Ep 306 | D&C 6-9, Come Follow Me 2025 (February 3-9)
Talking Scripture
Mike Day & Bryce Dunford
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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
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(00:00) The historical background of Section 6.
(04:11) Two types of doubts.
(05:38) How God speaks to our heart.
(24:20) How God speaks to our mind.
(38:53) How we can tell the difference between our own thoughts and revelation from heaven.
(43:48) President Russell M. Nelson’s revelation during surgery and a caution regarding presentism.
(54:00) What can we do to receive more revelation? Revelation has to be sought.
(1:03:41) Trifle not with sacred things.
(1:11:05) Oliver Cowdery may have participated in the translation of Section 7.
(1:14:54) Section 7 and Christian traditions of the Apostle John.
(1:19:21) Comparing our stories.
(1:21:30) Just as the Book of Mormon was abridged and edited by Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants has also been edited.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Talking Scripture, a podcast where we illustrate relevance and application of the scriptures in Come Follow Me. |
| 0:10.1 | We also dive into the history and cultures of the text. |
| 0:13.4 | Thanks for taking the time to share and subscribe to this podcast. |
| 0:16.9 | For show notes, head over to our website, talkingscripture.org. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike. And I'm Bryce. And today we're going to be in section |
| 0:28.2 | 6 through 9 of the Doctrine Covenants. These early sections deal with the Lord teaching the |
| 0:35.4 | saints how to hear his voice, how to receive revelation. |
| 0:38.3 | To give you a little bit of background, in the fall of 1828, Oliver Cowderie is teaching school, |
| 0:45.3 | and he's boarding with the Smith family. And 120, 130 miles away from this experience in Palmyra, |
| 0:51.3 | Joseph is in Pennsylvania. And he's with Emma, and the Lord has |
| 0:57.8 | told him in March to hold off on translating the plates, that to wait for a little bit, |
| 1:03.2 | and the Lord's going to send him some help. And little does Joseph know that Oliver Cowdery's |
| 1:08.2 | being prepared. Oliver Cowdery, when he's boarding with the Smith family far away in New York, |
| 1:13.8 | hears about Joseph Smith, and he hears about the plates. |
| 1:17.8 | And he starts to quiz Joseph Smith's father and asking questions about the plates and about what's |
| 1:23.4 | happening. |
| 1:23.9 | And he eventually starts talking to him about these things. |
| 1:26.8 | And Oliver Cowdery goes, and he eventually starts talking to him about these things. And Oliver |
| 1:27.6 | Cowdery goes and he asks the Lord, which right away doesn't that show us Bryce about Oliver's |
| 1:35.0 | heart? That's right. And we're going to get really into the rules of Revelation and Oliver just |
| 1:40.8 | knocks them out of the park instinctively. And one of those early ones that we're |
| 1:46.1 | going to talk about is revelation has to be sought. The Lord just doesn't come down and hit us with a two by four |
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