My friends, welcome. My name is Hank Smith. I am the host of a podcast called Follow Him.

And I'm here with my co-host, John By the way. Hello, John.

Hi, Hank.

This is a segment we call Follow Him Favorites. We take the lesson for the week and just highlight our favorite piece.

The lesson this week, John, is on Doctrine Covenant Section 46, 47, and 48.

And what, John By the way, is your Follow Him favorit in these sections?

Oh, thank you for asking. There's 46, probably, is the longest of the three. And it just has some amazing stuff. A list of spiritual gifts.

I'm so grateful the Lord just says, hey, let me tell you about all these spiritual gifts instead of something like, hey, let me tell you all the different ways I can curse you or something like that.

It's here's a list of gifts that are available that I would love to share with you for the benefit of the church.

But there is a line in verse 15 that I'm so thankful for. It talks about the Lord suiting his mercies according to the conditions of the children of men.

His mercies according to the conditions. And I just, I love teenagers you to to Hank and there are teens out there who are probably thinking, oh, I've got this problem.

I bet my grandpa never had this problem. I bet my dad never had this problem. And you know what? They had different conditions.

Heavenly Father knows exactly what kind of world he sent you to. And it is a rough world. They never had those kind of temptations that you have to deal with.

And the Savior will suit their mercies according to your conditions. That's incredibly hopeful verse that, hey, I know what kind of world I sent you to. I know what you're going through.

And I have adjusted my mercy just for you. I'm so glad that's in there. That is my favorite for today. Hank.

Oh, that is 46 verse 15. That is such a crucial idea. The idea of I judge your finish line also based on your starting line. Yeah, right.

Yeah, it's different races.

We've talked about Stephen Robinson before and his book, Believe in Christ. And he wrote another one called following Christ. And he talked about diving.

And judges giving different scores based on the degree of difficulty. It wasn't just the dive. It was, I'm going to do this dive with that has a higher degree of difficulty.

We've been sent to a world with a different degree of difficulty. I like that. Then a pre internet world. And the judge judges accordingly. Thank you for that. That is beautiful.

If someone comes in, you know, with a mental illness, the Lord will adjust his mercies. If someone comes into an abusive home, the Lord will adjust his mercies. I think that was that is a crucial crucial takeaway.

Yeah.

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