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Episode: 4.52 - Merry Christmas :).

Author: Lili Anderson
Duration: 00:36:44

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Hi, this is Lily de Hoyos Anderson, and you're listening to Choosing Glory. Thank you for joining me for this Christmas lesson here at the end of the Book of Mormon.

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I wanted to thank you for your patience with me this year, as I've shared a lot of my journey of grief. I actually had a podcast listener reach out to me last year shortly after Chris passed, and we're coming up on the year mark for that.

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In some ways, I cannot believe it has been a year. In other ways, I feel like I've felt every single second of that year in tears and heartache. And grateful for those of you who have been patient with the journey.

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And I'm so grateful for all the prayers and thoughts on my behalf and other expressions of kindness

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And I've been really grateful that I could continue with this podcast, which has not been anything short of a miracle, given the health concerns that I've had.

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I hope that hasn't shown in very obvious ways during this podcast, but it certainly has been a miracle. And I have felt the blessing of that, and I know that it is due to

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my own fervent prayers, but I don't think they would have been enough to keep me going.

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I think that it has been the generous prayers and thoughts of each of you and other friends and family that have kept me able to do this, and I'm grateful for that. I did receive a message pretty early, as I started to say, from a podcast listener

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that said, now I was joining a group of those people who had lost loved ones during the holiday season. And it's, I guess, a special kind of

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brotherhood and sisterhood that you feel when you lose someone that you love during this time that is often one of great joy and family celebration. And there is a special poignancy to it. I'm not saying it's ever easy.

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But it does make it difficult to feel the things that you naturally want to feel during this time. And I honestly could not decorate this year.

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I had family and friends and some sweet sisters in my ward who volunteered to come and help put up a Christmas tree or decorate. a little bit, and I really appreciate those kind offers, but I just didn't have the heart for it this year.

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I did put a wreath on the door. My son Graydon was here with his wife Angela, and they had made that offer, but

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One thing I did ask him to do was go downstairs with me to the storage room, which is now almost fully accessible, not quite, from all the things that were stuffed in there after the basement flood.

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It's not quite back to normal, but you can at least enter the room and get to a few things.

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And he helped pull down, I wouldn't have been able to reach it without a step ladder, but a bag that carries my holiday wreaths, and I put one on the front door.

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He helped me do that so that I don't, I'm not trying to look like a Grinch to the neighborhood. But that said, I just don't have a lot of celebration in me. Last year, Chris, actually, because we were in a

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huge mess in our home with the upstairs extensive remodel that took out the functionality of almost the entire first floor other than our kind of area of bedrooms and of course the basement flood happened so nothing was normal and we didn't have any place to really sit outside of the bedroom which became very cluttered because it was the only room where things wouldn't get immediately lost

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At any rate, things were pretty chaotic, and Chris went of his own volition. And this was the kind of thing that Chris often would do to try to do something for me. He went to Michael's, I think it was, and he found a kind of a

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I don't know, it was some sort of particle board cutout of a Christmas tree with some holiday messages on it, and he brought it home so we could put that on the mantle in our bedroom and have a semblance of a holiday tree, a Christmas tree.

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And it was really kind, and I've left it up all year long, and it remains up, as well as a sign that I had bought for last year, but never opened it until just a few days ago. But I remembered what was written on this sign.

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It was just another thing to add to our decorations. I didn't go and get other signs that that we have for the holiday butt, but this one I opened up and put on the hearth in my bedroom also, and it's a sign that says, wise men still seek him.

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And I do love that statement, that wise men still seek after Jesus Christ.

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And I'm grateful to know enough about my Savior and Lord Jesus that I do have a desire to seek Him and feel after Him and come to know Him and come ultimately into His presence.

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So that brings me to a statement that I wanted to share by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. from a speech called Rending the Veil of Unbelief that he gave for a BYU symposium. And I talked about this a little on Patreon.

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I quoted from this speech, a different section of this speech on Patreon about the brother of Jared and what made him so unique in his faith. If you're interested, please sign up for Patreon and look up that

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statement on the road of Jared, I think it's really quite inspiring to think of why it was notable as a special kind of faith that had not been manifest before in the earth, although prophets of course had communed with Jehovah.

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But earlier in the speech, then Elder Holland says this, If one were to ask a casual reader of the Book of Mormon to name the principal character in that book, the responses would undoubtedly vary. For one thing,

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any record covering more than a thousand years of history, with all the persons such a history would include, is unlikely to have any single central figure emerge over such an extended period as the principal character.

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So think about that for a minute. If you were asked, who is the principal character of the Book of Mormon, and thinking of that huge historical record that covers so many prophets, so many heroes, so many wonderful people,

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You know, who would you choose?

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After acknowledging that limitation, perhaps some might list any one of several favorites, or at least memorable persons, names such as Mormon, the abridger for whom the book is named, or Nephi, the book's early and very recognizable young prophet, or Alma, to whom so many pages are devoted, or Moroni,

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the fearless captain who flew the title of liberty, or his namesake who concluded the book and delivered it some fourteen hundred years later to the young Joseph Smith. These would undoubtedly be among some of those figures mentioned.

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All of these responses would be provocative, but they would also be decidedly incorrect. The principal and commanding figure in the Book of Mormon from first chapter to last is the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the book is truly another testament.

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From the first page, indeed from the book's title page, to the last declaration in the text,

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This Testament reveals, demonstrates, examines, and underscores the divine mission of Jesus Christ as recorded in the sacred accounts of two New World dispensations, accounts written for the benefit of a third dispensation.

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the last and greatest of all dispensations, the dispensation of the fullness of times.

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This sacred record, written by prophets and preserved by angels, was written for one crucial, fundamental, eternally essential reason, to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations.

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I love that statement, brothers and sisters.

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I have many beloved characters in the Book of Mormon that I am grateful for and feel indebted to for their great testimonies and the record of their people that speak to us across these generations into this dispensation.

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for whom this record really was written. And the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, as we know, was one of the signs of the second coming of Jesus Christ.

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An early sign, to be sure, and now we are in a place where we are seeing more and more signs fulfilled, as our prophet warns us not to miss the majesty of this moment. He warns us that the Savior is coming and we should prepare.

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So we do live in an exciting time, and it can't be soon enough for many of us, brothers and sisters.

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I mean, I hope that we are spiritually preparing in the ways that our prophet has encouraged us to do, and that all the prophets have encouraged us to do in the Scriptures. But yes, Jesus Christ is the central character of the Book of Mormon.

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It is a testament to Him and His divinity. And I'm so grateful that we have this additional witness as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and can share it with the world. Now, for the holiday, I wanted to

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just briefly share some of the names written in this book. I'm holding up, for those of you who are listening, a book by Jeff Holland called Witness for His Names, plural names, and Elder Holland

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wrote in the foreword really beautifully about his call to the apostleship and how seriously he took the idea that he needed to be a witness for Jesus Christ.

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And as part of his desire to understand that role and fulfill it appropriately in this calling that he has as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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Then Elder Holland wrote of how his scripture study started to include specifically a list of the names of Jesus Christ that are used in scripture.

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The names, the phrases, the descriptors, the different ways that Jesus Christ is talked about in scripture, and he shares some of those here.

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I don't know that this is a comprehensive list, but it's a beautiful list, and while some of these names are very familiar to anyone who has read and studied scripture, the truth is that there are some that surprise us, and I am grateful to always expand my understanding of

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Jesus Christ, and each of these names or designations or descriptors add another dimension to our understanding of the Lord Jesus Christ. So I'm going to just quote a few of them and then add another couple from other sources, but this one

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was new to me, and these are not all the ones that are new to me, but I really enjoyed reading Elder Holland's lists, and he gives a little explanation and usually references to where these names come from.

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This one is the last Adam, and that was new to me, that Jesus Christ is the last Adam.

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And Elder Holland writes, just as Jehovah and Michael acted together under the direction of Elohim, the Father, in the days of creation, so they performed complementary roles under his direction in mortality as well.

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Michael became the first Adam, giving us physical life, the father of humankind, along with Eve, the mother of all living. Jehovah became Jesus, the last Adam, who gave us eternal life. Isn't that lovely?

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That Michael became the first Adam, giving us physical life. Jehovah became Jesus, the last Adam, who gave us eternal life. The fall of Adam and Eve and the atonement of Christ were always intended to be taught as complementary parts of a common plan.

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And that is certainly true, that As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. We know this complementarity, it is spoken of often in scripture, and I hope we always see it together, not as the tragedy of the fall, as the necessary

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action of Adam and Eve on our behalf, so that we could voluntarily leave the presence of our Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ, in order to be able to choose to come back into their presence.

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to willfully and through our actions demonstrate our desire to receive the gifts of eternal life, or whatever portion of glory we are willing to receive. And it always ends up being our choice.

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Because of a God-given gift of agency, we get to choose how much of the glory of God we wish to receive through Jesus Christ. So anyway, the last Adam was a new one to me. I like it. What's the next one that I wanted to share? Confidence.

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This is another name that Elder Holland lists about Jesus Christ, and here's what he says. The psalmist speaks of Jehovah being the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are far off upon the sea. It's from the 65th Psalm.

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Jehovah is the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are far off upon the sea. Confidence is used routinely as a noun elsewhere in scripture, but nowhere else is it personified as it is here.

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In the Psalm, the Hebrew word that translates as confidence originally meant to be open, suggesting that where nothing is hidden, a person can feel safe and confident. The same word is sometimes translated as trust or assurance.

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Deity is the source of our confidence as well as the unfailing object of our trust. And he also gives the reference of Job 31.24. So, that was another one that I haven't heard, that Jehovah is the confidence of all the ends of the earth.

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Christ is our confidence. The next one that I was delighted to be surprised by is the habitation of justice. The habitation of justice.

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Elder Holland says, his unique phrase from Jeremiah suggests not only that Jehovah is just, but also that the very environment in which he reigns and the atmosphere in which he rules is characterized by justice.

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His people can be confident, safe, and forthcoming in his presence, knowing their judgment will be just, whatever his ruling as judge might be. He is the habitation of justice. I think that's also lovely.

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This one was familiar to me, but I'm just going to share it because it's beautiful. All of them are beautiful. This one was also the title of a speech that Elder Holland gave in conference years ago, that I loved and have quoted from many times.

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High Priest of Good Things to Come. Do you remember that speech by Elder Holland? High Priest of Good Things to Come. He writes, this is such a unique designation, I have separated it from the many other references to Christ's high priestly role.

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He is the great high priest in so many ways, but for a multitude of people, indeed for all of us at some time or other in life, he is the high priest of hope. Because of him, things will get better.

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Because of Him, there are always good things to come. The Father and the Son, the Holy Ghost and the angels who attend them, their entire employment, their entire work is to seek ways to bless us.

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They who never sleep, they who never slumber, seek day and night for ways to bless us. We have our agency, so there are some limits to what they can do, but they are constantly at work to bless us with good things to come if we but live for them."

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I think that is stunningly beautiful and relevant to many times in our lives when we are aching for things to get better.

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And we can trust that Jesus Christ is the high priest of good things to come, that things will ultimately be put right because of him. And the last one I'm going to share from the book, but there are many, is the minister of the sanctuary.

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The minister of the sanctuary. Elder Holland writes, this suggests Christ's priestly role in temples, both ancient and modern, and underscores His relationship with saving ordinances generally. His is a more excellent ministry.

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devoted to those he came to save. We could all do more to revere the time we have worshiping him in the sanctuary, the sacred space of our buildings." I love that too, and of course, We don't have to always be in the temple to do this.

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Although, as our prophet has invited us, we should be there as often as our circumstances allow, to receive the multiplicity of blessings that can come to us in that holy house, and by serving in that place.

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serving and receiving, giving and receiving in the temple each time we go after our own endowment or baptism for our youth. And it's wonderful to see so many youth go regularly to the temple as well.

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But I am thinking of President Nelson's admonition in his last speech and conference of October 2024,

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When he did speak so much of Christ's second coming, and how he mentioned one thing that each of us could be invited to do, which is to weekly, at least once a week, spend time pondering the atonement of Jesus Christ, and trying to understand it more completely and receive it more fully, certainly,

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The temple is a great place to do that, but we don't have to wait until we're in the temple. We can do this in our homes anytime.

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We invite the Spirit to be with us and teach us of Jesus Christ, and we can do that in many ways with all the resources that are available. And of course, with just the gift of the Holy Ghost, we can reach out to understand better

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Christ's atoning sacrifice, we can do that every week when we partake of the sacrament. That is also a special time designated for us to try to understand better the atonement. I want you to listen to this.

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verse of a familiar hymn, Abide With Me, and see if you can catch the name of Christ that is here in this verse.

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And I didn't notice this one myself, it's my daughter Bethany that pointed this out to me, and I think it's also stunningly beautiful as a name of Jesus Christ. This is the first verse of that hymn. Abide with me, fast falls the even tide.

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The darkness deepens, Lord with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, help of the helpless, O abide with me." So there it is in the last line, help of the helpless. That is being used as a name for Jesus Christ.

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When other helpers fail and comforts flee, help of the helpless, O abide with me." It's beautiful, another beautiful name to ponder on.

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This is one way we can ponder on the wonders of the Atonement by making our own list of the names of Christ, looking in the Topical Guide, there are lots of names of Christ listed there, and we can look those up and study them.

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Certainly Elder Holland has given us a beautiful gift here in this book. I think it was published in 2019, so it's been out for a while. But Caitlin is the one who sent it to me just recently, and I'm really grateful for that. I've enjoyed it.

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And I'm also indebted to Caitlin for reminding me of another name of Christ that is listed by Elder Holland. Again, grateful to Elder Holland today for this material that I'm sharing. This is from a speech called, A Handful of Meal and a Little Oil.

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And it was given back in April of 1996. So it's been a while since this speech. What is that, 28 years now? coming on 29 in April. But I'm going to share some of this beautiful speech, and it ends with another name of Christ.

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But I think it's worth taking a little time on some of this message, which is beautifully shared. Elder Holland says, For those God has always loved and spoken of in an urgent way, I wish to speak of the poor."

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And obviously, if he's including the widow and the fatherless and the disadvantaged and downtrodden, he's speaking not just of the temporally poor, but the poor in spirit as well.

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Then he, I'm skipping around a little bit in the speech, but he then comes to quote King Benjamin. Succor those that stand in need of your succor. Administer of your substance unto him that standeth in need. Are we not all beggars?

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Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have?

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For the sake of retaining a remission of your sins, King Benjamin concludes, ye should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to that which he hath.

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such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick, and administering to their relief both spiritually and temporally according to their wants." According to their wants. Notice how specific that is. Elder Holland continues.

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We may not yet be the Zion of which our prophets foretold, and toward which the prophets and poets and priests of Israel have pointed us. But we long for it. And I hope we do, brothers and sisters.

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I hope we long for Zion, and I hope we are preparing to be a Zion people.

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By choosing to live a celestial life, by choosing glory every day of our lives, by choosing to follow the admonitions of the prophet to prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ, this is a big part of it, is to become a Zion people.

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It is required that there be a Zion people. It's with us or without us. Again, I've said this before, get on the train or get out of the way. we can become Zion. We have everything we need if we choose to become a Zion people.

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Going back to Elder Holland here, then Elder Holland, now President Holland, of course. I do not know whether a full implementation of such a society can be realized until Christ comes.

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Now again, we know that there will be a Zion people to receive him, but it's true that there may be more implementation once Christ is reigning personal on the earth.

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But I know that when he did come to the Nephites, his majestic teachings and ennobling spirit led to the happiest of all times. a time in which there were no contentions and disputations among them, and every man did deal justly one with another.

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And they had all things common among them, therefore they were not rich and poor, bond and free, but they were all made free and partakers of the heavenly gift. That's what we're working for. And yes, there will be at least

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an initial Zion that will become a refuge in the times of tribulation, just prior to the Savior's coming, and that will be a Zion people sufficient to greet Him when Zion comes from beneath, the Zion established by Latter-day Saints, and Zion comes from above, the city of Enoch that comes again to the earth.

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Skipping again forward, the Prophet Joseph Smith had such a grand view of our possibilities, a view given him by the revelations of God. He knew that the real task was in being more Christ-like, caring the way the Savior cared.

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We've talked about this so many times. The best and clearest indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.

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If we are going to aspire to Zion, if we are going to prepare, we need to care the way the Savior cared, and love the way He loved.

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Every man seeking the interest of his neighbor, the scripture says, and doing all things with an eye single to the glory of God.

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Skipping again, I pay tribute to all of you, to all who do so much and care so deeply and labor with the intent to do good. So many are so generous.

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I know that some of you are struggling to make ends meet in your own lives, and still you find something to share.

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As King Benjamin cautioned his people, it is not intended that we run faster than we have strength, and all things should be done in order. I love you and your Heavenly Father loves you for all you are trying to do."

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So this isn't about adding guilt or a burden to people who are doing what they can. It's just a reminder to look and consult with the Lord, see if we are doing what we can, and to do what He prompts us to do.

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Again, skipping forward, we pay an honest tithe and give our fast and free will offerings according to our circumstances. And we can watch for other ways to help. To worthy causes and needy people, we can give time if we don't have money.

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And we can give love when our time runs out. We can share the loaves we have and trust God that the cruise of oil will not fail. And of course he's referring to the widow at the time of Elijah the prophet who

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gave her last meal to the Prophet before making food for her son and herself. That was the last that they had in the house, and then they were going to lie down and die.

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But because they gave first to the Prophet, and in great faith, this woman took of those last resources and made a loaf of bread for the Prophet. Because of that, her barrel of meal did not fail, and her cruise of oil never gave out.

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It is difficult enough to be poor in material goods, Elder Holland says, but the greater pain is in the heavy heart, the dwindling hope, the damaged dreams, the parental anguish, the childhood disappointment that almost always attend such circumstances.

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Amidst the terrible hostilities in Missouri that would put the Prophet in liberty jail and see thousands of Latter-day Saints driven from their homes, Sister Drusilla Hendricks and her invalid husband, James, who had been shot by enemies of the Church in the Battle of Crooked River, arrived with their children at a hastily shaped dugout in Quincy, Illinois, to live out the spring of that harrowing year.

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Within two weeks the Hendrixes were on the verge of starvation, having only one spoonful of sugar and a saucerful of cornmeal remaining in their possession.

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In the great tradition of Latter-day Saint women, Drusilla made mush out of it for James and the children, thus stretching its contents as far as she could make it go.

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When that small offering was consumed by her famished family, she washed everything. cleaned their little dugout as thoroughly as she could and quietly waited to die. Not long thereafter, the sound of a wagon brought Drusilla to her feet.

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It was their neighbor, Reuben Allred. He said he had a feeling they were out of food, so on his way into town he'd had a sack of grain ground into meal for them. Shortly thereafter, Alexander Williams arrived with two bushels of meal on his shoulder.

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He told Drusilla that he'd been extremely busy, but the Spirit had whispered to him that Brother Hendrick's family is suffering, so I dropped everything and came running.

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May God, who has blessed all of us so mercifully, and many of us so abundantly, bless us with one thing more. May He bless us to hear the often silent cries of the sorrowing and the afflicted, the downtrodden, the disadvantaged, the poor.

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Indeed, may He bless us to hear the whisperings of the Holy Spirit when any neighbor anywhere is suffering, and to drop everything and come running. I pray in the name of the Captain of the Poor, Even the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen."

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That's actually not a term that he included in his book, and maybe it doesn't have a scriptural foundation, but it is nonetheless the truth, the everlasting truth, that Jesus Christ is the captain of the poor. The poor in any sense.

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the poor in resources or the poor in spirit, the brokenhearted, the disadvantaged, those who are borne down by the burdens that they carry. Brothers and sisters, I testify of Jesus Christ. I testify that I am so grateful for the Book of Mormon.

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the treasure of salvation that lies within those pages, the doctrines of the kingdom that can help us to become more fit for the presence of Jesus Christ. I do add my prayers to Elder Holland that when we hear

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the sorrowing of others, or become aware of it, that we will drop everything and come running, that we might, like our captain, serve those around us in the ways that are possible to us, without guilt, but with love and with a desire to bring again Zion.

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I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year. I may take a week off. I'm not sure how the lessons are supposed to go. I haven't really looked.

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Brothers and sisters, I will continue, at least for the beginning of the Doctrine and Covenants, since I didn't start the podcast until around June of that first year of the curriculum. God bless us, everyone.

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Let us choose Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. Thanks as ever to my dear and beloved husband, Chris Anderson, and Doug Larson of Point Digital. Take care.