Alma 36

The lessons from Alma to Helaman:

Facts

• Keep the commandments and you will prosper (v.1)
•  Remember the Lord delivered your ancestors (v.2)
• Trust God, and He will support you in your trials and save  you at the last day (v.3)
• Some things are known only by the Spirit (v.4)
• I love Alma’s humility here, I don’t know this myself, but the Spirit told me
• It is not because of our worthiness that God loves us and saves us and reveals things to us. It is only because of His mercy and His love. (v.5)

Alma’s personal experience with those facts

• Then Alma uses his personal story to testify of the atonement, which is so powerful and teaches in a way that just listing truths cannot. (v.7-21)
• Being born of God. (v.23)
• He manifested to the people he had been born of God by laboring all of his days to bring people to God. Do I do that? (v.24)
• Blessings come from righteousness, and he has experienced those blessings: joy, support in trials, delivery, peace of knowing you will be with Him in glory. (v.25-28)

Reviews

Alma reviews  the Facts, or take home messages from the beginning at the end again (v.29-30)

There are not only beautiful truth’s in this lesson, but an amazing outline for effectively teaching principles of the gospel. This was an amazing chapter!

Alma 36