Come Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants 106-108 (Sept. 20-26) Don't Miss This

hi there everybody i'm david butler i'm emily freeman welcome to don't miss this why did it feel like you skipped up here because you were so good this is like a good section you guys i just it's really not a sad one was so sad that's true and this one is not and so this one is not and it feels productive doesn't feel productive yeah yeah you're gonna feel really productive by the time we're all done productive yeah like i i feel like i've accomplished something by the time i'm done with this oh okay i'm gonna feel encouraged okay encouraged and and then like effective yeah productive oh like how to take a step forward is that what you mean by production okay okay now i can agree with you because normally i don't want to be productive right now all i want are naps in the day that's because it's four o'clock that's the problem um okay number one request in our email boxes right now are true everybody what what about old testament you guys stop trying to skip the doctrine and covenants some because some really fun stuff is coming including p.s the sections rad then we do three field trips in a row and they honestly were so our favorites to film you are so excited about the light all of them are favorites yeah we real it really is so awesome what's coming at the end i noticed a lot of sections like in the middle there felt like i think we just did that section already we're doing the same stuff fear not now it's just like it's different it's it's oh yeah so many field trips too you guys can't wait but meanwhile go ahead and get your hopes up about the old testament we are excited about the old testament it's so good it's coming a lot of you number one in the email boxes right now is okay when are all the old testament stuff available so and what and how can we study and what will study look like which i love because everyone this is what happens when you are an empty nester you watch everybody else go buy school supplies at walmart and everyone's getting new like folders and new pencils and then i walk by and i don't really need anything except for because it's september i feel like i should be like buying that stuff and so if you're someone who is like wants to get some school supplies don't worry we have so much fun old testament stuff coming so let us just quickly tell you for those of you who are worried about it and asking about it what is coming so you have it on your radar and then you don't need to worry we are going to keep you apprised in october we will tell you again what to do but we will have the old testament devotional book which you are going to love we're going to have the old testament journal that is going to be available also the drawings just keep getting better and better each year i love that you're so proud of the drawings and you love the front of the old testament devotional book i don't know if it's up yet or not but i promise you are going to love the front particularly the orange starfish that's my favorite oh on the devotional book on the devotional and i think the color of the journal which i really like too okay so you're happy about both those things um we are doing the word a week posters again if these are new to you they happen to be our favorite addition to study david will tell you why because you love them the most i mean i love them but you really love them well this is how i use them we use it as kind of the introduction to the week we're just barely getting back into that because summertime who studied anything okay but it's just awesome that it hangs in your house and kind of says here is almost like the theme of the week it's got the sections that you're studying that are on it and it just kind of like is this reminder you know especially in a really busy verse yeah and a great verse of scripture and a quote from joseph smith which i just kind of love having those quotes just hanging around right so we are doing that with the old testament but what is going to be fun about the old testament is we are going to be learning hebrew everybody with our word a week while we do the old testament so we're super excited about that so you can plan on those if these are new to you and you wish you had one for the rest of the doctrine and covenants because they're so fun there are a few left of both the word a week things and also the script the stickers and the stickers so um if you wish you had those for your doctrine and covenants you can get them for just a little bit and more journals a couple more and a couple more things if you didn't know we did these and you wanted one for the rest yeah um we don't reprint them after march but there are just a couple of all those things hanging around so if you want one go to desert book that's where you can find them and then otherwise in october when we come back from the field trips we'll announce when the pre-order is for all the yeah for the journals the word a week where we're going to learn hebrew i'm so excited about that they are super rad we'll have the stickers again we are gonna have the devotional book again so you can be looking for all that and then we have two surprises you guys can't wait for the surprises so the best surprise is free everybody you are gonna love it it's going to change the old testament for you yeah i want to tell everybody but instead we want to show you when it's all yeah when it's all ready and it's it's getting really close and it is we've worked really hard on so hard we've been working on it for the whole year so that's going to be so fun and then there is one other fun thing that i think is going to be ready in january because we just started working on that so it is going to come out in time and it's also going to be so fun and as soon as we have something we can show you we'll tell you about those two new things as far as commentaries here are a couple things that we'll say first of all we love the old testament i know we have never told you that yet so that might come as a surprise to you we love the old testament so much we have been waiting four years to teach the old testament and study it with you together so we're gonna follow come follow me exactly don't you worry about that but the old testament is so big that there are some parts that are not actually going to be and come follow me and some of them are your favorite parts like jehoshaphat who doesn't want to learn about jehoshaphat in detail so we are going to be sliding in just a couple little parts that you don't want to miss because this is don't miss this stop so we'll do [Laughter] well there's a lot of good stuff coming a lot like we're counting down the days yeah so be at peace that's all the stuff there you go we'll be back talking about it when it's all ready for oh i didn't i didn't ever finish we're not going to use a commentary because we have so much we just want to talk about all just that we've gathered but there are good commentaries out there and you just pick whichever one you want and don't worry there's not gonna be one that we are specifically focusing on um i think that's it yeah it's gonna be great hopefully that answers all your emails in one thing because my q email helper is gonna be so happy that we just did that okay now 106 through 108. um man these sections are are so cool we get to meet two new friends and something else that's happening around the same time is this is the first time in this dispensation when the quorum and the 12 are called and so um there's going to be sections directed towards our two new friends and then one section toward the quorum of the twelve and we're going to just go through all of those i think it's you know as we were starting this and i was saying skipping you know to get up here i was just thinking you know it is interesting that like the stuff in missouri isn't done you know there there's there's still there's still a struggle there we've gotten back from zion's camp but we still don't know what we're doing with what's happening there there are still some questions that they have and yet the work and they're preparing like we're ramping up for the dedication of the kirtland temple so there's a lot of like big stuff going on that's all going on and it's interesting that like we are so confused about this but we're also building a temple at the same time and i love the idea of thinking like there can be spots of my life that i am confused and have questions on and still have really powerful glorious experiences happening like simultaneously with each other and it's kind of what you have here so 106 is to warren cowdrey this is oliver's big brother warren and uh oliver obviously was first they're been there since day one and um through correspondence with oliver and hearing all those stories warren ends up uh coming into the faith also um when joseph was on his recruiting mission for zion's camp he kind of went out recruiting trying to get people to come you remember he goes and actually stays at the home of warren country and uh he is called to be sort of like the branch president the leader over his little branch that's there in uh freedom i think his name of it freedom new york and it's in question about that new calling that he has that 106 comes so he requests like can i get some direction some help on this on this new adventure that you've just called me to and so that 106 is the answer almost like it's setting apart is that what you would say oh yeah that's cool yeah super cool yeah so right here at the very beginning to my servant it is my will to my servant warren a cowdery look he even uses his full name like a setting apart blessing how awesome okay he should be appointed and ordained a presiding high priest over my church in the land of freedom oh i was right it is it was in the scriptures i feel like i had to know that in my head it's written right here right um he should preach my everlasting gospel and lift up his voice in not only this in his own place but surrounding counties and this line we love and it's a first fill in the blank in the journal devote his whole time to this high and holy calling and i i am so like i mean i know you felt this i've felt this before that you just when you get this you might just be a part of this little ward in this little city in this little state you know in this little country in this big wide world but you do still feel a sense of like high in holiness when god gives you a responsibility and i think particularly because every single responsibility is to look out for people his greatest treasure and that's why it is so high and holy and it's neat that that is what he calls it you know we didn't even know who he was until we get to section 106 but the lord knew who he was and had for him a high and holy calling and then this promise because if i heard that i would be like overwhelmed right and he says all things necessary will be added there unto for the labor is worthy of his hire promising him whatever it is that you are going to need for the high and holy purpose that you have in your life right now is going to be added to you and given to you and i love that thought of just an increase of capacity that's one of my favorite thoughts about it is for whatever you need anything that is necessary for this time it will be added unto you and i just love the thought of that there's been moments where i've faced a calling or even just faced the day-to-day in my life and felt like i am not enough for what i'm up against right now like clearly i am not enough i know i'm not so even if someone else told me no you've got this i would be like no i actually don't and i love the thought that he's like anything all things that are necessary will be added to you that's who god is that's what he does and maybe as you look at your part you play wherever you are right now and you're thinking i feel like i need an increase of capacity right now i love this thought of like go get a blessing right now and let that capacity be increased and for those of you who don't know emily as well as i do i feel like you are so good at that you have one of the best understanding of of that concept of god will add to you when you ask ask and you shall receive knock and it will be opened because you really do when you are in need she asks she asks like even today she was like i need a blessing that's the first thing that i need and she'll ask and she'll have one and and i just believe that god's gonna add on to you you know the things that are necessary but you actually live that principle so well and this reminder that's so awesome he says let me just also remind you the coming of the lord draweth near and nigh and you know we love the second coming so much but this line and it overtaketh the world and i cannot actually wait for him to overtake the world i'm really really excited for the prince of peace and unity and love to come and overtake the world um and but we don't have to wait until that day because i love this line in six it says again verily i say unto you there was joy in heaven when my servant warren bowed to my scepter and separated himself from the crafts of men and that to me is so thrilling to think of i want to interview warren and i don't know him well enough to ask him such a personal question so first i'll get to know him and say what is your favorite ice cream and like what is like what animal is your spirit animal or whatever but i want to say oh will you tell me about that moment that you felt like you bowed to the scepter where you chose jesus as your king right and and what was that and we thought that would be a neat thing to think about if you've had a moment like that where you have decided jesus is my king i i bow to him i will follow him at any cost i'll i'm i'm all in with you you know and what's that moment like yeah and when you just separated yourself from everything else that was going on and just turned your life to him i love the thought of that yeah and then the lord brings this up and i think it's so sweet because maybe he had this in his mind because he and he says to him therefore blessed is my servant warren this is verse 7. i wrote six on this page don't be alarmed just add one to both of these parts here blessed is my servant warden for i will have mercy on him notwithstanding the vanity of his heart i'll lift him up as much as he humbled himself and it's it's neat that he would have probably thought to himself like you were saying no i i actually have a vanity problem i have uh you know a jealousy problem i have this but whatever whatever the problem may be in the lord is assuring him and he uses the words in verse eight i i i will give him grace and assurance that he will be able to stand and continue faithful notwithstanding your weaknesses that you have i'm going to have mercy and i'm going to give you grace and i'm going to give you assurance on this as you carry this high and holy responsibility that i've given you and you love those three words mercy and grace and assurance like it makes me want to do a word study and think about okay what do i know about mercy and i love that he's gonna have mercy on them but he's going to give grace isn't that interesting just thinking about those words and i love that mercy is especially active compassion and i love that he's like i will see your weakness and it's gonna actually give me active compassion for you where how can i help you in this and then i will give you grace or that enabling strength or that touch of the divine on the heart right that you're gonna be able to reflect and that word assurance right and your confidence i'm gonna give you confidence in what you're doing it's just it's three words that i'm like oh i want those three words right now i want to carry them with me for a minute yeah and i like that idea of like where you're just saying he has mercy it's almost like this like i have made room for you in your weakness right like that you i've i've given a lot of space for you to like work through your own issues while you serve in the kingdom at the same time you know i'm going to have that mercy and then give you these other gifts to do that and this is neat and it really is and even though the lord's like i have mercy and i'll give you grace and i'm going to give you assurance it's interesting that he says i'm going to give you those things which means you're going to need them you know so if he needs grace and assurance that means what he's going to experience first is lack and um like self-doubt or whatever the opposite of assurance he was like oh you can know that you are going to actually feel those things and when we get into 107 this section was actually given to the first quorum of the 12. they were called on valentine's day of 1835 to go out in this section as special witnesses of the name of christ in all the world and just like warren cowdery they felt inadequate for that and and they came to joseph and we love this line from them where they say this the time was near when we were about to separate and uh and we felt um i skipped a part that i love so much where they just talked about like oh we felt like this was such a high and holy calling that we needed to ask forgiveness from people and we needed to kind of separate that you know think more about this and oh am i you know uh and they said this um our worthiness has not inspired us to make this request but our unworthiness which is really sweet to think that they're like i'm not asking for this help in revelation because i think i deserve it or earned it but rather because i need it and so we came and said we need help so we unitedly ask god our heavenly father to grant us through his seer a revelation of his mind and will concerning our duty in the coming season and um a great revelation that will enlarge our hearts and comfort us in adversity and brighten our hopes and uh i just actually think this is really sweet and interesting to consider um the quorum of the 12 right now that they must how heavy that responsibility that they hold must be and how they probably still come and say listen we don't think that we're earning this or deserving this but we have come to god in our lack and in our need and in our request and what we what we need is a revelation one that will enlarge our hearts that will comfort us in adversity and that will brighten our hopes amidst the powers of darkness and and how often all of us feel that that need for those three things that's so good i love as we get into section 107 and sometimes you come into 107 and you think oh this is a section that is for the priesthood members of the church this is for the men this is going to lay out kind of what that priesthood quorums and offices look like and i learned a really important lesson many years ago when president nelson said to the women of the church in a women's meeting i want you to study three sections of the doctrine and covenants and this was one of the sections he wanted the women to study and i was so intrigued with why like why why if anything you could choose why did you choose 107 for me and as i spent time in there learning and and also talking to good friends who wanted to help and educate me and and study through it my eyes were open to understand a lot of things that i hadn't realized this section was for at the top of my 107 i wrote living after the order of the son of god that's what this section is about so that kind of helps us as we dive into this i also love this it wasn't meant to be read start to finish it came in bits and pieces um after that asking of this then this started coming together to them and i love that thought of studying it in bits and pieces also and what do i learn about this part what do i learn about this part um i love also as we go through and we'll point out some of these things it i wrote in my notes some verses are for the priesthood offices but there are other gems that apply to all and teach us all how to draw upon the power of god and i think that's really important that realizing that in 107 we are going to watch for an order or a pattern that's going to teach us how to draw upon the power of god all of us as we start living within this pattern or within this order of the son of god which i love um for those who have um who are watching who are younger or older who are harry potter fans that word order is actually going to be one that you'll that you'll recognize in in verse three is okay if we go here where he just says let me tell you why it's called the melchizedek priesthood well because melchizedek was such a great high priest and we'll come to that in just a second but he says before it was called the holy priesthood after the order of the son of god that's a phrase by the way in the old testament and book of mormon that you're going to want to watch for they don't use melchizedek priesthood they'll use the phrase the order of the son the holy order the high and holy order they'll use phrases like that to talk about this and if you know harry potter you know they had something called the order of the phoenix right so you're like oh that's a very ancient word it's like a nightly word it's like the order of the round table and stuff and it's a group of people that all share a common purpose and that group of people generally has a a master like a leader in that group and so we have this order of people who've come together right um after following a certain leader and that leader is the son of god that's so good and as we come into this um and we think about this order that's going to allow us to become within the kingdom like you love that there is something unique about who you become in the kingdom if you follow the order in harry potter or the knights of the round table right there is this process that you go through and i love that joseph smith is talking to the priests about becoming they're to the men about becoming high priests but he also talked to the women about this same concept and he told a group of relief society sisters at one time i want to make you a kingdom of priests and that thought that he's he's talking about this order that is for high priests but also for high priestesses that's what we're learning about and as we go into the temple we really start learning about that process so let's think about melchizedek first and who he was and where do we meet him as the high priest what do you want to say about so we meet him in genesis old testament you can't wait um which is actually interesting because once we go through the old testament you'll actually enjoy the doctrine and covenants more yeah and everything yeah you really will just so that we yeah whatever it's fine we're gonna come back to every book don't worry we're not gonna die um so melchizedek um was this high priest at the time of abraham and we learned some powerful things about him we learned um that he was that he had the power to like defy armies that he had the power to move mountains that he was he was doing things and he and he was communing with angels and and with god like he had the ability to to rend the veil and was able to do the work of god in like this marvelous and like this like just powerful way um his name melchizedek melek zedek in hebrew actually means king of righteousness right and he was king of of the area of jerusalem and was this leader who was taking people and and teaching them that same pattern of of power and everything and so because he was such a great example of someone in that order someone who followed the pattern of the son of god and then was endowed with the power of the son of god the priesthood was nicknamed after him and that little box right there ancient high priests that's that's who they were those things that we just said they were people who had the power right and they knew how to commune with god and defy armies and move mountains that's that is what he's talking about right here which i love that he kind of starts out and it's almost as if he's going to give us a holy pattern that he's saying to us if you if you live a holy life you're you will be able to access a spiritual power right that's just it comes in tandem with each other and i love the thought of that that as soon as you engage in living a holy life you all of a sudden access this spiritual power or capacity and i love what you wrote here where in your box right there that joseph that's the that was the reason for starting the school of prophets and then the relief society which became a school of prophetesses which was i'm trying to show you the patterns of living that will help you have the same kind of power that the priests and priestesses and the prophets and prophetesses of the past had capacity for like so that's what he was doing and you love in verse 8 when he just says at the bottom of that line um it is going to be the power to administer in spiritual things that's what we're looking for that's the holy life that's what we're trying to engage in so in verse 18 it's going to tell us this is what the power and authority of the higher or the melchizedek priesthood is it's to hold the keys of all the spiritual blessings of the church and then he's gonna list these blessings and let me just read at how it sounds right now so if you're listening to this on a podcast and you have your scriptures in front of you let me read what it says it says this is the privilege to have the privilege of receiving the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven to have the heavens open unto them to commune with the general assembly and church of the firstborn and to enjoy the communion and presence of god the father and jesus the mediator of the new covenant and there's kind of a law of big words in there so sometimes it helps us if we like simplify all of those phrases with hidden meanings into just like what would we call this today so if you think about these are going to be the privileges of living a holy life and the privilege is first where it says to receive the mysteries of the kingdom it's to understand god's plan right it's just the kingdom is god's plan so first you're going to be able to understand god's plan second the heavens open unto them or increased revelation is what you might say for that one third to commune with the general assembly in church of the firstborn we might call that um enjoying the ministering of angels or the ability to have contact with angels and and the blessings that come through that ministering of angels and then fourth to enjoy the communion and presence of god the father and jesus the mediator of the new covenant or to rend the bell right the this is what we are trying to grow into is this process that allows us to understand god's plan to receive revelation to commune with angels and to eventually rend the veil that's our goal and as you think about those things it's amazing how much temple that brings into you and when i read 107 i love to look for temple language or temple imagery or temple symbolism because that's where we really are schooled in becoming priests and priestesses yeah and i just love thinking about somebody listening who's just like oh i actually really need to understand god's plan right now and i need the heavens to be open for me like i need an increase of answers i need that grace and assurance i need additional power you know given to me i needed to commune with angels on this matter you know that there would be people who were like oh show me how to unlock that sort of power and that knowledge teach me how to do that teach me the patterns and the temple shows us those patterns i just love when you wrote write in the journal do you know a place yeah because you can do things like that yeah now i drew the ancient you know tabernacle there because that tabernacle showed you symbolically these patterns and how to eventually rend the veil and enter into the presence of of god and so it's like they taught those patterns so do you know a place that can teach you the patterns of how to render life and and i love that as you're going through and searching out some of the things that you're going to learn all the way through 107 i went into lds.org and just looked on there under the temple and particularly the temple endowment and i love that it talked about these five temple patterns that are covenants that allow us to draw upon god's power and it's the law of obedience the law of sacrifice the law of the gospel the law of chastity and the law of consecration these are all things that we are invited into that are going to help us to better access the power of god and i think sometimes it's important to just stop and think well where do i need the power of god in my life like where is the place where i am lacking so much that i with my own strength and ability will not be able to overcome what i'm up against where is that weakness or where is that ache or where is that burden or that heaviness and then to realize it's the temple and through those laws that we learn in the temple and the ordinances and the covenants there that we are going to obtain the power we need to overcome yeah and i i just reminded myself that we'll put the link to that that art that spot on lds.org where you can see or what's it treasures chrysler or whatever it's called whatever however you'll get there yeah we'll put that link on on the blog for that and i really like this in verse 30 after after these where this is particularly talking about the quorum of the 12 and first presidency making decisions and that's some interesting stuff that you can go through and the rest of the section kind of gives almost like administrative organization but i think it's important to remember like all of these things were organized the scaffolding was all organized to just help other people come closer to the son of god and access that power i love this verse 32 just as you're talking about it this is the one that talks about the decision of these quorums or either of them are to be made and then he tells you how you're going to make decisions in righteousness and holiness and loneliness of heart and meekness and long suffering and i can remember a time in my life when we actually were trying to make a decision on a really important thing and stumbling upon this and writing these words out and just thinking okay how are all of these qualities or characteristics which are very godlike right it really is what happens when you understand the order completely how would thinking in this capacity help me make a better decision and sometimes when we do have to make a really hard decision i will just turn here just to help like set my mind in okay how do all of these words fit in making the decision i'm about to make yeah and when i read it too i also think making decisions but also like what a beautiful pattern of living it reminds me of oh we're not there yet section 121 that's going to talk about let me show you again some patterns for living that increase spiritual capacity and power and it's like what if i faced decisions people yeah situations with these words that's so good you know yeah i love that now this section 108 is love we love 108 one other friend who we probably would know more about if he didn't die so early but lyman sherman actually ordained an apostle but he will die um and so you probably we don't get to know you know too much about him but we do know what happened that gave us section um 108 and we love just thinking about this section as a guy who kind of thought wait i i want to live that pattern yes i want to do the work of the of the of the order of the son of god right yeah i wrote at the top of my 108 a life assessment i just think this is such an awesome like let me just look at my life and see how i am right now and where could i be doing better um but let us first tell you a little bit about lyman so one of the reasons why he joined the church is because he just marveled at the simplicity and purity of the book of mormon which i love that so much that he did what brought him to the church was the simpleness of the gospel and i think sometimes we forget about that um i love when he says this when he came for this revelation he said i had been brought upon to make known to you my feelings and desires and this is what he's saying to joseph i came because i was brought upon or i had so much like anxiety or need and i i came to tell you my feelings and my desires and i was promised i should have a revelation which would make known my duty and i love that it's kind of like what we saw in 106 that it's just someone who's like i just i need to know more about my capacity and what i'm doing right now and that he goes and he just asks for this blessing and i love that it tells us the prophet received a revelation that very hour i just love that he's like here let me help you let me just help you right now you come and get a blessing and let me just help you with that and one of the things that we loved about this as we talked about it we read in this book making sense of the doctrine and covenants where it says in 108 we learn much about the order of revelation it's interesting that we just talked about the order of the son of god or the pattern of that holy life and to think that is there an order to revelation and is that something we should study more about that we maybe would understand it better as we're thinking through some of these topics and i love that joseph smith taught that revelations are universally available to mankind directly okay we can all receive revelation that is one of the things that i love about this church is the knowledge that we have the god will speak to us personally he really will enter in and have um conversations with us and and we will receive revelation according to the conditions and particulars of our life and i love that we know and believe that but it says this but also that there is an order to receiving revelation so wyman wanted to know about his role as a general authority and we start realizing the difference between personal authority and general authority and personal authority or receiving revelation if we want to say that personal revelation that comes to us in quiet moments but when you are talking about general authority that comes from god and that's important for us to remember that and through his prophet yeah oh i was going gonna say yeah the both came from god yes but through his profit and sometimes we forget that we we should not ever think that general authority counsel is general right that's god talking to his prophet for the membership of the church and i love that when it had to do with his role as a general authority and his invitation to what he was going to do at the psalm assembly that was revelation that would need to come from god through a prophet and for us to remember the order of things to remember that there are places where we will get our own personal revelation on some things but there are also truths that will be revealed through a prophet who has the authority to speak for god on that matter do you want to add anything to that maybe just that um and they because they hold the keys of the kingdom right so particularly for kingdom work and um and things associated with that just like oh that that was the pattern and order that was established there you know in in especially in you know in relation to like oh the the moving force the the expanding the and the work of of the kingdom of god on the earth which is so good it's so good for us to remember there is an order um both in the order of the son of god but also the order of revelation that there are certain patterns that god is not going to stray from what we saw in the old testament is going to be true in the new testament and it's going to be true in the doctrine and covenants because he is a god of order and there is going to be an order to some things and in this lesson we learn there's an order to um the son of god and becoming holy but there's also an order to revelation well isn't it interesting that like section 107 was 1835 what year is it right now i don't even know okay but like all these years and years and years later right the kingdom is still being run according to a revelation that was given to the prophet joseph all those years ago that's so good the kingdom is still run according to those same patterns and everything isn't that crazy that it just yes so so long ago that also doesn't bring you so much comfort yes that order sometimes order brings comfort have you ever noticed that um like for greg order in our house brings him so much comfort he just that is where he thrives and i think all of us have that a little bit in our soul the order is you that's less than others but greg don't worry he's keeping me in line okay so it all works out now 108 i think could be a really sweet experience for you if you just swap out your name in that first verse to my servant david well you don't swap it out for that unless that's your name and just let to let this section um speak to you like it really is like just this section that goes through as a life assessment yeah it's soul-searching like if you take each of the questions instead of reading it through it would be awesome if you just read through and we're like how are you doing at each of these things there's a lot of other words in here but in essence it's almost as if you're just sitting down with the lord and he's like let's just like how are you doing yeah you know how are things going for you and and here's some of the things he was like are you obeying my voice are you letting your soul be at rest i actually love that particular way he's just like concerning your spiritual standing he's like hey stop freaking out about that right just let your soul be at rest about your spiritual standing and because things are so noisy and everything that i just love that he's like yeah right um are you being careful in in your covenants you know i love that one too yeah it just is and and the the tone of this is so gentle you know wait patiently you know are there things that you're waiting for yep i know i know about them are you waiting patiently for those are you continuing faithful are you preaching my gospel and whenever i read that i always want to connect it with that next line who's like are you strengthening your your brethren and read that whole verse because it's so good what is it the story says therefore strengthen your brethren in all your conversation in all your prayers and all your exhortations or that word could be encouragement and all your encouragements and in all your doings you love that your conversation your prayers your encouragement and everything you're doing are you strengthening people like is that what your life looks like right yeah oh like when you in line at the store when you post on someone's post as you think about them and pray about them as you text them and all of your messages and thoughts are you strengthening other people and then this sweet promise um i am with you uh to bless you and to deliver you forever right that's the the word that comes at the end i'm i'm not i won't leave you like i'm i'm i'm here from day one um all the way to the to the very end do you just want to have that life assessment like every night before you pray where you're like how are you doing at um obeying my voice and letting your soul be at rest and what does your spiritual standing look like and are you careful with your covenants and are you continuing faithful and are you preaching my gospel are you strengthening people everywhere you go and then that thought that you might be like i i just i am not enough to be able to do that and then i love when he's like oh don't worry right remember i'm going to give you grace and assurance yeah this is what i'm going to do and i have mercy yes right and i'm going to bless you and deliver you forever you just love the thought of that so sweet ending yeah because especially because 107 can be so big like the deacon's all these things and it's just like remember lyman was drawn to just the simplicity of the gospel which is hey love god love people i'm going to help you along the way it's so good yeah so good things this week okay field trip next week oh it's kirtland temple it's so good it's so good

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