Mosiah 13 & 14

Question 1 - What do people perceive when they are around you?

Question 2 - Abinadi teaches that what they would do to him was what would later happen to them. What if what you do, is just a future tell of what will come back to you?

What do people perceive in you? Abinadi does a lot of perceiving in chapter 13 and what he perceives in them is not good.

Did you know that, Elders and Sisters?

Men and women with stewardship, men and women with the Spirit of the Lord and responsibilities in the Kingdom of God, or men and women with parental stewardships for their children, they receive the gift of discernment. That gift helps them perceive, they receive eyes to see. They might not know exactly what is wrong, exactly what the sins are, but they can tell something is off, and given enough time and a good dose of honesty, the truth will come out (and usually help)!

So, just a heads up, we’re all being perceived. People that sin that think they’re hiding, they’re just not.

7 Ye see that ye have not power to slay me, therefore I finish my message. Yea, and I perceive that it cuts you to your hearts because I tell you the truth concerning your iniquities.

8 Yea, and my words fill you with wonder and amazement, and with anger.

9 But I finish my message; and then it matters not whither I go, if it so be that I am saved.

10 But this much I tell you, what you do with me, after this, shall be as a type and a shadow of things which are to come.

11 And now I read unto you the remainder of the commandments of God, for I perceive that they are not written in your hearts; I perceive that ye have studied and taught iniquity the most part of your lives.

Mosiah 13:7–11

Question 3 - Why does Abinadi teach the 10 commandments?

Although most of the Ten Commandments list things we should not do, they also represent things we should do. The Savior summarized the Ten Commandments in two principles—love for the Lord and love for our fellow men:

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

“This is the first and great commandment.

“And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Matthew 22:37–39).

Matthew 22:37–39

(The commandments pave the way for us to be able to obey other commandments that will come from the Lord as well as keep the covenants that we make with Him).

Question 4 - What do you learn about the Savior from Mosiah 14. The entire chapter is about Him. Read it with Him in your mind and heart.

We love you and pray that you will be blessed and protected as you serve the Lord today!