Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name's Hank Smith, and I'm here with my co-host, John, by the way, who suffereth long and is kind and envieth not and is not puffed up. Does not seek his own, not easily provoked. Never thinks of evil. I could keep going here, John.

I think I'm about three out of eight there. All of those things are true.

I haven't eaten yet, so I'm not puffed up yet.

We're also here with our guest, Dr. Mark Ogletree. John, we are almost through the Book of Mormon.

It is crazy to think that we've come this far.

As we are hitting these final chapters today, Maronai 7, 8, and 9,

what are you thinking about?

What's coming to mind?

When we finished the book of

Mormon within the book of Mormon, it was Maronai talking. Now we're in the book of Maronai,

and Mormon is talking. It teaches us something about this awesome father, son relationship.

Here's Maronai saying, my dad wrote me this letter. You've got to see what he said. I think we can infer something about their

friendship, and some of it says it right out. I recommend be my son. So I'm looking forward to seeing both of these wonderful men of Christ talk to each other here.

I love that, John. I think of Maronai all alone, maybe pouring over these letters. This is his

connection with his father. John, like I said, we have Dr. Mark Ogletree here. Mark and I have been

friends for a long time. Mark, as you look at these chapters, what did you see? Where do you want to go?

We could start with Monty Nyman's great

statement that Mormon's sermon here in Chapter 7 ranks as one of the greatest surpassed only by

the Savior. Think of the depth as we talk about faith, hope, charity, love, meekness,

all these great Christ-like attributes. We'll talk about family and children in Chapter 8, and then in Chapter 9, what happens to a society when they lose the spirit?

Those are some of the keys that we could focus on today.

Wonderful.

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