Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with John, by the way, and Dr.

France below. Welcome my friends. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, we are here. We have a podcast called Follow Him.

We would love for you to join us on the full podcast, but this little clip is what we do follow him favorites. For those of you who just say,

hey, I got five minutes for you guys. Give me your Follow Him favorit. So John and France, the lesson this week is on sections

115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120 of the doctrine covenant. So John, we'll start with you. What's your Follow Him favorit?

Well, I'm looking at section 115, verse 5, which was actually a youth theme a few years ago. And I wrote a talk that takes an hour on this verse.

Because there's so much in there, but we won't use the hour today. Just one of the things that is my favorite in this is when the Savior says,

well, the whole verse is very, say unto you all arise and shine forth that thy light may be a standard for the nations. And oh, I'd love to tell you the whole thing,

but thy light made me just go, wait a minute. I thought Jesus said when he came to the righteous in the New World, and I thought Jesus said,

I am the light of the world in the book of John. But here he says your light. And in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, I'd love this that Jesus lets us share a nickname with him.

Because he says, I am the light of the world. But then he says in Matthew, ye are the light of the world. And this says let thy light be a,

God, that gives us all something to aspire to, that we can be a light to others. And in third Nephite kind of connects them both.

I am the light which ye shall hold up, that which ye have seen me do. So we're trying to be like Jesus so that his light can be reflected in us,

and that our light can be a standard for the nations. So I love that idea.

That's a beautiful idea, John. Have you ever been out on a full moon and the light is pretty bright, right? And all that moon is doing is reflecting the light of the sun.

That's all it's doing. It has no light in itself. But man, if it, if it's really full out there, you can see quite a bit. I think that that reflection of light that can come off of us when we fully face the Savior can really bless lives. That's awesome, John.

Yeah, it's I think another way to put that Helen Keller, who you know was blind and and definitely very famous. If you don't know who Helen Keller is, ask your folks.

But she said, when you face the sun, the shadows of discouragement fall behind you. And I love to change S U and to S O N when you face the sun, the son of God, the shadows fall behind you. Anyway, that's great.

Okay, my following favorite is doctrine covenant section 117 verse 11. This is actually pretty brutal verse to to a bishop. The second bishop in the church, Nuel K Whitney.

The Lord says that he wants him to to repent of his secret abominations, his littleness of soul. That's a yeah. And he says and to stand up and be a bishop, not just in name, but indeed.

You know, it's hard to sometimes tell people that loving someone can mean that you have high expectations for them. And the Lord loves Bishop Whitney. And so he has high expectations for him.

And he doesn't give up on him if you notice, he doesn't say Bishop Whitney because of your abominations and your littleness of soul, you're out. We're done with you. The Lord won't won't give up on you. If you're willing to to repent and try again, the Lord won't give up on you.

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