S3E44 Can you Overpower Christ's Desire to Forgive You?
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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In this episode Aaron Shumway and Kerry discuss the powerful story of those who struggle with sin and being forgiven in several Book of Mormon stories, such as the church in Alma the Elder's day and the story of Alma the Younger. They discuss what this has to do with us in our lives, and the Savior's unrelenting, unending desire and ability to forgive us. They draw lessons from the power of the stories of forgiveness that are incredibly relevant for us today.
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| 0:00.0 | If there is a more comforting verse in scripture and everybody's got their favorite scriptures, |
| 0:04.7 | but this has got to be one of mine. |
| 0:06.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:07.2 | Talk about a savior who suffered for me, my sins, my weaknesses, my stupidity, and for all of ours to say that. |
| 0:17.1 | I mean, wouldn't it have been generous if you said, I'll give you 10 chances. |
| 0:20.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.8 | And then I'm kind of done with you. Or even seven times 70, right? Yeah. This is a higher percentage |
| 0:26.4 | than that. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures of real podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that help them become more real to us because we believe that helps us draw more power out of them and we need all the hope we can get. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm your host, Kerry Milstein, and I'm so happy to have with me today. I feel like an intercontinental colleague, Dr. Aaron Schumway from BYU, Hawaii. Welcome, Thank you for being with us. Aloha. I'm pleased to be here. Thanks. Yeah, I should have said Aloha. Shouldn't I have? That's right. You were one of us before you were one of them. That is true. That is true. And I'm glad to be with you again. Well, let me just tell everyone a little bit about you, Aaron. Aaron, whose father, I also know, he was the president of BYU, Hawaii when I was there and was in our stake. Aaron grew up in La Jai, there right next to BYU Hawaii. But you went to high school, I think, in Tonga, and then served in Taiwan and married someone from the Philippines and then moved back to Hawaii, |
| 1:28.3 | and then he went and got a law degree, and then back to Hawaii, and ended up teaching, |
| 1:33.3 | I think, with the Institute, if I remember right, and then, or seminary and institute, |
| 1:37.3 | and then back at BYU, Hawaii, where you teaching religious education. |
| 1:41.3 | So that's, I probably got some of that wrong, but that's a |
| 1:44.5 | short thing, but you should tell us more. Help us know more about you. Thanks. Yeah, Hawaii's home, |
| 1:49.5 | the islands are home. I think I've lived on a continent for maybe five years of my life total. |
| 1:54.5 | And that experience in Taiwan, huh? And Taiwan, mission Taiwan, right? That time in Tongue was |
| 2:00.3 | transformative to me. It's just a blessed life. |
| 2:03.7 | Wonderful stuff. I tell you that there's something about the gospel in a place like where you are now |
| 2:09.5 | that is just lived in a wonderful way. I miss it. I really miss it. So a little ha to all my |
| 2:16.4 | island friends, wherever you are. In any case, |
| 2:19.7 | we have just incredible, incredible reading today or this week, just such powerful stuff. |
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