David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • What Alma felt

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    I think I know what Alma felt when he prayed that the Lord would help him bear with his infirmities—he recognized within himself an inclination to shrink from daunting tasks. That’s a natural human inclination (I think the majority of people feel that way) and he recognized that the task of reclaiming the Zoramites was…

  • Ye cannot go amiss

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    Wherefore, go ye and preach my gospel, whether to the north or to the south, to the east or to the west, it mattereth not, for ye cannot go amiss. Doctrine & Covenants 80:3 “Ye cannot go amiss” isn’t universally true. When we have been called to do a specific thing (go to a specific…

  • Study Revelation 9

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    Q. When are the things to be accomplished, which are written in the 9th chapter of Revelation?A. They are to be accomplished after the opening of the seventh seal, before the coming of Christ. Doctrine & Covenants 77:13 It is interesting to realize that there is a specified time during the 7th thousand years prior…

  • Destroying joy

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    Believest thou that we deceive this people, that causes such joy in their hearts? Alma 30:35 Korihor considered it his duty to interrupt the joy of the people because he didn’t believe the doctrine that brought such joy. I don’t know if I could look people in the face and tell them that the things…

  • The priesthood of Aaron

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    After delineating the line if authority of the high priesthood between Adam and Moses we are told that Aaron was given a separate priesthood for his lineage. That lower priesthood was given with the lower law, a law that was intended to be temporary even though the priesthood continues to be useful for the Lord’s…

  • That which the Lord hath allotted

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    I ought to be content with the things which the Lord hath allotted unto me. … I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory in it. Alma 29:3,9 I need to gain the confidence of Alma in having a certainty about what it is the Lord hath allotted until me and…

  • Make friends

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    Verily I say unto you, and this is wisdom, make unto yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, and they will not destroy you. Doctrine & Covenants 82:22 It is too the benefit of the saints individually and the church collectively to be friendly with those outside the church even if they are unrighteous or…

  • Glory in the Lord

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    Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord? Yea, who can say too much of his great power, and of his mercy, and of his long-suffering towards the children of men? Alma 26:16

  • Entry in the Book of Life

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    How are names recorded in the Book of Life? If it is more than just a list of names I could imagine: If names are listed with a designation beyond the name they are probably not all unique and I would like this which I would imagine to be a fairly common option: Priest of…

  • Sons of perdition

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    I have always expected that there are very few sons of perdition throughout history—for example, as terrible as Hitler was it seems unlikely that he had sufficient knowledge of God to become a son of perdition. That being said, I had the feeling while reading today that while the number will still be a small…