followHIM - Doctrine & Covenants 63 : followHIM Favorites

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm the host of a podcast called Follow Him. I have a wonderful co-host. His name is John, by the way. Hi, John. Hi, Hank. This is going to be a good day. John, Follow Him Favorites is a little tiny podcast. It's a miniature podcast in which we just talk about our favorite piece of the lesson. The lesson this week, the entire lesson is on one section of the Doctrine and Covenants, section 63. So you get to choose your follow him favorite. You know, the way the Lord begins this revelation, I just thought was cool. Hearken, O ye people, and open your hearts, and give ear from afar,

Starting point is 00:00:38 and listen. So there's open your hearts, there's give ear, there's listen, there's hearken. And I just, I remember Amulek in the book of Mormon. Remember when he says, I heard, but I would not hear. And it was like, I, my ears were working, but I hadn't really inside opened them. And I love this idea of the Lord saying, I know you can hear me now. I want you to open your ears. And with all of these things that we're studying, we open it up and let it inside. That's when it can, it can really help us and bless us. So repetitive, open your ears, hearken, listen, open your hearts. Yeah. I've never seen someone close their ears. Have you? I don't know. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:01:17 When the Lord says open your ears, he's like, Hey, they're closed. I don't know how that works, but remember third Nephi two and the third time they did open their ears to hear it. So I don't know if they're going like this or what was happening, but yeah. You always say, what did you always say? Listen with your spiritual ears. That's probably what it is. Open up those spiritual ears, be open. I actually wanted to talk about something that the Lord says in section 63 about adultery and he's talking about lust and virtue. And he says, beware and repent of any of these things. I say unto you, he kind of, it's a New Testament type reference here, verse 16. If I said before, he that looketh on a woman to lust after her or any shall commit adultery in their hearts, they have not the spirit. And some of us might go, oh no, I don't want to have a chastity lesson, right? But the idea here is I think this is a positive thing where the Lord is

Starting point is 00:02:10 saying, don't let this sin creep into your life in any way with immorality or pornography. Don't let that get into your life anyway. And if it does, beware and repent speedily. Repent speedily. So the Lord's not saying, well, if you've done this, you're done, right? You're done. You might as well pack it up and go home. He's saying, no, beware and repent speedily. So this is a hopeful section about virtue. And of course, the Lord cares about how we treat our bodies and how we treat others and

Starting point is 00:02:41 respect and not using people as objects. But still, even when he's talking about these serious subjects, repent speedily. He's offering that chance. Oh, I love it. And I love that the word beware is the combo of be aware. And we got to be aware. This is one of Satan's tactics against us, but let's be aware. And then something creeps in. We repent speedily. We be aware again tomorrow.

Starting point is 00:03:11 We be strong. Very good. Very good. Well, we hope you'll join us on our full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can find it wherever your podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts. We hope you'll join us soon.

followHIM - Doctrine & Covenants 63 : followHIM Favorites

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