You're not going to be here. I've always loved Alma Chapter 5. It could be taken as the most introspective

chapter in all of Holy Writ.

Alma asks more than 40 questions of his listeners

and really wants them to probe their spirituality in a deep way.

But Alma wasn't just talking to the people in Zarahamla, he is talking to us.

So, to put it in our language and context today, if you have received a witness of this great work, if you have felt

those wonderful feelings of the spirit in your life, if you came to know something was

true at some point in your life, can you feel so now?

Let's explore Alma's teachings together.

Hello dear listeners, we are Scott and Maureen Proctor, and we are so delighted to join you again this week for the

podcast covering Alma, Chapter 5 through 7.

The lesson is entitled Have Ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts?

One of the things I think is worthy of note in these powerful teachings of Alma the Younger

is that these are given just a dozen years after his own conversion to the Lord. He had spent most of his life

in spiritual darkness, and now he can give this sermon to the Saints with great conviction.

At the latter end of his sermon, it's as if some may have been questioning whether he, Alma,

truly knew for himself what he was talking about.

Was he saying these things because his father Alma had been the founder of the church and had

been the great high priest?

Alma answers,

Do ye not suppose that I know of these things myself?

Behold, I testify into you that I do know that these things wherever I have spoken are true.

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