Come Follow Me - Alma 36-38: Real Repentance

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  • @paulmcardle-p9t
    @paulmcardle-p9t 4 місяці тому +6

    Hi Jared , just want to say i love your sensitivity towards those with aniexty and fears

  • @lesley4215
    @lesley4215 4 місяці тому +14

    Everything in my life is upside down and backwards except my testimony. The path is hard right now but I know that I can come here and have an oasis! I can be spiritually fed and uplifted and I've got to tell you that means the world to me!! Thank you Bro. Hal.❤

    • @PeteBooboo
      @PeteBooboo 4 місяці тому +2

      The Lord must love you very much to put obstacles in your way for your learning. Always be grateful for these obstacles. Ask the Lord to strengthen you and whatever you do don't look at the negative portion of your life unless it has taught you a valuable lesson. Thank you for sharing your story, it means a lot to so many!

  • @davidspjut9365
    @davidspjut9365 4 місяці тому +39

    Brother Jared….as one who has been racked, as one who has been harrowed up in the realization of my sins…as one who has felt the merciful clasping of my Saviors hand…I have found this lesson taught by you today, such an amazing balm to my soul!! This has helped me to more fully understand the eternal merciful heart of Our Father…through the atoning sacrifice of His Only Begotten Son😇❤️. Once again, as one of the Unshaken classroom…my heart has been filled❤️. We love you Jared…Keep up the good work my brother👍. David

  • @michelehearns5325
    @michelehearns5325 4 місяці тому +16

    I too have been racked with torment and harrowed up by the thoughts of every sin I ever committed, complete with suicidal ideation - and just like Alma, through repentance, I remember my pains no more. The difference is my harrowing took over 10 years. The healing power of The Atonement is miraculous and the relief, the joy that follows is truly exquisite. Thank you for yet another brilliant lesson that produced many tears - of joy. You impart so much precious knowledge every lesson you teach - and this is my second time round with you in these chapters. "Thank you" just feels so inadequate!

  • @angiemendoza5711
    @angiemendoza5711 4 місяці тому +49

    I’m in recovery. I struggled for 6 years trying to stay clean! Until I humbled myself and went to my bishop for help in true repentance the obsession FINALLY left me! I’m so grateful for repentance, I love Jesus! Great lesson!!

    • @karenpullan
      @karenpullan 4 місяці тому +1

      Om

    • @karenpullan
      @karenpullan 4 місяці тому +1

      Onk I I I

    • @PeteBooboo
      @PeteBooboo 4 місяці тому +2

      That sounds wonderful, the more we lean on Christ and ask for strength. The faster recovery well-being. Have faith and patience. Myself I can promise you that.

    • @davidspjut9365
      @davidspjut9365 4 місяці тому +1

      @@angiemendoza5711 there is nothing like having that new breath of freedom filled with your soul😇❤️. I now am grateful for this breath every day…one day of eternity at a time👍. Keep up the good work…The Lord will never leave us alone….He understands this weight far better than we do😇. David

  • @dougevans3092
    @dougevans3092 4 місяці тому

    Deeply grateful Jared! I worked with Rick Stoddard at Camblin Steel in 2010 - great man with amazing gratitude for you and your family that he shared with me ❤! Doug Evans in St George

  • @zinawood4055
    @zinawood4055 4 місяці тому

    I am so thankful that you boldly address issues. I am too vulnerable - your words keep me grounded. thankZ

  • @WithCharity
    @WithCharity 4 місяці тому +5

    I was that missionary too !! I loved my mission and have learned so much from Shiblon. He is an Unsung Hero in the Book of Mormon with Abish and Gideon. I love finding the lessons of these Unsung Heroes - Thank You Bro H

  • @jaredahsing4452
    @jaredahsing4452 4 місяці тому +1

    This lesson seemed tailor-made for me. My ears were ready to hear a lesson about Shiblon & overzealous ways. I have been edified. I thank you so much for your diligence & temperance in sharing the word of God with us. May you be blessed 10-fold🙏🏻

  • @RDmary84
    @RDmary84 4 місяці тому +8

    Perfect. I had been searching for an answer & this is it!
    Be loving.
    Temper the zeal.
    I don’t change people, the Lord does that.
    Thank you!!

  • @ScottsChristmasChannel
    @ScottsChristmasChannel 5 місяців тому +34

    The subject of suicide really strikes home with me. While living in some of my deepest sins, I too thought of taking my own life, especially when my darkest sins were exposed to the light! The weight of my sins literally drove me to my knees. It was then that the Spirit whispered to me to take responsibility for what I had done, and things would work out the best they possibly could. I did and the Lord has been extremely merciful with me and His grace has strengthened me to repent. But my association with suicide does not end there as earlier this month a good friend took his own life. It has devastated his family and friends. He was surrounded by so many who loved him. But for some reason he could not see nor feel that.

    • @bondezachbonde8076
      @bondezachbonde8076 5 місяців тому +6

      Thank you for sharing 🤍

    • @lorenewalker1462
      @lorenewalker1462 4 місяці тому +1

      That's so sad!

    • @PeteBooboo
      @PeteBooboo 4 місяці тому +4

      Thank you for sharing testimony on growth. It matters most when we recognize our ungodly acts of sin and desire to repent. Repentance is the key to happiness. I can promise you that. After we repent constantly life becomes peaceful and we see things in a different light of joy. That's when we can really live a good life of happiness. I love your story. It reminds me of my past that I once had and I will never return back to the heartache and pain. Repentance is the key to happiness.

  • @RaeLeaTracy
    @RaeLeaTracy 4 місяці тому +10

    Love the way you speak about the addiction recovery and Women’s support programs…so grateful❣️

  • @FerranSilvestre-b6r
    @FerranSilvestre-b6r 4 місяці тому +2

    Beautiful class about redemption and conversion! I'm always my wife and myself enjoying your classes ! Gracias por la claridad en sus enseñanzas y ejemplos tan didácticos!
    Saludos des de Barcelona

    • @pottsford
      @pottsford 4 місяці тому

      Presidente Silvestre!

  • @justjamie6458
    @justjamie6458 4 місяці тому +4

    I love you example of psychosomatic symptoms and anesthesia in the poison. That is exactly what i expected

  • @dawnjones8203
    @dawnjones8203 5 місяців тому +9

    im crying so hard i cant breathe!!!! thank you!

  • @establishingzion688
    @establishingzion688 4 місяці тому +7

    I have been in hard trials, extreme physical difficulties for a long time. I have found that there is nothing on this earth that can save me. Only the Savior can. And catching hold of that thought is an hourly necessity for me. I have found that reading the Psalms to be a great way to keep Him in my thoughts continually, as well as many of the ones you shared as well.

  • @donjones5463
    @donjones5463 4 місяці тому +6

    So grateful for the inspired teaching at the 44 minute mark! I have real issues with my wandering thoughts and visuals. Out of nowhere, unclean or anxiety thoughts come into my mind at the most inappropriate times. I will use this part of your lesson to try to steer my thoughts to the Savior at the least hint of “straying”. Really inspired.

  • @arrluk8154
    @arrluk8154 4 місяці тому +9

    One trick/hack/strategy I learned a couple years ago when a mantra feels like a lie: bridge thoughts. You actually hinted at one as you described the experience of your mother-in-law. Insert the word “maybe” into the mantra at first. Plant a seed of desire to believe that the mantra could possibly be true. Then if you can start to believe the bridge thought, move from there to the actual mantra and it feels a lot more natural. I hope this helps anyone else who struggles with negative self-talk 😊

  • @costley6716
    @costley6716 4 місяці тому +7

    This is outstanding Brother Halverson. Thank so much for all you do for me and for all of God’s children who will listen to your testimony and teachings of the Book of Mormon!

  • @melaniewichstrom1665
    @melaniewichstrom1665 4 місяці тому +8

    Thank you Brother Jared. I lost my husband to suicide and if only he cried to the Lord as Alma did. I love your lessons.

  • @triciaarnold4118
    @triciaarnold4118 4 місяці тому +9

    I had a friend, severely abused, who, with gun in hand, had the Spirit whisper to her, "You know this won't help". She put down the gun, but having to keep on living,... She's done a great job at putting her life together since. I know what it's like to be harrowed up by all my "sins "(I had been abused, also, and thought that I wasn't even able to do anything good.}, but the Lord reminded me that it would in injure my dad and my husband (both fathers had committed suicide), and that I knew my children loved and needed me. It was so hard to go on. Fortunately, I did, too. I never realized that I had experienced what Alma had, but because of mental illness, not because of any terrible sins. Thank you for explaining this so well.

    • @PeteBooboo
      @PeteBooboo 4 місяці тому +1

      We're grateful no one committed suicide, because you are needed desperately to do good here upon the Earth. We all depend on you and others for your help and your wisdom in your growth of the extreme. With your help we can help others with problems. People think suicide is the answer to all your problems, which only stunt your growth in Christ and being able to see the great wonders of the creation after you leave this world. You can take your misery into eternity so fix it now immortality with repentance and the love of Jesus Christ Our Lord, ask for strength to overcome. With faith and patience we can accomplish miracles.

  • @JulieGuo-g7z
    @JulieGuo-g7z 4 місяці тому +1

    This is one of favorite classes. ❤

  • @DeniseAng-od1kz
    @DeniseAng-od1kz 4 місяці тому +2

    Thank you I appreciate all your ability to touch my heart with your words
    Such a good teacher the Lord knew where to call you .😊 I'm small I know but where ever I go the grass is greener still 😊

  • @debramack5151
    @debramack5151 4 місяці тому +2

    Thanks again Bro Jared. I went back to 2020 also. Such a great lesson re Shiblon too

  • @annsharp2570
    @annsharp2570 4 місяці тому +2

    Wow so beautiful.Very powerful. Thank you.

  • @annfritz2753
    @annfritz2753 4 місяці тому +2

    Thank you for this great lesson and profound insights!

  • @TheMkbosley
    @TheMkbosley 4 місяці тому +8

    I have felt wanting to cease to exist. Never to have been and never to be. It seems impossible and there is no light....none...no way out and no way through. Knowing what Christ was and did for us did not help because i would NEVER measure up. He could never love me. I made it through. It took years but I made it through

    • @irokruok
      @irokruok 4 місяці тому +3

      I've been there, your comment took me back to a time when I was pleading, if there was any way to dissolve my spirit matter, and banish any spark of intelligence that remained, into the darkest corner of creation and erase any memory of me so that I, my life, would not have ever been an offence to Heavenly Father, and those who have been impacted in any way negatively by my existence.
      It's been over 25 years, but I remember those days clearly.

    • @curtiste3235
      @curtiste3235 4 місяці тому

      I think it happens much more often than we know.
      Glad you are still here with us.❤

  • @wandashipley6171
    @wandashipley6171 5 місяців тому +7

    Your lesson was amazing..
    Thank you...

  • @nanelf8002
    @nanelf8002 4 місяці тому +1

    I love the One Liners! D&C 6:36 Is my favorite since 1991....it has given me strength, to keep moving forward, it still does! I also love D&C 84:88, it's not a one-liner , but I feel loved whenever I read it! (I always had them with me, written on a small piece of paper).

  • @generalpatton838
    @generalpatton838 4 місяці тому +5

    Bro Jared, you make the Gospel sound cool and appealing.

  • @davidspjut9365
    @davidspjut9365 4 місяці тому +4

    My favorite Unshaken lesson to date❤️😇

  • @phillipgraehl4665
    @phillipgraehl4665 4 місяці тому +4

    If a Pharisee were to read Alma 37:5 he would daily take the plates down from the shelf and rub and polish each leaf to maintain the shine of reflected light. Over the years the rubbing and polishing would continue until the characters were worn completely away. No matter, they are shiny and bright in the sun. Eventually each plate would become so thin that the plates would crumble away. Oh well we didn't understand them anyway! Now think of a brand new quadruple combination fresh out of the box. Pristine cover. Crisp clean pages. Fast forward a lifetime and this book now has a worn cover with the gold embossing all but gone. On every now discolored page are under linings, notes in the margins, tear stains on many pages. The brightness that the plates retain is from that light that they shower forth upon those who study and teach from them. This is not a reflected light from the sun, but rather an eternal light from the Son. (Another perspective)

  • @ScottsChristmasChannel
    @ScottsChristmasChannel 4 місяці тому +5

    Thank You for your mention of the Chruch's Addiction Recovery Program. More members and leaders need to be aware of this program. We like to say that ARP really stands for Advanced Repentance Program! The new and more accurate name for the program is Healing through the Savior: The Addiction Recovery Program

  • @lesley4215
    @lesley4215 4 місяці тому +1

    P as I have been struggling I have been looking around need for earthly remedies. The spirit has guided me to look to the Lord in all things. As with Alma I have found salvation in the Lord add to a previous death experience I got to be in his embrace. Being stuck back here on Earth these past 7 years I forgotten to lean on him rather than the arm of man. Thank you brother!❤❤

  • @mrsmorris265
    @mrsmorris265 4 місяці тому +1

    Some of us do leave our phones home when we go to church because the temptation to check out mentally is too great.

  • @gingermcgovern5682
    @gingermcgovern5682 4 місяці тому

    My patriarchal blessing says bridal your passions and appetites. Your perspective is exactly what my problem is. I get too passionate about my faith and have been overbearing and judgmental many times. Thanks for the reminder to bridle it and show more love instead!

  • @dawnjones8203
    @dawnjones8203 5 місяців тому +4

    wow! i have and am still there. i get it. Thank you!!!

  • @akdollface007
    @akdollface007 4 місяці тому +2

    1:02:00 Just like our phones get our fingerprints all over them with use, I think the very act of touching and interacting/reading/studying the plates and copying them for the people would keep the plates polished as well. Rather than dull and unused…

  • @littlefire1976
    @littlefire1976 4 місяці тому +5

    We do recover.❤

  • @gandalfgrey7255
    @gandalfgrey7255 4 місяці тому +3

    Would you provide a link to your academic articles, especially the one on Shiblon? thanks

  • @novawarren5089
    @novawarren5089 5 місяців тому +3

    Brother Jared Halverson
    Thank you for each class 0:34

  • @judileemhuis1723
    @judileemhuis1723 4 місяці тому +2

    Hugh Nibley used to say….”zeal without knowledge”. Ha ha, just pray to be humble and see what happens next….wow, I did on my mission and the Lord answered my prayer immediately!!! Our refinement takes application of our knowledge and that takes time and great patience.🥴😅😇

  • @paulagraves6517
    @paulagraves6517 5 місяців тому +9

    So good. So many thoughts go through my head but I find myself more on the justice side of life because if I rely to much on the mercy then I find myself relaxing a bit. I look at how Joseph Smith was chastised and never want to swing the pendulum to fare on the mercy side. And yet I find myself in so much need of it. 🤪😬😄😂

    • @arrluk8154
      @arrluk8154 4 місяці тому +4

      This is a constant struggle for me, to err too much on side of the pendulum and have to swing back. I’m trying to get the right push to the other side so that it stabilizes and stops swinging altogether. For 20 years I spent way too much time on the justice side and now that I have found God’s mercy I am trying to make sure I am not presuming upon it. I think that’s why repentance is a daily task, not just because we sin every day but because that pendulum keeps swinging.

  • @tomboyer9571
    @tomboyer9571 4 місяці тому +4

    Sorry, I don't see any reference, relationship or association between what I read in these chapters and mental illness, suicide or depression. What I see is sincere and deep sorrow for serious sins which is part of repentance. I have never associated repentance with any of the mental health issues. Further, I see Alma being a powerful example of superb mental capacity wherein he is able to create such incredible writing including the numerous chiasmus passages and leave with us a powerful testimony, rich understanding of the atonement and a marvelous legacy of service. I think he was paying attention to his father Alma as a young boy and did hear about the Savior in his home. Sin often results in a forgetting of the most important gospel features and his repentance process brought about a recall of those primary home teachings.

  • @desireeclark1503
    @desireeclark1503 4 місяці тому +2

    Love your lesson!

  • @harmonywoodrome9911
    @harmonywoodrome9911 4 місяці тому +2

    Thank you so much.😍👏

  • @danholmquist7747
    @danholmquist7747 4 місяці тому +2

    I hope my boys will listen to this broadcast and will see this comment and let me know they saw it

    • @lorenewalker1462
      @lorenewalker1462 4 місяці тому +1

      I understand how you feel. I wish I could get my adult children to listen.

    • @PeteBooboo
      @PeteBooboo 4 місяці тому +1

      Prayer matters more than what you think especially for your children and grandchildren.

  • @dawnjones8203
    @dawnjones8203 5 місяців тому +3

    wow! thank you!

  • @julieblackham7098
    @julieblackham7098 4 місяці тому

    I would love to read your paper on Siblon, if you will please provide the link mentioned. Your efforts of teaching have been a life line for me as the scriptures and character of God have become much more understandable and meaningful; a foundation to hold on to during challenging times. Thank you.

  • @havenlyfamily
    @havenlyfamily 5 місяців тому +7

    "The penitent man is humble. Penitent man is humble… kneels before God. Kneel!” And right as he says it, two razor sharp blades whirl from the stone walls, Indy narrowly kneeling and rolling to safety."😂😮 Indiana Jones

  • @treearbol4241
    @treearbol4241 4 місяці тому +2

    You can read about a possible explanation of keepning the scriptures bright in Sorensen's Mormon Codex. This was literal in Mesoamerica culture.

  • @holicow1
    @holicow1 4 місяці тому

    In Alma 37:32 Alma tells Hellman "trust not those secret plans unto this people," what are your thoughts on those plans? Are they the mysteries of God? Is he telling him to stay away from the secret combinations of men? Is he telling him simply to be careful in giving too much of Gods doings, or plans going forward? Thank you Greg

  • @mikebdad
    @mikebdad 4 місяці тому +5

    Food for your soul. Kevin Himes amd Ken Bladwin both survived teying to commit suidide by jumping of the Golden Gate bridge. Both men stated that the second they let go of the rail they both instantly regretted the decision, and d had a clarity of mind. What changed? What opened their mind? What left? Just a thought. Jesus is always the answer. And he lives.

    • @picklesadventures
      @picklesadventures 4 місяці тому

      ..... 🤦🤦🤦 You know, I'm sure plenty of others got "clarity of mind" too. But, god didnt save them so we don't know that they were left to die. Just like we can't possibly know... What's the point. You'll believe whatever you tell yourself... I hate when people take a real topic and try to pile superstition and co-incidence on top and go "yeah! See?"

  • @helenwilloughby650
    @helenwilloughby650 4 місяці тому +2

    Shiblon only lived 3 years after he received charge of records

  • @Steelblaidd
    @Steelblaidd 4 місяці тому

    Alma 37:15-16 seam to me to be quoted in D&C 3.

  • @IvyDodd-t4l
    @IvyDodd-t4l 5 місяців тому +29

    So I thought this would be a great diversion from the horrid political goings on, but instead it brought to front the awful state of sin, the country is so suffering mostly unknowingly

    • @melindas9147
      @melindas9147 5 місяців тому +4

      I feel your statement so much!

    • @shawnbrigance3993
      @shawnbrigance3993 4 місяці тому +4

      Yes, and the thoughts of the consequences of a just God upon an unrepented Nation has also been in my thoughts.

  • @eveelane2806
    @eveelane2806 4 місяці тому

    They’re gaslighting you‼️ your opening says “hello chicken Saints “ gotta it is funny 😆

  • @sherryware
    @sherryware 4 місяці тому

    Did your Jewish friend get his scriptures back?

  • @hollayevladimiroff131
    @hollayevladimiroff131 5 місяців тому +4

    Jesus in the bible says, "Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish" Luke13:5 Yes, perish, and it would be wise to repent to the Jesus in the bible who is not created in a heaven, and is not a spirit child. Jesus is omnipresent, omnipotent, He is a sovereign God, He is eternal, the Alpha and the Omega, the first and last, He is God.

    • @Steelblaidd
      @Steelblaidd 4 місяці тому

      Yes. And He wants our commitment and obedience. Not our doctrinal precision.

  • @myronrichardson3291
    @myronrichardson3291 4 місяці тому

    Did not Jesus commit suicide? Was He the only exception to suicide being insane? Or is everyone who lays down his life for his friends truly sane?

  • @amelittaberretta9109
    @amelittaberretta9109 5 місяців тому

    I have repented and punished.

  • @karenpullan
    @karenpullan 4 місяці тому

    lol koooooooo