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🗓️ 9 April 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello there. I'm Tyler Griffin and this is Scripture Study Insights by Scripture Central. |
0:06.7 | Today, Jacob 5 through 7. And Jacob chapter 5, if you have forgotten, is the longest chapter |
0:16.7 | in the entire Book of Mormon. And it is often seen by some as a very boring passage, |
0:23.6 | because you've got all these verses talking about a grove of olive trees with the Lord of the |
0:33.1 | vineyard with a whole bunch of servants. They're doing all kinds of things with the trees, |
0:36.5 | and it feels a little bit disjointed for some people. So today as we dive in, the scripture study |
0:46.7 | overlay that I want to talk about is related to the word study. Elder and sister Bednar, so Susan and Elder David A. Bednar |
0:59.0 | gave a devotional, gave devotional addresses at Brigham Young University in January of |
1:07.0 | 2024. And in Elder Bednar's talk, which you can look up online, it is called Consider |
1:15.7 | the Wondrous Works of God. In that talk, he reminds us that God's work and glory is to bring |
1:23.1 | to pass the immortality and eternal life of all of us. That's what he does. That's his whole labor and |
1:29.0 | his glory. And consequently, if we want to become more like God, it means we become more anxiously |
1:37.8 | engaged, more actively working for good causes, for righteous, to spread and building up the kingdom. |
1:47.0 | The entire talk is remarkable. In fact, both of their talks highly recommend that you look them up and read them. |
1:55.0 | One little quote is, work is essential for our spiritual progression. The idea being it's not optional, it's a |
2:03.9 | requirement in our process to grow to become like God. So as you approach Jacob |
2:09.7 | chapter 5, there is a power in taking time to search, |
2:20.1 | to ponder, to reflect, to apply, to consider, |
2:27.2 | to look at various angles of each part of this story, |
2:33.6 | to basically, my invitation to all of us is let's get to work, |
2:41.0 | let's roll up our sleeves. And when you come to a passage like Jacob chapter 5, |
2:47.0 | Xenus's allegory, or to the Isaiah chapters, or to chapters that are talking about the |
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