You're not going to be here. Here's an irony. In our day when someone wants to change everything that's wrong with the world, they run for president.

In the Book of Mormon Alma hoping to pull

down the pride and craftiness and contentions among his people saw no way to reclaim them

except to give up his office.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and welcome to Meridian magazine's Come Follow Me

Podcast on the Book of Mormon.

This week we are studying Alma, chapters 8 through 12, and the title is Jesus Christ will come

to redeem His People.

Alma hoped to change and reclaim His People by bearing down in pure testimony against them.

Do you want to change things?

Change hearts.

President Ezra Taft Benson said it this way, the Lord works from the inside out, the world works

from the outside in.

The world would take people out of the slums.

Christ takes the slums out of the people and then they take themselves out of the slums.

The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men who then change their environment.

The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

So Alma had it right, and it was right not just for his time, but for all time.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland adds,

In times like ours, we all need what Mormon called the virtue of the word of God because he said it had a more powerful

effect upon the minds of the people than the sword or anything else which had happened unto them.

Elder Holland continues,

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