Week 35 [PSALMS 102–103; 110; 116–119; 127–128; 135–139; 146–150]
WEEK 35 [PSALMS 102–103; 110; 116–119; 127–128; 135–139; 146–150] INSIGHTS VIDEO
“Let Every Thing That Hath Breath Praise the Lord”
August 22 - August 28
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Welcome back you guys.
Speaker:This is week 30, five of creative.
Speaker:Come follow me for the old Testament.
Speaker:And we are in our third of three sessions on the book of Psalms.
Speaker:So hopefully you don't have your cup quite full yet, cuz I've got a
Speaker:bunch more goodness to dump into it.
Speaker:What I, when I think of the Psalms and again, if you miss the last two
Speaker:lessons, you may want to go and listen to the first few minutes of each
Speaker:lesson to kind of catch up on what the Psalms are for and why we study them.
Speaker:But I think especially this week, you're gonna get kind of.
Speaker:A smattering of songs.
Speaker:I'm not sure the right way to say it, but you know, when you turn on the radio and
Speaker:you don't know if you're gonna get a love song or like a ballad or like a pop song,
Speaker:you just kind of are along for the ride.
Speaker:That's how I feel like you should approach the songs, cuz you sort of
Speaker:get a variety pack today of songs of praise and sums of Thanksgiving
Speaker:and Psalms of lament and sorrow.
Speaker:And you sort of just want to go with the flow cuz I found, if you just
Speaker:kind of dig deeper, you actually can.
Speaker:Pull goodness out of all of them.
Speaker:In fact, I had to edit heavily what I'm able to say in these videos, just because
Speaker:there's so much, there were so many verses that jumped out at me as something
Speaker:that I could apply to my life today.
Speaker:So I.
Speaker:Don't don't Shortell.
Speaker:Psalms.
Speaker:I know you've been in them for a while and you probably
Speaker:got your bearings pretty well.
Speaker:This is a week.
Speaker:You don't wanna miss.
Speaker:So grab your scriptures, grab the notes.
Speaker:If you can open them up on an iPad or something, so you can
Speaker:easily scroll through them.
Speaker:That will help you.
Speaker:And let's dive into this third section of the book of Psalm.
Speaker:Where we kick things off in 1 0 2, I feel like it's almost like
Speaker:you turned on the radio and Adele will see cuz it has this kind.
Speaker:deep, rich plaintiff tone.
Speaker:I, I wonder, I don't know the backstory.
Speaker:We never know the backstory of what's happening in the Psalm miss life that
Speaker:makes them write this beautiful song.
Speaker:But clearly it's hard.
Speaker:I, I sort of wonder if it's something physical because of the way he.
Speaker:Or she speaks, they're teaching about how they really want
Speaker:to see the face of the Lord.
Speaker:They want to hear the Lord.
Speaker:They want to feel him close.
Speaker:All of they talk about their sorrow mixing in with their tears.
Speaker:And then there's this interesting one at 11.
Speaker:This is what gives me that clue that maybe it's a physical ailment.
Speaker:He says, my days are like a shadow that decline it.
Speaker:And I am withered like grass.
Speaker:It almost seems like their own body is starting to fail and they can start.
Speaker:They're starting to appreciate their own infinitude that their body is gonna give
Speaker:out at some point and it cannot withstand.
Speaker:And this is that that's a sorrowful Adele part.
Speaker:And then I feel like you hit the chorus and it's like this sweeping, but there
Speaker:is hope it's this belting out of hope that I love it starts around verse 12,
Speaker:but thou oh Lord shout, endure forever.
Speaker:And th remembrance unto all generations.
Speaker:It's hope in the Lord.
Speaker:Even if I decline and wither away like grass, he stays and it gets even stronger.
Speaker:A bigger crescendo in 13 thou shall arise and have mercy upon Zion.
Speaker:That phrase thal arise, I feel like is one of the most hopeful in all scripture,
Speaker:especially if you're in a situation where your own body is failing or somebody
Speaker:you love, their body is failing this promise of at some point in the future.
Speaker:The Lord will arise.
Speaker:Resurrection is real and bodies will be restored.
Speaker:That is a phenomenal promise to someone who is struggling with physical ailments.
Speaker:I also love that.
Speaker:It says it'll happen in a set time.
Speaker:That's in the middle of 13, because I think that promise is that the Lord
Speaker:knows all things that he's aware of.
Speaker:All things when you're struggling with physical ailments or watching
Speaker:someone else do it, to know that all things are in the hands of the Lord.
Speaker:And there is a set time for.
Speaker:Is comforting doctrine.
Speaker:So you'll see that in Psalm one or two, when you flip the
Speaker:page, it gets even stronger.
Speaker:It's this promise of millennial reign.
Speaker:So you'll see him start to talk about what's gonna happen in the future.
Speaker:So around 16, when the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
Speaker:This is, you know, you can feel the chorus surgery in 17.
Speaker:He will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer.
Speaker:And then 18, this shall be written for the generations to come.
Speaker:I think when we are struggling with our own mortal limits to appreciate
Speaker:the fact that this gospel will carry on beyond us, for generations
Speaker:to come is comforting doctrine.
Speaker:That's something you can have hope in, even if you can't have hope
Speaker:in your own healing or you know, that things are gonna get better.
Speaker:I think you can take hope in the fact that the Lord is coming.
Speaker:Bodies will be resurrected and the gospel will carry on after you're gone.
Speaker:That's an incredible.
Speaker:um, so when you go a little further, you'll see even bigger
Speaker:promises about the millennium.
Speaker:One of my favorite ones comes later though, and that's in from like 22 to 28.
Speaker:This is when he talks about things changing.
Speaker:It's a shift from, you know, the, their current state to something specialized.
Speaker:As we know, the earth itself is gonna become CEL, specialized
Speaker:it'll become perfected.
Speaker:And I don't know why this hit me this time differently than it has in the past.
Speaker:But remember when we were studying the creation story in Moses two.
Speaker:Over and over again, God would say, and it was good.
Speaker:You know, he would proclaim things that were created as good.
Speaker:And I've always kind of wondered, like, why did he pick that word?
Speaker:it seems kind of good, you know, I'm sure it was really good, but
Speaker:it it's just an interesting word choice and it wasn't until I read
Speaker:these verses that I understood that it's when things are perfect.
Speaker:That they become better than good.
Speaker:Everything that has been created is good and has the potential to be perfect.
Speaker:It just needs to progress to that point, including us.
Speaker:We are good.
Speaker:The creations he made are good, but we need to become perfected.
Speaker:We need to become full and that's gonna come over time and it can't
Speaker:come until after this millennial rain.
Speaker:So I love that you see that in one.
Speaker:when you go a little more into 1 0 3, there's a few key things
Speaker:you don't wanna miss in 1 0 3.
Speaker:This is David singing, a Psalm of praise.
Speaker:One of the things I think is cool about the way David teaches is he doesn't
Speaker:just tell us how much he loves God.
Speaker:He tells us why he loves God.
Speaker:So as you go through that verse or the verses in 1 0 3, watch for the reasons
Speaker:why David loves God, you'll see them all over place, but like three, he forgiveth
Speaker:all inequities, heli diseases, four.
Speaker:He redeemed my life and crowned with loving kindness.
Speaker:These are the reasons why he loves God.
Speaker:And I guess I thought that was a powerful teaching tool cuz as I'm
Speaker:testifying to my kids, it's one thing to say, I know the church is true.
Speaker:I believe in God.
Speaker:I feel the love of God.
Speaker:It's a whole nother thing to say why I believe those things to give you
Speaker:the, the backstory of how I understand it and how I came to know it.
Speaker:So I thought that was a powerful teaching guidance.
Speaker:In fact, you get a little more guidance as you go further into 1 0 3.
Speaker:This is where I feel like one of the things David praises, the Lord for is that
Speaker:he has this incredible mercy and loving.
Speaker:And then he tells us how he pulls it up.
Speaker:And I thought it was parenting wisdom 1 0 1.
Speaker:Like that's what I kind of wrote in my side margins.
Speaker:Cuz he teaches you like around eight.
Speaker:The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenties in mercy.
Speaker:I think that's.
Speaker:Excellent parenting advice that we need to be slow to anger and that
Speaker:our mercy needs to be big, cuz you're gonna need it over and over again,
Speaker:you go a little further into nine, neither will he keep his anger forever.
Speaker:He's not gonna hold a grudge against this.
Speaker:That's good parenting wisdom.
Speaker:There's a bunch more.
Speaker:If you go in the notes, you can see more.
Speaker:But one of my favorites is in 14 where he talks about how he
Speaker:PTH or he has compassion for in 13, his children and then 14.
Speaker:Why he has compassion is cuz he knows our frame and remembers that we are dust I
Speaker:just, you know, I just think there's, he knows we are frail and limited.
Speaker:I think that's why he calls us sheep and children.
Speaker:So often in the scriptures, cuz we are limited in what we can do.
Speaker:And he understands that, which gives him compassion the same way.
Speaker:I treat little kids' choices differently than I treat older kids' choices because
Speaker:I know they're limited in their frame.
Speaker:Um, and.
Speaker:I think there's, there's peace in that promise that when I make dumb
Speaker:mistakes, even repeated dumb mistakes, that I'm limited in my frame.
Speaker:And he understands that and he will help me along.
Speaker:So I kind of love that piece of it.
Speaker:You go a little further and you'll see, like from 17 to 19 that
Speaker:this loving kindness, this mercy is contingent on a few things.
Speaker:I don't think God's love is contingent on things.
Speaker:I think he will.
Speaker:Always no matter what, but I do think if we want this loving kindness and
Speaker:mercy to be extended to us, there are some things we need to do, and you're
Speaker:gonna find those in those verses.
Speaker:So it advises you to fear him or to have reverence for him.
Speaker:It advises, advises you to make and keep covenants so that you can come
Speaker:closer to him, become more like him.
Speaker:And then my favorite one is around, uh, the end of 18.
Speaker:It says, remember his commandments to, and to do them.
Speaker:That's a big piece of, if we hope to qualify for this, never.
Speaker:bounty is mercy.
Speaker:That's our part.
Speaker:We need to honor him.
Speaker:We need to keep our covenants.
Speaker:We need to choose to be like him.
Speaker:We need to remember him and do what he would have us do.
Speaker:I think that's excellent.
Speaker:Parenting guided.
Speaker:Psalm one 10 is a lot shorter.
Speaker:It's only seven verses, but it's got some really powerful doctrine in it.
Speaker:So you don't wanna mess it, especially if you look at one and two and also
Speaker:four, one, and two reference the Godhead.
Speaker:This is critical because it's actually, this Psalm is the one
Speaker:that's quoted in the new Testament.
Speaker:When the savior is trying to teach the Pharisees about who he is, especi.
Speaker:Who he is related to God, the father, these are the verses that he uses
Speaker:to try and help them understand, which I think is interesting
Speaker:knowing that these are songs, right.
Speaker:I wonder if the Pharisees knew these melodies and knew these songs, and now
Speaker:we're just starting to connect the dots.
Speaker:At least his pules must have right.
Speaker:That they would know these songs and they would be connecting the dots of,
Speaker:oh, this is the one, this is the man.
Speaker:Um, so you're gonna see that if you go in the notes, I kind of break
Speaker:it down a little bit more, but it's teaching you about the difference.
Speaker:God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker:So you'll see that in the verses, another pivotal point of doctrine happens in four.
Speaker:When you learn about this being he, Jesus Christ being a high priest after
Speaker:the order of Melchizedek, there's only a couple references to Mel Kasick
Speaker:at all in the old Testament, but thankfully we have a lot more when you
Speaker:go into modern revelation, the book of Mormon doctor covenants, even the pro
Speaker:gate pro great price help us underst.
Speaker:What this ancient priesthood is this eternal priesthood and why?
Speaker:Jesus Christ is the great high priest.
Speaker:So go on the notes if you wanna dig deeper, but there are some key things
Speaker:in one 10 that you definitely don't.
Speaker:It's a shame.
Speaker:I'm gonna have to go faster.
Speaker:These cause I really love these Psalm Psalm one 16 starts out really strong.
Speaker:This is in the first few verses.
Speaker:He talks about how much he loves God.
Speaker:I love the Lord because he has heard my voice that's first one and my
Speaker:supplications first two, because he had think climbed as ear on to me, therefore,
Speaker:will I call upon him as long as I live.
Speaker:And then he talks.
Speaker:All the troubles he's seen.
Speaker:It almost has reminded me of, if you've seen somebody get
Speaker:up to bear their testimony and they begin with this powerful
Speaker:testimony that they know God lives.
Speaker:And then they tell you the backstory of how they know God lives.
Speaker:And then they finish up their testimony with, I know God lives.
Speaker:It's this testimony sandwich that I just think is so powerful.
Speaker:That's what you'll get.
Speaker:In one 16, he talks about the sorrows.
Speaker:He felt how he felt close to death, death.
Speaker:Compassed me in verse three, the pains of hell got hold of me.
Speaker:I found trouble and sorrow.
Speaker:And then in four, he prays for deliverance for his.
Speaker:And then he just praises gracious is the Lord and righteous.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Air God is merciful.
Speaker:He preserveth the simple, I think what's interesting is what you see at the end
Speaker:of our six, the Lord preserved the simple I was brought low and he helped me.
Speaker:Oftentimes I think when I think of deliverance, I think of pulling
Speaker:me out of a problem or the red sea parting that's deliverance.
Speaker:What this is saying is sometimes deliverance comes when you are
Speaker:brought even lower and then you.
Speaker:one of the reasons I think he, father doesn't yank us out of our
Speaker:adversities, even when he didn't intend for them to happen is because
Speaker:he knows they will bring us to him.
Speaker:And that's what I feel like happened with the ALM almost.
Speaker:That's why his testimony can begin with.
Speaker:I love the Lord, no matter how many hard things he's faced, cuz he has come
Speaker:to know the Lord in his adversities.
Speaker:Eight is where you hear him testify for that was delivered my soul from death, my
Speaker:eyes from tears and my feet from falling.
Speaker:I have like a heart on . I just love the way it's.
Speaker:Then you get to see at the end of 6, 1 16, where he wants to pay back.
Speaker:Uh, most of us feel this, especially when you felt the Lord's mercy and forgiveness,
Speaker:you want to offer something in return.
Speaker:What's great to me is that Psalm one 16 teaches us how to do that.
Speaker:So if you look in 13, I, well, 12 is where he asked the question,
Speaker:what shall I render onto the lure for all his benefits toward me?
Speaker:And then 13 is the beginning of the answer.
Speaker:I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the.
Speaker:By choosing to accept his gift, this gift of the atonement of Jesus Christ.
Speaker:We are showing gratitude by using it in our life.
Speaker:It reminded me of, I had a situation with will this week where he's on
Speaker:mountain biking team for his high school and they have hard rides.
Speaker:And right now it's still hot.
Speaker:It's like 90 degrees when they go out.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So I've been, you know, pumping the pantry full of like good,
Speaker:nutritious things and Gatorade so that he can make it through practice.
Speaker:And then he had a practice just this last week where.
Speaker:He didn't crash physically, but his body crashed and he couldn't finish practice.
Speaker:In fact, I had to go and pick him up early, cuz he
Speaker:was just completely depleted.
Speaker:So we, it wasn't until Jason started talking to him about what he was eating,
Speaker:that we figured out what happened.
Speaker:So he had basically come home from school where he didn't eat lunch and had a piece
Speaker:of angel food cake and like a donut or something and then went on his ride and.
Speaker:We had to kind of start again.
Speaker:And I found myself being so frustrated.
Speaker:I'm like, boy, I have stalked the pantry full of good things for you to eat.
Speaker:Just the way that you can show me gratitude is just
Speaker:to actually consume them.
Speaker:I think sometimes we think the Atoma of Jesus Christ is something
Speaker:we should only use in desperation or when things are awful.
Speaker:And I think he's trying to teach us, look, I've stalked the pantry with mercy
Speaker:and loving kindness and forgiveness come.
Speaker:That's the, that's the God we worship.
Speaker:He wants us to partake of this gift and that's how we show gratitude to him.
Speaker:I just love that principle.
Speaker:We're gonna talk about it again in the object lessons with elder Wilcox's piano
Speaker:analogy, but I love how you see it here.
Speaker:He also talks about sacrifice and making vows all that's in one 16.
Speaker:When you jump into 1, 1 17, it's a lot shorter.
Speaker:It's only two verses, but one of the powerful parts of one 17 is in
Speaker:verse two, it says for his merciful, kindness is great towards us.
Speaker:And the truth of the Lord end endure it forever.
Speaker:I think this is a really pivotal doctrine, thankfully, because what we studied
Speaker:in doctrine covenants, this is clearer in my mind than it ever was before.
Speaker:But if you look in DNC 93, 24, it talks about how we know what the truth is.
Speaker:Do you know how president Nelson talked about this?
Speaker:A conference?
Speaker:He said there is absolute truth.
Speaker:The world today teaches us.
Speaker:There is no real.
Speaker:In fact, I, I read a whole article about post truth that
Speaker:we live in a post truth world.
Speaker:It was the word of the year, a couple years ago for Webster.
Speaker:That's not what president Nelson teaches or any of the apostles.
Speaker:They are teaching that there is absolute truth.
Speaker:And we find it when we read this verse in the doctrine incumbents, it teaches
Speaker:us that things, the truth is things as they are, as they were, and as they
Speaker:are to come, things that are true, have always been true and will always be.
Speaker:It's really tempting.
Speaker:I think, especially for this younger generation to get a little bit of
Speaker:myopia and to think that the truth is defined by my time, my history,
Speaker:my period of time on this earth and truth goes far back and far beyond.
Speaker:So I think that's, those are critical doctrine to teach together.
Speaker:When you go a little further, this is one 18, this is a messianic song.
Speaker:So it's gonna teach us something about either the life of the
Speaker:Messiah or his mission, his work.
Speaker:It also will kind of feel like a camp song.
Speaker:cause you're gonna hear the same refrain over and over again.
Speaker:It's a song that has always at the end of each verse, his mercy end
Speaker:dearth forever over and over again.
Speaker:And to be totally honest with you guys, I kind of got tired.
Speaker:you know how sometimes when you're like the sip cider camp song, like
Speaker:you can only hear that refrain so many times without being like I got it.
Speaker:I kind of felt that way when I was reading these verses, although they were lovely.
Speaker:I started to wonder.
Speaker:Why do we say this so many times and you guys, it took me cleaning
Speaker:carpets to figure this out.
Speaker:So here's what happened.
Speaker:So against my better judgment, I bought red soda.
Speaker:It was on clearance.
Speaker:It was just a moment of weakness.
Speaker:I bought red diet soda that the kids could drink.
Speaker:Violet of course, snuck it upstairs and opened it and spilled it
Speaker:all over the carpet in her room.
Speaker:This light beige.
Speaker:So thankfully she came and she told me all about it and we went up there
Speaker:with the steamer and I'm steaming out all the red that I can get out.
Speaker:And honestly, by the end of like 20 minutes or so it looked pretty good.
Speaker:It looked just like the carpet.
Speaker:It had looked like before, so I thought, oh good.
Speaker:We've got the stain out.
Speaker:It's no, no crisis.
Speaker:It's gonna be okay.
Speaker:Ironically, the next day, violet comes kind of creeping back into
Speaker:my office and she says, Hey mom, you know that stain that we got
Speaker:out yesterday, I think it's back.
Speaker:And sure enough, I go upstairs.
Speaker:There's.
Speaker:It's lighter, but it's this light pink stain in that exact same
Speaker:area, right back on the carpet that I just cleaned the day before.
Speaker:And I found myself so frustrated.
Speaker:So I'm like, I just, I clean this.
Speaker:The water was coming up clear.
Speaker:And how is it pink again?
Speaker:So clearly it's deep in the pad or something.
Speaker:Then I go back to my scripture study and I realize, oh, maybe
Speaker:this is what we're praising.
Speaker:When the Lord says he can take things from.
Speaker:Or sorry, from Scarlet to white, his promise is that those things that
Speaker:are white will never be read again.
Speaker:They will never even have a tinge of pink.
Speaker:If you are forgiven of a sin and you have come, you've used the atone
Speaker:of Jesus Christ to help clean you.
Speaker:You don't have to fear his mercy, endure it forever.
Speaker:His promise of forgiveness is everlasting.
Speaker:You will never.
Speaker:Veer back into this dingy pink, you will stay white as long as you
Speaker:fulfill your end of the parking.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:I just love that piece.
Speaker:I think that's why we do home centered learning, cuz I think
Speaker:the Lord is so good at teaching us with whatever we are surrounded in.
Speaker:And for me it was dirty carpet.
Speaker:So hopefully that helps for you too.
Speaker:There's a bunch more in this chapter that I don't want you to miss, but sadly, I
Speaker:don't have time to go into all of it.
Speaker:You'll learn a little bit more in one 18 about the gates being open.
Speaker:Um, this is speaking.
Speaker:The gate of when the savior crosses over and is able to be resurrected.
Speaker:And the gate of death and hell is open, you know, this idea of like, okay,
Speaker:now tho those boundaries that used to exist are no longer there for us.
Speaker:You'll see a little bit of that prophecy in one 19.
Speaker:Um, you'll also see.
Speaker:Prophecy about him being the chief cornerstone.
Speaker:We're gonna talk about this in the object lesson.
Speaker:So I won't go into it too deep now, but I do love what you learn here,
Speaker:that, that the stone that the builders cast off will become this chief.
Speaker:Cornerstone speaking again of the Messiah and how so many among his own
Speaker:people would cast him aside and try to quiet him that he will indeed become
Speaker:this, this key pivotal stone that will hold the whole framework together.
Speaker:So we'll learn about that more in the object.
Speaker:You're gonna have to prepare yourself mentally for one 19.
Speaker:You guys it's really long, really, really long.
Speaker:Um, I'm not sure why this almost wrote it this way.
Speaker:I know there's an acrostic component to this, where if you look there's
Speaker:chunks of eight versus, and they all begin with a certain letter of Hebrew
Speaker:alphabet, and that's kind of where this Psalm comes from, but there is.
Speaker:after you've read a few, they all kind of start to mush together.
Speaker:that sounds terrible.
Speaker:But you know, if you've ever been to like a really great museum and you
Speaker:see some masterpieces that you've studied all your life and you're
Speaker:like, oh my word, this is amazing.
Speaker:I'm seeing these in person.
Speaker:And then you go to another room and another room on another.
Speaker:And after a while, all these amazing masterpieces start to kind of see the
Speaker:same, that's sort of what will happen in one 19, unless you break it apart.
Speaker:So that's why I spent a lot of time in.
Speaker:Breaking down one 19 as intimidating of a chapter as this was to tackle,
Speaker:there is so much goodness in it.
Speaker:I wish I could take a half an hour of my time just on one 19,
Speaker:cuz that's how much I found.
Speaker:I'm gonna try and go through just a few things.
Speaker:So you don't miss it, but just know this is like 170 verses it's it's gonna take
Speaker:us a minute to kick it through one 19.
Speaker:So a few things you're gonna wanna watch for, I love what I found in
Speaker:verse 10, so there's even more at the beginning, but one of the things I love
Speaker:in verse 10 is with my whole heart.
Speaker:Have I sought the, oh, let me not wonder from, by commandments, this sounded to
Speaker:me like come now found of every blessing.
Speaker:You know, that song.
Speaker:We sing that at girls camp one year as a stake, and I still love it for that.
Speaker:It's this pleading to, I know I'm weak.
Speaker:Please help me stay strong.
Speaker:I think you see the same thing with the apostles and the new Testament where.
Speaker:Where they ask Lord, is it, I, you know, it's just this, I think it's a state of
Speaker:humility that we're all supposed to be in.
Speaker:So you get a feel for that in verse 10.
Speaker:Another one I love is a constant pleading for their eyes to be opened
Speaker:and for understanding to come.
Speaker:So if you look at round verse 18 and 34, I actually have those kind of
Speaker:connected together in my verses, but they plead for understanding when they
Speaker:don't know why something's happening or how long it's gonna happen.
Speaker:They, they plead for their eyes to be opened.
Speaker:That's in eight.
Speaker:The reason they want their eyes to be opened is so that they can behold
Speaker:wondrous things out of that law.
Speaker:I think sometimes, especially when the commandments feel constraining,
Speaker:this is the prayer I should have.
Speaker:If the commandments are feeling like they're limiting God's compassion
Speaker:or limiting my joy, I should be praying for my eyes to be opened.
Speaker:Cuz I, I know because I know the nature of God that there must be wondrous.
Speaker:There must be wondrous reasons for this commandment to exist.
Speaker:So I love that.
Speaker:That's what the soulist is teaching us.
Speaker:They're praying for that eyeopening understanding you see it again in 27,
Speaker:it says, make me to understand the way of th precepts so that I can walk or
Speaker:so I can talk of the, I wondrous works.
Speaker:He wants to share the gospel.
Speaker:He wants to teach people about it, but he wants to make sure he knows it first.
Speaker:Um, and then he talks about the value of the law, the visual that really helped me.
Speaker:I love what you see in 30.
Speaker:I will run the way of the commandments when the Lord shall
Speaker:en shout, enlarge my heart.
Speaker:I actually have a heart drawn on this earth.
Speaker:Not that, that sounds super girly, but I it's.
Speaker:I love the concept of enlarging my heart, what it reminded me.
Speaker:I bought a new suitcase.
Speaker:When I started speaking at timeout for women this year, I got a new suitcase.
Speaker:I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm traveling.
Speaker:This is so fun.
Speaker:And I packed it full of stuff.
Speaker:And then when I got to timeout for women, I ended up buying a blanket
Speaker:and a sweater and all this stuff.
Speaker:So then I went to repack my bag on the way home and I couldn't fit it in my suitcase.
Speaker:Turns out a big fleece blanket.
Speaker:Takes up a lot of space, but I was struggling.
Speaker:So I'm like, what do I need to get rid of?
Speaker:Clearly, I'm gonna have to let something go and I wasn't
Speaker:gonna let go of that blanket.
Speaker:So I was considering leaving like the pants.
Speaker:I only sort of liked and all and in the hotel room so that I
Speaker:could have room for this blanket.
Speaker:Ironically the last minute I noticed that there's this second zipper.
Speaker:Remember it's a new suitcase, so I didn't appreciate this.
Speaker:There's a second zipper.
Speaker:I pull the zipper and it expands like three inches.
Speaker:All the sudden everything can fit that I feel like is the promise that
Speaker:you sign, they feel in these verses.
Speaker:The Lord is saying, if you feel constrained, if you feel like you have
Speaker:to chop up the gospel in order to fit it in your heart, if you feel like
Speaker:you have to chop off principles of the gospel, or I can't go to the temple,
Speaker:it's just the, Temple's not for me.
Speaker:Or I don't understand how the, the church feels about gender.
Speaker:The gospel must not be for me.
Speaker:What he's asking you to do is hold on to your faith and ask for
Speaker:the Lord to enlarge your heart.
Speaker:There are an infinite number of zippers expansion pockets on our
Speaker:hearts to contain the gospel.
Speaker:The gospel doesn't need to be changed in order to fit in our hearts.
Speaker:Our hearts have to expand in order to hold it all because it is Marvel.
Speaker:That's what the song list is teaching us.
Speaker:It's marvelous and you can't contain it.
Speaker:So ask for an enlarged heart.
Speaker:I just loved the visual of it.
Speaker:It clicked for me.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Flip the page.
Speaker:It gets even better.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:You go a little farther.
Speaker:You'll see.
Speaker:In around verse 59 or so this is where he talks about.
Speaker:We just got over hearts.
Speaker:He talks about that again.
Speaker:I thought on my ways and turned my feet onto that testimonies.
Speaker:If you want the footnotes, this actually links you to the prodigal son.
Speaker:And it's that part of the prodigal son story, where he decides that
Speaker:the servants of his father are eating even better than he is.
Speaker:And he should just go home.
Speaker:And I love that the, the footnote people tied these together,
Speaker:cuz I think this is repentance.
Speaker:This is daily repentance.
Speaker:It's that when I get to that point where I'm gonna just turn my feet and
Speaker:I'm gonna head your way it's it's this.
Speaker:Vulnerable moment that we're all trying to get to.
Speaker:And I, I love that.
Speaker:So don't miss the footnotes on verse 59.
Speaker:You go a little further and I love what you see in 71.
Speaker:So it says it is good for me that I have been afflicted
Speaker:that I might learn by statutes.
Speaker:We kind of talked about this already, but this concept of afflictions.
Speaker:Can bring us closer to God.
Speaker:There is great promise in that verse that even if the Lord can't
Speaker:deliver you, he will find a way to connect with you in your adversities.
Speaker:I think we've seen that over and over and over again.
Speaker:In fact, I love since we just studied job a few like a month or so ago
Speaker:that verse in Liberty jail, when the Lord says they are not yet, as job
Speaker:kind of sometimes seems like this big Trump card that the Lord plays.
Speaker:Like you're not nearly as bad as job, you know, like it's, but I actually think it
Speaker:could have much more meaning than that.
Speaker:I think the Lord is with job at that point in time when Joseph is
Speaker:in Liberty, jail job is with God and job has become close to God.
Speaker:And in this adversity phase of job's life, Was closer to God.
Speaker:And I wonder if what the Lord is saying in that verse is not so much, well, you
Speaker:don't have it as bad as he did as it is.
Speaker:Look how close we could be.
Speaker:You are not yet as close as job is.
Speaker:You could be as job where you lean on me.
Speaker:You trust in me no matter what happens, that's how you can be.
Speaker:That's how you're not yet as Joe.
Speaker:And that turns things for Joseph Smith.
Speaker:He endures Liberty jail.
Speaker:He deals with all the consequences that come later.
Speaker:Because he wants that connection to God.
Speaker:He wants to be even closer.
Speaker:So I love that you see that in these verses.
Speaker:Another verse I loved is verse 93, where it talks about a quickening.
Speaker:That's actually a phrase you're gonna read a few times in this week's study.
Speaker:And it just means a bringing to life in the new Testament.
Speaker:When we talk about the babes leaping in their womb, that's a quickening, it's
Speaker:the first time they're they feel life.
Speaker:What I loved about this visual is it talks about, well in I three, I will
Speaker:never forget the precepts for, with them though, has to Quicken me the
Speaker:more we come to understand God's law and the covenants that we're making.
Speaker:And the more we keep them.
Speaker:More our spirits become alive.
Speaker:And here's something that came to me this week.
Speaker:I don't know if this is accurate for everybody, but that moment when I first
Speaker:feel a baby cake is like pure delight, I can still remember for each of my kids.
Speaker:I can almost remember where I was, um, when that happened, cuz it's so powerful
Speaker:to me to know that they are there.
Speaker:And I, I rejoice in those moments and I started thinking.
Speaker:Spiritually as we become quickened.
Speaker:I bet there is rejoicing in heaven.
Speaker:When we finally catch.
Speaker:When our hearts are changing.
Speaker:I think our heavenly parents rejoice that we are being quickened, that our we're not
Speaker:just following the law, cuz it is the law.
Speaker:We're following the law.
Speaker:Cuz we understand the law cuz we love God and we are anxious to serve him.
Speaker:It's a quickening of our spirits and I bet it causes similar rejoicing
Speaker:with our heavenly parents as the physical quickening happens and causes
Speaker:rejoicing in, in our physical bodies.
Speaker:I just love the comparison of the.
Speaker:You go a little bit further and you'll see even more.
Speaker:I don't have time to go into all of it, but you obviously don't wanna miss 1 0 5.
Speaker:That's that famous Amy Grant song.
Speaker:I can still remember my sister singing it around the piano.
Speaker:That that word is a lamp unto my feet.
Speaker:Uh, I love this phrase cuz it's not.
Speaker:It's not a lamp to our eyes.
Speaker:it is something that our feet will be able to know where to go.
Speaker:Oftentimes I think with revelation, we are asked to step forward, even
Speaker:though we can't see clearly what is next, the myths of darkness are
Speaker:kind of swirling and we struggle.
Speaker:But if we, we trust that our feet will know and we move, then
Speaker:we more like it's added to us.
Speaker:There's a great Quil from Harold that talks about this in the notes that
Speaker:sometimes you have to step a little bit into the darkness and then you'll
Speaker:find that the light moves ahead of you.
Speaker:That's the promise.
Speaker:That he'll be a lamp onto your feet.
Speaker:I, I love that one.
Speaker:Another one that's powerful to me is one 16.
Speaker:This is inviting us not to be ashamed.
Speaker:Uphold me according to that word that I might live.
Speaker:Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Speaker:I love this one.
Speaker:I love all verses about hope, but I particularly love this one, cuz I
Speaker:think he's inviting us to share it.
Speaker:Sometimes our hope is something we hold really private and close.
Speaker:Um, When you choose to share your hope, especially the reasons why you have hope.
Speaker:It is an incredible missionary tool.
Speaker:Peter talks about this in the new Testament that, you know, let, there's
Speaker:gonna be men who will ask you the reason of the hope that is in you and when you
Speaker:share it, it, it beams out at others.
Speaker:Uh, it isn't a hope necessarily in deliverance from your
Speaker:troubles, but a hope in Jesus.
Speaker:Why is it that you can still be standing here when your life is so hard?
Speaker:Well, let me tell you about my hope in Jesus Christ.
Speaker:That's well, the Psalm teach us over and over again, and I
Speaker:love they see it in this verse.
Speaker:Another one that's powerful to me is 1 51.
Speaker:This is where he talks about how he is near that art near oh Lord.
Speaker:And all by commandments are truth.
Speaker:It's it almost feels like that.
Speaker:Hy dearest children got us near you.
Speaker:That's what it feels like to me.
Speaker:It's this.
Speaker:Remember how close heaven is?
Speaker:Another one that I absolutely loved.
Speaker:In fact, you'll see the phrase tender mercies a couple times this week.
Speaker:It's in 1 56 in this Psalm.
Speaker:What I thought was so cool about it is I went and studied that there's a talk
Speaker:from elder bed, all about tender mercies and how they are real and how they're not
Speaker:random and how they are and incredible.
Speaker:He ties them to the savior and says, it's one of the ways the savior can be with us.
Speaker:Often he uses the holy ghost and sometimes he can be with us
Speaker:through these tender mercies.
Speaker:So I link it in the notes.
Speaker:There's some incredible doctrine in his talk that I don't want you to miss.
Speaker:I love the concept of tender mercies.
Speaker:They're this?
Speaker:What do anyone else?
Speaker:What seem circumstantial or a coincidence?
Speaker:Uh, they are brush strokes of heaven and you don't wanna miss it.
Speaker:So study up on tender Merc.
Speaker:To wrap up one 19.
Speaker:There's more power in on the last page around 1 57, 1 60, he talks about
Speaker:not declining from your testimony.
Speaker:I thought this was powerful, especially considering Neil L
Speaker:Anderson's general conference talk just from this last conference where
Speaker:he talks about being a peacemaker.
Speaker:And he, I wrote it in my margin that says peacemakers are not passive.
Speaker:They are persuasive in the Savior's way.
Speaker:Don't you just love that phrase?
Speaker:That's that's his invitation to us is to.
Speaker:As we are choosing not to decline in our testimonies, we have to
Speaker:find a way to, to speak and to do it in a way that's powerful.
Speaker:And the saviors way is our, that should be our amplifier.
Speaker:You go a little bit further around one 50.
Speaker:You'll see even more.
Speaker:These are where you start to feel these songs of praise.
Speaker:This all of them begin and end with hallelujah.
Speaker:It's this kind of big crescendo to these hymns of praise, but I, I loved everything
Speaker:I learned all the way through one 19.
Speaker:So don't.
Speaker:These next two, Psalms are Psalms of ascent or Psalms of degrees as they're
Speaker:sometimes called and most scholars think that they were sung on the way up.
Speaker:So ascending to Jerusalem.
Speaker:Remember Jerusalem is.
Speaker:It's a city on a hill.
Speaker:So as they come for festivals and feast, maybe even that fall festival, that
Speaker:that's when they would sing these songs.
Speaker:Some even believe that these were the songs that would've been sung on the going
Speaker:up the steps towards the temple itself.
Speaker:I don't know, but I think the idea of them being a.
Speaker:Something you see, as you rise, as you come closer, it was powerful to me
Speaker:to understand what the doctrine was.
Speaker:That's in these Psalms in 1 27, you see guidance about family.
Speaker:Everything about the church is focused on family.
Speaker:In fact, I think it's elder Benson who talked about that.
Speaker:The family is the church and that all the programs and structures
Speaker:that we have are kind of the scaffolding built around the family.
Speaker:They're all designed to bring the family up.
Speaker:And that's kinda what you see in these Psalms children are an heritage
Speaker:to the Lord, just like we see.
Speaker:The family proclamation.
Speaker:It is an inheritance.
Speaker:It is a gift that has been given to you that you should treasure and
Speaker:take care of happy is the man that had this quiver full of children.
Speaker:That's what five says into 1 28.
Speaker:You see a reminder to take joy in the simple things of life.
Speaker:There's this song from, I don't know if you guys ever watched
Speaker:this show called Nashville.
Speaker:We used to watch it years ago and there's this great song.
Speaker:These two sisters sing.
Speaker:That's called a life.
Speaker:That's good.
Speaker:And it's still on a bunch of my playlists, cuz I just love the simpleness of it.
Speaker:It talks about how.
Speaker:All that the author of that song wants is a life that's good.
Speaker:And those are, that's found with really tiny, simple things.
Speaker:I give you a link in the notes if you wanna watch it, but that's
Speaker:what this chapter reminds me of.
Speaker:It's saying you're gonna find joy in family.
Speaker:You're gonna find joy in eating from the fruits of your labors.
Speaker:You know, all those things that we saw, Adam, and you've make
Speaker:this big sacrifice to come here.
Speaker:They did it so that we could have these kind of joys.
Speaker:And so this Psalm, this is reminding us.
Speaker:Take part in those, you know, if you've ever seen a gardener really
Speaker:enjoy the produce that they produced and, you know, delight in it.
Speaker:I think that's the joy that they're hoping to give us.
Speaker:When you read through one 20.
Speaker:We'll try and get through this next batch for a little faster.
Speaker:Um, Psalm 1 35.
Speaker:I think one of the powerful parts about it is he reminds you that you
Speaker:are chosen speaking to the children of Israel, specifically in this PS.
Speaker:The children of Israel are chosen by the Lord.
Speaker:The phrase they use in for is they are his peculiar treasure.
Speaker:We've talked about this in a few different ways.
Speaker:There's a bunch of different ways.
Speaker:The Lord phrases, this.
Speaker:They are a treasured people.
Speaker:We, as the part of this gathering work are bringing back his treasure, bringing
Speaker:back his people and there's power in that.
Speaker:There they are a peculiar treasure.
Speaker:You go a little further and you see guidance about false gods.
Speaker:So from 15 to 21, the first time I read through this, I went through
Speaker:kind of fast thinking, okay, this is sort of like what we saw in
Speaker:Exodus don't worship, false gods.
Speaker:And then I had.
Speaker:Understanding, I'm telling you guys, this is how I learned.
Speaker:that the spirit just sort of layers things on as I study, but this
Speaker:summer I started to get into a habit.
Speaker:Not attending the temple very regularly.
Speaker:I'm gonna, I can give you a whole bunch of excuses for why that happened.
Speaker:But, um, my, my voice had mountain biking practice every single morning, early in
Speaker:the morning, like at six in the morning.
Speaker:And so I made a lot of time for hiking, but I did not make a lot
Speaker:of time for my temple worship.
Speaker:And there was a point in my hiking.
Speaker:I love to hike.
Speaker:It's like my way to clear my head.
Speaker:It's refreshing to me.
Speaker:It's beautiful.
Speaker:And there was a point in my hiking where I found myself kind of asking the Lord.
Speaker:Why can't the temple feel like this?
Speaker:why can't the temple feel open and airy and beautiful.
Speaker:Why can't it?
Speaker:There's this part where I go, where there's a stream running
Speaker:under this bridge that I love.
Speaker:I'm I'm I can, I can describe it for you vividly.
Speaker:I'm putting my hands in the water to cool off my hands.
Speaker:And the impression I get is.
Speaker:That, although all these things are good and all these hikes and
Speaker:beautiful trails and landscapes are made by God for my enjoyment, what
Speaker:they are not is an opportunity for me to give something back to God.
Speaker:They don't ask anything of me.
Speaker:The mountain trails never demand anything back from me.
Speaker:Uh, they, I don't make any sacrifices.
Speaker:I don't help anyone else in that process.
Speaker:And that's why they.
Speaker:That's why the temple feels different.
Speaker:The temple is the next level.
Speaker:Both are good.
Speaker:And I don't think there's anything wrong with me, loving outdoors, and loving my
Speaker:hikes, but it will never replace that communion that I get with God when I'm
Speaker:hiking cannot replace the communion that I experience in the temple, cuz
Speaker:in the temple, he asks things back.
Speaker:He asks me to make and keep covenants and reminds me of my obligations.
Speaker:It's a different kind of experience.
Speaker:And that's kinda what I saw when I was talking, when I was studying about idol.
Speaker:I don't think I worship a lot of things.
Speaker:I don't think I worship wealth even.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I don't feel like that's a big issue, but I do find that I'm I might be replacing.
Speaker:Certain types of worship with lesser types of worship.
Speaker:And I need to get back on track.
Speaker:I went to the temple this week, so I'm, I'm getting there guys.
Speaker:I'm I'm repenting daily, just like everybody else.
Speaker:But I, I learned that powerfully this, this week as I was studying, another
Speaker:thing I love is when you go into 1 36, This is where he talks about mercy.
Speaker:And you're, again, this is a verse that has a lot of refrains it's, um, sorry,
Speaker:a chapter that has a lot of refrains, but I think he's trying to teach us
Speaker:about the evidence of God's love.
Speaker:So as you go through there, you can circle all the evidences of God's love that are
Speaker:around us so that you can be reminded why he is merciful, how we know he's merciful.
Speaker:because it's in the waters, it's in the history, it's in all those things.
Speaker:You go a little bit further people page and you can find it in 1 37.
Speaker:I wrote that this sounds like a breakup song to be on the top of
Speaker:the chapter, cuz it kind of does.
Speaker:This is the children of Israel.
Speaker:Surely it sounds like they are at least in exile.
Speaker:If not after the exile period, cuz they are mourning they're in Babylon
Speaker:and they are talking about how, when they were in Babylon, they
Speaker:were expected to sing their songs of praise and they, they couldn't do it.
Speaker:Here's what I thought was really powerful when I was studying this.
Speaker:Um, I think there are times, especially, uh, at church when it's hard to sing.
Speaker:And I don't mean seeing songs necessarily, but it's time, it's hard to testify.
Speaker:It's hard to praise it.
Speaker:It's hard cuz your life is hard or you feel like you're not getting answers.
Speaker:And I there's a talk from elder hall that came back to my mind, what I was
Speaker:studying this soul and it's called songs sung and unsung and he talks.
Speaker:In those moments, when you feel like you can't sing the joyous
Speaker:melodies, everybody else is singing.
Speaker:It's part of my timeout for women talk.
Speaker:That's why I could remember it well, but it came back as I was studying this.
Speaker:Um, when you're in those moments, when you can't, you can't cuz your heart is just
Speaker:heavy, listen to the voices of others.
Speaker:Don't leave the choir just because you are heavy and you
Speaker:can't sing like everyone else.
Speaker:In the choir, because if you stay in the choir, you can stand next to
Speaker:someone with a stronger singing voice and you can just soak up their sound.
Speaker:That's the promise.
Speaker:He's, he's asking you to stay because in the staying you are uplifted and
Speaker:that's where you find your voice again.
Speaker:So even though it's a breakup song, som I loved what the spirit brought back
Speaker:to my remembrance as I was studying.
Speaker:So don't miss that.
Speaker:It's in the notes.
Speaker:If you wanna go deeper.
Speaker:You go to 1 38, this is David worshiping.
Speaker:He is praising the Lord and he is seeking revival.
Speaker:Just like we've talked about a few times in the past.
Speaker:You especially don't wanna miss like the JST version of eight.
Speaker:I love what it says in eight says the Lord will perfect.
Speaker:That which concern with me.
Speaker:So whatever I'm worried about the Lord will help.
Speaker:Help it come to an understanding.
Speaker:But when you add the JST piece, it's talking about doctrines of the kingdom.
Speaker:So if there's ever a doctrine that I'm struggling wrestling with, like maybe
Speaker:the history, or I felt this when I was studying polygamy for last year's
Speaker:doc, come, it took some wrestling.
Speaker:And the promise is that this, the Lord will perfect.
Speaker:That, that, which concern concerned you, especially about
Speaker:the doctrines of the kingdom.
Speaker:You just have to stay steady.
Speaker:I felt that when I studied the polygamy chapter, Had to work my guts out
Speaker:and study a lot, but I came to an understanding and I felt at peace.
Speaker:That's the promise that you see in 1 38, you go a little further in 1 39.
Speaker:And this is again, David speaking, he talks about how well God knows him.
Speaker:And I just loved reading that it's his testimony of how.
Speaker:The Lord knows his thoughts before he even thinks them that
Speaker:he, the Lord is right there.
Speaker:Um, and he's praising the Lord for that.
Speaker:And seven and eight, there's this powerful part where he says wither,
Speaker:shall I go from my spirit wither?
Speaker:Shall I flee from my presence?
Speaker:If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there.
Speaker:If I make my bed in hell behold, thou art, there, it's the same thing.
Speaker:We like Lawrence corporate.
Speaker:Just talk about the way where he.
Speaker:There's the way.
Speaker:And then there's every other way.
Speaker:There's no other, where would I go if I abandoned this gospel?
Speaker:Where, where would I go to find comfort and peace?
Speaker:You can hear David's advice on that.
Speaker:If you read it in 1 39, I also love verse sports team where he texts about
Speaker:being fearfully and wonderfully made.
Speaker:It's a key verse.
Speaker:You probably heard it before.
Speaker:What I wrote in the margins is BYU anatomy class, cuz this is.
Speaker:This, this doctrine kind of solidified in me.
Speaker:I had studied, I'd been in AP biology and physiology and all
Speaker:these classes in high school.
Speaker:And it wasn't until I got to that class where you actually had a
Speaker:cadaver on the table, as gross as that sounds, that I actually got to
Speaker:see all the systems mixed together.
Speaker:I saw the skeletal system and the nervous system and the
Speaker:muscular system all work together.
Speaker:And that's when I was like, wow, I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Speaker:That's that's the power.
Speaker:The doctrine.
Speaker:I love that verse for what it teaches me.
Speaker:You go a little bit further and you'll see in 17, this is a key one for me.
Speaker:How precious also are they thoughts up to me?
Speaker:Oh God.
Speaker:How great is the sum of them?
Speaker:It's the sum of them piece that I love about this verse, because
Speaker:oftentimes, like I've told you guys, my revelation comes in.
Speaker:Very thin, almost like vem layers and when you add up all those vem layers,
Speaker:I get understanding, but it takes a lot of time and a lot of layers.
Speaker:So I love that.
Speaker:That happens with David too.
Speaker:He is, he's not frustrated at his lack of an answer yet.
Speaker:He trusts that at some point, there will be a sum.
Speaker:You can add up all those layers and you'll have an answer.
Speaker:And I just, I love the phrase of it.
Speaker:The math of it just kind of jumped out.
Speaker:This last batch of songs from 1 46 to one 50, uh, they're called the
Speaker:hallelujah songs, these and a few others because they begin and end
Speaker:with that hallelujah that oh, praise.
Speaker:Um, and they have that feel to them.
Speaker:They're joyous.
Speaker:They are reminding you of what you can.
Speaker:What you can rejoice in.
Speaker:So for example, if you go in 1 46, verse five first, five, happy is he
Speaker:that have the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord, his God.
Speaker:And then they teach us why we should be so happy.
Speaker:So if you look at, in the end of chapter 1 46, it talks about how
Speaker:the Lord loses the prisoners, how he opened at the eyes of the blind and
Speaker:raise it them that are bow down, how he helps the widow and the fatherless.
Speaker:It almost felt to me like they were actually laying out the miracles of Jesus.
Speaker:Thousands of years before, you know, like, I don't know when this was
Speaker:written, if this was after the exile or before, but before Christ came
Speaker:and actually fulfilled all of these promises, Jews were singing about how
Speaker:the Lord would do these things, which makes me think that those who, those who
Speaker:converted to the Lord when he was here, Probably recognize those tones, right?
Speaker:They recognize that he is the one who's fulfilling all those prophecies.
Speaker:Maybe they saying this at bedtime, or maybe the children saying this at,
Speaker:you know, I don't know if, if they knew these words, then when they saw
Speaker:the Lord fulfilled, these promises it would've connected some dots.
Speaker:And I kind of love that piece of it.
Speaker:Some other things you're gonna see if you go into 1 47, this is where you start to
Speaker:talk about the gathering, the gathering of these beloved children of the.
Speaker:And he talks about them as outcasts because at certain phases, the
Speaker:children of Israel become outcasts.
Speaker:Especially in the last days, there is this separation.
Speaker:That's why we're gathering so that we can bring them all back to him.
Speaker:I love the way he phrases it.
Speaker:So if you look in three, he healeth the broken in heart and bind it up.
Speaker:Their wounds.
Speaker:There is an immediate forgiveness and compassion that happens as
Speaker:people are being gathered in.
Speaker:Remember, we already learned that he's not a God of grudges.
Speaker:He.
Speaker:He is a forgiver and then you see where that goes in four, he tells
Speaker:the number of the stars and he call it them by all their names.
Speaker:You could read that and think that he's talking about just the stars in
Speaker:the firmament and that's possible.
Speaker:But I also think, especially if you look back on where we were in Abraham,
Speaker:when we were studying about the promise to Abraham, that he would have
Speaker:descendants as the stars in the heavens.
Speaker:Remember we made that projector, that shot stars all over your ceiling.
Speaker:That's the promise that Abraham was given about the children of Israel.
Speaker:So when we gather the children of Israel, we are gathering those stars.
Speaker:And the promise is that he will know every one of them by name.
Speaker:I read a book from elder bed.
Speaker:I about one-on-one ministry of the Lord.
Speaker:And that's the feel I got is.
Speaker:If the Lord doesn't convert in, you know, huge mass numbers, we are sent on this
Speaker:one on one ministry, cuz every one of these children of Israel, every one of
Speaker:these stars has a name and has a place and wants, needs to be brought back home.
Speaker:I, I just love the visual of.
Speaker:Like book ends connecting this doctrine together.
Speaker:Um, you a little further, I don't have time to go into all of it, but
Speaker:I do love what you see in 11 of 1 47.
Speaker:This is where it says the Lord take its pleasure in them.
Speaker:That fear him in those that hope in his mercy.
Speaker:There are.
Speaker:Only a few ways.
Speaker:The scriptures teach us that we can bring God joy.
Speaker:And this is one of 'em when we choose hope, not just hope in healing or hope
Speaker:in medicine or hope in whatever it is we're praying for, but hope that there
Speaker:is purpose to our pain, that there is reasoning behind all of this, that there
Speaker:is a savior that all, that's what we hope.
Speaker:And, and when we choose to hold that hope, use that hope and
Speaker:share that hope we bring God.
Speaker:Don't you just love that piece, but especially after what we learned in
Speaker:Enoch about how God can, we, it is also wonderful to know that God rejoices
Speaker:when we make these kind of choices.
Speaker:When you go a little bit further in 1 48, 1 of my favorites of 1 48 is in verse 13.
Speaker:I love the way it's phrased.
Speaker:Let them praise the name of the Lord for his name alone is excellent.
Speaker:His glory is above the earth in heaven.
Speaker:He is the singular way to come to God, the father to come back home.
Speaker:His name alone is excellent.
Speaker:I love that phrase.
Speaker:1 49 is the praise of song.
Speaker:In fact, it encourages you to praise in song and I, you know,
Speaker:like it says in for, for the Lord, take its pleasure in his people.
Speaker:He will beautify the make with salvation five, let the saints
Speaker:be joyful in their glory.
Speaker:Let them sing aloud upon their beds.
Speaker:It is.
Speaker:He, you know, we are here to have joy.
Speaker:That's what the book of Morman teaches us.
Speaker:I love the way, um, president Hinkley says I don't have it at my
Speaker:margin here, but he says that life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
Speaker:So encourages us to have fun and laughter doesn't that sound
Speaker:like president Hinkley to you?
Speaker:I think that's what they're trying to teach us here.
Speaker:You shouldn't just rejoice in God.
Speaker:You should have so much joy in his promises that you can't
Speaker:hold yourself back from singing.
Speaker:It's that song of redeeming love.
Speaker:If you go on the notes, it's Alma 5 26, where he talk about, can you
Speaker:feel so now, if you felt the song of redeeming love, can you feel so now?
Speaker:And if you can't go into the Psalms until it surges back up on you, so that you
Speaker:feel like singing again, I, I thought that was one of the most profound things I
Speaker:learned from the Psalm is that by studying other people's rejoicing, especially
Speaker:their rejoicing through adversity, it welled up in me until the point where
Speaker:I felt like I could have it myself.
Speaker:I.
Speaker:Joyous, despite my adversity.
Speaker:And that's a gift you can't get, you can't buy, it's something you
Speaker:have to pull out of the scriptures.
Speaker:I think it's why we're invited to study every single day.
