Day 38 - Alma 28-30

Spiritual Thought:
President Benson warned, "Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use [the Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organized evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth...Social, ethical, cultural, or educational converts will not survive under the heat of the day unless their taproots go down to the fulness of the gospel which the Book of Mormon contains."  (Ezra Taft Benson, A Witness and a Warning, p. 6, quoted in Robert Millet, ibid.)

Daily Focus Scriptures to mark and ponder:

Alma 29:1 - "Oh that I were an angel; and could have the wish of mine heart, that I might go forth and speak with the trump of God, with a voice to shake the earth, and cry repentance unto every people!"
Alma 29:9 - "...that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy."

Daily Questions: 

How can I ben an instrument in the hands of God?  Am I easily swayed by todays anti-christs? 

For Kids:
Click to watch video about the antichrist, Korihor

Food for Thought: Anti-Christs in the Book of Mormon
President Benson has told us that the Book of Mormon not only teaches the doctrine of Christ, but also exposes the enemies of Christ. "The type of apostates in the Book of Mormon is similar to the type we have today."  (Ezra Taft Benson, A Witness and a Warning, p. 3)  Just as the Lord gives us two or three witnesses in most everything, he has given us three witnesses of the methods of anti-Christs in the Book of Mormon, so that we know how to recognize and deal with them:  Sherem, Nehor, and Korihor.

There is no coincidence that the story of Korihor and his false ways of looking for truth is immediately followed in the Book of Mormon by Alma's great discourse to the poor of the Zoramites in which he teaches them how to experiment to find out whether the gospel is true: the analogy of the Word as a seed.  By reading the Book of Mormon and experimenting on the word will be how we will combat the tactics of the modern day anti-Christs.

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