Come Follow Me - Easter Message: "Come Boldly to the Throne of Grace"
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- An Easter message focused on the phrase from Hebrews 4:16, "come boldly to the throne of grace." This lesson focuses on the ark of the covenant, the Holy of Holies, recognizing our need for grace, not fearing what others might think, gaining confidence before God, and more. Join Jared Halverson for your weekly Come Follow Me study and have a happy Easter!
0:00 Introduction
8:28 Coming Boldly
14:43 The Throne of Grace
19:41 The Holy of Holies
23:16 The Day of Atonement & Raiders of the Lost Ark
29:02 Acknowledging Our Need for Grace
34:22 Fear of What Others Might Think
52:20 Fear of Facing God
58:39 The Compassion & Condescension of Christ
1:15:01 Christ and the Veil
1:19:34 Come unto Christ
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Brother Jared…what a beautiful lesson. I had fallen away from the church for 19 years….during that time I eventually quit praying…I allowed the adversary to convince me that I was lost to my addictions…so, day by day I found myself giving up….no way to repent…why even try?
Six years ago…one morning, it was as if a friend put his arm around me, and asked…”can you see where your life is going”?
From that point, I began to repent…prayer by prayer…day by day…year by year. Today I am an ordinance worker…on a recent endowment session, as I observed the patrons filing in…this same Spirit asked…”can you see where your life is now?” For the first time I realized that my broken heart had been completely healed! The Lords Mercy Seat is real, and this I seek now every day. ❤️😇. David
I have a very similar story. Thank God for His mercy!
THANK YOU, Brother. Thank you for sharing your conversion experience. Knowing that the Savior knew the true measure of your love and the pains he felt prior to his death because he knew you would not fail, and you were worth every drop of blood, every bit of anguish. He saw you as his salt, the life enriching season of the earth. He knew you would return with full vigor of faith, he sent you, his cherished brother, the warmth of his care filled miracle. WoW! I pray that my son (Storm),can feel his arms around him, as you have, that he could recognize that HE HAS NEVER LEFT HIM and WILL NEVER LEAVE HIM. THANK YOU for returning with vigor ❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
Just beautiful ❤️
Thank you for that testimony!
Thank you. I will take strength from your experience and love.
As a fairly new convert, I just received my endowment last week, and went through the veil for the first time. Your description of going through Jesus' body as we go through the veil made me have a new understanding of this wonderful event. A whole new feeling of understanding has happened. I understand so much deeper his sacrifice for me.Thank you.
Blessings to you! I have found a series about temple symbols by Brother Bryce Dunford to be very instructive and helpful. They can be found on CZcams. I also appreciate everything Brother Jared Halvorsen teaches. I feel so inspired and touched by the Spirit each time.
This Easter message of my past sins being swallowed up in our Savior Jesus Christ gives me a feeling of joy and peace I have never aloud myself to have. I have labored with the weight of past choices heavy on my shoulders though repented of long ago. I have never felt worthy that the atonement of Jesus Christ actually meant I not only could, but that I have been invited to come boldly to His throne. I am overwhelmed at the understanding that I, even I can come boldly.
Thank you for your testimony….the only influence that tells you not to try is of the adversary. The Lord hears and sees every faith filled reach for His hand. He is there for all who will take it…and live in a newness of life😇❤️. Keep up the good work👍
My husband and I work in the temple 3 days a week, usually as veil coordinators. We were deeply moved with your closing analogy in your Easter segment of the body of Christ being represented by the veil, an idea I quietly taught my sister veil workers as we waited to serve. I have always felt great reverence for the veil, but this analogy will stick with me. In your last segment you began with comfort to those parents that have wayward children. Of our 12 children 8 have left activity in the church.The last child was particularly painful since she had served a mission, married in the temple, and had been active up until about 8 months ago. We just found out, so conference was a difficult experience as we coped with our grief. Thank for your comforting words.
My heart hurts as I read this. I am watching my mission-served, temple- covenanted children also "step away from the church." It is so hard, and I pray they will remember and return.
Dear Sister Brown,
Please read James E. Faust’s talk, “Dear are the Sheep that have wandered”, as his talked has greatly given me comfort , in the same situation.
@@pdhafb Thank you. We have the book by Millett “ When a Child Wanders”. This isn’t our first “rodeo” but one of the most painful. Thank you for your compassion and willingness to share. God will prevail.
@@loisparrish2146 Yes, remember what they have “ forgotten “ and be grateful for their ancestors sacrifice to preserve the gospel for their day…❤️
As one who had wandered for many years…please never give up hope…the Lord knows us all by name, and will gather again His sheep😇❤️
Oh Brother Jared, again you had me in tears - the depth of your spiritual knowledge, your knowledge of scripture and your emotional understanding at yes, a visceral level, reaches my mind and my heart and lifts me from the cares and stresses of 21st Century life to renewed closeness to my beloved Saviour. Thank you so much.
Thank you Brother Halverson for another GREAT lesson. I understand the scriptures so much better the way you teach it, I have been blessed by my Heavenly Father thru you and I Thank Him.
Dearest Brother Jared. I thank you for all the work you put in to sharing your love of the gospel with me .
The empathy in your voice, even more than your knowledge, is what makes you an amazing teaching. Thanking our Father in Heaven right now for such a wonderful teacher, here in my living room. 🙏🙌🏻💕
All I can say is thank you for your beautiful lesson on Christ. There were things in it that allowed the Spirit to reveal to me how I have been set free from bondage.
Grateful you chose the profession you chose. I am grateful you share your gift and knowledge with all of us. I am overwhelmed with the feelings of gratitude for the Savior and His atonement sacrifice for all the world. the Spirit has testified to me once more of these things as you have shared with us these teachings, thank you!
Thank you for this beautiful feast! ❤️
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I don’t know what else to say.
The way your words come out of your heart and your mouth bring my soul to the soul of our Savior like none other.
Amen sister❤️😇
I have come, and you have reassured me that it is the thing most desired by Jesus and Heavenly Father, relying on grace and my Savior. I could feel His reassurance as I listened to the scriptures revealed in your lesson. I needed this! I set aside time to listen to this lesson and feel the spirit speak peace to me, and I wasn't disappointed.
Thank you so much for helping me see more clearly my Savior. Grateful for the way you teach and testify of Him by the Spirit. May God bless you and your family for the sacrifices you make.
I am not able to thank you enough for this beautiful, inspired lesson. From the bottom of my heart, I am grateful and thank you for your work, effort and testimony. I have been greatly blessed.
Thank you for helping me come to know my Savior more intimately and personally. My gratitude has grown as my understanding has expanded. I now am more responsible to do & live better. Thank you forever, dear Brother Halverson
Thank you Brother Halverson for this lesson. I love the Lord so very much. I appreciate all the time you put in sharing your thoughts and testimony of our Savior and redeemer Jesus Christ. May God continue to bless you and your family for helping us understand the words of God. Your lessons help me with my primary lessons:)
I long to know Christ and the scriptures as you teach us. Thank you for your preparation and your gift of sharing. Thank you for your testimony. Thank your family for sharing the time you give us.
Remember that he has spent YEARS of studying the scriptures many many hours daily. Most of us spent that much time on another kind of Education and another kind of job. I Can NEVER catch up I don’t have the time. But I LOVE that he did and that he shares it with us.
Listened twice and watched once and never has an Easter message struck me with more force. Thank you for sharing boldly your testimony of Jesus Christ and for inviting us to do the same.
One of the concerns I have had about the Come Follow Me program was that other important parts of scripture would be ignored when we only focused on reading assignments. I really appreciate how you Brother H frequently turn to other parts of the scripture in your lessons. Often you refer to other scriptures that are true gems that I had overlooked in my previous forays in the scripture. I really like the scriptures to referred to in 2 Corinthians and in Hebrews. I stopped to video to study them more in context. I was a little shocked to find that the footnotes in the New Testament did not refer them to their Old Testament context. I added my own footnotes.
This sentence has always come to mind throughout the years " only let your sins trouble you "
A welcome reprieve from worldly influence, thank you brother.
As always thank you for your time AND YOUR delicious MEAL. I feasted
I love the analogy at the end of ripping off the roof to get to him or jumping into the water and starting to swim to get to Christ. How many barriers do we either purposefully or accidentally place in front of ourselves each day that prevent us from coming to him? Wow, what an amazing lesson!
Thank you so much for yet another invitation to come onto Christ.
Your lessons have given me a whole new perspective on the gospel..very indepth and spiritually satisfying..ty.
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Brother Jared I can not express my gratitude to you in sufficient words for this beautiful Easter message, thank you just doesn’t cut it, you have renewed my knowledge and hope of many things and taught me new things within my temple covenants for which I am so very grateful. I received a very tearful and strong witness from the spirit during this lesson and I thank my saviour for you and your special gift to teach us your unshaken students
Happy Easter ❤️
Thank you for just being you and sharing as you. :)
Brother Halverson
thank you for your great lessons. Even though they're long we watch them all! Your knowledge and insights are helping us to be Unshaken.
You nailed my reasons as to why I am disconnected to the Savior & His Spirit. I’m going to come boldly & confess. Thank you for your efforts! You make an eternal difference already!
Thank you so much. My heart is full. Bless you and your family this Easter Season. I am incapable of expressing the love I have for Our Savior Jesus Christ.
The way you explained the story about the woman with an image of blood was just beautiful. Thank you.
I just want to thank you - I know that you pray to have the Spirit present as you share your study of the scriptures with us because as I listen I feel the spirit myself and I receive spiritual impressions that are specific to me. This Easter message was so beautiful and meaningful. Not to mention, I love those verses in Hebrews chapter 4, some of my favorite scriptures. God is so good, thank you for being an instrument in His hands to bring others closer to Him.
Thank you for this message for Easter, yes, I love my Savior and I owe him so much. Thank you for this reminder.
Thank you sharing your amazing insights each week. I hope you don't mind but I will be borrowing some of your thoughts from this week's lesson in my Easter talk next Sunday. I also appreciate your explanation of the symbolism of the temple veil and I will think of that every time I am going through it. THANK YOU!
Refresh our mind and heart to remember and grateful: ‘ Atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ’ is so powerful. Thank you very much 😍👏
You guys have a Beautiful love story.
Thank you. You have truly inspired your studies to spend more time in the scriptures. It takes the heart and the mind, it's an investment of our whole mind and heart. Surely no matter how deep we study the Scriptures when we look deeply to see our Savior there we find how deep that search goes for we can never go deep enough. The picture that unfolds to us always brings us a longing to know more to be there, to see our Savior coming out of the toum, To fall at His feet and hold them close. To release at last all those feelings and thoughts and all our love and gratitude and know we will never be able to express it all. We will always stand in awe of our Savior how beautiful that is and what pleases Him most is that we learn and love the Commandments so we can live in Heaven again when this life is over and enjoy being with our Heavenly Father & our Savior, our family's forever and meat our Heavenly Mother - seeing both of our Heavenly Parents together and our Savior with our family and friends and the Angels who have helped us, even the Holy Ghost as well - it's hard to not get lost in those thoughts - you just want to stay there. But now it's time to be busy doing as the Hyme says. Thank you for this Easter lesson bring together the standard works of The Gospel, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.
I was missing my lesson this week. For lunch a small sandwich, water and a banana, but more importantly, your lesson to nourish me spiritually and strengthen me for the rest of the week. Thank you again! 🙂
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That Halverson special is indeed a feast 😇👍
My son is teaching me a little about Hebrew words and how they connect to something physical. Keep means Guard so Keep the covenants means guard the covenants. Like action words or something….it’s awesome:) Thank you for your video. It’s very humbling to learn about how Sacred God’s creations and his words really are.
Thank you for your insight and all you share with us each week. I always feel so spiritually fed after listening to you.
Christians believe that the Cross is the center of their church., that it is the door to God's kingdom, that Jesus sacrificed His life for us so we could have life through Him. Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. The greatest love of all. Knowing the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe in Him, according to the working of His mighty power, Quoted in Eph 1:19. Jesus Christ became our great Priest and mediator, He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. Col 1:15 He is ahead of the church and all fullness dwells. He redeemed us and gave us new life. Wisdom was given to those who believe in Him.
As always, thank you for sharing teaching and your commitment in the gathering of Israel..💖🙏
This was so beautiful! I was so spiritually touched by this lesson. So many things were opened to my spirit and the end of it was so touching I have been crying because it touched my soul so much. Thank you so much for what you are doing. Oh How I Love My Savior and Redeemer. Oh how grateful I am for Heavenly Father and his loving plan and for the blessing of communicating with Him.
Happy Easter, Jared
This was a gift. Thank you.
Wow, wow, wow..... you dropped so many jewels. You blessed me with more insight and answered a few of my old unanswered questions. Best Blessed. for you and your family.
Of all your lessons, this is my favorite by far. Thank you so very much for these beautiful insights. May you and your family have a blessed Easter.
Thank you for explaining the throne of God and His tender mercies for us and coming to him with boldness. Also the meaning what the Arc of the Covenant was all about. I never heard it explained like that and what the Holies of holies in Mose's day and it's similitude of Jesus Christ's Atoning Sacrifice for us, thank you again
Thank you
Thank you for such a wonderful Easter lesson. May you and your family have a Very Blessed Easter
Mahalo nui loa! I loved last years Easter message & I appreciated this year’s Easter message so much as well! Thank you for this hope. I have also loved this talk by Susan Easton Black…her small talk in the beginning is a little long, but once you get the the sustenance of her message, it really deepened my appreciation of Christ’s last mortal week
Mind blown. This so so good! ❤️
Thank you, Brother Halvorson, for this beautiful message for Easter. One of the commenters suggested watching a talk given in Oct 2014 General Conference, titled Approaching the Throne of God With Confidence, by Jorg Klebingat. That talk is an incredible compliment to your lesson this week. I am so grateful for Jesus Christ and His love for all of us.
You are wonderful. Thank you‼️‼️‼️
What a beautiful 1 1/2 hour sermon! Jared, you will preach, as you indicated your colleagues said. Very, very well done. Thank you.
Thank you for this beautiful lesson! Easter is such a beautiful, sacred time full of Savior symbolism. I'm so excited to get to hear some of your insights and for the veil of ignorance to be removed, through Christ, so that revelation can flow during this beautiful lesson.
Thank you for this beautiful special lesson
I have loved your videos ❤️😍
That was so good , it makes you appreciate what Jesus done for us, I just love the way you explained. Thank you so much. Love you, god bless your family for ever
Most beautiful Easter lesson! My heart is full.
Profound
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this beautiful Easter lesson🐇🐇!
Thank you brother Halverson! You gave us a great gift for Easter. It's the most beautiful and powerful lesson i've ever heard about Passover! It touches me right in the heart. We can feel the love of the Savior in your words. And we can feel your love for the savior and your neighbour.
Thank you for your lessons who give us hope and strengthens our faith. ( sorry if there are some mistakes in my english)
I love your podcasts, your insight and your heart ❤ off topic though.. I wonder if maybe your daughter could update your old testament playlist? I love putting it on playlist and just working outside and listening hands free 💜
Thank you for your lesson, dear brother. It was beautiful.
Thank you ❤️
14:14. "Justice is when we get what we deserve... Mercy is when we don't get what we deserve as in terms of punishment... Grace is when we get what we don't deserve which is that added measure of help and strength."
19:45. Brother Jared, I believe the Lord's presence on the mercy seat was sometimes literal and not always symbolic.
Yes! The Ark is a conveyance, a sedan chair, throne and mercy seat. And that mercy seat has the cherubim whose wings meet "on high" with enough *space* for a man to sit , even The Great JEHOVAH the TRUE and LIVING GOD !
Exodus 25: 20 -
"And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings *on high* , covering the mercy seat with their wings.."
I have seen sermons since forever (I am a convert who pretty much never missed church and I went to church all over the place and many difference kinds) and I promise...all the talks every week by countless people and especially this teacher on this channel and the conferences are WAY better than any sermon given by the same person over and over and over.
At 107.27, you mention Elisha lying down upon the boy who was dead or seemed to be? Listening to a discussion on the old testament by BYU with D. Kelly Ogden, he said that he was conducting a tour with some physicians. One of the physicians described the boy's condition as Stokes-Adams syndrome, if I am remembering it right. You would have to check on it further. But the Lord knew what his condition was and what Elisha needed to do to save the boy. This is just an observation . . . love your ability and way of bringing home a point. You are truly a gifted teacher, helping people in the way they need to be helped . . . like the boy . . .
Thank you Jared for sharing your Easter message it was wonderful I felt spirit strongly.
I needed this and I needed it TODAY. Thank you!
I want to come boldly to throne of grace to obtain mercy and grace. I do not know what is stopping me.
I have a testimony that Jesus is the Christ and I appreciate His atonement but there is something keeping me at a distance.
Not sure what is but I hope I figure it out.
In the meantime studying scriptures with you is helping me to close the gap.
Been listening to your podcasts for a long time, and loved seeing you doing this presentation live. Thank yo so much for all your insights. Love from Norway
I am luvia and I new in your amazing class! Thank you for your time and how you prepared for help as. Bless you and your family.
I personally believe the Savior knew who touched him when the woman with the issue of blood was healed. He was and is totally omniscient therefore I believe he wanted to give her the opportunity to confess what she had done so it would be a more powerful learning experience for all present
When you mentioned that the Hebrew writer was beckoning us forward towards the Throne of God, and you said the first word, "Come", in this phrase, I couldn't help but think about a line from the song, "The Drummer Boy".
While this is a fictional character with his own fictional story, I remember the line, "Come, They told Me...". This story was an invitation for All people to come unto Jesus Christ.
In reality, there were lowly people who came Early to a type of Throne or Mercy Seat when Jesus Christ was born. They were the Shepherds. Through the message of Angels, literally, they (the Shepherds) were able to come humbly, yet Boldly, before the Son of God.
I'm more than halfway through this one on Spotify, but giving it a view and a like here, too. One part I liked was when you compared "Who touched me?" (the woman with the issue of blood touched Jesus' clothing) to "Who's honking, Lord? *Everybody's* honking!" . . . I need to ponder more often the fact that Jesus bled and died for me and "lives to [do all the things that the hymn I Know That My Redeemer Lives says]."
Loved the reference to Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark! Interestingly, the scene referenced is also mentioned in the book of Isaiah chapter 13 verses 7 & 8 " every man's heart shall melt and their faces shall be as flames"
Funny mentioning Moses 6. I missed this one in my feed and have been struggling to prepare the Easter lesson for adult Sunday School. It is already prepared and yet as I prayed I was impressed to play a game with the class. A mind game of connecting everything in the Lesson's up this point to Jesus Christ and what happened and the atonement. Fun times. Hope it goes well and that hope will lead me to action.
Thanks for the wonderful Easter message
Bom dia, gostaria de lhe agradecer pelas maravilhosas aulas preparadas com tanto amor . Oro para que seja sempre abençoado bem como toda a sua família. Tenho uma casa no centro do Porto é a casa dos meus avós, caso um dia venha visitar-nos, gostaria que ficasse connosco, seria uma enorme honra. Apesar de termos vivido muitas perdas durante a pandemia, uma das maiores bênçãos foi tê-lo conhecido. Assim consigo melhorar o meu inglês, porque também sou gerente de um Hostel e estudo as escrituras ao mesmo tempo.
Bem haja!
Cristina Luísa Sousa, cidade do Porto Portugal (Ala1 Antas)
Only 1 hour 23 min? 😕 Sadness.
Thank you for this. Happy Easter
Are you Doctor Halverson by now?
I am, but I like "Brother Halverson" much better :) As Pres. Benson used to say, an "LDS" is better than a "PhD"!
Now every meeting you have is a doctor appointment!
Brother Halverson, thank you for the beautiful lessons. I respectfully request for you to consider leaving the scripture that you put up longer instead of going right back to watching you talk? most times I would love to be able to reread that scripture three and four times while listening to you talk about it instead of just watching you talk. Thanks again for your good work.
Check out Approaching the Throne of God with Confidence by Jörg Klebingat :)
Thank you so much for your insight...! Did the miracle of healing the issue of blood take place in Jerusalem or Capernaum...?
Do you have any advice for someone who is reticent to "come boldly before the throne of grace" because of D&C 88:65? Sometimes I am hesitant to ask for anything because it "might" bring condemnation, because it might not be expedient.
Believe that the Lord knows you…better than you do…review president Nelson’s speech from April conference…Sunday morning 2018….revelation for the church..revealation for our lives. Keep up the good work, prayer by prayer…humbly…He is there❤️😇
Thank you, David! That helps.
Does anyone know if there is a transcript for this podcast? I want to study this episode over and over and over.
From a computer you can do the following. CZcams automatically generates transcripts. They can be found by clicking the 3 horizontal dots (...) on the far right of "thumbs up & down" , share & save buttons. Clicking the 3 dots will open a menu w/ "open transcript" option. Clicking it will open a window with the transcript. The transcript includes a time stamp which can be turned off by clicking the 3 vertical buttons. To select all the text, place the cursor on the first word and press AND HOLD THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON THAN DRAG THE CURSOR TO THE bottom of the transcript window. You do NOT have to drag all lthe way to the bottom of the transcribed text. All the text will be highlighted once you drag to the bottom of the window. The text can then be copied and pasted into a word processor. The is NO punctuation in the transcribed text. Also the text will require "paragraph justification" correction to eliminate the short choppy lines. or just read them as they are. I hope this helps
A few typos I did not catch: "hold the left mouse button THEN (not than) drag"; "THERE is no punctuation" not "the is no punctuation"
43:50 Peter: "Who touched you?"
Are you a Christian. My Morman friend sent me this. I am desperate in my life and want to know Christ. I don't want to be a Morman. I want to be a real Christian and have a lot 9f challenges. I need to understand the Bible and want to know Jesus Christ.
Oh goodness. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, especially because you share/teach so much spiritual beauty through this podcast, but it just dawned on me as I reread the title of this podcast ……
I just made the correlation. Come boldly to the “Throne” of grace ……. you went boldly to your in-laws’ bathroom: the “throne” room ….. too much good humor to pass up. 😂