Sunday, November 29, 2009

 

Abinadi

I. Mosiah 11:20 Abi = father, nadi = present with you
II. Consequences of Not Repenting: Mosiah 11:20-21
a. Visit them with my anger
b. Deliver them unto the hands of their enemies
c. Be brought into bondage
d. Afflicted by the hand of their enemies
e. They shall know that I am the Lord their God
f. None shall deliver them except the Lord the Almighty God
g. Slow to hear their cries
h. I will not hear their prayers
i. Will not deliver them out of their afflictions
III. Who is the Lord? (not a great question to ask) Mosiah 11:27
a. Exodus 5:2- Pharoh
b. Moses 5:16 - Cain
IV. Dendoing in disguise? Mosiah 12:1
V. How those who reject the Lord know who he is: Mosiah 12 : 4-8
a. Famine, pestilence, burdens lashed upon their backs, hail, smitten with the east wind, insects pester your land, utterly destroy them off the face of the earth.
VI. Legal Trial:
a. Reviling against the King (12:14). See Exodus 22:28 “Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.”
b. False Prophecy (12:15). See Duet 18:20-22 “but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.” And Jeremiah 26:11 “This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.”
c. Blasphemy (17:8) Duet 13:6-10 “but thou shalt surely kill him…and thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die”
VII. Throwing Out the Barb: “hold a council with them what he should do with him” (12:17)
a. “one of them” (Alma?) asks what Isaiah 52:7-10 means. What do you think it means?
b. Abinadi gets basic 12:25-33.
VIII. Abinadi like Moses/ Joseph Smith
a. Mosiah 13:5 “his face shone with exceeding luster, even as Moses on mount Sinai”.
b. See Exodus 34:5 “when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone”
c. Willford Woodruff “Josepn Smith’s face was as clear as amber and he was covered with a power I havenever seen in an instant in the flesh before.”
d. Brigham Young “When the spirit of revelation was upon him, his countenance wore an expression peculiar to himself while under that influence…for at such times there was a peculiar clearness and transparency on his face.”
IX. Ten Commandments:
a. Mosiah 12:35,36 (1,2)
b. Mosiah 13:15-24 (3-10)
c. Abinadi’s condemnation, there wickedness leads to their lack of understanding: Mosiah 13:25-35
X. What Isaiah 52: 7-10 Means:
a. Isaiah 53/Mosiah 14
b. Remember: everything in Abinadi’s response answer’s the original question.
XI. Mosiah 15: How Christ fulfills the Prophecy of Isaiah 53 and answers the original question.
a. Christ’s relationship with his Father: 1-9 Christ is “God himself”
i. Son because “he dwelleth in the flesh”
ii. Father because “conceived by the power of God”
iii. V. 4 “THEY are one God”
iv. As God, he subjects himself to temptation and death (15:5-9) Only God himself can bridge that gap that was caused by HIS plan.
v. NOTE: We too become like God and apart of God as we submit ourselves to HIS will. “To the extent that we are not willing to be led by the Lord, we will be driven by our appetites.” – Neal A Maxwell.
b. Who Shall Be His Seed? (answers Mosiah 12:20) 15:11
i. Heard words of the prophets
ii. HEARKEN unto their words
iii. Believed that the Lord would redeem his people
iv. Looked forward to that day for a remission of their sins
v. 15:14-18: These are they that publish peace (those that follow Christ)
c. What Does He Do For his Seed 5:12
i. Sins borne, died for them, redeemed them from their transgression
d. Chaism/ Qualifications for Resurrection Mosiah 15:20-23 (they are His seed)
a. Bands of Death (20/23)
b. Broken
c. Son/Christ
d. Power over dead/eternal life
e. Resurrection of the dead/raised to dwell with God
f. Resurrection/First Resurrection
g. First resurrection
h. Those that have been and who are/all those that have believed in their words
i. Who shall be, even until the resurrection
j. of Christ/so shall he be called.
e. Who Are Not His Seed? (15:26) Not in first resurrection.
i. Rebel against him
ii. Die in their Sins
iii. Willfully rebel against God
iv. Known the commandments of God and would not keep them.
XII. Conclusion: Mosiah 16:8-15

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