Book of Mormon Spotlight #93: How Am I Doing? Part Four
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- "Do ye exercise faith in the redemption of him who created you?"
A bite-sized commentary for this year's Come, Follow Me curriculum.
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I love your videos. They are just right for me. I love your understanding and explaining clearly the scriptures. Keep up the videos I don't always comment but I always like and ❤❤love to listen to you.
Thank you for your kind words.
~1 min mark: "if you are longing for Zion seeking to bring forth Zion it's a it's chances are really good that you have the the Holy Ghost with you you're doing the Lord's work." Assuming a 40% activity rate, there are 6.8 million people who really think they are seeking to bring forth Zion by going to church weekly, going to the temple often, and paying tithing. How many of them have the Holy Ghost with them? How many are actually building Zion?
If you have desire, you are called to the work. But until you reconcile your life to that desire by feeling and acting as the Lord would in your place, you will not operate by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost, because God will not dwell in unholy temples. Those who willingly feel or act differently than they sincerely believe God would in their place cannot be operating by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost, because that is precisely what they are acting contrary to.
I think the order of your statement is backwards. If you have the Holy Ghost with you, you will do the Lord's work.
That's why I quoted D&C 4. It lays out what you are saying, to serve God with everything we have (verse 2). I remember in one of your videos, you said that God wants to give us all that He has, but He won't if we don't give Him all that we have and naturally, this includes all that we are. It lines up with what you mentioned about reconciling our life to doing what Jesus would do in our place. "Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work..." It begins with a desire. And I agree that if we have actually received the Holy Ghost, we will do the Lord's work. I worded it the way I did (in my weakness for speaking) because as you mentioned, so few people are seeking to bring forth Zion. Therefore, those that actually are seeking to bring forth Zion probably DO have the Holy Ghost. The order of my statement is backwards, but it certainly fits because if people don't have the Holy Ghost, they're probably not really seeking to bring forth Zion and just think they are. This is why I asked the viewer in the first video of this Alma 5 series, if you have spiritually been born of God, how do you know? These questions are guiding the listener along. Alma's questions are addressing the same things you just said in a different way, or at least that's how I see it. This is why I am expounding this series of questions. They encourage the viewer to assess whether they have actually been born again and see whether they have been or are reconciling themselves to God as you say. This is why I then quoted 1 Nephi 13:37. So if 3=1+2, then 1+2=3. It's the same thing even though the order is expressed differently. It was just my way of showing the proof.
@@LatterdayLamanite thanks for the reply. I don't mean to nitpick. But one thing I totally disagree with you on: you're a great speaker. I really enjoy these videos.
@RobertSmith-fk8cy Thank you, Rob. Your kind words and those from a few others have given me strength to continue, whereas recently, I have seriously considered deleting all my social media.