Tag: Mosiah
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A sacred space
I want to create a place like the place of Mormon that is beautiful in the eyes of my family where they come to the knowledge of God in their hearts and feel of his love. It could have any number of characteristics but I like to think that it shares the fountain of pure…
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A wild flock
Abinadi compares the people of Noah to a wild flock. A wild flock is one that either has no shepherd or that has rejected the direction of their shepherd. In either case, they have no protection from the wild beasts that would harass and hunt them. We will see more and more of that same…
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Persisting as natural man
This description from Abinadi sounds just like Alex 5 …He that persists in his own carnal nature, and goes on in the ways of sin and rebellion against God, remaineth in his fallen state and the devil hath all power over him.… 12 Having gone according to their own carnal wills and desires; having never…
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Abinadi before Amulek
I never realized before that when Amulek was challenged for saying that God would not redeem His people IN their sins and he responded that he could not deny the word of God and that God could not redeem those who remained unclean Abinadi had Said the same thing before Noah and his priests. I…
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Two more insights
I always wondered about the conversion of Limhi and his people. I knew they had been converted and that they desired baptism but postponed it until after they had joined the people of Mosiah but I didn’t know when in their afflictions they had been converted to the gospel that had been preached by Abinadi.…
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Nuggets of insight
A couple of things stood out to me. Limhi began his reign at a perilous time for his people and had no choice but to accept a terrible situation. He accepted the terms of 50% tribute to the Lamanites because he knew there was no other option. In our day many (possibly even a majority)…
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Like sheep
I never took note before that Isaiah compares us to sheep (“all we, like sheep, have gone astray”) just as he compares Christ to a sheep (“he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth.”). It makes me feel connected…
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Eternal vs Current
It’s ironic when people try to use the Law of Moses to argue against the doctrine of Christ. Abinadi turned that on its head when he asked the priests of Noah if salvation came by the Law of Moses perform he demonstrated the hollowness of their claim that it did. They said that salvation came…
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“Who is the Lord?”
When Abinadi first came among the people of Noah Noah responded by saying “Who is Abinadi, that I and my people should be judged of him, or who is the Lord, that shall bring upon my people such great affliction?” When Abinadi came again asking them after 2 years in hiding gree prophesied “the life…
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Building towers
It struck me today that the building of towers, especially ancientley, was not something that anyone would undertake lightly or frivolously. There we have examples of both good and bad reasons to build towers but it is rare to build a tower just to see if you can. It makes me wonder about building spiritual…