Hello my friends, welcome to Follow Him Favorites.

My name is Hank Smith.

I'm here with the incredible John by the way, and this year for Follow Him Favorites, we're

answering a single question.

The question for Exodus 1819 and 20 John, I get from my teenagers, you've probably got

it from your children as well, I've had it from students, is my goodness, why does the

gospel have so many rules?

And this is where we get the 10 commandments, the vowshoots in Exodus 1819.

The bigger rules.

How would you address this idea of, oh, rules is where happiness goes to die, right?

And yet God wants to give us all these rules, and how are they supposed to make me happy?

Oh, this is such a good question, and I've heard so many different beautiful ways to

answer.

One of my favorites is President Boyd K. Packer.

I'm going to paraphrase a little bit, but he said, don't think of the gospel as the

rules, the commandments, offense around love that says keep out.

Actually, they are the guardrails on the highway to love and happiness with guideposts along

the ways that that's sort of a thing.

I love to tell how does Heavenly Father say I love you?

Sometimes he says it like this, I love you.

Sometimes he says it like this, they'll shout not.

I'm going to save you from so much hurt, heartache, and sorrow.

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