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🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello there, my name is Tyler Griffin and this is Scripture Study Insights by Scripture Central. |
0:06.0 | Today, Alma 43 through 52. |
0:10.0 | Now many of you, when you hear those particular chapters mentioned, |
0:15.0 | you think to yourself, oh no, the war chapters begin. The reality is that this book was written for |
0:26.3 | our day by a man, Mormon, who happened to be assigned as the chief captain of the armies |
0:34.9 | of the laymen, of the Nephites, when he was only 15 years old. And his whole |
0:40.3 | life from that point on was spent defending to one degree or another the people in a military |
0:49.3 | sense. So instead of being frustrated by the war and the contentions and the violent descriptions |
0:59.4 | going on here, perhaps we could step back from the page a foot or two and ponder the reality |
1:08.5 | that 2nd Nephi chapter 31 verse 3 teaches a powerful truth that is |
1:19.2 | now coming to into play this is Nephi speaking for the Lord God giveth light |
1:25.4 | unto the understanding for he speaketh unto men according to their |
1:32.0 | language and unto their understanding. |
1:38.7 | So it shouldn't shock us that there's so much warfare and so much description of this, these difficult settings |
1:48.2 | in the book Mormon. That's one of the ways that the Lord is communicating with the chief |
1:53.6 | editor of this record named Mormon, is through his own life experience and because of that |
2:00.4 | we can now liken all scriptures |
2:03.6 | unto us as Nephi invited back in 1st Nephi 19, verse 23, so that the scriptures can be |
2:11.6 | for our prophet and our learning. If we allow the Holy Ghost to fulfill his role as the ultimate teacher, |
2:22.5 | and if we go into these chapters with an open heart, a soft heart, and a mind that is |
2:30.4 | focused heavenward to say, teach me principles that would help me in my own life |
2:37.7 | today, because the reality is, as most of you didn't wake up this morning, worrying that |
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