Come Follow Me OT Podcast 17, “Why The Lord Wants Us To Be a 'Peculiar Treasure,'" -- Exodus 18-20

Meridian Magazine--Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast

Scot Facer Proctor

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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April 18-24

Egyptologist, BYU professor, and author Kerry Muhlestein joins Scot and Maurine Proctor today to talk about the Children of Israel at Mount Sinai, and the remarkable visions, thunderings and lightenings that happen on that holy mountain. The Lord said, “Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings and brought you unto myself.” God’s intent is to make His people a “peculiar treasure” and a “kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” First, however, they must know what God will expect of them to be offered these good gifts.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast.
0:20.6	We're Scott and Maureen Proctor and we're thrilled to be with you again this week as we
0:24.9	discuss Exodus chapters 18 through 20, a very important and wonderful part of the Old Testament.
0:31.9	Now, as you've been seeing, we have some special guests that we have invited to be with us in
0:37.8	these podcasts and we welcome another one this week that we think you'll be very excited to have
0:42.8	join us. Karen Mulestein is one of our favorites because we love his book so much. He's written many,
0:51.3	but we have favorites. We love Let God prevail, which is all about the covenant and the Old Testament.
0:57.5	And of course, a new one he's written about the book of Abraham called Let's Talk About the Book of Abraham.
1:04.1	He is an Egyptologist, a professor at BYU. But most of all, we are impressed with his passion to make
1:13.0	what people consider the hard things of the Old Testament easier. So welcome, Karen. We're so
1:18.5	glad you're with us. Thank you. It's wonderful to be with you. So today, we're going to talk a lot
1:23.4	about the initial experiences at Sinai, but chapter 18 gives us a little lesson in leadership,
1:31.1	which we want to talk about for a minute. Carrie, tell us about that. Well, I love chapter 18 because
1:37.3	you see Moses who is in the midst of becoming this great prophet and yet still learning
1:45.0	and being tutored and being willing to be tutored. And in this case, by his father-in-law,
1:50.7	who is the one who ordained him to the priesthood and so on. But as Jethro or Ruelis, I guess,
1:58.8	has two names, so we can choose which one we want to call him by. But as Jethro comes and sees
2:05.4	Moses with this huge congregation, he sees that he's trying to hear everything going on and
2:12.4	take care of everything himself and it's just not working. It's wearing him out. It's inefficient.
2:17.4	Everything is getting done. And so he has some advice for Moses about delegating and spreading
2:24.2	things out in terms of stewardship and letting other people be part of the governing process of
2:30.4	Israel. What strikes me about this is that stewardship seems to be a really important part of
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