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Welcome to Talking Scripture, I'm Mike, and I'm Bryce.

And today we are going to be doing section 64, 65, and 66.

Section 64 is September 11th, 1831.

This is when Joseph gets back from Missouri and some of the missionaries are now arriving

back in Ohio and a big part of the context of this section is Ezra Booth.

Ezra Booth accused the prophet Joseph of lightness and levity and a pronest to jesting

and joking and a temper easily irritated.

And so with his spirit of accusing the prophet Joseph, he actually starts to convince some

of the early members of the church to leave the church, and he's one of the first people

to write articles against the church of Jesus Christ and attacking the prophet.

And we'll come to it again when we get to section 71 because Joseph and Sydney are going

to have to take some time away from the work on the Joseph Smith translation of the Bible

to answer him publicly.

And so in this section, the Lord is going to acknowledge Joseph's weaknesses.

Once again, this is one of those times where we see the Lord not only rebuking others,

but also acknowledging that Joseph Smith is a person.

And to me, a big part of this section is how do we look at other people when we see their

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