4.8 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | This particular set of chapters is very, very difficult. There's no easy way to get around this. |
0:09.0 | The Nephite society and the Lamanite society have gotten to the point where they are |
0:15.0 | steeped in pride and sin and destruction and sorrow and spending most of their time in this aspect of the |
0:23.5 | pride cycle and spending very little time here in the humility and repentance side. So we pick |
0:30.6 | up our story in the 60 and 9th year of the reign of the judges with Nephi, who's that son |
0:36.5 | of Heelman, coming back down into the land of |
0:39.4 | Zahemla. He's been up in the land northward, trying to teach the people up there, but has been |
0:44.5 | largely rejected. So he comes home, he's on his garden tower, which is near the highway that |
0:50.8 | runs by his property there, and he is pouring his heart out to God in a lament. |
0:57.0 | He's very, very sad about the state of affairs among his people. And this large group gathers, |
1:07.4 | and of course, in the group you have some Gadi'Aton robbers, some of the judges, and then |
1:12.2 | you have some common people there. And these Gadiant and robbers, these people who have some |
1:17.4 | authority, they don't like hearing the truth about how they have changed the laws and corrupted |
1:24.4 | the government and corrupted the laws. Because you'll notice it's far easier to change a law |
1:30.8 | than it is to change your heart. It's far easier to force conformance of the law to my behavior |
1:39.3 | than it is to repent and be humble and force conformance of my behavior to God's laws. |
1:48.7 | So that's what's happened societally is this group has just slowly made it so that the laws |
1:55.2 | match up with their desires for iniquity and their desires for evil. Skipping over the first 15 verses where he's crying his lament to God |
2:06.1 | and having that initial interaction with these people from his tower. |
2:10.0 | Look at verse 16 in chapter 7. |
2:12.3 | Ye, how could you have given way to the enticing of him |
2:16.3 | who is seeking to hurl away your souls down to everlasting |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scripture Central, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Scripture Central and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.