The Lord Is Fighting Our Battles; We Are Going to Be Tested; Must Live All the Laws of God My brothers and sisters, the few moments that I may stand before you, if I am endowed with the Holy Ghost, with the Spirit of God, there are a few things I would like to call to your mind. What is the greatest gift that God can bestow upon the human family? It is eternal life, and He has laid down a plan; given laws and commandments to the Prophet Joseph Smith, whereby if we follow them, we can gain that eternal life. But if we fail to follow them, just as my brother said, ?If you do what I say I will fight your battles; if you don?t, you have no promise.? When we look around us we can testify that God is fighting our battles. People outside this little group have come to see that God is fighting our battles, and every man that has been fighting against us, one by one we see them picked off. We have a very striking case from Short Creek now. One of the Presidents of the Stake, who was an attorney, was just as mean and nasty with his remarks as he could be. Today the judgments have followed him; how far I don?t know. Today he is in a very critical condition; and there are others. You go back and follow them down. We can follow men down right in our own group that have done these things, and God took a stand with them. One time a Prophet of God laid his hands upon my head, and I have seen it come to pass numbers of times. When the brethren were taken down in Short Creek one time, I was arrested. They wouldn?t let us get an attorney. They wouldn?t allow us to. Brother Musser and I went down and got the judge?s books. He said, ?I have got nothing on Mr. Barlow at all. I will have to turn him loose.? Many times I have had incidents where God has shown me beforehand what would happen and prepared me. God has blessed me in that kind of way. Brothers and sisters, every one of us have got to look to ourselves. Yes, the Lord said in these days that He was going to give Lucifer more rope than he ever had. Brothers and sisters, we are going to be tested. We can?t think that we are all right. We oftentimes hear of some trouble in families?not a bit more trouble in plural families than in monogamy. Is it because we are living the laws of God? No. It is because we are not living the laws of God. We find that all the way through, ?If you do what I say, I am bound to fight your battles; but if you do not, you have no promise.? I am glad to be here today. I have just had a trip down south among the brethren down there, some as faithful as any men I ever knew; some who are living the United Order as near as it could ever be lived. But what do we find? Someone trying [to stop us] on every turn of the road. We have got to live all the laws sooner or later. God says, ?If you live the law and offend in one of them, you are guilty of the whole.? If we lived all the laws but one law, it is not a fullness. We have got to get in shape to do it. If we do not, the Lord will whip us into shape. We will live these laws because the Lord is going to force us in it and make us live them. I want to tell you brothers and sisters much more. It has been on my mind constantly, and I can?t get it off. Get the Spirit of God around you. Pray night and day and get the Spirit of God around you. That