Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - Doctrine & Covenants 115-120 followHIM Favorites with Dr. Frantz Belot

Episode Date: October 9, 2021

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Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with John, by the way, and Dr. France below. Welcome my friends. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, we are here. We have a podcast called Follow Him. We would love for you to join us on the full podcast, but this little clip is what we do follow him favorites. For those of you who just say, hey, I got five minutes for you guys. Give me your follow him favorite. So John and France, the lesson this week is on sections 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120 of the doctrine covenant. So John, we'll start with you. What's your follow him favorite?

Well, I'm looking at section 115 verse 5, which was actually a youth theme a few years ago. And I wrote a talk that takes an hour on this verse, because there's so much in there, but we won't use the hour today. Just one of the things that is my favorite in this is when the Savior says, well the whole verse is verily say unto you all, arise and shine forth that thy light may be a standard for the nations. And oh, I'd love to tell you the whole thing, but thy light made me just go, wait a minute. I thought Jesus said when he came to the righteous in the new world, and I thought Jesus said, I am the light of the world in the book of John, but here he says, your light, and in the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew, I'd love this that

Jesus lets us share a nickname with him, because he says, I am the light of the world, but then he says in Matthew, ye are the light of the world. And this says, let thy light be us, ah, that gives us all something to aspire to, that we can be a light to others. And in third Nephi, it kind of connects in both. I am the light which ye shall hold up, that which ye have seen me do. So we're trying to be like Jesus so that his light can be reflected in us

and that our light can be a standard for the nation. So I Love that idea. That's a beautiful idea, John. Have you ever been out on a full moon and the light is pretty bright Right, and all that moon is doing is reflecting the light of the sun That's all it's doing. It has no light in itself But man if it if it's really full out there, you can see quite a bit I think that that reflection of light that can come off of us when we fully face the Savior can really bless lives. That's awesome, John. Yeah, I think another way to put that Helen Keller, who you know

was blind and deaf and everything very famous. If you don't know who Helen Keller is, ask your folks, but she said, when you face the sun, the shadows of discouragement fall behind you. And I love to change SU and to S-O-N when you face the sun, the son of God, the shadows fall behind you. Anyway. That's great. Okay. My following favorite is doctrine covenant section 117 verse 11.

This is actually a pretty brutal verse to a bishop. The second bishop in the church, Newell K. Whitney. The Lord says that he wants him to repent of his secret abominations, his littleness of soul. That's, yeah. And he says, and to stand up and be a bishop, not just in name, but indeed. You know, it's hard to sometimes tell people that loving someone can mean that you have high expectations for them. And the Lord loves Bishop Whitney. And so he has high expectations for him.

Lord loves Bishop Whitney, and so he has high expectations for him. And he doesn't give up on him, if you notice. He doesn't say Bishop Whitney, because of your abominations and your littleness of soul, you're out. We're done with you. The Lord won't give up on you. If you're willing to repent and try again, the Lord won't give up on you. But just remember, when you think, man, we have a Savior with high expectations, that is a form of love. And so, you know, when your parents or when your church leaders, anyone has a high expectation for you, remember that it's

probably because they love you. And they just don't want you to do things in name They want you to do them indeed. Let's actually become What we are meant to become and Can you imagine how awful it would be if the Lord had low expectations of you? I love you. I love you do it every once You're not you're not much and you're not gonna be much so This is so much better. Yeah. I do love that, John. Yeah. His high expectation says something about us.

Oh, it's affirming to us. Yeah. Yeah. Dr. Below, tell us what your follow him favor. This so my knees found in doctrine, covenant section 117. It's the verse right after yours, Hank, it's verse 12 or verses, verse 12 and 13. It says, and again, I sound to you, I remember my servant Oliver Granger. Behold, verily, I sound to him that his name shall be had in sacred remembrance from generation to generation forever and ever, Seth the Lord. Now, I ask myself, why would this man be remembered? So in verse 13, therefore, let him contend earnestly for the redemption of the first presidency. So he was helping the first presidency accomplish a few things, said the Lord. And when he falls,

so the Lord already knows that other granger will fall, because he didn't say, and if he says, and when he falls, and I love this, he shall rise again. For his sacrifice shall be more sacred unto me than his increase, Seth the Lord. And that's meaningful to me because not everything we do in life will bring about success, or that will feel successful. But becoming the type of person that the Lord wants us to become like Christ is what success is, is what we're becoming. Are we more patient? Are we more loving? Are we more accepting? Are we more willing to work in the kingdom of God. And again, the Lord says that the sacrifice is more sacred to him than he's increased. So I love this section and those two verses. Yeah. I really like that too. The idea that the Lord can sanctify your failures. That not everything is going to be successful, but it's

about what you're becoming along the way. Wow, that's really nice. Well, we want to thank both John and Dr. Bolo for being here, and we hope that you'll join us on our full podcast. You can get it wherever podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts. But if not, we hope you'll join us next week for another follow him, favorite.