You have gifts. You have unique gifts that will be a particular blessing to the people you're called to serve now in ways unique to you.

I can be who God has made me to be to be a benefit to others. When you lean into the gifts God has given you, you're better able to bless authentically and to be a benefit to others.

Lean into the gifts that God has given you and watch what heaven can do through you.

Hello, Casey.

Hello, Scott.

Good to see you again.

We get to dive into some really interesting Portland revelations where the saints were dealing with some perplexing questions, Casey.

And questions that still kind of resonate in the church today to varying degrees.

Should we dive in?

This just comes like a day after Section 45, which we talked about last week.

And Joseph has received the laws of the church, right?

He's received Section 45 with the signs of the times.

Now the next few revelations here are going to address some unusual spiritual manifestations

that had been happening among new converts in Kirtland.

Those converts became particularly enamored with the gifts of the Spirit and instructions

in the Book of Mormon about how to conduct themselves.

There's no set way to deal with this stuff in this early era.

This is 1831.

What's acceptable practice?

What's not acceptable practice?

What gifts of the Spirit are real and what gifts are not real?

And you're going to drop us into the immediate context.

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