Aaron, seeing the faith of Lamoni's father, was filled with joy at this fresh expression of the Holy Spirit's promptings. Aaron, by degrees, explained to the king the principles of the Everlasting Gospel. He commenced with the creation of man, showed how Adam fell that man might be, and how the Plan of Redemption through the Savior's sufferings was devised even before the world was; and how man, by obedience to the Gospel's precepts, would triumph over death and hell.