Hank Smith: 00:02 Hello, my friends. Welcome to another FollowHIM Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I’m here with the incredible John Bytheway. Hello, John.

John Bytheway: 00:09 Hello, Hank.

Hank Smith: 00:10 John, we’re going to take on a single question from this week’s lesson in Come, Follow Me. It’s this question, how do you feel as you read about the Savior’s resurrection? How has it affected you, your outlook on life, your relationships, your faith in Christ, and your faith in other Gospel truths?

John Bytheway: 00:29 Without that, we don’t have anything. That was the whole Gospel, is that all of us can live again because of that. We often talk about the atonement of Jesus Christ and our sins, but it’s also overcoming death, overcoming our physical death. We’ll all live again. We’ll all live with God again. What’s more important than that? I’m not sure.

Hank Smith: 00:47 Yeah. The difference in the way you view life and death is dramatic when you believe in The Resurrection or when you don’t. When you don’t believe in life after death, this life can seem so meaningless and pointless.

John Bytheway: 01:04 Pointless, yeah.

Hank Smith: 01:05 And these relationships that you have that are so beautiful and wonderful crumble into dust, but The Resurrection changed all that.

John Bytheway: 01:13 Yeah.

Hank Smith: 01:13 The Resurrection is now, these relationships, the things we learn, all the things we go through are all pushing us forward towards a next life, our next step in our eternal progression. I think you’re right, a belief in The Resurrection changes everything about your perspective and the way you think and interact with the people around you.

John Bytheway: 01:36 Everything is more positive and the hard things are easier because you know this isn’t the end. This is something I’m going through. This is something I can learn from. This is something I can look for what the Lord’s trying to teach me, but there’s something more wonderful coming.

Hank Smith: 01:50 If this guy, Jesus of Nazareth, truly was resurrected, what else is he going to do? That’s exciting to me. What else has he done and what else is he going to do? And when he comes again, what is he going to do? And if he really did all this, he is literally the most exciting, important, dramatic being in the history of the world, and we get to be attached to him and his work.

John Bytheway: 02:17 Helps us look forward to everything.

Hank Smith: 02:20 We hope you’ll join us on our full podcast. It’s called FollowHIM. You can get it wherever you get your podcasts. And then come back next week. We’ll do another Follow Him Favorites.