Alma 29:6-10
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Verse 8
The Lord doth counsel in wisdom. Alma realizes that for him to cry repentance unto every people with the trump of God to shake the earth (verse 1) is unnecessary. The Lord has already prepared people in very nation to teach his word as he sees fit.
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Verse 9
I know that which the Lord hath commanded. Alma tells us that he knows the will of the Lord. This is an important note in understanding why Alma's desire to cry repentance with the trump of God was a sin (see verse 3). As Alma makes clear here, he knew what the Lord had called him to do (what was "alloted" to him as verse 3 tells us). His sin then was in desiring to do something different from what he knew he was called to do.
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Verse 8
- Citing this verse, Elder Niel A Maxwell says that "if we press too much, too often, and too hard for enlarged personal roles, we could actually shrink the field of action needed by other" (Ensign, May 2000).
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Verse 9
- Don R. Clarke, "Becoming Instruments in the Hands of God," Ensign, Nov 2006, pp. 97–99. Elder Clarke states: "[We] need to be receptive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost, for when we desire to be an instrument in the hands of God, we can receive revelation. The prophet Alma the Younger tells us of revelations that he received: 'I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory in it...' Alma had received revelation of what to do."
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