You're not going to be here. Welcome to Meridian magazine's Come Follow Me, Podcast. We're Scott and Maureen Proctor and this week's podcast is on some of the parables of Jesus down in Matthew chapter 13 and Luke chapters 8 and 13 the title of this lesson is,

Who hath ears to hear? Let him hear.

We're going to talk about that very saying later on in the lesson.

Thanks again to Paul Cardall for the music that opens and closes this podcast.

We learned something wonderful from the Prophet Joseph's life that is a great example for all of us.

The Prophet's writings and sermons are filled with scriptural quotations and

interpretations, for he had studied the scripture so extensively that they became an

integral part of his thinking.

In his teachings, he quoted scriptures directly.

He alluded to them, he paraphrase them,

and he used them as the foundation for his sermons,

quote,

I know the scriptures and understand them.

He declared in April 1844.

Can we say the same about us?

Isn't that a wonderful pattern and example

for us to follow?

It really is, and that's what this Come Follow Me curriculum does for us at home.

Joseph's extraordinary knowledge of the scriptures allowed him to teach and interpret them with great power and clarity and many who heard

him speak remembered this ability.

President Brigham Young recalled that the Prophet could take the scriptures and make them so plain

and simple that everybody could

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