Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - Doctrine & Covenants 136 followHIM Favorites with Dr. Richard E. Bennett

Episode Date: November 22, 2021

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Hello my friends welcome to follow him favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with my co-host John by the way and The incredible doctor Richard Bennett. Welcome to both of you. Thank you Thank you. Follow him favorites is where we take a tiny piece of this week's lesson and just Do a little clip on it hoping that those who hear this will want to join us on our full podcast. So John, Dr. Covenant's 136, what's your follow him favorite? Oh, so many things here. I'm looking at, oh, I can't choose one. I mean, I'm looking at verse 22, where the Lord reminds everybody who he is. I am he who led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. And my arm is stretched out in the last days to save my people Israel.

And sometimes it's nice to have that remind, listen, if I can lead the children of Israel out of Egypt, I can help you when you're having a bad day in junior high school. I can help you when you can't get your locker open. My favorite definition of junior high school was given can help you when you can't get your locker open. My favorite definition of junior high school was given to me by Hank. He said, junior high is just a bad idea. Let's take the most insecure people in the world, put them all in the same building for a few years and see who survives. But this idea of, hey, I can do this. I am he, I am the Lord, I'm your God, and I am going to help you.

And don't forget the power that I have, so I have power to help you to. In our little problems, our big problems, we have an ally. I like that, John. And he goes on to say, let your words addify one another. I think we could do that better in our corbs and classes. Don't you let your words build? Reminded me of, what's the one we covered? Is it 101? No, it's 107. And all your conversations and all your doings and, you know, edify one another. We're always building.

Choose to build. Yep. My follow him favorite is going to be verse 28 where the Lord says, in this Trek West, these pioneers, right? I remember singing in primary, the pioneer children sang as they walked. And walked. And walked. And walked. And walked. And I thought, that's all pioneers must have done,

is walked, right? But it says here they can praise the Lord with singing and with music and with dancing and his doctor, Abena has taught us on our full podcast. We hope you'll join us there. They had a lot of good times on the trail west. There was plenty of heartbreak, plenty of sorrow, but they had a lot of fun.

They sang, they danced, they had feasts and dances and bands, and that's okay. I love that. They made the best of a very, very sad situation. And we can do that too. We run into sad situations in life, and we can still make the best out of it. Right? So to me, that's my follow-him favorite. Let's turn the time over to Dr. Bennett. Dr. Bennett, what's your follow-him favorite for section 136? Well, I think I'll focus on verse 41 because it's one of the very, very few verses in all of scripture where the Lord tells us or asks twice to listen to what

he's going to say. So when you get this sort of a verse, it's just it's just bristling with importance. It's just bristling with importance. And above all, if you have to boil this whole section down to one phrase, this is it. So now listen, notice how it gets our attention. Now therefore, Harkin. I think the word Harkin means to listen very carefully. Really listen to this. O yeE. people of my church. You literally saints, all of us. This is a message for not just church history, but it's a message for us right now. Angie elders, listen. Here comes again. Listen

together individually and collectively. I've got a message for you. What's the message? It's five words. You have received my kingdom. Now that was tremendously significant to the saints when they were going through Iowa and winter quarters and all the challenges we've talked about in this podcast today. Some of whom were wondering where are we going, who's in charge, why am I suffering, how come so many deaths, why are the children suffering, what about all these others who are claiming to be the leader of the church, what about church history, has this been a whole made up mess, what's going on,

you know, you have received my kingdom. In other words, I still love you. The gospel's restored. We have a living prophet. It'll be okay. As President Hinkley said, it'll all work out. You'll find your place if you follow your God. And the gospel of Jesus Christ being what it is, is the great message. You have it. As it says in that verse, that's my message. Now, that is absolutely wonderful, Dr. Bennett. He is called this section, the Sunshine of a New Day for the Church. We hope you'll join us on the full podcast

so you can hear all about this section. But if not, that's okay. Come join us next week for follow him favorites. Thank you.