Stay tuned for part two with Eric Richards, Doctrine of Covenants, section 29.

Looking next, verses 28 to 34, that's a big chunk. Talk about another shift. He's now going to teach

some doctrine. It's beautiful, especially verse 34, wherefore, verily I say say unto you that all things unto me are spiritual,

and not at any time have I given unto you a law, which was temporal.

Nothing is temporal. All things are spiritual. Wait, tithing? The paying of my temporal money is

actually a spiritual practice. The word of wisdom, what I eat,

what I avoid is actually spiritual in nature. When I have to bring my family to clean the church

Saturday morning, that's actually a spiritual practice, not a temporal practice. I think if we have that approach to our gospel activities,

that everything, everything the Lord has given us, if I'm reading this correctly, is spiritual

in nature. There's nothing temporal. Sometimes in our callings, we might think, man, this is a temporal

thing. I'm trying to organize a blood drive or whatever. No, we're doing

everything in the gospel for spiritual reasons. I think it gives us a better approach and we can

approach it with some confidence that goodness will come, that we will feel connected to Christ,

even though it feels very temporally in the moment. That's great, because sometimes you think, I don't have time to go

to the temple. I don't have time to go serve. I can't go to the meatpacking plant, but it's going to

help me spiritually. Is that what you're saying, Eric? Yeah, you can see the next verse. He's going to talk

about agency. We can use our agency in terms of how we approach our different gospel duties.

You see that in verse 35. I gave unto him that he should be an agent unto himself.

That word agency is only used a handful of times in scripture. This is one of them. So it becomes very precious to us.

In Section 101 that you'll

study later, the term that's used is moral agency. Elder Dean L. L. L. Larson, he was actually

quoting Albert Payne, who was one of the contemporaries who wrote with Mark Twain, but he said,

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