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🗓️ 29 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Consider the question, what would it be like to live in a society where you could guarantee |
| 0:06.3 | that your government leaders were wise people? They made perfect decisions that would benefit |
| 0:13.1 | the most number of people for the longest period of time without taking any of the glory |
| 0:20.4 | or the credit or the power just for themselves or to gratify |
| 0:23.2 | their own pride. What if you could also guarantee that those leaders before making any decision |
| 0:27.7 | would always go to the Lord and plead for his guidance, his light, his direction in making |
| 0:33.7 | those decisions? That would be an amazing, amazing scenario. Here's King Mosiah. You ready? |
| 0:40.0 | You have, and he is named after his grandfather, obviously, King Mosiah the first that we have |
| 0:47.9 | record of, and then his father, King Benjamin. So here's King Mosiah. He's come to the end of his life. He realizes he's not |
| 0:57.2 | going to live very much longer. And so he's also a great student of history. This is the king |
| 1:05.3 | who translated the Jaredite record, which is loaded with stories of kings, one after the other, |
| 1:14.5 | after the other, most of them being really, really wicked in that case, and the occasional |
| 1:20.5 | really good king mixed in, but he saw that. He has the brass plates. He knows the history |
| 1:27.3 | of the House of Israel really well in this |
| 1:29.7 | regard that when Moses brought the children of Israel into the promised land, after Moses and Joshua, |
| 1:38.3 | we turn the ruling of the people over to judges until that day when the people come and say, |
| 1:47.0 | we want to be like all the other nations. |
| 1:50.0 | They all have kings. We want to be like them. |
| 1:52.0 | We want to be like the world. |
| 1:55.0 | And so Samuel, the prophet, went to the Lord and said, |
| 1:57.0 | what do you want me to do? |
| 1:59.0 | They want a king. And God said, no, Samuel, |
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