Hey you guys, welcome to the Scripture Study Project, our podcast dedicated to helping you

discover the scriptures in a fresh way, invest your mind and heart into your personal study,

and connect to God in your everyday life. We are your host, Krista and Zach Horton, and this week we are studying with you in Doctrine and Covenants, Section 18 through 19.

Sometimes when I study blocks of scripture, I'll actually copy and paste those blocks into one of those

online word cloud creators. I don't know if you've ever done that before. But if you were to do that

with these sections, one of the words that would show up most prominent is the word repent in its various forms. It's obvious that that's a major topic in these two sections. And it's one that we want to focus on as well. I was reading Job a little bit earlier today. If you remember the story of Job, he's that guy in the Old Testament that everything horrible happens to.

And yet he retains his loyalty to God.

But he does make some changes in his life, or at least he changes the way that he views himself and views his relationship with God.

So this is close to the end in chapter 42.

And Job says this, to the Lord lord i know that thou canst do everything

and that no thought can be withholding from thee therefore have i uttered that i understood not

things too wonderful for me which i knew not here i beseecheseech thee, and I will speak. I will demand of

thee and declare unto me, and declare thou unto me. I have heard by thee, by the hearing of my ear,

but now my eye seeth thee. And then he says this, wherefore, I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Now, that word abhor sounds kind of harsh to our modern ears, but all he means is that the translation could read,

I'm leaving behind my old self, my old life, and I am turning or repenting to you returning to you with full sincerity.

I like thinking about it almost that feeling that you have when you've actually changed,

that looking at that yourself of, I don't really recognize myself anymore.

Yeah, yeah.

The way that you feel when you

have really experienced a true change. I think that's a great definition of what the word

repent means. It means to leave behind the old and turn to God with a freshness of mind, a newness of heart, and a rededicated

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