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1 Nephi 11–15 | 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 in Nephi chapters. 11 through 15 before we dive.
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In to these scriptures. Today.
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I want you to consider something the the.
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Scriptures are. Written in such a way that they
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become so richly drenched with doctrines, with teachings, with
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principles, that sometimes we can overlook the fact.
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That there are other incredible truths that are.
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Contained within the Scriptures, one of them being.
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This. Handbook for how to learn and
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how to teach and how to lead and how to be a parent in in so
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many. Beautiful ways.
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The scriptures are a. Handbook of Instruction for
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instruction. So if you ask the right.
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Questions and then go. Into your scripture study.
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Seeking direction and answers to those questions.
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You're far more. Likely to.
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Have your scripture time be fulfilling and meaningful.
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Let me show you an example. Of what you?
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Can do when you approach teaching or learning in the
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scripture setting. And then we're going to model a
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couple of examples of this using the scripture.
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Block Today there are three layers of.
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Questions that you can ask, and these don't need to be
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formulaic, it doesn't need to be lock.
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Step you always. Have to do it the same way or it
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won't work. This is not a law.
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These are principles and effective practices that you can
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mix and match at different times in different settings and find
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great benefit. The first layer.
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Is to ask search level questions, questions that would
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be things. That you could.
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Find the answer sitting on the scripture page in front of you.
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You could ask students or your family as you're sitting down
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to. Study the scriptures together.
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I want you to look for so often search level questions can begin
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with a simple look for. Look for what word?
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Nephi uses to describe XY and Z. Or look for what words get
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repeated. The most.
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Or look for a word that. Seems a little.
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Bit out of place. To you in these verses, whatever
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it may be. Otherwise.
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What happens is people can sometimes get lost in the text.
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Now I want to I want to jump into Chapter 11, first Nephi,
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Chapter 11, verse one, and I want you to listen very.
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Carefully to this verse. See what you can learn here for
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it came to pass. After I had desired.
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To know the things that my father had seen, and believing
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that the Lord was able to make a known, make them known unto me.
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As I sat pondering in mine heart, I was caught away in the
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spirit of the Lord, yeah, into an exceedingly high mountain
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which I never had before seen, and upon which I never had
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before set my foot. Now I want to.
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Pause there and just. Ask a really simple question.
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Consider for a moment. How well you stayed focused on
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that verse while I was reading it, or as you were.
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Following along, how much did you engage?
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To what degree did you engage? With that verse as I read it.
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My hunch is that many of you, if not most of you, heard me start.
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Reading for it came to pass after I desired.
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To know the things. And then somewhere in line two
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or three or maybe 4, many people's brains probably zoned
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out, went to other things, didn't think about what I was
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reading. Why?
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It's because it's human nature. If you don't have something to
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anchor your attention, if you don't have a purpose or a
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meaning, you're far more. Likely to let your.
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Brain go into autopilot and it will go all kinds of other
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places that you hadn't anticipated.
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So watch what happens. If you ask a search question.
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Before reading. By the way, have you ever been
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in a in a gospel learning setting?
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Either at. Home or at church?
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Gospel Doctrine, Sunday School, Elders School and Relief Society
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Lesson Where Somebody. Is asked by the teacher to read.
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A long block of scripture maybe? Maybe a long?
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Verse or two or three verses or. Even a paragraph from a talk
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from general conference or something like that, and the
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person reading goes. Through the exercise of reading
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all those. Words on the page they finish
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and then the. Teacher will often say.
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Now what did you learn from that?
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Or what did you what did you like?
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Most about that and the reality is, is most people's minds,
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human nature, have been prone to wander.
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While that. Reading was going on and so the
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question now comes at the end and they don't know the answer.
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So they quickly. Look down and try to find
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something that they can comment on.
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Brothers and sisters. The simplest thing you can do if
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you're teaching or if you're leading, if you're a parent in a
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in a gospel discussion with children.
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And you're reading scriptures? Instead of waiting for the end
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of the reading to ask your question, try putting that same
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question on the front end. Before they read ask a search
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level. Question and then you're far
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more. Likely to have the.
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Time spent reading Be more. Productive because they'll
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probably. Dig in.
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So in this context, let's try it again.
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I want you to take a moment as we go through.
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Chapter 11 verse. One again for the second time,
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but this time I want you to listen.
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For or look for. What did Nephi do?
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What are the verbs he he's? Going to model for us effective
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learning. So what did he?
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Do. What were his actions for?
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It came to pass. After I had desired.
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To know the things that my father had seen and believing,
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but the Lord was able to make them known unto me.
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As I sat pondering in mine heart.
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I was caught away in the spirit of the Lord, yet into an
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exceedingly high mountain which I had never before seen, and
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upon which I had never. Before set my foot.
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Now. I.
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Could be wrong. Maybe that didn't help you,
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maybe it didn't improve your attention span or your focus on
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the verse. But my hunch is that for many of
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you, you at least had an anchor point.
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You had something to focus on initially, and maybe you were
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able to notice that wow, Nephi desired to know what his dad had
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seen. He believed.
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That God was able to make those known, and he sat pondering in
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his. Heart.
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Those things and then. Because of that, he was.
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Carried away in the Spirit. I love that principle for
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Scripture. Study today is to realize that
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if we. Set aside time from the things
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of the world to sit and ponder. The words of prophets.
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It opens the. Door for the Holy Ghost to.
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Teach us things. For the Holy Ghost to take us
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places. We've never been before into
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mountain peaks of Revelation that are relevant and urgent and
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timely. For for situations.
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That we may be. Facing today rather.
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Than going through the. Struggles that we need.
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Help with and thinking, oh, I need to read my.
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Scriptures read the scriptures, check there I've got.
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That out of the way now let me get.
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Back to real life. But rather.
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Bring your real life. Into your scripture study.
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With you, with those asking questions, searching for answers
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to what you're wrestling with. So you're going to see some.
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Look for questions and some. Look for statements.
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There are going to. Be 8 looks.
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In Chapter 11 all alone. Where the the Spirit.
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Of the Lord. And later on the Angel is going
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to say to Nephi, look after having introed, introduced a
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question or something for Nephi to focus on, and then shows him
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something, look and now he dives in.
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You're also going to see that there's another level of
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questions that you can ask at the analysis level.
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It's not just finding written words on the.
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Page or looking for? Things in a movie or a vision
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context like this, but it's to then analyze.
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What? You saw what?
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You were able to identify and make sense of it some.
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Beautiful ways that we could. Work with analysis level
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questions would be to start them with statements such as.
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SO why do you? Think it is that.
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Or in your opinion, why? Is it that the Lord?
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Did X in situation. Y here or help help help.
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Us make sense of this. Why do you think that that word
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is the one that got? Used or why is?
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That the repeat concept here. Or why do you?
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Think it's put in this order. Analysis questions are beautiful
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when you don't have yes or no answers, when you don't have
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only one right answer and you've got to guess what the teacher's
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thinking, but when it's open-ended to be able.
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To say Hmm. Let's, let's.
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Think this through. Let's analyze this carefully.
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What happens is then students will keep going back into those
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verses and they keep digging up, tilling up.
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The soil of those scriptures. Until they can find more
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meaning. It's it's beautiful.
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And then it can lead to another level of questions that you can
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ask which are application questions, questions such as SO,
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So what? Therefore.
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What we We found some things on the.
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Page we've thought about. Them we've analyzed the
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doctrine, the principles, how? Do they apply to us this story?
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Happened in this case 2600 years ago and what difference should
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it make to people? Living today.
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And and what principles that we've analysed?
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Actually apply. Which ones are applicable to us
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and what might they look like in our life?
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Today, as we strive. To move forward in faith again,
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you don't have to do this in lockstep.
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Order you. Can rely on all.
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Three of these. Types of questions as.
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You're teaching as you're. Parenting as you're leading.
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And perhaps even most. Applicably.
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As you're studying the. Scriptures for yourself.
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That you don't wait. For other people to do this.
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To you. But with the help of the Lord,
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you keep you slow. Down in your.
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Scripture study. And you spend more time looking
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for relevant questions that you bring into into the.
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Text. With you from your life and you
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search out words on the page and then you analyze those doctrines
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and then you. Try with the help of the Holy
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Ghost to apply those. So let's watch this play out now
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on varying levels, bouncing back and forth between these three
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types of of questions and discussion going on between
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Nephi and the Spirit. So in rapid succession.
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Watch what happens. Verse.
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Two And the Spirit said unto me. Behold, what desirest thou?
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There's your first question. Nephi, what do you want?
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And he tells him, well, I want to see the things that my father
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saw and. So the spirit asks.
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Him a follow up question. It's more the application level.
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And the Spirit said unto me, Believest thou that thy?
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Father saw the tree of which? He hath spoken and.
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Nephi, do you really believe is this?
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Is this a? Faith thing.
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For you or you, is this just a curiosity?
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You want to see this for. For a different reason.
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And Nephi's response is Yeah, thou knowest.
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That I believe. All the words of my father and
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then the. Spirit of the Lord.
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Cried in a loud voice, saying Hosanna.
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And then he says. Because thou believest.
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In the Son of the Most High God, thou shalt behold the thing
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which. Thou hast desired.
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And so now we're going to have a vision opened and before he
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opens the vision he gives him. A look for he gives him.
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Something to pay attention to. Something to anchor his
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attention so that he won't get distracted in things that the
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vision isn't trying to answer. He's not going to be asking
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questions that that aren't. At the core of the purpose of.
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Showing this vision so verse seven, he says, Behold, this
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thing shall be given unto thee first sign that after thou hast.
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Beheld the tree which bore the fruit.
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Which thy father tasted. Thou shalt also behold.
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A man descending out of heaven. So you're going to see a.
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Tree Nephi. And then you're going to see
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something that you didn't ask to see.
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You're going to see a man who's descending out of heaven.
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And then he finishes by saying, and to him shall you witness,
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and after you have witnessed him.
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Ye shall bear record that it is. The Son.
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Of God I love this because you have.
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Let me clear this. You have this.
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Beautiful intro to to Vision #1. If I was going to get 8 visions
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in Chapter 11 alone, 8 looks scene changes, but he's told
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you're going to see the tree that.
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Your father saw the tree of life, but after you've seen the
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tree of. Life.
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You're going to see a man descending out of heaven, and
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then he says you're going to bear witness that it is the Son
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of God. It's fascinating that the.
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Spirit of the Lord. Would enter it this way, almost
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as if to say Nephi you're going to analyze.
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Why am I showing? You a tree.
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That you asked to see, and then a man descending that you didn't
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ask to see, and then you're going to bear witness that it is
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the Son of God. It's almost as if he's saying
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the man you saw descending. Is the.
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Person who is represented by this symbolic.
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Tree that you're originally. Going to see that's just one
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way. To look at this verse.
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There are many others. The scriptures are deep in in
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symbolism and broad in application.
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They can take it, but that's one way you.
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Could look at it. So then comes the invitation,
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verse 8 And it came to pass that the Spirit said unto me, Look,
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so if you're mark, if you like to mark your scriptures.
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You could highlight the word look.
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Right there and put in the margin #1 because.
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This is the first of eight that. You're going to get in Chapter
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11. Look, so did you catch this that
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when Nephi looks to the vision? He already has.
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Something to anchor his his thoughts.
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I'm looking for the tree and then I'm looking for the man and
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I'm looking for symbolic connections.
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So he looked and beheld the tree, and it was like under the
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tree which my father had seen. And the beauty?
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Thereof. Was far beyond ye exceeding all
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beauty, and the whiteness thereof did exceed the whiteness
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of the driven snow so. The thing that he's.
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Focusing on is, it was extremely beautiful and it was extremely
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white. So he picks up on that, and it
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came to pass that after I had seen the tree, I said of the
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spirit I. Behold that thou has.
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Shown unto me the. Tree which is precious above
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all. And then the.
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The Spirit. Asks him this follow up.
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Question. What desirest thou?
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Do you notice that the first question the Spirit asked him
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was? What desirest thou back in
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verse? Two.
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Now he repeats it word for word and if I in verse.
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Two, you ask to see the tree. I just showed you the tree.
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What desirest thou? I love this use of agency, that
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this the Spirit of the Lord as the ideal tutor here, the real
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teacher. In any gospel set, in any
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setting, I would say is honoring and respecting that age, agency,
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Nephi, what what do you desire now?
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And he says I want to know the interpretation thereof.
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So before I just asked to see the.
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Tree Now I've seen. I want to know what it means.
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Help me understand it. So he's already in analysis
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mode. He's trying to figure out deeper
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meaning and and how. Does this all fit together?
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And verse 12 says it came to pass that he said unto me.
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Look. Here's the second vision.
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I looked, and then the spirit leaves, but instead he sees the
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city. The great city of.
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Jerusalem and also other cities. And I beheld the city of
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Nazareth, and in that city of Nazareth.
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I beheld a virgin. And she was exceedingly fair and
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white. Did you see that there are two?
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Descriptions given to the tree that is a symbolic
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representation of Jesus Christ and it's the exact same 2
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adjectives. That are.
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Used by Nephi to describe the mother of Jesus Christ, Mary.
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She is exceedingly fair and white.
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I love the the. Imagery as you now analyze.
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For yourself, what are the? The symbolic connections between
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a tree of life and. Jesus Christ, how is the tree of
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life a beautiful? Metaphor for the Savior, this,
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this fruit bearing this shade, providing this firm foundation
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rooted in in eternity kind of imagery.
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Of the tree of life. You can see some of those
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symbols and you can add to this and with the.
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Help of the Holy Ghost as you sit.
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And ponder in your. Heart.
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What all of? This might mean.
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For you. And your setting with your
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family or with your calling or with your.
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Career or with your? Relationships.
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It's. Beautiful.
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What the holy? Ghost can then teach you that no
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human being could could present to you, and that's.
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Probably where your life? Is more likely to change is when
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the Holy Ghost becomes your personal guide, as he is guiding
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Nephi here much more so than when somebody is talking to you
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and sharing insights now. We've done this for the Savior
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now. You could look at.
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A different symbolic level. Or a different layer?
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Obviously with the the Savior, Jesus Christ being.
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The the core. Representation of all good
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symbols in the in the Scriptures and in the Gospel.
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At the core. The the foundation, the root
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symbol is always going to be. Jesus Christ, but the.
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Scriptures in these symbols are deep enough.
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That there are other, Other. Applications and I love.
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It when people. Recognize that I don't have to.
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Throw out one scriptural. Symbol interpretation in order.
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To study or discover. Additional ones we don't need to
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make it an. Either or.
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This can be a both and discussion the.
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Tree of life is a. Representation of Jesus.
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Christ, that's very clear through this story.
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And and through other places in the scriptures.
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But it's. Also a beautiful symbolic
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representation of his mother who gave him life.
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The fruit that she bore for all of us to partake.
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Of symbolically is the son of God, and I love the fact that
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Nephi connects those two same adjectives, fair and white, this
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beautiful and white being this virgin.
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That you? Can stop and say I wonder.
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What? Jesus Christ.
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Learned as he grew and as he prepared for His ministry.
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I wonder what he learned from his beloved mother.
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Now we don't worship Mary, but we respect and we have reverence
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for Mary and for the mission that she.
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Fulfilled without her. Fulfilling her mission.
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We don't have the Savior born the way He is, and so it's
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beautiful to to then. Look for these.
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Kinds of levels that you can then analyze and ask more
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questions at deeper levels and then find greater application
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for your own life at additional symbolic levels.
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So you can see that you can search, you can analyze, you can
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apply, you can ask all these questions on different levels,
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going back and. Forth as you dive.
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In and spend more time interacting with the scriptures.
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So in the rest of Chapter 11, spend some time looking for the.
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Questions that are asked because.
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There are multiple questions here and for the scene changes
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the look, the look, the look and what it is that is trying to be
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taught. Then you come to.
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Chapter 12. This is the Nephite.
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And Lamanite scenes that are given to.
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Nephite There are two. Of them, two scene changes.
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So you get 2. Looks and only one question
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asked and the one question helps set the stage for the second
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look and you can find that. If you look for.
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It and then analyze what that question really means and what
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principles are taught and how those principles.
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Could apply to us today. And then you come to chapter 14
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and sorry, chapter 13 is. The New World, the.
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Americas, you have one scene, it's one look in the entire
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chapter with two questions. So see if you can find those two
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questions and analyze what those questions might mean and why
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they're. Put where they're put and how
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they set us up for. Better understanding the
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significance of God, having people come over to the New
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World, the Americas, North and South America, and then you get
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into. Chapter 14 and This is the
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Latter Day Churches Scenes. So you're going to see in
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chapter 14 Nephi's prophetic vision with the Angel as his
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guide, showing him things happening in the latter days.
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And there are two scene changes here. 2 looks.
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Now with with the Vision ending, Nephi comes down off of the
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mountain of Revelation into camp, and in chapter 15 he sees
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Lehman and Lemuel, his brothers. And they're disputing one with
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another. They're they're contending.
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So verse two says, It came to pass that I behold my brethren,
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and they were disputing one with another concerning the things
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which my father had spoken unto them.
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Word to the wise, if you want to learn, if you want to grow in
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knowledge, grow in truth. Spend less time arguing or
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disputing with other. People about what the prophets
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have said or about what the scriptures.
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Have said don't contend and spend perhaps more time asking.
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God to guide your efforts as you.
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Spend more time digging in and immersing yourself in the
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scriptures and the. Words of the prophets.
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Seeking for the spirit. Of the Lord to teach you what?
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Lessons he wants you to learn. Look at verse eight, I said unto
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them. Have ye inquired.
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Of the Lord. He's basically asked them what
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have you done, what do you really desire to know and have
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you asked? God for help.
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And their answer We have not for the Lord maketh no such thing
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known unto us. And behold, I said unto them,
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How is it that you do not keep the commandments of the Lord?
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How is it that you will perish because of the?
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Hardness of your hearts. And he goes on to ask more
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questions. You could find the question
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Marks and then ponder each question that Nephi asks.
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And instead of pointing a finger of accusation or a finger of
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scorn at Lehmann and Lemuel 2600 years ago, you could maybe point
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that finger at yourself and say what are some areas of my life
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that I haven't? Appropriately turned to the.
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Lord, what are some things that I have?
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Have tried to? Do on my own because maybe I
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lacked faith that that God doesn't make such things known
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unto me. Maybe I need to increase my
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trust in Him. And maybe I need to go back to
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the drawing board of faith and go and ask him some of these
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questions that that maybe I'm guilty.
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Maybe my heart has been too hardened.
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And so now you're asking application questions of
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yourself and perhaps of your family and perhaps of of
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somebody in your leadership jurisdiction and it opens up
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avenues and means for reflection and your heart to be open for
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the. Holy Ghost to to help you feel.
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And your mind to be turned to heavenward, to think new things
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and to get new revelation so. As you go through the.
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Rest of chapter 15, pay attention.
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Look for the teaching techniques that Nephi employs and what
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Layman and Lemuel do. And don't just make fun of
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Layman and Lemuel for where they mess up.
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Celebrate with them when they do well and find application.
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For what we could. Do to not fall into some of the
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same. Traps.
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That they maybe have. Struggled with.
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In their own progress along the covenant path, and you'll also
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notice. As you go through, you can look.
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For Nephi's interpretations of some of those elements of the
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dream of. Lehigh like the tree.
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The rod of iron. The river of water.
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And he. Gives you a description.
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Of what those things mean. So then you can analyze more
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fully what those symbolically might be represented by in.
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Your life today. And then find better.
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Ways to partake of the fruit of the tree of life to hold to that
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rod. Of iron to avoid.
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That river of water. And that awful gulf.
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That awful hell that that separates us so.
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In closing these scriptures. Are loaded with.
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Answers. But they're also loaded with
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incredible questions and they will ask us questions.
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And if we can, then. Without fully ghost.
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Find answers. That's wonderful.
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And if we can ask the Lord questions and bring those
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questions in the scriptures, we're far more likely to find
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answers. And we're far less likely to
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have that. Experience Where we?
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Read an entire page of Scripture.
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And turn the page and think to ourselves, I couldn't tell you
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one word that I just read, because I didn't.
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I don't remember any of it because my brain was somewhere
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else. And when that happens, the
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invitation is turn the page back.
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Bring what your brain focused on instead, bring that to the
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front, ask some relevant questions of yourself, and then
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go back into those scriptures again looking for answers to
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those questions or those concerns that were so strong
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that they pulled your mind away in closing.
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I. Love these scriptures not
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because of the words on the page.
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But because of God. And Jesus Christ revealing.
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Themselves through words. On the page.
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With the help of the Holy Ghost helping.
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Me to see them more. Clearly as I dive.
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Deeper and deeper and deeper. These scriptures never get old.
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I I've never found the bottom and I've never found the the
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breath. They're a gift.
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That just keep on giving and it's my prayer that we'll keep
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striving. To dive.
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Deeper than ever before and go broader than ever before in our
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study. Of the scriptures this year.
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And I leave that with you in the name.
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Of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Know that you're loved. In this week's Gospel Explorer,
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there is a lot going on. On the left side, we explore the
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intricacies of Lehigh's dream. This will enhance your knowledge
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of the meaning and symbolism of the vision.
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You will also find deeper connections of Lehigh's dream to
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your lives. The next pathway will take you
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into a study of the power of profits in our lives.
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They are the Watchmen on the Tower and they can see what we
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cannot. The third Path discusses the two
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churches in the latter days, the Church of the Lamb and the
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Church of the Devil. Lastly, you can take the 4th
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pathway and dive into a study of seeking truth in your lives.
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We hope that this encourages you to dig deeper in your personal
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study of the scriptures and draw closer to the Savior.