This lesson really pulled at my heartstrings. When Emily talked about her pregnancy difficulties with Grace, I stopped to imagine Job's wife and her extreme loss. There isn't any talk of how she suffered. She delivered 10 children, nursed them, fed and cared for them, and with a strong wind, they were all taken away from her. I feel like she is also the unspoken hero in this story as well. It doesn't mention how Job is given 10 more children from the Lord, but we assume they were given to him by his wife. That alone is a big effort on her part to go through that again. This story of Job is a good reminder to always thank the Lord during our good moments as well as our difficult moments. Thank you David and Emily for helping us recognize these people as heroes and how we can be more like each one of them in our daily efforts to follow Christ.
Thank you! This year my marriage of 34 years ended as the wife of my youth chose another path. The "Don't Miss This" discussion on the story of Job was enlightening, uplifting, faith promoting. My hope is that I will be better able to endure the trials that come upon me as I focus my faith in Christ according to His plan, and that I will be able to come unto Him in both word and deed through daily repentance and that the trials of life will not deter me from my faith.
I never would have thought I could love the book of Job. Thank you for sharing all of your amazing insights. This book finally comes together for me and I love the lessons learned here! As mentioned in another comment…I too think about Job’s wife and the loss she experienced with loosing her children, everything that brought them stability, and then watching her husband suffer. I hope someday we get to hear her insight and perspective. Although not mentioned, she is a hero for me too!
Thank you for your lesson on Job. I have had a lot of losses in my life and I have listened to so many conference talks on trials that really did not help me very much. I have heard too many times,,...the other person got the miracle because they had enough faith. This perspective on Job and studying what his friends told him has been a great help and comfort to me. Thanks for your insights.
I have felt this too 💜. Hearing it's a lack of faith isn't alway helpful. I have chronic illnesses, and the "empathy fatigue" is real. People can usually only give empathy for a little while and then they are ready for the person to stop talking about it. It's uncomfortable to mourn with those that mourn, so they naturally want the person's suffering to end so theirs can end too. If they can't fix it, they start the blame game. Sending hugs and prayers for angels and those around you to help you feel peace and mend what was lost 💜🙏
Wow, now I have 44 favorite people is the Bible. I loved them all I can’t pick. Thank you reminding me of their stories and how I need to invite the Savior into my life too.
This lesson resonates with me so much. There are people in my life who the Lord has been teaching me through to be still and just mourn with them. My natural inclination is to fix and comfort. Some people don’t need or want that. Thank you for giving of your time, talents and gifts. It has made a difference to me and those I am led to. ♥️
Thank you for an amazing Summer of Heroes! I have loved learning about each hero -- and my love of the Old Testament has deepened immensely. The story of Jehoshaphat was particularly meaningful to me, and I loved how you taught the story of King David. I think the best video overall was the week on Ezra + Nehemiah -- it was an amazing lesson and all five of the heroes you highlighted were remarkable and (interestingly, unexpectedly) very relevant to our lives today. Thank you again!!
My sister’s husband just died, fairly young, and I have tried everything I could to be there for her, but after listening to what Elihu did, I see how off base I was! She is not very active and I didn’t want to push the “religious card”, but I am ready to do ALL the “what to do’s”and tell her about Job. How he let the Lord in and Christ did the rest. I have a whole new understanding of Job and what the Lord is trying to teach me. Thank you for your inspiration and insight, and all the work you do to help people like me get the most out of the scriptures!!!! Cheryl in Orem
You two have such an amazing perspective and way of verbalizing it as you go through the scriptures. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn from you! Thank you for sharing and teaching!!!! You bless so many people!!!
I have loved this Summer of Heroes! It is difficult to choose a favorite but it has to be the Angel that brought cake and rest to Elijah to help with this difficult journey. I hung the hero banners on the wall near where I study so I can reread them often. Thank you so much for teaching me and helping me understand and love the Old Testament!
My father who has a total of 212 posterity passed away recently and his descendants found out something astonishing at his funeral. All of them thought they were his favorite because he told them that they were his favorite. What they didn’t know was that he told every other grandchild and child that they were his favorite! Daddy was such a perfect representation of the Father and how he feels about each of us.
Well done..... definitely put it in a different perspective for me, which I needed. Always felt like the title of this lesson should be, "So you think you're having a bad week huh?".
This was so much fun! I have never loved the Old Testament, as I do now. I hung my heroes in no particular order in the archway of my house between my kitchen and dining room. Then each week I wold pull them down and put them in order with ribbons and lace between each week. My tall boy’s are ready for it to come down, but I’m short that long ribbon and lace doesn’t bother me at all!😂😂 Seriously even my less active kids have had questions and have learned something this summer. (Grand kids, too!) Thank you!!
Even when we cry out against God, and question Him…we can remember that God said Job sinned not through the whole of his trials…it’s not a sin to feel that or think that. How comforting.
I love Job. I am amazed that when discussing how all he had was restored double, no one talks about his family returning to 7 sons and 3 daughters. The miracle of birth at that age for him and his wife. It was years of pondering before I realized that eternally, his family was doubled. When he died being old and full of days he was reunited with his original 10 children. To rejoice together!
Oh, thank you David and Emily! I just knew that after I listened to you, you would be able to explain this section of the Bible the way the Lord wanted us to hear it. The beginning of Job is so quirky the way it is written, that I retold the preface of the story to my husband the way I thought it should be because I didn't believe it represented who God truly is (boasting about and basically waging one of his sons to the devil, among other things). I knew that I was most likely troubled and confounded due to the language and cultural barriers that I lacked understanding in, as well as the imperfections of the writings (which I know we all have...heaven help those who read our journals). Nevertheless, I was anxious to hear your take on it because I was confident you would iron out all the wrinkles and rough spots. And that you did! Now I believe my comprehension of Job is so clear and my understanding is far greater as to why the Lord needed us to have Job's story in our lives today, and I am ever so grateful that the Lord blessed us with you Emily and David, to teach us, especially when the writings of the Old Testament don't seem to match the testimony of who we know and believe and hope God to be. Indeed, He knows all things and I believe you both are crucial elements of light and learning in the Latter Days. Thank you for your efforts and your courage! The Lord immediately inspired me to turn to you when I was troubled about Job's story. And that is the God I know. Truly he comes to our aid in all things as we keep the door open to Him. Truly He is aware of us and answers our every prayers. And truly He is a God of tenderness, and loves us greater than we could possibly comprehend. He desires every one of us to receive the blessings and crowning glory He awaits to give us, if we choose, for He respects gracefully our free agency, even the free agency of Satan and his angels, but blesses us and equips us with power and aid to overcome the fiery darts of the adversary. God is hoping for us in our sojourn. He watches over us and hopes for us to return to Him. And Job's story helps offer us a perspective of that. It's not just a story about perseverance through trials. It's a story of God's boundless and immeasurable love for us as we journey through mortality.
I just love how you teach the scriptures. I play your videos on our big screen TV for family home evening or additional learning on Sundays. My teens love listening to you👌🤩
I was in Job's Daughters so have always had a fondness for the book of Job😊. "And in all the land we're no women found so fair as the daughters of Job"
My favorite hero is Nehemiah! He's always been one of my favorite stories in all of the scriptures, and I love the parallel between he and Amalekiah. I loved when you covered him and his story. I especially love that you mentioned he and Ezra wrote their books in first person.
As always, you have taught me and made me ponder. Looking back on the hard things in my life, He has always been there and like Emily, I wouldn’t trade what I’ve learned or who I have become. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and I hope that you both are blessed with many more years to come!!❤️
I loved the Summer of Heroes for myself, but it also gave me an opportunity to gather my older grandkids together on Zoom and testify of challenges and miracles and the wonder that is the Old Testament. I didn’t think I could love it more than I did, but now I have 44 extra reasons to love it….I’m looking forward to the New Testament with a deeper and new perspective. Ya’ll are such a wonderful influence in my life and I’m so thankful that you share your gifts with so many.
I think Jonathan might be one of my favorite heroes this year! I’ve learned about so many I didn’t know about and so it’s almost impossible to choose. Thank you for making it so hard!! You two are the best!
Hard to say what favorite. You guys did so great to present people who I didn’t know before or know very little. Jehosephat changed my life and Esther. Loved it all.
Thank you so much! I needed this message today, it was perfect timing. God is so good to work through wonderful messengers like both of you to give others hope and to encourage them to rely on the Lord through their trials. I'm probably on day number 230 or something of a major trial right now and the pain of it causes me to forget so easily what God is trying to show to me of His great love and mercy. Thank you for helping me to remember 💜
Thank you so much David & Emily! Job was a hard book for me to read and understand because it is so filled with the hard realities of life. Both of your inspired insights helped me immensely. I’m going to go back and reread the lesson with a new more hopeful perspective.
24:16 - Yes!!!! Beautifully said, Emily! God is greater than all & everything that we experience in mortality! Jesus promised, "I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you." When I am at my lowest, I cling to that promise. 🙏🏼😇💙
I love this, too! When I was in the hospital for my 10th major surgery, I knew Jesus was with me. I could not have survived and healed from another surgery... without his comfort, love, and support. I have a deeper relationship with HIM because of sore trials.
Pumpkin spice candles😉 I think all the heros are now my “favorites “ but Hezekiah is now so real to me since w I conquered his tunnel with you in May. Thanks for tour and thank you for the summer of Heros
Really enjoyed the heroes Love the books each I got books for reading this summer also Did not keep up Eyes had problems, but I think I got a way to keep up with keeping up my studying for C.F.M Job, is one of my favorites because He has such faith and love, not fear Because,God never puts on your plate than you can bear And others can learn more from others troubles and hearing about these troubles Even those who have passed away..
I just love watching you guys every week. Thank you for your time you put into this to minister and share with us, I have your app and I love your daily inspirational readings, just thank you and God bless you 🙏
Thanks for your perspective. I just met with a sister contemplating suicide last night and felt impressed to send this episode to her. God bless you both for doing this channel. I know he has blessed you with talents to teach the gospel.
Thank you both once again for your wisdom in the lessons of Job. I needed this lesson so badly this week. I appreciate how you relate it to our trials!❤️❤️❤️
It’s interesting that you mentioned it is actually Hebrew poetry because the story of job really gives me a “hermione reading the story of the deathly hallows” vibe. 😂
Thanks 🙏 again you both helped me especially because I’m facilitating this weeks lesson for our family Come Follow Me , like 42 vs 5 you both helped me see …my faves … 💪❤️🙏 I’d be lost 😞 without you 2
Thank you, thank you, thank you! For a long time I have expressed "this is part of mortality" in response to "bad stuff is a punishment" of some sort! That there is some specific lesson to be learned. And the same bad stuff will continue to happen until we learn that lesson! Or that our trials are "picked especially for us." I just have never been able to reconcile that with a loving Father. As a parent, I would not choose, let alone impose, specific trials on my children; would you? Now, David mentioned that some things have a causal relationship with consequences and those things are true and, in fact, we have been warned and counseled about those things. But, even if we follow that counsel perfectly, trials still happen! As I ponder my fortunate circumstances (where and when I was born, for instance), I knew that others in this world not so fortunate did not do anything wrong! Perhaps they were even stronger than I! Perhaps my blessings are because the Lord knows how weak I am and that I wouldn't have a chance if I were set in harder conditions! We, none of us, should be passing judgement on others. We should be attending the mote in our own eye and support those we can in any way we can to weather the storms of life. I have enjoyed the summer of heroes so so much. Thanks so much for the effort put into this series for us!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do the timeline and then providing it free of charge! I'm a visual learner and literally seeing how everything is related has dramatically changed this year's study for me. Thinking ahead to next year, is there a good resource that lines up the synoptic gospels in the New Testament? (I know about the one in the index but yours is so much clearer to me.) ☺️ I'd love to change out timeline next year to help me keep the stories straight.
Emily!, I thought a similar thing about Job story, I often wonder did we know particulars in our premortal life, or was it a broad we knew we would be tested but not sure how, crazy to think about the free agency of others and how their choices impact each person's story
This lesson is really hard to hear. Growing up the girls in my ward were “mean girls” giving and withholding friendship to control me. My mom told me to just be “nicer” to them, and they would be nicer to me. I always blamed myself for their rudeness because I wasn’t good enough. But over the years I know that is not the case, but when it’s talk to you over and over again it’s hard to not believe it. I also struggle with forgiving my mom, because she was trying to do the best that she knew.
I've had an experience with my cousin , who's husband had a terminal brain tumor, she was pregnant , had a young toddler , when I got to her, I didn't recognize her .
I wish we talked more about how Job wasn’t a real person and the book of Job is a parable or poetry. This was taught to me in a SS class and also a seminary training meeting by a member of the Seventy. That doesn’t mean we can’t learn many great truths from the story. It’s there for a reason but it’s in the poetry/literature section of the OT. And God making a deal with a Satan?? Never sat well with me until I got this perspective.
I was taught Job was real and I think he was, even though I do not think the part about Satan talking and given free rein to do that to his family is true. When the Lord spoke to Joseph in Liberty Jail he said that things were not as bad as Job as he still had friends. It seems cruel for the Lord to compare Joseph to a fictional character and I don't think he would do that.
I’ve worked with many many people from all walks of life over the last 40 years and I have never met a more shame-based, self recriminating self judging (and therefore other judging) people than LDS people. If one thing goes wrong in our lives we immediately start looking for ‘what we did wrong!’ It’s false humility at its worst. Certainly better than being totally unaccountable but it’s toxic nevertheless.
This is an Abrahamic test - all of us will need to go through it, if we want to enter into the rest of the Lord. "We will ALLOW Lucifer, our common enemy, to test them and to try them." I am not sure why Elihu is a "hero". He criticizes the older men, and then he teaches the prosperity gospel - that is false doctrine (Job 36:10-14).
Time Stamps:
00:00 *See the Board*
00:04 Welcome and Introduction
01:24 *Old Testament Timeline and Piece of the Week*
02:31 Background on Job + Emily's recommendation for reading Job
06:48 Intro to Job 1
07:15 Job 1 verse 1 + Note on symbols of prosperity
08:36 Job 1 verses 8-12, then overview of verses 13-19
10:58 Job 1 verses 20-22
12:14 Overview of Job 2
13:10 *Hero: Three Friends -- To Mourn and Comfort* (Job 2 verse 11-13)
14:40 Three Friends and Three Problems
16:43 Job's responses
20:22 *Hero: Elihu -- In God's Stead* (Job 32-33)
20:45 Job 32 verses 4-8
22:00 Job 33 verses 1-4, 6-8, 12, 26, and 28-30
26:00 Job 35 verse 14, then Job 37 verse 14
27:18 Re-cap of Elihu's advice
28:15 *Hero: Job*
29:00 Overview of Job 38
30:53 Job 19 verses 25-27, Job 23 verses 10-12, Job 13 verses 15-16, Job 31 verse 6
33:02 Reflection: What do you know about God?
33:58 Job 42 verses 2-3 and 5
35:54 Job 42 verses 10-12 and 17
37:22 *Hero: Jesus -- The Lord Blessed Job* (Job 42 verse 12)
I studied this while hooked up to my third of twelve chemo treatments… such a helpful perspective for me, right now, at this very time!
Sending hugs and prayers for heavenly and earthly angels to help you heal and feel peace during this trying time 💜💜💜💜💜
Praying for you Sister! You are so loved! You are inspiring. Peace be with you.
You can get through this hard time! I'll pray for you!
Love and prayers sent to you.
This lesson really pulled at my heartstrings. When Emily talked about her pregnancy difficulties with Grace, I stopped to imagine Job's wife and her extreme loss. There isn't any talk of how she suffered. She delivered 10 children, nursed them, fed and cared for them, and with a strong wind, they were all taken away from her. I feel like she is also the unspoken hero in this story as well. It doesn't mention how Job is given 10 more children from the Lord, but we assume they were given to him by his wife. That alone is a big effort on her part to go through that again. This story of Job is a good reminder to always thank the Lord during our good moments as well as our difficult moments. Thank you David and Emily for helping us recognize these people as heroes and how we can be more like each one of them in our daily efforts to follow Christ.
good point!!!! love these Don't Miss This lessons with Emily and David so inspiring!
Thank you! This year my marriage of 34 years ended as the wife of my youth chose another path. The "Don't Miss This" discussion on the story of Job was enlightening, uplifting, faith promoting. My hope is that I will be better able to endure the trials that come upon me as I focus my faith in Christ according to His plan, and that I will be able to come unto Him in both word and deed through daily repentance and that the trials of life will not deter me from my faith.
That's heartbreaking to hear😥. Sending love your way.
Awesome that you find Encouragement here in Don't Miss This!! I am with that as well.
God Bless your Foot steps!!
I never would have thought I could love the book of Job. Thank you for sharing all of your amazing insights. This book finally comes together for me and I love the lessons learned here!
As mentioned in another comment…I too think about Job’s wife and the loss she experienced with loosing her children, everything that brought them stability, and then watching her husband suffer. I hope someday we get to hear her insight and perspective. Although not mentioned, she is a hero for me too!
Beautiful wrap up at the end Brother (King) David.
I love, love, love Emily’s introduction to Job.
Everything makes more sense after listening to David and Emily talk about it 🥰
Thank you for your lesson on Job. I have had a lot of losses in my life and I have listened to so many conference talks on trials that really did not help me very much. I have heard too many times,,...the other person got the miracle because they had enough faith. This perspective on Job and studying what his friends told him has been a great help and comfort to me. Thanks for your insights.
I have felt this too 💜. Hearing it's a lack of faith isn't alway helpful. I have chronic illnesses, and the "empathy fatigue" is real. People can usually only give empathy for a little while and then they are ready for the person to stop talking about it. It's uncomfortable to mourn with those that mourn, so they naturally want the person's suffering to end so theirs can end too. If they can't fix it, they start the blame game. Sending hugs and prayers for angels and those around you to help you feel peace and mend what was lost 💜🙏
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Thank you for helping me find Jesus in each of these beautiful stories! Bless you.
Wow, now I have 44 favorite people is the Bible. I loved them all I can’t pick. Thank you reminding me of their stories and how I need to invite the Savior into my life too.
Oh, I think my favorite hero is Jael. Such courage and conviction. Love strong women in the scriptures so much!
This lesson resonates with me so much. There are people in my life who the Lord has been teaching me through to be still and just mourn with them. My natural inclination is to fix and comfort. Some people don’t need or want that. Thank you for giving of your time, talents and gifts. It has made a difference to me and those I am led to. ♥️
Thank you for an amazing Summer of Heroes! I have loved learning about each hero -- and my love of the Old Testament has deepened immensely. The story of Jehoshaphat was particularly meaningful to me, and I loved how you taught the story of King David. I think the best video overall was the week on Ezra + Nehemiah -- it was an amazing lesson and all five of the heroes you highlighted were remarkable and (interestingly, unexpectedly) very relevant to our lives today. Thank you again!!
My sister’s husband just died, fairly young, and I have tried everything I could to be there for her, but after listening to what Elihu did, I see how off base I was! She is not very active and I didn’t want to push the “religious card”, but I am ready to do ALL the “what to do’s”and tell her about Job. How he let the Lord in and Christ did the rest. I have a whole new understanding of Job and what the Lord is trying to teach me. Thank you for your inspiration and insight, and all the work you do to help people like me get the most out of the scriptures!!!! Cheryl in Orem
You two have such an amazing perspective and way of verbalizing it as you go through the scriptures. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn from you! Thank you for sharing and teaching!!!! You bless so many people!!!
I have loved this Summer of Heroes! It is difficult to choose a favorite but it has to be the Angel that brought cake and rest to Elijah to help with this difficult journey. I hung the hero banners on the wall near where I study so I can reread them often. Thank you so much for teaching me and helping me understand and love the Old Testament!
My father who has a total of 212 posterity passed away recently and his descendants found out something astonishing at his funeral. All of them thought they were his favorite because he told them that they were his favorite. What they didn’t know was that he told every other grandchild and child that they were his favorite! Daddy was such a perfect representation of the Father and how he feels about each of us.
Well done..... definitely put it in a different perspective for me, which I needed. Always felt like the title of this lesson should be, "So you think you're having a bad week huh?".
This was so much fun! I have never loved the Old Testament, as I do now. I hung my heroes in no particular order in the archway of my house between my kitchen and dining room. Then each week I wold pull them down and put them in order with ribbons and lace between each week.
My tall boy’s are ready for it to come down, but I’m short that long ribbon and lace doesn’t bother me at all!😂😂
Seriously even my less active kids have had questions and have learned something this summer. (Grand kids, too!) Thank you!!
Even when we cry out against God, and question Him…we can remember that God said Job sinned not through the whole of his trials…it’s not a sin to feel that or think that. How comforting.
I love Job. I am amazed that when discussing how all he had was restored double, no one talks about his family returning to 7 sons and 3 daughters. The miracle of birth at that age for him and his wife. It was years of pondering before I realized that eternally, his family was doubled. When he died being old and full of days he was reunited with his original 10 children. To rejoice together!
Oh, the cake Angel, 100%!!! And a God that gives seconds! You guys are the best!!!
Oh, thank you David and Emily! I just knew that after I listened to you, you would be able to explain this section of the Bible the way the Lord wanted us to hear it. The beginning of Job is so quirky the way it is written, that I retold the preface of the story to my husband the way I thought it should be because I didn't believe it represented who God truly is (boasting about and basically waging one of his sons to the devil, among other things). I knew that I was most likely troubled and confounded due to the language and cultural barriers that I lacked understanding in, as well as the imperfections of the writings (which I know we all have...heaven help those who read our journals). Nevertheless, I was anxious to hear your take on it because I was confident you would iron out all the wrinkles and rough spots. And that you did! Now I believe my comprehension of Job is so clear and my understanding is far greater as to why the Lord needed us to have Job's story in our lives today, and I am ever so grateful that the Lord blessed us with you Emily and David, to teach us, especially when the writings of the Old Testament don't seem to match the testimony of who we know and believe and hope God to be. Indeed, He knows all things and I believe you both are crucial elements of light and learning in the Latter Days. Thank you for your efforts and your courage! The Lord immediately inspired me to turn to you when I was troubled about Job's story. And that is the God I know. Truly he comes to our aid in all things as we keep the door open to Him. Truly He is aware of us and answers our every prayers. And truly He is a God of tenderness, and loves us greater than we could possibly comprehend. He desires every one of us to receive the blessings and crowning glory He awaits to give us, if we choose, for He respects gracefully our free agency, even the free agency of Satan and his angels, but blesses us and equips us with power and aid to overcome the fiery darts of the adversary. God is hoping for us in our sojourn. He watches over us and hopes for us to return to Him. And Job's story helps offer us a perspective of that. It's not just a story about perseverance through trials. It's a story of God's boundless and immeasurable love for us as we journey through mortality.
I just love how you teach the scriptures. I play your videos on our big screen TV for family home evening or additional learning on Sundays. My teens love listening to you👌🤩
"..the land of Oz!"
"...SAtn"
"Slaughtered by. Pirates"
Only part way through, but David's on fire today 😆👌
I was in Job's Daughters so have always had a fondness for the book of Job😊. "And in all the land we're no women found so fair as the daughters of Job"
Thank you Emily for your explanation of Job's story. It does make more sense if you include the preexistence and after life.
I love your videos. I watch them every week! They help put me in a good frame of mind.
My favorite hero is Nehemiah! He's always been one of my favorite stories in all of the scriptures, and I love the parallel between he and Amalekiah. I loved when you covered him and his story. I especially love that you mentioned he and Ezra wrote their books in first person.
Gideon. I loved how he was working with God even though his army kept being dwindled to nothing.
As always, you have taught me and made me ponder. Looking back on the hard things in my life, He has always been there and like Emily, I wouldn’t trade what I’ve learned or who I have become. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and I hope that you both are blessed with many more years to come!!❤️
I loved the Summer of Heroes for myself, but it also gave me an opportunity to gather my older grandkids together on Zoom and testify of challenges and miracles and the wonder that is the Old Testament. I didn’t think I could love it more than I did, but now I have 44 extra reasons to love it….I’m looking forward to the New Testament with a deeper and new perspective. Ya’ll are such a wonderful influence in my life and I’m so thankful that you share your gifts with so many.
I think Jonathan might be one of my favorite heroes this year! I’ve learned about so many I didn’t know about and so it’s almost impossible to choose. Thank you for making it so hard!! You two are the best!
Hard to say what favorite. You guys did so great to present people who I didn’t know before or know very little.
Jehosephat changed my life and Esther. Loved it all.
Thank you so much! I needed this message today, it was perfect timing. God is so good to work through wonderful messengers like both of you to give others hope and to encourage them to rely on the Lord through their trials. I'm probably on day number 230 or something of a major trial right now and the pain of it causes me to forget so easily what God is trying to show to me of His great love and mercy. Thank you for helping me to remember 💜
Thank you so much David & Emily! Job was a hard book for me to read and understand because it is so filled with the hard realities of life. Both of your inspired insights helped me immensely. I’m going to go back and reread the lesson with a new more hopeful perspective.
So grateful for you both and ALL you do.
❤️ Jo
24:16 - Yes!!!! Beautifully said, Emily! God is greater than all & everything that we experience in mortality!
Jesus promised, "I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you."
When I am at my lowest, I cling to that promise. 🙏🏼😇💙
I love this, too! When I was in the hospital for my 10th major surgery, I knew Jesus was with me. I could not have survived and healed from another surgery... without his comfort, love, and support. I have a deeper relationship with HIM because of sore trials.
@@christinelabrum8257 💙🙏🏼😇
Love the timeline! Love the journal! Love the videos! Thank you soooo much!
Pumpkin spice candles😉 I think all the heros are now my “favorites “ but Hezekiah is now so real to me since w I conquered his tunnel with you in May. Thanks for tour and thank you for the summer of Heros
Really enjoyed the heroes
Love the books each
I got books for reading this summer also
Did not keep up
Eyes had problems, but I think I got a way to keep up with keeping up my studying for C.F.M
Job, is one of my favorites because He has such faith and love, not fear
Because,God never puts on your plate than you can bear
And others can learn more from others troubles and hearing about these troubles
Even those who have passed away..
I just love watching you guys every week. Thank you for your time you put into this to minister and share with us, I have your app and I love your daily inspirational readings, just thank you and God bless you 🙏
Thanks for your perspective. I just met with a sister contemplating suicide last night and felt impressed to send this episode to her. God bless you both for doing this channel. I know he has blessed you with talents to teach the gospel.
Jesus is #1, but Esther is a close second. Thank you I enjoyed the Summer of Heroes. Great lessons!
It was so nice to meet David Butler here in Fiji
Thank you both once again for your wisdom in the lessons of Job. I needed this lesson so badly this week. I appreciate how you relate it to our trials!❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for making these videos! Game changer for studying for me!
All of them! Love you guys and Emily, I love your collared top!!!💖
This was a great lesson. Thank you for your insights
Thank you for a beautiful spirit filled lesson! Thank you both. Greetings from Wales. 🏴
30:06 “sometimes pains and suffering causes to forget the lessons we know”
Oooh really loved this one. Shared it with my family and a friend. Thank you for your thoughts on Job and all you guys do!
It’s interesting that you mentioned it is actually Hebrew poetry because the story of job really gives me a “hermione reading the story of the deathly hallows” vibe. 😂
David you make living the gospel and studying the gospel seem so cool and so fun. So does Emily but today David you have made me laugh so much
Thanks 🙏 again you both helped me especially because I’m facilitating this weeks lesson for our family Come Follow Me , like 42 vs 5 you both helped me see …my faves … 💪❤️🙏 I’d be lost 😞 without you 2
38:02 the only reason Job, Esther, David is a hero. Because they invited the Lord into their story. I love that a lot.
Incredible ❤️
Thank you very much 😍👏
Thank you, thank you, thank you! For a long time I have expressed "this is part of mortality" in response to "bad stuff is a punishment" of some sort! That there is some specific lesson to be learned. And the same bad stuff will continue to happen until we learn that lesson! Or that our trials are "picked especially for us." I just have never been able to reconcile that with a loving Father. As a parent, I would not choose, let alone impose, specific trials on my children; would you? Now, David mentioned that some things have a causal relationship with consequences and those things are true and, in fact, we have been warned and counseled about those things. But, even if we follow that counsel perfectly, trials still happen! As I ponder my fortunate circumstances (where and when I was born, for instance), I knew that others in this world not so fortunate did not do anything wrong! Perhaps they were even stronger than I! Perhaps my blessings are because the Lord knows how weak I am and that I wouldn't have a chance if I were set in harder conditions! We, none of us, should be passing judgement on others. We should be attending the mote in our own eye and support those we can in any way we can to weather the storms of life. I have enjoyed the summer of heroes so so much. Thanks so much for the effort put into this series for us!
There are so many but I think Jael is my favorite.
Me too Emily, I'm scared of Job.
Thank you so much for taking the time to do the timeline and then providing it free of charge! I'm a visual learner and literally seeing how everything is related has dramatically changed this year's study for me. Thinking ahead to next year, is there a good resource that lines up the synoptic gospels in the New Testament? (I know about the one in the index but yours is so much clearer to me.) ☺️ I'd love to change out timeline next year to help me keep the stories straight.
Emily!, I thought a similar thing about Job story, I often wonder did we know particulars in our premortal life, or was it a broad we knew we would be tested but not sure how, crazy to think about the free agency of others and how their choices impact each person's story
My 10 yr old daughter made her own woman hero flag and insisted we incorporated it on our banner. It was a tent stake.
This lesson is really hard to hear. Growing up the girls in my ward were “mean girls” giving and withholding friendship to control me. My mom told me to just be “nicer” to them, and they would be nicer to me. I always blamed myself for their rudeness because I wasn’t good enough. But over the years I know that is not the case, but when it’s talk to you over and over again it’s hard to not believe it.
I also struggle with forgiving my mom, because she was trying to do the best that she knew.
Following your metaphor of a preexistence, Elihu represents the Savior. Maybe you say that; I am still listening.
I've had an experience with my cousin , who's husband had a terminal brain tumor, she was pregnant , had a young toddler , when I got to her, I didn't recognize her .
I wish we talked more about how Job wasn’t a real person and the book of Job is a parable or poetry. This was taught to me in a SS class and also a seminary training meeting by a member of the Seventy. That doesn’t mean we can’t learn many great truths from the story. It’s there for a reason but it’s in the poetry/literature section of the OT. And God making a deal with a Satan?? Never sat well with me until I got this perspective.
I was taught Job was real and I think he was, even though I do not think the part about Satan talking and given free rein to do that to his family is true. When the Lord spoke to Joseph in Liberty Jail he said that things were not as bad as Job as he still had friends. It seems cruel for the Lord to compare Joseph to a fictional character and I don't think he would do that.
Esther!!!!
Hey... Don't be wishing away summer so fast. Thats my online critique from this lesson haha.
I wonder if there is any correlation between the three accusers and the three temptations Christ experienced from Satan?
I was a bit disappointed that the Come follow Me curriculum was not followed and I got a bit lost.
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I read Job differently ... that all this that happened to Job took place in mortality.
If you're a girl, how about field hockey, or any other fall sport;)
I’ve worked with many many people from all walks of life over the last 40 years and I have never met a more shame-based, self recriminating self judging (and therefore other judging) people than LDS people. If one thing goes wrong in our lives we immediately start looking for ‘what we did wrong!’ It’s false humility at its worst. Certainly better than being totally unaccountable but it’s toxic nevertheless.
This is an Abrahamic test - all of us will need to go through it, if we want to enter into the rest of the Lord. "We will ALLOW Lucifer, our common enemy, to test them and to try them." I am not sure why Elihu is a "hero". He criticizes the older men, and then he teaches the prosperity gospel - that is false doctrine (Job 36:10-14).
"If you're a girl?" What the heck?