Come Follow Me LDS - Doctrine and Covenants 14-17

come follow me dbr doctrine & covenants witnesses Feb 16, 2021

Witnesses & Circles

Not all of us witness God, plates, visions, or miracles, but that is the plan. Like concentric circles, we sit out from the center, receiving the Word and witnesses in order to grow, exercise faith, develop hope and give charity. The Three Witnesses did not see God the Father and Jesus Christ. The Eight Witnesses did not see Moroni or the other Nephite objects. But we can pull from their witness.

Without faith, none of us would attain Hope, and there would be no need for Charity. If we all see God or even see the "plates," we lose the opportunity to develop faith and to offer Charity to our fellowmen. Prophets, witnesses, and scriptures are all part of the Word, the DBR. That Word moves from God to the Prophets to witnesses, to the scriptures, to us. The Whitmers, Martin Harris, Oliver Cowdery, and Joseph Smith all fill these roles. That is the plan. And it's a good one!

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all right

welcome to the quick media come follow

me series we are covering

dnc sections 14 through 17 today

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all right going into sections 14 to 17

this is where the whitmers

come on to the church history scene

remember that oliver cowdery

was on his way down to harmony

pennsylvania

to meet with joseph smith right he wants

to find out more about the plates

looking to possibly get involved and

on his way down to meet with joseph

smith before he ever starts scribing

for joseph smith he stops with the

whitmers

and he speaks with peter senior he

speaks with the three boys

being john uh peter jr

and with david and especially with david

and tells them about what's going on

here with joseph smith and where he's on

his way

to help and support joseph smith so

there's been that connection with oliver

and the whitmers early on

during the time that they're in harmony

remember we had just come out of may

here right may 15th where we had

the restoration of the priesthood and

the aaronic priesthood and the

visit from john the baptist going into

june now

what we see is a a stronger and stronger

level of of persecution that's happening

you know and and the claims that are

being made you can think

just think about the gossip that's going

on here

and the outlandish claims really they're

outlandish they would be outlandish to

you they would be outlandish to me

and and so there's there's more and more

persecution going on here

with uh with joseph and oliver so oliver

starts to write

to the whitmers they're asking if they

could possibly take

residence with peter senior the father

to finish the work of translation well

in june they come down

david whitmer comes down and with a

carriage and and a and horses and

says come on grab your stuff come on up

and you can you can stay at my father's

home

and so they do they they head up to

fayette new york and in uh

it takes about there's about a month

more of translational work that goes on

at that time so they're there during

this time they're translating

we get a better idea here at this point

of what part of the book of mormon

they're translating because during this

time this last

month or so of translation they are

going through

the the book of the abridgement at least

of the book of ether by moroni

and in that book

they come across as they often do with

several other

other passages in the book of mormon

they come across

this they come across ether 5

uh short chapter here but it talks about

the three witnesses let me tell you what

it says here

in verse one ether five it says and now

i moroni

have written the words which were

commanded me again

think about joseph and oliver what

they're thinking about

as as they look back through history

definite history here

and and they see moroni's message that

and it just

speaks directly to them as they are

bringing forth the book of mormon it

says

i i have written the words which

were commanded me

well here's the words right the gold

plates according to my memory and i have

told you the things which i have sealed

up remember moroni's seal is part of

those plates

apparently therefore touch them not

in order that ye may translate for that

thing is forbidden you

accept by and by it shall be wisdom in

god right

well this is wisdom in god for joseph to

translate

and behold ye may be privileged that ye

may

show the plates unto those who shall

assist to bring forth the work

right okay so at this time the party's

really involved in assisting the

work are the whitmers oliver cowdery and

of course martin harris

those are the ones that are that are

primarily involved here the the small

circle right of support that joseph has

in verse 4 it says in the mouth of three

witnesses

shall these things be established and

the testimony of three

and this work in the which shall be

shown forth the power of god

and also his word of which the father

and the son

and the holy ghost bear record and all

this

shall stand as a testimony against the

world at the last day so

there's got to be witnesses to this

again how does the lord work

not everybody sees everything we don't

all see angels we don't all see god

we don't all have a literal parting of

the heavens for us to see angels and

etc that would never work because we

would never need

faith right that's that's the battle of

of doubt

right that we have and yet we have what

to hold on to

a closer and closer ring if you will to

the throne of god

just like the concentric circles on the

seal of

the brother of jared right we get closer

and closer to the

to the throne of god or the facsimile

number two

and as you get closer and closer to that

you have

the actual visions of god you have the

actual visions of

of uh that the prophets have

right and so then they tell other people

there's some

some additional witnesses that that are

able to hang on to

some of these truths they may not see

everything and then there's those that

tell it by

by first hand that would definitely

believe them their families perhaps

their close friends and people that just

know them and then you go through

more and more concentric circles pulling

further and further out from

the truth from the throne of god if you

will until you get out to

the community right and then people that

aren't part of the community

to other lands other nations other

languages

other times like us now and the further

we get away from that time

the the harder it is to maybe hold on to

it or

on the flip side of that right it's it's

like no one is really a prophet in their

own land

right so so like if i have people that i

really trust

then then maybe i can i can grab on to

that like joseph smith's family does

with him they believe him right and and

but if i'm in his land in palmyra or if

i'm

in in or in fayette

right then it's difficult for me to see

that and the closer i get to the person

and the closer i get in time so both

geographically

and in in the era in the time

of the person making the claim sometimes

the harder it is to believe

for example many people that are

christians

it's easier to believe the bible even

people sometimes people that are members

of the church it's easier for them to

believe

what has happened in the bible the

miracles that happen in the bible

because it was so long ago and the

longer ago it was

the easier it is to believe well those

things happen then

they don't happen now right that's a

common thing we see in the opposition to

joseph smith

the heavens have been closed there are

no visions of angels

etc and then of course the closer we get

geographically the harder it is to

believe

how can something happen here in my

backyard think about the

the the the the

uh remedies that are sold to us today

and it seems like the farther away they

are the more exotic lands they come from

the easier it is to believe that there's

some incredible

remedy health remedy for us right or

something that was used you know a

thousand years ago

three thousand years ago by the ancient

chinese or the ancient egyptians or

whatever it might be

right oh yeah okay i can believe that

but but something that's today where

there's so much more that i see

and especially in a western scientific

mind

i need evidence right show me the

evidence or i'm not going to believe it

but the same person might believe

something from a long time ago

or from a distant land so you've got

kind of both sides of the

belief both sides of the coin there

so let me get back to joseph smith here

and just quote him

what he wrote about the whitmers as as

they stayed there it says

upon our arrival we found mr whitmer's

family very anxious

concerning the work all right they're

very intrigued

again you can have a complete wall of

opposition against this

or this is pretty intriguing stuff and

and the whitmers fall

fell in the the latter category and very

friendly toward ourselves they continued

boarded and lodged us according to

arrangements

and john whitmer in particular assisted

us very much in

writing during the remainder of the work

in the meantime

david john and peter whitmer jr right

those are the three boys or the three

sons became our zealous friends and

assistants

in the work and be being anxious to know

their respective duties and having

desired with much

earnestness that i should inquire of the

lord concerning them

i did so through the means of the urim

and thumim

and obtained for them in succession the

following revelations

all right and that's where we're going

to get sections 14

15 and 16 here so

dipping into section 14 we get what

we've heard so many times before

already in the doctrine and covenants

right a great and marvelous work

right i am god heed my word quick and

powerful

sharper than a two-edged sword the field

is white

all ready to harvest whoso will thrust

his sickle and reap the same is called

of god if you will knock it shall be

opened unto you so we get

a lot of these same messages that seem

to come

to those that are coming into the work

here right at the very beginning of the

new dispensation

and of course if we broaden out the time

period we can put ourselves in their

shoes as well

right you're coming in no matter if

you've been baptized

you know 20 years ago 40 years ago last

week

you are a part of a great and marvelous

work that's about to come forth under

the children of

men because it's continually growing and

so where do you stand

you know where where are you able to

help out you've been

called if you if you uh thrust in your

suckle and reap the same is called of

god if you knock

it shall be opened unto you these

messages are repeated over and over

again to try and build i think a

foundation

to let them know this is me i am god i

am giving you the authority

and the know-how to get involved with

unfurling the dispensation of the

fullness of times

right and and saying and showing them

that the

heavens are opened and available i think

that's a

key message here at the very beginning

of this dispensation they have not been

shut

right unless we want them to be shut

that's up to us

verse 8 and it shall come to pass that

if you shall ask the father in my name

in faith believing you shall receive

the holy ghost which giveth utterance

that you may stand as a

witness of the things of which you shall

both hear

and see and also that you may declare

repentance

unto this generation right so this is

the david whitmer this section here

um i think all three of these sections

here are given at the same time through

the urim and thumb they're very similar

they're very short

but again it's it's the holy ghost is

something that is

the icon of these spiritual gifts and

the idea of opening up the heavens has

to do with

the holy ghost and then he says in verse

10 wherefore i must bring forth the

fullness

of my gospel right that's i think you

need the fullness of the doctrine of

christ the fullness of the priesthood

from the gentiles unto the house of

israel

so again early on this this idea of what

they're doing

is not about a club that exists right

sometimes we get that feeling in the

church right we're part of the club

it's about getting the gospel out to the

house of israel that's what the book of

mormon is for

the gentiles purpose here in this

scheme of things here is to take the

gospel

obviously you have to be converted to it

apply it to your lives

and get it out to the house of israel

now over in section 15 we get something

very similar

this is to john whitmer right and

hearken my servant john and listen to

the words of jesus christ

your lord and your redeemer making it

very clear this is from

him for behold i speak unto you with

sharpness

and with power definitely calls your

attention right i speak

unto you with sharpness it's direct to

you

for mine arm is over all the earth

pay attention right i have the power to

take care of all of this

i am lord of the whole earth and you

know brings

to my mind here it's not just the old

world

it's not just jerusalem it's the new

world also

the arm of the lord is oftentimes used

in metaphor to his power to his strength

maybe even to the savior and and

to his mortal experience and and mission

then he says to him this he says

something a little bit more personal he

says

for many times you have desired of me to

know that which

would be of the most worth unto you

first of all i think that's something

that's really important here

is that david or excuse me john whitmer

here is

very much in the right state of mind

right again it's not he's not just

asking for things that are uh

are prideful right that they're just he

desires

he's in the right state of mind knowing

what he can do here

that is going to be of most worth to the

lord and to the work

right how what what what is it what am i

going to be able to do here with my

spiritual gifts with my unique

situation here being with joseph smith

and oliver cowdery

the lord continues and he says and now

behold i say unto you that the thing

which will

be of the most worth unto you will be to

declare

repentance unto this people that you may

bring souls

unto me okay that you may rest with them

in the kingdom of my father remember

oftentimes we get the idea of rest for

the sabbath

and we should right because we we see

this as kind of a

a return to the lord here as far as

looking at temple imagery

entering into the rest of the lord so

it's not just an idea

of resting from your work but the idea

rest or the rest of god rest

is is exaltation right

and so we now see

the lord starting to move into this area

here where we're getting close to the

end of the

translation of the book of mormon where

previously he would not allow the

authority

to be given to go out and preach the

gospel

right that was a time that was coming

later and of course then we get john the

baptist later on

but early on the gift that joseph joseph

had

and the gift that oliver had right even

was was to translate the book of mormon

now more and more it's starting to move

into

the word has been given to you through

the book of mormon

you're now going to take that and you're

going to go and preach

to others it's the dbr that we've talked

about previously

and so we're building up kind of this

we're building up a truth

and a connection of the word that comes

from god you've got moroni coming down

and and and giving joseph smith the

plates

you've got a direct line and sequence of

the prophets that we see in the book of

mormon

going back to the time of lehi where

these plates have been moved from hands

to hands they're very particular

about recording this and the last one

who has the book

the plates is moroni and it's moroni

then that brings it to

joseph smith right so that's how the

word

works you keep it as pure as possible

and in the right hands

and that's what why that's one reason i

think we look at this and say

and joseph smith can say this is the

most perfect book does it mean that

grammatically it's the most perfect or

even that all the words are right right

joseph smith is limited in in in

his mortal state he can't be perfect

with everything

but what it does mean i think is that

it's it's been brought through the hands

of inspired

men from one set of hands to another

and we get that focus in there all the

time remember we get

the idea of one eternal round uh

oftentimes it is

is brought together with the idea of of

the scriptures of the word of god

and so now with the

the book of mormon about to be completed

here

in this last month of of translation

now we're getting ready to start and now

with the aaronic priesthood

being given to them you know now we're

going to be start getting ready to go

out and

start to preach this word and again that

whole idea of the concentric circles

is where this starts to move to the

whitmers are going to be witnesses to a

number of things here

and and oliver is going to be witnesses

to a number of things and of course

joseph smith has been witness to a

number of things and they've got the

book of mormon as the tool

so now they're going to be able to go

start spreading this out

and that's how this works right that's

how faith works that's how the lord

works that's how the plan works it's

always a small group of people

and then it goes out from there if it

wasn't that way

we've talked about this before we

wouldn't have the opportunity to

exercise

faith and we wouldn't have the

opportunity to exercise

the the to to develop the the spiritual

gift of hope

nor would we be able to really give

charity because we wouldn't be able to

relay this to someone else with love

and and use our faith to bring somebody

else up

right the whole plan would be frustrated

if we just received the whole truth

revealed to us in the first place

and we see that that doesn't work so

this unfurling of the word

is going out now step by step as we see

going through the sections of the

doctrine and covenants section 16 here

this one is to peter whitmer jr

and again very similar very short

hearken my servant peter listen to the

words of jesus christ your lord and

redeemer almost the same

words from mine arm is over all the

earth

same idea and the same thing for

uh peter whitmer here is to declare the

his calling is to declare the repentance

to declare repentance unto this people

that you may bring souls

unto me right you're close to this

you're involved you have a certain

witness of what's going on

you're close to the translation process

and and you're going to get

a lot more here right peter becomes one

of the eight witnesses

of of the plates where joseph smith is

actually able to show him

the plates okay and that's where we go

roll into here in section 17 this is

about the three witnesses that we

heard about here in uh aether

chapter five the three witnesses are

going to be oliver cowdery

and david whitmer and martin harris

right as they've come together here at

the end martin harris comes and visits

fayette and and they've read this and

they want to know

can we be the three witnesses is this

possible for us

to be these these people that moroni has

talked about and

and so uh uh joseph smith

asks through the urim and thumb and

section 17 is the answer that he gets to

this

verse 1 behold i say unto you that you

must rely on my word right again

we're relying on the word which if you

do with full purpose of heart

you shall have a view of the plates

and also of the breastplate the sword of

laban

the urim and thumim which were given to

the brother of jared upon the mount

when he talked with the lord face to

face remember we talked about the idea

the urim and thuma maybe being his two

uh uh you know the stones that he had

for his

ship just my thought right there were

eight different

barges maybe the barge that the brother

of jared used

would those two be the urim and thumb

that he used

you know two of the 16 stones i don't

know

but they were given to the brother of

jared upon the mount when he talked with

the lord face to face

and the miraculous directors which would

be the leona

which were given to lehigh while in the

wilderness on the borders of the road

see we're going to see from their

accounts

that they actually see something else in

here as well

but important to understand this is you

have to clean the inner vessel before

the revelation comes through and so in

verse 2 and it is by your

faith that you shall obtain a view of

them

even by that faith which was had by the

prophets of

old right so the prophets of old

how did they get their visions how did

they see these things how did they get

the urim and thumb

the breastplate or anything else that

they used how did lehigh get this

this uh your the the directors the

liahona

right it's all based on our faith as

we're given these things

now we may not get physical objects all

the time but we are

given the spiritual gifts that these

objects oftentimes represent

if we first exercise our faith

and are worthy of receiving the holy

ghost

then he tells them in verse 3 and after

that you have obtained

faith and have seen them with your eyes

right this is a real thing

you shall testify of them by the power

of god

and this you shall do that my servant

joseph smith jr may not be destroyed

that's an interesting

statement right how would he be

destroyed

does do these witnesses early on give

enough support to joseph smith that they

fend off some of the opposition at least

those that would really go after joseph

smith

or is it something else is it something

that has more to do with his ability to

even

hold this burden by himself and be able

to get through this

on his own i mean imagine he can't show

anybody anything

and so how much doubt is there how many

times does he hear people whisper behind

his back

is this really is he really doing this

is this fake or

come to him every once in a while with

just real doubts about what he's trying

to do

and what the lord has assigned him to do

now just a few words here on section 17

and the three witnesses and i think that

this is really important for us

and sometimes we skip through that we

don't really you know we open up the

book of mormon we don't read the

pages up front the title page the

summary and

and the the testimony of the three

witnesses are the testimony of the eight

witnesses but i think it's important

for us to go through that and keep that

in context as we read the book of mormon

and understand what's going on here with

church history in the translation of the

book of mormon

section 17 for whatever reason was not

included in the original book of

commandments it was

in the the 1835 version

of then the doctrine and covenants as it

was then called

and several other sections were actually

left out early on

and they were they were from what we

call the or they called to the time the

kirtland revelation book

and these were these were uh revelations

that were given

very early on in for a few years in

kirtland that were also held out

originally

obviously and then and then all these

were brought in

to the 1835 version of the doctrine and

covenants

but the accounts from the three

witnesses of what happens brings us some

additional information i think and

something

concrete it's concrete

and there are there there's a lot of i i

i know a number of

people out there who who who believe

that the book of mormon is historical

fiction

it's inspired historical fiction there's

just so many problems with that

idea you know just because we don't have

archaeological evidence of this

per se not not real concrete or

archaeological evidence

but here for example

is is what david whitmer says he says we

not only saw the plates of the book of

mormon

but also the brass plates right so

that's in something extra that is not

written

here in section 17. so they see the

brass plates

and i don't know how much they go

through all this

so the the story that they're getting

through the translation of the book of

mormon that refers to these objects well

they see these objects right the brass

plates

also the plates of the book of ether now

i don't know exactly what

plates these would be these could be the

plates that ether originally wrote on

and that moroni used to abridge from

and maybe there are separate plates uh i

i don't know enough about the history on

that

or they could be the plates that moroni

did abridge

that were a part of everything

apparently but somehow they're they're

they're separate right they've been made

separate remember that there are

sealed actually sealed closed off plates

that uh joseph smith cannot go to and

translate

and so those could be the plates of

ether the original plates of ether

he says referring to the the place of

the book of ether he says the plates

containing the records of the wickedness

and secret combinations of the people of

the world down to the time of their

being engraved

and many other plates there appeared as

it were a

table with many records or plates upon

besides the plates of the book of mormon

okay so there we are right

we've got different ideas we've got the

brass plates we've got

uh the plates of perhaps of ether that

are

maybe separate from what was compiled in

the golden plates

and maybe more i mean other other you

know what about the large plates

maybe a sampling of the large plates we

don't know exactly what they see here

this is not

joseph smith that is revealing this to

them

right this is moroni so we don't know

what they're seeing or

exactly what he's showing them

necessarily we get a decent idea here

but it's not what joseph smith is

carrying around with him

from palmyra down to harmony and then up

to fayette here

right it's it seems to me like it's a

lot more than that

they say also the sword of laban the

directors

the ball which lehi had and the

interpreters

i saw them just as plain as i see this

bed and in

quotation marks he's striking the bed

beside him with his hand

and i heard the voice of the lord as

distinctly as i

ever heard anything in my life declaring

that the records of the plates of the

book of mormon

were translated by the gift and power of

god

so this is important because it's not

it goes beyond just moroni showing them

the plates and all the the the objects

here

it goes beyond that it actually comes

directly from

god the voice of god is telling them

that these things are true that's quite

a witness

it's not just what they see remember

that doesn't always work

real well and later david whitmer as he

is being

interviewed about this and asked about

his witness to the book of mormon what

they had written down as the three

witnesses

he says yeah the angel moroni stood

before us

our testimony as recorded in the book of

mormon

is strictly and absolutely true

just as it is written or just as it

is there written what's interesting is

this

whatever they see here martin harris is

excluded

right he he excludes himself because he

doesn't feel worthy

to be able to receive all of this i

think that's really interesting i mean

think of the intrigue and the curiosity

and then of course the pressure

of of being involved with this and then

not wanting to

to miss out and yet he still

didn't stay with them he didn't feel

worthy it seems to me like the lord

just kind of put up a wall with him

and and said look you're not ready for

this and this happened so often in the

early days of the church especially with

joseph smith about

being ready to receive information and

revelations

unless he's in the right state of mind

and has the spirit with him he just

can't do it

so martin harris doesn't see any of this

but later on then joseph smith comes and

finds martin harris in the woods

and they pray together and and martin

harris here has been praying the whole

time

asking to be forgiven and to have

worthiness to

and purification to be able to have this

witness

and so when joseph comes back and prays

for him a little bit then

he then also receives again the same

vision so to speak

with the angel moroni and with all of

the

the objects are are unfolded before him

so again it's important to understand

the difference between the three

witnesses that we have here and later

the

eight witnesses the three witnesses are

giving

given this vision it appears to be a

vision

with the angel moroni there he is the

one

that gives them this witness and they

hear the lord directly

right the eight witnesses

are not do not see moroni they do not

have this

direct witness spoken audibly by the

lord

they are given the the plates to see

them and handle them

by joseph smith and and so that's that's

a little bit different it's a different

witness

in a way but joseph smith is is so

relieved that's why i say

when you say it would not just he didn't

want the lord doesn't want

joseph smith to be destroyed and this

will help him not be destroyed

i i just i just wonder about the immense

pressure that's laid on him

was sitting as an island with with the

knowledge

and witness directly of the plates

themselves now obviously oliver cowdery

translating he's realizing very very

quickly there is no way

that he is just spewing this out day

after day

hour after hour right in month after

month with with

the book of mormon it's just not

possible

i'm putting myself in his shoes but i'm

fairly certain that's how he would feel

but still you know i mean as far as

physical evidence

that there nobody else really has a

witness to this

and so now they do and so this burden is

now

shared and here's what joseph smith says

about it to his parents he writes this

down

later on he says father mother you do

not know how happy i

am the lord has now caused the plates to

be shown to three more besides myself

they have seen an angel who testified to

them moroni

and they will have to bear witness to

the truth of what i have said

for now they know for themselves so

again

think of him going forward and what he's

thinking about in the future i'm the

only one that knows this

who else is going to believe me that i

do not go about to deceive the people

they know for themselves that i do not

go about to deceive the people

and i feel as if i was relieved of a

burden

which was almost too heavy for me to

bear

and it rejoices my soul that i am not

any longer to be entirely

alone in the world and that's that's

that's human nature that is just human

nature right there

so again finishing off here

looking at the concentric circles we

find ourselves

you know several concentric circles away

from

a direct vision of the throne of god or

a direct vision of

like the first vision that joseph smith

had we find ourselves

several concentric circles away from

from a vision of an angel who shows

uh three witnesses the the book of

mormon the gold plates the brass plates

other plates the liahona the sword of

laban

the urum and thumb of man and the breast

the breastplate

um but they saw it and they witnessed it

and they write that down and so we add

that on to the witnesses of the prophets

throughout the book of mormon we write

that

we we pull again from the bible from the

additional

scriptures that we end up getting

through joseph smith in the doctrine and

covenants here as we're studying

the the pearl of great price

and the testimonies of the prophets and

and the quorum of the 12

all through the ages here and the

testimonies of the latter-day prophets

and and the quorum of the twelve up

until our time today

until it reaches us and and and our

families and whether we were converted

as a child or converted later in life

that is the dbr that is the word that

eventually gets out

to us like the bees of a beehive that

eventually go

they go out everywhere in the world and

pollinate the flowers

and here we are right in the in the

midst of a very important

event here of that dbr of the word

with the with the translation of the

book of mormon

being given to joseph smith with the

primary tool

that is opening up the heavens and is to

gather

all of israel through the gentiles

i think that we can all put ourselves in

the shoes

of these three witnesses and say

at least i can that i also have received

a witness

to the veracity of the book of mormon

and it's not a vision that i have seen i

have not seen an

angel i i have not seen god

right i am several concentric circles

out from that

but again very very few people ever have

that and those that even do

receive a sign so to speak especially

ahead of their faith

are typically doomed to fail

they they haven't prepared themselves

for that sign

and so it's not a bad thing to be

several concentric circles away

from the center of what is happening we

can still have a witness

and in many ways it can be a much more

powerful witness

we will see that all three of these

witnesses fell away from the church

now oliver cowdery and martin harris

they came back to the church

they did and and none of them have

denied

the vision and as we've read some of the

words here from

uh david whitner whitmer they

they've all stood strong with the

witness that they originally had of the

book of mormon

so for us it's an opportunity to see

down the road a little bit go looking

closer to the center of the circle

and and and where the throne of god is

and and and the truth

comes from where it emanates from and

say

i can grab onto these things i can grab

onto these witnesses

and and the account here that they give

and say okay that's something i can add

on to my testimony

and even though i don't see the physical

objects

i'm in the right place for me to

listen to the word to accept the word to

pray about it to have

faith and to receive the holy ghost and

a confirmation

a witness from the holy ghost that these

things are true

i'll talk to you next time

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