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Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike.

And I'm Bryce.

And today we're going to be in sections.

37 through 40.

37 through 40. That's where we're going to be.

And a major shift, because now the Lord is going to shift the headquarters of the church. He's now going to call them to leave New York and its head to be. And a major shift because now the Lord is going to shift the headquarters of the church.

He's now going to call them to leave New York and its head to Ohio. So a lot of changes that are coming.

So we open up in section 37 where a very short section, but the Lord basically says it's time to go to the Ohio.

Stop your work on the Bible and don't continue it because we're going to go to the Ohio.

He says it twice in Section 37.

I'm going to go to the Ohio.

Now, just to see where the Lord's kind of leading them, in verse 32 of section 38, he says,

I'm taking you to the Ohio for two main reasons. Number one, I'm going to give you my law there.

Now that will be section 42 that Joseph designates as the law of the church. So I'm going to go to the Ohio so I can give you my law. And then at the end of verse 32, he says, I'm going to take you to the Ohio so I can endow you with power

from on high. And that may not refer to our own individual endowments, which won't happen to

Navu, but he's referring to the fact that we will build the first temple and keys will be

restored. And that is an endowment of power that they will receive in

Kirtland. So the Lord is now beginning to prepare the whole church to shift to Ohio, and that's hard

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