God delivers us. That's one of the central takeaways of Exodus's story. But what do we do to ensure that we remember that takeaway?

In this episode of Abide, a Maxwell Institute podcast, we discuss what it means to hold on in the face of adversity,

to remember the actions that ensure our temporal and spiritual salvation, and much more. My name is Joseph Stewart.

I'm the public communications specialist of the Neill A. Maxwell Institute for Religious

Scholarship at Brigham Young University.

Christian Heel is a research fellow at the Institute.

In each week, we discuss the week's block of reading from the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints, come follow me curriculum.

We aren't here to present a lesson, or rather to hit on a few key themes from the

scripture block so as to help fulfill the Maxwell Institute's mission to inspire and

fortify Latter-day Saints in their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and engage

the world of religious ideas. Today we are joined by one of our research assistants,

Joanna, a pre-business major here at BYU from Fort Collins, Colorado.

After Joanna graduates, she plans to go to grad school to go into medical administration.

Welcome to the podcast, Joanna.

Thank you.

We're so glad that you're here.

Christian, we are discussing Exodus chapter 7 through 13 today.

What's going on in this block of scripture?

So up to this point, Moses's

first attempts to convince Pharaoh to let Israel go have failed. Now in these chapters, God plans to

send plagues upon Egypt until Pharaoh is convinced to let Israel leave. After the 10th and most

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