Just sitting here tonight, thinking about everything I’m grateful for and these lessons that you take the time to give the rest of us is one of my biggest gratitudes.
I had gone to every Church that I could think of when I was growing up ,trying to find the right place for me. When I was investigating the Church upon walking into the building I was told by the Holy Spirit that “You are home”.
oh my heart swelled reading your comment and it gave me chills! I hope you have been able to go to the temple! It is marvelous. I felt that way when I went my first time 28 years ago.
As a past missionary of the Guayaquil Mission 44 years ago, I especially enjoyed the participation of Jacob in discussing a favorite section of the Book of Mormon. Bless you.
Your son is doing an excellent job of sharing the lesson with so much maturity and a fluid example of teaching with knowledge along side of you as his father. I love it. Thank you Jacob
Very nice to meet Jacob. What a wonderful young man and looks like he is enjoying the "Covenant Path" with its struggles and so many rewards. Thanks to you both for a great lesson.
Thank you both for sharing your testimonies and focus on faith in Christ ❤ I appreciate your lessons because they always encourage me to reflect and draw closer to Christ 🙏 I love how you bring your wonderful family as guests and what wonderful insights they share as well ❤ What a wonderful example of such a Christlike family in this world today
Elder Griffin and my son have the exact same story about coming home from the guayquil west mission, last flight to Florida as covid was hitting. What a blessing, he was able to finish his mission in the ABQ New Mexico mission.
This was the first lesson I listened to this Sunday morning. It has renewed my faith that Jesus will grant the things I and my family stand in need of in his time.
Tyler, can I be your son too? No, because your son here is AWESOME!!! I couldn't take his place. Thank you both for sharing what God has revealed to your family.
Thank you so much to everyone and work together going back and forth the Book of Mormon came a life and learning from our God that He is loving and caring,merciful 😢😊
I was SO grateful for this beautiful lesson this evening! The events in the political world have been pulling my spirit down and this lesson, so beautifully presented, really lifted my heart and refocused my faith in what really matters! How grateful I am for the light and truth we are so blessed to have! In the coming months I will look daily to Come Follow Me and the eternal truths that bring us to Christ and hope in Him!
I truly appreciate your comments. I have been feeling the similar thing and as I decided to sit and watch a video (listen) while I am working on family history, I decided I needed to hear what this particular channel had recently posted. Beautiful comments.
Oh my goodness. I have read and re-read these scripture verses several times and with your visual explanation, it all just clicked in place for me. Thank you for the indirect/direct answer to my prayers on the Faith cycle.
Beautiful. I just love watching your videos with your Family. Your beautiful wife and beautiful children. I can tell you are so proud of them, and so you should be. You and your wife have done so well with them. I enjoy all your lessons and get a lot out of them. God bless you and your Family.
Brethren, the two of you are awesome! Thank you so much! I learned so much from your lesson that i also shared in my lesson today! May God continue to bless and guide the two of you! Father and son do great work!
Like father like son! Both are spiritually strong in the faith & testimony of our Savior JESUS CHRIST, His atoning sacrifice with GOD's pure, perfect and eternal love, infinite mercy & redeeming grace manifested in their teaching presentation of this particular BOM/CFM lesson. Thank you so much bro. Griffin & to your son Jacob (future bishop & Church leader).
What a spectacular lesson what wonderful insights from Jacob my life is uplifted for being able to learn along side of both of you. Myself, you must be so proud and so grateful to have such a great son and children, and your daughter did an awesome job too.
Beautiful lesson. Thank you both for sharing your spiritual journey with us! Tyler, I wonder if you and your lovely wife might share how Gospel principles helped you in raising your amazing children. Particularly in having to implement consequences, listening, obedience and thinking before you act. Thank you! 🙏🏻
37:11(ish) I am going to start doing this in the morning, It might take me a little bit to make it a daily habit, but I like the idea to start my day off with a talk, a chapter in scriptures, a Liahona article. I am on day 365 streak listening to a session of conference at night. I first was skipping the music and getting right to the talks (my bedtime stories) and then one night I actually listened to one of the opening prayers and thought wow this is such a deep and heartfelt prayer, I need to listen to these sessions from the prayer and absorb the prayers as if in that moment I was being prayed for. Then I decided I needed to just start from the very beginning from the short snippet of the Choir singing as the man is introducing which session it is. I let the whole conference play (make sure you are not on continuous play else you will hear strange voices in your room in the middle of the night) as I am drifting off to sleep. I figure my spirit can listen even if the body is asleep and I can tell a difference that I am experiencing more and more connective answers through church talks, videos like this, devotionals, scriptures etc. There is richer connection. :) This is an excellent video you guys are amazing. You need to watch Escape from Germany (It is the story of the missionaries escaping Germany right before it was shut down to travel out of the country and WWII starting. I expect it should come out on dvd to the church book stores, the story about Jacob's mission, the miracles and then finally leaving the area, is so similar to this movie, it gave me chills to hear of it!
Regarding the word, I believe the most insightful way to think about this concept is the Hebrew and Greek-related words of Dabar (Strongs 1697) and Logos (Strongs 3056). Our words, works, doctrine, or the output of our mind must align with that of a disciple of Christ, a child of God. In Greek, the word "Homologeo" is often rendered as a confession. I like to look at the two root words coming up with "to be one or the same in word, work, doctrine." Do we confess Christ homologeo? Or do we confess Christ as the demons, exmologeo. Even the demons confess that Jesus is the Christ.
Thank you for looking at “us” and not just at each other. When presenters just look at each other I feel like an intruder on someone else’s conversation.
A great lesson again! I was particularly struck by Jacob's insight about switching "the word" with "Jesus" as we read those chapters. I can't find this study anywhere else so I would be interested to learn more from Jacob on this point.
WHY HAVE "SEED OF FAITH" in the title when Alma 32 likens the WORD (v28) unto a seed and Faith is only mentioned as defined in v21 and as a way to nuture the seed and what is strengthened as the seed of the Word grows and in contrast to knowledge?
I believe it's titled that way because Faith grows in the process as well in trying or planting the word. Knowledge also grows through this process as we learn what results from exercising faith in the word. There are many seeds growing together. How many times have you read the same passage of Scripture and gained some new light or understanding that wasn't seen previously? For me that's a common experience. It was there the whole time, but the Spirit uncovers more treasures that I'm ready to receive, This is the seed of the word growing for me, to reach me at the level my seed of Faith and seed of knowledge is growing. Jesus Christ being the author and finisher of our Faith, demonstrates that eventually Faith grows until we come into the presence of Christ and faith is replaced with pure or absolute knowledge. Other seeds growing at the same time in this process are seeds of testimony, desire for God's will, Charity toward others, seeds of obedience, seeds of sacrifice, along with many others we plant in our growing process.
@@irokruok good stuff but its mainly from the Primary Song which mix-mashes different scriptures to say "faith is like a little seed..." -- its a common but only half excusable mistake
Who We are??? That is described in Genesis, and Jesus also reiterated this, both about Himself, and about each and every Human Person on the Planet. "So God made man in His own image; in the image of God He made him; male and female He made them." - Genesis 1:27 “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU.” - Luke 17:21 Does it never enter your understanding that what Jesus was battling against was PAGANISM. The Priests and the Temple personnel were teaching PAGANISM, and He confronted them with THAT and they killed him. Any concept taught about a God who is EXTERNAL TO YOURSELF is PAGANISM. Any other concept except "Made in the Image and Likeness of God" is a PAGAN CONCEPT. When the Romans took over Christianity they just continued their own PAGAN concepts of an EXTERNAL IMAGE OF GOD, and injected it into the Bible writings. The word "SIN" meaning as it was originally used in the Bible was: "Error of thought and understanding" What was "that original error of thought and understanding" ???? (Original Sin) God described Himself as I AM, THAT I AM, and Humans are in that SAME IMAGE. So when we say (the spoken WORD) I AM, anything else but "The Image and Likeness of God" then that is "SIN", it is the formation of THE EGO, the FALSE IMAGE OF SELF, SATAN OR THE PRETEND GOD. Or as the Essenes called it the "Demiurge" or the God of the Blind. “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 18:3 Little children have not yet developed this FALSE SELF and JUDGEMENTAL EGO. Little children are still in that original "Made in the Image of God" state, without any Ego Judgemental Thoughts or Concepts, of I AM, this or I AM that, and certainly not PAGAN concept of an EXTERNAL GOD. And it is not just "The Image of God" it is also "The Power of God" every attribute that God has, We Have, otherwise why would Jesus have said that we "would do greater things than Him." “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but BELIEVES that those things he SAYS will be done, he will have whatever he SAYS.” - Mark 11:23. The power of THE SPOKEN WORD from the GOD WITHIN. I am in He, and He is in Me.
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I love lessons when your children join you. I so enjoy their perspectives.
It was special to have your son teach with you. He had such inspiritual insights. Thank you.
Agreed! Sometimes he talked a bit fast for my old ears, but what a lovely thing it was to feel of his spirit!
Aw…sharing this with your son is lovely!
Enjoyed the lesson, sharing this lesson with your son, makes it even better. Thank you both!
Your children surely do take after you. They are such good teachers.
What a delightful young man and the beautiful spirit he has. Your podcast is so inspiring. I try not to miss it
Thank you so much for your sweet testimonies! Thank you for another great lesson! ❤❤🇨🇦
Wow amazing! Thank you Tyler and Jacob! Impressive young man!
Just sitting here tonight, thinking about everything I’m grateful for and these lessons that you take the time to give the rest of us is one of my biggest gratitudes.
It's always a pleasure spending time with SC. Thank you for an amazing presentation Brethren ❤
We have really enjoyed meeting and learning from your family members.
It is so nice that your family is just as great at teaching and presenting this program. Great Job!
I had gone to every Church that I could think of when I was growing up ,trying to find the right place for me. When I was investigating the Church upon walking into the building I was told by the Holy Spirit that “You are home”.
oh my heart swelled reading your comment and it gave me chills! I hope you have been able to go to the temple! It is marvelous. I felt that way when I went my first time 28 years ago.
As a past missionary of the Guayaquil Mission 44 years ago, I especially enjoyed the participation of Jacob in discussing a favorite section of the Book of Mormon. Bless you.
Tyler & Jacob .. you are a perfect team !! Thank you for this lesson .. have enjoyed it 3 times in 1 week 😊
💜💛♥️
I love it when you have members of your family teach along side you. I love the Spirit they bring into the lessons.❤
Your son is doing an excellent job of sharing the lesson with so much maturity and a fluid example of teaching with knowledge along side of you as his father. I love it. Thank you Jacob
Thank so much Tyler for teaching us! As a retired teacher myself, I love learning from you….and now your son! 💜
Very nice to meet Jacob. What a wonderful young man and looks like he is enjoying the "Covenant Path" with its struggles and so many rewards. Thanks to you both for a great lesson.
Again we have been blessed to hear from your oldest boy. What a marvelous family you have. It's such a joy to see!!!
Thank you for sharing family in the lessons. It gives great inspiration. It more fully perfects our day to teach one another
Thank you very much for this great and inspired lesson. May the Lord be with you always.
Great to seeyour son following in his father's foot steps
Thank you both for sharing your testimonies and focus on faith in Christ ❤ I appreciate your lessons because they always encourage me to reflect and draw closer to Christ 🙏 I love how you bring your wonderful family as guests and what wonderful insights they share as well ❤ What a wonderful example of such a Christlike family in this world today
Thank you for that wonderful lesson. I love it also when you involve your family.
Elder Griffin and my son have the exact same story about coming home from the guayquil west mission, last flight to Florida as covid was hitting. What a blessing, he was able to finish his mission in the ABQ New Mexico mission.
I love seeing your family with you
I’ve always told people who tell me that I can’t prove this or that, that I am saved based on my faith and not on my proof.
I love this!
This was the first lesson I listened to this Sunday morning. It has renewed my faith that Jesus will grant the things I and my family stand in need of in his time.
Tyler, can I be your son too? No, because your son here is AWESOME!!! I couldn't take his place.
Thank you both for sharing what God has revealed to your family.
I love how you have included your family in these lessons.
Thank you, brethen! That was a beautiful lesson ❤
Thank you so much to everyone and work together going back and forth the Book of Mormon came a life and learning from our God that He is loving and caring,merciful 😢😊
So swwet to hear Jacobs young life experiences. Well taught & well done.
Sweet
I was SO grateful for this beautiful lesson this evening! The events in the political world have been pulling my spirit down and this lesson, so beautifully presented, really lifted my heart and refocused my faith in what really matters! How grateful I am for the light and truth we are so blessed to have! In the coming months I will look daily to Come Follow Me and the eternal truths that bring us to Christ and hope in Him!
I truly appreciate your comments. I have been feeling the similar thing and as I decided to sit and watch a video (listen) while I am working on family history, I decided I needed to hear what this particular channel had recently posted. Beautiful comments.
Thank you both for this lesson. Family is everything.
Oh my goodness. I have read and re-read these scripture verses several times and with your visual explanation, it all just clicked in place for me. Thank you for the indirect/direct answer to my prayers on the Faith cycle.
Beautiful. I just love watching your videos with your Family. Your beautiful wife and beautiful children. I can tell you are so proud of them, and so you should be. You and your wife have done so well with them. I enjoy all your lessons and get a lot out of them. God bless you and your Family.
Brethren, the two of you are awesome! Thank you so much! I learned so much from your lesson that i also shared in my lesson today! May God continue to bless and guide the two of you! Father and son do great work!
Thank you both for yet another wonderful, insightful, Lesson. ( and all involved working Hard to bring them to us).
Thank you for sharing ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you this was wonderful please keep up the good work.
Thank you and your son for a great and inspire lesson,,,,
Thank you for the wonderful insights
Thanks brethren for an excellent discussion.
So nice to meet you Jacob!!
Hermosa explicación! Gracias
Great lesson! Thank you!
Thank you Tyler and Jacob for this week’s lesson. ❤
Like father like son! Both are spiritually strong in the faith & testimony of our Savior JESUS CHRIST, His atoning sacrifice with GOD's pure, perfect and eternal love, infinite mercy & redeeming grace manifested in their teaching presentation of this particular BOM/CFM lesson.
Thank you so much bro. Griffin & to your son Jacob (future bishop & Church leader).
Это прекрасно!Спасибо!
Thank you 🙏😇😊
What a spectacular lesson what wonderful insights from Jacob my life is uplifted for being able to learn along side of both of you. Myself, you must be so proud and so grateful to have such a great son and children, and your daughter did an awesome job too.
Choosing is you change your Thinking
I LOVE THIS LESSON you both have great conviction, skills and Testimony in Christ
Thank you Father and son❤️
Amazing griffinfamily
Beautiful lesson. Thank you both for sharing your spiritual journey with us! Tyler, I wonder if you and your lovely wife might share how Gospel principles helped you in raising your amazing children. Particularly in having to implement consequences, listening, obedience and thinking before you act. Thank you! 🙏🏻
37:11(ish) I am going to start doing this in the morning, It might take me a little bit to make it a daily habit, but I like the idea to start my day off with a talk, a chapter in scriptures, a Liahona article. I am on day 365 streak listening to a session of conference at night. I first was skipping the music and getting right to the talks (my bedtime stories) and then one night I actually listened to one of the opening prayers and thought wow this is such a deep and heartfelt prayer, I need to listen to these sessions from the prayer and absorb the prayers as if in that moment I was being prayed for. Then I decided I needed to just start from the very beginning from the short snippet of the Choir singing as the man is introducing which session it is. I let the whole conference play (make sure you are not on continuous play else you will hear strange voices in your room in the middle of the night) as I am drifting off to sleep. I figure my spirit can listen even if the body is asleep and I can tell a difference that I am experiencing more and more connective answers through church talks, videos like this, devotionals, scriptures etc. There is richer connection. :) This is an excellent video you guys are amazing.
You need to watch Escape from Germany (It is the story of the missionaries escaping Germany right before it was shut down to travel out of the country and WWII starting. I expect it should come out on dvd to the church book stores, the story about Jacob's mission, the miracles and then finally leaving the area, is so similar to this movie, it gave me chills to hear of it!
Regarding the word, I believe the most insightful way to think about this concept is the Hebrew and Greek-related words of Dabar (Strongs 1697) and Logos (Strongs 3056). Our words, works, doctrine, or the output of our mind must align with that of a disciple of Christ, a child of God. In Greek, the word "Homologeo" is often rendered as a confession. I like to look at the two root words coming up with "to be one or the same in word, work, doctrine." Do we confess Christ homologeo? Or do we confess Christ as the demons, exmologeo. Even the demons confess that Jesus is the Christ.
Thank you for looking at “us” and not just at each other. When presenters just look at each other I feel like an intruder on someone else’s conversation.
Thanks
A great lesson again! I was particularly struck by Jacob's insight about switching "the word" with "Jesus" as we read those chapters. I can't find this study anywhere else so I would be interested to learn more from Jacob on this point.
Love the Giffin family!
Have a question.....
ALMA 33:4, the last line.....thou didst turn them to me.
Does this mean enemies are turned into friends?
hi
WHY HAVE "SEED OF FAITH" in the title
when Alma 32 likens the WORD (v28)
unto a seed and Faith is only mentioned
as defined in v21 and as a way to nuture
the seed and what is strengthened as
the seed of the Word grows and
in contrast to knowledge?
I believe it's titled that way because Faith grows in the process as well in trying or planting the word. Knowledge also grows through this process as we learn what results from exercising faith in the word. There are many seeds growing together. How many times have you read the same passage of Scripture and gained some new light or understanding that wasn't seen previously? For me that's a common experience. It was there the whole time, but the Spirit uncovers more treasures that I'm ready to receive, This is the seed of the word growing for me, to reach me at the level my seed of Faith and seed of knowledge is growing.
Jesus Christ being the author and finisher of our Faith, demonstrates that eventually Faith grows until we come into the presence of Christ and faith is replaced with pure or absolute knowledge.
Other seeds growing at the same time in this process are seeds of testimony, desire for God's will, Charity toward others, seeds of obedience, seeds of sacrifice, along with many others we plant in our growing process.
@@irokruok good stuff but its mainly from the Primary Song which mix-mashes different scriptures to say "faith is like a little seed..." -- its a common but only half excusable mistake
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Who We are??? That is described in Genesis, and Jesus also reiterated this, both about Himself, and about each and every Human Person on the Planet.
"So God made man in His own image; in the image of God He made him; male and female He made them." - Genesis 1:27 “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU.” - Luke 17:21
Does it never enter your understanding that what Jesus was battling against was PAGANISM. The Priests and the Temple personnel were teaching PAGANISM, and He confronted them with THAT and they killed him. Any concept taught about a God who is EXTERNAL TO YOURSELF is PAGANISM. Any other concept except "Made in the Image and Likeness of God" is a PAGAN CONCEPT.
When the Romans took over Christianity they just continued their own PAGAN concepts of an EXTERNAL IMAGE OF GOD, and injected it into the Bible writings. The word "SIN" meaning as it was originally used in the Bible was: "Error of thought and understanding" What was "that original error of thought and understanding" ???? (Original Sin)
God described Himself as I AM, THAT I AM, and Humans are in that SAME IMAGE. So when we say (the spoken WORD) I AM, anything else but "The Image and Likeness of God" then that is "SIN", it is the formation of THE EGO, the FALSE IMAGE OF SELF, SATAN OR THE PRETEND GOD. Or as the Essenes called it the "Demiurge" or the God of the Blind.
“Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 18:3 Little children have not yet developed this FALSE SELF and JUDGEMENTAL EGO. Little children are still in that original "Made in the Image of God" state, without any Ego Judgemental Thoughts or Concepts, of I AM, this or I AM that, and certainly not PAGAN concept of an EXTERNAL GOD.
And it is not just "The Image of God" it is also "The Power of God" every attribute that God has, We Have, otherwise why would Jesus have said that we "would do greater things than Him."
“For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but BELIEVES that those things he SAYS will be done, he will have whatever he SAYS.” - Mark 11:23. The power of THE SPOKEN WORD from the GOD WITHIN. I am in He, and He is in Me.
U look like brothers Tyler you look 20
Wow amazing! Thank you Tyler and Jacob! Impressive young man!