Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. If you've been following Follow Him Favorites

this year, you know that John, by the way, and I are taking a single question from each

week's lesson and providing some insight. John, this week's lesson is on the first half

of Jeremiah, and there's a term in the first half of Jeremiah called backsliding, and the Lord

keeps using it over and over where he says backsliding Israel. He does it in Jeremiah chapter 3,

backsliding Israel, backsliding Israel, and as we were discussing that with Dr. John Hilton on our

full podcast, he told us that backsliding is when we return to our sins, we for repent, we for

sake them, and then we go back. So John, the question this week is how do I keep from backsliding?

How do I keep from going back to my sins? What would you say to someone who wants to stay away

from their former sins, but they are drawn to them? What do you do? That's a good question because

I think all of us have episodes of backsliding. We know better, and I'm so grateful we have the

sacrament every week that Lord gives us so many chances to start again, doesn't He? And so the very

fact that you would even ask the question, how can I stop backsliding is evidence that you're trying

to do better, which is so great. So for me, I stop backsliding by wearing Velcro jacket.

I don't slide anywhere, but I hope that anyone asking that kind of a question will recognize

that just being willing to ask that question shows that you're spiritually sensitive in a

way, and you're moving forward if you're worried about backsliding. If they're really serious things,

you go and you talk to your bishop and he'll help you to see the progress that you're making.

Hank, it's kind of like the stock market or something. It goes up, but it goes down, but it goes

up again. It's trending up. That's exactly it. You're trending upward. There are going to be mistakes

that you make, and there's going to be things that you maybe wish you hadn't done. But when you're

overall trend or slope is upward, I think that's what the Lord's asking because he knows that we're

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