followHIM - From the Clubhouse to the Lord's House • followHIM Favorites • November 17-23 • Come Follow Me

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

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Welcome to Follow Him favorites. This is where John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's Come Follow Me lesson. John, we are in sections 133 and 34 this week. You've told me that you have a story. Yeah, and it's one of my dear friends whose name is Bob. Bob's dad was a temple president in the southern United States. Bob loves to golf. You love to golf too, right, Hank?

I do enjoy golf. Your dad was a golf pro. He was. Bob and his dad were golfing one day. All of a sudden, his dad, the temple president, his phone rang, the firemen we're calling, the fire department. We've got a fire alarm at the temple. Now, we respect the building. We're here.

It looks okay. But before we leave, somebody's got to go through the building and make sure everything's okay. They had to quit the golf game, run to the temple. My friend Bob says, I was wearing a blue shirt and black burmese. Muda shorts, if I remember, right? He said I had to go through the temple. I said, dad, we're not really dressed. Hey, we've got to do it. We've got to make sure. He told me the feeling he had, walking in the Celestia room, dress like that. Just even thinking about it, kind of makes me, it felt off. Yeah. Yeah, it felt off. He said, but everything checked out. We're so grateful

the fire department came and let us just go through the building. So it was a little bit. It felt off. Yeah. It felt off. He said, but everything checked out. We're so grateful the fire department came and let us just go through the building. So it was a false alarm of some kind. He said, I got back in the car with my dad. And I said, dad, that felt really, that was tough going in the celestial room, dressed the way I was. And his dad said, yeah, what do you think that means? It was a great learning moment. I'm reading this verse that says, be clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. In this case, it's be appropriately dressed. Well, it was probably a great lesson for it. It was an awesome. It's a lesson for me. I'm just thinking about it going, ooh, I understand how you would feel like I'm in this holy place. I should dress in a way that reflects that. But he had to go in and check it out. So it was one of those Ox and the Meyer type things. It teaches me something. Yeah, you want to be appropriately dressed. I definitely would feel uncomfortable if I'm in my shorts and my golf shirt and I'm just going to, hey, can you just walk around the celestial room, go check things out?

And John, obviously the Lord's not offended. This has to be done. Reminds me of Isaiah 61. He has clothed me in the garments of salvation. He has wrapped me in the robe of righteousness. It's not about how you're dressed, but there is a feeling of being covered. Like you would say, the appropriate clothing for the sacredness of the place. Yeah.

This scripture, be clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. if I remember right, Hank, he was talking about carrying the implements of the temple, the vessels of the Lord. But here it just made me think of how we want to feel clean as we go into a place like that and just simply appropriately dressed. There's something to say for feeling like I'm going to the presence of the Lord. I want to be appropriately dressed. Yeah, it was a clothing lesson, but more it was a spiritual lesson for him. I know Bob. He's a great guy. He's wonderful. John, like I said, we are in section 133 and 34 this week on Follow Him. We're with brother Alvin Jackson.

A lot of him call him President Alvin Jackson out in Washington, D.C. He's wonderful. He's going to take these sections apart in ways that you and I had never seen. So join us over there. And then come back next week. We'll do another Follow Him favorites.