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2 Nephi 6–10 | Scripture Study Insights with Tyler Griffin | A Come Follow Me Resource · Scripture Central

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Hello. There I'm Tyler Griffin and this
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is. Scripture study.
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Insights by Scripture Central Today, Second Nephi, Chapters 6
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through 10 and. If you look at all of the
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chapters of Scripture, there are a couple of places where you get
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some chapters that just really. Stand out as far as helping us
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to understand our relationship to God, our relationship to
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Jesus. Christ and these chapters.
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That we're going to cover today definitely fall on a very short
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list of those shining, shining stars in our scriptural Canon.
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It's all about a relationship. A relationship between God and
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Jesus Christ and us. Any relationship has these.
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These two parts there are. Things that I put into the
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relationship and there are things.
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That I get out of the relationship.
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There are things that God puts in, and there are things that.
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He will get out. And.
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As you study these chapters this week or or today, pay close
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attention to this little. Dynamic in your scripture study
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of even even to this point, even the very act of.
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Reading these chapters or? One chapter or one verse, or
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however much you happen to read, Instead of seeing it as
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something that you're doing on the side, see it as something
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that you're putting into the. Relationship where you're
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trying. To come to know.
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God better. Trying to understand what?
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He has. Put into this capacity.
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For you. To come together with him and to
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discover more of his laws, his promises, his warnings, his
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directions and feel like it's more of a relationship building
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experience rather than a. Check box.
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Saying, yeah, I read my scriptures so I don't need to
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feel guilty about not not doing what I'm supposed to do today.
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It's a completely different relationship when when it
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becomes more of this covenantal connection rather than a
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transactional because I read my scriptures now, God better give
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me this blessing that I'm desiring That's that's not as.
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Healthy of a way. To approach relationship as it
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is to go in saying God's thoughts and ways are higher
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than mine, I want to. Figure out what?
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He has in store for me and I want to give him my life.
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I want to give him my love. I want to give him my loyalty
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and my, my energy. Everything that he's given to
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me, I want to give it back. So with that, let's jump in and
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watch. Jacob as he does.
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Just that. Exactly what we just got through
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describing. So if you jump into chapter six
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through 10, what you'll notice is there's this same pattern
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that you get. A prophet who?
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Is going to give you an introduction.
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To a topic A. Principle a doctrine, or in this
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case, some Isaiah chapters. Then you.
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Get you get a couple of verses, 5 verses.
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In chapter 6 from Isaiah and then you get 7 and eight are all
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from. Isaiah Jacob's.
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Just going to be quoting them to the people and then you get 9
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through 10. Which is Jacob.
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'S Commentary. So again, let's not be.
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Anxious or frustrated with. How sometimes it's difficult to
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understand Isaiah. But look at what God has
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provided. To us, to help us unlock more of
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the meaning, to discover more of our relationship with Him within
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the context of this, these Isaiah passages and by looking
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at what? Jacob says about Isaiah before
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he reads. It And then what he says about.
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Isaiah after he read it. It helps you unlock some of the
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more. Difficult passages that are.
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Within. That or those chapters.
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So let's jump in verse one. The words of Jacob, the brother
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of. Nephi, which he spake unto the
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people of Nephi. It's possible that that verse.
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Could have also been put in as a.
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Heading for the chapter? You'll see that in a in a couple
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of other places in the Book of Mormon where instead of having
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it be a verse, it's written by the original authors, in this
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case Nephi, who's scribing what's going on with.
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His brother, Jacob. That would have.
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Probably been a better heading. So.
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You look at verse. Two, the beginning of his
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speech. Behold, my beloved brethren, I
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Jacob, having been called of God, and ordained after the
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manner of his. Holy order.
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And having been consecrated by my brother Nephi, unto whom you
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look as a king. Or a protector.
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And on whom you depend. For safety, behold you.
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Know that I've spoken unto you exceedingly many things.
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So for starters. Jacob is invoking.
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Look, I am not here on my own. I'm.
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Here speaking. To you because Nephi, unto whom
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you look as the king, the protector, and in in our context
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the Prophet, he's appointed me to do this.
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But more importantly, I've been called of God.
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So in helping us come into. A relationship with God.
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What does he do? He calls prophets.
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He calls teachers. He calls priests.
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As Jacob and Joseph have been ordained by Nephi to do and so.
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They're all these resources. And now we're going to get
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scripture and past prophets coming into this, this mix, all
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which are things that God has put into or invested into the
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relationship with you. Of course the.
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Biggest gift that God has invested in this relationship is
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His only begotten Son Jesus Christ and the Savior is going
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to show up everywhere in these. Chapters as well as.
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In all of the. Scriptures for God so loved the
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world that he gave. His only begotten son, that is.
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That is the single biggest thing.
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And. Jesus gave his very.
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Life, His infinite atonement, which is a central feature.
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Of this speech that Jacob. Is going to give to the people.
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So you jump down to verse four and it says and now.
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Behold, I would speak. Unto you concerning things,
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which. Are.
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And which are to come, wherefore I will.
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Read you the words. Of Isaiah, and they are the
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words which my. Brother has desired.
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That I should speak unto you, I speak unto you for your sakes,
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that you may learn and glorify the name.
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Of your God. He's trying to help us deepen
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our connection with God and to learn the name.
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You're you're going to find that the name is revealed to him.
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Of how the Savior? Is going to be.
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Referred. In in our day.
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As Christ. That will come in chapter 10
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after. He reads Isaiah, which I like
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that. The more we immerse in Isaiah
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and in the. Words of Scriptures, the words
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of the. Prophets, the more we come to
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learn and glorify the name. Of our God.
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Which a little distinction here. Everybody is invited.
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To bear. Testimony of Jesus Christ, but
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it's prophets, seers, and revelators.
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It's it's the apostles who have this.
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Special mission to bear witness of the name of Jesus Christ in
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all the world. And that's so I guess what I'm
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saying here is Jacob is taking on kind of this Apostolic.
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Role with the people. Referring to learning and
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glorifying the name. Of our God.
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So verse five, He tells you the words which I shall read Are
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they which? Isaiah spake concerning.
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All the House of Israel. So then he goes on to say look.
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Because you're of the House of. Israel, you can liken these.
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Words to you. There are so many.
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Layers. And levels of likening that you
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were going to find in these chapters.
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Today. Just because.
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You're not an Nephite. Doesn't mean you can't read the
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exact same words and find incredible abilities to liken
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these words to you and to. See your story.
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Which will deepen your relationship with God today on
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these pages. So now let's jump in verse six
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and seven. Are the 1st 2:00.
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Verses that are now being quoted by Jacob from Isaiah and.
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These words should. Ring a little.
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Bit of a bell you've heard these before.
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In the book, Mormon verse six and seven says and now.
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These are the words. Thus.
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Saith the Lord God. Behold, I will set up my hand to
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the Gentiles and set up my standard to the people.
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And then he goes on to talk about how the Gentile kings and
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the Queens will be the nursing fathers and the nursing mothers.
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To the House of. Israel bringing them home well.
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This quote. Comes from Isaiah chapter 49 and
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Isaiah 49 the entire. Chapter was quoted by Nephi.
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Back in first Nephi, Chapter 21, chapter 20 and 21.
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Was Isaiah 48? And Isaiah 49.
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So this is a repeat. He's talking about how the
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Gentiles will be carry. The the House of.
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Israel on their shoulders and be their nursing fathers and
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nursing mothers. This has been fulfilled multiple
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times at multiple levels over multiple dispensations and years
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going. Back Cyrus of Persia.
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Was the first one to. Fulfill this prophecy.
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In 539 BC, when he brings the children of Israel back into
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Jerusalem after they've been exiled in Babylon.
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And it's going to happen again in a variety of other ways and
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we can liken it. To our day today as we go out.
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And assist in this great gathering effort, the President
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Nelson has told us, is the most important work happening in.
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All the earth. And there's nothing more more.
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Valuable that we could. Spend our time assisting the
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Lord in then gathering these people.
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Why? So that we can gather them into
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a relationship with God and with us and.
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Grow these. This Zion feel and.
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Literally to build up the. Kingdom of God on the earth, so
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notice what happens. He quotes 2 verses 6 and.
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Seven and then verse eight, he says.
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And now I Jacob would speak somewhat concerning these words.
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So if the Isaiah passage in chapter 6 verse seven and or six
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and seven if you find it any any if you find difficulty in
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interpreting it then. Just look at how.
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Jacob the prophet who's reading it to the people.
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Look at how he. Interprets it.
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He gives you all kinds of commentary in in verse 8.
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Through. 15 He's describing what that means and what the Gentiles
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are going to do, and how God is going to bless the Gentiles and
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instead of just reading it as a history.
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Book. What if we read it?
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As a handbook of instruction for us today, to say, I want those
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promises, I want those blessings, I want that
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relationship with God. So it's not about checking boxes
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and jumping through hoops or jumping over hurdles in order to
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try to get somewhere. It's about a relationship where
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I find myself in the. Safety of this, this.
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Connection with. God with Jesus Christ.
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Because I'm. I'm striving to rely more on him
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and you can see his. Attributes, his characteristics
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everywhere. On this page as Jacob's talking
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about this. So verse eight through. 15 in
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your study you can. Read those as Jacob.
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'S interpretation and see how they are likened.
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To your story. So I love, I love the set up
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here. In Isaiah 49, for now, what
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comes in Isaiah 50, which is what he's going to to lead out
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with in chapter seven? Yeah, thus saith the Lord.
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So picture Jesus Christ speaking these words directly to you.
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Have I put the away or have I cast the off forever?
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Now watch what happens you. Get these couplets.
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With Isaiah you get 2 tellings of the same thing, usually with
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symbols involved. So this symbolic repetition.
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Watch how many times it happens in verse one.
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Have I put the away? Have I cast the off forever now?
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Here comes another one. For thus saith the Lord, where
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is the bill? Of your mother's divorcement, to
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whom have I put thee away? Or to which of my creditors have
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I sold you? Yeah.
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To whom have I sold? You.
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Behold for your iniquities. Have ye sold yourselves?
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And for your transgressions is your mother put away, so instead
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of looking at. This as.
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Oh no, my. Life is so bad because all these
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terrible. Things are happening and and it
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must be because God, God doesn't care for me anymore, he's
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saying. Have I have I put you?
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Off Have I given you a? A bill of.
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Divorcement. Have I sold you to somebody
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else? I'm in a permanent relationship
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with you. God does not break covenants.
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Jesus Christ is a covenant keeper.
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Not just a covenant maker, but a covenant keeper.
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And he won't let anybody. Fall through the cracks.
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Because of his neglect. Or because he cuts.
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Them off. He gives you the the.
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Reason why sometimes we feel distant.
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Verse 2 Wherefore when I came there was no man.
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When I called you there was none to answer.
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O House of Israel, is my hand shortened, and all that it
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cannot redeem, Or have I no. Power to deliver.
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He's asking these rhetorical questions, saying, look, I I am
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not forsaking you. And then?
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The rest of the chapter. He gives these promises of how
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you can liken this, this covenantal relationship from
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Isaiah's day into. Our day today.
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Isaiah finishes this. Chapter Chapter 50.
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That now Jacob is quoting here. With two.
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Verses that are often, sometimes hard to understand.
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Look at verse 10. Who is among you?
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That feareth the Lord. That obey the voice of his
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servants that walketh in darkness, and hath no.
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Light, He's asking A. Question.
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But sometimes people miss the question mark and then it makes
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it feel almost as if they're being told look if you if.
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You follow the Lord. And the voice of His servants,
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Then you're going to walk in darkness and have no light.
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You're just going to have to walk by complete faith alone
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without being able to see anything.
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That question mark at the end is.
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Beautiful because it gives. You this context of saying look,
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show me somebody. Who?
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Follows the Lord and listens to the voice of his servants who's
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walking in the dark. And then verse 11, Behold all ye
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that. Kindle Fire.
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And that compass. Yourselves about with Sparks.
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Walk in the light of. Your fire.
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And in the. Sparks which ye have.
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Kindled. In other words, if you choose
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not to walk in the light of the. Lord, you can.
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Try to kindle your own fire, but what's the outcome This shall
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you have of mine Hand ye. Shall.
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Lie down in sorrow. It won't last.
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There is nothing this world has to.
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Offer you. That will last.
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It will. Those sparks, Those little.
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Flames of of people agreeing with you of.
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Of whatever. Teachings or Doctrines or.
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Ideals or lifestyles that you feel like you've.
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Justified to a certain degree, and you're walking in that light
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that you've kindled, he says. You're going to lie down in.
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Sorrow. Why?
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Because you. Are not in a relationship with.
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God, you've created a. Relationship somewhere else?
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With other people, With other ideals, With other laws,
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principles, practices. That are not divine truth.
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Now in in chapter 8 He. He talks about this.
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Incredible reversal of what I bring into this relationship is
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usually bad, and how God turns those bad things into good
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things so. Look at verse 3 for the Lord
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shall. Comfort Zion, have you noticed
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that the scriptures don't usually say that?
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We comfort God. It's always.
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God, who's comforting us, Which means I'm bringing into.
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This relationship discomfort, I'm.
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Bringing in anguish, trial, tribulation, and what is God?
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Giving to the relationship. In this connection with me, he's
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giving comfort. I love how it.
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Says he will make. Her wilderness like.
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Eden and her desert, like the garden of the Lord.
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Joy and gladness shall be found there in Thanksgiving and the
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voice of Melody. Oh, I love Isaiah.
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I love the way he. Speaks it.
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It paints this. Symbolic picture of God.
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Taking the. Desolate trials and struggles.
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And weakness that I bring into the relationship.
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And he makes them fruitful. He makes them beautiful.
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He make, He brings in joy and gladness and Thanksgiving in the
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voice of melody. Where there was.
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Cacophony. Now you get this melodious
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feeling attached. And then?
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He says verse. Five, My righteousness is near.
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My salvation is gone. Forth two things he brings into.
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The relationship his. Righteousness His salvation.
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In fact, some of you have. Probably noticed this already
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starting in verse. In this chapter, look at how
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many times the personal pronouns of I, my, me and mine are used.
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Describing what? Christ is offering to.
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Us and what he's bringing. So let's look.
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At verse 6. He invites you and me.
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Lift up your. Eyes to the heavens and look
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upon the earth beneath. For the heavens shall vanish
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away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment,
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and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner.
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But my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness
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shall not be abolished. So all the things that the
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earth. Has to offer you.
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They're going to melt. Away it's it's going to go.
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Away. But my righteousness, my
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salvation will never go. Away because they're eternal.
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So if we continually think celestial, as President Nelson
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has invited, then we'll see the eternal nature of this
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covenantal relationship with Christ, that it's not fleeting
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like the things of. This earth are.
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And then he tells us again, Hearken unto me ye that no
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righteousness the people in whose.
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Hearts, I have written. My law again.
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The law. The commandments aren't there to
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punish us. They're there to.
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Connect us in a relationship with God, and then he gives you
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multiple invitations to awake, awake, arise.
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Remember when Lehigh was talking to Layman and Lemuel?
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He's using this awake and arise, shake off the dust and the
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chains. He's probably getting that from.
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His deep study of Isaiah because Isaiah's words.
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Have now become. Lehigh's words.
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That's that's what prophets often do.
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As they. Quote Past prophets their their
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words. Become their own.
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So the rest of chapter. Eight you can just mark.
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All of the verbs. All of the invitations or or
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laws. That God gives us these
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abilities we have. To now come into.
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This deeper relationship. With him now, I have spent most
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of the time in chapter seven and eight, because most people when
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they. Read Chapter 6 through.
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Ten are going to spend most of their time probably in Chapter
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9, and a little bit of 10, and very little in seven and eight.
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So I've tried to. Compensate for that and give
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some scripture. Study ideas.
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Of how to connect? With Christ a little bit better.
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In those Isaiah passages, and. There are a lot.
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Of incredible resources in Chapter 9 and 10 that are going
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to connect. You with the Lord.
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Covenantally look at verse. I'll give just a.
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Couple of examples. Verse one now, my beloved.
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Brethren I have read. These things that would be the
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Isaiah's passages that have just come before that you might know
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concerning the covenants of the. Lord.
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That he has covenanted. With all the House of Israel.
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So it's this. Covenant relationship that he's
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saying, look. I read you these.
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So that you can know what. God has offered you.
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That he has spoken unto the Jews by the mouth of.
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His holy prophets. Even from the beginning down
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from generation to generation until the time comes.
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They shall be restored to the true.
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Church and full of God, and that they can be gathered home.
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So this gathering is mentioned again, and he invites them to
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lift up their heart and rejoice because of this connection with
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Christ, not because of anything the world has to offer, not
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because of what I. Have to offer, but because of
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what Christ has to offer us. And then he gets into this
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beautiful discussion of the infinite Atonement.
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So in quick. Overview You get verse.
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Six and seven that and eight. That refer to this.
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Infinite atonement that if Jesus doesn't perform an infinite
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atonement. Our bodies would die.
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And crumble to Mother earth to rise no more verse seven and
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then verse. Eight if our bodies.
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Rise no more than our spirits have to become subject unto the
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devil, and in verse 8-9 we become angels.
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To the devil. And then he says, to rise no
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more, so the last. 4 words of verse. 7.
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Are. Repeated as the last. 4 words of
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verse 8 your body will. Rise no more and your spirit
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will rise no more. That's a 2 headed monster called
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Death and Hell and he mentions that awful monster in verse 10.
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Verse eight said, O, the wisdom of God, Verse 13.
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O How great the. Plan of our God, verse 17 O the
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greatness and the justice. Of our God.
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Are you seeing these? Attributes, Characteristics of
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God, these abilities. That when you come into a
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relationship, the relationship changes you.
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You're not coming to the relationship just so you can be
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taken somewhere. You come into the relationship
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so that you can give and feel more love, more power, more
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knowledge, and to be. Able to help others.
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To come into that as well, can you see why Jacob is using this
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phrase? Oh, how great.
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And oh the goodness so verse 19 Oh the greatness of the mercy of
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God. Because he delivers his.
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Saints, verse 20 Oh, how great the holiness of our God.
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Verse 21 And He cometh into the world, that he may save all men,
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if they will hearken unto his. Voice for behold, he suffereth
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the. Pains of all men, Yeah.
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The pains of every living creature, both men, women, and
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children, who belong to the family of.
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Adam brothers and sisters. When you're in a true covenantal
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relationship with someone, you feel empathy.
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You feel compassion when they're.
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Hurting you hurt. When they're struggling, you
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strengthen them. You you share the load with.
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Them you don't just love them because of what you can get out
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of them, You love them because of what you can experience.
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Together. That's the beauty.
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Of a marriage, The beauty of a family, the beauty of a true
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companionship. The.
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The. Beauty of this covenant
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relationship with God. Is that these resources?
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These abilities, these capacities, become shared.
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They become. Ours.
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There are three. Levels in relationship, it's me,
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it's thee, and it's we. So instead of staying in the
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what's in it for me? Level or in the play the martyr
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role, OK, what's in it for thee? I won't take anything out of it.
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The relationship power is that it becomes all about we.
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It's not just me and it's not just the it's what's happening
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for us in this relationship and and how are we growing together.
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And I love I love Chapter 9 because it helps me feel more.
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The. Reality of what Christ has to
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offer. And it's not just the the
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beautiful oh statements. He then shifts into these these
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dreadful woe statements because. There are other.
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Things trying to pull you and me in other directions, so notice.
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He says the verse. 28 Oh the cunning plan of that evil, 10
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the vainness and the frailties and the foolishness of men, For
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when they are learned, they think.
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They are wise. And they hearken not unto the
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counsels of God for. They set it aside.
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Supposing they know of themselves.
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Wherefore their. Wisdom is foolishness and it
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profiteth them not, and they shall perish.
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So if we think that because we know some things were learned,
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that we now no longer need God and His wisdom or what the
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prophets are telling us He's saying you're going, it's it's
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going to profit you not, and it's you're going to perish.
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Verse 29 But to be learned. Is good if you could circle the
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word if. This is a beautiful conditional
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statement. If they hearken under the
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counsels of God, God doesn't want you in a covenant
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relationship saying, I don't need to study my scriptures.
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I don't need to learn languages and and cultures and things that
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that God wants me to learn. I'm just going to sit back and
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relax in this relationship. No, He wants you to be learned,
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but he wants you to hearken unto the counsels of God.
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And then he gives you some other people or other temptations.
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The. Rich who despise the poor.
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And persecute the meek. People whose?
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Money has become their. God.
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They're now in a relationship, a transactional relationship with
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that money and it has become. Their God.
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It's replaced. That relationship.
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That covenant relationship. Here.
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Verse 31 the. People who refuse to hear the
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words of the Lord, the people who refuse to look to God.
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And it it keeps going then the you get multiple woes all the
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way down to through. Verse 38.
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And then in the. Rest you get.
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These invitations of therefore. What?
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What should I? Do to not fall into these
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forbidden paths. Or strange roads that would.
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Lead me away from a covenant relationship with with God.
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And if you read the. Rest of the chapter.
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Pay attention. He's going to say things like.
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Verse 45 Where. O my beloved brethren, turn away
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from your sins. Shake off the chains.
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Verse 46. Prepare your souls for that
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glorious day, Verse 50. Come, my brethren, everyone
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that's thirsteth come you to. The waters.
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And he that hath no money, come by, and eat ye come by wine and
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milk, without money and without. Price.
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Don't spend money for that which is of no worth, nor your labor
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nor. Labor for that which.
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Cannot satisfy. Jacob, this great prophet.
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Is inviting. Us to to just stay laser locked
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focused. On our relationship connection.
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With Jesus Christ through. The covenant that he offers.
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Us. And then he says K I'm.
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Tired We're. We're going to finish this talk.
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Tomorrow, verse 54 tells you that he'll.
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Declare the remainder of His words on the Morrow.
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Amen. And then chapter 10.
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If you read chapter. 10 Pay attention to how he describes
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the land that God has given to these Nephites, the land of
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their possessions, in order to help them.
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Fulfill all. Parts of that covenant, so in
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chapter 10 verse. Three, he says.
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Wherefore. As I said unto you, it must
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needs be expedient that Christ from the last night the Angel,
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speak unto me that this should be his name.
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Don't you love that? Jacob gave this great talk to
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the people. He read them two chapters, and
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and. 65 verses. From Isaiah the day before said
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tomorrow I'll finish my message. He went home that night an Angel
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comes to him and shares with him that the name should be Christ.
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And then he comes back and. Finishes his his address.
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Having learned that new piece of information.
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I love that. As we immerse in the Scriptures,
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Jesus Christ and what He has done for us should become more
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and more clear. The Lord will reveal.
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Things to us. And it's a process.
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It takes time, and it's not until Chapter 25 that Nephi is
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going to. To have revealed.
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To him that the full name by which he's going to be known is.
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Jesus Christ. So here you get.
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Christ in verse three and 2nd ephi 25 gives you the complete
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name Jesus Christ. Which is right after Nephi has
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read to the people or? Given that huge block of Isaiah.
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Chapter 2 through chapter. 14 the what?
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We call them the big Isaiah Block.
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In the Book of Mormon, and right after that he learns the name of
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Jesus. Christ.
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Now to finish off, go to verse 24, Wherefore my beloved
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brethren reconcile. Yourselves to the will.
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Of God and not to the. Will of the devil.
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And the flesh and remember after ye are reconciled unto God, that
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it is only in and. Through the grace.
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Of God. That ye are saved.
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Don't think that by you coming into this relationship saves you
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because of what you did. It's only after you've
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reconciled yourself to God, you've entered into this
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covenant connection with him. It's only by.
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Grace that you are saved. I love that.
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I love the. Lord.
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I love what he offers to us. And what a beautiful opportunity
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for each of us now to move forward.
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Whether, whether you're facing. Death, whether you're facing
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disease, whether you're facing loss of of work or.
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Loss of relationships. With other people.
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Or whatever the struggle. Might be to recognize don't turn
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to these. Other sources that the world has
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to offer us. Turn to God.
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Look to Jesus Christ. And.
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Look to the scriptures. As a means whereby you can find
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those covenantal connections with him and he will.
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Bless your life. In ways that none of these
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earthly resources can, may the Lord.
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Bless each of us. In our efforts not just to come
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into this covenant relationship more.
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Fully with Jesus Christ. But to do a better job of
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helping others recognize God's. Power.
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His goodness, his mercy. His Grace.
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And bring them with you into that covenant relationship with
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him. And as we do, it will strengthen
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your relationship and your covenant relationship with them
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as well. And I leave that with you in the
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name. Of Jesus Christ.
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Amen. Know that you're loved.
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The Come Follow Me program is an incredible resource to aid your
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gospel study. There are many supplementary
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Come Follow Me video programs within the Church.
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These videos should never be a replacement for your own
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personal and family study. As this video finishes, we
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encourage you to open your scriptures and begin studying
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the sacred words written there. If you need additional resources
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to enhance your study of the scriptures, please check out the
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Gospel Learning app from Scripture Central.
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You can search just about any topic in the gospel that you can
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think of and find a number of videos to help enhance your
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understanding. We are certain these learning
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paths will deepen your desire to follow Christ.
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The Gospel Explorer feature within the app was created with
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the Come Follow Me program in mind.
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Let's explore the learning paths in the Gospel Learning app.
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This week On the left path, we dive into the topic of prophets,
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quoting the words of past prophets.
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This helps build our faith that God is continually guiding us
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and speaking to us through his living prophets.
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The middle pathway goes in depth on the Atonement of Jesus
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Christ. This pathway splits into two
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sections, one on the understanding the redemptive
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power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and the second one
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taking a look into the physical nature of Christ's sacrifice.
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The last pathway explores the hopeful message of the gospel,
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which Jacob shares with us as well as his prophetic warnings
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If we fail to keep the commandments of God, thanks for
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watching with us. We hope you become a more
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devoted disciple through immersing yourselves more fully
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in the scriptures each day.