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3 Nephi 17–19 | Scripture Study Insights with Tyler Griffin | A Come Follow Me Resource · Scripture Central

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Hello there, My name is Tyler Griffin and this is Scripture
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Study Insights by Scripture Central Today 3517 through 19.
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Before we dive into these verses today, I wanted to begin with a
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a question. Has there been a time recently
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when you've looked at all aspects of your life and felt
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just a little bit overwhelmed? Perhaps feeling like you have so
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many things that need to be done, but you're not able to do
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any of them really well because you feel spread so thin.
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You feel like you don't have enough time, enough energy,
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enough money, enough resources, enough help or support, whatever
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it may be, to the point where it feels like you've got very
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little gas left in the tank spiritually, physically,
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emotionally, mentally, whatever, whatever combination of those
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might be involved. And if that's the case, as we go
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through these, these ebbs and flows of life, this set of
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chapters is loaded with principles to help us not only
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just go through life, but actually grow and expand and
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become who we were intended to become as we pass through some
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of these these struggles that we face.
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And let's just talk very quickly about arithmetic.
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When we involve the Lord, the the world would have us believe
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that we have this finite resource, this this bucket with
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limited resources of time, energy, money, talent, love,
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devotion, desires, all of those things.
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But when we involve the Lord, we find out that there is not
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division and subtraction going on.
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When we're on the Lord's errands, we're not taking from
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from our bucket and emptying our bucket as we make offerings on
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the altar of the Lord. In fact, it's quite the
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opposite. When we, when we're making
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offerings to the Lord, when we're serving Him, when we're on
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His errand, when we're seeking heaven's will and doing the best
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we can to accomplish it, we're not dividing and subtracting.
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We're actually allowing Him to multiply and add.
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That's the Lord's model. And this is what happens when we
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try to do it alone. But when we're with Christ,
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somehow the the barrel of meal and the Cruz of oil, that story
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from the Old Testament, it doesn't run out.
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It's somehow keeps generating. When we feel like there's
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nothing left for us to give, when we're on His mission, on
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His errand, with our faith rooted in Him and our focus on
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Him, somehow there's more there then we even started with in
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many instances. Personally speaking, I can't
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tell you how many times that I have experienced this.
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Just as recently as yesterday, going in to teach my classes BYU
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and feeling just a little bit low energy.
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I I was feeling some allergies. I wasn't feeling great, head was
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stuffy, hadn't slept well, and I was just feeling down.
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And at that point, if I'm looking at myself and, and
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looking at the these students, 400 students who who came to
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class expecting to be fed by the Spirit and to have their faith
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fortified and their testimony strengthened.
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And I didn't have it. I didn't have the energy.
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I didn't have the drive, I didn't have the ideas, the
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freshness that that is needed to to really engage them the way
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they need to be engaged. And it's at those moments when
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you pour your heart heavenward and say, I can't do this.
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Heavenly Father, please help. Please strengthen me to to have
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what I need to be able to be an instrument in thy hands for
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whatever these students need. And then to go through that
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experience of teaching and to feel that prayer being answered
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and to, to be in the middle of teaching and have God teaching
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me things that I'm able to share with the class that it, it's a
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remarkable thing when you when you put your focus on Christ and
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let him do his work and recognize we're instruments.
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We're not the source of, of the power in, in a teaching setting
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or in a calling or in a family or in any other setting that you
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put yourself. So as we dive in today, let's
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pay attention to all of these examples of how when we focus on
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the Savior, when we when we put our our thoughts, our desires,
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our time, our money, our energy, our effort, all of that with a
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focus on him, he finds ways to multiply those things and to add
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to them. We're not giving them away and
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then walking away poorer. We're actually giving him those
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desires or that offering of, of time or money or talent OR love,
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and he refines it, he sanctifies it, he blesses that offering and
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then he finds miraculous heavenly ways to return it to us
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and to those around us. And thus we build up the Kingdom
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of God. We, we seek to bring forth and
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establish the cause of Zion. And he's the one who does this
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work through us. But we have to be willing to
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make those offerings on the altar because he doesn't reach
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into our heart and squeeze it and say, no, You will give me
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your love and your time and your talent and your devotion.
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He doesn't do that. That's our part.
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We have to be willing to make those sacrifices and then watch
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heaven do its work. So we go to with that
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foundation, we jump into chapter 17.
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And just as a quick reminder, this is all taking place on that
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first day visit among the Nephites.
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He came in 3rd Nephi 11. He taught them the sermon at the
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temple in chapters 12/13 and 14. He then taught them this
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incredible sermon about the House of Israel and the
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gathering of Israel following their scattering and the need
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for us to come into this Abrahamic covenant.
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And it's all being taught by Jesus Christ because he was
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commanded of the Father to teach it.
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So right out of the the gate here, we see that Jesus Christ
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is a commandment keeper. He's not just a commandment
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giver. He doesn't tell us keep my
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commandments. Good luck with that.
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I I don't know what it's like to do that.
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Jesus is once again inviting us to follow Him and become more
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like Him. Every single time you keep any
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commandment to any degree, you are becoming more like Jesus
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Christ who was the perfect commandment keeper and he's now
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resurrected, glorified, perfected, deified.
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He, he is fully arrived as a God.
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He is as as we said before in 35 chapter 12 verse 48, be there
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for perfect even as I or your Father, which is in heaven is
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perfect. So he's arrived.
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He's complete lacking nothing, but he's still keeping Heavenly
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Father's commandments. So this is not keeping
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commandments is not something for for developing people.
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It's something that Jesus Christ did in his ministry and it's
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something that he did in the premortal realm.
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And it's something he is still doing to this day.
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And I want to be more like Jesus Christ.
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And one of the ways that I can do that is to simply keep his
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commandments. And by the way, there's a
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difference between keeping the commandments begrudgingly with
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a, a murmuring and complaining heart versus letting go of some
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of those, those questions that we have and those struggles,
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maybe not totally ignoring them, but finding more joy in our
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efforts to keep those commandments, Putting more faith
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in him that Jesus Christ knows what he's doing when he gives us
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certain commandments. And even though it may not make
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perfect sense to me right here, right now, to try a little
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harder to keep those commandments with a little more
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trust in him and a little more joy to say, I, I don't
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understand all the reasons, but I trust Jesus.
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And I'm going to do this because he's asked me to do it.
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And I'm going to trust that he's going to multiply and magnify
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and refine my desires and my understanding and my faith in
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the process of working through this effort to keep these
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commandments with with a greater sense of, of joy and seeing it
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as a an opportunity to more deeply connect with him and
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strengthen that covenant relationship with him as he has
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modeled this. So the Savior is part way
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through this big discourse about the covenant of Abraham, about
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the House of Israel. And he says in verse 1 of
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chapter 17, behold, now it came to pass when Jesus had spoken
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these words. So the thing that he has said
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right before chapter 17 is he quoted that little segment from
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Isaiah 52. So it's been a long day up to
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this point for these people. They've experienced a lot and
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they've heard a lot, they've felt a lot, they've processed
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many things. And then he says, verse two, I
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perceive that ye are weak, that you cannot understand all my
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words, which I'm commanded of the Father to speak unto you at
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this time. I'm commanded of the Father to
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give these words to you and I'm going to give them to you, but I
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perceive you're weak. You're not getting it.
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So here we see a Christ like pattern.
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What do you do when there's a commandment and you don't feel
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like you can, you can complete it.
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Jesus doesn't say, you know, I, I only made it part way through
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what I've been commanded to the father to give you.
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But I can tell that you're weak. You're you're tired.
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Perhaps maybe there's some cognitive overload going on.
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Maybe you, you can't understand all the words because you're
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just physically exhausted today. He doesn't say.
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Therefore I'm I'm going to rationalize why I'm not going to
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keep the commandment because Jesus Christ is fully obedient.
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He is going to keep the commandment, but timing matters.
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And so he says to these people, Therefore go into your homes and
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ponder upon the things which I have said and ask of the Father
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in my name, that you may understand and prepare your
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minds for the Morrow. And I come unto you again.
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I love this. This is one of my favorite
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places in all scripture for for teacher development kinds of
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principles. Jesus Christ is not teaching a
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lesson. He's not focused on the
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curriculum here. He's focused on his students.
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He's focused on his his disciples that are sitting in
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front of him, these people who who want desperately to to grow
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and develop in the gospel and they're just not getting it.
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And So what does he do? He encourages and he invites
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them and he seeks to connect them with God the Father.
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So he tells them to go to their homes, 'cause this is best done
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in a family setting, and to pray to the Father, to ask the Father
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in my name, that you may understand what a beautiful
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thing. And here he is, Jesus Christ
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perfected, glorified God. And he is still inviting and
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encouraging these people to connect with God the Father
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through prayer, to ask Him for understanding and strength, and
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to prepare their minds for the Morrow.
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Because I will come unto you again.
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I'll finish this command that has been given to me, my Father.
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But I'm not going to do it so that I can check a box to say I
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did it. I'm going to do it in a manner
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that will be more effective. I'm going to help this message
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sink deep into the heart and into the mind, not just have it
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waft over the crowd so they hear my voice.
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But it has very little effect because for whatever reason,
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they're weak at this point. And then he tells them in verse
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4. But now I go unto the Father,
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and also to show myself unto the lost tribes of Israel, for they
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are not lost unto the Father, for he knoweth whither he hath
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taken them. So he's telling them I've got
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other, other things I can do while you're working on, on
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preparing your minds for the Morrow.
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At which point Jesus cast his eyes round about again on the
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multitude, and behold, they were in tears.
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And it looks steadfastly upon him, as if they would ask him to
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tarry a little longer with them. There's an interesting,
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interesting phenomenon taking place here.
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You have, you have a certain amount of capacity in your mind
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to, to process, to make sense of, to reason and logic and, and
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understand what you're experiencing, what you might be
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hearing or seeing or, or feeling.
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And there comes a time when when you feel weak, when it's
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cognitive overload, you've had enough.
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And when the savior looks at the crowd and says, I perceive that
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you're weak. Which is the most important
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thing for a teacher or a parent or a leader or a true friend to
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do is to perceive the the needs and how people are doing before
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deciding what to do with them or for them.
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So at this point, their mind seems to be pretty full.
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And so those tears that they're now shedding probably aren't
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tears to say, oh, we're sorry. We we felt a little weak there
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for a minute. We're fully awake.
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We're ready to go. Keep preaching.
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We want more sermons about the gathering of Israel and and the
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Abrahamic covenant. I don't know that that's what
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those tears were communicating. I could be wrong, but I think
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what they were wanting this seems to be pretty full at this
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point their their mind. I think what they're wanting is
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to now just be able to spend more time with the Savior in a
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way that fills their hearts more, that they want more quiet
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connecting time with him. They just want to be with him.
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And the thought of him leaving at this point causes this, this
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group to cry. And I love this.
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He says, behold, my bowels are filled with compassion towards
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you. You'll notice once again that
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we, like these people, come to these times where we're just not
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capable of of doing what maybe we want to do.
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Maybe they would prefer to just be totally strong and fully
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awake and completely paying attention and understanding all
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the words that the Father had commanded him to give to them at
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that time. But they're not.
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So instead of subtracting or taking away from that
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experience, what the Savior does is He adds to it.
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He multiplies their experience, but he does it in a in a
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different way than continuing to preach the the sermon that he
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was commanded to give. We'll get that on the on day 2
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when he comes back to them later on in chapter 20 and 21 and 22
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and and onward from there. But for now, he's focusing on
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those more, those less cognitive and more affective or or feeling
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level connections with the people.
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Look over 7. Have ye any that are sick among
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you? Bring them, hit her.
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Have you any that are lame or blind or halt or maimed or
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leprous or that are withered or that are deaf or that are
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afflicted in any manner? Bring them, hit her, and I will
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heal them, for I have compassion upon you.
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My bowels are filled with mercy. I love this, this next line in
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verse 8 says, For I perceive, I perceive that you desire that I
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should show unto you what I have done unto your brethren at
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Jerusalem. Because if you look back in the
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Book of Mormon, these people have been told by the prophets
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that Jesus Christ, when he comes in, in his mortal ministry.
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Would heal the sick, cause the lame to walk, the blind to see,
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the deaf to hear. He'll raise up the dead.
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They. They've been told that that's
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what he would do. And now here he is in the
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resurrected form. And the people didn't ever say
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it, but he perceived that deep in their heart they wanted, they
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desired that he would show unto them what he had done with his
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brethren at Jerusalem. And they have a whole bunch of
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people who are sick or afflicted in a, in a wide variety of ways,
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and they want that level of connection with him.
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So you're seeing that the Lord is taking their desire and he's
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multiplying it. He's adding to it, He's refining
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it, and He's responding to their use of agency.
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They have this desire, even though they're not verbalizing
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it at this point. He perceived it and he's
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responding with that beautiful invitation to bring their sick
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and afflicted, and I will heal them.
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And I love how he does the healing.
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It says verse 9. It came to pass that when He had
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thus spoken, all the multitude with one accord did go forth
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with their sick and their afflicted, and their lame, with
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their blind, with their dumb, and with all them that were
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afflicted in any manner. And He did heal them everyone as
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they were brought forth unto Him.
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Everyone as they were brought forth.
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He didn't do a mass group general healing He could have,
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but He didn't. He healed them one by one, and
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it says He healed them everyone. He didn't say OK, I can help
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those who are blind, deaf, lame, leprous or halt, but I can't
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help those with emotional or mental struggles.
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I can't help those who are fill in the blank with whatever
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affliction you want. It says he healed them.
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Everyone. Jesus Christ is the master
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healer and He has the power to heal all afflictions.
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So now some of you are probably thinking to yourself, OK, that
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looks really good in the scriptures, looks really good on
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paper, but what about in practice?
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Some of you right now are watching this in in intense
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pain. You, you, many of you have
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diseases and afflictions and sicknesses, physically,
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mentally, emotionally, and you're thinking to yourself, So
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what about me? Why am I lacking in faith?
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Or did I do something wrong? Or does the Lord not love me?
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I love the fact that Jesus Christ is the master healer.
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He perceives the needs and the desires of people of His
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disciples, and when they put those desires on the altar with
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faith in Him and they trust in Him, then He now is able to
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multiply those desires and multiply those miracles
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according to His will, according to His timing, not ours.
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So we make those requests, we give those blessings, we fast
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for our loved ones and at times for our self with these
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ailments. And then we trust.
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We trust that God knows what he's doing.
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We trust that he will do his work according to His will and
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according to his timing. And if a healing blessing
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doesn't come to to me or to a loved one, that's not an
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invitation to then turn away from him and say, we'll see if I
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trust you again. It becomes an opportunity for us
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to deepen our faith even more in him to say, I trust the the the
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most intelligent being in all the universe.
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I've made my request. I've I've tried to refine my
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faith and my desires and if a healing gift isn't given or if
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somebody isn't saved a loved one from from death or from a
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disease or from serious pain or anguish of any kind, I trust in
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thee and I will trust in thee forever because my faith isn't
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rooted in miracles as we see in verse 9 being performed.
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My faith is rooted in Jesus Christ and whatever he chooses
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to do with me, that's what I want done.
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And then the prayers can shift to help me refine my faith and
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my trust in the even and especially when I don't get what
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I've been praying for. Help me to know what to pray for
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next. Help me to know how to move
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forward to become more like thee through this, this affliction
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that has not been taken away or this blessing that hasn't been
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granted the way that I've requested it.
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Many of you will remember President Jeffrey R Holland's
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talk in April of 2024 when he spoke of the prayers that were
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sent heavenward in his behalf and in behalf of his wife.
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And he was miraculously preserved and and given more
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time and his wife was not. And He reassured us that all of
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those prayers were heard and answered according to what is
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best for them eternally, not according to what they had
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actually requested. And that is an amazing
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opportunity that God gives us as disciples of Christ is to
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exercise faith in the Savior even when we don't get what
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we've asked for. It's easy to have faith in Him
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and to love Him. When all the prayers are
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answered and all the requests and the desires are met, it's a
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different matter. Entirety soul stretching
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opportunity for us to trust him when it isn't given.
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Now as soon as this happens, he he says, verse 11, it came to
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pass that he commanded that their little children should be
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brought. So they brought their little
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children, and they set them down upon the ground round about him,
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and Jesus stood in the midst, and the multitude gave way till
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they had all been brought unto him.
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So you can picture Jesus Christ in the middle with all the
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little children round about him, and then the adults in the outer
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ring of that group in verse 14. It came to pass it.
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When they had kneeled upon the ground, Jesus groaned within
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himself and said, Father, I'm troubled because of the
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wickedness of the people of the House of Israel.
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It's an interesting thing to say in that particular setting when
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you're surrounded by these little children.
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He's groaning and he's he's speaking to Heavenly Father.
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Jesus Christ seems to be constantly connected with the
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Father. You and I, not so much.
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In most cases, we seem to turn heavenward in moments of need.
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And if you follow Jesus Christ, even as a resurrected being, He
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is constantly turning to the Father and speaking with the
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Father, talking to Him, praying to him.
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What a beautiful example for us as we strive to become more like
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the Savior. So then it tells us that He he
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offered this prayer. And verse 17 says, no tongue can
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speak, neither can there be written by any man, neither can
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the hearts of men conceive so great and marvelous things as we
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both saw and heard Jesus speak. And no one can conceive of the
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joy which filled our souls at the time we heard Him.
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Pray for us unto the Father. What a beautiful pattern that
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the parents and teachers and leaders can follow to pray to
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the Father and let your children, let your students, let
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the people you're you're working with hear you talking to God the
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Father about them. It, it opens hearts it.
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You don't have to preach big sermons at that point because
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the Holy Ghost will touch hearts deeper and, and soften them and
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open them and build that that powerful relationship that is
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needed in order for trust to be built so that when you do teach
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them doctrines, they're more likely to have fertile soil for
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those seeds of faith to be planted in.
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So verse 19 says it came to pass that Jesus spake unto them and
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bade them arise. So he's offered this prayer.
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They're filled with joy and they arose from the earth.
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And he said unto them, blessed are you because of your faith.
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And now behold, my joy is full. Did you catch this back in verse
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17? They were filled with joy, which
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now he says, behold, my joy is now full.
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He is taking their desires, their use of agency, and it's
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now reciprocating. It's it's coming to him.
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He's feeling it, he's magnifying, multiplying, adding
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to it. And now he's giving back to
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them. And it's this, this ever growing
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experience of, of deepening and multiplying joy and, and deep
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true love that that we're seeing on the page here.
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And when He had said these words, he wept, and the
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multitude bear record of it. And he took their little
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children 1 by 1, and he blessed them, and he prayed unto the
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Father for them. He's constantly praying to the
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Father. As you read these chapters,
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notice how many times he either talks to or it says He prayed
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unto the Father. It's constant.
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And now He's doing it with these little children.
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We live in a world today that does not value little children.
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We live in a world that is increasingly valuing everything
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else more than children, whether it be money or jobs, promotions,
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vacations, toys, possessions, houses, homes, animals, pets,
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vehicles, anything more than little children.
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Little children are seen as expensive, annoying, dirty,
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limiting. They're going to hold you back
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and prevent you from fulfilling what you want to do in life.
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That's the way our culture, generally speaking, portrays
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children and family. When you when you see movies,
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when you see what's what's in social media and what is
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portrayed as as true freedom because you only have so much
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time and energy and money to give and children are going to
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drain you. If you ask yourself the
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question, how does Jesus Christ feel about little children?
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What are his feelings for them? And then read these verses
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21/22/23. I think you'll get a pretty good
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idea that when he says he wept, the multitude bear record of it.
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And he took their little children 1 by 1 and blessed them
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and prayed unto the Father for them.
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And when he had done this, he wept again.
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There aren't very many places in Scripture where we see that
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deeply into the soul of Jesus Christ, into his heart.
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We see it over in in the book of John in New Testament where in
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John Chapter 11 when Lazarus has died and Mary is at the feet of
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Jesus weeping and the Jews who are mourning Lazarus death
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around him are also weeping. Then Chapter 11 verse 35 gives
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you the shortest verse of all of our scripture Canon.
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It's only 2 words. Jesus wept.
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It's the shortest verse in words and one of the longest words in
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depth of meaning and and depth of, of revealing the character
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of Christ. What kind of a person is he?
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Jesus wept with these people weeping around him.
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Now, in this case, those people, the Nephites and the Lamanites
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that are that are there at at the temple in Bountiful on this
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particular day, they're not mourning a death.
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They're not, He's not mourning with those that mourn as he
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maybe was with Mary and and the Jews and Martha with the Lazarus
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situation over in John 11 here. The thing that caused those
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tears to come was his interaction with their little
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children. How the Lord loves little
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children. Can I just remind all of us that
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the Lord told us in the Doctrine and Covenants, ye are little
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children and you have not as yet understood what great things the
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Lord hath in store for you. We are all little children to
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Him and yet He loves us. His work and His glory is to to
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bring to pass our immortality and our eternal life.
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That's what He does. Think heaven, that Jesus Christ
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didn't say, no, I want to fulfill my desires.
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I want my goals to be first and foremost.
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I want what's in it for me and and for my pleasure and joy.
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Think heaven, that he didn't live his life that way, but
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rather turned outward saying, Father, what would thou have me
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do? How can I help them?
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How can I build them? So at a very practical level,
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some may wonder, OK, so does that mean we should, that the
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couples should just have as many children as they possibly can?
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That's not what I get out of these scriptures.
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What I get out of this story is for a husband and wife to come
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together and to join me ask God what he would have them do with
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regards to children. Rather than saying, Nope, I'm we
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are going to make all these decisions and once God gives
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direction, then do everything that that couple can do to
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fulfill that inspiration that is given.
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And it's nobody else's business what that couple does with
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regards to children. It's between them and the Lord.
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The problem is, is when couples don't involve the Lord when they
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turn horizontally to make decisions regarding family, then
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it feels like we're back in the division and subtraction.
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What we we can't have a child because we don't have enough
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money, or we don't have enough space in our home or our car, or
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we don't have enough energy because it's going to subtract
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from what we have and we're going to run out.
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We, we just don't have enough. If you're on the Lord's errand,
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if you know what heaven wants you to do and you do it, you
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will never run out because those children bring with them as they
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come from, from the windows of heaven, so to speak.
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They open up and they bring with them additional love, additional
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gifts, additional opportunities into your home and into your
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family that you didn't have before.
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They don't. Children don't take away from
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you, they add upon you. They the Lord multiplies what
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he's doing with you through those children that heaven is
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sending to you under heaven's inspiration and heaven's
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direction. Now this is a very difficult
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topic for some people who have never had the opportunity to get
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married, or for those who are married and love nothing more
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than to welcome children into their home and into their arms.
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And for whatever reason it didn't happen, or it's not
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happening or it can't happen. Once again, I don't know all the
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reasons why some are healed and some are not.
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I don't know why some are are given many children and others
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are giving given none. I don't have any of those
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answers, but I know that the Lord does and I know that He has
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his reasons. And I also know that the day
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will come in the eternities when we will look back and with deep
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eternal gratitude in our hearts, we will thank Him for doing what
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was best for us. But we are involving Him in
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every phase of these, these decisions and the processes of
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of. Life moving forward that our
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focus is on God, not on our self, not on the the quote UN
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quote experts of the world and the opinions of the world
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telling us how to live our life or or what to do regarding
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family. But we're putting our trust
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completely in the Lord and then moving forward in faith.
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And as we do that, regardless of the number of children that he
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sends to us or the opportunities for marriage that he affords us,
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we know that as we think celestial as President Nelson
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has invited, that all blessings are going to be granted to us
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eventually. And for some, it's going to be a
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longer period of, of testing our faith in in waiting upon the
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Lord. And for others, where children
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are granted, he's going to stretch our faith in figuring
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out how to raise them in love and righteousness, following the
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principles as outlined in the proclamation to the world on the
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family. But the main point here for me
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is to look at this story and see how Jesus Christ feels about
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children. And I want to be more like
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Jesus. I, I want to follow him, which
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means I don't see children as a problem.
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I see children as a solution. Look at verse 24.
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As the people looked to behold, they cast their eyes towards
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heaven and they saw the heavens open and they saw angels
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descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire.
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And they came down and encircled those little ones about, and
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they were encircled about with fire, and the angels did
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minister unto them. Heavenly angels came down and
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encircled those little ones about and ministered unto them.
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I want to be more like those angels.
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I want to be more like the Savior Jesus Christ in my
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interactions with people, especially those who are sick
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and afflicted, who are struggling, who are hurting in
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any manner, and those who are young.
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You'll notice these are the most vulnerable parts of that
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population. And that was the whole emphasis
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of chapter 17 is on strengthening and ministering to
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the needs of those people, which now brings us to chapter 18.
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And he commanded in verse one that the disciples should bring
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forth some bread and wine unto him.
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So they go and they bring this bread and wine and offer it to
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him. And you would say to yourself,
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well, those disciples just lost those resources in their home.
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They had to sacrifice. They had to give bread and wine
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to Jesus. It's now gone, depleted their,
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their home has less. I told you at the beginning that
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I love this section because it's all about multiplication and in
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addition, in the way the Lord does math with us.
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So you'll notice that Jesus didn't take their bread and wine
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and then keep it for himself. What did he do?
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Here's the pattern. Anything, and I mean anything
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that you and I put onto the altar of the Lord and offer to
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Him, consecrate to Him, He is going to follow the same
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pattern. Verse 3 tells us what he did
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when the disciples had come with bread and wine.
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He took of the bread and wine and he blessed it, and he gave
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unto the disciples and commanded that they should eat.
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And when they had eaten and were filled, he commanded that they
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should give unto the multitude. So here's the pattern.
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They brought the bread and the wine.
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They offered it to the Lord, not subtracting from what they have.
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You'll see in a minute. He then breaks the bread, and
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then he blessed it and he gave it unto the disciples.
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Now I ask you, how is that multiplying?
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How is that adding to rather than subtracting from their
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supply at home, the bread as it was sitting at home in their
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supply. If they, if they leave it in
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this selfish realm of what's in it for me, What can I get from
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you? How can I add to my Kingdom and
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build up my stores of goods? That bread is very mortal.
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It's it's temporary. It's going to eat.
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If they don't eat it, it's going to eventually mold and mildew
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and decay. But because they offered that
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mortal offering to Jesus Christ, he sanctified it.
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He refined it, He purified it, so to speak, and he returns it
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to them, changed it. It is now an eternal offering to
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them. They gave to him something that
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was very mortal and temporary, and in return he gives to them
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something that is eternal and filled with power.
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It's going to fill more than their their bodies.
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It's going to fill their soul. That's why the bread and the
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water are blessed and sanctified to the souls of all those who
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partake of it. We give the mortal, He gives the
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Eternal in return. The same thing applies with
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every other offering you and I can make to to the Savior.
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When you bring tithing to the Lord, you're bringing a very
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mortal offering of money. Earthly money means nothing to
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God. He's got all of the universe in
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His hand, but He magnifies, adds to, He multiplies that offering
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that we give to Him, and He returns it to us in eternally
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significant ways. These mortal offerings that we
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make now become eternally significant blessings to us.
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The time, the energy that you and I devote to the Lord in our
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callings or with our families or in service to others, God
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magnifies and multiplies those. He makes it so that all of a
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sudden he, he's renewing our, our energy.
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He's not allowing us to deplete it.
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And as we look at our our general authorities and their
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wives and their families and what they're offering to the
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Lord in a consecrated way, I think it's pretty obvious to see
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how much the Lord is magnifying and adding to them as they're
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making these these incredibly large sacrifices and consecrated
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efforts for him. I think it's not difficult to
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detect how good God is to them to renew their strength and to
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give them the inspiration and the energy and the and the
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ability to keep moving forward and in the effort of building up
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his Kingdom on the earth. And the same principle applies
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to us who who have whatever calling in the church.
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If we'll consecrate to the people that we're serving in
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Christ like ways, if we'll consecrate to our families, our
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time, our energy, God will magnify and multiply it just
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like he did with the bread and the wine in this case.
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It will come back to us refined and sanctified to our souls.
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It will increase our our character as we become a little
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bit more like Jesus Christ with each of those instances.
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And then he gives some descriptions of that sacrament
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experience. Look closely at verse 7.
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After talking about giving them a commandment to to do the
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sacrament. He says this shall you do in
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remembrance of my body which I have shown unto you.
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So that bread is remembrance of his body, which is shown unto
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the Nephites in Lamanites, not just the body in Gethsemane and
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through the trials and on the cross, his mortal body, but also
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his resurrected body. When we eat that bread, it's a
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promise for our immortality, for our resurrected body someday as
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we think about him and his suffering and subsequent
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resurrection. And then the cup of the the
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wine, he says, verse 11 This shall you always do to those who
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repent and are baptized in my name.
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And you shall do it in remembrance of my blood which I
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have shed for you, that you may witness unto the Father that you
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do always Remember Me. And if you do always Remember
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Me, you shall have my Spirit to be with you.
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Just a reminder that the always Remember Me is the one part that
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appears in both the blessing on the bread and the water.
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The blessing on the bread has the additional willing to take
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upon them the name of thy Son Jesus Christ and the 3rd element
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keep his commandments which he has given them, but they always
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remember him as right in the middle and it's all by itself on
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the blessing on the water. So the, the thing that is
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different in the blessing on the water is it doesn't say they
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will always have his spirit like it does over in the blessing on
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the bread. When you're doing those three
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things, taking his name upon you, always remember him in
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keeping his commandments, which is given that they may always
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have his spirit to be with them. Those 3 things that we do lead
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to that incredible outcome. And in the blessing on the the
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water, He just says always remember him, that they may have
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his spirit to be with them. It's not always.
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But that to me is a beautiful sign that even if I'm struggling
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to take His name upon me at all times and all things in all
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places, and even if I'm struggling to keep His
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commandments to the degree that I know I ought.
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He always says, if you'll just keep your thoughts focused on
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me, you'll have my spirit to be with you in those in those
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moments, in those times. A powerful reminder that once
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again, if I put my thoughts on the altar, if I put my desires
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on the altar, He will turn those mortal offerings into eternally
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significant blessings in return. The the gift of having his
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spirit to be with us, to guide us.
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Now in the rest of chapter 18, he gives some some beautiful
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teachings to these people, some even some cautions in verse 15.
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Verily, verily, I say to you, you must watch and pray always,
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lest you be tempted by the devil and you be LED away captive by
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him. Pray always is not an invitation
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from Jesus to go and do something.
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It's an invitation from Jesus Christ to come and follow him
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and do what he has modeled and what he has done his whole life.
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Watch and pray always is a defining feature of Jesus
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Christ's character. Then he he gets into a
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discussion about the light. Look at verse 24.
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Therefore hold up your light, that it may shine unto the
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world. What is the light?
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He even defines that force. Behold, I am the light which he
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shall hold up, that which He have seen me do.
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So he's focusing them not just on the words, not just on the
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sermons and the doctrines and the theology, but on the example
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that he has set. Do what you have seen me do.
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And again, when we strive to keep these commandments to any
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degree, we're becoming more like him.
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We're we're following in his footsteps.
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He was a perfect commandment keeper.
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We're not perfect, but gratefully He's patient, and He
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is more than willing to forgive us and extend His mercy and
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grace when we fall down and when we struggle.
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And then verse 25 says, And you see that I have commanded that
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none of you should go away, but rather have commanded that you
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should come unto me, that you might feel and see Even so you
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shall do unto the world. And whosoever breaketh this
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commandment suffer themselves to be LED into temptation, inviting
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all to come, not stiff arming or rejecting them.
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Now go to verse 27. Behold, verily, verily, I say
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unto you, I give unto you another commandment.
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Thank heaven, every time Jesus Christ gives us a new
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commandment, we shouldn't say, oh great, another commandment to
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divide more of my time and energy.
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No, no, no, this is the the arithmetic of the Lord.
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It's another opportunity to magnify my soul, to multiply the
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gifts that God has given me to add to my life.
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Commandments don't take away from me.
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So what is the new commandment? And now behold, this is the
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commandment which I give unto you, that you shall not suffer
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anyone knowingly to partake of my flesh and blood unworthily,
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when you shall minister it. So he gives the the disciples
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that new commandment to guard that that sacrament, keep it
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sacred, but don't reject anyone from coming.
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He says don't don't cast any out of your synagogues in verse 32.
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And now as we come to the conclusion of that first day's
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visit among these people at the temple, it says while they were
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overshadowed, he departed from them and ascended into heaven.
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And the disciples saw and did bear record that he ascended
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again into heaven. Chapter 19 says Now it came to
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pass that when Jesus had ascended into heaven, the
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multitude did disperse and every man did take his wife and his
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children and did return to his own home.
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And you would think exhausting they're they're now going to all
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go straight to bed. It was noised abroad among the
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people immediately before it was yet dark that the multitude had
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seen Jesus, and that he administered unto them, and that
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he would also show himself on the Morrow under the multitude.
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Yeah, and even all the night it was noised abroad concerning
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Jesus. And in as in so much did they
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send forth under the people, there were many an exceedingly
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great number did labor exceedingly all that night that
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they might be on the Morrow in the place where Jesus should
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show himself unto the multitude. So as they're preparing for day
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2, I love how these people are finding that is they hone in on
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and refine their desires, their physical strength and and their
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their capacity alone to to do what needs to be done.
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They're not doing it alone. They're tapping into the
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strength that they've gained from their consecrated efforts
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to Jesus Christ, from experiencing those those
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powerful connections with him, watching him heal their sick and
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bless their children, partaking of the sacrament for the first
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time. It has literally renewed their
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souls to the point where they spend all night, many of them,
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going and getting as many people as possible to come and see and
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hear and feel and come to know for themselves the joy and the
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strength that is promised in sitting at the feet of the
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Savior and learning from Him and through Him and by Him.
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So chapter 19 opens and you have this huge multitude and the 12
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apostles split them into twelve groups.
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And what do they teach? They teach nothing more than
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what Jesus had taught. Now, I don't know if you caught
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that. Brothers and sisters, there's a
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powerful pattern there. Our prophets, seers, and
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revelators in in the Temple recommend interview, we are
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asked, do you sustain the president of the Church of Jesus
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Christ of Latter Day Saints as the prophet, seer and revelator
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and as the only person on earth who is authorized to exercise
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all priesthood keys? Then that is followed up with,
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Do you sustain the members of the First Presidency in the corn
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of the 12 apostles as prophets, seers, and revelators?
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Those are very important principles to to understand when
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we answer that question. What you're seeing on the page
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here is prophets, seers, and revelators are called by God,
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not by popular vote that they're not put on a ballot.
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We don't have primary and and final elections for them.
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They're chosen by God and they're on God's errand, not on
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public opinion. They don't have constituencies
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that they have to keep going back to and making sure that
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they're OK. They answer to God.
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Their focus is on what would thou have me do.
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They can't just make up doctrine.
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They can't teach what they want to teach.
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Their whole mission is to refine their lives, refine their
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desires and connect with God as prophet, surgeon of laters, find
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out what he wants and then teach that, teach the words of Jesus
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Christ. You see that pattern right here
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as they separated in verse chapter 19, verse 5 into these
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12 different bodies. And verse 8 says when they had
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ministered those same words which Jesus had spoken, nothing
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varying from the words which Jesus had spoken.
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Behold, they knelt again and prayed to the Father in the name
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of Jesus. They're following him so
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beautifully. And brothers and sisters, when
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we raise our hand to sustain the First Presidency in the corner
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of the 12 apostles as prophets, seers, and revelators, that's
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what we're agreeing to uphold them in is being in that role.
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Not in representing my desires, my hopes for doctrine or policy
1:00:32
in the Church, but to understand what God has inspired them to
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teach us. The words of Jesus Christ,
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nothing varying from what they're getting from God.
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That's the beauty and the blessing and the opportunity
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that is ours as a collective body of Saints in the Church of
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Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to have these chosen
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servants of the Lord guiding the efforts as we move forward.
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And then they perform baptisms among the group.
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Verse 14 tells us they were encircled about as if it were by
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fire, and it came down from heaven, and the multitude did
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witness it and did bear record, and angels did come down out of
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heaven and administer unto them, and it came to pass it.
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While the angels were ministering unto the disciples,
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behold, Jesus came and stood in the midst and ministered unto
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them. I love this.
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Angels came, preparing the way before him, and then Jesus
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Christ came. So you have the group, you have
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the apostles, you have the angels, you have Jesus.
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And now in the rest of chapter 19 you could read these verses
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almost in parallel to Jesus experience over in the Garden of
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Gethsemane. My dear friend and colleague Gay
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Strathern has has talked about and written a lot about this
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little sequence here in comparing the experience in
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Gethsemane with Peter, James and John and this multitude here in
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the New World. Because in both cases you have
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Jesus going away from the multitude 3 times to pray to the
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Father, just like he went away from Peter, James and John three
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times in Gethsemane. The difference is the.
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So that's the comparison. Now the contrast is when he
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comes to Peter, James, and John, they're sleeping.
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When he comes to these people, they are attentive, they are
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praying. And keep in mind, some of these
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people, many of them maybe have been up all night running around
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and yesterday was a full day, both cognitively and and
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emotionally, physically, mentally, and yet they aren't
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falling asleep. And that's not to to put Peter,
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James and John down. That is not the intent.
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It's a contrast of you. And I have an opportunity to
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follow this example of the the three times that Jesus goes and
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prays. So the first time is in verse 19
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and 20 and 21. The second time, if you want to
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mark your Scriptures is in chapter 19, verse 27 and 28.
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And the third time is 313233. I would invite you to to dig in
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to see what did he pray about? What do we have record of about
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what he's praying and what he's saying to the Father in his
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first prayer that actually started in 19 and continues down
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to to verse 23 and 24, He actually tells Heavenly Father
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these people that I've commanded to pray.
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They're praying to me right now. And in verse 22, He gives us the
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reason why these people are praying to Him.
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I love this verse 22. Father, Thou has given them the
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Holy Ghost because they believe in me.
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Once again, they're putting their belief in Him.
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They're investing something on the altar of the Lord.
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They're sacrificing or consecrating a degree of their
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desires, and in return they're being added to by God giving
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them the Holy Ghost. Can I just suggest that what
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they're offering on the altar doesn't even compare even
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remotely in in size or scope or scale to what God is now
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offering them in return? Just like it doesn't even
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compare when I pay my my tithing, which is a pittance of
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money compared to to the the global scheme of things.
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It can't even come close to comparing with what God gives me
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in return for that small faithful sacrifice.
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So he says, thou seest that they believe in me because thou
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hearest them, and they pray unto me, and they pray unto me
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because I am with them. And that makes that makes a lot
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of sense. If the Savior is there, you're
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going to be addressing him, you're going to be thanking Him,
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you're going to be pleading with Him and asking Him for things.
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Those are all prayerful things, and He is with them.
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Verse 24. It came to pass that when Jesus
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had thus prayed unto the Father, he came unto his disciples.
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Behold, they did still continue without ceasing to pray unto
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Him, and they did not multiply many words, for it was given
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unto them what they should pray, and they were filled with
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desire. I love that they're putting
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their desires to connect with heaven on the altar, and in
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response, they are now filled with desire, but it's desire
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that comes from God to them. And they're giving their words
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to Him and return. He's giving them his words that
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they can now share with him. And somebody was thinking,
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that's weird. Why would God do that?
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Why doesn't He just let them say what they want to say?
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Brothers and sisters, prayer is performed not so that we can
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teach God anything that He doesn't already know.
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He already gets us better than we understand ourselves.
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He doesn't need me to pray to know why I'm doing what I'm
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doing and what I want and what I'm thankful for.
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He already knows all of that. He commands me to pray, not so
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He can learn about me, but He commands me to pray so that I
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can learn about Him, so that I can learn about myself.
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So even if I don't have the words, that's OK.
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I start. I give what little offering I
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have on the altar, and I plead with Him.
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Heavenly Father I I'm weak, I feel empty, I don't know what to
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do or I'm struggling with this or I'm having a hard time
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deciding what to do here or whatever it may be.
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I make that little offering on the altar and I plead with Him
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to give me the words and the feelings and the desires that I
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should have. And that very act of faith
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becomes refining because of Him, not because of me.
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I I give what little offering I have and He magnifies it.
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He multiplies it, He adds to it, and all of a sudden God isn't
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learning new things, but I am. God isn't gaining new knowledge,
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but I am. And the two of us are becoming
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more connected. There's a there's a more
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powerful relationship of trust that's being forged.
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That's why God commands me to pray, not so I can teach him,
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but so that I can learn of Him and so that I can learn about me
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and who he wants me to become and how he will help me in that
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process. So in closing, brothers and
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sisters, God asks us to do a lot in his church and in his
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Kingdom. The gospel of Jesus Christ
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demands everything that we have to give to Him.
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But if we're really honest with ourselves, if I add up all of
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the things that I have and I compare it to all of the things
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that he has, it's not even, not even in the realm of calculus
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can can describe the difference between those two things.
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But you see, God isn't keeping score.
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He's not keeping track. He's not weighing in the
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balance, my offering. He's just asking me to give all
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that I have to him. And in return, he offers to give
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all that he has to us. Is it any wonder that Elder
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Neely Maxwell used to say what an exchange rate.
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May the Lord bless all of us in our efforts to not just keep the
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commandments, not just pay our tithes and offerings, not just
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fulfill our duties and our callings, not just take care of
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children, not just try to keep the commandments in general
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sense to check a box. But rather, have our thoughts
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and our hearts and our desires focused on God and on Jesus
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Christ, and on more joyfully striving to become like Him, to
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seek His will. And then to do it with less
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murmuring, less of a begrudging heart, and more of a sense of
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utter and complete gratitude for a God who holds so much in His
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hands. And yet He holds you and me in
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His heart. Because we're His children and
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He loves us, and He knows how to raise children and He knows what
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is best for us. I love Him with all my heart,
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and I want to give my whole life to Him, knowing that he's not
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just going to take it, He's going to magnify it and multiply
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it and add to it and return it to me in eternal proportions.
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And I'll love him forever for that.
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And I leave that with you. In the name of Jesus Christ,
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Amen. Know that you're loved.