NT Lessons 83-84 Acts 2-3

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Lesson 83: Acts 2

Introduction

The disciples were filled with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost and were blessed with the gift of tongues as they preached the gospel. Peter proclaimed that Jesus is “both Lord and Christ” (Acts 2:36) and invited people to repent, be baptized, and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. About three thousand people were converted and baptized that day, after which they continued faithful in the Church.

I. Acts 2:1–13  The disciples of Jesus Christ are filled with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost

---Ask students to think about the most recent opportunity they had to speak in church, teach a lesson, or share the gospel with someone.

• What can be challenging about speaking, teaching, or testifying to others about the gospel of Jesus Christ?

---Look for a truth as we study Acts 2:1–13 that will help you when you feel anxious or fearful about teaching and testifying to others about the restored gospel.

---About one week after the Savior ascended into heaven, Jews from many nations came to Jerusalem to participate in the feast of Pentecost and to worship at the temple and give thanks to the Lord. This feast occurred 50 days after the Passover feast and celebrated the first harvest of the season (see Guide to the Scriptures, “Pentecost,” scriptures.lds.org).

---Read Acts 2:1–3 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for what the disciples of Jesus Christ experienced on the day of Pentecost.

• What did the disciples experience on the day of Pentecost? (The outpouring of the Holy Ghost.)
• How was this outpouring of the Holy Ghost described?

---The phrase “cloven tongues” (verse 3) refers to tongues that are cloven or forked, or that have the appearance of the flame of a fire. Anciently, fire often symbolized the divine presence or influence. This was a sign that the disciples had received the gift of the Holy Ghost, promised by the Savior.

---Read Acts 2:4–8 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for what happened as the disciples were filled with the Holy Ghost.

• According to verse 4, what happened as the disciples were filled with the Holy Ghost? (The Spirit “gave them utterance” and enabled them to speak in other languages.)
• Why did the Jews from different nations marvel at what they heard?

---Scan Acts 2:9–11 and count the number of different groups of people or nationalities who heard the disciples speak in tongues by the power of the Holy Ghost. Ask them to report what they find. Consider displaying the accompanying map to help students visualize where these Jews were from.

---Point out that according to verse 11, each of these groups heard in their own language “the wonderful works of God” taught by the disciples. You may need to explain that proselytes were Gentiles who had joined the Jewish faith.

• As illustrated by the disciples’ experience on the day of Pentecost, what can help us teach and testify to others? (After students respond, write the following principle on the board: As we are filled with the Holy Ghost, He will help us teach and testify to others.)

---To help students understand this principle, bring to class two empty cups, a pitcher of water, and a tray. Place the cups on the tray so that the tray can hold any water that spills. Then cover the top of one cup with a piece of paper or lid so that water cannot be poured into it, and place an object (such as a rock) in the other cup so that the cup is mostly filled with the object. Invite a student to try filling both cups with water from the pitcher.

• If the cups represent us and the water represents the Holy Ghost, what might the piece of paper (or lid) and the rock represent? What behaviors and attitudes can prevent us from being filled with the Holy Ghost?
• What can we do to be filled with the Holy Ghost so He can help us teach and testify to others?
• In what ways has the Holy Ghost helped you teach the gospel or share your testimony with others?

---Testify of the principle written on the board, and invite students to apply this principle by seeking the companionship of the Holy Ghost so they can teach and testify to others.

---In Acts 2:12–13  some Jews were amazed by what they had heard, while others mocked the disciples by accusing them of having drunk too much wine.

II. Acts 2:14–47  Peter testifies of Jesus Christ and teaches how to gain salvation

---Read Acts 2:14 aloud, and ask the class to look for who began teaching the multitude. Invite students to report what they find.

---Ask students to imagine themselves in Peter’s situation, standing before the multitude.

• If you had been in Peter’s situation, what truths of the gospel would you have taught and testified of? Why?

---In Acts 2:15–35 Peter declared that the events of the gift of tongues and other manifestations of the Spirit among the disciples were one fulfillment and meaning of Joel’s prophecy (see Joel 2:28–32). Peter then taught and testified to the people using some of King David’s words and psalms.

---Write the following scripture references and questions on the board:

Acts 2:22–24, 29–33, 36

What are some of the important truths Peter taught and testified of?

What stands out to you about Peter’s testimony to the Jews?

Acts 2:36–38 is a scripture mastery passage. Studying scripture mastery passages will help students increase their understanding of basic doctrines and be prepared to teach them to others. You may want to suggest that students mark scripture mastery passages in a distinctive way so they will be able to locate them easily. Refer to the teaching idea at the end of the lesson to help students with their mastery of this passage.

---Divide students into pairs. Invite each pair to study the scripture references on the board and discuss their answers to the accompanying questions. After sufficient time, invite a few students to share their responses with the class.

---Display a picture that portrays Peter’s denial of the Savior (for example, Peter’s Denial by Carl Heinrich Bloch, available on LDS.org). Invite a student to summarize what Peter said and did when asked about his relationship to Jesus on the night the Savior was arrested (see Luke 22:54–62).

Peter’s Denial, by Carl Heinrich Bloch. Courtesy of the National History Museum at Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød, Denmark. Do not copy.

• How did Peter’s words and actions on the day of Pentecost differ from his behavior on the night the Savior was arrested?
• What do you think influenced this change in Peter?

---Read Acts 2:37 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for how Peter’s words affected the multitude.

• How did Peter’s words affect the multitude?

---You may want to invite students to mark the phrase “pricked in their heart.” Explain that the Holy Ghost pricked the people’s hearts as they heard Peter’s testimony. The word pricked here means “pierced thoroughly” and suggests that the people felt remorse because the Jews as a people and nation had crucified their Lord, Jesus Christ. Peter was not implying that the group of Jews from various nationalities that he was teaching on the day of Pentecost were the ones responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

• According to verse 37, what question did the people ask?
• What does this question reveal about what was happening in the hearts of the people? (The people were beginning to experience a change of heart.)

---Read Acts 2:38–41 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for what Peter instructed the people to do. Explain that untoward means rebellious, perverse, or crooked.

• What did Peter instruct the people to do?
• According to verse 41, how did the people respond to Peter’s teachings and invitation to repent and be baptized?

---Write the following incomplete statement on the board:

As we receive the word of God by the power of the Holy Ghost, …

---Take turns reading aloud from Acts 2:42–47. Ask the class to follow along, looking for what the new converts to the Church did after they received the truth by the power of the Holy Ghost and were baptized. Explain that the phrase “breaking of bread” (verse 42) refers to participating in the ordinance of the sacrament and that to have “all things common” (verse 44) refers to the Saints being unified and living the law of consecration.

• According to these verses, what actions demonstrated that those who were baptized were truly converted (see also 3 Nephi 26:17–21)? (Invite a student to list the class’s responses on the board.)

---Remind students that before the Jews heard and acted on Peter’s words, they had not accepted Jesus as their Savior, nor did they follow His teachings. Invite them to consider how the people changed.

• What principle can we learn from Acts 2:37–47 about what can happen as we receive the word of God by the power of the Holy Ghost? (Using students’ words, complete the statement on the board so that it conveys the following truth: As we receive the word of God by the power of the Holy Ghost, our hearts will change and we will be converted to Jesus Christ.)
• What can we do to receive the word of God by the power of the Holy Ghost?

---Invite students to review the actions listed on the board of those who were baptized and converted.

• As you have endeavored to learn and live the truths of the gospel, how has the Spirit helped you change and become converted to Jesus Christ? (You may want to share an experience from your own life as well.)

---Invite students to ponder what they can do to better receive God’s words and teachings by the power of the Holy Ghost. Encourage them to act on any promptings they receive.

Scripture Mastery—Acts 2:36–38

Invite students to compare Acts 2:36–38 to the fourth article of faith. Ask students to identify in Acts 2:36–38 the words that demonstrate or teach the first principles and ordinances of the gospel. Then divide students into pairs, and ask each pair to discuss how each of these principles and ordinances helps us receive the full blessings of the Savior’s Atonement. After sufficient time, ask:

• What blessing did Peter say the people would receive as a result of repenting and being baptized?
• Based on your understanding of Acts 2:38, what must we do to prepare to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost? (Using their own words, students should identify a truth similar to the following: When we have faith in Jesus Christ, repent, and are baptized, we are prepared to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Write this truth on the board.)
• How do faith, repentance, and baptism prepare someone to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost?

Commentary and Background Information

Acts 2:1–4. “And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind”

“This great Pentecostal experience, when the Holy Ghost was poured out upon a large gathering of people, has a parallel in Latter-day Saint history. At the time of the dedicatory services for the Kirtland Temple, the Prophet Joseph Smith … prayed for a special outpouring of the Spirit from on high: ‘Let it be fulfilled upon them, as upon those on the day of Pentecost,’ he pleaded in behalf of the Saints. ‘Let the gift of tongues be poured out upon thy people, even cloven tongues as of fire, and the interpretation thereof. And let thy house be filled, as with a rushing mighty wind, with thy glory’ (D&C 109:36–37). This plea was fulfilled, not just once, but several times during the days following the initial dedicatory services. Joseph Smith recorded that on one occasion, ‘a noise was heard like the sound of a rushing mighty wind, which filled the [Kirtland] Temple, and all the congregation simultaneously arose, being moved upon by an invisible power; many began to speak in tongues and prophesy; others saw glorious visions; and I beheld the Temple was filled with angels, which fact I declared to the congregation’ (in History of the Church, 2:428)” (New Testament Student Manual [Church Educational System manual, 2014], 278).

Acts 2:3. Cloven tongues

“Cloven tongues” may also indicate that this powerful outpouring of the Spirit was divided among the people present that day—they each felt and experienced it. The word sat in Acts 2:3 is changed to rested in the Joseph Smith Translation.

Acts 2:4–6. The gift of tongues

The Prophet Joseph Smith taught about the purpose of the gift of tongues:

“The gift of tongues by the power of the Holy Ghost in the Church, is for the benefit of the servants of God to preach to unbelievers, as on the day of Pentecost” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith [2007], 383).

Acts 2:16–21. The fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel

In our dispensation, Moroni quoted these same verses to the prophet Joseph Smith and told him they were not yet fulfilled but soon would be (see Joseph Smith—History 1:41). Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught that Joel 2:28–32 is an example of a scripture that can have multiple meanings and fulfillments:

“Many of the prophecies and doctrinal passages in the scriptures have multiple meanings. …

“[One] illustration of multiple meanings concerns the prophecy in the book of Joel that in the last days the Lord will pour out his spirit upon all flesh and that our sons and our daughters will prophesy (see Joel 2:28). On the day of Pentecost, the Apostle Peter declared that the events they had witnessed were those ‘spoken by the prophet Joel’ (Acts 2:16). Eighteen hundred years later, the angel Moroni quoted this same prophecy and said that ‘this was not yet fulfilled, but was soon to be’ (JS—H 1:41)” (“Scripture Reading and Revelation,” Ensign, Jan. 1995, 8).

Therefore, both Peter and Moroni correctly stated that the prophecy given by the prophet Joel had fulfillment, meaning, and application for the day of Pentecost and in the latter days, respectively.

Acts 2:27. “Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell”

Concerning King David’s eternal inheritance, Elder Bruce R. McConkie of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught that David “received the promise that his soul would not be left in hell, that is, he would not be a son of perdition, he would not be cast out eternally with the devil and his angels. Rather, when death and hell deliver up the dead which are in them, he shall come forth from the grave and receive that inheritance which he merits. See Rev. 20:11–15” (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 3 vols. [1965–73], 2:39).

Acts 2:37. “They were pricked in their heart”

Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught:

“True conversion comes through the power of the Spirit. When the Spirit touches the heart, hearts are changed. When individuals … feel the Spirit working with them, or when they see the evidence of the Lord’s love and mercy in their lives, they are edified and strengthened spiritually and their faith in Him increases. These experiences with the Spirit follow naturally when a person is willing to experiment upon the word. This is how we come to feel the gospel is true” (“Now Is the Time,” Ensign, Nov. 2000, 75).

Supplemental Teaching Idea

Acts 2:37–38. “Ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost”

Circle the word receive in the following principle written on the board: When we have faith in Jesus Christ, repent, and are baptized, we are prepared to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

• How does someone receive the gift of the Holy Ghost?

Explain that after baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost is conferred upon individuals by the laying on of hands. In that ordinance, the person being confirmed is directed to “receive the Holy Ghost.” To help students understand what receiving the Holy Ghost means, invite a student to read aloud the following statement by Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:

“The Holy Ghost does not become operative in our lives merely because hands are placed upon our heads. … As we receive this ordinance [confirmation], each of us accepts a sacred and ongoing responsibility to desire, to seek, to work, and to so live that we indeed ‘receive the Holy Ghost’ and its attendant spiritual gifts” (“Receive the Holy Ghost,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2010, 95).

• According to Elder Bednar, what must we do to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost?

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Lesson 84: Acts 3

Introduction

At the gate of the temple, Peter, accompanied by John, healed a man who had been born lame. Peter then taught the people who had witnessed the healing of this man. He testified of Jesus Christ, invited them to repent, and prophesied of the latter-day Restoration of the gospel.

I. Acts 3:1–11  Peter and John heal a man who was born lame

---Invite students to think of a time when they asked for something specific (perhaps a birthday or Christmas gift) but received something else instead. Ask a few of them to share their experiences and to explain how they felt when they did not receive what they wanted.

• How might we compare these experiences to seeking blessings from Heavenly Father through prayer? (Sometimes Heavenly Father does not answer our prayers in the ways we expect or provide the blessings we ask for.)

---Ask students to ponder experiences in which they did not receive the answer or blessing from Heavenly Father that they were expecting.

---Look for a principle as we study Acts 3 that will help you when you are not receiving the answers or blessings that you expect from the Lord.

---Read Acts 3:1–3 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for whom Peter and John met at the gate of the temple.

• Whom did Peter and John meet at the gate of the temple?
• What does it mean that this man “asked an alms”? (verse 3). (You may want to explain that alms are items people donate to the poor.)

---Point out that we learn from Acts 4:22 that the lame man was more than 40 years old.

• Considering that this man had been unable to walk in 40 years, what condition may the lame man’s legs have been in?

---Invite the class to consider how it would feel to be in the lame man’s position.

• What are some typical ways in which people might respond to someone in this man’s situation?

---Read Acts 3:4–7 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for what Peter did for this man.

• What did Peter do for this man?
• What stands out to you about Peter’s actions and words?

---Read Acts 3:8 aloud, and ask the class to look for what the man did after Peter “lifted him up” (verse 7).

To help students visualize the events recorded in Acts 3:1–8, you may want to show the video “Peter and John Heal a Man Crippled Since Birth” (3:21) from The Life of Jesus Christ Bible Videos, available on LDS.org.

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• What did the man do after Peter “lifted him up”?
• In what ways was the blessing this man received greater than the alms he had originally asked for?

---Encourage students to recall the experience in which they received an answer or blessing from Heavenly Father that was different from the answer or blessing they had been expecting.

• What truth can we learn from Acts 3:1–8 that can help us when we do not receive the answer or blessing we are expecting from Heavenly Father? (Students may use different words but should identify the following truth: Heavenly Father might not answer our prayers in the ways we want or expect Him to, but His answers are always for our greater good. Write this truth on the board, and consider inviting students to write it in the margin of their scriptures next to verse 6.)

• How might Heavenly Father answer our prayers differently than how we want or expect Him to? (For example, He might give us strength to endure a trial rather than removing it, or He might give us wisdom to help us solve a problem rather than solving it for us.)

---In the account recorded in Acts 3:1–8, it is obvious that what this man received was greater than what he had asked for. However, in other cases it may not be as clear that what we are receiving is greater than what we asked for.

• How can remembering the truth written on the board help us when we receive an answer to prayer that differs from the answer we expected?

---Invite students to ponder experiences in which the Lord’s response to their prayers was different from the answer they desired but turned out to be for their greater good. Ask a few students to share their experiences. You may also want to share an experience of your own.

---Read Acts 3:9–11 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for how the people reacted to this man’s healing.

• How did the people react to this man’s healing?

II. Acts 3:12–26  Peter testifies of Jesus Christ and preaches repentance

---Invite the class to imagine that they had been among the people at the temple who witnessed the healing of the lame man. Point out that these people had often seen the lame man begging as they entered the temple gates, but after he had been healed, they saw him leaping and walking.

• If you had been among the people at the temple, how do you think your view of Peter and John might have changed after witnessing this miracle?

---Divide students into pairs. Invite each pair to read Acts 3:12–16 aloud together, looking for how Peter explained the healing of the lame man to the crowd. After sufficient time, ask:

• Did Peter take personal credit for healing the man?
• By what power did Peter say the man had been healed? (After students respond, write the following truth on the board: Jesus Christ’s servants can perform miracles through faith in His name.)

---Peter used this occasion to teach the people about Jesus Christ, who had recently been condemned to death by His own people but had overcome death through His Resurrection.

---Read Acts 3:17–21 aloud, including the Joseph Smith Translation changes for verses 17 (see footnote a) and 20 (see footnote b). Ask the class to follow along, looking for Peter’s invitation to the people.

Acts 3:19–21 is a scripture mastery passage. Studying scripture mastery passages will help students increase their understanding of basic doctrines and be prepared to teach them to others. You may want to suggest that students mark scripture mastery passages in a distinctive way so they will be able to locate them easily. Refer to the teaching idea at the end of the lesson to help students with their mastery of this passage.

• What did Peter invite the people to do?

---To help students understand Peter’s message, point out that Peter was speaking to the people who had called for or consented to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ (see Acts 3:14–15). Invite a student to read aloud the following statement by the Prophet Joseph Smith:

“[Peter] did not say to them, ‘Repent and be baptized, for the remission of your sins;’ but he said, ‘Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.’ [Acts 3:19.]

“… They could not be baptized for the remission of sins for they had shed innocent blood” (in History of the Church, 6:253).

Point out the phrase “when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ” (verses 19–20).

• What do you think this phrase refers to?

---Invite a student to read aloud the following statement by Elder Bruce R. McConkie of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:

“This designated period, this times of refreshing, is to take place at the second coming of the Son of Man, in the day when the Lord sends Christ again to earth.

“… It is the day when ‘the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.’ (Tenth Article of Faith.) It is the day of the ‘new earth’ that Isaiah saw (Isa. 65:17), the earth which will prevail when wickedness ceases, when the millennial era is ushered in” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1967, 43).

---On the board, display the picture The Second Coming (Gospel Art Book [2009], no. 66; see also LDS.org). Label it by writing The times of refreshing on the board near the picture.

• How will the earth be refreshed at Jesus Christ’s Second Coming? (It will be cleansed of wickedness.)

---Point out the phrase “times of restitution of all things” (verse 21).

• What do you think the “times of restitution of all things” refers to? (You may want to point out Acts 3:21, footnote a to help students understand that this refers to the Restoration of the gospel in the latter days. Jesus Christ would remain in heaven during the coming period of apostasy, but He would return to the earth to bring about the restitution or restoration of all things pertaining to the gospel. You may also want to point out that Peter used the phrase “times of restitution of all things” to describe instances when Jesus Christ would visit the earth before His Second Coming.)
• When has Jesus Christ visited the earth as part of the latter-day Restoration of the gospel? (Students might mention the Savior’s appearances in Joseph Smith’s First Vision [see Joseph Smith—History 1:17] and at the Kirtland Temple [see D&C 110:2–5].)

---On the board, display the picture The First Vision (Gospel Art Book, no. 90; see also LDS.org). Label it by writing The times of restitution of all things on the board near the picture.

• According to verse 21, who in addition to Peter had spoken of the latter-day Restoration of the gospel? (Using their own words, students should identify the following doctrine: Prophets in all ages have foretold the latter-day Restoration of the gospel.)

---In Acts 3:22–26  Peter testified that Moses “and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after” (verse 24) had spoken of Jesus Christ and warned of the consequences of rejecting Him (verse 23).

---You may want to conclude by sharing your testimony that Jesus Christ has come to earth as part of the latter-day Restoration of the gospel and that He will return at His Second Coming to cleanse the earth of wickedness.

Scripture Mastery—Acts 3:19–21

To help students understand how to use Acts 3:19–21 in a missionary setting, present the following scenario: An investigator asks, “Where in the Bible does it say that the gospel would be restored in the last days?”

Divide students into pairs. Ask each pair to prepare an answer to this question using Acts 3:19–21 and at least one other Bible passage. You might encourage them to look under “Restoration of the Gospel” in the Topical Guide.

After sufficient time, invite a student to role-play as the investigator and one of the pairs of students to role-play as missionaries in front of the class. Ask the pair of students role-playing as missionaries to share their prepared answer with the student who is role-playing as the investigator.

Commentary and Background Information

Acts 3:6. “Such as I have give I thee”

While serving as the dean of religious instruction at Brigham Young University, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained:

“Peter had no money but he had riches: ‘such as he had’ included every key to the kingdom of God on earth, priesthood power to raise the dead, faith to strengthen bones and sinews, a strong right hand of Christian fellowship. He could not give silver or gold but he could give that which is always purchased ‘without money and without price’ (Isa. 55:1)—and he gave it” (“The Lengthening Shadow of Peter,” Ensign, Sept. 1975, 30).

Acts 3:7. “And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up”

Elder Bruce R. McConkie of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained that the account of Peter healing the lame man illustrates the truth that priesthood holders act in the stead of Jesus Christ when they give blessings:

“Peter did not ask the Lord to heal the cripple; he did not pray to God to pour out his grace and healing virtue upon the lame man. Instead—acting in the Lord’s name and by virtue of a delegation of priestly authority already received—he himself commanded the miracle to occur. Peter was the Lord’s servant, his representative and agent; he stood in the place and stead of Christ, doing what the Master would have done if personally present” (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 3 vols. [1965–73], 2:46).

This truth is also illustrated in Doctrine and Covenants 36:2, in which the Lord stated, “I will lay my hand upon you [Edward Partridge] by the hand of my servant Sidney Rigdon.”

President Harold B. Lee taught another important truth, using the example of Peter’s behavior after Peter had healed the lame man by the power of the priesthood:

“Will you see that picture now of that noble soul, that chiefest of the apostles, perhaps with his arms around the shoulders of this man, and saying, ‘Now, my good man, have courage, I will take a few steps with you. Let’s walk together, and I assure you that you can walk, because you have received a blessing by the power and authority that God has given unto us as men, his servants.’ Then the man leaped with joy.

“You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You must be sure, if you would rescue the man, that you yourself are setting the example of what you would have him be. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul” (“Stand Ye in Holy Places,” Ensign, July 1973, 123).

Supplemental Teaching Idea

Acts 3:22–23. “Every soul, which will not hear that prophet [Jesus Christ]”

Invite a student to read Acts 3:22–23 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for what Moses prophesied about Jesus Christ.

• What did Moses prophesy about Jesus Christ?
• In what ways was Moses like Jesus Christ? (Moses’s ministry foreshadowed Jesus’s ministry. Both of them performed miracles and delivered God’s word to His people, though the magnitude and importance of Jesus Christ’s ministry and mission far exceeded that of Moses or any other prophet.)
• According to these verses, what did Moses say will happen to people who do not “hear [the words of Jesus Christ] in all things”? (verse 22). (After students respond, write the following principle on the board: If we do not hear the words of Jesus Christ in all things, then we will be destroyed from among the people.)
• What does it mean to “be destroyed from among the people”? (verse 23). (You may need to explain that this refers to spiritual death, or separation from the Lord and His people.)
• What does it mean to “hear [the words of Jesus Christ] in all things”? (verse 22). (Help students understand that to hear means to listen to and follow. We cannot be saved without following the Savior.)

Testify of the importance of listening to and following the words of Jesus Christ.

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Allow students to use their own words

As students express the doctrines and principles they find in the scriptures, do not suggest that their answers are wrong if they differ from the wording in this manual. However, if a student’s statement is doctrinally incorrect, it is your responsibility to gently help him or her correct the statement. Doing so can provide an important learning experience while maintaining an atmosphere of love and respect.