Whoa, Casey, that might be the thesis statement of the restoration right there.

Yeah, yeah.

It's got to be one of the clearest explanations in the whole doctrine and covenants as to why

the Lord has established this church. The power of godly living, or like the way to become like

God is manifest. That's pretty significant. We take for granted how powerful the truths of the gospel are.

And for all the complaints we make about doing work in the church and how busy it makes

us, it takes so many burdens off your shoulders to know that you're going to be okay,

your family's going to be okay, that there is something better and that there's a larger

purpose. Like, that is so powerful and helpful to people. Well, I serve a mission. That was pretty good.

That was a pretty good explanation because the world needs you because the world needs the light and the

truth and the spirit that you can bring into that darkness and help people. But really, what matters

is you and the choices that you make in your life.

You know, the Lord's not pulling punches here, right?

He's saying it how it is.

You receive the servants, which means you receive Jesus Christ, which means you receive the Father.

And if you do that, you receive all that the Father has.

Like, that's the gospel

boiled down to just a few simple verses. Whoa. This hurts my modern brain. Hello, Casey.

Hello, Scott. We're back. And we are dealing with a major revelation in the Doctrine

and Covenants, Section 84. One of the most significant revelations I think ever received by Joseph Smith, Casey. Is that overstating it? No, it's not overstating it at all. And you pointed out something important to me in the early Doctrine and Covenants, the 1835 Doctrine Covenants, where this shows up first. Instead of having the sections chronologically, like they do in our current doctrine

covenants, they were sort of put in by order of importance.

So section one is still section one because, you know, it's intended to be the introduction.

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