Gary's "GREEN VERSES" Alma 31-63
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Alma 31:5
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It appears that preaching the word of God is the most important
work on the eath.
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Alma 32:21
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The best definition of Faith. (Along with Hebrews 1:1)
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Alma 33:23
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I like the teaching at the end of the verse: event all this can
ye do if ye will.
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Alma 34:32-34
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A nice summary of our purpose for coming to this earth. We have
work to do before we die.
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Alma 35:16
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I like the idea of calling those for whom we have responsibility individually to give their charge.
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Alma 36:3
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If we put our trust in God, He will support us in our trials,
troubles & afflictions & lift us up.
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Alma 37:6-7
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What little things in our lives have made a giant difference?
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Alma 37:11
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We need to have the wisdom to not talk about things which have
not yet been revealed.
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Alma 37:35
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Keeping the commandments begins when we are young and grows into
something we love.
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Alma 38:12
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If we cannot bridle our passions, we can't be filled with love.
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Alma 39:9
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Not going after the lusts of our eyes must include avoiding
pornography.
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Alma 40:23
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We need to read this chapter when our bodies are hurting us.
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Alma 41:10
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The Law of the Harvest summarized.
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Alma 42:24-25
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And so we see that nobody gets ripped off and nobody gets away
with anything. Great plan!
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Alma 43:45-46
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My "all" is not just what I do or think, it is who and
what I am.
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Alma 44:11
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Moroni knows how to take a stand. He would not compromise on
keeping his word.
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Alma 45:19
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I marvel that a man who was out to destroy the Church became
worthy of translation.
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Alma 46:12
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What would I write on my coat defining my priorities?
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Alma 47:18
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Satan administers his poison by degrees.
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Alma 48:17
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What if all men were like me?
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Alma 49:13
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When we build our fortresses to protect our families from Satan
we need to strengthen ALL.
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Alma 50:22
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When we are faithful we will be delivered at ALL times.
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Alma 51:31
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We need to strengthen our resolve so that all of us are stronger
than all of the adversary.
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Alma 52:19
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Don't you love the idea of the leaders getting together and
having a council.
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Alma 53:20-21
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I want to be a man who is true at ALL times.
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Alma 54:17
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It has been over 500 years. Let it go Ammoron!
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Alma 55:31
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How important it is that we do not forget the Lord in our times
of afflictions.
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Alma 56:47-48
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It is so important that our posterity knows that we know.
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Alma 57:21
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Obedience with exactness!
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Alma 58:37
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God delivers us notwithstanding our weaknesses.
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Alma 59:11
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Moroni know that their success is predicated upon the
righteousness of the people.
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Alma 60:13
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The death of a righteous person does not frustrate the plan and
love of the Lord.
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Alma 61:13
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We never need subject ourselves to our enemies.
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Alma 62:40
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The responsibility of the righteous blesses the lives of all.
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Alma 63:2
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The middle child Shiblon turns out to be a Celestial guy. You've
got to love him.
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Helaman 7 -
Vs.
1-3 - An RM in town whose mission did not go well.
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4-5 - A description of Nephi's day or is it a description of our day?
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6-7 - This is the Nephi of chapter 5! - When would you rather live?
Vs.
10 - Nephi pours out his "whole soul" unto God. See also 1 Nephi 1:5;
Enos 3-4; Mosiah 24:10-15 (Alma's people under Amulon) and Mosiah 26:13-20
(Alma as a Priesthood leader)
Vs.
29 - A definition of a testimony.
Helaman 8 -
Vs.
4 - The conundrum of the Robbers
Vs.
27-28 - A pretty cool prophecy.
Helaman 9 - A great
story
Helaman 10 -
Vs.
2 - Pondering: 1 Nephi 11:1; D&C 76:19; D&C 138:11; JSH
1:11-12 “We all do a lot of studying, but most of us don’t do much meditation.
We don’t take time to think. I’d like to suggest that next fast day . . .
everybody in this hall set aside an hour or two. Sit by yourself. Go in the
bedroom and lock the door. Go out in the yard under a tree. Go in your study if
you have one and shut the door, and think about yourself and your worthiness.
Read from this great book [Book of Mormon]…There’s a great word that’s used,
‘ponder.’ “’Ponder.’
What do we mean by ‘ponder’? Well, I think it simply means kind of
quietly thinking things through. Ponder what you have read. Ponder your life.
Are you worthy, are you living the commandments…?” (Church News,
01/06/96)
Vs. 5 - It was quite a promise given to Nephi. Are such promises
available to people like us? Look at these scriptures; 1 John 3:21-22; Enos
1:12; Dd&C 46: 30; 50:29-30. and this powerful statement by MG Romney, “The
time will come when we shall know the will of God before we ask. Then
everything for which we pray will be ‘expedient.’ Everything for which we ask
will be ‘right.’ That will be when as a result of righteous living, we shall so
enjoy the companionship of the spirit that he will dictate what we ask. On this
point the Lord has said, ‘He that asketh in the Spirit asketh according to the
will of God; wherefore it is done even as he asketh’ (D. & C. 46:30), and
again, ‘And if ye are purified and cleansed from all sin, ye shall ask
whatsoever you will in the name of Jesus and it shall be done. But know this,
it shall be given you what you shall ask.’ (D. & C. 50:29-30.) Nephi, the
son of Helaman, so lived. He with unwearyingness declared the word of God. He
sought not his own life but the will of God, and to keep his commandments
continually, and to him the Lord said, ‘. . . all things shall be done unto
thee according to thy word, for thou shalt not ask that which is contrary to my
will.’ (Helaman 10:5.)” (Conference Report, Oct. 1944, p. 56)
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16 - Nephi was protected and conveyed. Moses 1:1-2; 2 Nephi 4:25;
Ezekiel 40:2; JST Matthew 4:4, 8; Revelation 21:10
Helaman 11 -
Vs. 22-23 - Note that the first problem that came up was
"doctrinal contention". Was
there a correlation between knowing doctrine and receiving revelation
Helaman 12 - Mormon's
timeout!
Vs. 14 - See TPJS p. 118-119-footnote
Vs. 25 - Would I that ALL men might be saved?
Helaman 13 -
Vs. 7 - Samuel's message was a happy one-given him by an angel-
just like King Benjamin- but..
Vs. 8 "The Spirit, when withdrawn, will make it difficult for
you to pray, difficult for you to have direction and guidance, difficult for
you to withstand evil...I hope you haven't come to that state, but if you are
not careful and this experience is repeated again, with each repetition there
comes a diminishing of the Spirit until you, like they (2 Nephi 26:11), will
have lost not only the power of the Holy Ghost, but also the Light of
Christ." (HBLee, BYU Speeches, Oct. 1956 p. 6-7)
Vs.
25-28 - See 2 Timothy 4:3-4
Helaman 14 -
Vs. 2-7 - Four signs of Christ's birth
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13 - The thoughtful student of
scripture must be aware that it is one thing to believe in Christ and quite
another to “believe on his name.” To believe in the name of Christ is here
announced as embracing repentance from all our sins; whereas one may profess to
believe in Christ and yet not have abandoned sin. There are certain prerequisites to believing
on the name of Christ: First, the acceptance of Christ and the willingness to
be a witness of him at all times and in all things and in all places (see Mosiah
18:9). Second, the acceptance of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This
precludes the right to pick and choose, to sort out the doctrines that could
bring inconvenience and social embarrassment. Third, the acceptance of those
who have been commissioned to represent the Lord; that is, to sustain and
uphold his anointed servants. And fourth, to sustain and be loyal to that
Church upon which he has placed his name and within which is found the
authority to perform the ordinances of salvation. (DCBM 3:411)
Vs. 16 - want to speak a word or two in
relation to another death, which is a more terrible death than that of the
body. When Adam, our first parent, partook of the forbidden fruit, transgressed
the law of God, and became subject unto Satan, he was banished from the
presence of God and was thrust out into outer spiritual darkness. This was the
first death. Yet living, he was dead—dead to God, dead to light and truth, dead
spiritually; cast out from the presence of God; communication between the
Father and the son cut off. He was as absolutely thrust out from the presence
of God as was Satan and the hosts that followed him. That was spiritual death. But
the Lord said that He would not suffer Adam nor his posterity to come to the
temporal death until they should have the means by which they might be redeemed
from the first death, which is spiritual. Therefore angels were sent unto Adam,
who taught him the Gospel and revealed to him the principle by which he could
be redeemed from the first death, and be brought back from banishment and outer
darkness into the marvelous light of the Gospel. He was taught faith,
repentance and baptism for the remission of sins, in the name of Jesus Christ,
who should come in the meridian of time and take away the sin of the world, and
was thus given a chance to be redeemed from the spiritual death before he
should die the temporal death. Now, all the world today, I am sorry to say,
with the exception of a handful of people who have obeyed the new and
everlasting covenant, are suffering this spiritual death. They are cast out
from the presence of God. They are without God, without Gospel truth, and
without the power of redemption; for they know not God nor His Gospel. In order
that they may be redeemed and saved from the spiritual death which has spread
over the world like a pall, they must repent of their sins, and be baptized by
one having authority, for the remission of their sins, that they may be born of
God. That is why we want these young men to go out into the world to preach the
Gospel. While they themselves understand but little perhaps, the germ of life
is in them. (Joseph F. Smith, Conference Report, Oct. 1899, p. 72)
Vs. 20-28 - 7 signs of His death.
Helaman 15 -
Vs. 3-4 - Hate is an idiomatic expression
meaning to "love less." (Ogden, p. 107)
Helaman 16 -
Vs. 22 - See "The cancer of contention,
CR, April 1989" RMNelson.
"It
is not important that a prophet should say those things with which you and I
are in full accord. But it is important that you and I should bring ourselves into
full accord with those things which a prophet speaks by virtue of his office
and calling." (RLEvans, On Being a Prophet, p. 672)
