I am so grateful for all of you! When I was 15 I went to EFY BYU and heard John Bytheway. Brother Brad Wilcox taught my BYU BofM 101 class in 1987. I still have my notes and papers because you were so kind and encouraging to me! I learned so much and I wrote in my scriptures the things I learned. I still use that BofM today. It honestly was a life changing class and I thank you for strengthening my testimony at such a young age! These chapters discussed today will forever be my favorite scripture! Thank you for your wonderful examples and time and effort to teach us! ❤
wow thank you soooo much this is the first time I have really paid attention to the ideal of being a peacemaker I learned so much and you made a light come on and for that I'm very grateful.
Waaaaa Brad Wilcox and Sherri Dew within the same month! All-stars both. His Grace is Sufficient is the only non-GC talk I've ever downloaded. I didn't realize everyone else downloaded it too! Truly a powerful talk. Thank you all!
Every episode is incredible, but WOW!! I take notes from each week and this week is mounting into a book! Brad Wilcox has such a gift with words and teaching! This episode blew my mind thanks so much to everyone who makes these possible! It transforms watering flowers and cleaning up the house each night into a profound revelatory experience!
Thank you so much for going back over 3 Nephi 8-11. This group does an excellent job at letting the Spirit speak and Christs light be the center of the discussion.
Brother Brad Wilcox is always a joy to listen to. So grateful for this podcast and all it has done to help further my understanding of the scriptures, and more importantly, how it has helped strengthen my testimony. Love you all.
Thank you all! I find myself in serious depression and struggling in all aspects of my life. But I know Jesus is my answer. I know I need to strive to change my heart and live these principles. Thank you again for your examples and wisdom.
Be of good cheer. Jesus loves you. He is inspiring His GAs and prophets, seers and revelators to bring the Word of God to us for General Conference on October 5-6.
Great insights. The time line of a year between the destruction and Christ's coming to the Bountiful temple really was eye opening to me. I read it many times but didn't pick up on it. As a young adult convert I know what a year will do in the life of a convert. In less than a year I have seen a new convert go from being baptized to being trained as a ordinance worker in the temple, because he's there's every week doing ordinances since the week after his baptism. His wife is right by his side too. We are children of God and He love each one of us with a perfect love.
John! You just mentioned Brad’s brother. I just visited with a friend with from California ( I recently moved to Tooele). He told me he had worked with your brother who created “Bytheway boxes” for the church. My friend was trying to explain how smart your brother is and I didn’t understand any of it. 😅. Must be nice to have such smart men in the family!!!❤. You were also my major support when I was baptized in 1997 (at 40 years old). I was called to be the YW President 1 year later! I didn’t know where to begin. In fact I yelled at the bishop that he did not pray about it. 😮. Your talks helped me relate so many things to those beautiful young’s spirits. ❤❤❤
Wow. I'm only halfway through this episode and I have to stop and say thank you to Hank, John, and Dr. Wilcox for sharing so many wonderful insights, many of which I had never before considered. Great stuff!
In 1985, Bro Wilcox did one of the first EFY for our youth in the Nashville TN Stake Center in Madison, TN. At the time, he was a 4th grade teacher. He was awesome! He was there with Vivian Cox, Mrs Utah (?), and another sister. We had an wonderful time. He later mailed me an autographed copy of his book,"Watts Under Your Bushel". He's been a favorite ever since.
I think they were having what we would call, General Conference. 2500 people don't just happen to be at a temple, even today. I'm so Grateful for all I have learned and feel with these times i spend with you all
I have to get that book that you showed, John. Brad is one of my most favorite author and teacher! I met him at a TOFW in Ohio/KY. What a treasure! I love the beauty of the Beatitudes in 3 Nephi. I include the phrase "who come unto me" with each of the Beatitudes! Because I feel it does not do much good, IF, we don't come until Christ with each of these Blessings!
Oh Hank. Thank you. Finally someone mentioned Moses and the born of... that Christ is birthing us into his kingdom, his family! Yes yes yes! This is not talked about enough. Thank you for saying it!!!
Thank you Brother Wilcox for etymology on "Blessed" Consider the term given to John the Revelator and the 3 Nephites - These are the "Blessed Disciples" because they were translated, i e made exalted and holy. Jesus visited a number of people after His resurrection, the accounts in the Bible and the BOM are only two. When we receive the records of all these peoples, I wonder how many will have disciples who also became translated, or exalted, and were called the "blessed Disciple"?
Such wise counsel for our day. It makes me think of President Nelson also asking us to "Think Celestial". There are many reasons the Lord revealed these two words to His Prophet. It all starts with our thoughts. We likely won't do Celestial or Become Celestial if we are not first thinking Celestial.
Since it was about a year from the time of the “great storm, such an one as never had been in all the land” (3 Nephi 8:5) until the actual appearance of the Savior, “showing his body unto them, and ministering unto them.” ( 3 Nephi 10:18). In 3 Nephi 11:1 we read about the “great multitude gathered together…and they were marveling and wondering one with another, and showing one to another the great and marvelous change which had taken place. There are many reasons to marvel and wonder but the one that comes to my mind is the completion of the repairs and rededication of the temple in Bountiful. With all the destruction that took place at the beginning of the year that there would have been damage to the temple. The people would have spent the year repairing the temple and had gathered to see the completion and possibly a rededication of the temple. It seems to me that this event would have caused the people to gather at the temple, and what an occasion for the Savior, Jesus Christ to appear. Just my thoughts
I also was thinking about the time it took for the people to be prepared. In our day, it’s a year minimum after the baptismal date that new converts can take out their endowments. So it was a year of preparing for the survivors in 3rd Nephi to meet the Savior at the temple. Mind blowing! I’ve been a member for over 40 years and I’m just now seeing this.
I found this... So the Nephites (people of the BofM) did have Authority to Baptize..right? Although these Nephites had authority to baptize in the old Mosaic dispensation, Christ invited Nephi forward to affirm his priesthood authority to baptize in the new gospel dispensation, and perhaps to ordain him to the apostleship at the same time [see 3 Nephi 11:18-21; History of the Church, 4:538; D&C 20:38].
I question Clifford Jones, whoever he may be, as to his interpretation of the time Christ actually appeared. As I read 3 Nephi 10:18, I interpret it as Moroni making an editorial comment that he’ll show us that by the end of the 34th year, the Nephites had been amazingly blessed and taught. Moroni states very clearly that Christ appeared SOON after His ascension to heaven.
I was studying chapter 11 to the end of 3 Nephi again, in response to this section of the video, which repeats a narrative I’ve heard from others lately, namely that Christ appeared as much as a year later, and I completely agree with the conclusion you stated here - word for word! Who is Clifford Jones, anyway? Chapter 27, verses 1 and 2 give an account of disciples journeying, preaching, baptizing, gathering, fasting, praying mightily, and Christ showed himself unto them ‘again.’ Certainly time had passed and Christ’s appearances had not yet ended. I believe as I always have that Christ first appeared very shortly after the darkness ended, and that Moroni’s editorial comment refers to the whole of His appearances not to the beginning. Thank you for stating it in a way that clarified my thoughts.
How do we know when our actions partnered with anger are acceptable to the Lord? I remember Jesus Christ, in anger, used the whip to chastise and drive the people away from the synagogue as they were using the sacred space for commercial activities. I am having trouble reconciling this with the prophet’s counsel to not throw anything in anger/peacemaking
It appears that the whole of chapters 12-13:1-24 was given to the multitude. Then in 13:25, he turns to the 12 and gives them their own instructions, meant only to them. How does he do this? Does he take them to a room or some other way separate them from the multitude for this “Church handbook type instruction.” Later he again turns to the multitude and yet again has instructions for the twelve. Can we divide those instructions listed in 3 Nephi and apply them to the Sermon on the Mount those divisions listed in Matthew? Is then the New Testament corrupted by the compilers and missed the important tenants to the 12 and given a mistaken view to new members that they by virtue of attendance assume they have apostolic authority without ordination and structure? I think the BofM has once again given us the appropriate guidance to church government and process. Any comments? Thanx for your guest for his incite and spirit. His doctrine is so filling.
That "surgeon" who actually threw a scalpel in the OR should have never been called Doctor again. I can't imagine that level of incompetence among medical professionals. But in the current medical system, that surgeon was probably considered above all laws, ethics and rules of conduct.
Why were the people gathered together at the temple about a year after the destruction in the Americas? I was thinking about this. Christ was crucified on Passover. After his death there was a great earthquake in the old world and massive destruction in the new world from all kinds of natural forces. If the people that survived in the new world were the more more righteous they could have been continuing to follow the Hebrew holidays. A year later it would have been the time of Passover again so could they have been gathered together on this holy week and discussing the changes and how they should or could observe this holy time of the year? Once Christ appeared he clearly tells them that the law of Moses is fulfilled and they should no longer offer blood or burnt sacrifices, but he also had told them this earlier when they heard his voice from heaven in chapter 9. Later he very clearly teaches them that contention is of the devil. Could they have been confused and contending about the law of sacrifice? Perhaps some of them heard the voice and others did not
Lovely video I want to say Thank you for having salt 🧂 on and Brad Wilcox on I love just spending time all day night with my family members who give me joy and peace Just think,all day long in Future we spend time with Aberham, Enoch and others on air ways? I don't know? And those who bring the other Books 📚 wow Wonderful knowledge to learn and more to learn Just happy zone I can learn how to handle pain to a higher depth or degree Longer time heat in head,Migrane and shaking due to medical issues with a wrong pill 💊 never showed have been given to me Bad for me 1:06:32
Thanks for this helpful vid - but I don’t understand why the sermon on the mount - which is often about being overly religiously showy -would apply to the remnant of the Nephites and Lamanites who were living at the time. They were from a wicked society, not a self righteous one. Why did Jesus give almost the exact same speech to such a radically different audience?
Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?..John 10:36..Jesus says he's the son of God doesn't it??
I am so grateful for all of you! When I was 15 I went to EFY BYU and heard John Bytheway. Brother Brad Wilcox taught my BYU BofM 101 class in 1987. I still have my notes and papers because you were so kind and encouraging to me! I learned so much and I wrote in my scriptures the things I learned. I still use that BofM today. It honestly was a life changing class and I thank you for strengthening my testimony at such a young age! These chapters discussed today will forever be my favorite scripture! Thank you for your wonderful examples and time and effort to teach us! ❤
wow thank you soooo much this is the first time I have really paid attention to the ideal of being a peacemaker I learned so much and you made a light come on and for that I'm very grateful.
Waaaaa Brad Wilcox and Sherri Dew within the same month! All-stars both. His Grace is Sufficient is the only non-GC talk I've ever downloaded. I didn't realize everyone else downloaded it too! Truly a powerful talk. Thank you all!
This was one of the most helpful podcast I have listened to, thank you for inviting Brad Wilcox to join you!!
Every episode is incredible, but WOW!! I take notes from each week and this week is mounting into a book! Brad Wilcox has such a gift with words and teaching! This episode blew my mind thanks so much to everyone who makes these possible! It transforms watering flowers and cleaning up the house each night into a profound revelatory experience!
Thank you so much for going back over 3 Nephi 8-11. This group does an excellent job at letting the Spirit speak and Christs light be the center of the discussion.
Brother Brad Wilcox is always a joy to listen to. So grateful for this podcast and all it has done to help further my understanding of the scriptures, and more importantly, how it has helped strengthen my testimony. Love you all.
Thank you all! I find myself in serious depression and struggling in all aspects of my life. But I know Jesus is my answer. I know I need to strive to change my heart and live these principles. Thank you again for your examples and wisdom.
Be of good cheer. Jesus loves you. He is inspiring His GAs and prophets, seers and revelators to bring the Word of God to us for General Conference on October 5-6.
I am so sorry you are going through depression. It is so hard…please hang on.
Sending virtual hugs. Try sleep, movement, eating good nourishing food to help your body and mind heal. That and the Good Word of the Lord!
Thank you
Great insights. The time line of a year between the destruction and Christ's coming to the Bountiful temple really was eye opening to me. I read it many times but didn't pick up on it. As a young adult convert I know what a year will do in the life of a convert. In less than a year I have seen a new convert go from being baptized to being trained as a ordinance worker in the temple, because he's there's every week doing ordinances since the week after his baptism. His wife is right by his side too. We are children of God and He love each one of us with a perfect love.
I am blessed from your insights. Thank you!
I’m so excited for this video! I absolutely love Brother Wilcox!
John! You just mentioned Brad’s brother. I just visited with a friend with from California ( I recently moved to Tooele). He told me he had worked with your brother who created “Bytheway boxes” for the church. My friend was trying to explain how smart your brother is and I didn’t understand any of it. 😅. Must be nice to have such smart men in the family!!!❤. You were also my major support when I was baptized in 1997 (at 40 years old). I was called to be the YW President 1 year later! I didn’t know where to begin. In fact I yelled at the bishop that he did not pray about it. 😮. Your talks helped me relate so many things to those beautiful young’s spirits. ❤❤❤
Love Brad and his testimony
I love how Brad teaches! I love third Nephi 😢. This is deep... The play on words he uses- the parables ( riddles)
Great episode, very motivational and insightful. Thank you.
Wow. I'm only halfway through this episode and I have to stop and say thank you to Hank, John, and Dr. Wilcox for sharing so many wonderful insights, many of which I had never before considered. Great stuff!
In 1985, Bro Wilcox did one of the first EFY for our youth in the Nashville TN Stake Center in Madison, TN. At the time, he was a 4th grade teacher. He was awesome! He was there with Vivian Cox, Mrs Utah (?), and another sister. We had an wonderful time. He later mailed me an autographed copy of his book,"Watts Under Your Bushel". He's been a favorite ever since.
😊
😊😊😊😊
I think they were having what we would call, General Conference. 2500 people don't just happen to be at a temple, even today. I'm so Grateful for all I have learned and feel with these times i spend with you all
I have to get that book that you showed, John. Brad is one of my most favorite author and teacher! I met him at a TOFW in Ohio/KY. What a treasure! I love the beauty of the Beatitudes in 3 Nephi. I include the phrase "who come unto me" with each of the Beatitudes! Because I feel it does not do much good, IF, we don't come until Christ with each of these Blessings!
I love all your guests. But so excited for this one. And next week lol😂. And last week. They are all amazing!
Oh Hank. Thank you. Finally someone mentioned Moses and the born of... that Christ is birthing us into his kingdom, his family! Yes yes yes! This is not talked about enough. Thank you for saying it!!!
We take the name of Christ at baptism and become His Seed. His Family. He becomes our Father.
Thanks so much, Brad, John, and Hank. I feel spiritual uplifted. ❤
Thank you Brother Wilcox for etymology on "Blessed" Consider the term given to John the Revelator and the 3 Nephites - These are the "Blessed Disciples" because they were translated, i e made exalted and holy. Jesus visited a number of people after His resurrection, the accounts in the Bible and the BOM are only two. When we receive the records of all these peoples, I wonder how many will have disciples who also became translated, or exalted, and were called the "blessed Disciple"?
Such wise counsel for our day. It makes me think of President Nelson also asking us to "Think Celestial". There are many reasons the Lord revealed these two words to His Prophet. It all starts with our thoughts. We likely won't do Celestial or Become Celestial if we are not first thinking Celestial.
Illuminating. Thank you.
Since it was about a year from the time of the “great storm, such an one as never had been in all the land” (3 Nephi 8:5) until the actual appearance of the Savior, “showing his body unto them, and ministering unto them.” ( 3 Nephi 10:18). In 3 Nephi 11:1 we read about the “great multitude gathered together…and they were marveling and wondering one with another, and showing one to another the great and marvelous change which had taken place. There are many reasons to marvel and wonder but the one that comes to my mind is the completion of the repairs and rededication of the temple in Bountiful. With all the destruction that took place at the beginning of the year that there would have been damage to the temple. The people would have spent the year repairing the temple and had gathered to see the completion and possibly a rededication of the temple. It seems to me that this event would have caused the people to gather at the temple, and what an occasion for the Savior, Jesus Christ to appear. Just my thoughts
I also was thinking about the time it took for the people to be prepared. In our day, it’s a year minimum after the baptismal date that new converts can take out their endowments. So it was a year of preparing for the survivors in 3rd Nephi to meet the Savior at the temple. Mind blowing! I’ve been a member for over 40 years and I’m just now seeing this.
I’ve had a-lot of last minute impressions I didn’t have the strength to follow. I hope it gets better. Maybe I can learn to hear early on .
The Mesa Temple has the beatitudes on the wall! 🤯
I found this...
So the Nephites (people of the BofM) did have Authority to Baptize..right?
Although these Nephites had authority to baptize in the old Mosaic dispensation, Christ invited Nephi forward to affirm his priesthood authority to baptize in the new gospel dispensation, and perhaps to ordain him to the apostleship at the same time [see 3 Nephi 11:18-21; History of the Church, 4:538; D&C 20:38].
If they didn't have the Aaronic Priesthood how did Alma and other prophets baptize people prior to Jesus coming?
Yes, that's what I want to know... Why did Brad say they had the Melchezidek? Someone explain please.
I question Clifford Jones, whoever he may be, as to his interpretation of the time Christ actually appeared. As I read 3 Nephi 10:18, I interpret it as Moroni making an editorial comment that he’ll show us that by the end of the 34th year, the Nephites had been amazingly blessed and taught. Moroni states very clearly that Christ appeared SOON after His ascension to heaven.
I was studying chapter 11 to the end of 3 Nephi again, in response to this section of the video, which repeats a narrative I’ve heard from others lately, namely that Christ appeared as much as a year later, and I completely agree with the conclusion you stated here - word for word! Who is Clifford Jones, anyway?
Chapter 27, verses 1 and 2 give an account of disciples journeying, preaching, baptizing, gathering, fasting, praying mightily, and Christ showed himself unto them ‘again.’ Certainly time had passed and Christ’s appearances had not yet ended. I believe as I always have that Christ first appeared very shortly after the darkness ended, and that Moroni’s editorial comment refers to the whole of His appearances not to the beginning.
Thank you for stating it in a way that clarified my thoughts.
So where exactly are you referring to about Moroni's comment?
How do we know when our actions partnered with anger are acceptable to the Lord? I remember Jesus Christ, in anger, used the whip to chastise and drive the people away from the synagogue as they were using the sacred space for commercial activities. I am having trouble reconciling this with the prophet’s counsel to not throw anything in anger/peacemaking
It appears that the whole of chapters 12-13:1-24 was given to the multitude. Then in 13:25, he turns to the 12 and gives them their own instructions, meant only to them. How does he do this? Does he take them to a room or some other way separate them from the multitude for this “Church handbook type instruction.” Later he again turns to the multitude and yet again has instructions for the twelve. Can we divide those instructions listed in 3 Nephi and apply them to the Sermon on the Mount those divisions listed in Matthew?
Is then the New Testament corrupted by the compilers and missed the important tenants to the 12 and given a mistaken view to new members that they by virtue of attendance assume they have apostolic authority without ordination and structure?
I think the BofM has once again given us the appropriate guidance to church government and process.
Any comments? Thanx for your guest for his incite and spirit. His doctrine is so filling.
Is there anywhere online that I can find the talks that were given at education week by brother Wilcox and sister Freeman?
How did the Book of Mormon prophets and missionaries baptize without the Aaronic priesthood?
That "surgeon" who actually threw a scalpel in the OR should have never been called Doctor again. I can't imagine that level of incompetence among medical professionals.
But in the current medical system, that surgeon was probably considered above all laws, ethics and rules of conduct.
Why were the people gathered together at the temple about a year after the destruction in the Americas? I was thinking about this. Christ was crucified on Passover. After his death there was a great earthquake in the old world and massive destruction in the new world from all kinds of natural forces. If the people that survived in the new world were the more more righteous they could have been continuing to follow the Hebrew holidays. A year later it would have been the time of Passover again so could they have been gathered together on this holy week and discussing the changes and how they should or could observe this holy time of the year? Once Christ appeared he clearly tells them that the law of Moses is fulfilled and they should no longer offer blood or burnt sacrifices, but he also had told them this earlier when they heard his voice from heaven in chapter 9. Later he very clearly teaches them that contention is of the devil. Could they have been confused and contending about the law of sacrifice? Perhaps some of them heard the voice and others did not
❤❤❤
❤ 34:36
Lovely video
I want to say Thank you for having salt 🧂 on and Brad Wilcox on
I love just spending time all day night with my family members who give me joy and peace
Just think,all day long in Future we spend time with Aberham, Enoch and others on air ways?
I don't know?
And those who bring the other Books 📚 wow
Wonderful knowledge to learn and more to learn
Just happy zone
I can learn how to handle pain to a higher depth or degree
Longer time heat in head,Migrane and shaking due to medical issues with a wrong pill 💊 never showed have been given to me
Bad for me 1:06:32
I've been looking in church news and I see an article giving an overview of the talks but not the talks. Am I looking for the wrong thing?
❤ 14:44
I’m from Wyoming! Yes go cowboys!haha
What’s a “Wyoming?
What about the wording in the temple ordinances?
I am lost what chapter are you in.
Chapter 12
I'm from Rock Springs 😊😊😊
I wasn’t even born in 1985. I was 1988
Thanks for this helpful vid - but I don’t understand why the sermon on the mount - which is often about being overly religiously showy -would apply to the remnant of the Nephites and Lamanites who were living at the time. They were from a wicked society, not a self righteous one. Why did Jesus give almost the exact same speech to such a radically different audience?
Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?..John 10:36..Jesus says he's the son of God doesn't it??
Is there a way we can get a copy of this episode and others?
@chrisrtycritser2819. If you press the ‘more’ button and then ‘more’ on the next screen that comes up, you will find the transcript notes.
You Tube