Mosiah 18-24 covers many groups of people and their interactions with each other. Despite contentions, the goal of the righteous is always unity. Elder Cook taught this in the April 2024 General Conference when he said “Oneness with Christ and our Heavenly Father can be obtained through the Savior’s atonement.” So this week we will be studying how the atonement of Christ will help us knit our hearts together in unity and love.
Segment 1
Scriptures:
Mosiah 18:10-11 (Joy to be baptized)
Mosiah 18:9 (Mourn with those that mourn)
Words of the General Authorities:
Oneness is what Christ prayed for prior to His betrayal and Crucifixion. Oneness with Christ and our Heavenly Father can be obtained through the Savior’s Atonement.
(Quentin L. Cook, “Be One with Christ”, April 2024 General Conference)
Segment 2
Scriptures:
Mosiah 18:4,5,7,8,16,30 (The people went to the land Mormon)
3 Nephi 5:12 (Mormon named after the land Mormon)
Translations:
Mormon - mr = strong firm love, desire
Study Helps:
This pseudo-etymology was formulated as satirical response to ridicule anti-mormon polemical treatment of the name “Mormon” (Matthew L. Bowen, “Most Desirable Above All Things”: Onomastic Play on Mary and Mormon in the Book of Mormon, referenced in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship)
Segment 3
Mosiah 18:9-11 (Baptismal covenant)
Segment 4
Scriptures:
Mosiah 18:17 (Called the Church of God)
Mosiah 18:21 (Hearts knit in unity)
CR: Genesis 1:5
Isaiah 6:9-11, 2 Nephi 16:9-11 (Preach the word forever)
Words of the General Authorities:
The Saints can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for my brethren. If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a ‘Mormon.’ I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination; for the same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day Saints would trample upon the rights of the Roman Catholics, or of any other denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves. (Joseph Smith, History of the Church, 5:498)
Segment 5
Scriptures:
Mosiah 19 (Division and contention arises again)
Mosiah 21 (Limhi’s people are converted)
Mosiah 22 (They escape Lamanite bondage)
Mosiah 22:14 (Mosiah received them with joy)
Segment 6
Scriptures:
Mosiah 23-24 (Alma in the wilderness)
Mosiah 25:12 (Taking on the name Nephites)
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