MOSIAH 19-26
Mosiah Timeline
200BC
-Zeniff (from Zerahemla) desires to return to Land of Nephi-Lehi.
-Zeniff makes a treaty with the Lamanites and they live in Nephi-Lehi
-Zeniff’s people end up in bondage to Lamanites
160BC
-Zeniff’s son, Noah, becomes king
150BC
-Abinidi & Alma story
-Noah is eventually killed and his son righteous son Limhi becomes
the new king
-Limhi sends 43 people to find Zarahemla; they find Jaredite ruins
and 24 gold plates
124BC
40 Days later
-16 men go in search of Zeniff’s people that left 73 years earlier
-They end up in jail and meet King Limhi
-Limhi’s people escape back to Zarahemla
Mosiah 19-26
2 Groups – 2 Trials – 1 Outcome
Limhi’s People
21:2-3
21:3,13
21:14-15
22:6-11
Alma’s People
Patience
Neal A. Maxwell
Oct. 1980Ensign, p.28
Patience is being willing to submit to the Lord.
When we are unduly impatient, we are
suggesting that we know what is best --- better
than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that
our timetable is better than his. Either way we
are questioning the reality of God’s omniscience.
We read in Mosiah about how the Lord
simultaneously tries the patience of his people
even as he tries their faith (Mosiah 23:21). One is
not only to endure, but to endure well and
gracefully, and submit ‘cheerfully and with
patience to all the will of the Lord’ (Mosiah
24:15).
Mosiah 19-26
2 Groups – 2 Trials – 1 Outcome
Limhi’s People
21:2-3
21:3,13
21:14-15
22:6-11
Alma’s People
23:25,29
24:8-12
24:13-15
24:18-21
Doctrinally, what happens when we become slow to hear
the word of the Lord?
When people are “slow to hearken unto the voice
of the Lord their God; …the Lord their God is slow to
hearken unto their prayers, to answer them in the day of
their trouble” (D&C 101:7).
Mosiah 23:21-22
Doctrinally, is being chastened by the Lord a good thing
or a bad thing?
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Despise not the chastening hand of the Almighty: Job 5:17; Prov. 3:11;
Blessed is the man whom thou chastens, O Lord: Ps. 94:12;
The Lord chastens those whom he loves: Heb. 12:5–11;
The Lord sees fit to chasten his people: Mosiah 23:21–22;
Except the Lord chasten his people, they will not remember him: Hel. 12:3;
They were chastened that they might repent: D&C 1:27;
Whom I love I also chasten that their sins may be forgiven: D&C 95:1;
All those who will not endure chastening cannot be sanctified: D&C 101:2–5;
He that will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom: D&C 136:31.
Divine chastening has at least
three purposes:
(1) to persuade us to repent,
(2) to refine and sanctify us, and
(3) at times to redirect our course
in life to what God knows is a
better path.
D. Todd Christofferson
April 2011 Gen. Conf.
THE PERFECT PERSON’S TIMELINE
Does anyone’s timeline look like this?
Describe a person with this timeline
Marriage
Mission
Elder
Graduation
Driving - Dating
Priest
Teacher
Deacon
Baptism
Primary
Nursery
Born
The Origins of Trials
We live in a Telestial World
The Origins of Trials
"Anyone who imagines that bliss is
normal is going to waste a lot of time
running around shouting that he's been
robbed. The fact is that most putts don't
drop, most beef is tough, most children
grow up to be just people, most successful
marriages require a high degree of mutual
toleration, and most jobs are more often
dull than otherwise. Life is like an oldtime journey...delays, sidetracks, smoke,
dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only
occasionally by beautiful vistas, and
thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to
thank the Lord for letting you have the
ride“ (Jenkin Lloyd Jones, as quoted by President Gordon B.
Hinckley, BYU Devotional, 23 September, 1973)
The Origins of Trials
We live in a Telestial World
Some trials are self-inflicted
Trials come through other people
The Origins of Trials
“God actively intervenes in some destructive lineages,
assigning a valiant spirit to break the chain of
destructiveness in such families. Although these children
may suffer innocently as victims of violence, neglect, and
exploitation, through the grace of God some find the
strength to “metabolize” the poison within themselves,
refusing to pass it on to future generations. Before them
were generations of destructive pain; after them the line
flows clear and pure. Their children and children’s
children will call them blessed.”
Carlfred Broderick, Ensign, Aug. 1986, 38–39
The Origins of Trials
We live in a Telestial World
Some trials are self-inflicted
Trials come through other people
God will send trials our way
Let us remember
that we were
measured before
we were born and
we were found
equal to our tasks.
Neal A. Maxwell
BYU Speeches, 1986
“No pain that we suffer,
no trial that we endure,
is ever wasted. All that
we suffer and all that we
endure…will make us
more like our Father and
Mother in Heaven.”
Orson F. Whitney
quoted in Faith Precedes the Miracle, p. 98
How do you get through bad days?
When have you felt strengthened by the
Lord or felt Him ease your burdens?
Elder Robert D.
Hales, “Hear the
Prophet’s Voice
and Obey,”
Ensign, May
1995, 17).
“Our spiritual safety lies in turning to
the clear voice of our living prophet. If
we listen to his voice and obey his
counsel, we will be able to live as Christ
would have us live and endure to the
end so that one day we, along with our
families, will return back into the
presence of our Heavenly Father and our
Savior Jesus Christ”
Part II
Mosiah 21:33-35
Why couldn’t they just get
baptized?
Mosiah 23:16-17
Eric Richards
High Priest
Ordination: 21 Sep 2000
Ordained By…
Michael Floyd Cooley
Frank Gregory Woidka
Philip Alma Petersen
Sterling Welling Sill
Henry Hooper Blood
Hyrum Mack Smith
Joseph Fielding Smith
Brigham Young
Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, Martin Harris
Joseph Smith, Jr
Peter, James, & John
Who were ordained Apostles by
Jesus Christ
Priesthood line of Authority
Email: lineofauthority@ldschurch.org
Phone: 800-453-3860
Church Discipline and excommunication
Mosiah 26:35-36
What questions do you
have?
Read Mosiah 26:35-36
Church Discipline and excommunication
The first purpose of Church discipline is to save the souls of transgressors by
helping them repent. When people do not repent, they are exposed to the
demands of eternal justice. When they exercise faith unto repentance, God
forgives them, granting mercy through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
Through this process, they may again become clean and worthy to inherit
the kingdom of God.
Church discipline can facilitate repentance by helping transgressors
recognize and forsake sin, seek forgiveness, make restitution, and
demonstrate a renewed commitment to keep the commandments. Informal
Church discipline is often adequate for this purpose. However, in some
instances the only way to encourage true repentance is to convene a
disciplinary council and consider formal discipline. Without formal
discipline, some transgressors may never experience the change of behavior
and change of heart necessary to qualify them for redemption through the
Atonement, for “none but the truly penitent are saved” (Alma 42:24)
Handbook 1, 6.1.1
M. Russell Ballard
Sept. 1999 Ensign, p.12
I remember as a child occasionally coming
unkempt to the dinner table. My mother
wisely sent me to clean up and then return.
My parents would have been pained if I had
taken offense and had run off and I would
have been foolish to do so. In the same way,
the servants of the Lord occasionally find that
they must, in loving concern, send some of
Heavenly Father's children out the door so
they can return clean once again. The Lord
does not want us to "miss supper." In fact, he
has a great feast prepared for those who
return clean and pure through the door. He is
greatly saddened when anyone decides they
prefer to be unclean and miss the meal, or
when they find an excuse to take offense, or
when they run away. He is pleased to extend
the chance to start over.
MOSIAH 19-26