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1 Nephi 16–22 | Scripture Study Insights with Tyler Griffin · Scripture Central

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Hello there, I'm Tyler. Griffin and This is Scripture
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study. Insights by Scripture Central.
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Today, first Nephi chapters. 16 through 22 as we finish.
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Off the book. Of first Nephi today?
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There are incredible stories. In here that we're going to
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spend a little bit of time covering, as well as our first
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introduction to the book of Isaiah in the Book of Worm.
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We get 2 chapters. Before we dive into the actual.
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Block of scriptures I wanted to share with you.
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One of my favorite lifelong learning perspectives on how to
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get more out of my. Scripture study.
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And I'm going to. Do it this way.
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I'll just I'll diagram. A Scripture page.
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Here on the screen, and so you've got.
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All these pages of holy writ. That come down to us from
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prophets in ages past, and one thing that you'll find.
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Is that they're really? 3 domains, 3 dimensions if you
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will. Or spheres or worlds associated
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with your scriptures and your Scripture.
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Study the 1st. Dimension, so I'll just label
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this as #1. The first dimension is.
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The world or the sphere or the? Domain that resides underneath
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the scripture pages underneath. The words, if you were to pick
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up those words. And look underneath them, you
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will find an entire world. Filled with people, with,
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culture with. Traditions and customs and
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societal norms and languages. Often many languages, not just
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the one being spoken, but sometimes the one being spoken
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and then the one that's actually being written.
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We see that, for instance, in the New Testament, where Jesus
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and his apostles are speaking predominantly Aramaic, but the
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New Testament books are being then written in Greek and then
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later translated into Latin and into English and other
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languages. In the Book of Mormon, you have
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a group of people who are speaking Hebrew and forms of
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Hebrew through through time. But the words are being
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scratched. Into metal plates using
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Egyptian. Characters.
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So there's there's. Already a a translation going on
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in the actual world underlying the actual.
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Scripture page. So this world is big.
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It it's. It's vast, and for many people
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it's kind of complicated and complex and so some.
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People are scared of it, this world right here.
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Happens to be the. Purview.
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Of of many biblical. Scholars or scriptural scholars?
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Where they spend all, if not most, of their time studying and
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immersing in. The world's that have produced
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these scriptures for US. Studying the languages and the
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and the connections there, now we come to the second dimension.
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Of scripture study. It's the the words.
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On the actual page, it's what you can see sitting in front of
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you, and it is a. Whole.
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World or a dimension all to its own you have in this dimension.
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You have repeat words. You have.
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Doctrines, principles, stories, speeches, conflict.
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You have relationships, struggles and relationships,
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successes. You have people doing all kinds
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of things, good and bad and everything in between.
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You have people moving towards God and people moving away from
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God. It it's this whole.
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World that the Lord gives to us that resides.
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On the actual page in the language in which you're.
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Reading the scriptures. This world, now, it's big
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enough. This dimension, this sphere is
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big enough. That it could take.
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All of our time looking at the. Words.
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That are on the page and and just doing extensive studies for
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the rest of our lives and it would be inexhaustible.
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We would never get to the bottom of it.
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Elder Maxwell used to refer to it as the inexhaustible Gospel.
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Well, the same could be said. For the.
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World or the dimension that lives under the scriptures, you
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could spend your entire life in that in that world or in that
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sphere and never get to the bottom of it.
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Because there's. So much time and history and
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culture going on there. Now we get to the third
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dimension. If you want your scripture study
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to become more 3 dimensional, then don't leave out.
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The world that lives above the scripture page.
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The world that these words. And the the culture and history.
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That produced these words that they actually have the capacity
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to. Create this, this dimension or
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this. Sphere for us, this world, if
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you will. In which we live.
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This is. The realm of application.
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Where we say, OK, so I. Learned those principles.
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Or I saw that. Teaching or I was introduced to
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that doctrine on the scripture. Page, but how does it?
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Translate into my life. How does it help me build my
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relationships? With God, with the Savior, Jesus
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Christ. With my loved ones.
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With my enemies. With.
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Others. How does it influence who I am
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and how I live my life? Brothers and sisters, the beauty
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of this. 3 dimensional view of scriptures.
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Is to say that there's. It's not a competition.
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It's not like one of these worlds.
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Is the best. And the.
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Others are are lesser. Siblings in the scriptural
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family. The idea being that if you can
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find ways to increase. Your knowledge, your ability.
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To see and seek. For truth.
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In any one. Of the three spheres.
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Will actually enhance your capacity to find greater meaning
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in the other two realms as well in the other two dimensions.
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So it would be. Let me give you just a scenario
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if somebody were to say you know what, I don't care about the
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languages. Of the scriptures.
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I don't care about learning anything about Hebrew.
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Or about Greek. There's some pretty good
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precedents for this. The Prophet Joseph Smith.
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The further he got into his prophetic ministry, especially
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interacting with Scripture, the more he became interested in
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diving into the world underneath.
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The Scriptures he. Wanted to learn Hebrew.
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He. Hired a Hebrew teacher.
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He wanted to learn. Greek.
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He wanted to create a grammar and and learn how to read and
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decipher Egyptian. He.
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He read in German. He wanted to know all of these
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different aspects underlying the scriptures and the world.
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That produced those scriptures. And if you look at President
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Russell M Nelson, he he has spent a lot of time looking at
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these. Worlds.
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That are underlying the. Scriptures.
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Looking at what the? The word.
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For instance, repentance comes to us in English from the Greek
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Metanoeo, looking at the word hesed from the Hebrew.
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That's all stuff that our our. Prophets give us that reside in
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the world underneath the scriptures.
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So you could. Spend some time, for instance,
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in Webster's 1828 dictionary. If you're trying to make more
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sense of the performance and you want to understand this world,
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here you could begin. At the scripture page level.
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On the page looking. For words that you.
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We assume we understand what they mean, or maybe they're
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confusing to us. Look them up in the Webster's
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1828 dictionary and. You'll get a better.
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Idea of what they meant in the day in which the Book of Mormon
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was translated in 18291830 and that will increase your.
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Ability. To then create more wisdom and
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more discipleship and more conversion, not just for
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yourself. But for those?
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That you you teach and interact with in the world that we live
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in today. And as you move forward, what's
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more you can, you can enhance your study.
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Of the scriptures. By paying attention to some of
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the things. That are created.
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In this dimension or the? Sphere that resides above the
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scriptures. Especially if you pay more time
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and attention. To what?
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The prophets. Are telling us about the.
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Scriptures. They live in this.
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World of ours that that resides above the Scriptures.
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And there is an authority that is given to prophets, sears and
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revelators when it comes to scriptures that nobody else has,
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nobody else has. Access to certain things like
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the prophets do. And yet we live in a world that
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almost encourages people to not listen to the prophets, but to
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say no. Come learn of me.
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That's thin ice from my perspective, when the prophets
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have made certain things clear in the scriptures.
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We should probably. Pay attention to those and
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figure out how to better apply them in our own life.
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So in quick review A3 dimensional view of the.
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Scriptures will look a little bit like a.
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House fitly framed. Together we begin at the.
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Lowest level with. A nice foundation or our
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basement if you will. The under, so starting with.
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AU here with that shape. And then we go to the O building
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the walls and the. Floor of our house, that world
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that is. On the.
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Page of the Scripture. And then we end.
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With the roof over our house. That is fitly framed together
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above the application of all those principles and brothers.
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And sisters, it's a better. Experience when that house is
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fitly framed together in a way that makes sense for you now.
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Some are going to spend more time underneath in that world,
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and some are going to spend more time on the page in that
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dimension and that sphere, and others are going to spend more
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time above it. That's fine, but the invitation
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is don't ignore the other dimensions.
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Make make them all come to to bear in our study of the Book of
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Mormon this year and see if it deepens your.
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Appreciation for these scriptures.
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And their ability to change your life and to to provide those
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things that you need to move forward on the covenant path.
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Now with that foundation, let's dive in.
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So chapter 16 is. Where we start our story today,
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we're. Out in the wilderness, Nephi is
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speaking to his brothers, declaring unto them truth.
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And they say. You're you're.
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Giving us hard things. And he continues to work with
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them until they hearken to the truth.
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And then verse four says, And it came to pass that I knew if I
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did exhort my brethren with all diligence to keep the
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commandments of the. Lord, I love this he's.
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Working with them in. Their real world?
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Setting to keep the commandments of the Lord And where are they
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getting many of the commandments?
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It's from. The Lord directly through
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revelation to Lehigh. The Prophet as well as on the
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scriptures, So they humbled themselves, and then we.
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Can start progressing. They all get married, and Nephi
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mentions that he had been exceedingly.
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Blessed of the Lord. I love that ever since the day I
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got married, I have been exceedingly.
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Blessed of the Lord. Most of the blessings that that
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God has given me in my. Life as I if.
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I were to sit down and count my many blessings.
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I can't think of any of them. That I would be able to say.
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Oh, I accomplished that. With just the.
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Lord and me alone, without the help of Kiplin, my Angel.
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My bride, everything good that has flowed.
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From heaven into my life, she's been either at my side or been
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the. Source or or directly related to
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that. Experience of feeling
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exceedingly. Blessed of the Lord.
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Like Nephi. So then we're introduced to the
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Liahona Chapter 16, verse 10, this round ball of curious
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workmanship. And I love looking at this
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Liahona through the lens of her from the.
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Perspective of scriptures like we have here You've got a.
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Ball A round ball. Of curious workmanship.
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And and if we're. Not careful we'll.
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Spend so much time trying to figure out what the Liahona
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looks. Like or where?
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It came from or who delivered it and and.
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How it actually? Works and functions that we
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might miss the messages that are written on the.
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Book or the? Directions that are given on
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the. Ball or the directors?
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Which would then mean we totally miss the point of where it's
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trying to lead us so. If you look at this there,
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there's some. Powerful.
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Indicators of how they. Interacted with the Liahona that
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I think would benefit me today and you and all of.
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Us collectively if we paid a. Little more attention.
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To the world that. Resides on the scripture.
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Page associated with this. Liahona or this director?
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This compass pointing the way to them.
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Now what does the Liahona do? Let's.
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Just grab a couple of verses here verse. 16 We did follow the
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directions of the ball, which led us in the more.
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Fertile parts of the. Wilderness.
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You recognize that there They're going.
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Through a part of. The land that we assume they've
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never been through. Before.
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They're having to be. Guided by this, this compass or
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this Director. And they needed to know where
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the more. Fertile parts of the.
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Wilderness would be and. How do they?
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How do they stay in those? Fertile parts.
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Notice verse. 28 and 29 It came to pass that I Nephi beheld the
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pointers which were in the. Ball that they did.
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Work according to the faith and diligence, and heed which we did
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give unto them. And there was also written upon
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them a new writing, which was plain to be read, which should
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give us understanding concerning the ways of the Lord.
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And it was written and changed from time to time according to
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the faith and diligence which we gave unto it.
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And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring.
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About great things. We always tend to to credit
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Mormon with the and. Thus we see phrase.
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Nephi is the first one to use it in the Book of Mormon.
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Here he's giving you the lesson. It's small means.
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Whereby that the Lord. Brings about great things.
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Like a little. Round ball of.
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Curious workmanship, like the world.
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That resides on the. Pages of scripture like the
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world that. Resides in the realm of.
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Prophetic. Teachings and warnings and
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directions that are given to us. It's beautiful when you see how
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they when they're faithful and they're giving heed to what
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God's telling them. They stay in the more fertile
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parts of the wilderness. When they're unfaithful, God
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doesn't smite them. He just.
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Gives them direction that they don't pay attention to and so
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they end up in non fertile places.
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Same thing. With our scripture study.
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Same thing with giving. Heed to the words of the living
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prophets that God. Has given us today.
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So with that, we start. Off on our journey and you
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notice in verse 18 it came to pass the design if I went forth
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to slay. Food.
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Behold, I did. Break my bow and we we talk more
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about all of these principles in the the.
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Legacy. The repeats of the videos that
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Taylor. Halverson and I did.
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Four years ago. In the Book of Mormon, so.
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For for greater discussion. On each of these points you can.
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Refer back to those. I'm just hitting them quickly as
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we go. Through.
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In in this. Series so you you'll.
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Notice. There, that he takes.
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Ownership. He uses the active voice I did
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break. My bow, he doesn't say.
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My broke, my bow did. Break he.
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He. He's 100% responsible if you've
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never. Read the talk by Elder Lynn G
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Robbins. Given at BYU in an Education
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Week. Called be. 100% responsible.
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I would highly. Recommend it to you in the
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context of taking the principles from Scripture and not sitting
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back and making excuses for why we're not keeping them.
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Or. Why Bad things are happening,
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but to take ownership over our life and to change the way we?
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See our role. In this covenant progression and
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our responsibilities with those around us as well.
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It's a powerful talk. Once again, it's called.
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Be 100% responsible. Now Ishmael dies in.
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Verse 34 and he's buried at a place that is called.
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Nahom and you'll notice it wasn't the Lehigh group that
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named it Nahom. It was already named Nahom and
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and that location there is a location right in the route that
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Nephi has been describing that we have found.
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Archaeologists have found that is called Nahom.
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This place of consolation and and sorrowing.
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So then. After.
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Claiming that they're going to. Slay father.
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Lehi Now and Nephi. As well.
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Lehmann and Lemuel. And some of the.
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Others who have been complaining and murmuring.
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Their, their subdued. And it says verse 39 it came to
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pass. The Lord was.
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With us even the. Voice of the Lord.
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Came and did speak many words unto them because they've been
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saying they've been claiming Nephi has been using his.
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Power to to trick us with what he's.
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Putting on the Lee Ahona as if it's this magical instrument
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that he's taking away the ruling of the people out of their
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hands. So it's the voice of the Lord.
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That comes to them and chasing them exceedingly.
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And now we get into Chapter 17. We are given the command through
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Nephi to. Build a ship.
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Now can you picture? The response when.
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Nephi comes down off of the mountain and starts making
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tools. I can picture Laman and Lamia
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looking at him saying, Nephi, come on, what What are you
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doing? What do you think you're doing?
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You've never you've never built any kind of boat before, let
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alone an ocean going vessel. Come on.
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And. I love this because you see, it
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would be very. Easy for Nephi.
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To give ear to the voice. And the the the wisdom quote.
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UN quote of the World. And to get discouraged, but.
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Nephi. Has a different vision.
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Remember what happened to him back in chapter 11/12/13 and 14
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when when the spirit of the Lord and then an Angel showed him
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multiple scene changes of all these things that would
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transpire in the future? Well, one of those.
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Big Chapters Chapter 12. Was all about the Nephite and
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Lamanite scenes in the New World and and.
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Nephi saw his posterity. And Lyman and Lamiel's posterity
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in the New World, which means Nephi has a different
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perspective on this command to build a ship than Lyman and
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Lamiel do. He he knows some things that
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they don't. So when God said build a ship,
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Nephi is saying. OK, so that's how.
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God's going to bring to pass these things that I've already
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seen, and I love the steadiness that comes.
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With prophets. Of God who have seen things, who
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know things. So there's no hesitation on
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Nephi's part, he says. I'm going to build a ship and
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God's going to help me do it, and I need some oar to make some
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tools. I know I'm going to have to
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start there. So that's how he He begins with
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the Lord. The command comes in verse 8 to
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construct the ship. In verse nine he says.
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Lord whither? Shall I go that I might find oar
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to molten that I might make? Tools to construct the ship, he.
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He. Knows it's going to happen, and
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I love that steady faith. What he didn't know was how he
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was going to do it. And I think that we can see that
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pattern with our prophets, our Sears, and our revelators today.
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They will often get these revelations of what we need to
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do, and they'll make announcements.
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They'll they'll give us some direction to do things in a
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higher and holier way, and they don't always give us the
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handbook of how God. Expects us to give.
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Faithful, diligent, heed to the words that He's giving us in our
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world today, not. Just from the world of the past
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on the scriptures. But our modern prophets as well.
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And then we get to. Figure out the how.
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Which Nephi models? Beautifully how to thrive.
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In this world above. The scripture page, or above the
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words of the prophets or the. Direct direction given by God,
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so we get this long chapter 17. Where his brothers are.
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Bearing a false testimony to him in verse 21 and 22, telling
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Nephi we might have been happy if we had been allowed to stay
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in Jerusalem, and the reality is if they'd stayed in Jerusalem,
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they. Probably.
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Would not have been any happier than they are out here, because
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happiness isn't. Dictated by where you.
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Live happiness is dictated by how you live.
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And so they're telling him in verse 22.
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We know that the people in Jerusalem are righteous.
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We know that that that they're good.
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So they're bearing this testimony.
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And then notice how Nephi follows it up.
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Verse 25. Ye know, ye know.
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Ye know. Three times in verse 25, two
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times in verse 26, one time in verse 27, one time in 28 and one
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time in 29. Are you noticing we're living
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now? We're swing around in this.
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World of. This dimension on the.
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Scripture page looking for these repeat.
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Words and phrases. It's beautiful to see how Nephi
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counters. What they were.
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Claiming to know with what he knows, and because of his
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visions and because of his prophetic insight, he does know
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some things that they don't yet. So he's trying to to teach them
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now when you get. Over to the.
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Beginning of chapter 18 it says. It came to pass.
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That they did. Worship the Lord Lord.
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And did go forth. With.
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Me and we did work Timbers of curious workmanship.
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I love that workmanship. Did you catch it?
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They're. Building a ship using curious
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workmanship. I I I think this is more than
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just a a fun play on. Words that.
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That's. Residing in this this.
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World of the Scripture. Page because I think.
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What it does is it? It provides an opportunity for
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us to then. Reflect above the scripture.
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Page in. Our life today at the various
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ships that the Lord. Is asking you and me to build
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both individually and collectively.
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There there are. Relationships that maybe you've
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never had to build. Before or repair before.
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There might be companionship in missionary settings.
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Or other relationships. There there might.
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Be courtship or scholarship or leadership or.
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Citizenship or Friendship, Fellowship.
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Mentorship. You can look these up.
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A fun exercise for a family or a class would be in 60 seconds.
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Write down as many English words as you can think of that end in
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the words or in the letters SHIP, ship, and go and see how
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many they can come up with. It's fascinating because there
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are so many of them. And then to have people pick the
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one that they're working on building right now and say if
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Nephi were to jump. Off of the page, Out of the
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world. Of 600 BC.
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Into our world that's here above the scripture.
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Page What might he tell us about building our ships today?
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Brothers and sisters, I, I. Think he might say.
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There was a. Lot more going on than building
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a disciples. Ship to get us across the ocean.
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I think he might say one of the most important ships you have to
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learn how to build. Is your discipleship through
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your worship of the Lord. Notice how he goes on to say.
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What he did, the Lord did show. Unto me from time to time, after
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what manner I should work the Timbers.
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Of the ship. It's time to time.
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Things aren't given all at once up front, even to incredible
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prophets like Nephi you. You have to be.
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Patient with this process verse 2 now I mean if I did not work
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the Timbers after the Manor which was learned by men,
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neither did I build the ship after the Manor of men.
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I think it would be safe to say because he hadn't spent a lot of
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time down at the. Shipyards of 600 BC.
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Jerusalem isn't near the ocean, relatively speaking so.
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It, of course. It's not going to be built the
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way most men would have built ships in the day, he says.
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But. I did build it.
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After the manner. Which the Lord had.
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Shown unto me. Wherefore it was.
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Not after the manner of men, I think there's a principle.
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Here for us in. Building our relationships
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today, not after the manner of the.
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World but after. The manner of the Lord shows.
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US in verse 3. I ne if I did go into the mount
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OFT and I did pray OFT unto the. Lord, wherefore the Lord?
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Showed unto me great things. I love the fact.
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That he's not relying on. The the experts of the world.
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He's relying on God throughout the entire process of building
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the ship that is then going to take them across the sea and.
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You get that voyage. Across the ocean in the rest of
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Chapter 18, with the storm and being driven back, you get all
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that straight. And then the landing in the new
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world and the establishment of the the colony over here.
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And then he introduces us in chapter 19 to his process of
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making plates, and he's telling us a little bit about this, and
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he's relying on the records. And he tells you in verse 9.
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The world because of. Their iniquity shall judge him,
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being the Messiah to be a thing of not.
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Wherefore they scourge? Him and he suffereth it, and
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they smite him and he. Suffereth it.
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Yeah, they. Spit upon him, and he.
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Suffereth it. Because of his loving kindness
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and his long-suffering towards the children of men.
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And then he quotes. 3 prophets in rapid.
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Succession in verse 10, Zenoch, Naum and Zenes and everything
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he's quoting from Zenoch, Naum and Zenes are things that Nephi
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is a witness of from Chapter 11. In first Nephi it has to do with
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Jesus Christ and what would happen to him.
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And then verse 11 it says. For thus spake the prophet and.
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Then it goes on. Can I just give you something
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to? Look for if you'd.
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Like to mark your scriptures in this sphere of living in the
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domain of the words on the page. Look for the word prophet or
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prophets. In chapter 19202122 and see what
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happens when you notice how Nephi uses that that.
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Word or that label. Prophets and how God?
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Feels about these. Chosen servants of his and then
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ask yourself the question as you transfer from the dimension of
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on the. Scripture page to our world
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today. And.
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Perhaps we could ask. Ourselves the question.
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How do we feel about the prophets that God?
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Has given us. How much are we trusting in them
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the way that Nephi is trusting in the prophets that he had in?
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His Scripture. Pages and in his day back in 600
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BC, it's beautiful. Now he jumps into chapter 20 and
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21. If you want to have a lot of
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fun, dive in here with the perspective.
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Swim around in these pages with more understanding.
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Beneath the words of the pages about Isaiah, this is your
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first. Introduction to Isaiah in the
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Book of Mormon Living, 100. Plus years before.
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Nephi here in Jerusalem, but his whole focus is on trying to get
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people to come into this covenant connection with God and
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to be gathered into the. House of Israel, So read.
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Chapter 9 or Chapter 20 and 21 Through the lenses of the
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gathering of Israel and find more meaning in the world of
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Isaiah's day. That produced these words.
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Find meaning in the. Words that are.
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Residing on that page and then don't end there.
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Make your Scripture study three-dimensional by paying
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attention to what our? Modern prophets and apostles
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have told us about the. Scattering and now the
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subsequent gathering of Israel. Of which we are.
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All being invited to take a major part in in.
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These the latter days. And then he finishes with
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chapter 22 with Nephi giving you his conclusion.
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So 19 is his introduction to Isaiah 20 and 21.
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Are the 2 chapters. From Isaiah and then 22 is his
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conclusion to finish up brothers and sisters discipleship.
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Is. Fueled and motivated and
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enhanced by understanding. God's will for us.
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By understanding the doctrines and the principles and the
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truths that he would have us incorporate into our lives.
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And we can find many of them on the pages.
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Of Scripture. By better understanding the
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world's that. Created those scripture pages
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but. We can also understand them
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better by paying attention to the.
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World's. And the dimensions that those.
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Scriptures create for us. Today and the.
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Ability that our prophets have to be.
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Able to give us ongoing direction from God on high as we
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move forward, building all kinds of ships in all.
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Parts of the world. I know God lives.
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I know that Jesus is the Christ, and I know that he loves and
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upholds. His.
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Profits and he does. That because he loves.
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You and me. And he wants us to know the
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truth. And that is the pattern that he
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has chosen. To give the whole world.
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Some of these big truths and then he will give us our
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individual truths through the. Power of the holy.
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Ghost in our own spheres of influence and to govern our own
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lives and for that. All of those 3.
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Dimensions of scriptures in their study.
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For that I am. So grateful.
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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 and happy
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