Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Aaron P Shade, Mosiah 4 through 6.

John, that leads right to something in the manual.

It's leading us to these chapters, Mosiah 4 and 5, and it says it's common for people to say,

I can't change.

It's who I am.

In contrast, the experience of King Benjamin's people

shows us how the spirit of the Lord can truly change our hearts.

You don't act like a saint, as I said earlier, you become a saint.

And then they make this statement in the manual. Think about the subtle

gradual changes as well as the mighty experiences you've had. And as you look

back upon your life you notice, as Aaron said, I wish it would go a little bit faster, but you notice that you are changing,

that this atonement is like a slow drip that's coming into your life and and changing you.

I notice that this word remission comes up in chapter 4

quite a few times verse verse 3, verse 11, verse 12,

verse 20, verse 26.

I'm probably missing one or two.

What do you think of when it says the remission of your sins? What does that mean? I frequently use the example of cancer being in

remission. It doesn't mean it's completely gone, but it does mean that the signs and symptoms of your cancer,

or in this case, your sins, are reducing. You want to go to your spiritual doctor and he says your sins are in remission. They're going away. The medicine is working.

I noticed that word again in verse 26, which has a word that jumped out at me many years ago.

Now for the sake of these things which I have spoken unto you,

that is for the sake of retaining a remission of your sins from day to day, that you may walk guiltless before God.

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