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Hank Smith & John Bytheway

Education, Doctrine And Covenants, Hank Smith, Christianity, Courses, Follow Him, Religion & Spirituality, John Bytheway, Follow Me

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Thanks to the followHIM team: Shannon Sorensen: Cofounder, Executive Producer, Sponsor David & Verla Sorensen: Sponsors Dr. Hank Smith: Co-host John Bytheway: Co-host David Perry: Producer Kyle Nelson: Marketing, Sponsor Lisa Spice: Client Relations, Editor, Show Notes Jamie Neilson: Social Media, Graphic Design Annabelle Sorensen: Creative Project Manager Will Stoughton: Video Editor Krystal Roberts: Translation Team, English & French Transcripts, Website Ariel Cuadra: Spanish Transc...

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0:00.0

Hello my friends welcome to another follow him favorites it is Christmas here at follow him. I'm here with my friend John by the way

0:10.8

Hi John. Hi, Hank.

0:13.0

We are going to cover a single question from this week's Christmas lesson.

0:17.0

The question for this week's lesson comes right from the manual,

0:20.0

John. It says, what do you know about who Jesus Christ was before he was born?

0:25.0

When I asked that question, what comes to mind?

0:28.0

Earlier in the year, we did the book of John.

0:31.0

It says, in the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God the same was in the beginning with God and

0:37.6

John is kind of the only one who speaks of Jesus's pre-mortem existence and it speaks of him and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us,

0:45.1

but it also says that he created everything. We know that he was the Creator, we know that he was

0:50.0

with God before. We know that the Atonement was part of the plan from the beginning.

0:55.0

Absolutely.

0:56.0

As Latter-day Saints, John, you know that we have the benefit of the Pearl of Great

1:00.3

Price.

1:01.3

There's a couple of insights from the pre-Mortal life in that book. One from

1:06.7

Moses chapter 4 that the Savior was chosen from the beginning. The Atonement was part of the Father's plan all along and then there's this phrase in

1:15.4

Abraham chapter three that says there stood a one among them that was like unto

1:20.4

God giving us insight into the Savior's status.

1:24.5

He was significantly different.

1:27.3

John, something that comes to my mind, I've heard you talk about this before is in the

1:31.1

Book of Mormon, there's this moment where Nephi is seeing the

1:35.0

birth of the Savior and the angel asks this question of Nephi knowest thou

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