Come, Follow Me Daily Study Guide for the week of May 4-10, 2020 covering Mosiah 11-17. For personal and/or family study of the scriptures, geared towards families with teenagers, single adults, and empty nesters.
*This is a suggested outline that coincides with the Come, Follow Me manual. There is not just one right way when it comes to studying the scriptures. Everyone should study in a way that is best for them, but I do hope that you find these outlines helpful.
**I highly suggest getting a scripture journal. Throughout the year there will be several times that I will suggest jotting something down in your scripture journal. These are also great for writing down any impressions or “Aha” moments that you might have as you study the scriptures.
***A free PDF DOWNLOAD of the Study Guide is available at the bottom of this post. Making it easy for those who’d like to print out a copy.
****SONGS – For a list of suggested songs for each day of the week, be sure and check out the blog called Music for Latter-day Life by clicking HERE
FHE DAY
Start the week off right with a Family Home Evening that introduces what you’ll be studying during the week. Sign up for the Teach Me FHE email group and receive an FHE outline delivered right to your inbox every Sunday morning. Sign up at the bottom of this post.
APPLYING MY HEART TO UNDERSTANDING GOD’S WORD
BACKGROUND
(Taken from Come Follow Me Through the Book of Mormon)
Share the following story told by Scott Sorensen:
A while ago, my family moved from Utah to Indiana. One Sunday afternoon, I found myself driving our moving truck across Nebraska. The only music I had access to was the AM radio, so I started scanning frequencies to find something inspirational to listen to. I found a fiery sermon given by a passionate preacher of a large church. I spent the next hour listening to and being entertained by his teachings. From that hour, I remember one thing he taught that I still think about often. He asked, “What’s the longest distance on earth?” I could hear people in the background shouting cities and countries all over the world. He kept saying, “Nah, nah, nah, not even close.” After a while of guessing, I was as confused as the audience. The guessing eventually died down until there was silence. After a dramatic pause that felt like forever, he finally said, “The longest distance on earth is the distance from the mind to the heart.” Wow! Alone in my hot, smelly moving truck, I couldn’t help but put one hand in the air and shout, “Amen!”
SCRIPTURE/MINI LESSON
In Mosiah we see a major disconnect between the mind and heart of King Noah’s wicked priests.
King Noah’s priests were familiar with the word of God—they could quote passages of scripture and claimed to teach the commandments. But those commandments were “not written in [their] hearts,” and they had “not applied [their] hearts to understanding” them. As a result, their lives remained unchanged. (CFM manual)
Abinadi gave us two significant verses as a warning. Read the following two scripture verses and discuss what the warnings are:
READ: Mosiah 12:27 (Ye have not applied your hearts to understanding)
READ: Mosiah 13:11 (I perceive that ye have studied and taught iniquity the most part of your lives.)
Share the following quote by Elder Kim B. Clark
QUOTE:
“The heart is the symbolic center of our will, our desires, our commitments, our values and priorities, our feelings, and our testimony of the truth.
“Understanding the gospel is much more than a cognitive experience. It’s a spiritual experience in which the Holy Ghost witnesses of the truth, enlightens our minds, and changes our hearts. Understanding of the heart is a gift of the Spirit.”
PONDER & DISCUSS
What does it mean to have God’s commandments “written in [our] hearts”? OPTIONAL – In your scripture journals write some ideas (or draw pictures of your ideas) inside a large heart.
Why are the commandments precious to us? How can we write them in our hearts?
Does this inspire you to make any changes in the way you approach learning the gospel?
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (optional)
CONFERENCE TALK: Learning with Our Hearts By Elder Walter F. González
JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED FOR ME
BACKGROUND/SCRIPTURE
(Taken from Come Follow Me Through the Book of Mormon)
Have each person answer: What’s your favorite kind of pizza?
How many different kinds of pizza can you think of?
There are many things in this life that include a number of possible options. There are even numerous ways to keep different commandments. For example, how many ways are there to keep the Sabbath day holy?
Then ask: How many ways are there to receive salvation?
READ: Mosiah 13:27-28 and Mosiah 16:13-15
King Noah and his priests believed that salvation came through the law of Moses. Abinadi wanted them to know that salvation comes through the Messiah, Jesus Christ. In Mosiah chapter 14, notice words and phrases that describe the Savior and what He suffered for you. (CFM manual) OPTIONAL – list some of these words and phrases in your scripture journals
MINI LESSON
Watch one of the videos found HERE
PONDER & DISCUSS
*After watching the video, you may go around the room and ask each person what stood out to them or what their thoughts on the video are.
What are your thoughts and feelings about the Savior and what He has done for you?
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (optional)
CONFERENCE TALK: The Atonement Covers All Pain
VIDEO: Handel’s Messiah: Debtor’s Prison (3:35)
VIDEO: Jesus Christ Suffered for Us (2:21)
DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS?
Download the following paper. After you read the question, scripture verses, and quote write your answer to the question on the lines provided. When you are done, keep it in your scripture journal.
(Quotes and insights are taken from the Book of Mormon Student Manual Religion 121 and 122 and CFM manual)
QUESTION #1: How is Jesus Christ both the Father and the Son?
SCRIPTURE
READ: Mosiah 15:1-4
The words of Abinadi can be somewhat confusing because it can seem that Abinadi is teaching that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are the same Being, yet we know that they are separate Beings. What did Abinadi mean? Let’s look deeper into what Abinadi taught.
One thing he taught was that God the Son—Jehovah—would be the Redeemer, dwelling in the flesh, becoming part man and part God.
READ: Mosiah 15: 5-9 – Christ completely subjected Himself to the will of God the Father. Because of this, Jesus Christ is both the Son of God and the perfect earthly representation of God the Father.
READ: Mosiah 15: 11-12 – Abinadi continued by explaining that Jesus Christ is also the Father in the sense that when we accept His redemption, we become “his seed.” In other words, we become spiritually reborn through Him.
QUOTE
On 30 June 1916 the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles set forth a detailed statement on the Father and the Son. In this exposition Christ…is represented as the Father in three ways:
He is the Father as Creator. Christ is referred to in many scriptural passages as “the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth” (see Mosiah 15:4, 16:15, Alma 11:38-39, Ether 4:7)
He is the Father of all who accept his atoning sacrifice and covenant with him to obey his everlasting gospel. (see Mosiah 5:7, 15:10-13, Ether 3:14)
…He is the Father by divine investiture of authority. This means that the Savior is the fully authorized and commissioned representative of his Father, and as such can speak and act for the Father.
QUESTION #2: Who will be resurrected at the First Resurrection and has it already happened?
QUOTE
Elder Bruce R. McConkie taught:
“To those who lived before the resurrection of Christ, the day of his coming forth from the dead was known as the first resurrection….To those who have lived since that day, the first resurrection is yet future and will take place at the time of the Second Coming.”
Elder McConkie also wrote that “the righteous dead who lived from the day of Adam to the time when Christ broke the bands of death ‘were with Christ in his resurrection.'”
SCRIPTURE
READ: Mosiah 15: 21-26
Abinadi taught that those who died without a knowledge of the gospel before Christ’s resurrection could also “have a part in the first resurrection, or have eternal life” (verse 24). These people would have the gospel preached to them in the spirit world and would be able to receive all the blessings given to those resurrected at the time of the first resurrection, even though they would not be resurrected until a later time (see D&C 137:7).
*Those who willfully rebel against Christ have no part in the first resurrection. Abinadi explained that willful rebellion refers to those who have known the gospel but have forsaken it (see Mosiah 15:26-27).
QUESTION #3: What would happen to God’s children if Jesus had “not come into the world”?
SCRIPTURE
READ: Mosiah 16:6 (There could have been no redemption.)
QUOTE
This is something interesting to note that comes from David Butler in the book Don’t Miss This regarding this scripture verse:
When Abinadi said these words, it was 150 years before the Savior was ever born to the earth. Yet he spoke them as if they were a past event. Can you imagine using that same speaking philosophy and style about other things? What if I spoke about tomorrow’s basketball game victory as if it had already happened? They won! (When the tipoff is still 24 hours away.) As Abinadi continued his teaching, he said something similar about Christ’s Resurrection: “If Christ had not risen from the dead,…there could have been no resurrection” (Mosiah 16:7). Again, both future events.
…No other person, team, or organization can give us that same level of hopeful confidence. We cannot make those same assumptions about anyone else. But with God, there are things that are certain. Things we can hope for. Things we can look forward to as if they had already happened.
PONDER & DISCUSS
Watch this video: Why We Need a Savior (2:15) by clicking HERE
What are the good things that have happened because He came and atoned for us?
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (optional)
BYU RELIGIOUS STUDIES: The Fatherhood of Christ and the Atonement
BYU RELIGIOUS STUDIES: Abinadi on the Father and the Son: Interpretation and Application
GENERAL CONFERENCE DAY
Study a recent General Conference talk. A great way to study a conference talk is to have your own conference issue of the Ensign and a highlighter. Listen to the talk and as you listen, highlight the part(s) that stands out to you. Then after the talk, review and/or share and discuss what you have highlighted.
THIS WEEK’S TALK: That They May See By Bonnie H. Cordon, click HERE
SUMMARY: Jesus Christ has called upon His disciples to “let your light so shine before this people, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” This invitation from the Lord is an earnest invitation to “be more intentional about helping others see the path and, thereby, come unto Christ.” But the Lord’s invitation is about more than just making the world a generally brighter place. “It is about focusing our light so others may see the way to Christ.” His invitation is about gathering Israel on this side of the veil and helping others to see their next steps forward in making and keeping sacred covenants with God. Despite the seeming weakness of one’s own light at times, the Lord “reminds us that he will bring the light if we will just point others to Him.” He is the light; His disciples need only help point others to Him. The Lord has said “there are many yet on the earth … who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it.” As disciples of Christ, “We can help. We can intentionally shine our light so others may see. We can extend an invitation. We can walk the journey with those who are taking a step toward the Savior, no matter how halting.” Every effort one makes can be magnified by the Lord.
“The Holy Ghost will prompt us to know what to say and do.” And at times, “such attempts may require us to step out of our comfort zone, but we can be assured that the Lord will help our light shine.”
CATCH UP DAYS
Do one of the days that you missed OR any of the additional resources listed.
Yours Truly,
P.S. For more Come, Follow Me resources, check out my post Your Ultimate Guide to Come, Follow Me. It lists over 100 Come, Follow Me resources that are available online starting with the church’s resources at the top. You can find it by clicking HERE.
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