“Some Great Thing”

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1. 2 Kings 5:10

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   Elisha, who sent a messenger to instruct Naaman, “Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.”

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2. 2 Kings 5:12

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   You younger boys know how it is when you show your hands to your mother: she’ll tell you to go and wash!

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3. 2 Kings 5:13

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   him and said: “If the prophet had bid thee [to] do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?”

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4. 2 Kings 5:14

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   You younger boys know how it is when you show your hands to your mother: she’ll tell you to go and wash!

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5. Doctrine and Covenants 52:8

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   Hyrum worked as a farmer and laborer to support his family, but after the Church was organized in 1830 he accepted the call to preside over the Colesville Branch.

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6. 1 Nephi 16:29

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   Small things can have great potential.

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7. Matthew 25:23

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   “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”

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8. Numbers 22

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   A few years after the death of the Prophet, Oliver repented and expressed interest in coming back to the Church.

   Alludes to High confidence

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1. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 14: Continuation of Our Lord’s Ministry in Galilee

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   • 2 Kings 5:14

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     Deems, Light of the Nations, p. 185, summing up the conditions incident to the advanced stages of the dread disease, writes: “The symptoms and the effects of this disease are very loathsome.

2. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 27: Continuation of the Perean and Judean Ministry

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   • 2 Kings 5:14

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     In the course of His journey toward Jerusalem Jesus “passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.” Ten men afflicted with leprosy approached, probably they came as near as the law permitted, yet they were afar off.