Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. If you've been following this year, you know

that Follow Him Favorites, we ask a single question of the lesson. And the lesson this

week is in second Samuel. We're talking about King David and the Goliath he couldn't

kill, which was this abuse of his power. John, I have students and children that I get

to teach the law of chastity, too. And I think a natural question is when I'm getting

such an opposite message from so many other media sources, why is this one so important?

Why does this one matter so much? What would you say to someone who says, why is the law

of chastity so important? That is a get out the proclamation to the world on the family

type question, isn't it? Because it's all such an important part of God's plan is

families, but in the right way, I guess. And so it may be a little bit of trusting God's

commandments. I think also, I remember Sherry Ducing in one of her books once I thought,

oh my goodness, that is so insightful. She said, I've never heard anyone who has said,

I'm a happier person. I have more peace of mind. I feel better about myself as a result

of breaking the law of chastity. And so of course, you're not going to hear that. So there

may be a I trust God element. He loves me. So sometimes he says, I love you like this.

I love you. Sometimes he says, I love you like this. That will shout not. Another thing

I think is maybe a better question for us. And the really one we can really apply in all

of our teenage young adult friends, all of us really is what strategies do we use to combat

temptation regarding the law of chastity or even thinking about it, kind of like bringing

in this David story. And for me, Hank, I just think that when I teach the war chapters

in the book of Mormon, I teach Alma 52 as a, why did they leave their stronghold thing?

And I always bring in this story of David because there were little kind of little steps

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