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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Does God work through faith or evidence? Dr. Joseph Spencer explores Nephi’s pattern for quoting Isaiah and God’s plan for expanding the Saints faith and testimony.

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00:00 Part 1–Dr. Joseph Spencer
00:48 What to expect in this episode
02:57 Bio of Dr. Joseph Spencer
04:56 A marvelous work and a wonder
06:10 Structure
09:54 Malleability of Isaiah
12:56 When Nephi write the Small Plates
16:30 2 Nephi 26-30 Nephi’s prophecy
18:16 2 Nephi 28 Last Day’s Context
19:45 2 Nephi 25-27 Prophecy and role of the Book of Mormon
21:44 2 Nephi 25:23 Grace
24:27 Jesus lifts
27:38 The Lord can do His work
28:08 No license to sin and the Law
30:51 Striving
31:57 2 Nephi 26:1-14 Christ with the Lamanites and the Last Days
33:10 2 Nephi 26:15-19 Destruction and likening
34:12 2 Nephi 26:20-33 A culture of exclusion
36:18 Definition of gentile
37:34 2 Nephi 26:29 Whose kingdom are we building?
38:04 2 Nephi 26:33 Inclusivity vs. racism
42:14 Dale LaBaron “All are Alike Unto God”
44:33 2 Nephi 27 The Book of Mormon is the solution
48:19 2 Nephi 27:9-13 The book will be sealed
50:50 2 Nephi 27:15-20 “A learned man”
53:50 Latter-day desire for evidence
56:12 2 Nephi 27:15 Gentiles demand proof
59:36 God works through faith
1:03:10 Nephi addresses the need for proof
1:05:36 End of Part 1–Dr. Joseph Spencer

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name's Hank Smith. I'm here with the marvelous John by the way as my co-host. John we're going to be in more chapters of Isaiah this week. How are you feeling about this?
0:16.2	Wonderful. These are so fun to extract things from and we have experts to help us.
0:20.8	Yeah, we've been learning new things for the last couple of weeks in Isaiah and we have yet another lesson
0:26.2	in Isaiah and I'm really enjoying these, John.
0:29.2	Sometimes I think Isaiah gets a bad rap that we should skip it, I found a lot of wonderful things so far.
0:36.2	I love the old saying that that which we obtain too easily we esteem too lightly and
0:41.1	when we do a little work in Isaiah it becomes for a lot of people it
0:44.3	becomes some of their favorite scripture because they've worked out a little bit.
0:48.5	John one I think Isaiah in the Book of Mormon there's one name that comes up automatically Dr Joe Spencer and he's
0:55.9	joining us today. Joe what are we looking forward to in this third lesson in Isaiah?
1:01.5	Things get a little more down to earth here.
1:04.0	He's been quoting blocks of Isaiah for chapters and chapters,
1:07.0	but here he weaves Isaiah's language into his own prophecy,
1:11.0	which in some ways will make this, I think think easier sledding than some of the other things, but we're going to see a lot of cool things here.
1:17.0	Particularly we'll want to spend some time on everything that Nefai has to say about Gentiles and how he's using Isaiah to think about Gentile situations in the last days and the challenges
1:26.8	that the Gentiles pose to the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. So we've got lots to think about here.
1:31.6	Joe, we've talked in our previous two lessons about Nephi just really thinks Isaiah has the power to
1:38.5	convert that I might more fully persuade them to believe in the Lord their
1:41.8	Redeemer. I read Isaiah to them. It's not to help them sleep. I read them Isaiah. It's I wanted them to believe in their
1:49.6	Redeemer. So I read Isaiah. What do you think Nephi sees? I know you can't get in Nephi's head, but of anyone who could do it, I think it would be you.
1:57.6	What's Nephi going for with all these Isaiah chapters? Yeah, in a lot of ways, it seems that Nephi slowly discovered the power of Isaiah and that this was all built on his own vision.
2:09.6	He has this long vision recorded in 1st Nephi 11 through 14, then a lot of ways is the anchor for all of Nephi's prophetic ministry.
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