Tag: 3 Nephi

How would it be to have such a mission that you were inoculated against sin? Such is the life of the three Nephites after their transfiguration.

What we call ourselves is important because if we identify ourselves with anything other than Christ it limits our potential to be blessed but what we identify ourselves with is not enough. We must also base our actions on Christ if we are to receive the full blessings of righteousness. If it actions are not…

Why did Jesus choose to loose the tongues of children to reveal things He had not revealed? Was it things less central to His message or was there a lesson in letting others proclaim truth rather than having all the most marvelous things come from Him directly?

People can see what they choose to see. Israel viewed the wicked as being happy. They thought that keeping the commandments meant living mournfully. As a consequence they ruined God either by not giving the tithe and offerings they had been taught or by giving unwillingly and thus forfeiting the joy of obedience. In contrast,…

While Christ was telling the people that the law was fulfilled and that anything the prophets had prophesied would be fulfilled if it had not already it would have been easy to leave behind a fulfilled prophecy that had not been recorded. Instead He ensured that the record was complete.

Sometimes prophecies seem very clear and we assume that we have the full picture. The truth is, we will only have the full picture after the fact and then we will fully understand the projected. People to that full knowledge we will know at least as much as we need to know so long as…

Either the gentiles will repent and be spared from being scattered by the remnants of Israel—at which point Israel will be gathered together—or else they will not repent and they will be scattered by Israel like they had previously scattered Israel—at which point Israel will be gathered together.

I never thought about the fact that Jesus separated himself three times to pay while his disciples and the multitude were praying to Him. By His third prayer He spoke things too great for man to utter. The people were able to understand him because their hearts were opened but that may not have been…

The overriding themes are that all should be welcomed to partake and that Christ is the light for them to hold up to the world. Even those who are not worthy to partake of the sacrament, who the disciples are instructed to forbid in that thing, are explicitly welcomed with instructions that they should be…

When the Nephites were too weak to be able to receive all the words Christ had from the Father He instead blessed their children and prayed things too marvelous to record.