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2 Nephi 26–30 | Scripture Study Insights with Tyler Griffin | A Come Follow Me Resource · Scripture Central

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Hello there. I'm Tyler Griffin and this is
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Scripture Study Insights by Scripture Central.
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Today Second E Fight 26 through 30.
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And I want to begin today with a little question and analogy.
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Have you ever had the experience of preparing to teach a lesson
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or preparing to give a talk? And you sit down and you pour
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over the scriptures, You pour over general conference talks.
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You, you search and you dig and you you're studying like crazy.
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And there's this moment where it it's as if heaven has opened the
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windows and poured down light and knowledge and power.
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And you feel it and you get so excited and you think, wow, this
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is amazing and and you just can't wait to get into that
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classroom or that that family home evening or that saccharine
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meeting talk setting, whatever it may be.
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And you go in on fire ready to to help people experience this
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amazing thing that you just got through experiencing.
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And then you, you present that lesson or you give that talk and
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you get to that part where it's the big grand reveal and you
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notice that it falls kind of flat, that people aren't sitting
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there having this beautiful, revelatory experience like you
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did, and you're shocked and you're wondering what went
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wrong. How did that happen?
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Because it was such a beautiful experience for me.
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Why didn't it replicate for them?
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If you've ever experienced that, there are a variety of reasons
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why that could happen. There's not just one.
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But here's one thing to consider.
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There's a difference between the process of learning and the
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products of learning. In other words, you go through
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this long process of studying, searching, digging, praying,
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pleading. And in that process you discover
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some things and you come away with some products that
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represent that learning process that you went through.
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And then you go in to a setting like a sacred meeting or a
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classroom or into a family setting, and you start
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displaying those products of your learning.
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And people may not be as excited about those products as you are
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because they didn't pay the same price that you paid in order to
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get them. It wouldn't be terribly
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dissimilar to when people come back from a trip and they are so
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excited about the location that they visited and they want to
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show you all the pictures and give you all the rundown.
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And you're nodding your head and you're smiling and it's exciting
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to watch their excitement, but you just don't feel the same
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connection to these locations as the person does because they
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went through the process of visiting that location.
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They can see it better in its context, in their mind's eye,
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and it it's more exciting to them.
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So for today's scripture study insight, what I wanted to to
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focus on is don't be afraid of working through the long process
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of discovering principles and doctrines and truths and
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swimming through these pages in order to find these eternal
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truths. It would be kind of like the
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analogy of a swimming pool and a diving board.
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Sometimes, if we're not careful, we will teach in such a way that
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the scriptures and the words of our living prophets are seen as
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a diving board, a jumping off point where we'll quote our
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favorite verse or give our favorite paragraph on a screen
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from a general conference talk, which then launches us into a
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long discussion on a topic or a gospel principle, Which is
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great. But the problem is, is then
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we're swimming around in the pool of the group's perspective,
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the group's opinions, and the group's stories and anecdotes.
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What if we reverse that and spent more time treating the
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scriptures and the words of living prophets like the pool to
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swim around in so that we can help students learn the process
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of discovering truths in the scripture page?
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And yes, it's sometimes difficult.
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Sometimes they're going to feel like they dove in over their
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head and they don't understand. It's OK as long as we're with
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them to walk them through that process and help them discover
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some of those beautiful products of learning that are available.
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And by the way, these scriptures are they are bottomless.
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You will never get to the bottom of this pool.
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There are always going to be more truths to be discovered
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through the process of studying them.
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So with that, let's jump off the diving board of this this
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concept and dive into the scriptures and see what we can
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discover. So chapter 26.
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Remember, this is a continuation of chapter 25, which is Nephi
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giving his commentary on some of those Isaiah passages that he
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read to us or recorded on the plates from chapters 12 through
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24. And keep in mind he also is
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going to give a little bit of an intro in chapter 26 because he's
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going to jump back into Isaiah in chapter 27.
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He will he will quote Isaiah 29. And incidentally, second, Nephi
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27 has more changes than any other Isaiah chapter in the Book
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of Mormon. If you compare the Book of
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Mormon version with the biblical Isaiah version.
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So if you put Isaiah 29 side by side with second Ephah 27,
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you're going to find significant additions and modifications.
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And it's beautiful because it's all focused on those changes,
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are all focused on making very clear the Book of Mormon.
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It's coming forth its power and its instrumentality in the hands
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of the Lord in doing his work in the latter days.
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So in chapter 26 in verse one through 10, this is Nephi giving
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his prophetic vision as he looks down the quarter of time as a
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seer, having read the words of the seer Isaiah.
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It causes Nephi to become more prophetic.
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It causes Nephi to shift into a more looking to the future and
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prophesying things that are going to happen, And in verses
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one through 10 these are not pleasant things that Nephi see.
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He's seen the rejection of Jesus Christ by his own posterity, by
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his own people, and it's painful to watch.
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In fact, look at verse 70, the pain and the anguish of my soul
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for the loss of the slain of my people.
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For I, Nephi, have seen it, and it will nigh consumeth me before
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the presence of the Lord. But I must cry unto my God, Thy
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ways are just one of those attributes of God his justice,
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And he gives a qualifier here in verse 8.
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But behold, the righteous that hearken unto the words of the
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prophets, and destroy them not, but look forward unto Christ
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with steadfastness for the signs which are given at the very end
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of verse eight. It says they are they which
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shall not perish. There's a simple qualifier here.
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If we'll just listen to the words of the prophets, if we
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won't assume that we know better than them.
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There's a reason why God calls prophets and speaks to them.
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And it it's it's not our job to figure out what's right and
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what's wrong with what they say. There's a beautiful principle
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here of hearkening to the prophets and figuring out how to
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adopt the words of the prophets before we seek to adapt the
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words of the prophets. And then after finishing this,
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he gives us in verse 12 this beautiful conclusion.
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And as I speak concerning the convincing of the Jews that
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Jesus is the very Christ, it must, must needs be that the
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Gentiles be convinced also that Jesus is the Christ, the eternal
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God. So verse 13 says, Speaking of
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Jesus Christ, that he manifested himself unto all those who
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believe in him by the power of the Holy Ghost.
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And if I didn't say, if you believe in him, then he'll
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appear to you, He'll manifest himself unto you in the flesh.
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He didn't say that. He said He'll manifest himself
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unto notice the percentage unto all those who believe in him.
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And how will he do the manifesting?
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By the power of the Holy Ghost. I love how President Nelson has
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has asked us to expect miracles. This is so repeated, this
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concept of believing in Christ, following the words, hearkening
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to the words of His prophets, repenting of our sins.
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If we'll do those things, he will manifest himself unto us by
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the power of the Holy Ghost. We will be guided.
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It may not be the exact way you anticipated or guiding you in
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the direction you anticipated, but the promise is sure.
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God is a God of truth. He cannot lie.
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And He has given us this assurance in multiple ways and
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in multiple places, from multiple prophets over multiple
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generations of time. It is true.
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It happens, and it will have continue to happen.
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And then I love the second-half of verse 13.
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Which parts of the world does it apply to?
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Yeah, unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and people
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working mighty miracles, signs and wonders among the children
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of men according to their faith. Now we live in a world.
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We live in a society that breeds and encourages and fosters this,
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this culture of doubt and unbelief.
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So you're you're going to face plenty of opposition if when you
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embark on on this journey of covenantal loyalty to God and
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seeking to live a life of faith and repentance and trusting God
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and hearkening to his prophets. And and he talks about it in
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verse 15. After my seed, and the seed of
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my brother and shell have dwindled in unbelief, and shall
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have been smitten by the Gentiles, yeah, after the Lord
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God shall have camped against them roundabout, and shall have
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laid siege against them with a mount and raised forts.
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He goes on all of this because they've dwindled in unbelief,
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they've forgotten. And then he shifts gears into
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yet the words of the righteous shall be written, and the
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prayers of the faithful shall be heard.
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And how are they going to be heard?
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Think of the Book of Mormon verse 16.
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For those who shall be destroyed shall speak unto them out of the
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ground, and their speech shall be low out of the dust, and
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their voice shall be as one that has a familiar spirit.
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Picture the words of God, the words of the Nephites and the
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Lamanites who have fallen, coming out of the ground from
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those golden plates and hissing forth their speech low, out of
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the dust, and they bring words of life.
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Such a beautiful analogy looking at this Book of Mormon and how
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it's brought to light and how it spreads and multiplies and how
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it brings us to an understanding of our our utter dependence upon
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Jesus Christ. Now we come to our day.
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For the rest of the the these chapters, he's speaking largely
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of the latter days, Nephi being a prophetic seer and giving
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these these future visions that he's had.
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Verse 20 The Gentiles are lifted up in the pride of their eyes,
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and they've stumbled because of the greatness of their stumbling
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block. They've build up many churches.
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They put down the power in the miracles of God.
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They preach up unto themselves their own wisdom and their own
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learning that they may get, gain, and grind upon the faces
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of the poor. Then Nephi gives us one of the
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most beautiful sections of Scripture to describe this
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attribute of God called no respecter of persons.
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So rather than me doing this for you, rather than me sharing some
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products of learning, let me encourage you to go through this
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process of digging out these principles for yourself in
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second Eph I, chapter 26, starting in verse 23 down
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through 28 in the in the print version of the scriptures.
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It's just one column here. Pay close attention and study
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this carefully. What does the Lord say about who
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he's offering salvation to? And look for keywords like I'll
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I'll give you one example. Verse 24.
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He doeth not anything, save it be for the benefit of the world.
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So he's not isolating one group. He's talking about everybody
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here. For he loveth the world, even
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that he layeth down his own life, that he that that he may
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draw all men unto him. Wherefore he come on commandeth
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none that they shall not partake of his salvation.
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You're you're going to paint a picture here if you read Nephi's
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words all the way down through verse 28 of an all inclusive,
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universally loving God who is doing everything he possibly can
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short of taking away agency to bless and heal and lift and
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ultimately save all of Heavenly Father's children.
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But he won't force them. He won't drag anyone into heaven
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and force them to to obey or force them to be comfortable in
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the presence of God. So it's a beautiful process you
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can work through discovering these products of of this Christ
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like attribute or this godly attribute of He is not a
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respecter of persons. He's not picking favorites based
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on ethnicity, based on language, culture, country of origin,
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based on gender, based on any worldly dividing line that we
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have set up. He loves everybody and he will
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deny none that seek to come unto him.
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That's a beautiful power, powerful promise.
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So one thing for you to look for as you dive in to the the
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swimming pool, if you will, of chapter 27 and swim around and
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try to discover some some beautiful things in in these
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verses, pay attention to two very similar and yet very
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distinctly different things. In this chapter Nephi is going
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to quote Isaiah speaking about the book.
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So you get verse 7. Behold, the book shall be sealed
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and in the book shall be a revelation from God from the
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beginning of the world to the ending thereof.
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So there's this book that Isaiah is talking about that has all
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things revealed. And look at verse six.
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It shall come to pass that the Lord God shall bring forth unto
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you the words of a book, and they shall be the words of them
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which have slumbered. So you have two distinct
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elements here. You have the book, but then you
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have the words of the book. So if you look at it this way,
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you have a physical representation of the the golden
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plates right here. This represents the book.
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This is what was found by Joseph Smith under the direction of the
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Angel Moroni and brought forth out of the ground the book.
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But the book is very different from what you now have in front
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of you. Either in a physical book of of
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paper or on a smart device on a screen you have the words of the
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book. Now if you go through, if you if
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you like to mark your scriptures, you could simply
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mark every time you get the book and the words of the book and
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see the distinguishing features and how God is speaking about
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both of them. So for instance, verse 8, the
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bottom of verse eight it says, Wherefore the book shall be kept
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from them. The them is those who are living
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in wickedness and abomination in the latter days.
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And then in verse 9 But the book shall be delivered unto a man,
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and he shall deliver the words of the book, which are the words
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of them the slumber, and he shall deliver them unto another.
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So Joseph Smith is able to take some plates.
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This man, the book is delivered to him.
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He's able to take some words off of the plates and deliver them
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to another who then takes them. This is Martin Harris's story,
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who then takes them to Charles Anthem and Samuel Latham
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Mitchell. And these learned people are
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able to to see the the words of the book.
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And you now follow this through in all the way up to verse 15.
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But behold, it shall come to pass that the Lord God shall say
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unto him to whom he shall deliver the book.
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That's Joseph Smith. Because the book, the plates
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were never delivered to the learned, They were never given
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to the experts in ancient languages of his day.
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They were given to a farm boy who had three years of frontier
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style education. And it says.
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Take these words which are not sealed, and deliver them to
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another, that he may show them unto the learned saying, read
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this, I pray thee, And the learned shall say, bring hit her
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the book, and I will read them, bring the whole book, the
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plates. But why will they do that?
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Because of the glory of the world, and to get gain, and not
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for the glory of God. And so the man will say, well, I
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cannot bring the book, for it is sealed.
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There's there's a whole portion of the book that is sealed that
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we can't open, we can't read. So then the learned will say, I
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cannot read it. Wherefore it shall come to pass
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that the Lord God will deliver again the book and the words
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thereof to him that is not learned.
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That's Joseph Smith. And the man that is not learned
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shall say I am not learned. This is such a beautiful story,
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showing what happened between Joseph and Martin and Charles
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Anthon and others. And yet some of you might be
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sitting here thinking, this is all fine and good, but what
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about us? What about me?
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Why should I care that these events happened almost 200 years
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ago? What difference does it make
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today? I think there's a beautiful
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principle as you're swimming around in the words of this part
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of the the pool. To use that analogy, if you come
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up for for air on the side of the pool for a moment and
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contemplate the fact that the same thing applies today, often
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if we're not careful, we will feel inadequate.
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We will approach the scriptures, especially in Isaiah, passage
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like this one and say I'm not learned, I can't read, I'm not
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an expert. I don't have a PhD in in ancient
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languages or ancient ancient cultures or biblical studies.
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Brothers and sisters, I love this principle that the Lord
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teaches Joseph Smith after he says I'm not learning, You want
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me to take this book and bring forth the words I can't do.
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I'm not learning. I'm not smart enough.
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I'm not capable of this. And here's what the Lord says to
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him. Verse 20.
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Then shall the Lord God say unto him, The learned shall not read
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them, for they have rejected them, and I am able to do mine
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own work. Wherefore thou shalt read the
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words which I shall give unto thee.
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It sure looks like Joseph is being told I don't need you to
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be an expert in foreign languages from the past.
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I need you to be humble and to be receptive to the words that I
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am going to give to you. So today in in our modern time,
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what a beautiful thing it is to become as learned as you can,
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but not focus on so much on what I know, but rely much more on
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what God has to reveal to me. So that when I open up my
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scriptures, it becomes this beautiful opportunity to say to
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Heavenly Father, I am not learned regardless of how much
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you may or may not know, regardless of how many degrees
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you may or may not have in whatever topics or subject
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areas. But to be able to constantly
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acknowledge that I don't know very much in comparison to what
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God has to reveal to me. And he says I am able to do my
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own work and then notice verse 21 touch not the things that are
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sealed. So speaking to Joseph Smith
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through Isaiah, don't don't break the seal on the plates,
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for I will bring them forth in mine own due time.
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Are you noticing this is not the work of Joseph Smith?
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This is the work of the Lord God of heaven and earth, Jehovah
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Jesus Christ. He's saying, I will.
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I will have those that seal broken, and I will bring that
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forth according to my own time. But it's not in your day,
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Joseph. And then he says, For I will
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show unto the children of men that I am able to do mine own
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work. If you like marking your
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scriptures, you could mark verse 20 and 21, that repeat phrase I
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am able to do mine own work. I think that's the Savior's way
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of reminding us I know what I'm doing.
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And I picked you, Joseph, an unlearned farm boy in upstate
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New York, to bring forth the words of the book for a reason.
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Nobody will be able to claim that this is is done by by the
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power of man and his wisdom. He he tells you that in verse
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23. For behold, I am God, and I am a
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God of miracles, and I will show unto the world that I am the
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same yesterday, today, and forever, another beautiful
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attribute of God. And I work not among the
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children of men, save it be according to their faith.
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This, this beautiful process that Joseph went through to
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bring forth the miracle of the Book of Mormon from the book
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that came out of the ground. It is a marvelous work and
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wonder. And then he also gives you this
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beautiful passage in verse 7 and 8:00 and 9:00, where in the
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latter days in our time there will be many people teaching
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doctrines of no consequences. You can do whatever you want.
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You do, you just live life to its fullest with no, no
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reference to God. And so they they'll say, E drink
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can be merry. For tomorrow we die, and it
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shall be well with us, because people will emphasize God's
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love, but they'll ignore or completely deemphasize God's
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perfect justice, his perfect judgment, his perfect attributes
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that give him this ability to be God.
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Verse eight. There will be some who say,
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well, it's not a God of no consequences, but it's low
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consequences. So eat, drink, and be merry, and
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you'll get beaten with a few stripes, but in the end you'll
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all be saved. It's all good.
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So it's this idea that encourages people to still go
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and do whatever they want to do rather than to repent and to ask
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God, what would thou have me do? How would thou have me live my
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life today rather than living my life for me and saying, I'm sure
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glad God's going to forgive me, Which creates this feeling of
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prependence, if you will, and make up this word prependence,
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this idea of I can go and do my will and I'm just going to trust
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that God's going to let me enjoy the the experiences that I want
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to have. And then he'll he'll just maybe
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beat me with a few stripes, but in the end I'll be saved, he
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says in verse nine. Yeah, and there shall be many
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which shall teach after this man are false and vain and foolish
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doctrines, and shall be puffed up in their hearts.
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If you read all of the scriptures, if you listen to our
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living prophets, Sears and revelators, they never, ever
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encourage us to go and just do whatever we want to do and just
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live it up. They always encourage us,
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encourage us to have faith in Christ and to repent of our sins
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and to strive to become more like Jesus Christ in our daily
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actions. It's beautiful pattern that just
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comes up over and over again. And then he gives us this
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indication of seeing what the devil is going to do in the
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latter days in verse 20. For behold it that day shall he
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rage in the hearts of the children of men, and stir them
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up to anger against that which is good.
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As we get closer to the second coming of the Lord, don't be
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shocked when you see people getting angrier and angrier and
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worked up more in in in Rage Against the words that are
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taught by the prophets and from the scriptures and verse 21 says
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and others will he pacify. So while it works to to stir
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some people up into rage, it may not work for everybody.
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So the devil will work up other people into this pacification
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and he will lull them away into carnal security and they will
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say all is well in Zion. Yeah, Zion prospereth, all is
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well and thus the devil cheateth their souls and leadeth them
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away carefully down to hell. So he does the same thing with
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us. He gives us these, these
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spiritual pacifiers, things that we can put great energy and
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effort and yet we receive nothing in return from investing
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in those pacifying activities or endeavors.
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And so a question might be, as you swim around in this part of
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the pool is what are some of the pacifiers that maybe are taking
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some of my time, my talent, my money, my devotion, and yet
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they're not going to give me any nutrients there.
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There's no milk coming from those pacifiers that's that's
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going to feed my soul, spiritually speaking.
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What are those security blankets?
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What are the lullabies that are being sung that cause us to to
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fall asleep? For some, the rage works, For
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others the lulling and the Pacifying works, and then
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others, verse 22, He flattereth away and tell us them there is
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no hell and he saith unto them, I am no devil, for there is
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none. And so he's got a variety of
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these techniques that Nephi's pointing out.
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This is not an exhaustive list. This is just a handful of of
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tools that the devil is using against us.
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But if we can be aware of them and we can identify them, then
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we canmore powerfully ask God to help us to recognize and reject
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them in our life. And then he finishes off chapter
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28 with a whole list of woes in in starting in verse 24 through
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32. And it would be worth finding
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those what what is, what is giving, what elements are being
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given this cursed state. Woe unto him that saith, what or
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that do with what? And you can swim around in that
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part of the pool, and and find those products as well.
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It's beautiful. So I just have to say that I
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love the way he ends this chapter.
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After pronouncing all of these woes, he ends with this.
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For notwithstanding I shall lengthen out my arm unto them
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from day-to-day. They will deny me.
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Nevertheless I will be merciful unto them, saith the Lord God,
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if they will repent and come unto me.
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For my arm is lengthened out all the day long, saith the Lord God
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of hosts. I love that because it's not
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rocket science. Every one of us today can do
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that. Better we can turn to God in
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greater humility and with a spirit of faith in Christ, and
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plead with God to forgive us of our sins and to acknowledge
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them, to confess them to him and to say, I want to be better,
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please forgive me and his promises.
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I will be merciful unto them. He didn't say I might be or I'm
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capable of being or I ought to be.
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He says I will be. That's a pretty sure foundation
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to build on that, that you have assurance that if you go through
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through this process, he will respond.
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Now as you read chapter 30 to finish this off, this is the
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kind of the conclusion of the role of revelation, the Book of
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Mormon and how God is carrying forth his work.
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So as you sworn around in this part of the pool, I would just
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point out one verse. 5 And the gospel of Jesus Christ shall be
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declared among them, Wherefore they shall be restored unto the
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knowledge of their fathers, and also to the knowledge of Jesus
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Christ which was had among their fathers.
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This is speaking to whom it was back in verse 4.
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The remnant of our seed will know concerning us how that we
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came out from Jerusalem. So here's Nephi who, at the end
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of this incredible prophetic seership vision that he's had,
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he saw his people struggle. He sees us in the latter days
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and the Gentiles in the Book of Mormon coming forth.
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But then he gives this clarification of his people
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being brought back to the gospel of Jesus Christ to acknowledge
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in the latter days. There's hope for all of us to
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come unto Christ and to be perfected in him.
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May the Lord bless you as you find those diving boards, those
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jumping off points to get into and swim around in the words of
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prophets, both ancient as well as modern, as we seek to move
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forward in greater faith than ever before and help him in this
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effort of building up his Kingdom is my hope and my
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prayer. In the name of Jesus Christ,
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Amen. Know that you're loved.