This is one of those revelations that touches down into the life of every Latter-day Saint, right?

Not only making us a distinct people, but like, this is brought up probably more than any other

revelation in the doctrine and covenants to us.

The Word of Wisdom is a major thing that differentiates Latter-day Saints from other Christian

religions. All commandments are based on reason and faith. The enduring value of this revelation

lies in its call to temperance, good judgment, discernment, good health, obedience to God,

trusting God. The ultimate thrust and direction of the revelation leads us to a better place,

unquestionably. Though we tend to think of the word of wisdom as a physical commandment in the doctrine

of evidence, the Lord continually says there's no difference between a physical and a spiritual

commandment.

And some things we've been asked to use just to show our faith in the Savior and our trust

in him and following the guidance that he's given to us.

This is a moment for the individual to reflect about their relationship with God.

I'm really, really grateful for this, and the consequences in my life have been immense.

Hello, Scott.

Hello, Casey.

We are back, and it's fair to say one of the revelations we're talking about today is one that I think we've been itching to discuss for a really long time.

Yes, the Word of Wisdom, Section 89. We have received a lot of questions from some of our listeners. Like, when are you guys going to cover the word of wisdom? like can we talk about it? We've got so many questions about it. And we don't want to pretend that today

we're going to cover everything about the word of Wisdom, nor delve into every controversy that's possible out there about it. But we do want to do a little more in-depth than average take on it.

Yeah. The Word of Wisdom is a real rabbit hole that you can spend a long time exploiting. People have written whole books about the Word of Wisdom. People like John A. Widsow, right? Recognized, gifted apostle. We're going to give you a more than normal, in-depth view of the Word of Wisdom today. But we've also got some great stuff to cover in Section 90, 91, and 92. There's some juicy things in there as well. So what we're going to do is in our first episode, we're probably just going to talk about the word of wisdom, do our regular thing where we do the context, the content, the controversies and the consequences of this. And then we'll cover sections 90 to 92 in part two. Boy, is there a lot to discuss here. And I'm raring to go. Like, I'm excited to

have the chance to talk about this. Awesome. So here we go with part one then of this week's

come follow me. Let's dive in then to the context. We could talk about context a couple ways with this.

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