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Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike.

And I'm Bryce.

And today we are going to be in Genesis 3 and 4 and Moses 4 and 5.

Which is really the story of Adam and Eve and the beginning of their family.

But we're going to start by jumping back to pre-mortal life

and the conflict that kind of began between Lucifer and Jehovah and who's going to be the Messiah.

Now, just a side note, one of my biggest pet peeves is sometimes in this church you hear people

say that in the premortal life, God didn't know what to do, and so he asked for a plan.

Now, that's a little blasphemous, if you think about it, that God didn't have a plan and didn't

know what to do and said, hey, what do you guys think we should do, and that he got two people

proposing plans. That's false doctrine. The father presented his plan in premortal life. Let's get the

doctrine straight. The father presented his plan which calls for a redeemer. So the question on the

table is, whom shall I send? Who should be the Messiah? And that's where two people step forward to fill that role.

So in Moses chapter four, the first few verses, we get this great insight into the two teams you can

play on. Now Alma will say in Alma chapter five that if you're not the sheep of the good shepherd who's calling you, you're the sheep of the other shepherd.

So which team do you really want to play on?

Here's Satan.

He steps forward and says, behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son.

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