David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • If thou hadst been here

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    I marvel at the faith of Martha and Mary. I had always thought their statements that “if thou hadst been here my brother has not died” were despairing. In reading the entire interchange they each had with Jesus I realized that they were expressing faith in Him. It was not despair that their brother was…

  • Unfortunately servants

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    One of the keys to discipleship is that we should always recognize that no matter how much we give back to the Lord it will never put Him in our debt. We give because we love, not because we can clear our balance.

  • Taking His name in vain

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    We have come to associate course language with taking the name of God in vain and certainly sometimes that is exactly what it is but it seems so clear as I read tonight that another, more damning form of breaking that commandment is doing what the priests of Noah did in taking the role of…

  • Ancient MAGA

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    The people who delivered Abinadi to King Noah sounds like MAGA people, flattering their leader and blinding themselves both to his wickedness and to their own.

  • Being ruled by wickedness

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    Sometimes people are tired by switches not by their own choosing, as the people under king Noah didn’t choose him, but other times, like many now, people choose to follow wicked leaders.

  • How ironic

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    I just realized the irony that the Lamanites taught their children that Nephi had robbed them by taking the brass plates when he fled from his brethren when it was Nephi who obtained the plates to begin with when Laman and Lemuel intended to abandon the attempt.

  • Intended or not

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    Zeniff states that the king of the landscape allowed his people to stay in their lands with the intent to subjugate them. The reality is that even if that had not been his intent it would be a natural result of displacing one group to make space for another unless the group being displaced was…

  • One thing I know

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    When presented with accusations against Christ that he could not refute, the man born blind chose to hold to the thing he did know (that his sight had been restored) rather than dwell on the things that he didn’t know (whether Jesus was a sinner). We have to stay firm to the things that we…

  • Halting between two opinions

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    The people seem divided in their opinions of Christ at this time. In one moment they are declaring Him the promised Messiah and in another they are arguing with Him about their loyalty to Abraham’.

  • Knit together

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    The first thing that Limhi did after finding out that Ammon had come from Zerahemla was to have admin teach his people about the history since they had separated and then to teach Ammon about the history of his people since they had separated. Starting from a shared past they began by articulating the experiences…