follow HIM in five minutes. Hank and John share their favorite parts of this week's follow HIM Podcast. (00:00): Hello, welcome to follow HIM Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the incredible John, Bytheway. We have a podcast called follow HIM and every week we've decided to do a small little clip called follow HIM Favorites, where we pick out our favorite part of this week's lesson. And John, we're looking at Doctrine and Covenants sections 49 and 50. What is your follow HIM Favorite for this? (00:26): Oh, it's very hard to pick. Hey, there's some great stuff in both of these. I'm looking at section 50 verse 21 and 22. "Therefore, why is it that you cannot understand?" It sounds like we're being a little bit dense. If the Lord has to start out a verse like that. Why is it that you cannot understand and know that he, that received with the word by the spirit of truth, receive it as it is preached by the spirit of truth, wherefore, he, that preaches and he that receiveth, understand one another and both are edified and rejoice together. And what I like about this is we just learn that the listeners have a responsibility, not just the speaker. We can't say this speaker is boring. I will be on the couch in the foyer, which in our building is turned upside down for COVID, but you have a responsibility to, and I'll never forget something that elder Bruce R. McConkie said once. (01:15): He said, when we come into these congregations and sometimes the speaker brings a jug of living water that has in it many gallons and he pours it out on the congregation and all that the members of the church brought was a single cup. And it's all they took away. Or maybe they had their hands over the cups and they didn't get anything to speak of. Oh, so that's those verses telling me, I got to show up with a jug and catch everything I can and ask the spirit to tell me everything the spirit wants, because there's what the speaker says. And there's what the spirit can teach you while you were honestly trying to listen. So I love this section that talks about, Hey, the listener and the teacher both have a responsibility. (02:00): I'm going to share that with my teenagers. Family night. You have a responsibility. Fill up with a jug at Family Home Evening. Yes, Please. Um, and I like that end of that verse that you can tell you've been in a class with the Spirit, if everyone feels edified, built up and rejoice. Yeah. (02:20): A good feeling there. Um, my follow-up favorite for this week is going to be back in Section 49, which was given, to a group called the Shakers. And John, these are a little, literal group of people who live close to the Saints in Ohio, who, to show how religious they were, they would often shake their bodies. They would dance and move. Some of the saints are going to go over and talk to these people. And so the Lord has a message for them. And I've noticed that no matter who it is that the Lord is talking to, he seems to pretty much say the same thing, which is verse eight, repent, verse 13, repent. Um, it's all about repent. He says it again in verse 26, repent, be baptized, get the gift of the Holy Ghost. (03:11): Uh, and you've said this before that, throughout the Book of Mormon is the first principles and principles of the gospel over and over. So I think if there's anything that we could focus on as teachers, or if you're sitting there as a seminary teacher going, I don't know what to teach. I know what to teach, teach m to repent, uh, because that seems to be the Lord, the Lord's favorite subject is repentance and repentance is a good thing. It's a positive thing. That's something that I've learned over the course of our podcasts this year, John, that repentance is in a positive group with faith, the Holy ghost with baptism. These are all positive things. So it's a positive thing. Yeah. (03:52): Elder Jeffrey R. Holland "Repentance, perhaps the most hopeful and encouraging word in the whole Christian vocabulary." Yeah. Let's repent. Let's take it. Yeah. It's all about, you know, it's a commandment to improve. A way of improving, and the fact that it's even possible and that the Lord invites and tells us, Hey, you can do this. I'm going to help you. Yeah. (04:14): Oh, I love that. I love that. It's a hopeful word. Well, we hope you'll join us on our podcast follow HIM. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Hopefully we will find you on the next episode.

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