“How Could You Have Forgotten Your God?”
In our study of the Book of Mormon this year we refer from time to time to the familiar cycle illustrated above. This lesson will help us recognized this cycle that leads from righteousness to wickedness and back to righteousness. The law of the harvest—we reap what we sow—is evidenced in these chapters of Helaman. If we are faithful, we receive blessings of peace and prosperity. If we forget our God and become prideful, we lose the Spirit and are left to the influence of Satan, ripening in iniquity. To overcome our pride, we must cultivate a broken heart and a contrite spirit.
OVERVIEW:
In Helaman 6–12 the people are righteous and are blessed with peace and prosperity. The Nephites become proud and wicked. Nephi calls them to repentance. The Lord gives Nephi the sealing power. The unrepentant Nephites face warfare and famine. The Nephites humble themselves and repent.
Here is this week’s lesson handout: Book of Mormon Lesson 34.
Summary of the story in the chapters assigned:
- Helaman 6:1–14. The Lamanites become more righteous than the Nephites. The people are blessed with peace and prosperity.
- Helaman 6:15–10:1. The Nephites become proud and wicked. Nephi calls the people to repentance. After witnessing the events surrounding the murder of the chief judge, some accept Nephi as a prophet, but most remain unrepentant.
- Helaman 10:2–11:6. The Lord gives Nephi the sealing power. Nephi asks the Lord to chasten the Nephites by sending a famine.
- Helaman 11:7–38; 12. The Nephites humble themselves and repent. The Lord sends rain at Nephi’s request and again blesses the Nephites with peace and prosperity. Mormon identifies the cycle of righteousness and wickedness and tells how to break the cycle.
pax vobiscum
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