2024 Come, Follow Me
Book of Mormon Lesson 32:
August 5 — August 11
“The Great Plan of Happiness”
When Alma saw wickedness around him, he felt deep “sorrow,” “tribulation,” and “anguish of soul” (Alma 8:14). “Wickedness among this people,” he said of the Zoramites, “doth pain my soul” (Alma 31:30). He felt something similar after returning from his mission to the Zoramites—he observed that the hearts of many of the Nephites “began to wax hard, and that they began to be offended because of the strictness of the word,” and this made his heart “exceedingly sorrowful” (Alma 35:15). What did Alma do about what he saw and felt? He didn’t simply become discouraged or cynical about the state of the world. Instead, “he caused that his sons should be gathered together” and taught them “things pertaining unto righteousness” (Alma 35:16). He taught them that “there is no other way or means whereby man can be saved, only in and through Christ. … Behold, he is the word of truth and righteousness” (Alma 38:9).
Alma 39: Sexual sin is an abomination—Corianton’s sins kept the Zoramites from receiving the word—Christ’s redemption is retroactive in saving the faithful who preceded it. About 74 B.C.
Alma 40: Christ brings to pass the resurrection of all men—The righteous dead go to paradise and the wicked to outer darkness to await the day of their resurrection—All things will be restored to their proper and perfect frame in the Resurrection. About 74 B.C.
Alma 41: In the Resurrection men come forth to a state of endless happiness or endless misery—Wickedness never was happiness—Carnal men are without God in the world—Every person receives again in the Restoration the characteristics and attributes acquired in mortality. About 74 B.C.
Alma 42: Mortality is a probationary time to enable man to repent and serve God—The Fall brought temporal and spiritual death upon all mankind—Redemption comes through repentance—God Himself atones for the sins of the world—Mercy is for those who repent—All others are subject to God’s justice—Mercy comes because of the Atonement—Only the truly penitent are saved. About 74 B.C.
Come, Follow Me Study and Teaching Helps 2024 — Lesson 32, Jonn Claybaugh
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Interpreter Radio: The Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 32
- Nibley Book of Mormon Lectures: Come, Follow Me Lesson 32
Come, Follow Me Study and Teaching Helps — Lesson 30: Alma 39-42 (2020), Jonn Claybaugh
- Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 30 (Alma 39-42)
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Restoration in Alma 41, Hales Swift
- “According to the Spirit of Revelation and Prophecy”: Alma2’s Prophetic Warning of Christ’s Coming to the Lehites (and Others), by Matthew Scott Stenson, Feb 10, 2023
- Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapter 14: Alma Chapter XIX (39–42), Brant A. Gardner
- Restoration: A Theological Poem in the Book of Mormon, Val Larsen, June 20, 2014
- In His Footsteps: Ammon₁ and Ammon₂, Val Larsen, January 11, 2013
- Scripture Roundtable: Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 30, “The Great Plan of Happiness”, July 24, 2016
- Seeing Yourself in the Great Plan of Happiness (Ensign)
- How is God both just and merciful? (Ensign Weekly Book of Mormon Insights)
- Alma 39-42 (Ensign Support Articles and Activities)
Repentance, Children’s Songbook, 98
- Alma 39 to 42 – “The Great Plan of Happiness”, BYU Studies
- The Three Most Abominable Sins, BYU Religious Studies Center
- How to Be Reclaimed from the Fall of Adam, BYU Religious Studies Center
- The Law of Justice and the Law of Mercy, BYU Religious Studies Center
- A New Meaning of “Restoration”: The Book of Mormon on Life after Death, BYU Religious Studies Center
- The State of the Soul between Death and Resurrection, BYU Religious Studies Center
- Why Did Alma Draw on the Teachings of Abinadi?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #571
- Alma 39-42, John W. Welch Notes
- What Impact Do My Actions Have on Others?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #390
- Why Was Corianton’s Sin So Serious?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #147
- What Does Alma Say about Avoiding Sexual Sin?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #326
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach about the Afterlife?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #315
- Why Was Corianton So Concerned About The Resurrection?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #148
- Why and How Did Alma Explain the Meaning of the Word Restoration"?", Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #149
- Why Can Wickedness Never Bring Happiness?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #329
- Why Does Alma Mention "the Plan" Ten Times in His Words to Corianton?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #150
- Why Are There So Many Different Names for the Plan of Salvation?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #312
- Discussions on the Book of Mormon – Alma 38-39
- Discussions on the Book of Mormon – Alma 40-41
- Discussions on the Book of Mormon – Alma 42
