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Hello, everyone. Welcome to another follow him favorites. John and I are telling a single story to go with each week's lesson this year. John, we're in Jacob 567 and I have a story for you. I think you'll like it because you like to watch football. You enjoy. I do. In Jacob chapter 7, Sheram is this faith shaker and Jacob says he wants to shake me from the faith. My students have asked, and a book about Jesus, why are these full chapters about people like Sharon and Korahore and Gideonai who are very anti-Jesus? Why have these chapters in there?

Yeah, here's a book that's supposed to bring you to Jesus, and here's all these people who don't want you to go to Jesus. I want to tell you the story. See if you can listen with your spiritual layers here. Go back with me to the 1900s. I was in high school. I was in the team captain of the football team. I know you're looking at me, but it was a small school. I played for Snow Canyon High School, Coach Bill Jacobson. Great mentor of mine, fantastic man. He was really into high school football and we were playing a team coming up this Friday and he said come to my office. We're gonna watch game film. So this is where you watch the other team that you're going to play this week. We're watching, he wants me to notice how they do what they do. Well, at this one point, he says, I want you to watch this left tackle. Now, John, you know what a left tackle is, but if anybody's listening doesn't know what a left tackle is, you're going to have to go ask someone who knows about football. They'll explain it to you. This left tackle, he's the one who's going to either block for the run or he's going to block for the past. when it was going to be a running play, when the quarterback was going to hand the ball off, he would put a lot of weight on his hand in a three point stance. He'd put a lot of his weight on this hand because he's going to run forward. If it was a passing play, he would not put so much weight on his hand. In fact, he just put his fingers on the grass because he was going to stand up to block. You could see that from the film. Yeah. So it was just a little bit lazy, but it gave away the play coach Jacobson coach Jake he said I want you to line up on him and I want you to yell out what the play is going to be I said okay I can do that go running on the field that night and there he is right I'm like wow I've only seen him on TV I lined up on him he put a lot of weight on his hand I yelled run all the defensive players with me they kind of scooted forward because they know it's going to be a run We were able to stop the run without question. John, you know football. If you know it's going to be a pass or a run, this is a huge advantage. The next way they come down and he puts his fingers on the grass. I yell, pass. Everybody scoots back a little bit for the pass. And then he comes down the next one and I'm yelling out, pass, run. And they were so mad. they would back up their huddle they thought we were listening to their huddle so they would back up further and you could hear them yelling at each other how do they know how do they know and they're yelling at their coach they know what we're gonna do in fact on a couple of times they would audible so they changed the play at the line and this guy he would change his stance he would change to yeah I would yell run pass John, we just destroyed this team by the end of the first quarter. It was 28 to nothing. They could do nothing against us. And I don't think that kid ever knew. I don't think he ever knew that he was the one that was giving the play away. John, don't you think that some of these bad guys you might call them in the Book of Mormon aren't they kind of giving us the playbook of the adversary?

I have that quote right here, John. President Benson, the book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It shows you the evil designs, strategies, and doctrines of the devil in our days. As I read these type of chapters, I should be looking for strategies. People who want to shake my faith, what are they going to do? I can read these chapters. And when I see it, I already know it's going to happen.

And you go, oh, core horror. How did Jacob deal with that? Oh, how did Alma the younger deal with core horror? I already know how to do this. I already know the playbook. John, thanks for listening to my, my high school football story.

28 to nothing. It's 24th or 1st quarter. No, I think Coach Jake let everybody play. Everybody even people out of the stands. They could come play.

I'd never seen a more frustrated team than that. That deep. In fact, that's why I'm not telling you the name of the team, because I'm sure we have listeners who have kids. I remember that game. Maybe our left tackle. Maybe he's listening. He's like, wait. Maybe that was me. I did that. Oh. Well, we hope you'll join us on our full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can get it wherever you get your podcast. We're with Dr. Matt Bowen this week from BYU Hawaii, and he explains these chapters in masterful ways. You'll want to join us for that. And then come back next week. We'll share another story for Follow Him Favorites.