Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - Doctrine & Covenants 109-110 : followHIM Favorites with Dr. Brent Rogers

Episode Date: September 26, 2021

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Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I am the host of a podcast called Follow Him. This is not the full podcast. We hope you will listen to the full podcast. This is Follow Him Favorites, which is a short little clip. Not even a clip. It's just us doing a shorter podcast for those of you with shorter attention span. So I'm here with my co-host, by the way. Hi John. I'm here with a historian Dr. Brent Rogers. Welcome Brent. Hello, welcome. Thank you. All right. So John the lesson this week is on Dr. Covenant sections 109 and 110 hit your follow him favorite. Well, 109 is the dedicated to prayer which is beautiful and long 110 when the Savior actually appears in the temple and he's in the Kirtland temple and he says verse 4, I am the first and the last, I am he who liveeth and I mean I think that's obvious, but I think that he's alive, but look, he's lived and he's here. He's appearing. He hasn't done his work and disappeared.

I'm he who live it. I'm he who was slain. I am your advocate with the Father. And Brent knew and and Hank know that Elder Holland wrote a book recently called a witness for his names, all of the different names of Christ that he uses, his own nicknames that he gives himself. I didn't get very far. I got to the letter A. Advocate is my favorite. I love the idea that he's an advocate. And if you look it up like on dictionary.com, it's like an attorney for the defense. He's the one that comes to your side and is your advocate with the father. It's a beautiful phrase. And of all the nicknames he could have chosen. Elder Holland does a whole book about him. He chose, I am your advocate. And I just love that we can think of him that way as someone who comes to our side in our defense and says, this one was willing to take upon them my name and try to serve me. I just think that's beautiful. So that is my favorite that I have an advocate and he is the savior. Yeah. And what kind of person is he? Look at the next

verse. I'm your advocate with the father, your sins are forgiven you. Lift up your heads and rejoice. Just that is so positive. You have a forgiving advocate. My following favorite is actually going to be just the the two sections side by side. If you put section 109, which is an incredible prayer by section 110, which is an incredible answer. So I just thought when I look at these two, that if you wanna have incredible, beautiful answers to prayer, you better say some incredible, beautiful prayers. Oftentimes, we want a million dollar answer to a answers to prayer. You better say some incredible, beautiful prayers.

Oftentimes we want a million dollar answer to a five cent prayer. And usually we get five cent answers to five cent prayers. So I would encourage everybody, go in, read section 109, as it is written as a prayer, and think to yourself, how could I improve my prayers? I promise you. There

is, there, if you read the 80 verses of section 109, you will find something in which you can improve your prayers because we all want those incredible experiences with the Lord. Incredible answers to prayer. But oftentimes we don't want to put in the work and the effort that comes with You know saying the prayers that get those type of answers so I'm gonna I think from reading section 109. I'm gonna change my prayers. All right, Dr. Rogers. What's your follow him favorite? I'd say that in Section 109 there's a there's a couple of verses that I wanted to highlight. The first is verse 21, and it says, when thy people transgress any of them, they may

speedily repent and return unto thee and find favor in thy sight and be restored to the blessings which thou hast ordained to be poured upon those who shall reverence thee in thy house. And the key words there that I want to focus is speedily repent. This section talks about repentance in a few places and this being a gospel of repentance. And when it says when thy people transgress, it doesn't say if, it says when thy people transgress. And because we're all humans, we're all gonna make some mistakes and varying levels of, you know,

just varying degrees of mistakes. But what can we do? We can speedily repent and we can turn back towards Christ. And I think that that is beautiful. And it says in 53, in as much as they repent, basically the message there is, there is going to be mercy. And the word mercy shows up in this passage a lot of times. It starts in verse 1. It says, Oh, God, oh, Lord God of Israel, who keep us covenant and show us to mercy unto thy servants. We have a God of mercy. We transgress. We can repent and we can turn back to Christ. And he will have mercy on us. Mercy wins the day.

And as John mentioned in section 110, one of the first things he says to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdry when he appears in the Kirtland Temple is, your sins are forgiven. That's how we know who our Lord and Savior is. He's our advocate and he is going to forgive us and our Father in heaven is going to show mercy on us. So repent and mercy wins the day. Those would be my favorites. That's awesome. That's beautiful. I love in section 110 verse 10, the Lord says, this is just the beginning. Just the beginning of the blessings I have. Now, we hope you'll join us on our full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can find it wherever

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