“Having Gone the Way of All the Earth” Alma 1:1 How final is death. That’s not a question. That’s a statement. As inhabitants of this earth, as partakers of this fall from a celestial to a telestial degree of life, energy, and glory (all of which are synonymous terms), we have committed ourselves to the […]
Jacob 5: Testimony of God’s Mercy
Jacob 5:48-60 In this section of verses the Lord and His servant decide to graft back the original branches, meanwhile only removing those wild ones that bear the MOST bitter fruit (v. 57). Do you hear what I hear? I hear the mercy and kindness of the Lord, His long-suffering, patience and forgiveness and tolerance. […]
LDS 12 Step Insights – Jacob 5
Jacob 5 — LDS 12 Step Book of Mormon Insights The fifth chapter of Jacob is second only to the Isaiah passages for being a mystery and headache to the casual Book of Mormon student. Olive orchards, olive trees; old ones, new ones, tame, wild, natural; plucking, grafting, planting and transplanting–what in the world does […]
Why Should I Fear My Savior?
3 Nephi 9:21 “Behold, I have come unto the world to bring redemption unto the world, to save the world from sin.” The Lord declared this same message in John 12:47, when He said, “And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the […]
Entering Into His Rest-Again
Good morning! Welcome to a new day! This morning, during my morning counsel with the Lord, He invited me to review the Patterns of Light, Step Six exercise for week 1, day 2. I found it grounded in Moroni 7:3. Moroni 7:3 “You . . . that are the peaceable followers of Christ, and that […]
Make Friends with Him
For the last 21 years, I’ve been blessed to live with one of my dearest friends, Phil Harrison. Many of you have heard him bear his unwavering testimony of our Savior in both song and spoken witness. As President Nelson lifts the standard high concerning hearing Christ’s counsel, I feel honored to share a portion […]
The Gift of Atonement
THE SUM AND THE SUBSTANCE OF THE WHOLE MATTER On pages 150-151 of The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Prophet Joseph explains just Who and What is being described in John 14:16-20. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for […]
Our Errand from the Lord
Jacob1:17 …having first obtained mine errand from the Lord. In this verse Jacob is sharing with us the actions he took after he first “obtained [his] errand from the Lord.” This is exactly what we need to do every day of our lives—obtain our errand from the Lord. We need to set aside […]
Zenos’s Allegory
Jacob 5:1-2 How fascinating to make note (in verse 1) that this allegory is actually Jacob rehearsing (for the next 76 verses!) the teaching and testimony of Zenos, a prophet “of old,” (Alma 33:3). In fact, looking back, we see that Nephi quoted at length from Zenos’s prophesies of Christ’s life (1 Nephi 19:9-16). And […]
Seeing the Lord’s Commitment
Jacob 5/Comment 1 The fifth chapter of Jacob is second only to the Isaiah passages for being a mystery and a headache to the casual Book of Mormon Student. Olive orchards, olive trees; old ones, new ones, tame, wild; natural; plucking, grafting, planting and transplanting; what in the world does all this have to do […]
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