Ep 334 | D&C 89-92, Come Follow Me 2025 (August 18-24)

Talking Scripture

Mike Day & Bryce Dunford

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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→ Timestamps: (00:00) The historical background to the Word of Wisdom.(02:06) The Word of Wisdom as a binding law came in gradually in Church practice.(07:44) The Word of Wisdom is for us today, in our time.(09:08) It may be beneficial to not try to give explanations for the Word of Wisdom besides the reason the Lord gives.(09:48) The President of the Church can state and define the requirements of the Word of Wisdom.(14:05) Layer 1 is the connection between our physical body and our spiritual nourishment. Food, exercise, sleep, stress, and hormone management are critical aspects of the Word of Wisdom.(24:31) Layer 2 is a warning against conspiring men in the last days. The Mahan principle is converting human life into property.(35:59) Commentary on the questionable comma found in D&C 89.13.(38:30) Section 90 is the further establishment of the First Presidency and their duties.(40:15) The roots of the word oracle. One of the best ways to weather the storms of the last days is to hold the words of the first presidency in high esteem and not treat them lightly.(46:16) The meaning of D&C 90.25, let your families be small.(48:21) Vienna Jaques, a consecrated Saint.(52:19) The Apocrypha can give light and background to the multifaceted nature of scripture.(56:04) Hugh Nibley discusses 10 things that apocryphal texts have in common.(1:03:33) Be a lively member!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Talking Scripture, a podcast where we illustrate relevance and application
0:08.0	of the scriptures in Come Follow Me. 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. For show notes, head over to our website,
0:18.7	talking scripture.org.
0:28.2	Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike. And I'm Bryce. And today we are going to be in Section 89 through 92 of the Doctrine Covenants. And Section 89 comes to us out of the school of the
0:35.0	prophets. They're in the upstairs room of the Newell-K. Whitney store. And it's this teeny little room. And some of the school of the prophets. They're in the upstairs room of the Newell K. Whitney store,
0:39.1	and it's this teeny little room, and some of the brethren would take out their plugs of tobacco,
0:43.7	and they'd chew, and then they spit on the floor during the meeting. And then at the conclusion of
0:48.8	the meeting, Emma would come up and she would clean up this messy goo, and she came to Joseph
0:53.6	and asked him to talk to
0:55.2	the Lord about this. And this revelation was a response to that question. That was kind of the historical
1:01.7	circumstance that brought about Section 89. And so let's go to the text. Look at verse five. Inasmuch
1:09.4	as any man drinketh wine or strong drink among you, behold,
1:12.9	it is not good. And skip down to verse 8. And again, tobacco is not for the body, neither for the
1:18.5	belly. Verse 9. And again, hot drinks are not for the body or belly. Modern prophets have defined
1:24.2	hot drinks as coffee and tea. If you skip down to verse 12, it says,
1:28.4	The flesh of beasts and the fowls of the air, I the Lord have ordained for the use of man
1:32.6	with Thanksgiving. Nevertheless, they are to be used sparingly. Verse 14 says, all grain is ordained
1:39.0	for the use of man and of beasts. And then finally, verse 16, all grain is good for food of man as also the fruit
1:46.9	of the vine, that which yieldeth fruit. And so big picture, the word of wisdom is a binding
1:52.5	law of health that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints covenant to live and keep,
1:57.6	and it's part of qualifying for a temple recommend. Typically, we focus on the prohibitions,
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