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🗓️ 27 September 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello there, my name is Tyler Griffin and this is Scripture Study Insights by Scripture Central. |
0:06.0 | Today, 3rd Nephi chapters 12 through 16. |
0:11.0 | I want to begin with a very famous verse in chapter 12, the last verse of that particular chapter |
0:18.0 | that reads as follows, therefore I would that ye should be perfect, |
0:25.4 | even as I or your father who is in heaven is perfect. Years ago, Elder or President Jeffrey |
0:33.6 | R. Holland gave an incredible talk called Be ye therefore perfect eventually. In that talk, |
0:40.7 | he shares this little concept. He says, around the church, I hear many who struggle with this |
0:48.5 | issue. I'm just not good enough. Or I fall so short. or I will never measure up. I hear this from teenagers, |
0:59.0 | I hear it from missionaries, I hear it from new converts. I hear it from lifelong members. |
1:05.0 | One insightful Latter-day Saint, Sister Darla Isaacson, has observed that Satan has somehow managed to make |
1:11.7 | covenants and commandments seem like curses and condemnations. For some, he has turned |
1:20.4 | the ideals and inspiration of the gospel into self-loathing and misery-making. So today, as we look at this incredible set of chapters, |
1:32.8 | especially chapters 12, 13, and 14, often called the sermon at the temple, it's the repeat |
1:40.5 | of the sermon on the mount in Matthew 5, 6, and 7, we get to see a glimpse into |
1:50.0 | Jesus Christ giving us the blueprints for a perfect life, for this handbook that it is, guides us along that covenant path, that covenant journey, |
2:05.9 | to becoming more and more like him. |
2:08.8 | And when we look at your identities, as described by President Russell M. Nelson, |
2:14.3 | a child of God, a child of the covenant, and a disciple of Christ, this |
2:19.1 | requires all kinds of help and instructions along the way. It would be as a simple object |
2:26.8 | lesson if you were teaching young children or even teenagers. You could take in a pile |
2:33.0 | of Legos and dump them out on the table and say, go, build, |
2:39.0 | make this into what it was intended to become. And they would probably look at you with |
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