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(00:00) Joseph describes spiritual sight.
(04:59) The weakness of youth is explained as a lack of experience.
(20:06) A definition of a true friend.
(25:49) Interpretations of Malachi 4.
(42:42) The significance of temple ordinances.
(51:09) Joseph Smith’s name is had for good and evil among all nations.
(55:18) Joseph is forbidden to get the plates until four years later. He and Emma get them together.

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The post Ep 304 | D&C 2; JSH 1:27-65, Come Follow Me 2025 (January 20-26) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

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(00:00) The First Vision ends the apostasy.
(09:28) A brief historical overview of Joseph’s family.
(20:18) The First Vision teaches a pattern of prayer and revelation.
(38:55) The reformation was a precursor to the restoration.
(41:21) Persecution may be part of choosing to be a member of the church.
(46:55) Multiple accounts of the First Vision are discussed.
(1:00:09) The First Vision as an esoteric endowment.

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The post Ep 303 | Joseph Smith-History 1:1-26, Come Follow Me 2025 (January 13-19) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

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(00:00) A brief overview of the Doctrine and Covenants.
(06:48) The D&C contains the words of Christ in our day.
(08:30) Anyone in similar circumstances can apply these instructions.
(15:51) The setting and background of Section 1.
(23:54) Defending our beliefs with courtesy and compassion.
(28:14) The Lord’s preface is a voice of warning.
(34:35) Why the language of The King James Bible?
(40:07) Idumea represents the world.
(42:59) The cosmic covenant in Isaiah 24 and 34.
(53:44) Search these commandments for they shall all be fulfilled.

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The post Ep 302 | D&C 1, Come Follow Me 2025 (January 6-12) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

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(00:00) A brief overview of this lesson.
(07:12) The significance of the timetable of the restoration.
(21:29) The understanding of an embodied God was lost in the Apostasy.
(42:20) Our divine inheritance as children of God the Father was also lost in the Apostasy.

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The post Ep 301 | The Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Come Follow Me 2025 (Dec 30-Jan 5) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

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(00:00) Applying Moroni’s promise.
(10:06) Why does Moroni say we should ask if these things are not true?
(11:53) Moroni teaches about the gifts of the Spirit.
(21:37) Is it the pleasing or pleading bar of of the Great Jehovah? A discussion about what judgement might be like.
(27:28) We will get to see Moroni at the bar of God and will know his words are true.
(29:57) Let go of the terrestrial and telestial things that take us away from Christ.
(34:18) Zion will awake, arise from the dust, and shake off the chains. Babylon will sit on the ground and lie in the dust.
(46:20) What if the provenance of the Book of Mormon had been different?

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The post Ep 300 | Moroni 10, Come Follow Me 2024 (December 16-22) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

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(00:00) The Nephites are without order and have lost civilization.
(01:43) Faith: Laying hold on every good thing.
(05:44) Hope: An emphasis on God’s power to save me. The participatory nature of hope.
(18:44) Jesus Christ answered the ends of the law.
(22:15) Mormon speaks to the “peaceable followers of Christ.” They are covenant keepers who have been initiated into sacred things.
(28:55) Charity: The pure love of Christ. This type of love is a gift given by the Savior to those who ask. .
(35:33) Brief historical context on infant baptism, Augustine and Pelagius.
(41:09) The dangers of the traditions of men.

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The post Ep 299 | Moroni 7-9, Come Follow Me 2024 (December 9-15) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

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(00:00) The difference between authority and power in the priesthood.
(18:51) We covenant to always remember Christ. Elder Lund’s rock climbing story.
(25:24) In the Church we must remember Jesus and help each other.
(30:22) President Spencer W. Kimball admonished the Saints to teach with power.
(32:40) The early Christian document called the Didache is similar to Moroni 4-6.
(35:16) A possible description of Moroni’s formulation of the title page to the Book of Mormon.

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The post Ep 298 | Moroni 1-6, Come Follow Me 2024 (December 2-8) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

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(00:00) Faith during doubt, darkness, and fear. There will be light in the darkness.
(18:54) God can turn our weaknesses into strengths.
(29:56) Moroni’s invitation to see scripture as inspired, though not infallible.
(36:12) Moroni commends us to seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have written.
(39:23) The building of New Jerusalem and the gathering of scattered Israel is a favored story of Book of Mormon prophets.
(42:31) Christopher Columbus sought a new land for the building of a New Jerusalem in preparation of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
(46:03) Ether hides in the cavity of a rock, a powerful symbol of Christ and the Holy of Holies.
(47:49) The book of Ether ends with Corinantumr seeing the entire destruction of his people. Why is Gilead called the Brother of Shared?
(49:40) Inverted temple symbols in the disintegration of the Jaredite nation.

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The post Ep 297 | Ether 12-15, Come Follow Me 2024 (November 25-December 1) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

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(00:00) When the Brother of Jared sees the Lord’s finger it sparks his divine curiosity.
(05:34) The ocean is a symbol for chaos, the fallen world, and the veil.
(07:52) The 2 to 1 Principle as seen in the Garden of Eden, Moses’ crossing out of Egypt into Canaan, and the Jaredite vessels.
(11:26) The number 8 can be associated with rebirth and renewal.
(12:09) Serpents as a symbol of captivity and Divine Providence, ushering the Jaredites south into a place where they eventually repent.
(24:08) The Jaredites hit the pinnacle of righteousness.
(30:13) The Book of Ether is almost like the whole Book of Mormon in miniature.
(34:29) Secret combinations eventually destroy the Jaredites. Substance abuse and addiction are modern secret combinations.
(49:03) Prophets are the opposite of secret combinations.

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The post Ep 296 | Ether 6-11, Come Follow Me 2024 (November 18-24) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

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(00:00) Revelation, how heaven connects with earth.
(13:55) Sometimes we have “air questions” and other times we have “light questions.”
(28:22) The ocean of chaos – being tossed, buried, and broken while in mortality. When we cannot have our circumstances changed, the Lord can change us.
(37:36) Why is he called the brother of Jared?
(47:44) Possible interpretations of Ether 3.15.
(52:59) The great tower.
(56:26) Ether as a type for The Plan of Salvation.
(57:42) The sealed portion of the Book of Mormon contains the vision of brother of Jared. More scripture lies in the future for believers in Jesus.
(1:10:39) Mahonri Moriancumer.
(1:12:59) The anthropomorphic nature of God expressed anciently. Ether describes God in ways that fit in an Ancient Near Eastern context.

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The post Ep 295 | Ether 1-6, Come Follow Me 2024 (November 11-17) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.