A Sermon About a Book Called Life, Written by God

Alma 5:58 For the names of the righteous shall be written in the book of life, and unto them will I grant an inheritance at my right hand.

Do you remember how Alma lived a sad and hopeful and happy life? Well in the process he gained a lot of ideas about life. And they weren’t just his ideas. They were ideas he learned from his father. And they were ideas he learned from an angel. And they were ideas he learned from God. And God told Alma to teach some of his life lessons to the people.

And so this is the point in the story when Alma gives up the throne, puts on his best walking sandals, and takes off to teach people about life. He starts right in the middle of his own city, Zarahemla. He teaches the people that life is like a book. Like this book. And it is like a book because it has an author. And the author is God. And the story is an adventure story. It is a story about people who are tied up in prison, strung together with chains, burned with dragon flames, and feeling just general…