Come Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants 85-87 (Aug. 2-8) Don't Miss This

okay howdy i'm david butler i'm emily freeman welcome to don't miss this y'all we have a really really rad section um section three three sections collection collection of sections that's what he's going to say coming up here 85 through through 87 um some really really neat stuff that happens um in these sections and fun and like applicable you're gonna love so many parts of this lesson are just so fun so um a couple of years ago a friend of mine we were just texting the end of the day or whatever and um he said at the very end he's like okay good night and then sent a sunflower emoji like with the good night and i was like that's so random and so i had to text it back and i was like wait why did you send that sunflower emoji that's weird i mean whatever you know just was like what if i like what if i just sent a dolphin you know or whatever to myself have i ever even sent the sunflower yeah no one even knew it existed it does it has it um and so i was just like why and he was like oh don't you think they're so happy whenever you see them they're just the happiest of all the flowers so i just thought it was fun she was like it's my new thing that's what he said to me it's my new thing i just sent the sunflower emoji and i was like all right so i sent one back you know and i was like goodnight then i said a sunflower emoji and then i was like wait i want a thing i want to say i want an emoji i want to send um anyways so then the next day i was driving um home from work and i passed by this field that's right by my house that was full of sunflowers and i was like oh awesome so i pulled over and i took a pic of the sunflowers and i sent it to him you know because i was like hey look you know sunflowers um and then i started doing that i kept doing it um jenny and i went on like a trip to europe like like a couple weeks after that and i was just fine i found him in like right by the eiffel tower because who did the markets the towers in europe right right and then like these markets in austria and i was just like and every time i found one i was like and by this church in germany and i started sending them and i came back home and i started noticing oh my gosh sunflowers are everywhere they're all over and i had never ever seen them in fact i even had some growing in my backyard i had no i that's true i was outside one time and i was like i have never even seen or noticed that these are here until i started looking for him and we said right before we pushed record um what is does god really move among his people is he really still here in the same majestic way that he was that we read about in in these histories that are here is he still just as um and vibrant right as as he always has been and i think yes um i believe yes i have evidence of of yes and and i think we see something in here that when you start watching for that like the sunflowers he will start showing up everywhere even in your own backyard um so we're starting with the section 85 and you just every bit you want to say a prayer for joseph but he doesn't i don't know if he needs your prayers anymore but like if you were back in this time 85 is uh it's actually a letter um this revelation comes um as an excerpt of a letter that he wrote to ww phelps they're out in zion and remember people are moving out there and to move out there you have to have a special certificate like you're appointed to move out to zion but people were just moving out because they wanted to and doing their own thing and um when they were getting there they weren't following that the law of zion was the law of consecrating your properties and there are people who are going out there who are doing that and so he's just like we don't know what to do and and edward partridge is kind of kind of doing his own thing and wwe phelps was doing his own thing and so joseph's like oh my gosh i i'm so tired of fixing all the things i don't know if he said that but that's what i think when i read it you know and he writes this letter but in the beginning of the letter it's interesting you get like this bonus stuff that comes when and it says write 85 verse 1 it's the duty of the lord's clerk don't you want to be the lord's clerk why do we call him the ward clerk [Laughter] i'm so bugged by that calling title call it the lord yes in every word everyone just got elevated who's the ward clerk i know you're a little lord yeah kids why do we not have that calling okay and before you even read this part of what the lord's clerk is gonna do it is fun to just talk about this because for some reason amidst everything else that is going on in this time period joseph became really interested in record keeping for some reason i don't know why but all of a sudden he wanted to have a million different journals and histories and records that he was keeping we're going to talk about that a little bit more in a minute but this was one of the records that all of a sudden he felt like we need to be keeping yeah in fact he buys his very first journal on this day right after he writes this letter he's like this is he buys like go goes to the store and buys his very first journal and he'll have more but this is what he says the lord's clerk was appointed to keep a history and a general church record of all the things that are transpiring in in zion um go down to verse two and also the people's manner of life their faith um and their works and just to keep a list of all of these things that you see happening um that are transpiring in in zion we have in the journal a list of the other journals that he ends up buying and histories that he ends up keeping um one obviously for revelations he keeps a separate journal for like the revelations for the church that a lot of come into the doctrine and covenants the history of the church and gathering he has this one that he buys a couple years later called he calls the book the law of the lord i just want his help naming everything in my life but check this out this is what he said he keeps in there this actually comes from um stephen harper's book the making sense of the doctrine covenants i'm just reading it on my phone um it says this he recorded in that book um he wanted to put the deeds of people who freely offered their whole souls to the lord's work so when he saw that somebody offered their soul to the lord he wanted to write them down and write about it he wrote about emma in there he wrote about bishop whitney he wrote about his brother hyrum and he says the names of the faithful are what i wish to record in this place in that book isn't that cute and then he said this um he recorded the virtues and the good qualifications and the characteristics of the faithful few as he called them um don't you love that he's just like i s i so much here's a person that we have a hymn about you know that we like admire so much for his virtues and quo and qualifications and i love that he's got this book of the people that he's meeting and he's writing here are all the good things i am noticing about you particularly coming off of the section 85 where you have a whole bunch of people who are doing everything wrong you know and it's like and leaving and you just love that he had that faithful few it makes me want to like be one of the faithful few yeah i'm like oh i want to be one of those yeah and it makes me want to just like start noticing people and noticing what are your good characteristics and virtues and qualifications you know that are in you i love that he wrote this in his journal too there are a numerous hosts of faithful souls whose names i could wish to record in the book of the law of the lord he's just like i ran out of ink there are so many people like that that i just ran out we loved you that he had um one he had one for recording revelations he had one for the history of the church he had one for the gathering he just recorded about that and then this one this was the name of this book a history of the life of joseph smith jr an account of his marvelous experience which would have been the first vision but i love that he he didn't call it the first vision everyone i love that he called it my marvelous m-a-r-v-i-l-o-u-s my marvelous experience and then it made me think to myself do i have a journal of marvelous experiences because don't we all need one of those and you kind of just want to put a sunflower on the front of it because what if you're having more marvelous experiences than you know about because you're just not taking the time to notice them and write them down and what would it look like if we were doing that which then makes me think about your journal you made let's just talk about that permit that you're taking to africa oh my sticker one yeah so i just bought this um i thought i really want like a journal that's only dedicated to like places i go like you know this for a minute because you were having like six journals yeah i really do have a lot of them all over but this one is particular and that it's really rad i should have brought it so you could see it oh no i left it at home because i got to put it in my bag i took it out of my backpack it's just all these really rad travel stickers all over and everything and i thought to myself i am going to write down um every day um number one who is somebody that i met and number two um what is a a memory from that day and number three where did i see the hand of god somewhere moving and working on this thing and i just think like oh i want to be so much better about recording so i'm i'm i'm jumping on that train it's so fun and that might be something you want to do this week as you're talking about section 85 it's because the awesome thing is did you just get yours at walmart where is it even from it's just tiny yeah yeah from office depot max whatever that was yeah and who even knows what the cover looked like but it's just now plastered and stickers which made it so fun that i was like oh if you have kids at home why don't they want a summer journal everyone they might just this summer of 2021 yeah and it's cool to think of like what three simple things or what two simple things am i going to put into that my friend heather was saying oh actually what you want to do on the trip is at the end of every day make everybody go around and say three memories from the day and then if you have like a group of seven all of a sudden you have 21 things to pick from you can you know kind of write in there and are you gonna die over this then in my mind i was like i wish there was in this world a little mini printer that would print pictures that had sticker backs because then you could take a picture and stick it into the journal i was like i really wish someone would invent something like that they did they did i can help you out i've got one for father's day yeah that's right jenny got me one of her fathers did you have one of those i just like i i invented it in my mind laying in bed someone already did and put it in amazon's fulfillment warehouses and now and here it comes this is a talk that we're going to put in the newsletter um or yeah yeah we're going to do something um that is we're on the blog it's going to be easier on the blog on the box sorry from president kimball who you know just got baptized in journals he loved talking about that but he said this one time the quote the name of the talk by the way is the angels may quote from it talking about your your own journals and histories that you keep in and oh and there's a spot in here where he says nobody's ordinary commonplace no one's commonplace yeah you're right you know like everybody is has has this history of what god is doing and doing in them and around them and it's really neat anyways he says this get a notebook a journal that will last through all time or just for the summer yeah yeah and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity is that awesome one of those angels like i would like to quote from jill's summer of 2021 journal it says begin today and write in your goings and your comings your deepest thoughts your achievements your failures your associations and your triumphs your impressions and your testimonies or you can just pick one of those things but it seems neat that it is the way one of the ways that we start recognizing that god really is among us and that he's here and present and moving yeah he's not a stale god he's not like a he's not secure in one place that he's just like um there's a fluid relationship and his presence is oh man we're just noticing it ebbing and flowing them when one of my boys was on their mission they had someone come and i think i've talked about this before he talked to them about keeping a journal and he said instead of calling it a journal because maybe we just immediately turn off when we hear that word yeah like ward clerk which is if he changes something different i'm so worried what is gonna happen with that in your award particularly um that he said start a book of evidences from your mission and it's just the evidences that god is moving in your life and that i love because he just picked up the scriptures and he said you know what these are these are people's books of evidence that god was moving in their life nephi wrote his evidences of god moving in his life and joshua did when he split the river jordan and moses with the red sea and peter walking on water this is just people's journal accounts of oh let me just show you evidence that god was moving in my life today that's all this is and i love that thought of just starting that book of evidences or that book of marvelous experiences or um even just an i am not commonplace you know just what is happening in my life right now we just love the idea of that so for sure as you're talking this week um about what what is going to happen this summer or what could be the application from these pages one really might be starting that journal and whether it's a paper journal or whether it's something you do on social media on instagram or wherever is the easiest place grace has a friend i think this is so fun that does a 60-second video every day and that's his journal and then at the end of the year he has all of those one minute what happened in 2021 so there's so many different ways of recording what is going on in your life but just a fun reminder yeah of the importance and and just opening up your eyes to see the sunflowers right yes and part of the reason why is because sometimes you're just going to have summer of 2021 and you're going to look back and you're going to be like oh yeah remember when that happened sometimes you are going to have profound experiences in your life that maybe feel profound when you're writing them down but might not the realization that might not come for 20 years and all of a sudden you're like oh yeah remember that and and sometimes it's things like i remember when grace was born we had so many miraculous experiences and my dad said to me you've got to sit down tonight and you need to write those all down because you're going to forget and i vividly remember thinking at the time no there is no way i would forget any of these things like they were so impressed on my heart and my soul at that time because they were like clearly evidence of the lord working in our life and i pulled that out just a couple years ago and read through it and i i just was crying because there were several things um grace is what is she now 21 several things from that experience that i i had completely erased from my memory that were so sweet and so tender and had i not written them down they they wouldn't we wouldn't remember any of those things so you have moments like that but then we're going to talk about this awesome one that um joseph writes down and people actually carry in their pockets for years and and doesn't come to be realized for many many years after but so awesome that somebody thought to write it down right when it happened right right oh and you just as you were talking about that just made me think of something and then i oh oh was this it was this you might think to yourself i just started 21 years ago when my kids were born and written things down but if you didn't what what is um so remarkable is god is just as active today as he was in your life 20 years ago and so you haven't missed out on his wonder that's so vegan today um in 85 the rest of 85 he just joseph addresses the problems and starts speaking to them um it's kind of interesting it kind of goes back and forth between almost him speaking and then sometimes for the lord he's speaking so you get both bits of advice as you go through which is really interesting to kind of consider but there's this prophecy 87 we're going to skip over to 87 for just a minute and we'll come back yeah don't worry we won't miss 86 um where this is called it's it's a revelation on um what's it called on war and something i miss where it is that i've written down you'll find it and you'll be here and prophecy on war oh yeah right at the top there it is right where it should be right now he receive this is interesting because it comes on christmas which seems like such a strange yes revelation to get on christmas day you're just kind of like normally on christmas you're kind of like not thinking about wars yeah [Music] all those which made me think today when i was reading this again like his spirit must have been so troubled that he was spending so much time pondering about like pending war and trouble like things can wait until december 26th normally like everything gets put on hold on christmas day but not it must have been so pressing on him that he said why why are you thinking about that and things were going on at the time there is this cholera outbreak in the world um things that were happening in india um there you have um in the united states south carolina had declared that they want to secede from the union and there was a big standoff between the two of them and you know between andrew jackson and the state of south carolina over taxes and and stuff like that and so it's so like on his mind that on christmas when everyone else is eating pie he is thinking about um war and he writes down in what's now section 87 um this prophecy on war and we have this spot on your on the journal where you can write down kind of like what what actually comes in this it's only eight verses long and it just kind of says essentially um wars are shortly to come to pass and they're going to begin at the rebellion of south carolina and that is going to eventually terminate in the death and misery of many souls um that's going to trigger it says a time when war will be poured out among all nations beginning at that place the southern states will be divided against the northern states um they're going to call upon other nations like great britain to come be a part of this verse four after many days slaves will rise up against their masters like it's a very very specific prophecy about what we now know is the civil war right um and very clear on it now first you may have thought well of course he could have said something about south carolina because like south carolina was being a butt right at that time you know they were kind of i couldn't think of a nicer way to say did he see that people like our friends in our ward who called me brother bumbler you know i was like why are they doing that and they're like because we're not allowed to say but in our house and i was like okay sorry south carolina was being a bum a big old bum and they were like already kind of rebelling but that trickles off it like goes away it resolves it resolves like it is that's back in 1832 but the prophecy was was still written and he still wrote down he's like no something's going to start in south carolina and it's going to bring in other nations and it's going to cause the death of a lot of people and it's going to be over the slave issue and and this is what's going to happen and you wonder how many people like when this happened in 1832 waited and saw what was happening and and kind of got on board and then when it all kind of fizzled out we're like huh well he didn't know what he was talking about you love when we want to tell you this from orson pratt's point of view because it's so interesting to watch what happens that prophecy came in 1832 the civil war does not begin until 1861. so remember we're terrible at math almost 30 years from the time that was given 30 years everyone think how long that is like i will be 82 in 30 years from right now which is like so long if if president nelson said something and then i might probably forget he even said it by 32 years yeah or 30 years you forgot your birth story so for sure you forget that and i love this that um there was this revelation on prophecy and war that comes and orison pratt no one printed it but orson pratt wrote it down and he carried it in his pocket remember we we told you about this earlier that in those days when people were living on leaving on missions they didn't have scriptures they could take with them so if they wanted to take a revelation with them they would have to go over to the prophet's house and hand write it down and then they would carry those with them and teach them to people when they went and then those people would write them down so everyone kind of was carrying these scriptures in their pocket and orson pratt carried this handwritten copy and it says he frequently pulled it out and read it to people during his travels and then he went on a 4 000 mile mission can you imagine for several years he went to ohio and pennsylvania in new york in england and canada and he converted 104 people and while he was there he would pull out this prophecy so he read it all over in canada in britain in the united states um and he would travel and preach and talk about it and it's so interesting because um in the beginning it might have seemed like people would be like well you don't need a prophet to say there's going to be a problem in south carolina we see the problem in south carolina but what happened is as things calm down orson says this as a general thing the people regarded it as the height of nonsense i love that that's how he describes it saying the union was too strong to be broken and he said people would tell him you had been led away by an imposter for carrying this with him and continuing to talk about it for these years after well they cooled down everything cooled down in 1832 and orson said this i still knew the prophecy was true for the lord had spoken to me and had given me revelation which let's just talk about this for a minute because i think it is so awesome that when the prophet spoke and and gave that prophecy and said it out loud i love that orson's character or his nature was to pray and say are these words true right he received his own revelation about the words from a prophet which makes you have to sit and think when was the last time you did that and have you received a confirmation lately about what president nelson is talking about and teaching and and telling us from the pulpit do you take the time to kneel down and say heavenly father will you give me my own confirmation this is true and how important that is and i want to bring in this scripture back in 85 into that because um when joseph is trying to solve that problem in section 85 he uses these words in verse six and he says thus saith the still small voice which whispereth through and i love that it's just like through all like the doubt and confusion and all of like the people saying no way jose you know everything's happening he said the spirit whispered through all that and it pierced through it and he says oftentimes it maketh my bones to quake while it made manifest which is such an awesome like description of you know being impressed upon you know just all those different phrases and and as you were saying that about orson pratt like i i don't necessarily so much like after conference like kneel down and pray but i do try to listen with that prayerful heart that says like just make me quake you know yes when something or whisper through whisper through whatever i may be thinking opposite of this get through pierce through to me and kind of confirm that that truth in me yes oh i love that so much so what happens is um and there's this fun timeline on here so you want to start watching this timeline that it's going to go through right here because just before joseph dies in april 2nd 1843 we're going to jump ahead just for a second because you can't resist it um in section 130 he actually restates this prophecy again so this is 10 years later like people are like no that's why are you still on that that was over everything's fine now and everything got fixed and he says this i prophesy in the name of the lord god that the commencement of the difficulties which will cause much bloodshed previous to the coming of the son of man will be in south carolina i am in section 130 for those of you who are wondering where i went i'm reading verse 12 and 13. he says this and i love this part too for i'll tell you why in just a minute it may probably arise through the slave question this a voice declared to me while i was praying earnestly on the subject december 25th 1832 so 10 years later he's still thinking on this prophecy well it's interesting because um nothing happens nothing happens and then in 1851 and then joseph dies that's that's june 27th right there so he's not with us anymore in 1851 for some reason orson pratt decides to um publish it in england he's over in england and he's like i just like we should publish this prophecy okay this is 1851. it's been 20 years now since that prophecy happened he works and gets it printed and then a decade after that in december of 1860 south carolina votes itself out of the united states then other southern states soon did the same and then on april 12 1861 so 30 years later we decided right 29 years later the cannons opened fire on the united states fort fort sumter in charleston harbor and south carolina thereby started this bloody war that would last four years and claim 600 000 likes it is so crazy to me that it took three decades for that prophecy to come to fulfillment and the orson carried it around in his back pocket the entire time just knew that was gonna happen and then this is so awesome that printed prophecy had circulated far and wide and so when the war broke out in april 1861 28 years after it was pronounced the philadelphia sunday mercury newspaper carried a lengthy article that was entitled a mormon prophecy and then they said we have in our possession a pamphlet that was printed in 1851 in liverpool and the um it talks about this civil war prophecy is what they called it and then it said it it this prediction seems to be in progress of fulfillment right now as we're watching everything that's happened whether joe smith was a humbug or not it's there like we don't know but this really is happening and then at the very end they printed the whole prophecy they talked about the events that seemed to be filling every part of it and then this is my favorite part in the conclusion it said this sentence have we not had a prophet among us oh i think that is so awesome that there just was this moment where they were like too much of this is right for him to have got it wrong which makes you now have to question was there a prophet among us and we didn't respect the power that he carried with him and it makes you want to just look at our own life right now and think that same thing is there a prophet among us right now and is there a prophecy you are carrying in your back pocket right now uh just before we push record we both were like okay let's try and think of prophecies that have been fulfilled in our lifetime that we can think of that would be similar to this and and this might be something fun to do with your family and particularly if you have people that are older than us because i think it would be so awesome to go back farther and just think what are the prophecies that have taken place in your lifetime and some of the ones that we thought of are so fun yeah so one was um when lorenzo snow was prophet um there were only four temples in utah and that's when he prophesied 1899 the time will come when there will be temples established over every portion of the land so i mean that's nuts to think about four yeah in 1899 yes to say such a bold thing back then it's just like wow especially when like the church was not financially very well off at the time and just like whoa remember they were like in like that deep like debt and and financial problem um another one when jenny and i were at byu hawaii going to school by hawaii we they had this parade um that they celebrated for the pcc the polynesian culture center for 40 years they've been there or something and and in the parade there was this one float and they had um these people that were like the guests of honor for the float and it was i was kind of like so i looked into it i was like wait why who are those random people and like why were they there and and i found out that when president mckay dedicated the land for the pcc um he said it was in a spot that everyone was like you are crazy nobody comes up to this country bumpkin place and he was like no one day millions of people will come through there and and prophesied that um back in the 60s 50s and uh and so at the parade they invited the 30 millionth guest you know to be in the parade as a sign of like prophecy fulfilled oh that is so awesome and sometimes the prophecies are super fun like those are we talked about remembering in our lifetime when president hinckley gave that talk to the boys and to the men and just a warning voice of preparing for what was ahead and that we did watch that the fulfillment of that that uh financial downfall and the struggle that we all went through and that he had given us warning just before to prepare our homes and our families for that and then we talked about if there was a prophecy you were carrying in your pocket right now what would it be and um you know maybe it's from president nelson or maybe it's president monson or maybe it's president hinckley but maybe a prophecy that hasn't been fulfilled yet but that just spoke really strongly to you when you heard it and i right off the bat was like oh i know exactly which one it is for me um and many of you might have had a similar experience when president nelson was called as the prophet and stood up and gave his first address and said it will not be possible to survive spiritually in coming days without the guiding directing comforting and constant influence of the holy ghost and i can remember that exactly what you talked about that quaking that like this spirit moving through me of how crucial it was for us to be um able to have that influence of the holy ghost and in fact from that day forward i started praying that our family would have an increase of the holy ghost by name each of my children that we would have an increase of the spirit with us daily that is a daily and sometimes twice daily prayer for me so even though i don't really have that prophecy in my pocket it's in my prayers use your phone than it would be and you could have it in your pocket um but it's in my prayers right it's that daily i'm just carrying it with me because i don't want to lose any of us you know yeah in that same talk same paragraph even there was this line that was kind of that impactful for me where he said our savior and redeemer jesus christ will perform some of his mightiest works between now and when he comes again we will see miraculous indications that god the father and his son jesus christ preside in majesty and glory and it's like um that to me is something so fun to watch for right really some of his mightiest like i can think we're about to study old testament right so i could think of some pretty mighty things that they have done and these miraculous indications and it makes me want to just think in fact when i just i was kind of joking about the phone but not really because like i made i just recently put my patriarchal blessing saved onto my phone so that i could carry it around with me and i could kind of pull it out because i mean there might be like there's these general prophecies but you there are promises in all through scripture and personally that we really hold on to and put in our pockets and there might be days when they are not coming to fruition that you might say that's a failed prophecy or the height of nonsense or you are the victim of an imposter those lines people said orson pratt and he's like no i felt it and i'm going to keep it in my pocket until i watch the fulfillment of this um a majority of us are waiting for prophecies and promises yet to be fulfilled and this is a great section to give us hope to like oh keep them in your pocket and one thing that i think is important that we learn from this and it might be fun to move toward now is as you're talking about that is he a failed prophet or was this a false prophecy is to watch this working of revelation in joseph smith because i think sometimes we want a prophet like we've created in our mind what a prophet should look like and a prophet should get the revelation and he should get it right the first time and it if if he's speaking to god then it should be the revelation and it should be correct you know yeah that's the way revelation should work we've kind of created that and it's interesting that's a facts machine prophet when in reality you start watching joseph and we're going to see it twice within these chapters right he's going to start talking about that in 18 and and 32 well i keep going with that thought maybe just that that oh no you're right it's 86 the idea of we have an expectation of what a profit should be and when they don't match that expectation we'll get upset or or say there's something wrong when it when in reality it's like wait instead of like um trying to see if a prophet matches your expectation why don't you just watch what a prophet does and let that become the definition of what a prophet is you know yeah that's so good because think about watching him go through this revelatory process starting in 1832 and maybe he even was like is that right you know yeah feels like everything is fine now but he he received it and then ten years later he's like i'm just gonna check on that and make sure that's still right and still received more revelation right he he wrote it back in there again this is this is still gonna happen and this is what i'm thinking now i love when he uses that word that he's like but perhaps perhaps i think it might be yeah you're like watching him like work through this process of receiving revelation which i was with a group the other night we were talking about this and i was like is it okay for a prophet to have to work through revelation and it was so interesting because there was a really long pause in that moment and it i think we really do have to come to terms with we are watching in the doctrine and covenants a prophet that is working through this process of receiving revelation much like we do where he's he's learning and he's writing it down and then he's going to come back and check it and then he's going to work on it again and that is what yes i should say that's what we love about 86 it's we're gonna watch this process happen again well and and really like you could get into that spot where like you can a prophet work through can they say i think or it seems and you could have some people it's like no that's not what prophets do and you're like well actually the scriptures paint a very very different picture of what prophets do so i don't know where you got that idea that they don't do that or that they are like fax machines like if someone painted that picture for you or said it to you in your 11th grade you know sunday school class sorry but that wasn't the accurate picture of it because all through scripture you see prophets going back and going back and going back to try and get it right i'm sure they wished that i mean you think about mohammed morianka had that one moment when jesus came and appeared right in that moment do you know how many days before that he was trying to figure out how to make rocks you know do you think he was like could you have come at the bottom of the mountain instead and been like this is going to be super easy just do this but there is something about the lord loving effort you know and and i don't think life is meant to be effortless i don't think it is i think some of the greatest miracles are going to require the most engagement and going back and working it through and getting it right and there is something about effort that humbles us and refines us and i think that's really important and i love that in 86 this reminded me of that lion you wrote about your dad on your post what was it just about you that lesson you learned from him about there's something about hard work get your fingernails and yes and all yeah that there is something fulfilling about cleaning out the garage on a saturday morning everyone we just knew on saturdays when we woke up my dad was going to make us go in the garage but you know what then he took us to hardee's did anyone else do that and you just were like i just did something and i think the father is the same where he's like you know what molten out 16 stones from a rock you you put some effort in that you do that because and then carry those 16 stones up the highest mountain you can find because when you get up to the top of that mountain you know we always think the miracle was the light and the stones we think that was the miracle the miracle was actually jesus appeared to mohamed moriancomer that's the miracle and i think to myself if if the effort is gonna allow me to see him in the flesh i choose the effort and i i every time i think about similar stories to that i also think the miracle is who somebody became in the process where god's like i don't i didn't want to be wikipedia to you i didn't want to be the answer man you know i wanted to be a father i wanted to be an exalter so that was my intention all along was not to give you an answer like i i i'm not a i'm not a trivia bank right i have them but i want to move you into something yeah i'm an experienced giver not an answer giver that's so good and that is so true so 86 is this um section it's about a parable from the new testament the wheat and the tares what's interesting about this is this is joseph's second time through the new testament working on the jst and it's fun i wrote oh and then he has another one later yeah oh yeah you have him yeah it's fun because he he did this matthew 13 the first time in the spring of 1831 and then we get here to section 86 it's december of 1832 it's 18 months later and i love that like he received revelation on the wheat and the tares in the spring right and he wrote it down he he had written it down because he was going back over that revelation and revising it which i think that's really important like somehow we have got to wrap our brains around the fact that revelation can be revised this right here points to that truth right right and and he adds additional insights to it and it's neat that it's it's right look in the summary thing where it says the lord gives the meaning of the parable the wheat and the tares where it's like really the lord's adding additional commentary onto this parable before in matthew 13 it seemed to be about individual people now in section 86 it's about almost like dispensations like the history like the parable is being reused for a different like lesson you know or a different use and and some new details that happen in here particularly the one that says oh that wheat is going to be gathered up first before the cleansing you know of the earth and that's one that you don't find originally in matthew 13 but a new one and he'll go back and add it later but which i love because first you have the matthew 13 then you have joseph going over it in the spring of 1831. then you have him revisit it again in december of 1832 and actually he will revisit it again in december of 1833 later in the doctrine and covenants we'll come to it again but also remember wilfred woodruff in 1894 is going to come back and revisit this and when he's speaking to um the temple workers excursion he's gonna say those angels that we talked about in 1860 or in section 86 that had not been released have actually been released now he says in 1894 that you love that the lord is like here let me give you a base in matthew 13. what year is that 32 a.d or whatever or 31 a.d and then he's like joseph let's revisit that in the spring of 1831. not to mention anyone else who revisited it you know along the way yeah and then again in 1832 and then we're going to revisit it again in 1833 and wilford woodruff is going to revisit that thing again in 1894 and i love this thought of revisiting revelation and this ongoing restoration that's the church we signed up for everyone is ongoing restoration which means don't get super comfortable with anything that's what it feels like to me because you know restoration requires sandpaper um in most cases right it it requires change it's it's not comfortable restoration is not comfortable and i love that the lord in the doctrine covenants is like watch me work with people who sin right we just did that in 64. watch me work with people who sin because i'm restoring those people just like i'm restoring this church and this revelation it's gonna be messy work but it's gonna grow you right it's gonna be your 16 stones to the top of the mountain it is gonna be that for every one of you because in the end hopefully we're gonna come to know the voice of the revelator yeah and and this part it could have been about anything but it's just neat that this particular revelation that we're learning all these lessons in just happens to be about the wheat and the tares which you remember in the original parable that the lord's trying to teach and say like oh you know this enemy is coming and sown all these weed um w-e-d like like um tear seeds in here and they're growing up with the wheat and in the beginning of wheat and tare's growing process they look almost identical to each other like it would be impossible yeah see because these are from i brought back with me from israel um this would obviously be the wheat and this is the tears and look how similar they are to each other i mean unless you are right on top of them if you just came up to a field they're just so similar yeah and that's even them like a little bit older right where they start to look a little different and they because they look so so similar to each other initially and and it's just that idea that he's trying to teach that just like wait don't call something a wheat or a tear because things need time to develop and they need time to grow up like prophecies do also prophecies are like people in that way right it's just like let before you call something wrong or before you call foul on something hold on because like you might be confused like it might have not had time to fully develop yet and that's just a really really neat parable for him to come back to as we're learning these lessons just that concept of um hold on if you if there are promises god has made to you you know in the early stages of development you don't want to call it out and say it's actually that was actually a terror you know that it didn't work it was wrong for my life um because it might end up being wheat uh it might end up being what carries you and nourishes you and keeps you alive it might be what was evidence of god's growing i mean planting and growing and then sowing like so just give it some time and and give people time and and i love when he says at the beginning of or at the end of this just what you're talking about there that he's like listen you you just continue in my goodness and i love the thought of that that he's like don't don't get so caught up in things don't worry if it's a failed prophecy don't think about what's that other um victim of an important nonsense don't get all caught up in the nonsense i love that there's a lot of nonsense going on at this time right there are things who people um were saying not just a failed prophecy but a failed prophet right is the language of what is happening at the time and i love when he says to them here's what's going to differentiate the wheat from the tares in this time period is continue in my goodness he says um and i love that word continue because it's like just abide in it dwell in it endure in this goodness right just stand here as a light unto the gentiles and i love the thought of that too just that what are we meant to be doing in this time in the time when people are talking about failed prophets and and all of the nonsense you could accidentally get caught up in all that you could but i love that he's like or you could illuminate you could shine you could make manifest the work of god on the earth you could choose to be that instead and then i love when he says this and it's almost like what you were talking about with the spirit because he talks about through the priesthood through this priesthood through these ordinances through the power of god come down from heaven you will become saviors unto my people right you'll become help and rescue and sucker and the defenders and the deliverers of people who would not know jesus unless you brought him to them and i just i love the thought of you can either be the tare you can and you can get caught up in the nonsense and the failed prophecies or the failed prophets or you could abide and dwell and endure and continue as someone who illuminates and shines and makes manifest and helps and suckers and delivers and defends and and all of these things um as we gather israel and when you think of both which do you want to be at the end of your life and i just think i want to be someone who carries prophecies in my pockets that's who i want to be yeah and someone who finds sunflowers and just sees like oh i can continue in his goodness and that is because his goodness is is very prevalent and very present among us so yeah so good see you next week

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