The Fruit that is Most Desirable

In His teachings, the Savior compared fruit with things of eternal worth, says Elder Neil L. Andersen. The fruit in Lehi’s dream symbolizes the blessings of the Savior’s Atonement, describing the fruit as “most desirable.”
“No wonder the angel described the fruit as ‘the most joyous to the soul,’” he says. “It truly is!”
Yet even after savoring the precious fruit of the restored gospel, staying true and faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ is still not easily done, Elder Andersen says in his October 2019 general conference address.
“We continue to face distractions and deceptions, confusion and commotion, enticements and temptations that attempt to pull our hearts away from the Savior and the joys and beauties we have experienced in following Him.”
The video includes the personal experiences of two people who tasted the joy of rediscovering their faith after losing their spiritual direction.
“Little things can upend our spiritual balance,” he continues. “Please don’t allow your questions, the insults of others, faithless friends, or unfortunate mistakes and disappointments to turn you away from the sweet, pure, and soul-satisfying blessings that come from the precious fruit of the tree. Keep your eyes and your hearts centered on the Savior Jesus Christ and the eternal joy that comes only through Him.”
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[@khaterascott2286]

Absolutely love this. I’m so excited for my decision to convert and get baptized on July 10th 2021. I testify that this gospel and this church is the true church of Jesus Christ and President Russell M. Nelson is the true living prophet. I say these things in the name of my savior and redeemer Jesus Christ amen

[@kisserravnsrensen369]

Welcome from 🇩🇰 Denmark Khatera. ♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏♥️

[@nickg2759]

amen!

[@SharonSeekingJesus]

I was baptized January 23rd 2021. I too testify of these things in the name of Jesus Christ and I am so happy to have been gathered with you this year!!

[@guardianangel9517]

AMEN 💞💖💜

[@coleygyaluv]

I’m so happy you got baptized! And thank you for your testimony 💜

[@mr.300c]

We are living in the last days brothers and sisters...witnessing prophecies being fullfilled, the fullness of the Gospel in abundance, the pride of man distracting us everyday...focus on the Savior and endure till the end! It's worth it! 😎

[@laminarflow6072]

Thanks for sounding like a normal man.

[@carolynbrown4112]

@Mr. 300C--Thanks for the reminder! I needed to hear that!

[@joseflores-mz2rl]

Keep your eyes centered on The Savior Jesus Christ! Well said. Thank you for sharing this video. Great reminder to start my day!

[@ColemanOutdoors]

This means so much during this time. It breaks my heart thinking of friends and family that have left the church or wavered since the beginning of 2020. Even my testimony has been tried. Challenging times, but I'm encouraged by the spirit and I'm excited at the signs that Christ will soon return.

[@lukepatchett8244]

John 6:67-68 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

[@joseflores-mz2rl]

Yes same here. Pretty much all in my group of friends and family have left the church. My wife daughter and myself remain. Yes I also feel the Savior is coming soon.

[@guardianangel9517]

Me too! Keep your chin UP brother 🙏🏼 The battle is rough, but God's made us TOUGH 🤍🕊

[@ColemanOutdoors]

@@joseflores-mz2rl thanks for sharing. "Take your vitamin pills" The words of a prophet, said with a twinkle in his eye was so profound. It's a constant reminder that Christ leads His church.

[@ColemanOutdoors]

@@guardianangel9517 He has and thank you for the encouragement. :)

[@animecreator3678]

This video brings peace to my soul. As a repented sinner, I am truly grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Atonement. Aside from my family, they are the biggest blessings in my life.

[@ofelia829]

Keep your eyes and your heart centred on the Saviour Jesus Christ. Let us do it indeed. Thank you.🍃

[@crystalofcourage03]

This message is so important for me to remember, especially with being in but not of the world.

[@prathameshbile5865]

Thank You, Jesus! Thank you very much for sharing! God bless! Hallelujah!

[@marthammiller2280]

With Jesu in our hearts all things are possible! Perseverance, run the race till the end!

[@jihabakeyboardist6871]

Always holy spirit bless you the man of God

[@quietteacher8300]

Amen and amen. The more you suffer from your own bad choices, the more God craves to embrace you and forgive you!

[@yellowyosh470]

Beautiful 💛 I believe and have tasted of the fruit of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and I'm grateful for it! This is what has brought me peace, joy, satisfaction, and spirituality.

[@noskalborg723]

Just to clarify for anyone reading the comments. Questions are welcome, but when we ask in faith expecting to receive (like it says in James 1), then we can receive true answers. But if we ask in doubt, fear, or anger; then we will find what we want at the time: a stumbling block, an excuse to leave. "Seek and ye shall find" applies just as much to the faithless as the faithful. If we seek to kill our faith, then we shall find abundant excuses of varying degrees of falsehood. But if we earnestly seek true answers, then we shall find the truth. It may take longer longer to find true answers, but we WILL find them.

[@guardianangel9517]

That's RIGHT.. Where one's heart is, there will their treasure be💰🔎💜

[@BoMwarrior]

Amen. 👍 Great observation that "Seek and ye shall find" applies not just to the good & positive, but the negative as well. #ShareGoodness 😊

[@speakeroftruth8149]

I looove this. Sister Sheri Dew talks about this often 🙌☺️

[@corazonjavierketchem9947]

This is perfectly timed for me today! Thank you for this beautiful reminder about keeping our hearts and our minds focused on the Savior Jesus Christ 💘

[@leswalker2639]

This talk is very important and it is a must that we all hold tight to the rod of iron which is the word of God and the scriptures. We even have family members that will try to pull us away from the rod. Even those who mock the church with confusion in the great spacious building will try to shame us so we will let go of the rod! Don't let go of the Rod of iron!

[@montisalepon5632]

Such a wonderful message I heard tonight. Thanks God for helping me to stay through thy instruments😇🙏💕

[@StompMom5]

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL ❤️. One thing that has always helped when I would struggle is I can listen to man or I can listen to God and his leaders. It all comes down to who has your better interest at heart. We know God loves us and will ALWAYS rescue us. Then why would be choose man when they can't offer that same kind of love? I would say dwelling on miracles is a great way to stay the course. I have seen miracles that no man could ever explain and that alone seals my feet on the path. Video well done

[@guardianangel9517]

Yep! A gratitude journal is a fun tool📗

[@rockymountainsunshinepodca4309]

Very timely. Thank you!

[@andyworthen6587]

I love this talk.

[@debleigh1249]

Love, love, love this!

[@rachelyang4806]

Thank you for sharing this great messages❤

[@samuelthygerson6009]

Thank you for this little snip-it of truth :)

[@premalathaanthony8042]

I am grateful to be a member in the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints I thank God for the blessings which he has shaved upon me always hearing my prayers and caring for me were shall we go he is the only way and the living water in our life.

[@riikkaliinaturkki]

Thank you. ☺️💛

[@lucygriffith2099]

Don't ever give up on those you love. When I came back after being away for so long THAT was the thing that bothered me the most....it was the lack of love and welcoming to those of us who have been "lost" for a time. Also the lack of hope for those they love in their family who are not active. Love your family member exactly as if they were fully active in Church. This speaks VOLUMES,and testifies of your love for them and your love for our Savior Jesus Christ. He sees who we can become, not always who we are at the time. We can see it in your eyes, Such love and hope ❤ will help us find our way back. True unconditional love

[@notkingknub4207]

This is so empowering

[@teodoromaranan1415]

This is a good program. More power.

[@TheProductExaminer101]

The fruits are the commandants and the covenants path to eternal life 🙏🏻

[@timcolby8874]

Awesome production and video. Very well done. God bless all of you Reverend Timothy Michael Chicago Illinois

[@rfreitas3298]

Perseverance till the end

[@butcherspeed2115]

Speechless…….Awesome Video.

[@cathyknappen4467]

Thanks for sharing this wonderful, inspiring message! 💗🙌

[@churchofjesuschrist]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Manjankonyak]

Praise the lord...

[@guardianangel9517]

"Fear not though the enemy deride.. Courage for the Lord is on our side.. We will heed not what the wicked may say.. But the Lord, alone we will obey.." Of COURSE things are gonna get difficult. The scriptures are proven true EVERY DAY! They also said "For if I am with thee, who can be against thee?" and "Fear not little flock, for I am with thee." In life or death we're blessed if we've clung to the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, and SHARED His love with others. Keep your eyes on the prize, and DON'T SETTLE for the world's COUNTERFEIT CA-CA! Much love from an Idaho sister 🙏🏼❤💜💞💖

[@rapache1]

Thank you for these messages

[@emperorgoldman3278]

Amazing 🙏 thank you

[@dane_with_swag]

Beautiful

[@makehetutu2472]

Your message is so true, we cannot afford to leave the true church on the earth, we will be void and we do not know what to do, stay faithfully to our Living God and His Beloved Son Jesus Christ forever and ever and never fail. Stay true to our Covenants path. Love this message.

[@amandadangerfieldpiano]

Thank you. This is so so beautiful, and I watched it with my kids during our homeschool time. My favorite part was the woman talking about when Jesus asked "will you also go away?" but He has the words of eternal life.

[@earnestly.waiting4870]

More of these please! Many are weary, and this was edifying 🤍

[@amenwahid5668]

Believe in Jesus. That is Absolutely True. I have Connection with Divine Place. I hear from There. Jesus is Holly Spirit of God. Whoever believes in Him will have Eternal Life in Paradise next to Him.

[@emmad4152]

Beautiful! :)

[@andrewb.massaquoi374]

Amen

[@joshuabowman442]

Thank you Elder Anderson!

[@laurapaul8623]

What a great message!

[@spencerpalmer4961]

Thank you for the video!!!

[@suzannestanton9477]

Stand ye in holy places and be not moved!

[@siilatacollins154]

Thank HEAVENLY FATHER and our BELOVED HOLY HEAVENLY MOTHER, for the Restoration of the TRUE CHURCH, THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS, back on Earth...

[@isaacvandrimmelen3383]

Loved that thanks for putting it out

[@yeshuteradhanwad6792]

Thanks Jesus🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@vaniapriscilaflores7479]

Absolutely Love and enjoy this. I felt the Spirit when the sister told about how Jesus Christ ask "We thou also go away?" I feel a little sad, like seeing him, asking me this question, I would totally feel bad, and regret that feeling about going away; He says it with so sweetness that I feel my heart melting, and with compassion for him, like "I don't want him to be alone". Otherwise than that, I LOVE, this video. It help me a lot. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@michaelmoore2326]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful video...

[@MegWasHere2011]

Excellent

[@jvcancel2031]

I really love this video! Thank you

[@HastyClip]

Wow! Such an amazing video. Thank you!

[@GO-cz7cl]

This helped a lot. Thanks!

[@RICREYNOLDSMUSIC]

How I wish someone would state the true nature of this White Fruit. I have felt the Holy Ghost very often but this fruit of which Lehi speaks, is the fullness of the Love of God. It fills your whole being with uttermost delight. It surpasses understanding because it cannot be compared to anything. You don't have to wait until you die to feel this but are entitled to partake. Pure thoughts and pure desires are all the Savior asks.

[@travismarin2595]

It's stated in The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ.

[@kentbass1233]

This is great! Simple and beautiful!

[@navin6615]

Wow really guys u are doing awesome things god really help u with holy spirit only u doing this keep telling his love please

[@danielmacharia2649]

Jesus is the only person can show us the way

[@terryslade6240]

Absolutely! And he shows us through the Holy Scriptures!

[@jyothisantony2360]

From India ❤️❤️

[@lauraperrett3030]

So well done. Thank you.

[@stormythelowcountrykitty8463]

Good words

[@bigmason4515]

So amazing

[@traviswitherspoon4190]

Loved the video thx for sharing🙏

[@ileneferris1012]

So good, thanks, I want this fruit. I loved the little boy with the watermelon.

[@GHCONSERVATIVE]

From Ghana 🇬🇭

[@godholyspiritdestroyedallm575]

as details as what the bible indicated that is vividly showed in front of people to the world in deed true...GOD IS yesterday today & tomorrow forever EXISTING in our lives TKS 🕎👼🕎👼🕎👼

[@deannaisreal]

Glory alleluia mercy

[@portiaaffram5176]

An Eye single unto the glory of God

[@whitleypedia]

The Great and spacious building is greater and more spacious than ever

[@fionaokeefe1906]

I don’t remember ever meeting a Lehi🤔however he seemed like an interesting man, such a shame our paths never crossed😔

[@terryslade6240]

Read the Book of Mormon; your path will cross with Lehi's, and a whole bunch others. At the very end of the Book, you might just see Moroni as he buries the Gold Plates, turn to you and say, "Believe, because we did all this for you."

[@brotherwesterldr5085]

This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you. How do you hear Him?

[@itz_dom.official]

I open my mind to Him, I trust Him, and sometimes, a scripture reference comes to mind - one I don't know, so I look it up, and it always says something that relates to what I need. 🙏

[@mckayhigley9287]

Through being in nature, through serving and loving His children, including myself

[@ayishanazir4292]

❤🙏

[@sheldonmurphy6031]

This was really cool! 😊

[@paulhatch4620]

"To whom shall we go" - In our greatest imagination, we couldn't script a hope greater than what Christ has scripted. What greater view of God could there be than He is our loving Father? What greater destiny could we script than the ability to become like our Heavenly Parents? What greater view of this life could there be than it does not end at death, that our cherished relationships can last beyond the grave? Etc. Etc. Before considering what you know to be true, at least consider at a basic level what you HOPE to be true. What other organization aside from God's kingdom offers this hope? (Can't find it elsewhere) The great news is that what we "hope" is true can become confirmed truth through the power of the Holy Ghost, the fruits of the prophets, and our own experience.

[@mariagiles6623]

And with the power of the priesthood.

[@juliepalmer3126]

Keep your eyes on three Savior

[@gurug9797]

Hare Krishna 💟🙏

[@lolakekahuna2423]

Cool

[@vgf9199]

❤🔥

[@katherinem.4414]

Deceptions….distractions, discouragement….avoid those.

[@manthabelengthoabala2810]

,♥️♥️♥️

[@mihaelbosnjakovic4704]

🙏

[@user-iq1ij8rz3u]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@averagedude76]

I love this video… but the speaker forgot to mention Figs at the start of the video! (I’m a fig lover).

[@prankgirl9112]

Now I really want some watermelon, that looked tasty. Great vid!!!!

[@ruexcited2WholeHearted]

A Seed of Faith 27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words. 28 Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves-It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.

[@obeidakhater8901]

As I understand and I don't know if I am right that fruit is faith and belive God loves from the tree of immortality. Really the test of this fruit gives your soul calm and peaceful and cold and surrounder to the God and Jesus Christus 🙏

[@travismarin2595]

The iron rod represents faith. The fruit represents life with God. The tree represents the love of God.

[@joshuadrewlow]

"Will you also go away?"

[@REDFANGDALLRED]

:D

[@vonthebonesaw8175]

Every fruit u know them

[@JenniLJones-qx8ys]

❤🤘🥰🤘❤

[@user-tq6qf1rs2j]

👍

[@aizlyn6719]

why they put the Star Wars soundtrack as background music tho?

[@travismarin2595]

The song is called "Redeemer of Isreal", hymn 6.

[@MD-bp6mz]

I thought the fruit symbolized eternal life not the atonement?

[@chaseallen7499]

I believe the video said that the fruit symbolised the blessing from the atonement which would include eternal life.

[@navin6615]

Jesus loves u and died for u For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16 NKJV I do not force u to accept him becz god even not force anyone to follow him Just think without creator how the creation one god is there he created everything and us also so think about God and please him After our death, no one come with us God alone judge us U are so special and beautiful and precious gods child k God for u All glory to God only Keep telling Jesus love. . With the holy spirit only u doing this without god we are ntg...

[@curtisgeiger9134]

There was no fruit or fruit trees in the America's before the Europeans brought them. Think Ye!

[@churchofjesuschrist]

Thanks for your comment, @curtisgeiger9134 and for the opportunity to clarify some of the history of the Book of Mormon. In the introduction to the Book of Mormon, you'll read that the "record gives an account of two great civilizations. One came from Jerusalem in 600 B.C. and afterward separated into two nations, known as the Nephites and the Lamanites. The other came much earlier when the Lord confounded the tongues at the Tower of Babel. This group is known as the Jaredites." www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/introduction?lang=eng. This video depicts a vision that the prophet Lehi had shortly after leaving Jerusalem. If you'd like to read the chapter from the video you can do so here: www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/8?lang=eng

[@patrickrose567]

Some come unto the tree of life , by covenants and some by the forbidden fruit , to opposition all things , to be by both Sticks to be made One , the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. What's loosed on earth be in heaven. To confounding the devil and his followers. To , be by Resurrection by , Jesus Christ the way the life and truth to be a witness of both Nations. Abraham , and his Seed , to the House of the lord , the house of David would have both , folds to be One in it. Interesting. The Vision to partake of the tree of life and its not forbidden unto , the covenants of why as Jesus Christ is the Resurrection to be twinkled not to taste death. The law to fulfillment by faith tell it is by Prophecy fulfilled to all. As Nephi came to blessing the sacrament by the higher law and still practicing the lower law , for it was commandment , still . So be Moses , to the Israel. The law of the sacrament he had the sacrament prayers with him. The ark of the covenant had bread prepared in it . And the fountain of the well , of endless water. I don't know the scriptures well , but the well , that springs forth , a Parable teaching to be the tree of life. Anyway I'm thinking out loud. As , To partake of Jesus Christ and live forever , be the covenants to know the lord makes with the fathers they not cast off forever. The law of Moses , could of been , by the same as Nephi teachings be as Nephi blessing the sacrament , and still by commandments blood sacrifice for the law be not fulfilled by Jesus Christ yet. Moses , I love you. Some say Moses didn't go to the Promised land , as did he become angry and destroy the sacrament prayer not yet understanding it . Was it taken from the plane and precious parts of the gospel and if Moses would of reached up to partake of the tree of life again in that day he would of died. So Moroni. I'm to stop. Jesus Christ name Amen.

[@jaredrodriguez4974]

Amen