Spiritual Warfare

Alma 46 – Title of Liberty
Paraphrasing Wilcox, "Learning how others fought their war, can help us in our fight"

We are all in a Personal Spiritual War.
Some point in your life you need to take a stand
We need to develop our own value statements & wave our own Title of Liberty
We need to find balance between waving your title of liberty & not "casting pearls before swine "

v.7 They lived in an exceedingly dangerous time
v.12 When you wave your flag you don’t know if people will follow
v.21 people came running

Prophets have legacies ( something that makes their tenure unique)
Joseph Smith – Doctrine, Church Organization
Brigham Young – An Enduring Church
Gordon B Hinckley -- (Wilcox suggested 3 components to what Hinckleys legacy will be
Small Temples
Perpetual Education Fund
Proclamation to the World - A Title of Liberty for our Day

Alma 47 - It's Safer on the Hill

Shared story of when he was a kid being trapped in a Pen with a Bull.
Lucifer is like a Bull -- Patient, yet can becomes fast, furious, powerful in a few seconds
On your horse you are safe -- On top of the horse represents Standards, Commandments, Counsel

The Hill Antipus – A defendable hill that Lamanite "Conscientious Objectors" retreated to to be safe from fighting a war they didn't believe in.

v.6 they are committed to not fight

Satan would have you subject to his will. (They were fixed, determined, resolute not to give in)

Satan’s tactics
v.10 “Come down just a little” the trick was to make them feel they were in control
v.13 just a little more, a little more ( here a little, there a little)
v.14 Eventually they came all the way down and blended in with the "world"
v.18 Lehonti ( the leader) Eventually died because of Poison administered to him in degrees

The sad thing is that Lehonti died thinking he was in control. (A fatal fallacy)
Wilcox shared a story of a UVSC institute teacher friend who gave a speech at his mothers funeral and thanked her for raising him on Lehonti’s hill ( in standards, commandments, etc…)

Old Testament has a story of a people that did not come down from the safety of the Hill.
Nehemiah 6:1

It isn’t sufficient to just stay on Lehonti’s hill. We need to be actively building the kingdom of God.

Alma 53 – Miracle of Stripling Warriors

Stripling Warriors were not like the ones portrayed in Friberg's paintings.
They were young. Helaman referred to them as his sons, my little sons, very little sons.
The "Sons" referred to Helaman as their "Father"

Compared Gordon B Hinckley to Helaman.
Hinckley loves the youth of the church.


Utah Statistics
100 kids who are baptized
76 Deacons
65 Teachers
58 Priests
33 Go on Missions

People who go “inactive” do so the most during the ages of 13 -25
If you are 25+ in the church you have a 90% chance of staying active for the rest of your life.

v.12
1) Assurances
2) Peace
3) Great Faith
4) Hope

v.13
Leads to Courage & Determination

He talked more about what make the 2000 Stripling Warriors so effective.
( I didn't get all of these notes, so I won't butcher them -- please send an email to david dot jarvi at gmail if you did get them)