followHIM - Doctrine & Covenants 115-120 followHIM Favorites with Dr. Frantz Belot

Episode Date: October 9, 2021

Hank, John and Dr. Frantz share their favorite lesson from this week's podcast.​Shownotes: https://followhim.co/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/followhimpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/followhimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FollowHimOfficialChannel"Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise" by Marshall McDonaldhttps://www.marshallmcdonaldmusic.com/products/let-zion-in-her-beauty-rise-pianoPlease rate and review the podcast.​

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with John, by the way, and Dr. Franz Bolo. 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 favorites. So John and Franz, the lesson this week is on sections 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, and 120 of the Doctrine and Covenants.

So John, we'll start with you. What's your follow him favorite? Well, I'm looking at section 115 verse five, 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 I 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, oh, that gives us all something to aspire to, that we can be a light to others. And in 3 Nephi, it kind of connects them 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'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 it, 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 S-U-N to S-O-N. When you face the sun, the son of God, the shadows fall behind you. Anyway. That's great. Okay. My follow him favorite is Doctrine and Covenants 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 in deed. 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. 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 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 in deed. 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? Right. He's like, I love you. I love you. Do whatever you want.

You're not much and you're not going to be much. So what? 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. Dr. Below, tell us what your follow him favorite is. So mine is found in Doctrine and Covenants 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 say unto you, I remember my servant, Oliver Granger. Behold, verily I say

unto him that his name shall be had in sacred remembrance from generation to generation forever and ever, saith 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, saith the Lord. And that's meaningful to me because not everything we do in life will bring about success or that we'll feel successful. But becoming the type of person

that the Lord wants us to become, like Christ, is what success is, is who we're becoming. Are we more patient? Are we more loving? Are we more accepting? sacrifice is more sacred to him than his increase.'s about what you're becoming along the way. Wow, that's really nice. Well, we want to thank both John and Dr. Below for being here. And we hope that you'll join us on our full podcast. You can get it wherever you get your podcasts. But if not, we hope you'll join us next week for another Follow Him favor.