Welcome to Church History Matters,

Come Follow Me Edition, where we are systematically diving

into every section of the doctrine and covenants

throughout the year 2025.

We have a lot to talk about today, so let's get into it.

Hello, Casey Griffiths.

Hello, Scott.

How we doing?

So good and so excited to dive into three sections of the Doctrine Covenants this week.

My word.

Lots of good stuff to talk about.

Man, what a treat.

And using our hopefully now familiar framework,

we're going to go through each section with our four Cs. First hit the context. Then we dive into the content of the revelation itself. Then there's any controversies surrounding anything in the

history or in the text of that revelation. We're going to hit it. And then we talk about the consequences of each revelation,

meaning the aftermath, what happened as a result of this revelation.

So, shall we dive into Section 3, Casey?

Let's dive in.

Okay. And I should point out, this is sort of the first section of the doctrine and covenants, correct?

If we're going by chronology.

Section one, we mentioned, is given when they decide to create the doctrine and covenants, is the preface, but that's years later.

And section 2 is an excerpt from Joseph Smith history that he writes in 1838.

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