True Worship Centered in God
In 1 Nephi 17:46–55 Laman and Lemuel received a powerful, tangible witness that the power of the Lord was with Nephi. Their immediate reaction was to fall down and worship Nephi (see v. 55). In doing so they demonstrated a common mistake of men; namely, they wanted to worship the man with the power rather than God, the source of the power. Like other prophets faced with this tendency to personal adoration, Nephi teaches where the true worship should be centered (see also Paul and Barnabas’s reaction to a similar situation in Acts 14:8–18, and the angel’s reaction when John fell at his feet after seeing the great vision in Revelation 22:8–9).
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