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🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Hank Smith and John Bytheway answer a question from this week's Come, Follow Me study.

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0:00.0	Hello, my friends. Welcome to another Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith, and I'm
0:09.1	here with the amazing John, by the way. Welcome, John.
0:12.0	Hank. If you've been following Follow Him Favorites this year, you know that we are taking
0:16.4	a single question from each week's lesson and studying it just for a few minutes. John,
0:21.6	in the manual for this week's lesson of Nehum, Habakkuk, and Zefania, there's a lot of syllables
0:27.8	there. It says right in the beginning, reading the Old Testament often means reading prophecies
0:33.2	about destruction. The Lord frequently called prophets to warn the wicked, and then this question
0:39.6	is posed in the very first paragraph, and this is our question today. Why is it valuable to read these
0:45.0	prophecies today? So John, what would you say to someone who's reading these three books going,
0:49.6	wow, this is a lot of destruction. Why do I have to read this? What do you think?
0:53.2	The first thing that comes to my mind is that they have been warned, they have been taught, and now
0:59.0	they are getting consequences. And one of the things that I think Satan tries to do is say there's
1:05.1	no consequences, like jumping over to the book Mormon in the Korahor story. When a man is dead,
1:09.6	that's the end. Whatsoever a man did was no crime, no consequences. And here we're finding out, wow,
1:16.2	they learned the hard way that choices have consequences. Every choice has a consequence, and that
1:21.5	can be a good thing. I remember raising my kids, if they did something wrong, do I get a consequence?
1:28.2	And I didn't want them to think of consequence as a negative word because sometimes consequences
1:33.3	are wonderful. It can be positive, yeah. So Elder Maxwell, Elder Neil M. Maxwell said once,
1:38.3	we had better want the consequences of what we want. So maybe that's a good lesson here. And
1:45.5	my mission president used to say, why is people learned from experience, but super wise people
1:50.7	learn from others experience? What are the scriptures, but the experiences of others, and maybe we can
1:56.6	learn from these destructive consequences? Okay, what choices did they make that brought this on?
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