When the son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth.

Lord I believe help thou mine unbelief.

May our testimonies mine unbelief.

May our testimonies be as deep and strong as that of Jacob, who was confronted by one who sought to destroy his faith declared,

I could not be shaken. The Oh, The world will never become so wicked that we cannot choose to be righteous.

Satan will never have so much power that we cannot choose to follow Christ.

No darkness is intense enough to blot out the light of the world.

So before you consider running to brighter territory, consider staying firm

and letting his light so shine.

Now as I said before,

these are choices that are being made and they are difficult choices.

With some of the faithful, including many of the Ammonites, heading to the land northward,

choosing to be less in the world in order to be less of the world or like

Helaman choosing to stay in the world but refusing to become a part of it.

Still others chose a third option, a completely negative one, and that was to be in the world and of the world.

And what lay at the root?

Pride.

You see here at the end of Heleliman 3 and the beginning of chapter 4, we see the pride cycle in one of its clearest manifestations.

Remember the four groups of students I had arranged in the classroom with a swivel chair in the middle.

We just saw prosperity there in the church to the point of astonishing priests and teachers.

The word itself kept coming up. Helaman 3, 24 to 26, that's the prosperity

stage of the pride cycle. 24, exceedingly great prosperity in the church. 25 so great was the

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