Ep 343 | D&C 121-123, Come Follow Me 2025 (October 20-26)

Talking Scripture

Mike Day & Bryce Dunford

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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→ Timestamps: (00:00) Historical background.(02:17) Joseph Smith demonstrated majesty in chains while in custody in Richmond.(05:35) Ten eternal truths we can apply to our lives from the Liberty Jail experience.(07:38) #1: God is aware of your trials, you are not alone. (11:11) #2: Your suffering will end. It will not last forever.(12:41) #3: Be faithful in tribulation and endure it well.(17:59) #4: Thy friends do stand by thee. Share your burdens.(24:18) #5: Other people, like Job, survived their challenges.(25:29) #6: God allows agency, but justice will prevail in the end. The Missourians eventually pay a bitter price for their actions.(29:13) The classic problem of evil.(31:54) #7: Mortality is oftentimes painful, but we are promised that joy will swallow up the suffering through divine compensation.(38:33) Like Job and Joseph, we can communicate directly with God about our how we really feel.(41:01) #8: All these things shall give thee experience and shall be for thy good.(44:40) #9: Jesus is familiar with our pain and knows what we need to be saved.(47:17) #10: Their bounds are set. Suffering is calculated for our benefit.(48:36) An alternate view of D&C 122.9. Perhaps this verse applies to Joseph Smith only and is not universal in its application.(51:05) An overview of the ten truths.(54:56) Lyman Wight collects affidavits which are used to seek redress from the federal government. It is our duty to seek truth and light.(57:39) The persecution in Missouri was both religious and political, but the main complaint against the Saints was their religion.(1:00:26) A discussion about unrighteous dominion. Power comes from righteousness, not from position or compulsion.(1:10:45) The end of this section contains an invitation to understand dominion as it is taught in the temple. A description of God as a Man of Holiness, who invites His children with meekness to partake in all that He has.

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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.
0:25.3	Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike.
0:26.2	And I'm Bryce.
0:30.4	And today we are going to be in Section 121 through 123 of the Doctrine Covenants.
0:41.8	And these sections are a piece of a letter that was dictated and written from Joseph Smith on March 20th, 1839.
0:48.7	And so today, what is known as Section 121, 122, and 123, they were canonized in 1876,
0:51.4	and they are portions of this letter.
0:55.8	Now, what's interesting is there's a lot of pieces left out. I don't know who chose what was included in the scriptures. I think it was Orson-Pra. But we are going to include
1:00.3	the entire letter in the show notes where we've identified which verse in the scriptures it is
1:06.2	so that you can see sometimes what comes before or after a quotation. So that's fascinating to go to
1:12.8	the actual letter and see what was taken for the scriptures and what was not. Yeah. Now, the Mormon
1:19.2	war is over. Joseph is in jail. And the reason why he's in jail is because in 1838 in October,
1:27.2	he was turned over to the state militia,
1:30.2	and Samuel Lucas then brought him to a judge. And a judge signed the court order,
1:36.1	charging these six prisoners with, quote, treason against the state of Missouri. And so they are
1:42.3	being held over for trial at Liberty Jail during the winter of 1838 to
1:48.5	1839. Their names, along with Joseph Smith, are Cindy Rigdon, Hiram Smith, Alexander McCrae,
1:55.7	Lyman White, and Caleb Baldwin. Caleb Baldwin is the oldest. He's 47 years old and he has 10 children.
2:03.6	Caleb Baldwin really struggled.
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