Tag: Alma
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The pride of church members
It would be impossible to not notice the descriptions of church members becoming proud, vain, and puffed up but I never considered the damning description of them becoming even more proud than those who didn’t belong to the church. That is proof of church members who have lost sight of the choir of the gospel…
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Shades of gray
No circumstance is automatically black or white. Most circumstances have a tenancy towards one or the other but in all cases the blackness of whiteness depends on the reactions and choices of the individuals experiencing them. The Nephites were afflicted by the kids off men from war but they turned to building the church and…
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Natural Man or Spiritually Begotten Son
The natural man is an enemy to God and always will be unless he yields to the invitation of the Holy Spirit and puts off the natural man and becomes a spiritually begotten son through the atonement of Christ such that he has no more disposition to do evil but has a desire to always…
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Worthy to be called sons
A young man may skeptically be called a son to his father or his Heavenly Father simply as a heritage of his birth but that title of son is less telling than actually being worthy to be called a son of their father or another mentor or father figure or even their Heavenly Father or…
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Stripling Warriors
If we are to raise young men equal to Helaman’s stripling warriors we have to know what characteristics made them who they were. They were: They were exceedingly valiant for courage, and also for strength and activity They were men who were true at all times in whatsoever thing they were entrusted They were men…
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Propaganda
When Amalikiah appointed men to speak unto the Lamanites from their towers you can bet that all those men were descendants or defectors from the Nephites (his own men, Zoramites, or Amalekites) and that they didn’t make any attempt to confine their words to the truth.
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Amalikiah
I don’t know how anyone could feel safe with Amalikiah – not even his closest associates such as those who killed the king of the Lamanites. At some point each of them must have figured out that the only person who could be assured that they were in his favor was him. He gained the…
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Doctrine safeguards against bad ideas
The records doesn’t indicate that Amalikiah was opposed to the church of God or its teachings specifically (although Amalikiah obviously hated what Helaman and his brethren were teaching) but those who believed Helaman weren’t persuaded by Amalikiah while this who didn’t believe Helaman were (including some from within the church). The people who believed Helaman…
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Changing of the guard
Four years before the war lead by Zerahemnah the Zoramites were Nephites and the Amulonites were asking the Lamanites feeding their hatred of the Nephites along with the Amalekites. When Zerahemnah comes against the Nephites the is almost no mention of the Amulonites because they are going extinct because of how willing they were to…
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Remembering Captivity
It is difficult, if not impossible, to stand fast in any liberty unless we remember some bondage. It Durant matter of it is physical, spiritual, financial, our emotional bondage that we remember not whether it is our own bondage or the bondage of someone else as long as we apply it to our own situation…