiveness or am I do I do good to thank Him for His atonement? I like thinking of Esua being a forgiving older brother and Jacob in the role of the prodigal son. I appreciate what you said about Dinah not loosing her virtue. I wish more would think this way. I have always wondered why the woman deserve to be punish. I like your definitions of love vs. love. I didn't appreciate how wrong premarital sex until I joined this Church. I hadn't occurred to me that is against the Abrahamic Covenant until you said so. Words can not express what your lessons mean to me. Listening to you is as if I am reading the scriptures for the first time. I have been a member almost 55 years and graduated from Institute. I read all of Br. Skousen's books about the Old Testament. So this not my first time studying the Old Testament. (Or Studying any of scriptures.) Your insights have been taught me much. But more than this my relationship with my Savior is becoming more special and I feel closer to Him now than I ever did!
@elizabethwhipple314 Dear Elizabeth. Besides being careful not to have sex before marriage (premarital sex), we also have to be careful not to have sex at all outside of the bonds of holy matrimony (God's Law/New Covenant) and legality (the law of the land). So that covers premarital, extramarital and postmarital sex. Also intramarital sex abuse and also any and all forms and degrees of perverted sexual activity (immoral sexuality/sexual immorality) within marriage. So, premarital sex is sex before marriage. Extramarital sex speaks specifically of sex with anyone you are not married to while you are married to someone else. And postmarital sex which is sex after marriage has ended. "Extramarital affairs", more broadly speaking, are precisely those - affairs ie activities/actions outside (extra) of marriage (marital). Or, in other words (iow), outside of the structure and confines of marriage and especially of holy matrimony (marriage God's way) and the latter mentioned means that both husband and wife honor their marriage covenant and vows with complete fidelity ie faithfulness to each other instead of looking to or seeking for sources of joy etc outside of marriage and also that they show great respect and reverence to each other within their marriage by loving instead of hating or even being indifferent to each other; by being kind instead of unkind; by being charitable instead of uncharitable; by being Christlike instead of unChristlike; by being respectful or reverential instead of abusive and on and on in that vein. I hope that all makes sense. God bless you and yours and take care.
Enduring to end IS starting over on the ladder every single day. Have faith, repent, and receive/remember ordinances. It's a never ending cycle of faith that keeps us moving up the ladder. If we stop exercising our faith repentance and partaking in ordinances, that is when we begin to fall.
For the numerous women who faithfully and blindly followed their Father, husband, father etc. I don't think it's such a big deal that twice husbands followed their wife♥️ Women have an extreme magical sense of intuition that can't be beat.
I am so grateful to you for the insight that you provide, I don't think I would ever have read Genesis so far with the depth of understanding,pondering and a newfound love that I have without your inspired teaching. May the Lord bless you and your dear family that you may continue to bless the thousands of saints that you do. 🙏 x
I'm barely 2 minutes in and you've allowed the spirit to comfort my mother's heart. All mothers worry over their children the way Rebekah does. I liken the scripture Gen 27:46 to all, it could be stated this way. “I am weary of my life because of the [the sinful nature of people around my children]: if [my child] take [an action that violates covenant], what good shall my life do me?” Thank you for spending time on this verse. Thanks for helping me connect to mother Rebekah, as she and I don’t only worry about physical harm and loss of life but the spiritual death of our children.
If we are looking for a positive example of the Prodigal Son or Daughter, look no further than the reunion of Jacob and Esau. Esau's positive response with accepting Jacob and his family is a parallel to the Reunion we find with Jesus Christ.
I have followed you for a year and have LOVED it. You have such great knowledge and are a GREAT Teacher. But just now I noticed something people say about me when I teach and give talks. You radiate enthusiasm and love for what you teach. THANKS for showing me what it looks like and how much it helps. 😉❤️
Highlight 00:21:20 Jacob's Ladder is the iron rod that we didn't know we needed. When we veer off the path of the vertical iron rod, We fall back to square one. Not in punishment, but because that is the best place for us to begin again on our journey. If you realize you have messed up, don't simply go back to "endure to the end". Take that opportunity to Rediscover your faith in Jesus Christ. Seek repentance and forgiveness. We are only baptized once but you can Immerse yourself afresh in the gospel of Jesus Christ. seek confirmation from the Holy Ghost that our decisions are in line with Heavenly Father's plan. THEN, endure to the end.
I love and appreciate your lessons so much. I'm sorry we are going to have to skip chapters. Can't we make the old testament a 2 year study? I do wonder that so many commentaries spend so much time on Rebekah and Jacob "deceiving" Isaac. I believe blessings come from God and don't think He can be deceived.
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Thank you for always giving me a reason to smile in the lessons and family stories ❤️📖🙏
Brother Jared….how blessed I feel to be one of your Unshaken students…these lessons have helped my understanding in a remarkable way. Having fallen away from the church for 19 years…I look back six years ago to my realizing that I truly had fallen off the ladder. Now, in the light of repentance, and an intentional devotion to the Lords example..the new heart within me..at 70…is my most cherished possession. One rung at a time, one prayer at a time, each day at a time with a perfect brightness of hope….Thank you for your dedicated faith…this is clearly part of this light…Keep up the good work❤️😇 David
Our stories are very similar! I was inactive for slightly longer than 19 years - at 70, I too have a new heart within me - and Brother Jared has played no small part in this! Bless you, my brother in the gospel!
Thank you!
God bless you, Unshaken Saints ❤️Your return to the fold is a blessing to us all.
Bless you, Brother David! I'm so happy that you came back.
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I am so inspired by your faith promoting lives! God is with us! Brother Halverson imparts truth that brings us closer to heaven each day!
My husband and I love your style of teaching and explaining the scriptures. We are so greatcul for the time and effort that you give to us. You are a God send in more ways than you know. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Words cannot express how much I get out of your lessons. I don't care if they are long. I actually get more out of them when you detail them like you do. I will be forever grateful to be one of the unshaken.
Thank you for not skipping over Dinah’s story. It deserves to be told, and shared. It’s included in the Bible for a reason. Too many women understand this heartache. Too many women within the church deal with this, and often in silence. So, Thank you.
Brother Halverson I have felt that when I have attended the 12 step ARP program that at times it is more sacred than being in the temple. There is such empathy towards others that you can't help but realize that you come to truly see the people therefore as God sees them and gain an understanding of what Christlike love is!
The twelve steps are steps of repentance and humility…essential qualities of the Lord. As a recovering alcoholic, I implement these everyday…one day at a time…seeking Gods merciful wisdom….Thank you for your insightful comment 😇👍
Jared,
I can't thank you enough for the last couple of lessons. I have been going through some severe trials the past year, and your lessons have helped me tremendously; particularly the last two. Your teachings about how, like Abraham, our trials are fitted just for us and how we are climbing nearer to God through these trials have helped me through. May the Lord bless you and your family for your faithful service!
@@davidspjut9365 I agree, repentance and humility
I feel so much closer to those people in the Old Testament and closer to the Lord. Thank you for helping me feel some of what they felt. The scriptures are coming alive in the special lessons. Thank you Brother Halverson. Thank you for your preparation and time.
I remember a brother from my Young Single Adult Ward, who share this thought during his Testimony, regarding his Service Mission.
He came to realize that when we perform Ordinances like Baptism, the Sacrament, or performing work in the Temple, We Make Covenants.
But as we serve others inside or outside our callings, we are Keeping our Covenants!
Thank you for helping me notice things within the text that we might not already see. I think there are times when I am like Rebecca and I can see the possibilities for blessing, even if I don't know how it will quite work out. Other times, I can be like Isaac and have tunnel vision for how things should be. Again, I can be like Esau, frustrated and stubborn. Other times, needing reassurance from Family, Friends, and Members that all will work out and that God is aware of me, much like Jacob.
Thank you again for the Spirit that you bring and additional perspectives from the Scriptures and your personal history. 🙂❤
There just are not words to express enough my gratitude for the understanding and witnesses of the Spirit that flowed over me as you took us through these chapters. To understand Israel, his sacrifices, the foundation of the 12 tribes of Israel, quiet assurances of the Savior’s love to each of us as prodigal sons and daughters - these hours have been truly a gift from heaven!
You have thanked your listeners for taking the time to listen/watch your RUclips videos as long as they are but they are full of beautiful truths and doctrines. Thank YOU for taking the time to record/edit these powerful messages and insights. So many of us are blessed to listen and learn by the Spirit as we watch/listen to your videos.
Thank you so much, Bro. Halverson, for many precious insights you opened to me thanks to your dedicated work! And for the tangible charity you radiate when pondering and praying for each one who might be afflicted in ways that relate to different situations occurring in the scriptures. May He bless you and your loved ones abundantly for this service you're rendering so lovingly! ❤
I found my testimony of a personal Christ in a women’s shelter. I am so very grateful to this day that I had to run from an ex because it brought me into the arms of my beautiful Savior. While in the shelter late at night I would listen to this Christian CD (Selah) a friend had given it to me shortly before I left my ex. My ex had threatened to kill me as soon as he found me and kill me and my two young sons and then turn the gun on himself. I knew what this man was capable of and I was beyond terrified. I put all of my fears into my prayers and I would plead with God and bawl my eyes out. After praying one night I laid back down and there was a song on the CD called Hiding Place I’d never heard. It was the words in that song and the peace that came over me that let me know that my prayers had been heard and I knew from that night on we would be okay. it’s been 17 years since that night.
May the love of the Lord guide your faithful climb😇❤️
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Oh my do recognize that position too well. Been apart for 9 years and struggling to sever that final chains but he's impossible to serve while homeless on drugs. Sometimes it seems hopeless. I really appreciate how well he handled the topics here.
Blessed you sister. Will put your name in the prayer roll in the temple today. May God shelter you all the days of your life.
Bless your sweet spirit. I am so very sorry you had to endure that trial but so very glad you found his peace. Much love to you Sister.
Thank you, Brother Jared. I'm really touched to remember that Jesus is our perfect elder brother who wants us to be on our way home to our Father and is waiting to embrace us with tears of joy.
Oh how I loved this lesson Bro. Halverson. My soul delighted in all the insights I found within these precious scriptures. My soul truly is nearer to God ...thank you Bro. Halverson. God bless you for all your dedication and willingness to share with each of us weekly.
Thank you 🙏 for your explanation with the names and stories of the children of Jacob and the spouses journeys and experiences.
This is what the Lord wanted me to hear this very day, kind of a two by four intervention. Thank you brother!!
I don't think there is any real evidence that she wasn't loving in the beginning. I think that Rachel had to learn to be more loving and not jealous. It was probably rough for Rachel having to share her husband after being tricked by her father and not getting kids for so long, but at least she had the love of her husband. That should have been enough. We also don't know if it even was rough for Rachel, she was willing fro five him up for a plant and she told him she'd rather die without children than just live with him without any. That doesn't sound like a woman who was as madly in love as Jacob was. I think Leah and Rachel were both pit against each other by their somewhat well meaning father and both behaved pretty badly but I don't think the playing field was level at all for Leah, she got a very raw deal. When it says in the scripture she was unloved, I'm pretty sure it means that he was not in love with her, he loves her but was not in love with her and that had to of been really rough.
Thanks for making the gospel much clearer
I love these lessons. I teach Primary…. You are my Gospel Doctrine teacher. Thank you so much. God bless you for your efforts -
What a powerful lesson. Thanks be to God for your sharing. Your words are profound! Thanks.
Oh my word, this is so special. I never understood the words of that hymn, the message on purity, covenant, all of this lesson and every lesson deeply touches me. Thank you so much. Drop by drop step up by step up line upon line I go forward. Feeling the Savior near. Knowing he knows my name. Knowing the stones in my life, surely brought me closer to Him. Love you Brother Halverson.
Lovely sentiments.
I could not peel away from this one! You make my commute to work holy. Thank you from Indiana.
I have just finished listening to the podcast version of this week's material. I'm so grateful you charged ahead and discussed the chapters that were skipped in the Come Follow Me curriculum. As an adult convert to the Church the Old Testament has always been hard for me to read and understand. Your perspective on some of the more brutal aspects of the histories are not only enlightening but comforting at the same time,. Thank you.
Thank you so much for bringing Old Testament alive. It’s so good and the best part is that the teaching is so applicable, clear and helpful! 🙏
Redoing Genesis. Thank you for covering this book above and beyond of what the curriculum required. It is very important to me and my husband. He is new to the church.
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What a beautiful notification to start my morning! Thank you Bro. Halverson for your time, diligence, and love of the gospel! You are a shining example of faith.
Amen…sunshine in a storm😇
That's a long morning! 😅 It takes me like 3 days to get through all 4 hours. But it's worthwhile. :)
Thank you for teaching me the scriptures, i so very much appreciate you . It's my favorite part of my week to hear you and understand the scriptures from you. You are a gift in my life and I thank you for helping me to understand the scriptures and making them become more meaningful.
I finally finished listening to this! That was amazing!! Till the very end. A truly spiritual feast! Thank you Brother Halverson! 😄
Jared, that was so beautiful thank you for your persistence in putting out these amazing messages on Come Follow Me. I am the ward organist and we are definitely singing Nearer My God to thee tomorrow.
Thank you so much for breaking down your lessons into chapters! It makes it so much easier to go back and rewatch or listen to a portion that I want to review
Brother, I am so happy to be one of your student this year.
It is really helping me with so many insights testify in me by the power of the Holy Ghost as a Sunday school teacher.
I pray that God will continue to give you strength and restless effort through the power of the Holy Ghost to bring out more wonderful insights for His loving children to grow spiritually.
Brother Halverson, you completely opened my eyes to that hymn!! I never understood that message except in little bits and pieces!?! Now I see where it fits biblically and it really helps me understand Jacob's ladder in a day-to-day living sort of way. Thank you so much for all the time you spend sharing your heart and your wisdom and understanding in down to earth, ordinary ways that make the gospel more bite-sized and easy to apply in my life. Thank you so much. I also really appreciate what you said at the beginning, when you were sharing what your wife thinks about pride, about how it really stinks coming out of the mouth. You paraphrase her so much better but I understood your meaning.🥰
Thank you for including Genesis 34 and teaching us about Dinah. I really appreciate that you are willing to dive into the difficult stories. Always in awe how much I learn from you!
I've listened to this several times and I don't think I have had the scriptures be more relatable.
2:59:50: dusty, dust! I woke up this morning with the word "dust" in my mind. And I started to search this word in the gospel library app and read some search results to figure out, what the Lord wanted me to know or learn. There were already some keywords that came with it. And now I continued this Unshaken Episode where I stopped yesterday, and it started with more insight and thoughts and truth about "dust"!
We have a God of miracles!
Thank you, so much, my Unshaken teacher, my Unshaken friend, for AGAIN letting God speak to me through you! May God bless you and your family!!! ❤️
I appreciate your ability to open the scriptures for insights that enrich my understanding. THANK YOU
Thanks for not skipping over chapters, love your work and insights.
I like your green tie , you made my day when I saw you this morning, you are really the best teacher . I look forward Eve week
You are doing such a tremendous amount of good to increase my faith as well as so many I refer to this channel. Thank you for your amazing spirit of love and true devotion to God and His word through the scriptures. How blessed we are to have them and to have the privilege to study with you.
You are an incredibly humble person. And I know you don't like hearing that, because you're...humble. But it is so refreshing to see this, because it seems like humility is one of the main things lacking in the world right now. Humility could transform each individual, then the world. You are so great about modeling what it is to seek true understanding of your "neighbor", and to not assume ill intent behind actions you may perceive as a slight. You aren't looking to go on the defense when faced with opposition. Instead, you seem to say, "Can you help me understand how you feel?" to those who see things differently.
Your lessons are great. Not only are they full of context (which I REALLY enjoy), but the real life applicability is front and center, and doesn't take a backseat to the history of the scripture (which, again, I really appreciate, and may be occasionally heavy handed with in my lessons). I feel like I am having a faith transition at this point in life. Sometimes I wonder if it will carry me away from the church, which I hope doesn't happen, because I have found so much growth and healing and truth here. But every time I turn on your episodes, you convey something that reaffirms to me that even with a transition, I still have a place in the church. Thank you for that.
That 40 year old quote from then Elder Eyring means the WORLD to me!!! It encapsulates so much of what my heart is feeling today. Thank you for bringing it forward. It soothes my soul.♥️
I love that description of Leah as being tender-eyed. For me, I consider that description to mean someone having compassion and empathy. Someone who did see the inside of someone rather than judge the outside as you stated. To have tenderness of the soul would be a great gift ♥️
"Because Christ was never a question mark."
Beautiful and profound
Oh how blessed I am as I look forward in Bro. Halversons discussions of his knowledge and teachings with thy Spirit of the scriptures. I'm touched nourished edified n given so much more understanding of what he discusses thru thy Spirit of each lesson. I look forward each day as I listen to him explaining in a more simplex manner of God's chosen in the scriptures. I get confirmations as Bro. Halverson clarifies verses n chapters of what I need to hear for myself. And I'm so deeply grateful for his talent the way thy Spirit blesses him to share the way he speaks truths n brings understanding to my spirit. This is the very most I have felt clarification of the scriptures in all the times I have read it. This is brought to life so clearly I feel I'm right there in it. I love new understanding towards the stories of real Covenant people's lives. I feel I know them personally. Bro. Halverson you are amazing. I feel your sweet spirit. The Bible has come to life for me. God's Blessings be with you in your righteous endeavors. I always look forward to the next lesson. And chapter 34 was very hard for me but I understand now where I hadn't before. WOW!! Thank your wife n family for all the time you put into these lessons for us.
Thank you so much for ministering to me and so many. I love your two sides of a coin and proving the contraries, and reminders of how to treat those who have hurt us, and soo much more. I am one of your loyal Unshaken followers.
Unshaken is my greatest blessing as a positive result of the crazy covid chapter! Bless your ❤️, Br. J! (And may your precious family be blessed for relinquishing the time this takes you away from them.)
Your reference to your son’s service mission, to his service in addiction centers and homeless shelters and that God is to be found there was one of the most powerful testimonies I have ever experienced of Gods love and sharing Gods love. It will be a life changer for this 72-year-old. Thank you and please thank your son.
4 hour of joyful learning!
Wow Jared that was so good, you did it again, I am going to relisten again, I just love the way you explain everything, I feel like I am there with those people.
"How can we support you in the next leg of your journey? I am not saying we throw departure parties, but to let people leave in love. I think will allow for a return, far better than getting the last word in." ❤ Showing unconditional love to all, unconditionally.
I was thinking about Leah and the quote "the eyes are the window to the soul" describe her perfectly. She seems to be very tender hearted, full of love, forgiveness and hope.
I have been so inspired by your video lessons Brother Halverson. Thank you for sharing your light - the light that you have received from God. I have been especially enlightened by your description of the journey of faith. Every journey needs a soundtrack, and for one as great as each individual’s faith journey, only an epic selection of songs will do. Here is my proposed song list.
Creation (Simple):
I am a Child of God
Then
Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog)
Fall (Complex):
Dark Side (Kelly Clarkson)
Then
Even When (Hilary Weeks)
Atonement (Simple):
Write Your Story (Francesca Battistelli)
Then
How Great Thou Art
There are many Esther’s whom God is preparing for the last days - “for such a time as this.” I know you are one. I pray that the Lord keep uplifting you and that you keep sharing your light and knowledge from Him.
So grateful to becoming to understand better these chapters. thank you for your dedication in preparing these lessons. I felt these chapters.
Feeling so blessed every morning waking up to listen to your lesson. Thank you, brother Halverson.
It is a blessing to have found you and this channel. I am so touched by the spirit every single lesson. Thank you. I wish I could read and highlight and revisit your lessons. Hopefully it is being written somewhere on the pulpit of my memory.❤️
Thank so much for this beautiful lesson. God bless you for your efforts.
Old love really is the best. Congrats on 23 years. My husband and I are 26 on 3/23.
As for old love, a few years ago we were at a country music concert/show (just some local bands (East Texas). There were 3 types of couples on the dance floor. The awkward new relationships who tended to circle around the edges dancing stiffly. The middle aged couple who you could tell were familiar with each other and danced as bonded partners.
And then this one older couple. At least early 80's. Every dance he bowed and asked for her hand to dance with him. I'm sure they didn't need music either. And when they danced, they became 1 on that floor. You couldn't tell where one ended and the other began. Just that perfectly in step/tune with each other. And when the song ended and it was time to sit and catch their breath for the next one he would lead her back to her seat and bow to her and thank her for dancing with him.
I can't wait for the rest of forever with my husband.
Dear Brother Jared, as I listen to your lessons gratitude feels in my heart that you have the talent to teach, and I am grateful to understand the scriptures. Again thank you.
A belated happy anniversary to you and your wife. May you be blessed with eternal bliss for your sacrifices to help us on our journey back to our Heavenly home. Thank you for yet another inspiring lesson. We are extremely grateful.
Thank you Brother Jared. I do not have the words to express my gratitude I feel, for your ability to teach and express your insights so adequately. This helps me to understand the scriptures better and apply it’s teachings in my life better. It is helping me to value the much I have been given and to go out and help gather Israel more diligently.
Thanks for all that you do. It has made a difference in my life.
Beautiful and poignant! Thank you!!
Thank you for addressing chapter 34. Although certainly a difficult topic, ignoring it altogether reinforces the shame and secrecy that often further victimises survivors of rape.
Incredible as usual! Thank you doesn’t seem to be enough🔥🔥🔥 I deeply appreciate your time and talents, Brother Jared!
Happy anniversary! I love your discussions and I learn so much! Thank you!
I'm a Stake Called Seminary teacher with no previous teaching experience, your lessons have helped me tremendously! I truly appreciate the depths that you delve within the scriptures. Thank you for blessing me and my class!
I personally LOVE longer videos! The longer the better! I have just found your channel in the past 1-2 months and I look forward to listening every single week. You have helped me get excited about the Old Testament and I'm sad when the video for the week ends and I have to wait for the next!
I was just introduced to your videos. I’m so touched and as you shared about your son teaching in addiction recovery I wanted to share with you….
I remember the moment that I had in a alcoholics anonymous meeting as I sat there mad that I had to be there for my own addiction I was comparing myself to them, saying that I am not like them! The Holy Ghost whispered to me right then “ in these rooms they get to know Me!” That moment I was changed and recovery became a very real journey with God. He definitely comes to where we are…even if it’s an Alano Club in downtown San Diego!
Thank you!!
God bless!
Thanks for dealing with the difficult stuff!! It's worth the longer lesson. I have gained so much more "meat" instead of milk from your lessons. THANK YOU!!
Br Halverson, thank you for your time and preparation in making these scriptures come alive to us. To see the struggles and wrestling Jacob had with all the various opposition he had in his life. How he trusted in his God and Savior for his renewal. My parents who were both deaf from early childhood due to illness had a simple faith in the Lord and his promises. He taught by precept and example to the best of his ability. I look at their faith, their lives, and their hopes for us. Just as Jacob ( Israel) did for his family. He trusted in God that he would keep his promises if he did all he could to follow his commandments and instructions. We are all climbing that ladder to the Savior one rung at a time. Thank you for this hope.
Thanks!!! So much strength and wisdom and light here.
At 1:18.00 where Brother Halverson begins by speaking about trials... this old thought came to mind which I have always LOVED... Think of an old clothes line: "If all our problems were hung on a line, You'd choose yours, and I'd choose mine"... in other words, we don't always see others struggles. Sometimes they remain hidden in the "laundry room"... but put them all out on a clothes line and they become VISIBLE to EVERYONE... it's then that we get some perspective and realize that our trials are individual to us and we may not wish to have the "trials" of another. Especially when we realize that we may not have the skill set to deal with their trials... but we DO have the skill set to deal with our own personal trials!
I love these lessons. Thank you.
I really love your interpretation of the 99 sheep. Thank you!
I am just so blessed to be watching these videos and have these beautiful Holy Bible Studies
You do such a wonderful job and your personal tutoring and stories really help
Don't Stop please ❤️❤️❤️❤️📖📖🙂😇
Thank you so much for this lesson, you have reconfirmed to me, Gods care for us as we struggle through mortality with all it's trials, and yet find peace in Christ.
I’m so excited for this lesson! I love any commentary on Jacob’s ladder. I have never forgotten the parable of the crystal stairs in your uncles book, “The way back to heaven,” or Avraham Gileadis insight of this ladder in “Isaiah decoded.” I’m excited to add your incredible perspective to my understanding.
Thank you wonderful lesson Jared you did wonderful job on helping understand I felt spirit awhile you teach. 👍
I always interpreted "tender eyed" as being easily brought to tears. Sensitive, emotional, or possibly struggling with depression. Leah may have been lovely, but lacked the confidence and strength that Rachel carried herself wth.
The Lord Jesus Christ came through Leah not Rachel
I thought it might of had to do with her soul, the eyes are the window of the soul, so tender eyes may have meant she was kinder or more compassionate, sensitive, or vulnerable. We will never know what it really meant.
Didn’t know how much I needed this lesson🥺🥲 Thank you Brother Halverson🙏🏽
I’m teaching genetics to my biology students right now, and to get spotted/speckled cattle, you need to have either at least one parent that is spotted/speckled, or you can have two differently solid-colored parents.
As far as I can tell from these scriptures, Jacob didn’t have much in the way of diversity (no white, no brown, no spotted), so it’s likely that the only way for him to get spotted/speckled cattle would be through mutation. Mutations are common, but random, so getting the right mutation when you want it (especially in each individual organism) is nothing short of miraculous, suggesting that Jacob had to really trust that God would provide the thing he desired.
It's interesting to me that so many of life's basic principles are so woven into and throughout the book of Genesis. of course they should be as it's the foundation of all humanity upon the earth. I also love how you employ your talent in storytelling to weave them so masterfully into your presentation. We have so much to learn about how Comparison & Competition leads us into Criticism & Complaint. Thank you for putting the word of God into such a real life context so we can learn these things more fully.
Where do you find time to do these for us? It delighteth my soul every time, brother Halverson. Thank you for your effort and devotion, in the gospel of Jesus Christ . 🙂
My husband and I in our 3rd and 2nd marriages have been married for as long as you and mum and dad got married 5 April 1950 and are still living in their own home. Faithful couple.
Beautiful. Thank you so very much. Absolutely love your conclusion with the background of the composer of the beloved hymn, "Nearer My God to Thee." Will definitely include that in our Gospel Doctrine lesson this week.
I love all your lessons! But this one especially special to me. You tell the stories as if you were right there and know what the characters are thinking and feeling.
I have always felt a little sorry for Leah but now I understand her better because you explained the meanings of her sons name.
I like your take of the parable of the lost sheep. I also like that you said your revelation came like a two-by-four instead of a still small voice. I was always surprised that the shepherd had left the 99 to seek after the lost one. I had never thought that the sheep were"thinking" like the righteous brother who stayed home. Disapproving and resentful of the way their father attitude! I like how you were one of 99 until Jesus asked you to name some of the 98! There is only one truly righteous Son and God sent Him so the others could return. I will have to think some more about what I do for God. Am I appeasing God so I can earn my forgiveness or am I do I do good to thank Him for His atonement? I like thinking of Esua being a forgiving older brother and Jacob in the role of the prodigal son. I appreciate what you said about Dinah not loosing her virtue. I wish more would think this way. I have always wondered why the woman deserve to be punish. I like your definitions of love vs. love.
I didn't appreciate how wrong premarital sex until I joined this Church. I hadn't occurred to me that is against the Abrahamic Covenant until you said so.
Words can not express what your lessons mean to me. Listening to you is as if I am reading the scriptures for the first time. I have been a member almost 55 years and graduated from Institute. I read all of Br. Skousen's books about the Old Testament. So this not my first time studying the Old Testament. (Or Studying any of scriptures.) Your insights have been taught me much. But more than this my relationship with my Savior is becoming more special and I feel closer to Him now than I ever did!
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Dear Elizabeth.
Besides being careful not to have sex before marriage (premarital sex), we also have to be careful not to have sex at all outside of the bonds of holy matrimony (God's Law/New Covenant) and legality (the law of the land). So that covers premarital, extramarital and postmarital sex. Also intramarital sex abuse and also any and all forms and degrees of perverted sexual activity (immoral sexuality/sexual immorality) within marriage.
So, premarital sex is sex before marriage.
Extramarital sex speaks specifically of sex with anyone you are not married to while you are married to someone else.
And postmarital sex which is sex after marriage has ended.
"Extramarital affairs", more broadly speaking, are precisely those - affairs ie activities/actions outside (extra) of marriage (marital). Or, in other words (iow), outside of the structure and confines of marriage and especially of holy matrimony (marriage God's way) and the latter mentioned means that both husband and wife honor their marriage covenant and vows with complete fidelity ie faithfulness to each other instead of looking to or seeking for sources of joy etc outside of marriage and also that they show great respect and reverence to each other within their marriage by loving instead of hating or even being indifferent to each other; by being kind instead of unkind; by being charitable instead of uncharitable; by being Christlike instead of unChristlike; by being respectful or reverential instead of abusive and on and on in that vein.
I hope that all makes sense. God bless you and yours and take care.
Enduring to end IS starting over on the ladder every single day. Have faith, repent, and receive/remember ordinances. It's a never ending cycle of faith that keeps us moving up the ladder. If we stop exercising our faith repentance and partaking in ordinances, that is when we begin to fall.
For the numerous women who faithfully and blindly followed their Father, husband, father etc. I don't think it's such a big deal that twice husbands followed their wife♥️ Women have an extreme magical sense of intuition that can't be beat.
I am so grateful to you for the insight that you provide, I don't think I would ever have read Genesis so far with the depth of understanding,pondering and a newfound love that I have without your inspired teaching. May the Lord bless you and your dear family that you may continue to bless the thousands of saints that you do. 🙏 x
"I'm going to be more succinct..." (Continues with a 4- hour long lesson.) 🤣🤣 Its all good. Stay the course, Jared!
Bless you brother Jared
I love unshaken. Just wish it wasn’t quite so long. Thanks for your hard work
God's Redemption is Relentless!
Thank the Lord ❤️😇. So our faith in Him should be👍
I'm barely 2 minutes in and you've allowed the spirit to comfort my mother's heart. All mothers worry over their children the way Rebekah does. I liken the scripture Gen 27:46 to all, it could be stated this way.
“I am weary of my life because of the [the sinful nature of people around my children]: if [my child] take [an action that violates covenant], what good shall my life do me?”
Thank you for spending time on this verse. Thanks for helping me connect to mother Rebekah, as she and I don’t only worry about physical harm and loss of life but the spiritual death of our children.
Thank you! I loved every word!
If we are looking for a positive example of the Prodigal Son or Daughter, look no further than the reunion of Jacob and Esau.
Esau's positive response with accepting Jacob and his family is a parallel to the Reunion we find with Jesus Christ.
I have followed you for a year and have LOVED it. You have such great knowledge and are a GREAT Teacher. But just now I noticed something people say about me when I teach and give talks. You radiate enthusiasm and love for what you teach. THANKS for showing me what it looks like and how much it helps. 😉❤️
You have no idea how much your thoughts about Rachel and leah have meant to me
Highlight 00:21:20 Jacob's Ladder is the iron rod that we didn't know we needed.
When we veer off the path of the vertical iron rod, We fall back to square one. Not in punishment, but because that is the best place for us to begin again on our journey. If you realize you have messed up, don't simply go back to "endure to the end". Take that opportunity to Rediscover your faith in Jesus Christ. Seek repentance and forgiveness. We are only baptized once but you can Immerse yourself afresh in the gospel of Jesus Christ. seek confirmation from the Holy Ghost that our decisions are in line with Heavenly Father's plan. THEN, endure to the end.
I love and appreciate your lessons so much. I'm sorry we are going to have to skip chapters. Can't we make the old testament a 2 year study? I do wonder that so many commentaries spend so much time on Rebekah and Jacob "deceiving" Isaac. I believe blessings come from God and don't think He can be deceived.
Leah needed to learn she could love, even when she's not being loved. Looks as though she did after a while .