0:00:00 - 0:00:25 This is the last video in this series on Moon Night seven. And unfortunately, it's also gonna be the shortest one, but it's a capstone and I just, uh, I don't know how I can do this justice in any reasonable amount of time. And so instead of doing far less that needs to be done, all I wanna do is give 0:00:25 - 0:00:47 a few highlights that maybe will give you bread crumbs to go on your own and figure out more of this. And I feel OK with that because you'll notice I told you I ordered this. This is the last topic in, in my ordering of this chapter. I've moved some verses around. It's also Mormon's last topic. Um, but 0:00:46 - 0:01:10 I feel like everything else we've talked about today is like a pyramid and if you're not through the bottom bases, you're really not gonna get much out of this. So, trying to say what needs to be said about this is probably just wasting both of our time. But um I want to just highlight this. So the topic 0:01:09 - 0:01:35 is hope and rest and what I want to talk about is a little bit about charity which is the pure love of Christ and a little bit about rest and a little bit on what you hope for. And I'll try to make this very short as you come to know God. You absolutely positively will know more of his love. And it's 0:01:35 - 0:02:04 extremely unwise to presume that, you know, anything about that right now, anything you think, you know about God's love, no matter how great it is, you're just scratching the surface. And how can I say such a um, presumptive thing not knowing you. The answer is I know what it takes to learn it. And 0:02:04 - 0:02:32 this gets into hope and rest. I'm going to skip to verse 45 and I'll read this one. Um because it, it is applicable in the way that almost everyone reads it. But there's so much more here. Charity suffer long. It is kind and Envie not, it is not puffed up, seeketh, not her own is not easily provoked 0:02:32 - 0:03:05 . Thinketh no evil and rejoice. Rejoice, not in iniquity, but rejoice in the truth beareth all things, believeth all things hopes, all things endures all things when it comes down to it. The supermajority of gospel experiences. It's not about repentance. That's where we spend most of our time because 0:03:05 - 0:03:33 no one does it. We have to do that because it's the gate and nothing else that happens after that can happen until that happens. But that's just the gate and then there's a path and at the end of that path is the tree of life and the tree of life is the love of God. If you set out on that path, the majority 0:03:32 - 0:04:07 of what that path consists of in terms of what it uh the intensity of it. The cost, it is suffering, it is suffering. God is love and measuring love. You measure love by how much a person is willing to suffer for the benefit of another. That's all it is, it's everything it is. And charity suffers long 0:04:06 - 0:04:45 and all these other properties seeking not her own. What I want to say here is that as you come to know God, he will show you more of His love and you cannot help but turn and love others the way He loves you that He has shown you. And as you do that you will be led into great, great suffering. And this 0:04:45 - 0:05:18 is the path and this is the way but Jesus is the darkness, sorry, the light in the darkness. And the reason He leads you into that is so that He can fill that darkness with his light because there's no other way to see it and to perceive it for what it is and to value it for what it's worth. Charity 0:05:17 - 0:05:49 is the pure love of Christ and it does endure forever and it is sufficient to overcome all things. Mormon says that charity is the greatest of all gifts elsewhere. We read the Lord says at least twice a doctrine, covenants that eternal life is the greatest gift. So we have here, the greatest gift there 0:05:49 - 0:06:25 can only be one is charity and it's also eternal life. It's the pure love of Christ. And that is eternal life. Eternal life is to know God and God is love. And if you want to know the love of God, scrolling down to the end here, 48 you have to be like Him. It's all connected. So as you become like Him 0:06:25 - 0:06:47 , he shows you the fullness of His love. And as He shows you the fullness of His love, you love others with that same love. And that's how as as Nephi described it or rather the angel that spoke to Nephi, they was showing him the vision of the tree of life. You said this is how the love of God sheds 0:06:47 - 0:07:20 itself abroad amongst the Children of men. And that is actually what Mormon's been talking about this whole chapter because God is love and those who are followers of his son, Jesus Christ will love others just as much as they've seen Jesus Christ love them. And as they do that, it's a, it's a river 0:00:00 - 0:00:25 This is the last video in this series on Moon Night seven. And unfortunately, it's also gonna be the shortest one, but it's a capstone and I just, uh, I don't know how I can do this justice in any reasonable amount of time. And so instead of doing far less that needs to be done, all I wanna do is give 0:00:25 - 0:00:47 a few highlights that maybe will give you bread crumbs to go on your own and figure out more of this. And I feel OK with that because you'll notice I told you I ordered this. This is the last topic in, in my ordering of this chapter. I've moved some verses around. It's also Mormon's last topic. Um, but 0:00:46 - 0:01:10 I feel like everything else we've talked about today is like a pyramid and if you're not through the bottom bases, you're really not gonna get much out of this. So, trying to say what needs to be said about this is probably just wasting both of our time. But um I want to just highlight this. So the topic 0:01:09 - 0:01:35 is hope and rest and what I want to talk about is a little bit about charity which is the pure love of Christ and a little bit about rest and a little bit on what you hope for. And I'll try to make this very short as you come to know God. You absolutely positively will know more of his love. And it's 0:01:35 - 0:02:04 extremely unwise to presume that, you know, anything about that right now, anything you think, you know about God's love, no matter how great it is, you're just scratching the surface. And how can I say such a um, presumptive thing not knowing you. The answer is I know what it takes to learn it. And 0:02:04 - 0:02:32 this gets into hope and rest. I'm going to skip to verse 45 and I'll read this one. Um because it, it is applicable in the way that almost everyone reads it. But there's so much more here. Charity suffer long. It is kind and Envie not, it is not puffed up, seeketh, not her own is not easily provoked 0:02:32 - 0:03:05 . Thinketh no evil and rejoice. Rejoice, not in iniquity, but rejoice in the truth beareth all things, believeth all things hopes, all things endures all things when it comes down to it. The supermajority of gospel experiences. It's not about repentance. That's where we spend most of our time because 0:03:05 - 0:03:33 no one does it. We have to do that because it's the gate and nothing else that happens after that can happen until that happens. But that's just the gate and then there's a path and at the end of that path is the tree of life and the tree of life is the love of God. If you set out on that path, the majority 0:03:32 - 0:04:07 of what that path consists of in terms of what it uh the intensity of it. The cost, it is suffering, it is suffering. God is love and measuring love. You measure love by how much a person is willing to suffer for the benefit of another. That's all it is, it's everything it is. And charity suffers long 0:04:06 - 0:04:45 and all these other properties seeking not her own. What I want to say here is that as you come to know God, he will show you more of His love and you cannot help but turn and love others the way He loves you that He has shown you. And as you do that you will be led into great, great suffering. And this 0:04:45 - 0:05:18 is the path and this is the way but Jesus is the darkness, sorry, the light in the darkness. And the reason He leads you into that is so that He can fill that darkness with his light because there's no other way to see it and to perceive it for what it is and to value it for what it's worth. Charity 0:05:17 - 0:05:49 is the pure love of Christ and it does endure forever and it is sufficient to overcome all things. Mormon says that charity is the greatest of all gifts elsewhere. We read the Lord says at least twice a doctrine, covenants that eternal life is the greatest gift. So we have here, the greatest gift there 0:05:49 - 0:06:25 can only be one is charity and it's also eternal life. It's the pure love of Christ. And that is eternal life. Eternal life is to know God and God is love. And if you want to know the love of God, scrolling down to the end here, 48 you have to be like Him. It's all connected. So as you become like Him 0:06:25 - 0:06:47 , he shows you the fullness of His love. And as He shows you the fullness of His love, you love others with that same love. And that's how as as Nephi described it or rather the angel that spoke to Nephi, they was showing him the vision of the tree of life. You said this is how the love of God sheds 0:06:47 - 0:07:20 itself abroad amongst the Children of men. And that is actually what Mormon's been talking about this whole chapter because God is love and those who are followers of his son, Jesus Christ will love others just as much as they've seen Jesus Christ love them. And as they do that, it's a, it's a river 0:07:19 - 0:07:44 of love that flows from the Father through the Son, the holy ghost, through all of his Children. Out to everyone, the closer you are to Him, the more of this love you'll know and the more of this love you'll be capable of giving others. And that is eternal life.