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Come follow me insights. Today, Doctor and Covenant sections three, four, and five. Has there ever

been a time in your life when you have given into what could be called peer pressure, when you have done something that

you probably knew you shouldn't do, but you did it anyway because of this outside influence

coming in. That's basically what's happening as we open our lesson today and get ready to discuss

section three of the Doctrine and Covenants.

Now, with this particular section, there is a lot of material in the historical side of the storyline that sets the stage for helping us understand and

find meaning in Section 3. So let's just go back and very, very quickly catch us up to

speed on what led to Section 3 coming about. Remember, Joseph Smith has married Emma,

Hale. Then on September 22, 1827, Emma went with him to the Hill Comorah, and he is able to

get the plates out of the hill, finally.

After multiple years of going on that same date and being tutored and taught and trained by

Moroni, he now gets the plates out. Thus begins this long process of discovery. Joseph holds

plates. They're written in reformed Egyptian. He has no way

of being able to translate them when he first gets them out. He also gets the Yermon Thumbum.

You'll notice that in those early days, he's making copies of the characters off of the plates. He's

even putting pieces of paper and making scratchings to get the engravings to show up on paper. He's

exploring them, but he's not actively translating them. He doesn't seem to know

how yet. And you'll notice Martin Harris, a local farmer, owns quite a bit of land. He's very

rich. He's well respected in the community. He is made aware

of what's going on, and he believes in this work, and he wants to see before he believes.

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