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🗓️ 1 July 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello there. My name is Tyler Griffin, and this is Scripture Study Insights by Scripture Central. |
0:06.9 | Today, Alma chapters 23 through 29. And the lifelong learning overlay that I want to address with these particular chapters is this question. |
0:28.7 | What is it that defines you? What makes you uniquely you? This is an identity level question. And what we're going to see in these chapters is a group of people |
0:39.7 | who have spent their entire lifetime heading in a certain direction and by accepting the gospel |
0:49.3 | of Jesus Christ as taught by these missionaries. This entire group of people in chapter 23, verse 9 through |
0:58.4 | 12, we see the names of seven cities who have become converted unto the Lord by that preaching |
1:06.6 | and they have now turned the entire focus of their lives in a different direction. |
1:12.6 | Things that used to be important to them, things that used to define who they were and their |
1:19.6 | level of contentment or feelings of success in life, it's completely different now that they've become converted. So as we jump |
1:32.0 | into these chapters, one of the questions for you to ponder is, what is it that defines my life? |
1:41.7 | What is the set of criteria that I use as a measure of my success and happiness |
1:52.7 | in my life? What am I really here to accomplish on earth? And to what degree am I fulfilling |
2:00.7 | those missions that Heavenly Father gave to me before |
2:05.7 | being born? And before we jump into any of the verses, it's important to remember those |
2:13.1 | three most important primary identities that President Russell M. Nilsson has repeated on multiple |
2:20.7 | occasions, we are first and foremost a child of God. It doesn't matter what we do, it doesn't |
2:29.0 | matter what we don't do. It doesn't matter how we live our life. It doesn't change the reality that we are children |
2:36.9 | of God. We can't divorce ourselves from that primary and primal relationship with God. |
2:46.3 | Number two, we can choose to become children of the covenant we can enter into the safety of |
2:53.3 | that covenantal connection with the Lord through those those covenants that we |
3:00.3 | make with God and number three we are disciples of Jesus Christ. |
3:07.5 | And that second and third identity, they can be altered based on our choice, based on our agency. |
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