followHIM - Doctrine & Covenants 129-132 followHIM Favorites with Dr. Kate Holbrook

Episode Date: November 7, 2021

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Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I am here with my incredible co-host, John, by the way. Welcome, John. Thanks, Hank. And our guest this week is the just downright brilliant Dr. Kate Holbrook. Welcome, Dr. Holbrook. Kate. Thank you, Hank. I'm so glad to be with you. Oh, this is going to be so fun. Follow Him Favorites is where we pick one verse or one idea from the lesson and give it to our listeners in a condensed form here. We want to make this quick and fun and hit it really hard. So John and Kate, our sections this week are sections 129 through 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants. You get to choose one. Follow Him Favorite. I know it's hard, but choose one.

John, you go first. Oh, I'm going to choose verse 24. I just think this gives us a way to listen to everything today. And this sounds a lot like the book of John. So verse 24, this is- Verse 24 of what section, John? This is verse 24 of section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants. Okay.

It says, This is eternal lives to know the only wise and true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent. Then I am he. Wow. Receive ye therefore my law. The fact that this is the Savior's voice in the latter days is just amazing. I am he. And then it says, Jesus Christ whom he hath sent.

And I was looking at footnotes, 24C says one of the most repeated verses in all of the Christian world, John 3, 17. And then it says 16 and 17, right? Which says, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. And it says, Jesus Christ, whom he, God hath sent, that he gave his only begotten son. And it says, Jesus Christ, whom he, God, hath sent, that he gave his only begotten son. He loved us. And this whole section, I hope you'll read it feeling that love that the Savior has for all of us. That's just where I want to start. Excellent. In fact, John, that leads right into my follow him favorite, which is section 132, verse three, where the Lord introducing this idea of plural marriage says, prepare your heart to receive. Dr. Holbrook did such a good job on our full podcast.

We hope you'll join us talking about plural marriage. And I would invite you, our listener, to come listen to the full podcast. And while you're getting ready to do that, when you find a good time to listen, prepare your heart to receive. And what John just said is, is probably the most essential part of receiving, preparing your heart to receive is the idea of try to grasp God's love for

you. And God's love for all of our brothers and sisters on this planet and the Savior requiring difficult things. But all of this is based on a foundation of love and a fullness of joy to come in the next life. Dr. Holbrook, we'll give the rest of the time to you for your follow him favorite. Thank you. I chose for my follow him favorite section 132 verse 66, which is the last verse of the section says, and now as pertaining to this law, verily, verily, I say unto you, I will reveal more unto you hereafter. Therefore, let this suffice for the present. Behold, I am Alpha and Omega. Amen.

And one of the things I like here is this, I will reveal more unto you hereafter. And Jesus Christ certainly did. More unto Joseph Smith, more unto his predecessor Brigham Young, more unto John Taylor, more unto Wolf Wardruff, more all the way down to President Nelson. We're always getting, our prophets are always receiving more information for us and giving it to us. And then we, of course, turn to God and we too can have more information for our own stewardship and our own testimonies. The other thing I really love about this is he ends with, behold, I am alpha and omega, because I think when,

whenever we're dealing with a revelation from God, but especially one that's complicated about monogamous marriage and plural marriage, we have to have a bedrock understanding that we are dealing with God, with Jesus Christ, with Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the being who knows more than we ever can, and the being who can trust, who, as I used to teach on my mission, is all-knowing and all-loving and all-wise, all-powerful. That's the being who gave us this revelation. That's the being from whom we have the restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

That is beautiful. It reminds me of section 58, where the Lord says, you cannot behold with your natural eyes for the present time, the design of your God concerning those things which shall come hereafter and the glory which will follow after much tribulation. He is a God of glory and wants to give us that same glory. Well, we hope that you will join us on the full podcast of Follow Him. You're not going to want to miss it this week, but if you do, if you're too busy, you've got things you got to do, we get it, we get it. Join us next week for another Follow Him Favorites. Thank you.