The allegory of the olive tree. What is means. What is the vineyard? What are the trees? What are the branches? What is the fruit? Difference between tame and wild.
Transcript:
[00:00:01] Welcome to the weekly Deep Dive podcast on the add on Education network.
[00:00:07] The podcast where we take a look at the weekly come follow me discussion and try to add a little insight and unique perspective. I am your host, Jason Lloyd, and as you may have guessed, I am not in the studio. I’m actually in my basement on my own little home office here, trying to make a semi decent recording for you guys at home to listen to without a producer. And obviously, there is a large difference in the production quality of me dabbling here on the side versus Nate with the full blown studio doing this for years. So I apologize for the lack of intro music. I apologize for the lack of refinement in the sound and the quality of the podcast, and I apologize for the lack of Nate. Nate’s out of town this week. He had some work, and we couldn’t quite get together to make this happen on another time. So I’m gonna fly solo on tonight, and we’ve got a few things to talk about in Jacob as we’re going to the allegory of the olive tree.
[00:01:11] And before I. Before I launched down this road, I felt like now would be a good time to talk about conference. Yeah, we just had it this. This past weekend, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I know it’s not fair to say, oh, this conference was good. They’re all good, right? They’re all good.
[00:01:31] And I don’t know, maybe just feels like it because you’re in the moment, but it always feels like whatever conference you’re in seems to be the best one. But I really enjoyed this one.
[00:01:41] And for me personally, I found a lot of messages, a lot of hope, a lot of things that I was looking for a lot of answers to prayers in going through these conference. So, I mean, I guess that’s part of the game, right? But another thing that maybe I should bring out here on the show for. For Nate and I, we’ve been going down this. This exploratory road of covenants. What are covenants? Ordinances? And trying to really better understand this ourselves and dive through it with you guys and have kind of this experience. It’s been something that’s been on our mind a lot. I’m sure you guys are aware of that because it’s. It seems like it makes its way into the show. Not too long ago, in two nephi 31, we kind of dove into the baptismal covenant and sacrament. And for me, it was great to see such focus and emphasis in general conference, talking about covenants.
[00:02:38] I loved it, and I felt like we got more insight, more defining of what they are. I loved Elder Oaks, Elder Oaks president, Oaks talk and the clarity that he was able to bring to the subject and the parallels, talking about different oaths and covenants, even in similarities, when he’s talking about emergency services or wedding and what he pulled into it. Honestly, I. I really enjoyed what he had to share. I’m sure Nate’s gonna have some more thoughts on this, and so I’ll wait for him to be back next week before we comment too much more down this road, but just some early insight for me. Anyways, I really appreciated that. I enjoyed it. I felt like.
[00:03:23] I feel like there was a lot brought to the table to add some clarity to define where we stand and to help us better understand our relationship with God and the covenant relationship that we enter into. So just my two cent for what it’s worth. And maybe it is just worth the $0.02, maybe it’s not even worth that. But let’s. Let’s dive in. So I wanted to talk about Jacob five, and this is the allegory of the olive tree. And as we dive into this, let me first just kind of give you guys a heads up. I apologize in advance if this episode is going to run maybe a little bit shorter than what you’re used to, and maybe for you guys, that’s actually a good t...
