Isaiah 49 • Doctrinal Mastery Practice 8

Not Forgotten Lab

Hear what it feels like to be forgotten, find the Lord’s answer, see how He proved it, and choose a passage that could help someone today.

Begin with Isaiah’s words. Which are the feeling, and which are the Lord’s answer?

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Sort Isaiah’s words

The feeling, or the Lord’s answer?

Read Isaiah 49:4–5, 13–16. Isaiah wrote in layers: these words could be his own, Israel’s, the Saviour’s, or ours. Decide where each phrase belongs.

“I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought”
Isaiah 49:4

“yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength”
Isaiah 49:5

“The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me”
Isaiah 49:14

“yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee”
Isaiah 49:15

“I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands”
Isaiah 49:16

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Link the witnesses

How was “graven … upon the palms” fulfilled?

Lesson 121 links Isaiah 49:16 with John 19:15–19 and 3 Nephi 11:10–15. Read them slowly, then find where each phrase comes from.

“they crucified him”

“feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet”

“going forth one by one until they had all gone forth”

3

Name the memory pictures

Which doctrinal mastery passage is it?

These pictures were made for our class to help you remember doctrinal mastery passages. Try to say the reference and key phrase before you choose.

Memory cartoon, a class teaching aid and not official Church artwork: a girl in enormous blue jeans and red trainers runs away from a grand house numbered 39, shouting “Nein!” in a speech bubble, while an angry woman in the doorway is left holding a blue coat.
A memory picture made for our class. It is a teaching aid, not official Church artwork.

The girl in giant jeans running from house 39, shouting “Nein!”

Memory cartoon, a class teaching aid and not official Church artwork: a smiling bearded man in a cream robe pushes a lawnmower across a green hill towards a walled city labelled ZION, whose large red Z looks like a 7; the city door shows 1 and 8, and five townspeople on the wall hold up one big red heart and one pink brain together.
A memory picture made for our class. It is a teaching aid, not official Church artwork.

The mower, the city with a big red Z, door 18, one heart and one brain

Memory cartoon, a class teaching aid and not official Church artwork: the girl in enormous blue jeans stands in golden rays beside a metal biscuit cutter shaped exactly like her; she holds up a big red number 1 and an open book showing 26 and 27.
A memory picture made for our class. It is a teaching aid, not official Church artwork.

The girl in giant jeans beside a cutter in her own shape, holding 1, 26 and 27

Memory cartoon, a class teaching aid and not official Church artwork: an owl in a purple robe leaps over a large number 29; a calendar shows Friday 13 with 14 beneath; a worried man clutches a horseshoe with a heart tied to it; a Book of Mormon shines in an open stone box.
A memory picture made for our class. It is a teaching aid, not official Church artwork.

The owl leaping over 29, the Friday 13 calendar, and the book in the stone box

Check every key phrase in the Doctrinal Mastery Core Document.

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Take it to the journal

A passage for the moment

Doctrinal Mastery Practice 8 asks how a passage could apply to a real situation, and how applying it could strengthen a relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Choose one from each row to shape a page for your own journal.

The situation:

A passage that could help:

PRIVATE JOURNAL: Keep the writing outside this app, and keep real names out of it. Nothing you choose is stored or sent; it disappears when the page is refreshed.
Journal page model titled NOT FORGOTTEN with four empty sections: 1 THE FEELING, 2 THE LORD’S ANSWER, 3 GRAVEN, 4 A PASSAGE FOR THE MOMENT
Original teaching aid, not official Church artwork. Copy the layout; the words are yours.

The three principles come from Acquiring Spiritual Knowledge.

Seminary Learning HubLesson 121 on ChurchofJesusChrist.org