Speaker 3
I feel like the church goes through a fall. The apostasy was the fall and the restoration was like the atonement to bring it all back. He said, another pattern. That's why when you teach Lehi's dream, don't skip that part about going through the darkness because that's, I need help. I need the tree. Goodness.
Speaker 2
I've had these scriptures for 20 something years and I never wrote the fall by chapter 8 verse 7. Never once.
Speaker 1
Can I just say though, as part of this, that I've thought about bits and pieces of this over the years for a number of years, but preparing for today, the spirit helps you see and teaches you things that you just don't see sometimes. And he does it because you're being intentional trying to understand. It is a reminder to me of how powerful the scriptures are and can be when we let the spirit teach us. And it doesn't mean that we don't have to do some work on our own in preparation. Again, this is the intentional part, not being passive. The spirit doesn't teach me when I'm being passive, but it does teach me in powerful ways when I'm a seeker and the scriptures are such a wonderful source. You can spend a lifetime studying these things, but there's always something new that the spirit can teach us always. And I think that will go on for eternity. I don't know when it'll stop, if it'll stop because I'm a Bible person. I love the Bible and I spend a lot of my time on there, but these experiences are reminded to me of why I also love the Book of Mormon and need to spend time in it for my personal growth and spiritual journey to the tree so I can predict the fruit that happens when the spirit teaches me.
Speaker 2
Yeah, I would describe my experience today being taught sweet above all that is sweet. It is the fruit. This is part of partaking of the fruit. John, I'm shocked on chapter 10.
