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Welcome to talking in scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we're going to be

talking about third neify 27 through fourth neify. At the beginning 3 Nephi 27, if you had to teach just this chapter, Bryce, what would you say the most

important things in 3527?

Well, I love that we get to hear from his own lips what the gospel is because in the church today

we often put so many bricks on our backs and we just assume that the gospel is all these things

and yes there's room in the gospel for them but I love Jesus just

says let me give you the simplicity of the gospel message we're gonna hear

Jesus say this is my gospel.

And it's just a short little, a few verses.

And so I love the fact that we get to see this simplified.

Everything else has its place, but in its simplest form, this is the gospel that Christ

gave us. And it comes in the context, this is another day, he goes away and then he comes back and he finds them disputing over the name of the church which is silly he says why are you arguing about that that's such a no-brainer if it's my church it has to be called in my name. But then he kind of shifts the whole

topic at the very end of that verse. So I'm in 3rd Nephi 27 8. How be it my church,

save it be called in my name? If the church be called in

Moses name, then it be Moses Church. If it be called in the name of a man, then it be

that man's church. It's not the church of the Mormons because it's not the Church of Mormon. It's not the Church of

Latter-day Saint. It's the Church of Jesus. And that's what President

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