Alma 5:52-56

Brant Gardner

Alma is wrapping up his sermon by reiterating the main points. At the final day, there will come a time when “every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the fire.” That theme was first stated in verse 35.

Alma tells them that they cannot continue being puffed up in pride or wear costly apparel. Those themes were first suggested in verses 28 and 29, where Alma used the need to be ‘stripped of envy’ and pride.

The theme of persecution was found in verse 30.

The themes of elevating oneself over another and turning one’s back to the poor and needy were not explicitly mentioned, but those are common themes indicating Nephite apostasy from truth. As Alma ends, he reiterates the nature of the congregation’s sins from which they are called to repentance.

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