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🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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0:00.0 | Let's pretend like you're sitting in a fast and testimony meeting and somebody comes up to the pulpit to bear their testimony. |
0:07.8 | And at the end of their testimony, they say, I know that the church is true. |
0:12.8 | And then they finish and sit down. |
0:15.4 | And then the next person comes up to the very same pulpit and they bear their testimony. |
0:19.1 | At the very end, they say, brothers and sisters, I know that the gospel is true. And then they sit down. So here's the |
0:26.0 | question. Is there a functional or a major difference between those two testimonies? If somebody |
0:36.4 | says, I know the church is true or I know the gospel is true, |
0:39.1 | often the way we, as common speech goes in the church, we sometimes interchange those two words |
0:47.8 | and think that we're saying the same thing. When you open up the scriptures to Third Nephi 27, you're going to see |
0:57.0 | this incredible chapter where the first half of the chapter is all about the church of Jesus Christ, |
1:04.2 | and the second half of the chapter is all about the gospel of Jesus Christ, and he very, very |
1:09.3 | clearly shows their uniquely complementary differences, |
1:15.6 | how they work together for him to fulfill all of his promises and to keep all the covenants |
1:22.6 | which have been made with us on the earth. So you'll notice when it begins, the disciples of Jesus in the new world, |
1:31.3 | they have this question, they have this problem. What do we name the church? Jesus established |
1:36.3 | this church among us, but we don't have a name for it. So they're praying. All of a sudden, |
1:41.3 | the Lord appears. He came and stood in verse 2 in the midst of them, |
1:45.8 | and he says, what will ye that I shall give unto you? By the way, just as a side note here, |
1:51.7 | isn't it interesting how often God asks questions of people, the answer to which God already knows, but there's something beautiful about him getting |
2:05.8 | people to act, use their agency, and to ask before he just comes and gives them things that |
2:12.7 | he already knows better than they do, what they need. So here it is again. He's asking them this question. And |
2:18.8 | their answer is, well, we want to know the name whereby we shall call thy church, because there |
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