In the beginning, the text explicitly states that this is not a commandment, that it's just wise counsel.

They did still use wine in their church sacraments. In fact, they do into the 20th century.

What are my temptations? Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey.

That is also resting on the assumption that the Word of Wisdom means the same thing to them as it does to us now.

Joseph got, quote, gloriously drunk occasionally.

The way church members observed the Word of Wisdom was kind of all over the place.

Some Latter-day Saints do lose their membership because of the excessive use of alcohol to the point of drunkenness.

How many of you are living the word of wisdom?

Show a hands.

How serious was a Latter-day saint to take this counsel, this wisdom?

And there's lots of twists and turns along the way.

Hello, Casey.

Hello, Scott. Good to see you.

You too.

And nice to be back in the Word of Wisdom.

This is a topic that we've mentioned a couple times was probably our most requested topic when we were doing series.

And I got to say, this is becoming so cliche, but it's a lot more complicated

that I thought it was going to be. I remember when we talked about this one, we said,

it'll maybe be like a one to two episode sort of little palette refresher. But you and I have a way

of just getting in way over our heads when we start to dive into the sources.

And there is a lot of stuff to process when it comes to the word of wisdom.

Yeah.

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