An Educated Conscience | Stephen R. Covey | May 1975
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When the Holy Ghost communicates with us, it takes a practiced and educated conscience to recognize what it is communicating. Click here to see the speech page.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Classic Speaches Podcasts presented by BYU Speaches, bringing you treasured talks from 70 years of BYU Devotionals. |
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| 0:36.5 | This devotional address entitled, an educated conscience was given on May 27, 1975, by Stephen R. Covey, then an associate professor of organizational behavior and business management at Brigham Young University. |
| 0:40.6 | Good morning, my dear brothers and sisters. |
| 0:52.0 | I would like to invite your participation with me today during this devotional. |
| 1:09.0 | By a show of hands, how many of you have experienced confusion in your life regarding how prayers are being answered? By that I mean, what voice is speaking to you? |
| 1:17.6 | How many have been confused with regard to the difference between the spirit of Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. |
| 1:40.7 | I believe that one of Satan's main thrusts to destroy the Lord's kingdom and his children would be to give to them a wrong conception, a wrong understanding in their mind |
| 2:10.6 | regarding these matters. If I had a wrong or an inaccurate map of the city of Provo, and I wanted to find a particular |
| 2:26.9 | destination, I would inevitably be lost. |
| 2:34.0 | Not that I am not in the right territory, but that I have the wrong map or the wrong |
| 2:40.1 | understanding of the territory. |
| 2:46.6 | I wouldn't really know where I was or where the place I intended to go to was. |
| 2:56.9 | I believe that this has taken place with many people in our church with regard to the |
| 3:06.4 | subject of revelation and the functions of the Holy Ghost |
| 3:12.7 | as differentiated from the functions of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. |
| 3:19.0 | I was very interested in President Lee's and President Kimball's first press conferences after they were |
| 3:31.6 | made presidents of the church. The basic message which they gave to the world and to the church was to keep the commandments. |
| 3:48.1 | Keep the commandments. |
| 3:50.3 | And of course, if we study the messages of all of the prophets, that seems to be the burden |
| 3:59.0 | of those messages. |
| 4:01.6 | Now what would this mean in light of this subject focusing upon the role of the Spirit |
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