“Lovest Thou Me?”

Steven C. Barlow October 2025 Saturday Evening Session

Scripture citations

  1. Luke 15:13

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    In the parable of the prodigal son, the elder brother initially struggled to celebrate when his younger brother returned home after a period of poor choices and “wast[ing] his substance with riotous living.” The elder brother’s pride and self-righteousness kept him from embracing the joy of his brother’s repentant return.

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  2. 1 Nephi 8:11

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    God’s love is perfect, infinite, enduring, and “most sweet.” It fills the soul with “exceedingly great joy.” Nevertheless, at times we may find it difficult to recognize God’s love in our lives.

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  3. 1 Nephi 8:12

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    God’s love is perfect, infinite, enduring, and “most sweet.” It fills the soul with “exceedingly great joy.” Nevertheless, at times we may find it difficult to recognize God’s love in our lives.

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  4. 2 Nephi 31:3

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    God’s love is perfect, infinite, enduring, and “most sweet.” It fills the soul with “exceedingly great joy.” Nevertheless, at times we may find it difficult to recognize God’s love in our lives.

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  5. John 3:16

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    God’s love is perfect, infinite, enduring, and “most sweet.” It fills the soul with “exceedingly great joy.” Nevertheless, at times we may find it difficult to recognize God’s love in our lives.

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  6. 1 John 4:19

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    Like the prodigal son’s elder brother, our focus is often centered on ourselves.

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  7. Matthew 22:36

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    Like the prodigal son’s elder brother, our focus is often centered on ourselves.

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  8. John 21:15

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    “Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?

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  9. John 21:16

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    to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.”
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  10. Mosiah 2:17

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    We show our love for Heavenly Father when we serve, listen to, love, lift, or minister to His children.

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  11. Doctrine and Covenants 76:94

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    We show our love for Heavenly Father when we serve, listen to, love, lift, or minister to His children.

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  12. Doctrine and Covenants 59:21

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    We also manifest our love for God by having a grateful heart.

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  13. Philemon 1:4

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    We also manifest our love for God by having a grateful heart.

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  14. John 14:15

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    “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
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  15. 2 Nephi 10:23

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    Heavenly Father gave us agency to inspire us to want to choose Him.

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  16. Helaman 14:30

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    Heavenly Father gave us agency to inspire us to want to choose Him.

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  17. Moses 1:39

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    Heavenly Father gave us agency to inspire us to want to choose Him.

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  18. Mosiah 5:2

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    As mission leaders, my wife, Christina, and I were inspired by so many missionaries who chose to be obedient not only because it was a missionary standard but because they wanted to show their love for the Lord by humbly choosing to represent Him.

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  1. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 27: Continuation of the Perean and Judean Ministry

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    • Moses 1:39

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (2)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (q)

      The three parables, which appear in the scriptural record as parts of a continuous discourse, are as one in portraying the joy that abounds in heaven over the recovery of a soul once numbered among the lost, whether that soul be best symbolized by a sheep that had wandered afar, a coin that had dropped out of sight through the custodian’s neglect, or a son who would deliberately sever himself from home and heaven.

  2. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 3: The Need of a Redeemer

    1 shared verse

    • Moses 1:39

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (2)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (l)

      So, for the advancement of man from his present fallen and relatively degenerate state to the higher condition of spiritual life, a power above his own must cooperate.

  3. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 33: The Last Supper and the Betrayal

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    • John 14:15

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      Open paragraph (1)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (i)

      The Holy Ghost was promised to the apostles; He would be sent through Christ’s intercession, to be to them “another Comforter,” or as rendered in later translations, “another Advocate” or “Helper,” even the Spirit of Truth, who, though the world would reject Him as they had rejected the Christ, should dwell with the disciples, and in them even as Christ then dwelt in them and the Father in Him.

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