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Jesus Christ gave the best way to discern good people from those who have covenanted to destroy agency. He said: “By their fruits ye shall know them” (Matthew 7:20). Lehi identified fruits with opposites: righteousness or wickedness, happiness or misery, good or bad, life or death, incorruption or corruption, sense or insensibility. The good live by eternal law—God’s power, mercy, and justice. Members of secret combinations deem goodness as “a thing of naught [to] destroy God” (2 Nephi 2:11-12).
Everyone’s fruits are an extension of his or her core values. I watched a national commentator present his ten core values and compare each to the various political party platforms. I appreciated his candidness and willingness to be vulnerable. It takes courage to express core beliefs publically. In 1943, during World War II, Norman Rockwell painted his four values—Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear.Share
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