Hello my friends my name is Hank Smith and welcome to follow him favorites. This is where we take our

come follow me lesson and we break it down into just our favorite pieces. We have our guests this

week as Dr. Susan Black. She's an incredible historian, incredible mind of the church. She's going

to join us for follow him favorite. So here we go. John, let's start with you. The sections are 94,

596 and 97 of the doctrine covenants. What's your follow him favorite? Oh, I just love section 95 verse 1. It

almost sounds kind of counterintuitive or white. That doesn't make sense. Verily, thus say the Lord

unto you whom I love and whom I love. I also chastin and chastin means what would you say,

Hank what is chastin mean? I'm going to teach it's going to be a little trials. Yeah, trials and

difficulties. Yeah, it says, wait a minute. You just said you loved me. No, but whom I love. I also

chastin that their sins may be forgiven for with the chastisement. I prepare a way for their

deliverance in all things out of temptation. Come out of the last five words and I have loved you.

And this is a very interesting way of understanding how God loves us that when he loves us,

he will also chastin us. I remember somebody saying once, I know the Lord won't give me anything

I can't handle, but I just wish he didn't trust me so much because I get so close to I don't

know if I can handle this. But the Lord has a purpose and he's going to help us. He's going to

prepare a way for our deliverance. It says. And so even when we have trials, we can know I know the

Lord loves me. So I guess I'm going to learn something wonderful from this. And that's a great

verse to help us through our chastening. It is. And I bet every teenager listening has had

has rolled their eyes when their parents have said, listen, if I didn't love you, I wouldn't be

doing this. Right. If I didn't love you, I would just not even care. But because I love you,

you're in trouble. Right. I'm going to do some correcting. My follow him favorite. We're going to

give Susan the last word. So my follow him favorite comes from section 97 verse eight. The Lord is

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