Come Follow Me - 2 Nephi 6-10 (part 2): "O How Great the Plan of Our God!"
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Part 2 of a 2-part study of 2 Nephi 6-10 (this part will cover chapters 9-10). This lesson focuses on Book of Mormon contraries, scattering & gathering, death & resurrection, the Infinite Atonement, the awful monster, O's and Woes, being spiritually minded, the keeper of the gate, naming Christ, reconciliation, and more. Join Jared Halverson for your weekly Come Follow Me study of the Book of Mormon!
0:00 Introduction
0:41 Book of Mormon Contraries
3:26 Scattering & Gathering, Death & Resurrection
11:50 Merciful Plan & Infinite Atonement
18:30 Overcoming the Awful Monster
26:38 The Way of Deliverance
37:24 Resurrection & Restoration
50:57 Woes to the Wicked
56:13 Vainness, Frailty, & Foolishness
59:56 Spiritually-Minded
1:06:01 The Keeper of the Gate
1:15:35 Holding Onto Our Sins
1:24:18 Come and Buy
1:32:32 Naming Christ
1:41:22 Choosing the Lord
1:48:33 Reconciled by Works, Saved by Grace
1:58:06 Conclusion
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You met my son Levi and took a picture with him with your own phone and sent it to him. I am his dad, thank you for being so gracious to take time to do that even though you are so very busy. I don’t know how you do it all but I am grateful that you do. What a blessing it is to have a brother like you so educated and willing to share you insights. I like to read ahead marking and thinking about what I am reading and then listen and watch you go over the same chapters - when I do this you always without fail shed additional light and understanding. So grateful for the sacrifice that you make that helps many thousands become better disciples. THANK YOU!
AMÉN!, wish I could express myself like you do, thank you!
I had the SAME thought! What a wonderful community of "Unshaken" saints we have! 😇
I am a 84 year old widow in Denmark I have listened to you for years. Thank you for the time and effort you spent on sharing your Gospel insights with us. God Bless you and your family for all that you lay on the alter for the benifit of hi children.
I love you aunti!
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Denmark is where my pioneer ancestors came from. I am so happy to hear from a glorious saint in Denmark! Love from farm country, Utah.
Thank you for NOT scaling down your videos. You give us the whole loaf of bread and not just the crumbs. 😊 I can't imagine the sacrifice in time this takes but there are so many of us that are grateful for your unselfish service in helping us better understand our Savior and our God through your masterful teaching of the scriptures. Glod bless you and your family.
I agree. thank you for sharing this opinion
I doubt you will read this but I need to articulate the following. I enjoy your (and others’) podcasts. I always multitask while I am listening (getting ready for day, laundry, dishes, etc.) This particular session started as usual while I worked but about a fourth into it, the spirit of your impassioned teaching grabbed my soul and I had to stop my busywork and literally lie down and listen - fully and without distraction. I felt enveloped in “The Spirit” as it bore a strong and illuminating witness to me of the truth of Jacob’s sermon. I felt removed from the earth and in a sacred space. Thank you Brother Halverson for all you do and your worthiness which allows the Lord to work through you.
So grateful for your work. I never would have been able to learn as much without you.
Thank you for your loving wisdom of Our Heavenly Father ! God Bless you & your family!❤
Jared, thank you for your masterful and glorious discussion on the saving grace of Jesus Christ - including the Empowerment of the Lord’s grace -along with the ultimate Salvation by His grace. Oh, it is a real joy to be taught the gospel, undefiled in its purity and truth. It’s not often we hear these truths with such clarity. Thank you!
Brother Halverson, Thank you so much! This was so wonderful how you went in such depth with 2 Nephi 9. It is one of my very favorite chapters in the Book of Mormon! Because one day when I read it , it had a hole different meaning and I suddenly understood the very end of the Endowment session meaning. The Holy one of Israel is our Savior and when I picture the Savior embracing me on that day by the gate of the Celestial Kingdom I tear up. Now I can visualize it as I connect it to our Endowment. Elder Tad Calister wrote the book The Infinite
Atonement and here is a quote from it: “ Elder Neil A. Maxwell suggest that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home. It is a touching, intimate thought, expressed as follows by Elder Maxwell: “ If there is any imagery, upon which I would focus, as I close, it is two scriptures from the book of Mormon. The one in which we are reminded that Jesus himself is the gatekeeper, and that “he employee, no servant there.” ( 2 Nephi 9:41) I will tell you out of the conviction of my soul, what I think the major reason is,” Why, he employees no servant there”,
As contained in another book of Mormon, scripture which says he waits for you “ with open arms.”
( Mormon 6:17) That is why he is there! he waits for you “with open arms“ that imagery is too powerful to brush your side… It is imagery that should work itself into the very center core of one mind-a rendezvous in pending, a moment in time and space, the likes of which there is none other. And that rendezvous is a reality. I certify that to you. He does await for us with open arms, because his love for us is perfect.”
Beautiful. Thanks for posting this.
What a beautiful image to keep in our remembrance! It makes going home the returning to an old friend, precious and beloved and anxiously waited for. I can't wait for His hug!!!!
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Thank you so much!!
My first comment ever about your classes is Thank You! I am at home most of the time because of illness. The perfect length for each class is how long you want it to be. So kind of you to do this and share. I often, for years now, break up sessions over a few days to fully contemplate. Excited about studying the Book of Mormon this year!
Beautifully said, Brother Halverson! O how great the plan of our God! I was blown away by the idea of our transgressions being ours and turning them over to Christ.
Thank you I am loving getting into my scriptures with you!
Thank you so much for your time. Time is a precious thing and I'm so glad you give so much of yours to us. Understanding so much more of the scriptures.
2 Nephi 9 is one of my absolute favorite chapters in the Book of Mormon. It is my go to chapter whenever I talk about the atonement, and the plan of Salvation. I love that Jacob shows us what we are saved from in great detail, and I imagine Christ as the Hero he is
The plan really is quite perfect and masterful. it is the One way, the only way. "is there no other way/" "there is no other way"
I loved Elder Scott. He might have always preached repentance, but he was so gentle in his delivery. I never actually felt like he was preaching repentance, but that he loved us so much, he was inviting us to simply follow the Savior. How I miss him!
Good morning everyone
Good morning Brother Jared Halverson ❤
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So very beautiful Bro. Jared. The Spirit of our Lord extends His long arms of love encircling each of us through Jacob and through your words, fusing for us in our hearts a fusion of all teachings of the Christ in our scriptures! Your teachings indeed “mark our foreheads (eyes and ears and minds) as well as implant Jacob’s words in our hearts. May we be unshaken forever. Thank you dear teacher. ❤
I can see now why Jared you are called to be a gospel Doctrine teacher because you do a wonderful job. You and a few others are chosen, all of you agree raise your hand . Now you all are chosen to teach us the scriptures for the rest of your life. Thank U-all for the precious words in the scriptures.
Thank you, thank you, thank you🙇🏻♂️🙏🏻
Amen
I testify that when we study to perceive the knowledge between the lines of scripture, we are shown PURE revelation to one who has dedicated his life to spread the Word of God.That realization is given by the Holy Spirit so that we might realize that the same blessing is available to all of us!
Thanks to all of you who listen to prophetic words as revisited here. Because if you, we have access to one of the Lords great teachers.
God bless you, every one!🙏🏼
Thank you so much for your love and knowledge of the scriptures, I really appreciate it, I learned and gained so much. 😍🎈
You’re so smart about the scriptures. I want to know all of it and understand it completely. Thank you for sharing!!
AMEN!
I do enjoy your commentary, I tend to watch and listen to podcasts that are around an hour long because My' attention span is very short. Thank you for sacrificing your time and effort to educate us spiritually
I am so glad you are still teaching the long version each week. Every moment is so helpful. Please hold that format until the beginning of your Unshaken series.
Perhaps I'm not up on my mythology (or have forgotten) but when you said "three-headed dog" I thought of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.,,, doesn't really matter what analogy we use as long as we understand the concepts of physical death and spiritual death, and Creation, Fall and Atonement. I'm slow, but I think I get it thanks to you.
Thank you brother I'm beginning to feel excited in learning and studying the Book of Mormon this year.
One definition of strait is intimate - I believe that one way of understanding is that my relationship with Christ must be intimate
A big hello from Belgium Brother Jared! I’m part if the “silent majority” who listen and enjoy your program weekly, but who rarely comment. As a psychiatrist, I truly appreciate your hard earned sensitivity to mental health issues. Thank you for that! I like your take on Jacob who probably does have a lot of childhood “baggage”. Just a thought on 2 Nephi 9:14: I don’t read that verse as simply Jacob’s humility or toxic perfectionism, but rather as a wonderful proving of contraries! Why can’t we be both conscious of our guilt, uncleanness and nakedness and at the same time have a knowledge of our righteousness and be clothed with purity through the Savior’s Atoning Gift? In fact, the perfect knowledge of both keeps us eternally humble and grateful.
Thank you again for all you share with us!
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It's not our labors that's going to earn The Grace Of The Lord but it takes a lot of work and effort to learn the Lord's ways and desires even repentance. If we're going to follow Christ to the top of the mountain, sure we will get exhausted. The Yoke of Christ is easy if we will ask. I would rather be following Christ up the mountain then walking downhill easy path to destruction of the great and spacious building of the world. The things of Christ takes effort and if that is not a major job just to stay humble. It is hard work for me just to stay humble and repent. I don't want any baggage or be bound with chains when I leave this world🙏 when I see my life review, I know I will have to answer for some things but not the bulk of everything. This has been a great lesson.
I am absolutely obsessed with your podcasts. I’ve been listening all year and when teaching RS recently, told all the sisters to listen too. Maggie DuPree raised her hand and said you are her cousin. I already had her on a pedestal as our gospel doctrine teacher, but now I really do. Your knowledge of the scriptures and your passion for teaching them blows me away. I can feel your words as they are spoken with so much emotion. I want your brain just got one day so I can copy and paste all your knowledge into my own brain! My daughter thinks I’ve joined a new cult because I talk about what you say so often. I listen each week once to learn and then a second time to write everything down in my journal version of the Book of Mormon. Please never stop doing this. You are changing my life and so many others. Thank you x 1,000,000 for devoting your life to learning about the scriptures and the gospel and then teaching others. Your devoted and appreciative cult follower, Suzy Plantamura 😂😂😂
I laughed this morning when my “grandparent-quotes of the day calendar” read, “God’s character is a combination of loving parent and tender hearted grandparent.(no source) sounded like a contrary of Justice and Mercy to me😂
2 Nephi 9 has always been one of my favorite chapters in the Book of Mormon. Thank you for making it even more special with your insights. ❤
Listen from New Zealand how great is God Plan ❤❤❤
Jared, your teaching that God's foresight revealed that we would require a fall from Creation in order to grow on earth and prepare to return and live with him used the phrase "like Him" [somewhere shortly before 00:16:00] and it hit me as a double entendre:
1. To grow through our experiences to where we manifest in our own lives many of the attributes of God [your intent and my expectation]; and also
2. To realize (usually after reaching parenthood ourselves) that a parent's perspective in His effort to correct and steer us through a potential pitfall has been rooted in love and wisdom, thereby instantaneously transforming our reaction from one of resentment to one of overwhelming appreciation for His tender nurture: we suddenly "like" our parents: their guidance becomes sought, rather than resisted.
In my declining years, these AHA nuances are a source of rejoicing. Thank you again!
Thx for a great lesson. I REALLY miss the verse at a time and you came awfully close this time. Another BIG THANKS!!!!!
Focus on Jesus Christ... In whom all things are circumscribed.
Thank you for that beautiful invitation to obey by focusing on Jesus Christ.
As a young man when I first read about the Law of Restoration, I gathered a knowledge laden in truth that hope and faith without action will ultimately lead to disappointment. To renew this today empowers desire to discipline my own choices. I love the comment about SMILING. Finally.
We need to re- member that’s for sure. Thanks for this wonderful as always!
I have watched and loved unshaken since you began these videos. I do miss the length that you used to be but it is OK it gives me time to watch other come follow me videos and do other studies on my own. I will say though that my I based my testimony of the restore gospel on Isaiah. So I love Isaiah.
Thank you so much for doing this. You have given me so many insights I wanted to share with you one I recently received. Strait can also mean “A position of difficulty, perplexity, distress, or need” or stressful. This definition gives the description of the strait and narrow path puts greater emphasis on the need for the iron rod to help guide us.
Another great cross reference to always remember when we consider 2 Nephi 25:23 is Alma 24:10-11, which clarifies that “all we can do” is to repent.
Ok, this was a good one! Either you’re getting better and more connected to the Holy Ghost or I am.
Thanks you Brother Halverson for your commentary on 2 Nephi 9: 45-46 . Very profound indeed! Wonderful insight!
It’s timestamp: 1:21:43
Wonderful as always! ☀️❤️
I got curious and searched the entire Old Testament for the use of “Christ”. I was blown away to discover that it was not there - even Isaiah didn’t know the name Christ - so of course Jacob wouldn’t have known it without the angel telling him. Another witness of the truthfulness of the BOM! Matthew chapter one verse one is the first time we see the name Christ (if my research was correct). Something I never thought about.
Thank you this was so beautiful and inspiring
Thank you for a wonderful lesson. I thank you for your sacrifice to walk slowly through these chapters. I love you heart that is compelled to give us the fullness of your lessons. God Bless You!!❤❤❤❤
Thank you
Thank you for your efforts, love the perspective! 💙
The mention of a feast of fat things reminds me of a great feast in manga I read. And paired with the song about it from it's anime, i thought; is this a thing on which i should not spend my strength? how does this fiction relate to the gospel "feast of fat things"?
I just now got the answer (with a tear to my eye and a pang in my heart). The Party is for him who saved us, and we are grateful to him, but he is throwing it for us because he loves us all. He commissioned the feast for our enjoyment, but we will praise him all throughout. And mayhaps, in and by our feasting, we will spiritually bring all things together in one.
If someone reading this comment knows the whole story I refer to, you can feel how well it can be used to teach various gospel principles.
I would love to hear you discuss this sometime. In my discussions with my evangelical friends, they seem to believe “once saved, always saved”. That once you accept Christ as your savior, you cannot fall from grace, or He saves us IN our sins, because of course, we are all sinners. This weeks study mentioned consequences of our sins. I don’t quite know how to explain our beliefs in regard to this, especially from a biblical only perspective. I shared Ezekiel 33, and was told that only applied to those living under the law of Moses, or before Christ. Any help you can give would be appreciated so I can explain this better. Thank you for all your help already as I navigate these conversations. The “after all you can do” is of course a huge turn off for them. You helped me understand it so much better.
I have been absolutely loving your thoughts for years now. I thought I was in love with the scriptures before, but now... oh my heart. I do have a selfish and humble suggestion. Would you please not shy away from verse by verse until you get to where you started during the pandemic? I will be able to go back and listen to your verse by verse for those scriptures, but I would never get the verse by verse of the beginning of the Book of Mormon, and that makes my heart sad. You are amazing. I love how your study, your discernment and your invitation to feast has helped me invite life changing truths into my life.
I had never heard the SMILE acronym, but it is great. Regarding carnally minded and a similar acronym of CMILE. I would just say that you use the soft sound of the letter C, it would also sound like smile and would be carnally minded is life exciting. which of course would be a Satan counterfeit to draw us away. Of course, there are probably many other E words that would fit the acronym, maybe even better, but thought you could add this to your teaching chest…life ending…life earthbound…life exiting
I'm thinking... "the mysteries... of Godliness."
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So isn't it interesting that there appears to be three contraries in the dog. Death hell and the devil.
I've been noticing the three contrary pattern in Isaiah chapters 48 and 49. In some places it's almost every verse.
Now, it appears to me that, three countries is very powerful.
Two to push against each other and the third one to press toward heaven. I call them 'Holy Contraries '.
So grateful for the opportunity to be instructed as I listen, by the spirit.
It just dawned on me that if the rest of Christianity was right, if Adam and Eve hadn’t eaten the fruit that they would have had children and we’d all be living in paradise, then we’d forever be stuck in paradise because no one in paradise would ever crucify their God. The atonement would never have happened. There we’d be, in a lower kingdom forever.
Within the last 30 years, there was a prophet who, "took off his garments, and shook them before us, to rid himself of our sins". He used such powerful warning words!
Does anyone remember that? Who was that?
Strait is the way. Christ is the way and desires an intimate relationship
enjoy your presentation very much. you mentioned Joseph Smith's comment that hell was a feeling of remourse, can you send the souce of the quote? Thanks Keep up the great work.
Great lessens . I’m wondering if the great and abominable church is everyone and everything that fights against Zion which includes the great and spacious building . That would pretty much include most all churches and even some members who leave . Yet all religions can be in the millennium. Some think it is apostates those who do not keep their covenants . Do most all other religions fight against Zion? Or maybe any governments or institutions ? Any one have any ideas ?
He was stating that any church - isn’t necessarily a religion…. But any culture, dogma, sect, teachings which takes us away from Christ…would be considered the great abominable church…
For those experiencing the second death, you said it is "devastating." (54.09) But, isn't the devastation more like a criminal who gets caught and they're upset for being caught, but not upset or even sorry for the wrongs performed?
Man am I struggling g to keep up! 😅
Alhamdulillah 🙏🏻
My heart.
I keep crying and saying
"I can't do this God, I cant!"
And I keep hearing back...
I love you Jenny, I love you
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Brother Halverson,
I had a near death experience in 2010
The feeling we get in the Temple is like the Earth compared to all of the known universe!
I can't even convey it!
There's a golden podium in heaven where everyone goes to read those golden plates.
And our mother in heaven...
I can only be silent and cry
Wallahi
If the women of this church knew the reward that awaits them they would fall to their knees weeping in Joy and Graditude
And their husband's will be a reward I have no words for!
No one gets less!
Masha Ellah
I’ve wondered why God created Eden. If man had to be in a fallen world why not create a Telestial world to begin with? Why fall to that condition? Could it be that Adam and Eve represent each of us and the choice we made pre-mortally to fall, to come to a Telestial world because we chose Father’s plan? We point the finger at them forgetting that we each made that same decision to come to earth, to know good from evil, and to be redeemed by our Savior.
born once die twice born twice die once
I like how Dan McClellan swapped "after" with "despite", so it reads, "It is by grace ye are saved despite all ye can do."
Does Grace really come after all you can do
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Thank you ever so much! It’s my joy and pleasure to listen and watch your teachings every morning, the whole podcast.
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