Category: Scripture Notes
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Learning from success
Moroni didn’t rest on his laurels after such a lopsided victory over the Lamanites. I’m confident that he looked at how the battle at the land of Noah went and used what he learned to guide him through his new and improved fortifications in advance of the next attack.
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Diligence
While Amalickiah had been diligently consolidating power over the Lamanites and preparing their hearts for war against the Nephites he could not imagine the ways that morning was also being different and preparing his people and his lands in defensive capabilities. The end result was a battle where the deaths were literally thousands of Lamanites…
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Grace vs Works
Paul’s words on grace are muddled. If you don’t understand the doctrines of grace and works it would be hard to figure them out based on the words of Paul here but he is clear in one thing: the wages of sin is death.
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The way of peace have they not known
And the way of peace have they not known – Romans 3:17 This scripture really speaks to me—I see it in my children who refuse to accept any guidance and literally don’t know how to recognize peace as a result.
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Moroni’s focus
Moroni was focused on saving lives. He often gets credit as an amazing soldier, someone who was adept at defeating his enemies, but his focus was not on subjugation or on slaying his foes, his only interest was in saving the lives of innocent people and allowing them to worship God in righteousness.
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Three steps ahead
Amalickiah was always several steps ahead of those he was trying to usurp (besides Moroni). He had more plans in place and was adept at attacking from unexpected positions. Men of the world would expect that countering that would require seeing three steps ahead but the truth is that being fundamentally sound and staying in…
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Tokens of a covenant
Those who flocked to the banner of Moroni rent their garments as a token of their covenant. I hear that and think of having a visible evidence of such a covenant in our day.
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Why Helaman?
Why did Alma not record his own prophecy about the Nephites? Did he feel the need to tell Helaman directly rather than have him read it in the record? Did he want to give Helaman an example of what things to record? Was he not inspired with that project until he delivered the records to…
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Perish or conquer
I love that Zerahemnah had enough honesty to list “perish” before “conquer.” He was not humble enough to enter a covenant yet but he recognized that they were in a precarious position.
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Creating an advantage
Moroni had fewer than half the number of men than he was facing so it was important that he had given his men the advantage of armor. Likewise in our battles we have to plan ahead to give ourselves every possible advantage to achieve our goal.