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

section six through nine of the doctrine covenants. These early sections deal with the Lord teaching the Saints how to hear his

voice, how to receive revelation. To give you a little bit of background, in the fall

of 1828, Cadre is about 120

130 miles away in Palmyra and he's teaching school and he's

boarding with the Smith family and 120

130 miles away from this experience in Palmyra Joseph is in Pennsylvania and

he's with Emma and the Lord has told him in March to hold off on translating the plates that to wait for a little bit and the Lord's going to send him some help and little does Joseph know that Oliver Cowdery is being prepared.

Oliver Cowdery, when he's boarding with the Smith family far away in New York,

hears about Joseph Smith, and he hears about the plates.

And he starts to quiz Joseph Smith's father

and asking questions about the plates and about what's happening and he

eventually starts talking to him about these things and Oliver Cadre

goes and he asked the Lord.

Which right away doesn't that show us Bryce about Oliver's heart?

That's right and we're going to talk about is revelation has to be sought. The Lord just doesn't

come down and hit us with a two by four and tell us what to do. Very rarely, I mean

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