In verse 11, King Benjamin picks up where he left off.

Again I say into you as I've said, King Benjamin picks up where he left off.

Again I say into you as I've said before, so let me reiterate,

that as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of God,

where if he have known of his goodness and of tasted of his love.

I love that the concentric circles are shrinking here.

It's one thing, it's kind of more general to more specific.

It's one thing to recognize God's glory. It's more personal to know of his goodness.

And it's as intimate as it gets to taste of his love. Can you picture Lehi pulling down a fruit from the tree of life?

Tasting of the love of God, sweet above all that is sweet, most delicious above any other fruit.

If you've known of His glory and His goodness and tasted of His love, then you've received a remission of your sins which

causeeth such exceeding great joy in your souls. He's just reviewing with them what

they said back in verse two. Even so I would that you should remember.

And always retain in remembrance. Here's this sense of retaining what they've obtained now.

How to hold on to this experience.

Remember and always retain and remember.

That sounds redundant to me, but I don't think it is.

It's one thing, remembering almost seems, I don't know passive it just kind of happens. Oh, I just remembered that

As opposed to retaining in your remembrance always that that seems to be much more active this intentional

almost worshipful act of remembering.

I love that word.

President Kimball said it's one of the most important words in the English language, right?

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