June 04, 2025

Ep 324 | D&C 60-63, Come Follow Me 2025 (June 9-15)

1 hour 40 minutes

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(00:00) As you seek the Lord’s help in your life, recognize that there can be contraries regarding revelation and getting answers to prayer.
(06:59) Sometimes you leave the 99 to save the one and sometimes you leave the one to save the 99.
(13:58) The missionaries struggle on the Missouri River and Ezra Booth has trouble enduring adversity well.
(18:38) Another way to read “the congregations of the wicked.”
(20:10) Jesus is able to make each and every one of us holy and celestial. We can become the people He is expecting us to be.
(26:48) W.W. Phelps sees a daylight vision of the destroyer upon the face of the waters. Ancient cosmology provides layered meanings of the waters surrounding Zion as an ancient symbol of passage.
(43:06) Blue and white marble in the temple complex as a representation of the Sea of Chaos surrounding ordered space.
(46:44) Why don’t missionaries swim?
(50:02) The road to Zion is filled with challenges. The historical connection to sign seekers and Ezra Booth’s experience.
(53:15) Philo Dibble’s account of Elsa Johnson’s miracle and Ezra Booth’s response.
(1:00:31) Unrepentant adulterers cannot exist in Zion.
(1:04:53) Liars must repent.
(1:07:39) The tabernacle as a type for leaving telestial and terrestrial ground and entering into the celestial. We must be guided by the the Holy Ghost, as were the wise virgins.
(1:09:59) To dress and to keep the garden as it relates to our quest to follow Jesus.
(1:15:18) We should strive to see the big picture of God’s purposes in an eternal perspective.
(1:18:28) Interpretations of taking the Lord’s name in vain.
(1:27:09) Transfiguration of the earth and the Cosmic Covenant.
(1:30:00) Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.
(1:33:16) Our faith in Christ does not take away our challenges, but He is with us. Christians were warned to leave to Pella.