Isaiah’s Words
2 Nephi 25:1 Why Isaiah’s words were hard for the people of Nephi to understand
They did not understand the “manner of prophesying among the Jews.
Read v. 2 to learn more
What judgements will come upon the Jews for rejecting Christ?
Iniquities
Hardness of their hearts
Stiffness of their necks
V 12
Who else does Nephi prophecy will be destroyed if they reject Christ?
2 Ne 26:2-5
Why Nephi labored diligently to write & persuade us
What is: To Believe in Christ and be reconciled to God
Reconciled = to be saved from sin and restored to a state of harmony with God
V 23
Satan seeks to bind us with these
Flaxen cords
2 Ne 26:22
What does 2 Ne 26:23-24 teach us about how the devil works? What about how the Lord works?
What are the 4 categories the youth were asked to focus on in the 2019 October General Conference?
Spiritual
Social
Physical
Intellectual
Why Nephi wrote these things
So they may know the judgements of God (which shall come upon all people)
2 Ne 25:3
What it means to be reconciled to Christ
2 Ne 25:23, 10:24
To bring into harmony or agreement with each other
What did God promise would happen to the things that Nephi would write?
Preserved and handed down from generation to generation
V 21
How Nephi felt about the words of Isaiah
Delighted
Read v. 4 & 5
In the Face to Face broadcast on Sunday with President and Sister Oaks ....what is the 4 step pattern taught in the Children and Youth program that Joseph Smith also followed?
Discover - your interests - what God wants for you
Plan - Write down your plan - Personal Revelation
Act - Do
Reflect - If too easy or too hard - Have the Spirit help you
The words of Isaiah are plain unto whom?
ALL those that are filled with the Spirit of Prophecy
2 Ne 25:4
We learn this truth in 2 Ne 25:20
Jesus Christ is the only name whereby we can be saved.
The word name can be used to represent a person or to represent his or her power or authority. Thus, another way of saying that “Jesus Christ is the only name whereby we can be saved” is “Jesus Christ is the only person with the power to save us,” or “Jesus Christ is the only person who can save us.”
This scripture passage can help you answer the question of whether members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe in Jesus Christ.
2 Nephi 25:23-26
Read the verses*
Imagine you are an Israelite living during the time of Moses and the poisonous snakes. Why did most not look at the Brass serpent that would save them and what did the Brass serpent represent?
The way too simple / easy and represents Jesus Christ
Read v. 20
The poisonous snakes can represent things we don’t want to give up or sins. What things in your are causing you to not look to Jesus Christ?
Fill in the blanks. Doctrinal Mastery scripture 2 Ne 25:23, 26
Talk ____ ________
Rejoice ____ ______
Preach ___ _______
Prophesy ___ ______
Write __________ __ ____ ____________
That our children _____ ______
To what source _____ ___ _____
For a remission ____ _____ ____
26 And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.
How we can obtain the Spirit of prophecy
Seek guidance of the Holy Ghost
Have a testimony of Jesus Christ and a desire to learn of him
Look for ways Isaiah’s words testify of him.
Why didn’t the Jews believe he was the promised Messiah?
Many Jews believed the Messiah was to only deliver them from Roman power & greater national prosperity
What would you say to someone who doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ?
What do you think the phrase “after all we can do“ means?
We do not need to achieve some minimum level of capacity or goodness before God will help—divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience. But I know that beyond desiring His help, we must exert ourselves, repent, and choose God for Him to be able to act in our lives consistent with justice and moral agency” (D. Todd Christofferson, “Free Forever, to Act for Themselves,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2014, 19).
“I wonder if sometimes we misinterpret the phrase ‘after all we can do.’ We must understand that ‘after’ does not equal ‘because.’
“We are not saved ‘because’ of all that we can do. Have any of us done all that we can do? Does God wait until we’ve expended every effort before He will intervene in our lives with His saving grace?” (Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “The Gift of Grace,” 110).
Read 2 Ne 10:24 & 25:23
What the generations will be judged by
The writings of Nephi
2 Ne 25:22
This doctrinal mastery scripture teaches us who the Lord invites to partake of his goodness
2 Ne 26:33
The Jews have never been destroyed unless this happened
God’s prophets had first warned them.....against iniquity & called them to repentance
Read 2 Ne 25:9-11
What would the Lord do to convince the Jews of the true Messiah?
Shall bring forth his words...Book of Mormon, Bible, etc - which will judge them at the last day & convince them of the true Messiah
V 18
Grace is a gift from Heavenly Father given through Jesus Christ. In what ways might we experience the grace of Jesus Christ?
Forgiveness Increase Faith
Healing Humbleness
Mercy Repentance
Spiritual Strength
All are acceptable answers
Who the Lord loves and invites to come unto him?
He loveth all the world
He invites all men to come unto him.
Who has he commanded not to come unto him? (2 Ne 26:27-28)
In what verse do we find the right way? And what is it?
Verse 29 – The right way is to Believe in Christ and Deny Him Not … worship him with all your might, mind, and strength, and your whole soul; and if ye do this ye shall in nowise be cast out