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Alma 36,37
To Enlarge Your
Memory
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(f) he surely did DELIVER them (2)
(g) TRUST in God (3)
(h) supported in their TRIALS, and TROUBLES, and AFFLICTIONS (3)
(i) shall be lifted up at the LAST DAY (3)
(j) I KNOW this not of myself but of GOD (4)
(k) BORN OF GOD (5)
(l) I sought to destroy the church of God (6-9)
(m) MY LIMBS were paralyzed (10)
(n) Fear of being in the PRESENCE OF GOD (14-15)
(o) PAINS of a damned soul (16)
(p) HARROWED UP BY THE MEMORY OF SINS (17)
(q) I remembered JESUS CHRIST, SON OF GOD (17)
(q') I cried, JESUS, SON OF GOD (18)
(p') HARROWED UP BY THE MEMORY OF SINS no more (19)
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(o') Joy as exceeding as was the PAIN (20)
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(n') Long to be in the PRESENCE OF GOD (22)
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Poem of
Alma:
Alma 36
(m') My LIMBS received their strength again (23)
(l') I labored to bring souls to repentance (24)
(k') BORN OF GOD (26)
(j') Therefore MY KNOWLEDGE IS OF GOD (26)
(h') Supported under TRIALS, TROUBLES, and AFFLICTIONS (27)
(g') TRUST in him (27)
(f') He will deliver me (27)
Instructions to Helaman
Alma 37
3 And these plates of
brass,
8 … they have enlarged the memory
of this people,
Yea, and convinced many of the
error of their ways
How would the Brass Plates
“enlarge” their memory (and ours)?
FirstUnlocks our pre-existent knowledge
SecondReminds us “what great things the Lord
hath done for our fathers”
Third
Essential to repentance
(convinced many of the errors of their
ways)
What does Repentance and
Remembering have to do with
each other?
Steps of Repentance
First: Remember!
Second: Sorrow and resolve
Third: Forget!
For I, the Lord, will remember them NO
MORE! (D&C 58:42)
The Promise
Alma 37:13
O remember, remember, my son
Helaman, how strict are the
commandments of God.
And he said: If ye will keep my
commandments ye shall prosper in
the land—but if ye keep not his
commandments ye shall be cut off
from his presence.
Under this law, the wicked
shouldn’t prosper- should
they?
In the richest country in the world,
how are the wicked doing?
Gambling
$586.5 billion
Alcoholism
6% of GNP
Drunk driving
$9 Billion
Illegal drugs
$160 Billion
Pornography
$1 billion
Abortions
$4 Billion
Over 2 million in prisons and jails
$38 Billion
45 Million have Herpes
Cigarettes
484 Billion sold
Psalms 37
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
they have more than heart could wish. They are corrupt,
They set their mouth against the heavens,
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world;
they increase in riches.
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
then understood I their end.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places:
thou castedst them down into destruction.
Thus my heart was grieved,
and I was pricked in my reins.
So foolish was I
Alma 37:28 For
behold, there is
a curse upon
all this land,
that destruction
shall come
upon all those
workers of
darkness…,
when they are
fully ripe;
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Alma 37:37 Counsel with the Lord in
all thy doings, and he will direct thee
for good; yea, when thou liest down
at night lie down unto the Lord, that
he may watch over you in your
sleep; and when thou risest in the
morning let thy heart be full of
thanks unto God; and if ye do these
things, ye shall be lifted up at the
last day.
Elder Marion D. Hanks
If from your references you then could turn to
Alma 37:37…and in turn you read each of those
verses, and cross-referenced them, your book
would become to you not a dead volume that
duty binds you to believe in,
but a living testimony that people, real people, are
the heart of this story and that the experiences,
the revelations, the great lessons of life that are
to be found here are real also. Then you will
believe and be convinced.