Come Follow Me - 2 Nephi 20-25 (part 2): "Rejoice in Christ"
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- Part 2 of a 2-part study of 2 Nephi 20-25 (this part will cover chapter 25). This lesson focuses on understanding Isaiah, Nephi's plain prophecy, no other Messiah, saved by grace, all we can do, works of reconciliation, the deadness of the law, the right way, and more. Join Jared Halverson for your weekly Come Follow Me study of the Book of Mormon!
0:00 Introduction
0:37 Understanding Isaiah
15:24 Nephi's Plain Prophecy
24:12 No Other Messiah
33:45 Recording the Role of Christ
42:16 Grace After All We Can Do
53:45 The Works of Reconciliation
1:07:27 The Deadness of the Law
1:20:05 Focused Solely on Christ
1:28:25 The Right Way
1:33:14 Conclusion
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Good morning Beautiful Saints, may we learn and love the scriptures and grab on to the Iron rod like never before and may Heavenly Father bless Brother Halverson and his beautiful family with all the blessings they have coming to them for their love and dedication to the Gospel.
Thank you! For your faith, and your awesome comment
I thank our Father in Heaven and our Savior Jesus Christ for blessing us, with you brother Halverson. I am grateful for your gift so be able to explain the doctrine the way you do. I am truly Grateful. May our Father in Heaven and our Savior Jesus Christ continue to bless you and your family as you continue to serve faithfully the way you do to teach the truth.❤
I love the way Jared explains it, all of his podcasts. And he's so humble about it and you can tell it's about us, not about himself. And I don't mind when he goes 2-3 hours. I just feel pulled into the time period that he's teaching on.
Salvation is free, we hope for exaltation.
We are developing the skills to be perfect, even as our father in heaven is perfect.
Thank you Bro. Halverson. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your insights and teaching. I understand the scriptures and love them so much more than I ever have before.
Oh, Brother Halverson! Thank you for loving our Savior, Jesus Christ, and thank you for opening my eyes, heart, and understanding. I am so excited to understand Isaiah better this week then the last time I read the Book Of Mormon! What a powerful message about grace and works! What a much needed reminder of scrupulosity and toxicity! I always have incredible aha moments with you, but today brought me to my knees. Brother Halverson and any listener that may get this, I used to quit callings. I NEVER turned one down, but I often quit them. I quit them because I would go with faith that I was called to grow and learn the calling, but I would hit a wall! I didn't realize that right around that corner was the "trial of my faith" I thought I was failing and bringing others down with me. Today I have a different look at it all. I understand my imperfectness with empathy and knowing I will keep going because...."Wax on. Wax off!" Practice will make me better and my efforts to strive to be my best will be enough. I will never quit a calling because of not being enough ever again. Thank you for being such a compassionate, intelligent, kind, loving teacher. Thank you for caring enough to get into our heads and hearts and finding us to take your hand to the promised land. You are so loved! Short dive or deep dive, you have another joyful student. ❤
Beautiful post! I felt this lesson also!
Thanks again brother Jared, so appreciate you and your family, for all your time and love and talent for sharing the scriptures.
Thank-you, brother Halverson, for going verse by verse until we come to where you had covered this material in your podcasts from four years ago. It is truly appreciated. 🙏🤗❤️
The hour went unnoticed. I enjoyed the lessons. So grateful for your time to help us understand better. Thank you for what you do and all that are with you to make each lesson thought provoking which should make us think and ask and act. Ii is my prayer that my love for my Savior Jesus Christ will continue to be steadfast and immovable. Grateful immensely for His amazing grace.
God bless you all and all.of us❤❤❤.
Christ is a center of our lives. Thank you so much😍👏
That karate kid analogy was spot on. I was just trying to teach 2 Nephi 25:23 to my kids and I was struggling. I wish I had watched this first. Ive always loved that scene in kk. Now i Iove it even more.
Jesus Christ is everything! He wins. Thanks for the great lesson.
Jared, I needed this clarification on works and faith. I did not know how confused I was about it and why living the gospel was not bringing the joy I had before my baptism when I did trust in Christ to lead me along, I got lost in works and when I could no longer work in the same ways, I could not understand the point of my life. I look forward now to living with more joy, Thanks
Love the longer videos to know more about Isaiah. Grateful for you and all the time you put in for us to learn more. Thank you so much for all your wisdom. Bless you.
I truly never thought I’d ever tell the spirit as I studied the Isaiah chapters! I was wrong - I have felt the spirit so strongly and felt God love so strong this week!! Thank you Brother Halverson. Your Videos have changed my life!
Thank you again for another beautiful and inspired lesson. I love Isaiah! Never expected to have that feeling. Thank you for enlightening yet again a bunch of strangers, but brothers and sisters in God.
I want to thank you all for making this video possible and I'm sure the Lord would approve of these teachings with no doubt. I'm just grateful we have this technology too enjoy even if we want to watch these lessons over and over again, we couldn't do that 40 years ago. Thanks to the Savior Jesus Christ and the scriptures even our teachers🙏
Thanks you bro Halverson I am grateful for you to take the time out to teachers us the book of Mormon ❤❤
One thing that really helped me understand what works are for was a personal revelation that taught me that mortality is the place where we practice becoming like Jesus Christ. That helps ease the minds of those of us who have “test anxiety”, where we are so worried about failing that it’s all we can focus on. But if we think of it as practice, that helps ease some of the worry. Because practice makes perfect, but we probably won’t get there in this life, and if we do, it is only through God’s grace that it happened. So if we decide we’re never going to practice or we’re not going to try very hard to practice, then we won’t get very far. God’s grace isn’t magic. It can’t transform us from wicked to righteous in the blink of an eye. But it can transform us from guilty to innocent in the blink of an eye.
The difference between wickedness and righteousness isn’t the presence or absence of sin. It’s who we turn to after we sin. Do we listen to Satan who tells us we’ll never measure up? Or do we listen to Christ? He tells us, “Try again, and if it feels too hard, let me help you. That’s what I’m here for is to help you get better and better.” Keep practicing, brothers and sisters. You’ll get there if you trust in Christ.
This is my very favorite of all of your podcasts and speeches out there! I can NOT save myself! I am so grateful for this new understanding in my life. I am learning, not earning.
Brother Halverson i thank you so much for this beautiful lessons. It's been such a blessing to follow verse by verse, each one so rich in its content, there's no way I could figure out on my own the meaning since you're explaining Israel's culture, geography and its surroundings. I'm so grateful that we have this lessons recorded so I can go back and replay the missed words to clearly get concepts and ideas. I'm thankful for your dedication and educational background and your service to the Lord, you are ministering to thousands through these lessons. What a best way to serve the Lord.
I know I am late but...
So incredibly beautiful and articulate.
Thank you yet again.
Thanks to all those who have and are fighting the 'good fight' to get the attention of this fractured and sinful person. Especially t h e grace, goodness and inspiration of our dear Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Such beautiful words of truth. I pray we may truly look unto Christ in all things.
"All things betrayest thee,
Which betrayest me."
Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses. 😊
The Karate Kid explanation was used at our Stake General Priesthood meeting this last Sunday.
1/3 of the way in and I feel comfortable enough to not only say thank you for this much but also for what is to come!
For this is life eternal to know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent. So it would seem then,,that living the Commandments is a good way to get to know our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ - it also helps us to be like them.
Also we will discover the ways of happiness. The Lord's Commandments are wonderful for many reasons. His yoke is light and His burden is easy. And by keeping His Commandments, we also show The Lord that we love Him.
Thank you for this wonderful lesson.
Are these thoughts in keeping with this lesson Brother Halverson?
Your thoughts, comments seem helpful to me! Thank you for your faith! Keep it growing! :) @@carolynkeiser5545
Best. Lesson. Ever.❤
Thanks bro Halverson yet again!
Thanks brother Halverson!
Well done as always. I love your sense of humor!! ❤️
Just remember that when we know Jesus Christ, our greatest desire is to do good works. We have joy in doing good works for him.
Wowzers!!! Thank you for the explanation. So helpful and insightful.
One of the things the Lord has asked me to do is to sit with Him and learn of Him. As I have sat listening, reading along, with paper and pen in hand, the Lord has opened my understanding on the concepts He wanted to teach me.
There have been times when He has given me particular images that don’t fully make sense until later on. This was one of those moments. It’s all based on perspective and how we look at it.
“Purify your motives and your attitude will change. Your perspective on work will be sanctified.” LOVE IT!!!
God has told me that I had made a pact with those on the other side that I would do their work for them and to keep this in mind as I went to the temple.
Now, I have a better understanding of what that was meant to do, and it’s also a pattern that I can use to help reframe, or “purify” my motives. 🤗
I was intrigued by the word "after" when you talk about "we are saved by grace, after all we can do". Thanks for the perspective of after as despite. I looked up the word after in the 1828 dictionary and if we consider "all" as a noun and "after" a preposition, we could apply the 3. meaning that states "in pursuit or search of". I like this option too because we are "in persuit of" doing our part of returning to Heavenly Father (all we can do) and because we cannot do that by ourselves(we are fallen), then His grace will be what saves us.
Outstanding!!! Learned much. . .reconciliation and Grace. New looks and free to do HIs works without checking "the box."
Yes! ( i have felt for some time ~that there are things I believe that are incorrect & that I have discounted things that are true ~I've been praying for the wisdom to know the difference Thank you ! I have recently" come back to the church " ~ after "Jumping through too many hoops"~ i Needed This ~ 🗝Clarity ~ Grace ~More Peace 🕊
Brother Jared, have you considered directing, Book of Mormon ", movies?
You are very entertaining 😂
Thank you so very much.
You explain with examples that help me understand, i.e.: Daniel-son's karate lessons, (I was a teenager in the 80's). I loved-loved the one-liners, but the one that stood out to me the most was 2 Nephi 22:2. Thank you for sharing your amazing testimony of the Grace of Jesus Christ.
You truly have a gift of teaching, thank you for your work to develop and share that gift with us! I feel so inspired and uplifted ❤
I put puzzles together while listening to USS. There are times l listen l understand. Putting puzzles go together and understanding at the same time...Boom!
I appreciate all of the time and effort and obvious years of sincere study you have put into this & your willingness to share. This is so deep & applies to EVERYTHING. I am a leader for our young men and have struggled to understand the new Come Follow Me paradigm of teaching as well as our new youth program. It felt so confusing. Where did all of our check boxes go? What about our merit badges? Why is this CFM lesson not going as deep or specific as I am used to?
Its because there is a new way and that new way is 100% inspired. We are to search these things out on our own and make the lessons and programs into what they deserve to be WITHOUT check boxes and badges telling us every little step we aught to take. (the old law has been fulfilled & taught & prepped us for the NEW!) Using our agency is essential. THANK YOU.
Thank you for clearing some things up for me
Most excellent. Thank you!
Reconciling to God and His will each day , is all we can do, and we have to do it each and every day, and that is work!
Wonderful teachings, I love it!!
Brother Halverson, I have been watch your videos since the beginning. I love what you have to say, so much that my wall is covered in sticky notes with your quotes. Thank you for your knowledge and understanding of the gospel, that my understanding and knowledge of the gospel has increased.
My own personal thought on 2 Nephi 25:23. After all we can do means qualifying with the help of the Lord to receive his full gift of grace. Helaman 5:11 says Jesus is given power to save us because of repentance. If we won't repent, and believe in him and go through this journey of faith and repentance then he can't save us cause we will remain in our sins. He helps us believe, he helps us repent, and then he saves us at the end after he was the means of helping us qualify to receive his grace.
This lesson was magnificent!
I always feel guilty. Did I do all I can do? Okay, I am toxic. All I can do is pray and pour my heart to Heavenly Father help me through this.
So when someone asks what are the works for? I would answer they are the deliberate practice in our journey to become like our Father in Heaven. His work and glory is for us to become like him and so works are how we practice. We don’t have to be perfect we just have to keep trying and following his guidance.
Thank you. So many amazing insights. I loved the section on grace and reconciliation and shared that with others to help them gain a better understanding of grace. ❤
Hey Brother Halverson, just checking in to make sure you are ok. Usually, you drop the new podcast on Wednesday. Hope all is well, and you are off doing something wonderful with your family.
Visiting my elderly parent’s ward, an even older brother shook my hand and said, “It’s spelled strait…not straight; it’s a very different different path.”
“Fire of the Covenant” is missing…😊. Bro Hal, I loved this one! So agree about “…after all you can do”. I always didn’t love how others talk about that scripture. You rock!
Thank you for all your spiritual guidance. I like the scripture to scripture commentary better than rushing through them. I have been following you since your started these podcasts. I really like you doing the one liners and include them into my notes. I noticed that you didn’t include chapter 23, is that a mistake? Thanks again.
2 Nephi 25:29 Reminds me of the group in Lehi's dream in 1 Nephi 8:30 who "fell down" at the Tree of Life to partake of the fruit. I always wondered, "Why you would 'fall down' to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Life"? I found out why In 1 Nephi 11:24 when Nephi sees the "Tree of Life" who is Jesus Christ. In 1 Nephi 11:24, Nephi sees other people seeing Jesus and they "fall down at Jesus' feet and worship Him." So How do we partake of the fruit of the Tree of Life and stay at the Tree? We live a life of bowing before Jesus and worshipping Him. Now look at 2 Nephi 25:29: "Ye must bow down before Him, and worship Him with all your might, mind and strength, and your whole soul; and IF ye do this, ye shall in nowise be cast out." If we live our lives worshipping Him, Loving Him, reconciling our will to His, Then through His Grace and Love we will never leave the Tree of Life to be lost in "forbidden paths" that lead into the great and spacious building. Living a life of true worship, daily bowing ourselves completely before Jesus Christ is the most important thing I can do to stay at the Tree of Life with Jesus so that Jesus' love and grace can bring me Home. :)
I just need positive feedback from someone like het❤❤❤ 24:08
Nephi wrote chapter 25 to be plain and easy to understand, yet we still try to complicate what is plain. Verse 23 says, "We know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do." Christ himself said it this way in 3 Nephi 12 vs. 20, "Therefore come unto me and be ye saved; for verily I say unto you, that except ye shall keep my commandments, which I have commanded you at this time, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven."
While I enjoyed the conversation of grace and "after all we can do".I think that thiis grace/works comparison is a very modern concern and not at all what Nephi was trying to write. I feel Nephi's take on this is very different. We often get stuck in thinking that the end of verse 23 is the end of his statement... but Nephi didn't put the verses in, those are a modern construction. Verse 24 starts with AND (meaning the last thought is not completed yet). Remember this is going from Generation to Generation of Nephi"s seed (vs 22) and is written to his children and brethren (and of course to us). So the concern on Nephi's mind is that if we are saved by Grace, then why would they need to keep the law of Moses? (verses 24-30 are all about why they should still keep the law) so "And notwithstanding we believe in Christ, we keep the law of Moses.
Furthermore, if you look at verse 23/24 as a sort of Chiasmus
We labor diligently to write - ( to generations, to our children to our brethren)
To believe in Christ
To be reconciled to God
it is by Graced we are saved (salvation is a type of reconciliation to God through Christ's Grace)
After all we can do (after all the preaching and writing about Christ we can do... the generations and our children and brethren,, they will then Know how salvation comes and to what source they may look for a remission of their sins. 26 "...we talk of Christ, we rejoice... we preach... we prophesy... we write (or simply "all we do")... Why ?? so that they will know grace through Christ or in other words. " a remission of their sins"
Don't read vs 23 out of context... Christ's grace is a free gift, given. D&C 88:33 asks what we are going to do with it. Use the gift and live. Choose Life and Liberty and happiness by allowing the atonement of Christ to "make us a saint" as we "yield to the enticings of the Holy Ghost". Just because Grace is a free gift, does not mean it is passive and we just radically and instantaneously transform. It is something that through it and therefore by it, we become. Yielding one small particle of our souls to God at a time, until at last his image is in our countenance.
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For those who believe in the true Jesus, they are given the gift of faith, the gift is from God. Jesus died on the cross, that sacrifice created the way to receive His will. We who believe in Jesus Christ have His grace through His will. We are given His righteousness, knowledge, wisdom, love discernment, etc. You can only obtain this grace if you believe in the uncreated Jesus, not the Jesus who was supposedly born to a god and a mother god in heaven, you must believe in the divine God, Jesus Christ, who is the Alpha and the Omega, the eternal divine God.
How can I find the article mentioned that takes about the meaning of "after" when Joseph translated the Book of Mormon?
I've listened to the corresponding podcast several times. Thank you for your insights! I do have a question, about how the upper degrees of glory (celestial and terrestrial) fit into the conversation about 'grace after all we can do'? It seems that there are levels of glory based on how reconciled we are with Christ (which go beyond grace)? If this is the case then it seems like the wrong interpretation of Nephi's verse "saved after all we can do", is accurate? I'm just trying to understand. Maybe the Nephites didn't know about the degrees of glory?
Not sure, I totally understand the difference between the savior, showing the wounds in his hands and feet to the Jews, at the mount all of olives and thus convincing them that he is the Christ, and yet Isaiah is saying that these words meaning the book of Mormon would be what would convince them.
It will take more than wounds in the hands and feet and side to convince the Jews to believe in Jesus Christ. It will because of a remnant of the Jews who await the return of the Messiah who have believed on His words (New Testament and Book of Mormon) which will convince them that He is the true Messiah as the Spirit has witnessed to them of His WORD. After the Apostle Thomas doubted, the Lord told him, more blessed are those who have not seen and believed who are greater than those who have believed on sight.
I don’t think the slit eyes are contacts, rather an evil spirit in a persons body.
I call him " 3 hour Jared"
Hes great but you need 3 hours!
(Recall Brother of Jareds 3 hour lecture from the Lord!)
Thats what it feels like! Lol
Sorry not serious here....Kyazmuth? not sure how you spell it. But a thought popped into my mind that maybe that is what Kamala Harris speaks in. That was a chuckle for me.
Chiasmus
That’s hilarious!!! Yeah we all think she’s an idiot, but turns out she’s speaking and code and saying some really beautiful things!!!
I don't think the color of that shirt is in your season (not flattering). I think you are more of a winter, not a summer.
Who cares what he wears? What he teaches is much more important, I would think. (Not that it matters, but I happen to like that shirt on him.)
@@robinhawk1288 you are right, I was just trying to be helpful.
@@pagevpetty You're both right. And sometimes the wrong clothes can be distractful, even though modest. I don't know the colors of the seasons as you. What's the best link to understand?
Brother Jared, have you considered directing, Book of Mormon ", movies?
You are very entertaining 😂
Thank you so very much.
❤️Riiite, so animated, makes your mind see soo vividly, the scriptures really come to life👏🏽I wonder if being in his class is as entertaining and enjoyable to learn.