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Unshaken Saints

Alma 53-63 part 2

Unshaken Saints

Jared Halverson

Religion & Spirituality, Education

52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 of a 4-part in-depth study of Alma 53-63, which continues the history of the wars between the Nephites and the Lamanites. Part 2 covers Moroni's interaction with Pahoran and focuses on the challenge to obtain, maintain, and regain, two-sided coins, seeking change in the Church, causes of neglect, and not taking offense. Join Jared Halverson for your weekly Come Follow Me study of the Book of Mormon! Disclaimer: The content of these podcasts is the sole responsibility of their creator and does not reflect the official position of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or the Church Educational System.

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0:00.0

When the son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth.

0:05.0

Lord I believe help thou mine unbelief.

0:12.0

May our testimonies. mine unbelief.

0:19.0

May our testimonies be as deep and strong as that of Jacob, when confronted by one who sought to destroy his faith declared,

0:22.0

I could not be shaken. The Oh, Now so far we've been watching this letter exchange between Maroni and Amaran. There's another set of letters exchange

1:04.0

that we need to spend some time on two.

1:06.2

And this one is between Moroni and Pahoran,

1:09.2

who happens to be the chief judge at the time.

1:12.0

The story begins in chapter 59. We just skipped over a bunch of

1:16.0

stuff about the stripling warriors, which we'll cover in the second half of this lesson.

1:20.3

But still focusing on Moroni's strength, which leads to some potential weakness, see it start to unfold in chapter 59.

1:28.0

In verse one, he's just heard from Helaman about how things are going for those stripling

1:32.8

lawyers. He's thrilled that they've been so successful, but also very

1:36.5

concerned at the smallness of their numbers. They're going to need more

1:40.2

reinforcements. They need more help. We'll talk more about that next time too.

1:44.0

So what does he do in verse 3? It came to pass that he immediately sent an epistle to Pahoran,

1:49.2

desiring that he should cause men to be gathered together to strengthen Helaman or the armies of Helaman.

1:54.0

Now this is part of Moroni's strength.

1:56.2

One of the things that makes him such an effective military commander is that he's a man of

1:59.8

action.

2:01.1

He doesn't get this letter from Helaman and say, well, we should probably, I don't know, organize some kind of exploratory committee and do some testing, maybe some surveys that we could send out, maybe a focus group or something, and maybe decide some different possibilities

2:15.3

of things that we could do to make things a little easier for Helaman and his men.

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