“Ancient Relics, Future Hopes!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: Alma 36-38

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Opening Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN1L2ZABMuQ

I. Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
ii. Patter. Celery sticks
II. In the News:
i. SLC 2034 Olympics.
1. I will show you a pattern on how to raise a concern
a. State concern, frame in open way
2. Church Issues statement, also one George Floyd, not about the Assassination attempt. I am always open for an answer, clarification, and correction.
a. Vs. Church is wrong to not issue a statement
ii. Paris Olympics, Odd scenes from Opening ceremonies, Dancing green guy, mocking Davinci's Last Supper.
1. Vocie your concerns in a polite way "This bothers me, this feel wrong"
iii. Politics. If Dems pray to have charity for Repubs, and Repubs pray to have charity towards Dems, how would things change? And what's keeping you from making this marvelous change?
iv. Sistas:
1. Important voice for Black members of the Church.
2. During Netanyahu's speech to the UN, called Prime Minister "Hitler" and condemned people for applauding for "Satan."
a. https://x.com/SISTASinZION/status/1816175682126504047
b. https://x.com/SISTASinZION/status/1816182304118824986
3. If bothered by TOFW speakers calling a Jew Hiter and Satan, give them a jingle, or DM on social media.
v. Biden floating a law to update the Supreme Court.
1. Age limits, ethics code, constitution amendment on Presidential immunity.
2. 2021 Commission to look into it, Judge Thomas Griffith. 2022, discussion of to expand with more justices. Really, to get justices they need to vote the way they want to go, not adjudicate
a. 3 Nephi 6: Judges, Lawyers, High Priests
b. Pay attention to BOM
vi. Richard Dawkins: Do humans have free will? What would be your control and experimental group?
1. https://x.com/RichardDawkins/status/1816493835079569578
III. Theme:
i. "Ancient Relics, Future Hopes!"
1. Generational hand off.
2. Parallels Mosiah 1
3. Difficulties with JS assassination and martyrdom. Sort out estate. JST mss church, not private property, Kirtland Temple
ii. My Three Sons
1. From wars and missions, to tight family circle, the inner ring.
2. No mothers and sister, a friend of mine ever shriek in church about it. Focus on women, spiritual experience of women.
3. D&C 25, Murmur not.
4. Hand-off to future hopes.
IV. Alma 36
i. Promise: "I swear unto you, that inasmuch as ye shall keep the commandments of God ye shall prosper in the land."
1. Health and wealth gospel; Korihor.
2. DHO A 2015 "The possession of wealth or significant income is not a mark of heavenly favor, and their absence is not evidence of heavenly disfavor. "
3. 4 Nephi Prosperity in Christ
4. Alma 1, and things saints do vs not of faiths' activities. Alma 1:32
ii. Captivity of fathers:
1. Egypt
2. Jerusalem
3. Why not Abraham?
4. Trust God for deliverance
iii. Conversion Story
1. Emotive/Affective: how did he feel during process: torment, racked, damned soul, wish to be extinct
2. "Exquisite pain" CF D&C 19
3. Webster 1828
a. 1. Nice; exact; very excellent; complete; as a vase of exquisite workmanship.
b. 4. Being in the highest degree; extreme; as, to relish pleasure in an exquisite degree. So we say, exquisite pleasure or pain.
4. Random House 1996
a. intense; acute
b. ex quire (inquire), to look into, study
iv. What the conversion pattern for us?
1. The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, 88 "One is not repentant until he bares his soul and admits his actions without excuses or rationalizations, until he has really and truly suffered. Suffering is a very important part of repentance. One has not begun to repent until he has suffered intensely for his sins."
2. Not atoning, but overcoming own natural and carnal passions. Like stopping rationalization, and breaking an ingrained habit.
V. Alma 37
i. Records
1. Nephite; Brass Plates, OT and more; Jaredite plates
2. Enlarged memory
3. Small and Simple things
ii. Jaredite
1. Works of darkness
2. Lost scripture
3. Keep under wraps the specifics of combination
4. Book of Ether, JST
iii. Liahona
1. Nephi calls a ball, later name?
2. Symbol
a. Follow directions, spindles and writing
b. Follow Christ
3. Small and simple things
VI. Alma 38
i. Middle Child Syndrome
ii. Ringwood, April 2015
iii. Affirmed things, City of Gideon, Alma 7
iv. General counsel, like Paul's pastoral epistles
v. Segway to last child syndrome
VII. Christ Quotient
i. Scriptures:
1. Our attitudes to them
2. Some people are readers, some listeners, some talkers; autodidacts and group dynamics
ii. Small and simple things
1. DFU O 2009: "Sometimes, well-meaning amplifications of divine principles—many coming from uninspired sources—complicate matters further, diluting the purity of divine truth with man-made addenda. One person’s good idea—something that may work for him or her—takes root and becomes an expectation. And gradually, eternal principles can get lost within the labyrinth of 'good ideas.'"
iii. Personal Liahonas
1. Holy Ghost
2. Scriptures
3. Endowment
4. Covenants
iv. Conversion
1. Do we need to suffer to repent?
a. Extremes Flippancy and Guilt-Complex
b. Filled out the paperwork, and jumped though the hoops vs
c. Maladaptive guilt, Guilt OCD
d. What does it take to ingrain the change?
2. Are we trying to repent independent of Christ
a. Inappropriate self-reliance?
b. Perverse consideration: don't want to bother Jesus
c. Defense mechanisms/Avoidance tactics/Procrastination?
d. Moroni 10:32 "Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.
i. Saved by grace, after all we can do. Same principle, different words
ii. Come unto Chrits--Christ

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