Let me tell you of my experience with the gift of tongues. In 1987 my. 17-year-old-son was involved in an horrific automobile accident. He spent two weeks in the ICU at Scottsdale Community Hospital in Arizona. During that time my daughter and i spent each day in the ICU waiting room standing vigil to be with him for 10 minutes every 2 hours. On the 3rd day, early in the morning, a woman joined us whose husband had been working at the dairy farm in nearby Chandler, Arizona and had fallen into a pen with a bull and had been badly gored by the bull. She spoke no English. She had not yet been able to see her husband since the incident. When our 10 minute visitation time came around everyone was allowed to go in and visit with their loved one. Everyone except her. I knew that they were possibly performing their routine procedures (reading vitals, taking x-rays, aspirating his lungs, etc.) and that she would be able to go in when they were finished. She began to panic, thinking that there was something terrible happening that kept her from going in to see him. There was no one there that spoke Spanish at all. No one except me. Now i did not really speak Spanish. What i did have was one yearcof Spanish in high school 30 years prior in 1956/57. I knew she needed help. I quickly prayed for help to be able to do so. And i did manage to pull enough Spanish from my dusty old brain to be able to calm her down and assure her her that everything was okay with her husband. A few minutes passed and the surgeon who had operated on him came into the room to report on her husband's progress. He did speak Spanish. Everything was okay. The next day when she came to srand vigil with the rest of us i tried to speak to her again. I could not think of one single word to say! My daughter said, "Mom, you spoke to her in Spanish yesterday! " To which I replied, Yes, but yesterday it was necessary. Today it is not." Now that was my experience with the gift of the Holy Spirit lending to me for a brief moment the gift of tongues.
That cleared up a lot of questions for me. The Articles of Faith state that we believe in the Gift of tongues, but I have never personally believed in the gift of tongues, seeing people speaking nonsense and claiming to be possessed by the Holy Ghost, but the Spirit calling to your mind a language you once knew because it was needed in a moment of Christ like service makes sense to me. That I can believe in.
@@racheladorno9923 I am glad it helped you. Sometimes we have the tendency to make these things much more complicated when they are really quite simple and logical.
Two kinds of tongues. One is foreign language. The missionaries do it routinely. The second kind is called in the scriptures "other tongues" or the "tongue of angels." It was spoken during restoration Church History . Some of the Protestants call it "glossalailia ." sp? Such as was spoken during the Kirtland Temple dedication.
Thank You So Much for Sharing!! My mother passed away last week. A perfect time to be deepening my testimony in my Savior & His gift of the Resurrection. Listening & to your lessons on the Atonement helped Prepare, Strengthen, and Comfort me during this difficult time. Thank You for being a Willing & Worthy instrument of the Lord. The Spirit Testifies to me, the Truth you Speak. 🙏
Brother Halvorsen, when I read your reply to the sr couple serving in India, calling a senior mission the “victory lap of life” I thought what a wonderful phrase but then got emotional. I, and many others like myself, are also serving “senior missions” also with no name tags bearing the name of Christ but we wear his name in our souls. We are the aging Boomer grandparents raising our grandchildren-their legal guardians and custodians due to their parents’ addictions and/or incarcerations. In my case I’m 73 and single. In my sister and brother-in-law’s case, they are married and age 75. I know those like us have been called on a very sacred mission, and one I wouldn’t trade, albeit it I’d rather be in Paris when it’s not burning. There really is no release date. No real victory lap, just one long marathon of raising God’s children where we daily pray we will be victorious in serving God in his victory over the adversary.
I do love listening to your sermons every night as I am up from about 2am on, my husband sleeps normal hours. He cannot believe that I listen your complete talks from beginning to end. I say, WELL, he sat there for the same amount of time to record these talks, why can't I sit and listen for the same amount of time. Keep enlightening us, I am vision impaired, but when my eyes are corrected, I can then read along with you. Love from Missouri
0:51 Thank you for sharing these beautiful scriptures in the morning hours and I just love the growth and changes in the loving and stronger Apostles and disciples. So many great memories shared with us all for helping us now ❤️❤️❤️
Brother Halverson, thank you so much for your lessons. I have enjoyed your lessons for over 3 years now. I have learned SO MUCH from you. I take notes and mark up my scriptures. Often it is words that you say, but more and more often, as I pause the video and start to write, my own thoughts and feelings are entered along with yours. Your lesson this week, Acts 1-5, you told a story about when you were a missionary and you were told to study those few scriptures in Acts. You said that the authority that was visiting said that you have now earned this scriptures. That really struck me. Many years ago I took a Dale Carnegie course that involved many good things, but one thing that I still remember that was said about being a public speaker. You only 'earned the right' to speak by two ways: 1) you have studied that topic, 2) by personal experience. In that situation, you earned the right by both ways! By study, and by personal experience. Since that time I have always tried to study for lessons or talks to earn the right to teach or talk about them. But I also try to include personal experiences. I feel that people who do both always give really good lessons or talks. You do both very well, and I enjoy listening to you. Thank you.
Dear Brother Halverson, thank you for making the transition from the gospels to the acts so powerful. Your explanations are so valuable to someone like me, who often gets confused with ‘who’s talking ‘ ;) During this podcast I found myself riveted to everything said and it’s wonderful seeing the gospel in action after the departure of the physical Christ. And as we’ve come to understand our magnificent Godhead, seeing the Holy Ghost in action as you described was captivating. Thank you ♥️
Question: Every powerful Christian teacher/preacher of the Word of God I've ever seen online has hundreds or thousands of haters. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've never seen anyone come up against Brother Halverson in the comments or anywhere else. (I guess it's not really a question, just pointing out... how amazing is his ability to reach everyone?! It really is incredible!
From what I understand, UA-cam filters out a lot of abusive comments on most videos, so I'm guessing there may be some occasional hateful comments we don't see (thankfully). But yes, I agree! Bro Hal is so great at teaching in such a loving and knowledgeable way that it's hard for even the critics to criticize!
Hello I have not seen any thing like a strong debate on any subject, have watched many different talks that he has done, once he has his beautiful wife and both talked. I think something like What Elder Brad Willcox and his friend yet a member from another church had a on stage deep between yet almost Are we really A Church to be Called Christians , And What do we believe and Not believe in It was a lovely idea for everyone to see why we connected to the Jewish people who originally could have been where we are now. It could be nice to have him in a talk like this, I don't think he would want to expose the one who is going through the Faith Crisis, would you want your family member to go to a public discourse and get up to talk to Brother Jared Halverson?
I believe you when you talk about having the gift of tongues. I’ve noticed it and felt it in my life on several occasions. I know you have it with every podcast, because I always feel the spirit as you teach. ❤ thank you for this it was great!
Brother Jared, we've been listening to you for 3 years now. The Spirit pricked us in our heart last year to spread the gospel and serve a mission. Here we are in India ready to preach and exhort! We come and find that currently there are anti-conversion laws and dangerous anti-Christian sentiment in the land. Our Mission President cautions us; we cannot wear badges, or proselyte, or even mention the name of the Church when we talk to people on the street. We are volunteers for the Indian Society of our International church. It is killing us not to be able to wear the name of the Savior and bear witness of him! Gratefully we can still work to strengthen the youth and the members of the branches we serve in but we yearn to be as the apostles to teach and exhort these humble people to have faith in Jesus Christ. We pray that the powers that are hindering the work and slowing the building of the temple here will be overthrown. We know no unhallowed hand can stop the work ultimately so we are waiting for another Day of Pentecost so to speak, to allow the the work to be unfettered in the country where the highest number of his children live.
You're living the dream! A Senior Mission is "the victory lap of life," and you're on it! I know in some degree what you're feeling, as we weren't allowed to talk about the gospel in Israel when I was a study abroad student back in college. It was so hard to keep my mouth shut! But you're wise to focus your efforts on strengthening the members there, as they will be the ones who will make the biggest difference in their homeland. You are serving the Lord of the Apostles, and He hasn't changed, so continue to see His hand made manifest!
As a Lao speaking missionary in Seattle, I don't know if I ever experienced the Gift of Tongues for myself. There are many instances where those I taught obviously had the Gift of Interpretation whereas I was often shocked when they could understand what I was attempting to say.
i love consecration, and look forward to letting go of the possessions that own me. It will be hard in some ways, but so liberating to let go of so much stuff, and to trust that it will do others good for sure.
Thank you once again for sharing your message. You have helped my conversion and testimony of Christ’s divine mission on earth expand. For the spirit to reveal and confirm so many personal truths to my heart, mind and soul. As your sister in the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I am humbled and so grateful for knowing and still growing in the Lords teachings so I am am to see the way home to our Father in Heaven. ❤
2:18:55 thank u for the growth your spirit has obtained to share these words with us (dc 109.15) I’ve seen many other disciples in my time remembering back with Mathew Cowley, Hugh B Brown, even David O McKay or Hartman Rector Jr so many disciples even scholars like Joseph Fielding McConkie , Daniel Ludlow, so many more who devote themselves to study (James Talmage) to be able to feel the fruit of the spirit it’s a beautiful thing ur doing Brother Hal as your in that class of edification to make sacred the words of the Lord to bring to pass a very sanctifying influence to encourage such high value on the things of the spirit thankfully !!!
I love the imagery you evoked of the flames of fire as cloven tongues. I wanted to share another thought I had about cloven tongues which I didn’t realize until I thought about tongue in the context of language. The way I understand what took place is that a person would speak one language but it was heard in a variety of different languages. In this sense, one tongue was cloven into many. The Spirit has the ability to do this in many ways, where a particular message shared in general conference or sacrament meeting can be understood in the perfect context, where we feel that the message was just for us. I believe in many instances the Spirit translates the original speaker’s message into many different messages that truly are “just for us” if we have ears to hear.
In the January 2003 Ensign is an excerpt from a talk given by Elder Jeffery R Holland he said the name of Acts could be “ The Acts of the Resurrected Christ worked through the Holy Spirit in the Lives and Ministries of His Ordained Apostles.”
Brother Halverson, thank you for your podcast again. I had to pause it a few minutes in as I feel compelled to ask you if you have seen "Sound of Freedom?" I have not yet seen it, but I've seen a podcast about it, and I would really value your insight about it, if that's at all possible and not too huge of an ask. Should we, as Latter-day Saints and as Christians not bring it to the attention of all as to the heinous practice of child slavery - the international $160 billion industry that it is. More needs to be done about it than is currently being done. It is evil and needs good people to stand up against it. There are so many ways that the world is spiralling downwards, we need to stop our fellow man from going down with this evil, and push back against the spreading darkness. Thank you for all the light that you are sharing with us, and for directing us all towards Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, and Our Eternal Heavenly Father. They live and love us all.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland "From the first verse [of the book of Acts], the declaration is that the Church will continue to be divinely led, not mortally led. ... Indeed, a more complete title for the book of Acts could appropriately be something like 'The Acts of the Resurrected Christ Working through the Holy Spirit in the Lives and Ministries of His Ordained Apostles! ... "The direction of the Church is the same. The location of the Savior has been altered, but the direction and leadership of the Church is exactly the same!" ("Therefore, What?" [Church Educational System conference on the New Testament, Aug. 8, 2000], 6).
Thanks for mentioning this: The vision of Joel has been fulfilled wherein he declared: “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: “And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. “And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come. “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call” "Gordon B. Hinckley, "Living in the Fulness of Times," Oct, 2001.
Any thoughts on Acts 1:6 having ties to the restoration / restitution of all things? The apostles surely knew of the famine in the land that was forthcoming, but didn't have a solid understanding of the timing, and put forward the question to the Master, not knowing the "times or the seasons"!
@Unshaken Brother Halverson. Thought: As I understand Greek, the -us- at the end of a name, title, term, word etc makes that name et al singular non possessive and the plural non possessive would be either -a- or -ae-. So Theophilus, like you said, could have been a specific person who had Theophilus as either an actual name or as a title. Or another possibility is that it was both a name and a title as often happened in the scriptures because every name had actual, real meaning behind them. But whatever the case may have been about the naming or titling of this Theophilus character, the fact that it ends in -us- most likely makes it a first person non possessive singular name or title instead of a second person non possessive plural name or title. I hope this makes sense. Your further thoughts on this point? Thanks.
The baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost is a key part of the Doctrine of Christ (2 Nephi 31:17,18). I am not sure why we do not teach about this wonderful event. After this great event on the day of Pentecost, Peter and the other disciples were never the same; they were converted, they had a mighty change, they had become new creatures. They could teach and heal and cast out devils and they did not care about threats from the leaders of the Jews (Acts 5:12-16). Every member of the church who is baptized should be seeking for this great event (Math. 3:11). Christ will baptize any honest seeker who is already baptized with water, with the Holy Ghost and with fire (2 Nephi 12:1). I am not sure why NO podcaster will teach these doctrines - it use to be taught often in the church, but today no one will even say it. The gift of tongues is not that big of a deal; satan also has the gift of tongues (Teachings, p.195),
@Unshaken Brother Halverson. I'm just not sure about the reversal of the Tower of Babel confounded language claim. As I understand it, before and during the first half of the Tower being built, all of the people spoke one common language - supposedly either Adamic or Hebrew. Then about halfway through building the Tower, that's when God confounded their common language and they began speaking different languages. Now the process of the exact reversal of the confounding of the common language at Babel into different languages would be going from those different languages back to either Adamic or Hebrew (depending on which was spoken before the confounding of the language) as the common language. Or, at least, to another same language to be the common language. However neither of those processes happened at Pentecost. What happened at Pentecost was the Apostles speaking in the different languages of each observer there being spoken at the same time. That's the only connection to the confounded language at Babel I can sense which connection is tenuous at best. Otherwise there's no connection at all whatsoever between the two events. Your further thoughts on this point? Thanks.
In Acts 1:26 after prayer and supplication over who judas' replacement in the Quorum of the Twelve should be, they just ultimately drew lots? I was hoping you would explain this but you just kind of skipped over it and I'm confused about that last verse before Acts 2.
Read Moroni Chap 7. Pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart that ye may be FILLED with this love that He hath bestowed unto ALL who are true followers of His Son Jesús Christ…” I will pray that you receive strength to overcome and mercy to forgive yourself as you replace drinks instead with actions of following Christ: scripture reading, fasting, prayer, service, visiting members; all this instead of drinking for the urge to diminish and go away and be less and less frequent. Drink in His love and show it outwardly to thy neighbors…Get ‘drunk’ in ministering for Jesus’ sake.
🤔If making that comparison with Bible history, with early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, then the slavery question becomes quite unnerving. Joseph Smith Jr. gave the Priesthood to African Americans, Brigham Young was quite a bigot. It's underscored in the sealing of our most famous Early Black pioneer to Joseph Smith and Emma vicariously as a servant. 🤔 How far do we go then with a critical, or discerning eye, (D&C 50) for New Testament Teachings? Why not Bible historicity review on a Dr Bart Erhman or Dr Richard Carrier view of these Acts of The Apostles? Or maybe a bit more Eastern Orthodox nuance? 🤔
Let me tell you of my experience with the gift of tongues. In 1987 my. 17-year-old-son was involved in an horrific automobile accident. He spent two weeks in the ICU at Scottsdale Community Hospital in Arizona. During that time my daughter and i spent each day in the ICU waiting room standing vigil to be with him for 10 minutes every 2 hours. On the 3rd day, early in the morning, a woman joined us whose husband had been working at the dairy farm in nearby Chandler, Arizona and had fallen into a pen with a bull and had been badly gored by the bull. She spoke no English. She had not yet been able to see her husband since the incident. When our 10 minute visitation time came around everyone was allowed to go in and visit with their loved one. Everyone except her. I knew that they were possibly performing their routine procedures (reading vitals, taking x-rays, aspirating his lungs, etc.) and that she would be able to go in when they were finished. She began to panic, thinking that there was something terrible happening that kept her from going in to see him. There was no one there that spoke Spanish at all. No one except me. Now i did not really speak Spanish. What i did have was one yearcof Spanish in high school 30 years prior in 1956/57. I knew she needed help. I quickly prayed for help to be able to do so. And i did manage to pull enough Spanish from my dusty old brain to be able to calm her down and assure her her that everything was okay with her husband. A few minutes passed and the surgeon who had operated on him came into the room to report on her husband's progress. He did speak Spanish. Everything was okay. The next day when she came to srand vigil with the rest of us i tried to speak to her again. I could not think of one single word to say! My daughter said, "Mom, you spoke to her in Spanish yesterday! " To which I replied, Yes, but yesterday it was necessary. Today it is not." Now that was my experience with the gift of the Holy Spirit lending to me for a brief moment the gift of tongues.
That cleared up a lot of questions for me. The Articles of Faith state that we believe in the Gift of tongues, but I have never personally believed in the gift of tongues, seeing people speaking nonsense and claiming to be possessed by the Holy Ghost, but the Spirit calling to your mind a language you once knew because it was needed in a moment of Christ like service makes sense to me. That I can believe in.
@@racheladorno9923 I am glad it helped you. Sometimes we have the tendency to make these things much more complicated when they are really quite simple and logical.
Two kinds of tongues. One is foreign language. The missionaries do it routinely. The second kind is called in the scriptures "other tongues" or the "tongue of angels." It was spoken during restoration Church History . Some of the Protestants call it "glossalailia ." sp? Such as was spoken during the Kirtland Temple dedication.
@@racheladorno9923ammok nga agsao itti ilokano bassit...but thats not my primary tongue i learned when i was serving in Philippines Ilagan Mission
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I love tge “following fallibility “. And the reminder of their infallible witness of Christ What a blessing
Thank you so much . I cannot put into words how much this lesson as touched me. Thank you 😊
Thank You So Much for Sharing!! My mother passed away last week. A perfect time to be deepening my testimony in my Savior & His gift of the Resurrection. Listening & to your lessons on the Atonement helped Prepare, Strengthen, and Comfort me during this difficult time. Thank You for being a Willing & Worthy instrument of the Lord. The Spirit Testifies to me, the Truth
you Speak. 🙏
Brother Halvorsen, when I read your reply to the sr couple serving in India, calling a senior mission the “victory lap of life” I thought what a wonderful phrase but then got emotional. I, and many others like myself, are also serving “senior missions” also with no name tags bearing the name of Christ but we wear his name in our souls. We are the aging Boomer grandparents raising our grandchildren-their legal guardians and custodians due to their parents’ addictions and/or incarcerations. In my case I’m 73 and single. In my sister and brother-in-law’s case, they are married and age 75. I know those like us have been called on a very sacred mission, and one I wouldn’t trade, albeit it I’d rather be in Paris when it’s not burning. There really is no release date. No real victory lap, just one long marathon of raising God’s children where we daily pray we will be victorious in serving God in his victory over the adversary.
❤ Good job, friend!
I do love listening to your sermons every night as I am up from about 2am on, my husband sleeps normal hours. He cannot believe that I listen your complete talks from beginning to end. I say, WELL, he sat there for the same amount of time to record these talks, why can't I sit and listen for the same amount of time. Keep enlightening us, I am vision impaired, but when my eyes are corrected, I can then read along with you. Love from Missouri
Thankyou for helping us find the flowers to smell and enjoy
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Thank you for sharing these beautiful scriptures in the morning hours and I just love the growth and changes in the loving and stronger Apostles and disciples.
So many great memories shared with us all for helping us now ❤️❤️❤️
Brother Halverson, thank you so much for your lessons. I have enjoyed your lessons for over 3 years now. I have learned SO MUCH from you. I take notes and mark up my scriptures. Often it is words that you say, but more and more often, as I pause the video and start to write, my own thoughts and feelings are entered along with yours. Your lesson this week, Acts 1-5, you told a story about when you were a missionary and you were told to study those few scriptures in Acts. You said that the authority that was visiting said that you have now earned this scriptures. That really struck me. Many years ago I took a Dale Carnegie course that involved many good things, but one thing that I still remember that was said about being a public speaker. You only 'earned the right' to speak by two ways: 1) you have studied that topic, 2) by personal experience. In that situation, you earned the right by both ways! By study, and by personal experience. Since that time I have always tried to study for lessons or talks to earn the right to teach or talk about them. But I also try to include personal experiences. I feel that people who do both always give really good lessons or talks. You do both very well, and I enjoy listening to you. Thank you.
Dear Brother Halverson, thank you for making the transition from the gospels to the acts so powerful. Your explanations are so valuable to someone like me, who often gets confused with ‘who’s talking ‘ ;) During this podcast I found myself riveted to everything said and it’s wonderful seeing the gospel in action after the departure of the physical Christ. And as we’ve come to understand our magnificent Godhead, seeing the Holy Ghost in action as you described was captivating. Thank you ♥️
Question: Every powerful Christian teacher/preacher of the Word of God I've ever seen online has hundreds or thousands of haters. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've never seen anyone come up against Brother Halverson in the comments or anywhere else. (I guess it's not really a question, just pointing out... how amazing is his ability to reach everyone?! It really is incredible!
From what I understand, UA-cam filters out a lot of abusive comments on most videos, so I'm guessing there may be some occasional hateful comments we don't see (thankfully). But yes, I agree! Bro Hal is so great at teaching in such a loving and knowledgeable way that it's hard for even the critics to criticize!
Hello
I have not seen any thing like a strong debate on any subject, have watched many different talks that he has done, once he has his beautiful wife and both talked.
I think something like What Elder Brad Willcox and his friend yet a member from another church had a on stage deep between yet almost
Are we really A Church to be Called Christians , And What do we believe and Not believe in
It was a lovely idea for everyone to see why we connected to the Jewish people who originally could have been where we are now.
It could be nice to have him in a talk like this, I don't think he would want to expose the one who is going through the Faith Crisis, would you want your family member to go to a public discourse and get up to talk to Brother Jared Halverson?
I believe you when you talk about having the gift of tongues. I’ve noticed it and felt it in my life on several occasions. I know you have it with every podcast, because I always feel the spirit as you teach. ❤ thank you for this it was great!
Brother Hal is super unique as any hater would only be converted after hearing the truth of things as they really are (Jac 4.13) from him!
If there were any haters here, from his experience, Brother Halverson could handle it. He would probably convert them!!
Thanks so much Bro Hal for your time and testimony!
21:30 "The Apostolic Advantage" story. That was awesome!🙂
WOW! Acts has now become one of my favorite scriptures. Thank you so much Bro. Jared
Brother Jared, we've been listening to you for 3 years now. The Spirit pricked us in our heart last year to spread the gospel and serve a mission. Here we are in India ready to preach and exhort! We come and find that currently there are anti-conversion laws and dangerous anti-Christian sentiment in the land. Our Mission President cautions us; we cannot wear badges, or proselyte, or even mention the name of the Church when we talk to people on the street. We are volunteers for the Indian Society of our International church. It is killing us not to be able to wear the name of the Savior and bear witness of him! Gratefully we can still work to strengthen the youth and the members of the branches we serve in but we yearn to be as the apostles to teach and exhort these humble people to have faith in Jesus Christ. We pray that the powers that are hindering the work and slowing the building of the temple here will be overthrown. We know no unhallowed hand can stop the work ultimately so we are waiting for another Day of Pentecost so to speak, to allow the the work to be unfettered in the country where the highest number of his children live.
You're living the dream! A Senior Mission is "the victory lap of life," and you're on it! I know in some degree what you're feeling, as we weren't allowed to talk about the gospel in Israel when I was a study abroad student back in college. It was so hard to keep my mouth shut! But you're wise to focus your efforts on strengthening the members there, as they will be the ones who will make the biggest difference in their homeland. You are serving the Lord of the Apostles, and He hasn't changed, so continue to see His hand made manifest!
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As a Lao speaking missionary in Seattle, I don't know if I ever experienced the Gift of Tongues for myself. There are many instances where those I taught obviously had the Gift of Interpretation whereas I was often shocked when they could understand what I was attempting to say.
I don't know who you are but I love how you teach and what you teach
Once again every word was exactly what I needed today and things I was already pondering today. Thank you ❤
i love consecration, and look forward to letting go of the possessions that own me. It will be hard in some ways, but so liberating to let go of so much stuff, and to trust that it will do others good for sure.
Thank you once again for sharing your message. You have helped my conversion and testimony of Christ’s divine mission on earth expand. For the spirit to reveal and confirm so many personal truths to my heart, mind and soul. As your sister in the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I am humbled and so grateful for knowing and still growing in the Lords teachings so I am am to see the way home to our Father in Heaven. ❤
Is Acts an acronym?
APOSTLES: CHRIST TEACHING by the SPIRIT
is that why it’s the shortest title?
Thanks for all you’ve done and will do !
I love this! I'd say that's the perfect acronym for this book!
2:18:55 thank u for the growth your spirit has obtained to share these words with us (dc 109.15)
I’ve seen many other disciples in my time remembering back with Mathew Cowley, Hugh B Brown, even David O McKay or Hartman Rector Jr so many disciples even scholars like Joseph Fielding McConkie , Daniel Ludlow, so many more who devote themselves to study (James Talmage) to be able to feel the fruit of the spirit it’s a beautiful thing ur doing Brother Hal as your in that class of edification to make sacred the words of the Lord to bring to pass a very sanctifying influence to encourage such high value on the things of the spirit thankfully !!!
So good, and informative. Thank you so much!
I love the imagery you evoked of the flames of fire as cloven tongues. I wanted to share another thought I had about cloven tongues which I didn’t realize until I thought about tongue in the context of language. The way I understand what took place is that a person would speak one language but it was heard in a variety of different languages. In this sense, one tongue was cloven into many. The Spirit has the ability to do this in many ways, where a particular message shared in general conference or sacrament meeting can be understood in the perfect context, where we feel that the message was just for us. I believe in many instances the Spirit translates the original speaker’s message into many different messages that truly are “just for us” if we have ears to hear.
In the January 2003 Ensign is an excerpt from a talk given by Elder Jeffery R Holland he said the name of Acts could be “ The Acts of the Resurrected Christ worked through the Holy Spirit in the Lives and Ministries of His Ordained Apostles.”
Brother Halverson, thank you for your podcast again. I had to pause it a few minutes in as I feel compelled to ask you if you have seen "Sound of Freedom?" I have not yet seen it, but I've seen a podcast about it, and I would really value your insight about it, if that's at all possible and not too huge of an ask. Should we, as Latter-day Saints and as Christians not bring it to the attention of all as to the heinous practice of child slavery - the international $160 billion industry that it is. More needs to be done about it than is currently being done. It is evil and needs good people to stand up against it. There are so many ways that the world is spiralling downwards, we need to stop our fellow man from going down with this evil, and push back against the spreading darkness.
Thank you for all the light that you are sharing with us, and for directing us all towards Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, and Our Eternal Heavenly Father. They live and love us all.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
"From the first verse [of the book of Acts], the declaration is that the Church will continue to be divinely led, not mortally led. ... Indeed, a more complete title for the book of Acts could appropriately be something like 'The Acts of the Resurrected Christ Working through the Holy Spirit in the Lives and Ministries of His Ordained Apostles! ...
"The direction of the Church is the same. The location of the Savior has been altered, but the direction and leadership of the Church is exactly the same!"
("Therefore, What?" [Church Educational System conference on the New Testament, Aug. 8, 2000], 6).
1:09:30
Acts 2 begins.
His Church is born.
Tk u , Teacher.
Thanks for mentioning this:
The vision of Joel has been fulfilled wherein he declared: “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: “And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. “And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come. “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call” "Gordon B. Hinckley, "Living in the Fulness of Times," Oct, 2001.
Any thoughts on Acts 1:6 having ties to the restoration / restitution of all things? The apostles surely knew of the famine in the land that was forthcoming, but didn't have a solid understanding of the timing, and put forward the question to the Master, not knowing the "times or the seasons"!
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Brother Halverson. Thought: As I understand Greek, the -us- at the end of a name, title, term, word etc makes that name et al singular non possessive and the plural non possessive would be either -a- or -ae-. So Theophilus, like you said, could have been a specific person who had Theophilus as either an actual name or as a title.
Or another possibility is that it was both a name and a title as often happened in the scriptures because every name had actual, real meaning behind them. But whatever the case may have been about the naming or titling of this Theophilus character, the fact that it ends in -us- most likely makes it a first person non possessive singular name or title instead of a second person non possessive plural name or title. I hope this makes sense. Your further thoughts on this point? Thanks.
Brother Halvorsen...I get kind of lost. I thought WE were in the LAST DAYS. But according to Peter, hee states according to Joel, in the last days...
Brother Halvorsen - so is speaking in tongues considered a different language? Or?
The baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost is a key part of the Doctrine of Christ (2 Nephi 31:17,18). I am not sure why we do not teach about this wonderful event. After this great event on the day of Pentecost, Peter and the other disciples were never the same; they were converted, they had a mighty change, they had become new creatures. They could teach and heal and cast out devils and they did not care about threats from the leaders of the Jews (Acts 5:12-16). Every member of the church who is baptized should be seeking for this great event (Math. 3:11). Christ will baptize any honest seeker who is already baptized with water, with the Holy Ghost and with fire (2 Nephi 12:1). I am not sure why NO podcaster will teach these doctrines - it use to be taught often in the church, but today no one will even say it. The gift of tongues is not that big of a deal; satan also has the gift of tongues (Teachings, p.195),
Remember the appearance of Jesus Christ to the nephrites in. America
@Unshaken
Brother Halverson. I'm just not sure about the reversal of the Tower of Babel confounded language claim. As I understand it, before and during the first half of the Tower being built, all of the people spoke one common language - supposedly either Adamic or Hebrew. Then about halfway through building the Tower, that's when God confounded their common language and they began speaking different languages.
Now the process of the exact reversal of the confounding of the common language at Babel into different languages would be going from those different languages back to either Adamic or Hebrew (depending on which was spoken before the confounding of the language) as the common language. Or, at least, to another same language to be the common language. However neither of those processes happened at Pentecost.
What happened at Pentecost was the Apostles speaking in the different languages of each observer there being spoken at the same time. That's the only connection to the confounded language at Babel I can sense which connection is tenuous at best. Otherwise there's no connection at all whatsoever between the two events.
Your further thoughts on this point? Thanks.
In Acts 1:26 after prayer and supplication over who judas' replacement in the Quorum of the Twelve should be, they just ultimately drew lots? I was hoping you would explain this but you just kind of skipped over it and I'm confused about that last verse before Acts 2.
Though your name I think may be from Sweden or Norway
Bro Jared... I'm 110% but I'm a drunk. I need help.
I will pray for you! God loves you and you are precious in His sight! Blessings 🙏🙏🙏
Read Moroni Chap 7. Pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart that ye may be FILLED with this love that He hath bestowed unto ALL who are true followers of His Son Jesús Christ…”
I will pray that you receive strength to overcome and mercy to forgive yourself as you replace drinks instead with actions of following Christ: scripture reading, fasting, prayer, service, visiting members; all this instead of drinking for the urge to diminish and go away and be less and less frequent. Drink in His love and show it outwardly to thy neighbors…Get ‘drunk’ in ministering for Jesus’ sake.
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🤔If making that comparison with Bible history, with early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, then the slavery question becomes quite unnerving. Joseph Smith Jr. gave the Priesthood to African Americans, Brigham Young was quite a bigot. It's underscored in the sealing of our most famous Early Black pioneer to Joseph Smith and Emma vicariously as a servant. 🤔 How far do we go then with a critical, or discerning eye, (D&C 50) for New Testament Teachings? Why not Bible historicity review on a Dr Bart Erhman or Dr Richard Carrier view of these Acts of The Apostles? Or maybe a bit more Eastern Orthodox nuance? 🤔