Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast.

We're Scott and Maury Proctor and this week's podcast is on some of the parables of Jesus

down in Matthew chapter 13 and Luke chapters 8 and 13.

The title of this lesson is, Who has ears to hear?

Let him hear.

We're going to talk about that very saying later on in the lesson.

Thanks again to Paul Cardol for the music that opens and closes this podcast.

We learned something wonderful from the Prophet Joseph's life that is a great example for

all of us.

The Prophet's writings and sermons are filled with scriptural quotations and interpretations

for he had studied the scripture so extensively that they became an integral part of his

thinking.

In his teachings, he quoted scriptures directly, he alluded to them, he paraphrased them,

and he used them as the foundation for his sermons, quote, I know the scriptures and understand

them.

He declared in April 1844, can we say the same about us?

Isn't that a wonderful pattern and example for us to follow?

It really is and that's what this come follow me curriculum does for us at home.

Joseph's extraordinary knowledge of the scriptures allowed him to teach and interpret them

with great power and clarity and many who heard him speak remembered this ability.

President Brigham Young, we call that the Prophet could take the scriptures and make

them so plain and simple that everybody could understand.

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