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We are your host, Krista and Zach Horton, here this week to study with you in Doctrine and Covenant section 67 through 70,

back with another summer mini episode. Today we're going to be talking about abundance and not just abundance,

but even that spiritual and divine abundance, and maybe a little less or more than the

traditional telling of abundance, I guess you could say. Yeah, yeah. It's an interesting

story in church history that we're reading about this week.

It's November 1831, and Joseph calls a conference of elders in Hiram, Ohio, to propose the idea that

the revelations, many of the revelations that have been received, be printed and published in what

will be known as the Book of Commandments. The desire for this is, if you remember from

previous weeks, Ezra Booth, who left the church and then started writing these critical letters

about Joseph Smith and church members and church organization in a local newspaper, one of the

critiques that Ezrabooth has

leveled against the church is that they keep their revelations secret. It no one knows about them.

And so Joseph desires to print them, publish them, and let other people know. And there's some

pushback from other elders of the church. And so they collectively desire to know what God's will is about this. And so that's the genesis behind many

of these sections. Of course, there's individual stories wound in and around. But in all of the

revelations that come about this, there comes the idea of abundance and stewardship,

which are companion principles.

And we'll talk about that in just a minute.

To start, I want to share an allegory.

This comes from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress,

a kind of elongated Christian allegory written in the 1600s, late 1600s.

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