Category: Scripture Notes
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Go through and tread down
If the gentiles will not repent, that would be the time when this nation or the constitutional order inspired by God upon which it was founded would fall. Then we can expect that the posterity of Israel living here would go through and tread down the unrepentant gentiles. At that day, the righteous will not…
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A short visit
I always imagined that Jesus was among the Nephites all day on the day of his first visit but I realize it must have been much shorter than that despite all that He did and taught. They had time to gather more people before the next day and His disciples had time to repeat all…
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My body which I have shown you
I never noticed before that when Christ introduced the bread of the sacrament he told the Nephites that it represented the body that he had shown them. I wonder if that was meant to emphasize his resurrected person.
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More than you can bare
When Jesus taught the people about going to see yet other people He knew His teachings had overwhelmed them and he invited them to take time to digest what He had taught and prepare for more. When they wanted Him to stay He gave them more that they could feel in their hearts even though…
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Entering into rest
It is rare to have someone truly “safely gathered in” before the last stages of their life like the people of Ammon were. Even when we have had testimony and confirmation life happens and we can be shaken or lose our grasp of the iron rod either permanently or temporarily. The funny thing is that…
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A different foundation
The epistle to the Hebrews is different than the other epistles because the Hebrews arrived at the doctor’s if Christ from a different foundation. They were not converted from the gentle creeds that held no covenant with God but rather from the covenant people who had been taught the law of Moses and the words…
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The law and the prophets
It is important for us to understand discussions such as the difference between the law and the prophets. Those two could easily be linked together but they served separate purposes. The law was tied to a preliminary covenant while the prophets, or the prophecies of the prophets, were meant to warn and teach specific things…
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Judging and judging not
We have to be careful of how we judge because it is so easy to get things wrong based on myopic perspectives. People will think that they have been righteous when they were actually operating out of pride self aggrandizement. People will also be prone to mistake the fruit they think is coming from the…
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Who is Onesimus?
Paul talks about Onesimus as his son but I wonder if he is a spiritual son—a convert who felt like a son to Paul—or a biological son?
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Instructive footnotes
Paul’s description of what a bishop should be was not nee to me but tonight I got the sense that Titus was a seasoned servant in the church. The explanatory words at the end indicate that Titus was a bishop—thus confirming my impression. I guess I should pay more attention to those words of explanation…