The Scripture Study Project

Deut - Remember

Have you ever taken a "penny quiz"? If not, without looking, see how much you can remember about the penny. And when you realize you can only remember the barest details, ask yourself this: why is that something as common as a penny can be so easily forgotten? President Spencer W. Kimball once mused, "When you look in the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is?" His answer: the word remember. In this episode we study what the Israelites were commanded to remember as they exited their 40 year wilderness in search of perspectives or principles the Lord would have us remember as we exit from or exist in our own.
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Num 11-14, 20-24 - Spirit

Years ago, before even an apostle, President Eyring gave a powerful insight about spiritual sight. He taught that the repeated phrase, "thus we see" is often a scriptural writer pointing out what someone with spiritual sight will see when looking at particular story. That vision, often different from what others observe, enables that individual to act in closer accord with God's mind and will. In this episode we study what it is that grants that kind of spiritual sight, what to recognize when you have it, and what it might prompt you to do.
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Ex 35-40, Lev 1, 16, 19 - Holy

Our temples, benefiting from centuries, even millennia of experience, are structured in such a way to help us have powerful revelatory experiences as we come closer to God. This week as we study the end of Exodus and selections from Lev, we look at what those specifics are and how we can both see them in our temple experience and incorporate them into our personal lives.
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Ex 24, 31-34 - Goodness

This week we study a moment for Israel that taught them powerful truths about themselves and the Lord. Although they were not wrongly imprisoned like Joseph Smith, they had a "miserable experience" because of their own actions that brought them to "mourn". In that mourning, and in our own, we can see and learn truths about our Lord that can help us grow, heal, and change.
 
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Continue in Patience," April 2010.
Neal A. Maxwell, "Patience," October 1980
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Ex 18-20 - Peculiar

In this episode we study Exodus 18-20 but look, not just at the 10 commandments, but why they are worth thinking about in the first place.
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Ex 14-17 - Murmur

In our episode this week we study Exodus 14-17 and examine our relationship with our prophetic leaders. We'll examine miracles, murmuring, and mediation through rods and logs. Most importantly, we'll ask ourselves the question, "How can I draw more power from my prophetic leaders."
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Ex 7-13 - Plagues

Perhaps the most common question asked about God is, "Why does God allow bad things to happen?" One recent survey found that this question, in some form or another, is at the heart of almost every faith question or struggle individuals have. This week we tackle that question head on as we study the rising action of the Exodus in chapters 7-13, specifically the plagues the Lord sends to Egypt. If it's true that the Lord is all knowing, all powerful, and ever present, then we can look at moments of conflict and trial as prime opportunities to learn more about who He is and who we are.
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Ex 1-6 - I Am

There were over 2,000 gods in the Egyptian pantheon. These ranged from Amun-Ra who was the god of sun and air, to Sopdu who was a god over a specific border and the forts on that border. In our episode this week we fast forward hundreds of years from end of Genesis and find the Israelites trapped in the land of these thousands of gods. The irony? It was in this place, surrounded by statues and symbols and sweating under the strain of servitude, that Israel would truly come to know their own god, the One God, or better said, the God is, actually, present everywhere and every time.
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