Day 211
- Principle: The light of Christ leads you to additional light and truth.
- Book of Mormon Reading: Alma 43:15 - 43:26
- Chapters 43 through 51 of alma are often referred to as the war chapters. As you study them look for the principles that can help you live as a disciple of Jesus Christ in times of conflict.
- How is law and life linked to the light of Christ? D&C 88: 6-13
- See also 2 Nephi 2: 26, 27
- What is the difference of acting verses being acted upon?
- How does choosing to follow Jesus Christ lead to more action? How do you balance your previous answer with commandments and covenants?
- Jesus Christ in the later Judean Ministry is urged to attend the Feast of the Tabernacles, he did go and preached. Read his message in John 7: 10-53.
- David O. McKay taught about testing truth:
- “In searching the record as it is given to us by men who associated daily with the Lord, we find that upon one occasion men who were listening to him cried out against him. They opposed his works, as men today oppose him. And one voice cried out and said in effect, ‘How do we know that what you tell us is true? How do we know that your profession of being the Son of God is true.’ And Jesus answered him in just a simple way (and note the test): ‘If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.’ (John 7:17. Italics added.)
“That test is most sound. It is most philosophical. It is the most simple test to give knowledge to an individual of which the human mind can conceive. Doing a thing, introducing it into your very being, will convince you whether it is good or whether it is bad. You may not be able to convince me of that which you know, but you know it because you have lived it. That is the test that the Savior gave to those men when they asked him how they should know whether the doctrine was of God or whether it was of man.” (David O. McKay in CR, Oct. 1966, p. 136.)
- “In searching the record as it is given to us by men who associated daily with the Lord, we find that upon one occasion men who were listening to him cried out against him. They opposed his works, as men today oppose him. And one voice cried out and said in effect, ‘How do we know that what you tell us is true? How do we know that your profession of being the Son of God is true.’ And Jesus answered him in just a simple way (and note the test): ‘If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.’ (John 7:17. Italics added.)
- David O. McKay taught about testing truth:
- Additional Study:
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf, ”Bearers of Heavenly Light”, October 2017
- Each Life That Touches Ours for Good, Hymns No. 293
- Go the Second Mile, Children’s Songbook No. 167