Matthew 19-20; Mark 10; Luke 18 Part 2 • Dr. Matt Townsend • May 8 - May 14 • Come, Follow Me

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[@nancyhansen7484]

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[@sharonwilcox9541]

Please have Dr. Townsend back again. I learned and laughed and loved this podcast!

[@barbarajohnson757]

Oh my goodness!!! I've just finished watching for a third time! I love all your presenters. Matt is new to me and I've been around awhile...I'm 75. Matt Townsend's learning and application of that learning to our view of life, relationships and especially our relationship with the Savior and how we view our growth through Him and toward Him has just blown me away! A whole different pair of lenses, from the light/original side. Not the dark/fallen-world side. Our ideal is there to strive for and our Savior's love gets us through the dark side stuff we will all, by necessity, need to muck through in this life. I think I may have to listen a few more times. It's a lot of learning. Thank you!!!

[@mariacandela7185]

Guys, listening to this podcast makes me realice that all technology given to us by the Lord, was created for helping people to find answers to our challenges. Sincerely, today my heart changed for good. THANK YOU. EXCELLENT, BRAVO!

[@bsjourney8545]

Loved this podcast. Thank you Dr.Townsend for reminding me that only through our Lord, Jesus Christ, can we find true peace.

[@oldpowerlifter]

I haven't had a very high opinion of psychologist, or counselors in the past. The reason I think was given in today's lesson. God was not first. In some cases He wasn't even allowed in the room. This was brilliant! Thank you!

[@mikecarver8166]

This is your best podcast yet. And yes, I say that every week. 😊 Thank you.

[@emilycook1813]

Excellent once again! These podcasts are an amazing blessing and strength to me each week!

[@beckyjohns2767]

Please have him on again! I loved his insights and connections between scripture and behavioral science. I especially liked his various models of teaching the plan of salvation with emphasis on the last one…which felt so right to me. If we loved God and our brother deeply in premortal life, the comm to do so in mortality seems logical…

[@stacykupiec9718]

What lack I yet? That’s a scary question, but as I listened, I realized I don’t know my identity. It used to be “Jason’s wife”. After he passed I became “Jason’s widow”. Now I’m working for the first time in 20+ years, in a new home, a new ward, and nobody here knew Jason. So now I’m just Stacy. But who is that? That’s what I’m finding out all over again. I think I’m my case, my lack of identity may be what I lack at this moment. I have to find out who I am beyond wife and widow. That feels as scary as having to give up my previous identity, excepting the sorrow and hurt. Finding myself, I hope, will bring enlightenment and joy to my life once again. ❤

[@joanfillmore5953]

I loved this podcast! Thank you for the amazing connection that you made with paradoxes. After listening I left feeling afraid to ask God what lack I yet? As I studied this morning, I found this quote by Larry R. Lawrence, Oct. 2015 General Conference The Holy Ghost doesn’t tell us to improve everything at once. If He did, we would become discouraged and give up. The Spirit works with us at our own speed, one step at a time, or as the Lord has taught, “line upon line, precept upon precept, … and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, … for unto him that receiveth I will give more.” This has been my experience. He never overwhelms me.

[@christinelabrum8257]

So grateful for Elder Lawrence's talk. I really loved it and learned a lot about how to approach the Lord and ask what I lack and can strive to work on in my life.

[@tdwagner1]

really connected here with the idea of being with Christ all day

[@JEWrick]

I always get to look at the scriptures in a new way when I listen to you guys! I love it and you for your great work of helping us to know more, Thanks

[@terivaughn2575]

This has been more than FANTASTIC! I have learned sooooo much. Thank you again for teaching us about the PARADOX OF OUR LIVES, AND, REMINDING US THE ONLY WAY TO FIND PEACE IN OUR TRIALS AND TRAGEDIES, IS BY INCLUDING THE SAVIOR IN EVERY PART OF OUR LIVES. ♥️

[@jillcammack1219]

Please invite Dr. Townsend again. I loved every minute. I learned so much from this podcast. Thank you

[@WynetteJohnson-s1e]

Laborers in the vineyard can be like children entering our family. First to last each one is loved & a full heir.

[@djensen8544]

I am so grateful for these podcast to see all the insights you all gave is so beautiful thank you!! Love brother Townsend

[@marciacrandall6034]

Loved the idea of the Laborers in the Vineyard being divided by dispensations! As a lifelong member I always thought I'd myself as a first hour, brings totally different meaning to think of myself as 11th hour. How much I owe to those who have gone before. Also Mark Jesus beholding him, loved him. You could add this line to every interaction Jesus has with anyone: woman with issue of blood, woman taken in adultery, men accusing her of adultery, and all the interactions I have with the Savior.

[@laurettahill605]

Thanks for filling my soul! Amazing conversations with lots of takeaways to ponder. ❤❤❤

[@sandylmcallister]

Soooo good! Thank you.

[@ConnieCarrier]

Thank you for great hispel lesson on eternal families!

[@isabellee7212]

I agree with you brother Bytheway. I hope that the boy sold everything and followed Jesus.

[@catherinefadian-lewandowsk8851]

I like to remember how the Saviour felt, He loved him. Also, who doesn't go away sorrowing some days. But we often still do what is required.

[@richardpineda1364]

Thank you for sharing this week lesson it was good and I can feel spirit. Have great week. 👍

[@LangiSofele]

THANK YOU FOR CONTINUAL KNOWLEDGE AND FOR YOUR TIME TO GIVE ME GREAT INSIGHT OF WHAT INEED TO DO TO BUILD RELATIONSHIP WITH MY SAVIOR.

[@joyogilvie3639]

I am thinking that the laborers could be thankful for the additional help they were given to accomplish the job. And grateful that the master sought to offer more help in the task. The ones who came in the last hour had been waiting all day for some one to employ them but had yet received the offer. Receiving the offer when they did not knowing what the reward to them would be. They still accepted small job of being able to labor for the day. It is amazing that this short parable can teach so much.

[@amymcneill3496]

Fantastic!! Thank you all!! I appreciate you. Thank you for sharing your talents. 💕

[@alannajtia]

I look at those who join the gospel later in life as so blessed! They're clean! They don't have to struggle for as long to stay clean.

[@dianneatkins2552]

I never understood the labour and the Vine yard, thanks for explaining it in terms that I understood,I am learning so much thanks alot.keep up the good podcast.

[@paulaburt1]

Outstanding! ❤

[@seymore423]

Thank you for the great discussion

[@kristinearchibald6264]

Oh my gosh, I had to keep pausing because of the dinosaur 🦕 I couldn’t stop laughing and I didn’t want to miss anything. This was so fantastic. I leaned so much, thank you ♥️

[@mrydjeski]

Spectacular.

[@edaashby1464]

Super insights. This really lit my understanding of my own reactions (natural man) and how I can change my view to open the way for improvement.

[@brentlarsen1259]

I have often used this parable to point out the additional benefits the early hires received. Yes, they all received the same pay at the end of the day, but those who worked in the morning and throughout the day had the added blessing of working side by side with the lord of vinyard. They were able to hear him, see him teach and work, building men and reaping the harvest. Those early hires received far more then a daily wage.

[@isabellee7212]

William Law Quotes If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. ...

[@modify1ful]

What's with the KZbin commercials? When did that happen? 🤔That aside, I get as much from reading others' responses as I do from the podcasts. The Spirit is so abundantly with these brothers and sisters and their spirits strengthen me.

[@MamaJLW]

I’ve been thinking about the rich young ruler’s question in relation to the wonderful story of the creation of “I Am a Child of God”. The original version by Naomi Ward Randall used teach me all that I must KNOW. If I remember correctly, President Kimball suggested the change to “teach me all that I must DO” that we sing today. Several years ago, one of the Apostles said that we really should sing/think teach me all that I must BE. (I can’t remember who said it.) I like this progression. We must first KNOW to be able to DO. By doing we then BE(come) what our Father in Heaven-and hopefully ourselves-want us to be. The rich young ruler was all about the DO part. I think his KNOW part was still a little earthbound. From his initial turning away it appears that his BE part needed some work. I hope he figured it out by his own free will in the end.

[@carolynmonahan2488]

What does it feel like to have over 70000 people listen to you each week? Thank you. I don't think I've missed an episode.

[@kimhildebrandt1624]

So, what did President Hinckley say about the 🦖🦕??? I have Loved your great insights and amazing guests and I appreciate ALL you do for us all!🥰

[@rosemaryfechser7757]

My journey draws me to focus on … GOD’S LOVE FOR ME… in That Holy Space, Everything else begins to fall into place, into proper perspective… A hyper vigilant focus on loving others-or even God- falls short of sustaining peace and healthy growth for me. I am “graven” upon His Hands… my “walls” are completely “Seen” by Jesus…and they are NOT a problem for Him. His Perfect Love for me …. can Not be “overcome.” (See Isaiah 49:15-16 & lyrics to “Forever” )

[@athenabowler3788]

So what was Pres Hinckley’s answer? I’m dying to know what he thought about dinosaurs

[@josecapella6192]

Salvation is not a zero-sum game. There's plenty to go around. And though the analogy ends with a cash payment, the true wage is admission into God's kingdom. There, our pace of progression will likely be determined by how much we prepared ourselves in the "day" of our probation, whether we were permitted to work in the vineyard for a mere hour, or from sunrise to sunset.

[@debbygonzalez892]

Those who had been working all day we're likely tired and maybe becoming less productive. That may have been why the owner of the vineyard went to find more people to help. Those who had been working all day should have been thankful for the extra hands at that point.

[@paulaburt1]

I’ll never see DINOSAURS the same way now! 😂 Amazing insights! Again and again, thank you!

[@katiap45]

I wish Hank would mentioned the other talk for Elder Holland he referred to.

[@sdeBry]

Anyone know the source for the different models (war, legal, medical, school, family) he was talking about?

[@wootwoot3748]

The quote: if you don’t choose God first it mattered not was quoted by Neil A Maxwell. And he quoted someone else

[@karenrigby2989]

The parable of the workers, I don't agree with what you are saying that everyone got the same wage and some worked an hour and some worked all day but they get equal pay, being a previous Relief Society President and having to deal with people who received a food order. I saw people who expected the free food and never worked a day in their life. I learned that there is a fine line between being Christlike and enabling the priceless beggars. Lots of people take advantage of the church because they think they are rich and the members are gullible.

[@GinaMacArt]

Pastor Jeff, you are so keen to dismiss the importance of our temples, however, you do not know of the covenants we make in the temples therefore do not judge or dismiss the importance of the covenants we make.