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Questions about each individual verse asked are -What? Why? handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.comBlogger472125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-70820812447234666382017-03-16T06:47:00.000-05:002017-03-16T06:47:23.028-05:00Worship Through Music3 Nephi 4:31<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 4:31</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Worship
Through Music</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">31 And
it came to pass that they did break forth, all as one, in singing,
and a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/4?lang=eng#31a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">praising</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">their
God for the great thing which he had done for them, in preserving
them from falling into the hands of their enemies.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">they
won the war against the Gadianton Robbers. Those who did not
surrender were slain and their leader hanged. They were so happy
and grateful to the Lord for his protection that they burst out in
song to praise the Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pattern</b></span></span></div>
<h2 class="western">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanksgiving</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/ingratitude?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ingratitude</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/praise?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Praise</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/prayer?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Prayer</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/rejoice?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Rejoice</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/thank?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Thank</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/thankful?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Thankful</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/thanks?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Thanks</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sing
unto the Lord with thanksgiving: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/147.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ps. 147:7</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">live
in thanksgiving daily: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/34.38?lang=eng#37"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Alma
34:38</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">he
who receiveth all things with thankfulness: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/78.19?lang=eng#18"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>D&C 78:19</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">praise
the Lord with … prayer of praise and thanksgiving: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/136.28?lang=eng#27"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 136:28</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="28"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote42"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote43"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote44"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote45"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote46"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">28 If
thou art a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/136.28?lang=eng#28a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">merry</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">, b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/136.28?lang=eng#28b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">praise</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the
Lord with singing, with music, with c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/136.28?lang=eng#28c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">dancing</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
and with a d</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/136.28?lang=eng#28d"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">prayer</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of
praise and e</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/136.28?lang=eng#28e"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>thanksgiving</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<h2 class="western">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Singing,
Sing, Sang, Sung</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/music?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Music</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/rejoice?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Rejoice</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Then sang Moses: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/15.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ex.
15:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/32.44?lang=eng#43"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Deut.
32:44</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/15.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rev.
15:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Miriam
answered them, Sing ye to the Lord: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/15.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ex. 15:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sing unto
the Lord, all the earth: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-chr/16.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Chr.
16:23</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/96.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps.
96:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">they sang together
by course in praising: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezra/3.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ezra
3:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">When
the morning stars sang together: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/job/38.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Job
38:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/128.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
128:23</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">sing praise
to the name of the Lord: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/7.17?lang=eng#16"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps.
7:17</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/9.2%2C11?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 9:2,
11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/13.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 13:6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/18.49?lang=eng#48"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 18:49</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ;</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/21.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 21:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/33.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 33:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/47.6%2C7?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 47:6,
7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/57.7-10?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 57:7–10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/59.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 59:16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/61.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 61:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/66.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 66:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/67.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 67:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 71:22</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/75.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 75:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/106.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 106:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/108.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 108:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/135.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 135:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/146.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 146:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/147.1%2C7?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 147:1,
7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/150.1-6?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 150:1–6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/james/5.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">James
5:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138.24?lang=eng#23"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
138:24</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">come
to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their
heads: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/35.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 35:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/51.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 51:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/8.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
8:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/45.71?lang=eng#70"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
45:71</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/66.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>D&C 66:11</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/101.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 101:18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/109.39?lang=eng#38"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 109:39</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/133.33?lang=eng#32"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 133:33</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/7.53?lang=eng#52"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moses
7:53</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">break
forth into singing: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/44.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 44:23</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/22.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 Ne.
22:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">had sung an
hymn, they went out: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/26.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt.
26:30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/mark/14.26?lang=eng#25"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mark
14:26</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Paul
and Silas … sang praises unto God: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/16.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Acts
16:25</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Speaking
to yourselves in psalms and hymns: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/eph/5.19?lang=eng#18"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Eph.
5:19</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/col/3.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Col.
3:16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Is
any merry? let him sing psalms: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/james/5.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">James
5:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">join
the choirs above in singing: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/2.28?lang=eng#27"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah
2:28</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">with
the voice together shall they sing: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/12.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah 12:22</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">did
gather themselves together to sing: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/20.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah 20:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">sing the
song of redeeming love: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/5.26?lang=eng#25"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
5:26</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/26.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 26:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Holy
Ghost led them … to sing: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/6.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moro.
6:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">song of
the righteous is a prayer unto me: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/25.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
25:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Let
the earth break forth into singing: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/128.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 128:22</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">sing the
song of the Lamb: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/133.56?lang=eng#55"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 133:56</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Christ</span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">It
is Him we praise when we sing.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Conference</span></b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1994/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>OCTOBER
1994</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> | </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Worship
through Music</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/dallin-h-oaks?lang=eng">Dallin
H. Oaks</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p11"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
First Presidency has said:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p12"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Inspirational
music is an essential part of our church meetings. The hymns invite
the Spirit of the Lord, create a feeling of reverence, unify us as
members, and provide a way for us to offer praises to the Lord.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p13"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Some
of the greatest sermons are preached by the singing of hymns. Hymns
move us to repentance and good works, build testimony and faith,
comfort the weary, console the mourning, and inspire us to endure to
the end” (</span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hymns,</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> 1985,
p. ix).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
singing of hymns is one of the best ways to put ourselves in tune
with the Spirit of the Lord. I wonder if we are making enough use of
this heaven-sent resource in our meetings, in our classes, and in our
homes.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p19"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
singing of hymns is one of the best ways to learn the doctrine of the
restored gospel. Elder Stephen D. Nadauld captured this unique
strength in some lines he wrote and shared in a General Authority
meeting:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p20"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">If
I would teach with power</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
doctrine and the plan,</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p22"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I’d
wish for gentle music</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p23"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
prepare the soul of man.</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p24"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
then to press forever</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p25"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">These
truths upon his mind,</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p26"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We’d
sing the hymns of Zion,</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p27"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">With
their messages sublime.</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p28"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
scriptures contain many affirmations that hymn singing is a glorious
way to worship. Before the Savior and his Apostles left the upper
room where they had the sublime experience of the Last Supper, they
sang a hymn. After their hymn, the Savior led them to the Mount of
Olives (see </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/26.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt.
26:30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p29"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Apostle Paul advised the Colossians that they should be “teaching
and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/col/3.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Col.
3:16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
see also </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/26.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
26:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">For
my soul delighteth in the song of the heart; yea, the song of the
righteous is a prayer unto me, and it shall be answered with a
blessing upon their heads” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/25.11-12?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
25:11–12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p32"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
a revelation given through another prophet a generation later, the
Lord commanded his people to “praise the Lord with singing, [and]
with music” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/136.28?lang=eng#27"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
136:28</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p33"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This
direction to praise the Lord with singing is not limited to large
meetings. When the Lord’s Apostles meet in modern times, the
singing of hymns is still part of their meetings. The weekly meetings
of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the Salt
Lake Temple always begin with a hymn. Elder Russell M. Nelson plays
the organ accompaniment. The First Presidency, who conduct these
meetings, rotate the privilege of selecting the opening song. Most of
us record the date each hymn is sung. According to my records, the
opening song most frequently sung during the decade of my
participation has been “I Need Thee Every Hour” (</span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hymns,</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> 1985,
no. 98). Picture the spiritual impact of a handful of the Lord’s
servants singing that song before praying for his guidance in
fulfilling their mighty responsibilities.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p34"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
veil is very thin in the temples, especially when we join in </span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">worshipping
through music. At temple dedications I have seen more tears of joy
elicited by music than by the spoken word. I have read accounts of
angelic choirs joining in these hymns of praise, and I think I have
experienced this on several occasions. In dedicatory sessions
featuring beautiful and well-trained choirs of about thirty voices,
there are times when I have heard what seemed to be ten times thirty
voices praising God with a quality and intensity of feeling that can
be experienced but not explained. Some who are listening today will
know what I mean.</span><span style="color: #333333;">
</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Apply</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">From
Elder Oaks</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p56"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
need to make more use of our hymns to put us in tune with the Spirit
of the Lord, to unify us, and to help us teach and learn our
doctrine. We need to make better use of our hymns in missionary
teaching, in gospel classes, in quorum meetings, in home evenings,
and in home teaching visits. Music is an effective way to worship our
Heavenly Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. We should use hymns when
we need spiritual strength and inspiration.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p57"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
who have “felt to sing the song of redeeming love” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/5.26?lang=eng#25"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
5:26</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">)
need to keep singing that we may draw ever closer to him who has
inspired sacred music and commanded that it be used to worship him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">[We
also need to use music/the hymns often to praise God for our
blessings.]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Hymns</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">tis
Sweet to Sing of Matchless Love</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/praise-the-lord-with-heart-and-voice?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Praise
the Lord with Heart and Voice (#73)</span></span></a></div>
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<li><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/praise-to-the-lord-the-almighty?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Praise
to the Lord, the Almighty (#72)</span></span></span></a></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/sing-praise-to-him?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sing
Praise to Him (#70)</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/sing-we-now-at-parting?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sing
We Now at Parting (#156)</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Children</span></u></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/hum-your-favorite-hymn?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hum
Your Favorite Hymn (#152)</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/lift-up-your-voice-and-sing?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lift
Up Your Voice and Sing (#252)</span></span></a></div>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-3503501277193001912017-03-03T10:28:00.000-06:002017-03-03T10:28:04.989-06:00Revelation<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Nephi 3:19</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Spirit
of Revelation</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="19"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote18"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">19 Now
it was the custom among all the Nephites to appoint for their chief
captains, (save it were in their times of wickedness) some one that
had the a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#19a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">spirit</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of
revelation and also prophecy; therefore, this Gidgiddoni was a great
prophet among them, as also was the chief judge.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">If
the chief captain has the spirit of revelation then he will be guided
to know what to do in times of battle as he will be directed by God.
Therefore they would be able to win all their battles. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pattern</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">TG Guidance,
Divine</span></span></span></span></div>
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<spacer align="LEFT" height="12" type="BLOCK" width="184"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">See
also </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">God,
Spirit of</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">God,
Wisdom of</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Holy
Ghost, Mission of</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Inspiration</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Revelation</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Spirit</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ;</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Walking
with God</span></u></span></span></span></a></spacer></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Amos
3</span></span><span style="background: #ffffff;">:7</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">7
Surely the Lord God will do
nothing, </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">but</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> he </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">revealeth</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> his </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">secret</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> unto
his servants the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">prophets</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Prov.
3:6</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">6
In all thy ways </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">acknowledge</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">him,
and he shall </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">direct</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> thy </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">paths</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Alma
8:14</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">14
And it came to pass that while he was journeying thither, being
weighed down with sorrow, wading through much </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">tribulation</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and
anguish of soul, because of the wickedness of the people who were in
the city of Ammonihah, it came to pass while Alma was thus weighed
down with sorrow, behold an </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">angel</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
the Lord appeared unto him, saying:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Alma
48:16</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">16
And also, that God would make it known unto them </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">whither</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> they
should go to defend themselves against their enemies, and by so
doing, the Lord would deliver them; and this was the faith of Moroni,
and his heart did glory in it; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">not</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> in
the shedding of blood but in doing good, in preserving his people,
yea, in keeping the commandments of God, yea, and resisting iniquity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">The
scriptures are full of prophets and righteous leaders who led their
people in battle. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Moses,
Elisha, David, Moroni, Teancum, </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Christ</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
is the source of revelation. He is the spirit of Revelation. </span>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="1"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote0"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote1"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote2"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Then
was Jesus a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/4.1?lang=eng#1a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">led</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">up
of the Spirit into the wilderness b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/4.1?lang=eng#1b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">to
be</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/4.1?lang=eng#1c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">tempted</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of
the devil.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
have the spirit of revelation is to have access to divine guidance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">D&C
6:14</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">14
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, blessed art thou for what thou hast
done; for thou hast </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">inquired</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
me, and behold, as often as thou hast inquired thou hast received
instruction of my Spirit. If it had not been so, thou wouldst not
have come to the place where thou art at this time.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #e1e1e1;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">D&C
112:</span></span><span style="background: #ffffff;">10</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Be thou </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">humble</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">;
and the Lord thy God shall </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">lead</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> thee
by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Conference</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>APRIL
2011</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> | </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">The
Spirit of Revelation</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/david-a-bednar?lang=eng">David
A. Bednar</a><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Spirit of Revelation</span></span></span></h2>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p8"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation
is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the
great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship
of the Holy Ghost. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught, “The Holy Ghost
is a revelator,” and “no man can receive the Holy Ghost without
receiving revelations” (</span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Teachings
of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith </span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">[2007],
132).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
spirit of revelation is available to every person who receives by
proper priesthood authority the saving ordinances of baptism by
immersion for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for
the gift of the Holy Ghost—and who is acting in faith to fulfill
the priesthood injunction to “receive the Holy Ghost.” This
blessing is not restricted to the presiding authorities of the
Church; rather, it belongs to and should be operative in the life of
every man, woman, and child who reaches the age of accountability and
enters into sacred covenants. Sincere desire and worthiness invite
the spirit of revelation into our lives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Joseph
Smith and Oliver Cowdery gained valuable experience with the spirit
of revelation as they translated the Book of Mormon. These brethren
learned they could receive whatever knowledge was necessary to
complete their work if they asked in faith, with an honest heart,
believing they would receive. And over time they increasingly
understood the spirit of revelation typically functions as thoughts
and feelings that come into our minds and hearts by the power of the
Holy Ghost. (See </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/8.1-2?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
8:1–2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/100.5-8?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">100:5–8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)
As the Lord instructed them: “Now, behold, this is the spirit of
revelation; behold, this is the spirit by which Moses brought the
children of Israel through the Red Sea on dry ground. Therefore this
is thy gift; apply unto it” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/8.3-4?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
8:3–4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
emphasize the phrase “apply unto it” in relation to the spirit of
revelation. In the scriptures, the influence of the Holy Ghost
frequently is described as “a still small voice” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/19.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1
Kings 19:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">; </span></span><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/17.45?lang=eng#44">1
Nephi </a><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/17.45?lang=eng#44">17:45</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
see also </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/11.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Nephi 11:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">)
and a “voice of perfect mildness” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/5.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Helaman
5:30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
Because the Spirit whispers to us gently and delicately, it is easy
to understand why we should shun inappropriate media, pornography,
and harmful, addictive substances and behaviors. These tools of the
adversary can impair and eventually destroy our capacity to recognize
and respond to the subtle messages from God delivered by the power of
His Spirit. Each of us should consider seriously and ponder
prayerfully how we can reject the devil’s enticements and
righteously “apply unto it,” even the spirit of revelation, in
our personal lives and families.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Patterns
of Revelation</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelations
are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams,
visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration.
Some revelations are received immediately and intensely; some are
recognized gradually and subtly. The two experiences with light I
described help us to better understand these two basic patterns of
revelation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">As
you appropriately seek for and apply unto the spirit of revelation, I
promise you will “walk in the light of the Lord” (</span></u></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/2.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isaiah
2:5</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">; </span></u></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/12.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2
Nephi 12:5</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">).
Sometimes the spirit of revelation will operate immediately and
intensely, other times subtly and gradually, and often so delicately
you may not even consciously recognize it. But regardless of the
pattern whereby this blessing is received, the light it provides will
illuminate and enlarge your soul, enlighten your understanding
(see </span></u></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/5.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
5:7</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">; </span></u></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/32.28?lang=eng#27"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">32:28</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">),
and direct and</span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">protect
you and your family.</span></u></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p27"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
declare my apostolic witness that the Father and the Son live. The
spirit of revelation is real—and can and does function in our
individual lives and in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. I testify of these truths in the sacred name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Apply</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">seek
for and apply the spirit of revelation through sincere prayer and
then carefully follow the spirit in you actions and words. </span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Help
me seek for Inspiration</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Teach
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-18696477240178108882017-03-03T10:24:00.001-06:002017-03-03T10:24:40.041-06:00Agency-3 Nephi 2:29<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 2:19</b></span></span></div>
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<img align="BOTTOM" border="0" height="181" name="graphics1" src="https://broadcast.lds.org/crowdsource/mobile/images/1710990/5866d39ec7724e25be6331d62ee7bd04/640x412.jpg" vspace="13" width="236" /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Accept
the atonement-Agency</b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="img5"></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>He
will find you </b></span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Because
He loves you, He will find you. He will place you upon His shoulders,
rejoicing. And when He brings you home, He will say to one and all,
“Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/he-will-place-you-on-his-shoulders-and-carry-you-home?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">19 And
thus ended the fifteenth year, and thus were the people in a state of
many afflictions; and the a</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of
destruction did hang over them, insomuch that they were about to be
smitten down by it, and this because of their iniquity.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Iniquity brings
destruction. “wicked never was happiness” prophecy is being
fulfilled. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pattern</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Alma
60:29</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">29
Behold it is time, yea, the time is now at hand, that except ye do
bestir yourselves in the defence of your country and your little
ones, the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">sword</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">of
justice doth hang over you; yea, and it shall fall upon you and visit
you even to your utter destruction.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Hel.
13:5</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">5
And he said unto them: Behold, I, Samuel, a Lamanite, do speak the
words of the Lord which he doth put into my heart; and behold he hath
put it into my heart to say unto this people that the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">sword</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
justice hangeth over this people; and four hundred years pass not
away save the sword of justice falleth upon this people.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">3 Ne.
3:3</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">3
And it seemeth a pity unto me, most noble Lachoneus, that ye should
be so foolish and vain as to suppose that ye can stand against so
many brave men who are at my command, who do now at this time stand
in their arms, and do await with great anxiety for the word—Go down
upon the Nephites and </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">destroy</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Isa.
1:20 (19–20)</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">19
If ye be </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">willing</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">obedient</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
ye shall eat the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">good</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
the land:<br />20 But if ye refuse and </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">rebel</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
ye shall be </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">devoured</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> with
the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">it.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Punish,
Punishment</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/accountability?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Accountability</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/chastening?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Chastening</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/correction?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Correction</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/curse?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Curse</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/damnation?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Damnation</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/god-justice-of?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>God,
Justice of</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/hell?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hell</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/reproof?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Reproof</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ;</i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/retribution?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Retribution</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/spirits-in-prison?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Spirits
in Prison</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/vengeance?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Vengeance</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Cain
said … My punishment is greater than I can bear: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/4.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Gen.
4:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/5.38?lang=eng#37"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moses </span></span></span></a></div>
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</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">hurt
a woman … he shall be surely punished: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/21.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ex. 21:22</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
will smite thee … with the scab: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/28.27?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut. 28:27</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">man
shall be put to death for his own sin: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/14.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Kgs.
14:6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">false
witness shall not be unpunished: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/19.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prov.
19:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">if
ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/1.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa.
1:20</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
will punish the world for their evil: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/13.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 13:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/23.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
23:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
shall punish the host of the high ones: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/24.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 24:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">accordingly
he will repay: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/59.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 59:18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">time
of their visitation they shall be cast down: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/8.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jer.
8:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
will punish all them which are circumcised: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/9.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jer. 9:25</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord, correct me,
but with judgment: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/10.24?lang=eng#23"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jer. 10:24</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">bear
the punishment of their iniquity: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/14.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ezek.
14:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">soul
that sinneth, it shall die: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/18.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ezek. 18:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">son
shall not bear the iniquity of the father: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/18.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ezek. 18:20</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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</ul>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">they
that take the sword shall perish with the
sword: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/26.52?lang=eng#51"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt. 26:52</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">blaspheme
against the Holy Ghost … in danger of eternal damnation:</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/mark/3.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mark
3:29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I punished them
oft in every synagogue: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/26.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Acts
26:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">deliver
such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the
flesh: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/1-cor/5.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Cor.
5:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">punished with
everlasting destruction: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-thes/1.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Thes.
1:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">how
much sorer punishment … shall he be thought: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/10.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Heb.
10:29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">unjust
unto the day of judgment to be punished: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-pet/2.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Pet.
2:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">suffering
the vengeance of eternal fire: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/jude/1.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jude
1:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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</ul>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">driven out
by our fathers, do ye suppose that they were righteous: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/17.33?lang=eng#32"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Ne.
17:33</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">by
the spiritual law they … become miserable forever: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
2:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">punishment …
is in opposition to … happiness: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 2:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">torment is
as a lake of fire and brimstone: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 9:16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">where
there is no law given there is no punishment: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 9:25</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">spake
of hell … and of eternal punishment: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/jacob/7.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jacob
7:18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">they punished according
to their crimes: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/w-of-m/1.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">W of M
1:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/29.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah
29:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">receiveth
for his wages an everlasting punishment: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/2.33?lang=eng#32"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah
2:33</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote4"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote5"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote6"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 We
believe that men will be a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.2?lang=eng#2a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">punished</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> for
their b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.2?lang=eng#2b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>own</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> sins,
and not for c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.2?lang=eng#2c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Adam’s</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> transgression.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Christ</b></span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/10.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hebrews
10:29</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">29
Of how much sorer <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">punishment</span>,
suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot
the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith
he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the
Spirit of grace?</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="30"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote42"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote43"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote44"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">30 For
we know him that hath said, a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/10.29?lang=eng#30a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Vengeance</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>belongeth</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">unto
me, I will b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/10.29?lang=eng#30b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">recompense</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/10.29?lang=eng#30c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">judge</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">his
people.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conference</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1988/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>APRIL
1988</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Atonement,
Agency, Accountability</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/boyd-k-packer?lang=eng">Boyd
K. Packer</a><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p12"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Before
the Crucifixion and afterward, many men have willingly given their
lives in selfless acts of heroism. But none faced what the Christ
endured. Upon Him was the burden of all human transgression, all
human guilt.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p13"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
hanging in the balance was the Atonement. Through His willing act,
mercy and justice could be reconciled, eternal law sustained, and
that mediation achieved without which mortal man could not be
redeemed.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He,
by choice, accepted the penalty for all mankind for the sum total of
all wickedness and depravity; for brutality, immorality, perversion,
and corruption; for addiction; for the killings and torture and
terror—for all of it that ever had been or all that ever would be
enacted upon this earth.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
choosing, He faced the awesome power of the evil one who was not
confined to flesh nor subject to mortal pain. That was Gethsemane!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">How
the Atonement was wrought, we do not know. No mortal watched as evil
turned away and hid in shame before the light of that pure being.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p17"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">All
wickedness could not quench that light. When what was done was done,
the ransom had been paid. Both death and hell forsook their claim on
all who would repent. Men at last were free. Then every soul who ever
lived could choose to touch that light and be redeemed.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p18"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">By
this infinite sacrifice, through this atonement of Christ, all
mankind may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the
gospel.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
they were restored. In the Book of Mormon the word </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">atone</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in
form and tense appears fifty-five times. I quote but one verse from
Alma: “And now, the plan of mercy could not be brought about except
an </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">atonement</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> should
be made; therefore God himself </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">atoneth</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> for
the sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to appease
the demands of justice, that God might be a perfect, just God, and a
merciful God also” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/42.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
42:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
italics added).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p32"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Only
once in the New Testament—fifty-five times in the Book of Mormon.
What better witness that the Book of Mormon is indeed another
testament of Jesus Christ?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p41"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
seldom use the word </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">absolute.</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> It
seldom fits. I use it now—twice. Because of the Fall, the Atonement
was absolutely essential for resurrection to proceed and overcome
mortal death.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p42"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Atonement was absolutely essential for men to cleanse themselves from
sin and overcome the second death, which is the spiritual death,
which is separation from our Father in Heaven. For the scriptures
tell us, seven times they tell us, that no unclean thing may enter
the presence of God.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p43"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Those
scriptural words, “Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given
unto thee” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/3.17?lang=eng#16"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moses
3:17</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">),
introduced Adam and Eve and their posterity to all the risks of
mortality. In mortality men are free to choose, and each choice
begets a consequence. The choice Adam made energized the law of
justice, which required that the penalty for disobedience would be
death.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p44"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
those words spoken at the trial, “Thou couldest have no power at
all against me, except it were given thee from above” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/19.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">John
19:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">),
proved mercy was of equal rank. A redeemer was sent to pay the debt
and set men free. That was the plan.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p48"></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">...<span style="color: #333333;">I
readily confess that I would find no peace, neither happiness nor
safety, in a world without repentance. I do not know what I should do
if there were no way for me to erase my mistakes. The agony would be
more than I could bear. It may be otherwise with you, but not with
me.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p49"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">An
atonement was made. Ever and always it offers amnesty from
transgression and from death if we will but repent. Repentance is the
escape clause in it all. Repentance is the key with which we can
unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and
agency is ours to use it.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p50"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">How
supernally precious freedom is; how consummately valuable is the
agency of man.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p61"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
the Passover would be commemorated forever as the sacrament, in which
we renew our covenant of baptism and partake in remembrance of the
body of the Lamb of God and of His blood, which was shed for us.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p62"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">It
is no small thing that this symbol reappears in the Word of Wisdom.
Beyond the promise that Saints in this generation, who obey, will
receive health and great treasures of knowledge is this: “I, the
Lord, give unto them a promise, that the destroying angel shall pass
by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/89.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
89:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p63"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
cannot with composure tell you how I feel about the Atonement. It
touches the deepest emotion of gratitude and obligation. My soul
reaches after Him who wrought it, this Christ, our Savior of whom I
am a witness. I testify of Him. He is our Lord, our Redeemer, our
advocate with the Father. He ransomed us with His blood.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p64"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Humbly
I lay claim upon the atonement of Christ. I find no shame in kneeling
down in worship of our Father and His son. For </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">agency</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> is
mine, and this I </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">choose</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> to
do!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>APRIL
2016</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
Will Place You on His Shoulders and Carry You Home</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/dieter-f-uchtdorf?lang=eng">By
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf</a><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Second
Counselor in the First Presidency</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">Just
as the Good Shepherd finds His lost sheep, if you will only lift up
your heart to the Savior of the world, He will find you. </span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p45"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Because
He loves you, He will find you. He will place you upon His shoulders,
rejoicing. And when He brings you home, He will say to one and all,
“Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/he-will-place-you-on-his-shoulders-and-carry-you-home?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">3</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
we increase in faith, we also must increase in faithfulness. Earlier
I quoted a German author who lamented the destruction of Dresden. He
also penned the phrase “Es gibt nichts Gutes, ausser: Man tut es.”
For those who do not speak the celestial language, this is translated
as “There is nothing good unless you do it.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/he-will-place-you-on-his-shoulders-and-carry-you-home?lang=eng#note10"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">10</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p46"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">You
and I may speak most eloquently of spiritual things. We may impress
people with our keen intellectual interpretation of religious topics.
We may rhapsodize about religion and “dream of [our] mansion
above.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/he-will-place-you-on-his-shoulders-and-carry-you-home?lang=eng#note11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> But
if our faith does not change the way we live—if our beliefs do not
influence our daily decisions—our religion is vain, and our faith,
if not dead, is certainly not well and is in danger of eventually
flatlining.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/he-will-place-you-on-his-shoulders-and-carry-you-home?lang=eng#note12"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">12</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p47"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Obedience
is the lifeblood of faith. It is by obedience that we gather light
into our souls.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p481"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
sometimes I think we misunderstand obedience. We may see obedience as
an end in itself, rather than a means to an end. Or we may pound the
metaphorical hammer of obedience against the iron anvil of the
commandments in an effort to shape those we love, through constant
heating and repeated battering, into holier, heavenly matter.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p491"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">No
doubt about it, there are times when we need a stern call to
repentance. Certainly, there are some who may be reached only in this
manner.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p501"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
perhaps there is a different metaphor that can explain why we obey
the commandments of God. Maybe obedience is not so much the process
of bending, twisting, and pounding our souls into something we are
not. Instead, it is the process by which we discover what we truly
are made of.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p51"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
are created by the Almighty God. He is our Heavenly Father. We are
literally His spirit children. We are made of supernal material most
precious and highly refined, and thus we carry within ourselves the
substance of divinity.</span></span></div>
<h2 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="title5"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You Are Worthy of
Rescue</span></span></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p55"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">My
dear brothers and sisters, my dear friends, I testify that God sees
us as we truly are—and He sees us worthy of rescue.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p56"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">You
may feel that your life is in ruins. You may have sinned. You may be
afraid, angry, grieving, or tortured by doubt. But just as the Good
Shepherd finds His lost sheep, if you will only lift up your heart to
the Savior of the world, He will find you.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p57"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
will rescue you.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p58"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
will lift you up and place you on His shoulders.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p59"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
will carry you home.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p60"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">If
mortal hands can transform rubble and ruins into a beautiful house of
worship, then we can have confidence and trust that our loving
Heavenly Father can and will rebuild us. His plan is to build us into
something far greater than what we were—far greater than what we
can ever imagine. With each step of faith on the path of
discipleship, we grow into the beings of eternal glory and infinite
joy we were designed to become.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p611"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This
is my testimony, my blessing, and my humble prayer in the sacred name
of our Master, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hymns</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/know-this-that-every-soul-is-free?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Know
This, That Every Soul Is Free (#240)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">children</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/he-died-that-we-might-live-again?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
Died That We Might Live Again (#65)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/he-sent-his-son?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
Sent His Son (#34)</span></span></span></a></div>
</li>
</ul>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-62932810523833680632017-03-03T10:22:00.001-06:002017-03-03T10:22:28.042-06:00Prophets 3 Nephi 3:18<ul class="index-list" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 1:18</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">PROPHETS</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">18 For
they knew that the prophets had testified of these things for many
years, and that the sign which had been given was already at hand;
and they began to fear because of their iniquity and their unbelief.</span>
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why
</b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
verse is to emphasize the reason for their fear. When we hear a
prophecy and refuse to heed it then it happens, we would know that we
are in deep trouble. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pattern</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">this
verse is about being stubborn and disobedient and disbelieving. It
is about pushing back when we hear the truth being taught. It is
about denying the faith. It happens all the time in our day and has
in the scriptures. </span></span>
</div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/15.26?lang=eng#25"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mosiah
15:26</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">26
But behold, and fear, and tremble before God, for ye ought to
tremble; for the Lord redeemeth none such that <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">rebel</span> against
him and die in their sins; yea, even all those that have perished in
their sins ever since the world began, that have
wilfully <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">rebelled</span> against
God, that have known the commandments of God, and would not keep
them; these are they that have no part in the first resurrection.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/12.19?lang=eng#18"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1
Kings 12:19</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">19
So Israel <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">rebelled</span> against
the house of David unto this day.</span></span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/dan/9.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Daniel
9:5</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly,
and have <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">rebelled</span>, even
by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:</span></span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/job/24.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">Job
24:13</span></u></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">13
They are of those that <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">rebel</span> against
the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths
thereof.</span></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/1.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Isaiah
1:20</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">20
But if ye refuse and <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">rebel</span>,
ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it.</span></span></span></div>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li value="1"><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/5.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Psalms
5:10</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">10
Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast
them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they
have <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">rebelled</span> against
thee.</span></span></span></div>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li value="1"><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-chr/13.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2
Chronicles 13:6</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6
Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of
David, is risen up, and hath <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">rebelled</span> against
his lord.</span></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h2 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rebellion,
Rebel</span></span></span></h2>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/apostasy-of-individuals?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Apostasy
of Individuals</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/contention?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Contention</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/council-in-heaven?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Council
in Heaven</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/disobedience?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Disobedience</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/excommunication?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Excommunication</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/holy-ghost-unpardonable-sin-against?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Holy
Ghost, Unpardonable Sin against</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/murmuring?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Murmuring</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/obedience?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Obedience</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/stiffnecked?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Stiffnecked</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">they
will not believe me, nor hearken: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/4.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ex.
4:1</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">rebellious shall
be pierced with much sorrow: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/1.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C
1:3</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">power
given to seal … the unbelieving and rebellious: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/1.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C 1:8</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he rebelled against
me, saying, Give me thine honor: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/29.36?lang=eng#35"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C 29:36</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">answered
upon the heads of the rebellious: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/56.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C 56:4</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">anger
is kindled against … rebellious: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/63.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C 63:2</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">let
the rebellious fear and tremble: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/63.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C 63:6</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">rebellious shall
be cut off out of the land of Zion: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/64.35?lang=eng#34"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C 64:35</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">an
angel of God … who rebelled against the Only Begotten
Son: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/76.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C 76:25</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">sedition
and rebellion are unbecoming every citizen: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/134.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C 134:5</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Neither
did the rebellious … look upon his face: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C 138:21</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Satan rebelled against
me, and sought to destroy the agency of man: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/4.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moses
4:3</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">have
they gone astray, and have denied me: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/6.28?lang=eng#27"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moses 6:28</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/16.1-3?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1 Ne.
16:1–3</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/15.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>2 Ne.
15:12</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/24.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Alma
24:30</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.35?lang=eng#34"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>D&C
88:35</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Opposite
of rebel is to be obedient- this would be the lesson here is to be
obedient and listen to the prophets of our day!!!</u></i></span></span></span></div>
<h2 class="western">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Obedience,
Obedient, Obey</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/agency?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Agency</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/baptism-qualifications-for?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Baptism,
Qualifications for</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/command?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Command</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/commandments-of-god?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Commandments
of
God</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/commitment?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Commitment</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/dedication?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dedication</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/diligence?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Diligence</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/do?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Do</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ;</i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/duty?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Duty</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/faith?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Faith</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/family?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Family</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/god-the-standard-of-righteousness?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>God,
the Standard of Righteousness</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/god-will-of?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>God,
Will of</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/good-works?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Good
Works</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/hearken?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hearken</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/honoring-father-and-mother?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Honoring
Father and
Mother</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ;</i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/loyalty?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Loyalty</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/observe?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Observe</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/require?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Require</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/serve?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Serve</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/steadfastness?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Steadfastness</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/subjection?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Subjection</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/submissiveness?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Submissiveness</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/walking-with-god?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Walking
with God</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thus did Noah;
according to all that God commanded: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/6.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gen.
6:22</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">thou
hast obeyed my voice: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/22.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gen. 22:18</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Abraham obeyed my
voice: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/26.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gen. 26:5</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">if
ye will obey my voice: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/19.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ex.
19:5</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All
that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/24.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ex. 24:7</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ye
shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/lev/18.26?lang=eng#25"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lev.
18:26</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
ye walk in my statutes, and keep my
commandments: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/lev/26.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lev. 26:3</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .
( </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/4.40?lang=eng#39"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deut.
4:40</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .
)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">if
ye walk contrary unto me … I will bring …
plagues: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/lev/26.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lev. 26:21</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">we
will hear it, and do it: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/5.27?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deut.
5:27</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hear
therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/6.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deut. 6:3</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">man
doth not live by bread only, but by every word … of the
Lord: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/8.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deut. 8:3</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .
( </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/4.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Matt.
4:4</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ;</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/84.44?lang=eng#43"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C
84:44</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .
)</span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
thou wilt not observe to do all the words: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/28.58?lang=eng#57"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deut. 28:58</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">love
the Lord … obey his voice: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/30.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deut. 30:20</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">God
will we serve, and his voice will we obey: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/josh/24.24?lang=eng#23"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Josh.
24:24</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">people
refused to obey the voice of Samuel: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-sam/8.19?lang=eng#18"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 Sam.
8:19</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to obey is
better than sacrifice: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-sam/15.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 Sam. 15:22</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conference</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>OCTOBER
2016</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">| </span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“</span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Choice Seer Will I Raise Up”</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
</u></span></span>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/craig-c-christensen?lang=eng">By
Elder Craig C. Christensen</a><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
the Presidency of the Seventy</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p3"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Moroni first came to Joseph Smith, he warned that Joseph’s “name
should be had for good and evil among all nations.”</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/a-choice-seer-will-i-raise-up?lang=eng#note1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> We
have seen the fulfillment of that prophecy. In the war between good
and evil, the Restoration of the gospel through the Prophet Joseph
Smith has both inspired believers who follow him and also provoked
antagonists who fight furiously against the cause of Zion and against
Joseph himself. This battle is not new. It began soon after young
Joseph walked into the Sacred Grove and continues today with added
visibility on the internet.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p4"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Lord personally declared to Joseph Smith:</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p5"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
ends of the earth shall inquire after thy name, and fools shall have
thee in derision, and hell shall rage against thee;</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p6"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While
the pure in heart, and the wise, and the noble, and the virtuous,
shall seek counsel, and authority, and blessings constantly from
under thy hand.”</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/a-choice-seer-will-i-raise-up?lang=eng#note2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p7"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today
I offer my testimony to all who seek to better understand the sacred
mission of Joseph Smith Jr., the Prophet of the Restoration.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p8"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
need not be timid about testifying of Joseph’s mission as prophet,
seer, and revelator, for the Lord has always worked through
prophets.</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/a-choice-seer-will-i-raise-up?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Because
of the truths restored through Joseph Smith, we know much more about
our Heavenly Father and the Savior Jesus Christ. We know of Their
divine attributes, Their relationship to each other and to us, and
the great plan of redemption that allows us to return to Their
presence.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p26"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">...<span style="color: #333333;">Because
Joseph was a prophet, we know that marriage and family are an
essential part of God’s plan for our happiness. We know that
through temple ordinances and covenants, our cherished family
relationships can endure eternally.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p27"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because
Joseph was a prophet, we have more than a window into heaven—the
very doorway to the eternities is open to us. We can know “the only
true God, and Jesus Christ, whom [He has] sent.”</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/a-choice-seer-will-i-raise-up?lang=eng#note18"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">18</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Eternal
life can be ours.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p28"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most
of all, because Joseph was a prophet, we have witness upon witness,
testimony upon testimony, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and
Savior of the world. We have an unbroken chain of special witnesses
of Jesus Christ, including our prophet today, President Thomas S.
Monson; the counselors in the First Presidency; and the members of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. To their witnesses, I add my
humble yet certain testimony: Jesus Christ lives and leads His
Church. Joseph Smith was and is the Prophet of the Restoration. The
priesthood and authority of God are again on the earth. May we
fearlessly declare our witness and our gratitude for this wonderful
prophet, seer, and revelator of the Lord is my prayer in the sacred
name of Jesus Christ, amen.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>OCTOBER
2010</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> | </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Obedience
to the Prophets</span></u></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/claudio-r-m-costa?lang=eng">Claudio
R. M. Costa</a><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
the Presidency of the Seventy</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p81"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
is a great blessing to receive the word, commandments, and guidance
of the Lord in these difficult days of the earth. The prophet can be
inspired to see the future in benefit of mankind.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p9"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
are told that “surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he
revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets” (</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/amos/3.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amos
3:7</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">).
We learn from this scripture that the Lord will reveal to His
prophets absolutely anything that He feels is necessary to
communicate to us. He will reveal His will to us, and He will
instruct us through His prophets.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p10"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Lord promised us that if we believe in the holy prophets, we should
have eternal life (see </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/20.26?lang=eng#25"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C
20:26</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">).
In the sixth article of faith, we declare that we believe in
prophets. To believe means to have faith and confidence in them and
to follow and do what the prophets ask us to do.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p19"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">...<span style="color: #333333;">The
living prophet is receiving specific revelations for us. I can
remember many times when I have been present to hear one of the
servants of the Lord speak about a specific thing for a city or
country. I remember at least three of the living prophets, seers, and
revelators who have spoken about my country, Brazil. One of these
servants said that Brazil would become a great economy in the world
and be free of inflation. At the time, we had two-digit inflation
every month. It was difficult for many people to believe what the
prophet said, but I believed. Brazil has had about 5 percent
inflation each year for many consecutive years now. Brazil has become
eighth in the world economy, and the country is doing great!</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p20"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Third
fundamental: </span></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
living prophet is more important to us than a dead
prophet” </span></span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(“Fourteen
Fundamentals,” 27).</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p281"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">...</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seventh: </span></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
prophet tells us what we need to know, not always what we want to
know</span></span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">”
(“Fourteen Fundamentals,” 27, 28).</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p29"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then President Benson quoted from </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/16.1,3?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1
Nephi 16:1, 3</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p30"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
now it came to pass that after I, Nephi, had made an end of speaking
to my brethren, behold they said unto me: Thou hast declared unto us
hard things, more than we are able to bear. …</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
now my brethren, if ye were righteous and were willing to hearken to
the truth, and give heed unto it, that ye might walk uprightly before
God, then ye would not murmur because of the truth, and say: Thou
speakest hard things against us.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Apply</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
must Study the conference addresses and apply them to my life
specifically. Ask the questions and ponder the actions that I should
take. Always remember that the living prophet is the most important
prophet in our time. Follow the prophet. As the song says “He
knows the way!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hymns-</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">21-
Come Listen to A Prophet's Voice</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Children</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">110-Follow
the Prophet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 3:17</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Counsel
with Councils</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">17 And
it came to pass that Lachoneus did appoint chief captains over all
the armies of the Nephites, to command them at the time that the
robbers should come down out of the wilderness against them.</span>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why,</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">because
they would need to be organized to be effective in their battle.
Lachoneus could not do it all alone by himself. Also they did not
plan an attack but they would defend themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pattern</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Exodus
18 (Jethro to Moses)</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="19"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote17"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote18"></a>
<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">19 Hearken
now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with
thee: a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#19a"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Be</span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> thou
for the people to b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#19b"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">God-ward</span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="20"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote19"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote20"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote21"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote22"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote23"></a>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">20 And
thou shalt a</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#20a"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">teach</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> them b</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#20b"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">ordinances</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and c</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#20c"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">laws</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
and shalt shew them the d</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#20d"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">way</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> wherein
they must e</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#20e"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">walk</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
and the work that they must do.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="21"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote24"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote25"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote26"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote27"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote28"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote29"></a>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">21 Moreover
thou shalt provide out of all the people a</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#21a"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">able</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> men,
such as b</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#21b"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">fear</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> God, c</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#21c"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">men
of truth</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
hating d</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#21d"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">covetousness</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">;
and place </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">such</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> over
them, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">to
be</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> e</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#21e"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">rulers</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
thousands, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">and</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> rulers
of f</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#21f"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">hundreds</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(254, 251, 191); border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="22"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote30"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote31"></a>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">22 And
let them a</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#22a"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">judge</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> the
people at all seasons: and it shall be, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">that</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> every
great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they
shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall
bear </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">the b</span></i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/18.13-27?lang=eng#22b"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">burden</span></i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> with
thee.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="23"></a>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">23 If
thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee <i>so,</i> then
thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to
their place in peace.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<h3 class="western">
<span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/82.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Psalms
82:3</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">Defend</span> the
poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/43.47?lang=eng#46"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">Alma
43:47</span></u></span></span></span></a></span></h3>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #333333;">47
And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background: #f6f2c3;">defend</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;">your
families even unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were the
Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background: #f6f2c3;">defend
</span></span><span style="color: #333333;">themselves,
and their families, and their lands, their country, and their rights,
and their religion</span> </span></span></span>
</div>
<h3 class="western">
<span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/4.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Helaman
4:7</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">7
And there they did fortify against the Lamanites, from the west sea,
even unto the east; it being a day’s journey for a Nephite, on the
line which they had fortified and stationed their armies
to <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">defend</span>their north
country.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/48.14?lang=eng#13"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Alma
48:14</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">14
Now the Nephites were taught to <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">defend
</span>themselves against their enemies, even to the shedding of
blood if it were necessary; yea, and they were also taught never to
give an offense, yea, and never to raise the sword except it were
against an enemy, except it were to preserve their lives.</span></span></div>
<h3 align="LEFT" class="western" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/109.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #7f9caf;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">D&C
109:8</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></h3>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.13in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #9e9a8c;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Doctrine
and Covenants</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #777777;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><b>Organize</b> yourselves;
prepare every needful thing, and establish a house, even a house of
prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a
house of glory, a house of order, a house of God; </span></span></span></span></div>
<h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/44.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #7f9caf;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">D&C
44:4</span></span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.13in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #9e9a8c;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Doctrine
and Covenants</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #777777;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">And
many shall be converted, insomuch that ye shall obtain power
to <b>organize</b> yourselves according to the laws of
man; </span></span></span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/102.24?lang=eng#23"><span style="color: #7f9caf;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">D&C
102:24</span></span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.13in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #9e9a8c;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Doctrine
and Covenants</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #777777;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">The
high priests, when abroad, have power to call and <b>organize</b> a
council after the manner of the foregoing, to settle difficulties,
when the parties or either of them shall request it. </span></span></span></span></div>
<h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/104.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #7f9caf;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">D&C
104:11</span></span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.13in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #9e9a8c;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Doctrine
and Covenants</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #777777;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">It
is wisdom in me; therefore, a commandment I give unto you, that ye
shall <b>organize</b> yourselves and appoint every man his
stewardship; </span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br />C<span style="color: #333333;"><b>hrist</b></span></span><br />
<h3 align="LEFT" class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/gs/create-creation?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #7f9caf;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Create,
Creation</span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></h3>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.13in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #9e9a8c;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">The
Guide to the Scriptures</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #777777;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">To <b>organize</b>.
God, working through his Son, Jesus Christ, <b>organized</b> the
elements in nature to form the earth. Heavenly Father and Jesus
created man in their image (Moses 2:26–27). </span></span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<h3 align="LEFT" class="western" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.74?lang=eng#73"><span style="color: #7f9caf;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">D&C
88:74</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></h3>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.13in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #9e9a8c;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Doctrine
and Covenants</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #777777;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">And
I give unto you, who are the first laborers in this last kingdom, a
commandment that you assemble yourselves together,
and <b>organize</b> yourselves, and prepare yourselves, and
sanctify yourselves; yea, purify your hearts, and cleanse your hands
and your feet before me, that I may make you clean; </span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Conference</span></b></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">President
N. Eldon Tanner wrote: “A leader should never try to do the
work of one to whom he has made an assignment. … Give them freedom
to do their tasks. Never criticize them, but praise success and
encourage efforts. … We as leaders … should give the utmost
attention to the personal growth of each individual through teaching
correct principles and try to lead that individual to prepare himself
for </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/immortality?lang=eng"><span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">immortality</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">and
eternal life. This we should do by example and precept and then be
prepared to help and support him in his efforts, but we should let
him make his own decisions and govern himself according to the free
agency that is his gift” (“Leading As the Savior Led,” </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">New
Era,</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">June
1977, 6).</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></b></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">•</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/24.1?lang=eng#0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Psalm
24:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> (all
things belong to the Lord)</span></span></div>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;">•</span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/25.14-30?lang=eng#13" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matthew
25:14–30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> (stewards
entrusted with and held accountable for talents)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;">•</span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/luke/16.10-13?lang=eng#9" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Luke
16:10–13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> (faithfulness
in earthly stewardships)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;">•</span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/luke/19.11-27?lang=eng#10" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Luke
19:11–27</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> (stewards
to be good managers)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;">•</span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/59.16-21?lang=eng#15" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Doctrine
and Covenants 59:16–21</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> (all
things made for the prudent use of man)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;">•</span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/70.4?lang=eng#3" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Doctrine
and Covenants 70:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> (accountability
at the Day of Judgment)</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Conference</span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1994/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">APRIL
1994</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></b><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">| </span></span></span></span><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Counseling
with Our Councils</span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></b></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/m-russell-ballard?lang=eng">M.
Russell Ballard</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p27"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">When
stake presidents and bishops allow the priesthood and auxiliary
leaders whom the Lord has called to serve with them to become part of
a problem-solving team, wonderful things begin to happen. Their
participation broadens the base of experience and understanding,
leading to better solutions. You bishops energize your ward leaders
by giving them a chance to offer suggestions and to be heard. You
prepare future leaders by allowing them to participate and learn. You
can lift much of the load from your shoulders through this kind of
involvement. People who feel ownership of a problem are more willing
to help find a solution, greatly improving the possibility of
success.</span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p28"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Once
the appropriate councils are organized and the brethren and the
sisters have full opportunity to contribute, ward and stake leaders
can move beyond just maintaining organizations. They can focus their
efforts on finding ways to make their world a better place to live.
Certainly ward councils can consider such subjects as gang violence,
child safety, urban blight, or community cleanup campaigns. Bishops
could ask ward councils, “How can we make a difference in our
community?” Such broad thinking and participation in community
improvement are the right things for Latter-day Saints to do.</span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Come
now,” said the Lord in an earlier dispensation through the prophet
Isaiah, “and let us reason together” (</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/1.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Isa.
1:18</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">).
And in this dispensation, He repeated that admonition: “Let us
reason together, that ye may understand” (</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/50.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">D&C
50:10</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">).</span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p32"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Let
us remember that the basic council of the Church is the family
council. Fathers and mothers should apply diligently the principles I
have discussed in their relationships with each other and with their
children. In doing so, our homes can become a heaven on earth.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Apply</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">(from
above talk by Elder Ballard)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Brothers
and sisters, let us work together as never before in our stewardships
to find ways to make more effective use of the wondrous power of
councils. I ask you to consider all that I said on this subject last
October with what I have said today. I testify that we can bring the
full force of God’s revealed plan for gospel governance into our
ministries as we counsel together. May God bless us to stand united
as we strengthen the Church and our members, I pray in the name of
Jesus Christ, amen.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Music</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Hymns</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><em><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/prayer-of-thanksgiving?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u><span style="background: transparent;">We
gather together to ask the Lord's blessing (#93)</span></u></i></span></span></span></a></em></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Children</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/follow-the-prophet?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: transparent;">Follow
the Prophet (#110)</span></u></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-27763783601321479202017-02-16T08:45:00.000-06:002017-02-16T08:45:34.275-06:00Repentance<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Nephi 3:16</span></div>
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<h2 class="western" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Brilliant Morning of Forgiveness</span></span></span></h2>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Often the most
difficult part of repentance is to forgive yourself. Discouragement
is part of that test. Do not give up. That brilliant morning will
come.”—President Boyd K. Packer, “</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1995/10/the-brilliant-morning-of-forgiveness?lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Brilliant Morning of Forgiveness</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="16"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">16 And
so great and marvelous were the words and prophecies of Lachoneus
that they did cause fear to come upon all the people; and they did
exert themselves in their might to do according to the words of
Lachoneus.</span> </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Because
they knew that Lachoneus spoke the truth, that if they did not repent
that the Gadianton robbers would destroy them. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pattern</span></div>
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<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/gs/mosiah-son-of-benjamin.p4?lang=eng&letter=m"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mosiah,
Son of Benjamin — The Guide to the Scriptures</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">A
book in the Book of Mormon. Chapters 1–6 contain <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">King</span> <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">Benjamin</span>’s
forceful sermon to his people. The Spirit of the Lord touched their
hearts and the people were converted and felt no more desire to do
evil. Chapters 7–8 tell of a group of Nephites ...</span></span></div>
<h2 class="western">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benjamin</span></span></span><span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">—</span></span></span></span><em><span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nephite
prophet-king</span></i></span></span></span></em><span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> [c. 120 B.C.]</span></span></span></span></h2>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Benjamin,
son of Mosiah1, begins reign: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/omni/1.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Omni
1:23</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">drives
out Lamanites: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/omni/1.24?lang=eng#23"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Omni 1:24</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/w-of-m/1.13-14?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">W of M
1:13–14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">given
plates by Amaleki1: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/omni/1.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Omni 1:25</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/w-of-m/1.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">W of M
1:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">hands
down plates: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/w-of-m/1.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">W of M
1:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">uses
sword of Laban against Lamanites: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/w-of-m/1.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">W of M 1:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">holy
man, establishes peace: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/w-of-m/1.16-18?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">W of M 1:16–18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/1.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah
1:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="3"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote1"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote2"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lehi, Jonah, </span><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 So
Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of
the </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.
Now Nineveh was an a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jonah/3.5-10?lang=eng#3a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">exceeding
great city</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> of
three days’ b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jonah/3.5-10?lang=eng#3b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">journey</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="4"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4 And
Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried,
and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="5"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote3"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote4"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote5"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">5 ¶a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jonah/3.5-10?lang=eng#5a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">So</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> the
people of b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jonah/3.5-10?lang=eng#5b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Nineveh</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> believed
God, and proclaimed a c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jonah/3.5-10?lang=eng#5c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">fast</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of
them.</span></span></div>
<h2 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">Isaiah</span>
Chapter 1</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
people of Israel are apostate, rebellious, and corrupt; only a few
remain faithful—The people’s sacrifices and feasts are
rejected—They are called upon to repent and work righteousness—Zion
will be redeemed in the day of restoration.</i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Christ</i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
called all people to repentance and offers salvation to our souls.</i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Conference</i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Pahoran, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2007/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">APRIL
2007</span></b></span></span></span></a><i><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Point
of Safe Return</span></span><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></i></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Pahoran, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/dieter-f-uchtdorf?lang=eng">Dieter
F. Uchtdorf</a> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p13"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Atonement of Jesus Christ causes each person to be accountable for
his or her individual sins. We will overcome the consequences of
individual sin by claiming the blessings and benefits of the
Atonement.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">President
David O. McKay said, “Every principle and ordinance of the gospel
of Jesus Christ is significant and important …, but there is none
more essential to the salvation of the human family than the divine
and eternally operative principle [of] repentance” (</span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Gospel
Ideals</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> [1953],
13).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">For
salvation cometh to none … except it be through repentance and
faith on the Lord Jesus Christ” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/3.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah
3:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">It
is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus
Christ that saves us. It is not by our sincere and honest change of
behavior alone that we are saved, but “by grace that we are saved,
after all we can do” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/25.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2
Nephi 25:23</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
True repentance, however, is the condition required so that God’s
forgiveness can come into our lives. True repentance makes “a
brilliant day [out] of the darkest night” (Spencer W. Kimball, </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Miracle of Forgiveness</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> [1969],
362).</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p20"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Pahoran, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">President
Spencer W. Kimball taught: “The essence of the miracle of
forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious,
restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul. … God will wipe away
… the tears of anguish, and remorse, … and fear, and guilt”
(</span><i><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The Miracle
of Forgiveness,</span></em></i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> 363,
368).</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jesus
promised, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: …
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/14.27?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">John
14:27</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p22"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
prophet Alma, who was reclaimed from sin to happiness by God’s
forgiveness, declared, “Wickedness never was happiness” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/41.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
41:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
He had witnessed the bitter pains of sin, but he also spoke with
excitement about the happiness that accompanies true repentance and
forgiveness: “Yea, I say unto you, … there can be nothing so
exquisite and sweet as was my joy” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/36.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
36:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
Alma concluded with powerful and wise counsel to all who seek
forgiveness: “And now, … I desire that ye should let these things
trouble you no more, and only let your sins trouble you, with that
trouble which shall bring you down unto repentance” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/42.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
42:29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p24"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Once
we have truly repented, Christ will take away the burden of guilt for
our sins. We can know for ourselves that we have been forgiven and
made clean. The Holy Ghost will verify this to us; He is the
Sanctifier. No other testimony of forgiveness can be greater.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p25"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Lord said, “He that repents and </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">does
the commandments</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> of
the Lord shall be forgiven” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/1.32?lang=eng#31"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
1:32</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
emphasis added). And He said, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/11.28?lang=eng#27"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matthew
11:28</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
“Be faithful and diligent … and I will encircle thee in the arms
of my love” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/6.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
6:20</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p26"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
He declared, “Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is
forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/58.42?lang=eng#41"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
58:42</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p34"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Pahoran, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">My
dear brothers and sisters, my dear young friends, when the captain of
a long-range jet passes the point of safe return, and the headwinds
are too strong or the cruising altitudes too low, he might be forced
to divert to an airport other than his planned destination. This is
not so in our journey through life back to our heavenly home.
Wherever you find yourselves on this journey through life, whatever
trials you may face, there is </span><i><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">always</span></em></i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> a
point of safe return; there is always hope. You are the captain of
your life, and God has prepared a plan to bring you safely back to
Him, to your divine destination.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p35"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at
all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness. Because
of this gift, the opportunity to make a safe return from the
disastrous course of sin is available to all of us.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p36"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">For
this I give thanks to our Heavenly Father, and of this I bear
testimony with all my heart and soul in the name of Jesus Christ,
amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Apply</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>From
Elder Uchtdorf</i></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">For
our own good, we need the moral courage to forgive and to ask for
forgiveness. Never is the soul nobler and more courageous than when
we forgive. This includes forgiving ourselves.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p32"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Each
of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon
and mercy and to forgive one another. There is a great need for this
Christlike attribute in our families, in our marriages, in our wards
and stakes, in our communities, and in our nations.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p33"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
will receive the joy of forgiveness in our own lives when we are
willing to extend that joy freely to others. Lip service is not
enough. We need to purge our hearts and minds of feelings and
thoughts of bitterness and let the light and the love of Christ enter
in. As a result, the Spirit of the Lord will fill our souls with the
joy accompanying divine peace of conscience (see </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.2-3?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah
4:2–3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Music</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hymns</i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/come-unto-jesus?lang=eng"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Come
unto Jesus (#117)</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/come-ye-disconsolate?lang=eng"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Come,
Ye Disconsolate (#115)</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Children</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/repentance?lang=eng"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Repentance
(#98)</span></span></a></span></div>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-9310392710061031852017-02-15T09:34:00.000-06:002017-02-15T09:39:23.440-06:00Cry Unto The Lord-3 Nephi 3:15<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">3
Nephi 3:15</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Cry
Unto The Lord, He will deliver you</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><b>What</b></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="15"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote16"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">15 Yea,
he said unto them: As the Lord liveth, except ye repent of all your
iniquities, and cry unto the Lord, ye will in nowise
be a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#15a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">delivered</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">out
of the hands of those Gadianton robbers.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">\</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Why</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">the
Lord does not bless the wicked or protect them.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">It
is important to pray for the blessings we desire.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Pattern</b></span></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.28in; margin-bottom: 0.2in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(225, 225, 225);">TG Deliver</span></span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">See
also </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Israel,
Deliverance of</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Jesus
Christ, Redeemer</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Jesus
Christ, Savior</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Protection,
Divine</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Redeem</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Redemption</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Salvation</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Save</span></u></span></span></span></a></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Deliver,
Deliverance</span></b></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<dl>
<dt style="border: none; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u>Gen.
32:11</u></span></span></a></dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dd style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Deliver me … from the hand
of my brother.</span></dd></dl>
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<span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Deliver,
Deliverance</b></span></span></span></div>
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<dt style="border: none; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u>Gen.
32:11</u></span></span></a></dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dd style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Deliver me … from the hand
of my brother.</span></dd></dl>
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<dt style="border: none; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u>Ex.
1:19</u></span></span></a></dt>
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<dd style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">are delivered ere the midwives
come.</span></dd></dl>
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<dt style="border: none; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u>Ex. 3:8</u></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;">; </span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u>Acts
7:34</u></span></span></a></dt>
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</span>
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<dl>
<dd style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">deliver them out of the hand
of the Egyptians.</span></dd></dl>
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<dt style="border: none; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u>Ex. 12:27</u></span></span></a></dt>
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<dd style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">smote the Egyptians, and
delivered our houses.</span></dd></dl>
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<dt style="border: none; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u>Judg.
2:16</u></span></span></a></dt>
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<dd style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">delivered them out of the hand
of those that spoiled.</span></dd></dl>
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<span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">See
also </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Deliver</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>God
to Fight Our Battles</u></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #fbf9f2;">Protection,
Divine</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<dt style="border: none; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u>Gen.
15:1</u></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;">; </span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u>Ps.
3:3</u></span></span></a></dt>
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<dd style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I am thy shield.</span></dd></dl>
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<dt style="border: none; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u>Gen. 45:7</u></span></span></a></dt>
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<dd style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">God sent me before you to
preserve you.</span></dd></dl>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Ps.
31:23</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">23
O </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">love</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> the Lord,
all ye his saints: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">for</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> the Lord </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">preserveth</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">faithful</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
and plentifully </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">rewardeth</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> the
proud doer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">D&;C
1:36</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">36
And also the Lord shall have </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">power</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> over
his </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">saints</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
and shall </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">reign</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> in
their </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">midst</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
and shall come down in </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">judgment</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> upon </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Idumea</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
or the world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><b>Christ</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Jesus
is our deliverer in our earthly battles and in our eternal salvation.
He has delivered the atonement for us. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><b>Conference</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">D&</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>OCTOBER
2016</b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">| </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">God
Shall Wipe Away All Tears</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></span></span>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">C
1:36</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/evan-a-schmutz?lang=eng">By
Elder Evan A. Schmutz</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Of
the Seventy</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="kicker1"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">As
we exercise our faith in the Savior, He will lift us up and carry us
through all of our trials and, ultimately, save us in the celestial
kingdom.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p3"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">As
part of our Heavenly Father’s plan, He allowed sorrow to be woven
into our mortal experience.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/god-shall-wipe-away-all-tears?lang=eng#note1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> While
it seems that painful trials fall unevenly on us, we can be assured
that to one degree or another, we all suffer and struggle. It is my
prayer that the Holy Spirit will guide us to a greater understanding
why this must be so.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p6"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">God
invites us to respond with faith to our own unique afflictions in
order that we may reap blessings and gain knowledge that can be
learned in no other way. We are instructed to keep the commandments
in every condition and circumstance, for “he that is faithful in
tribulation, the reward of the same is greater in the kingdom of
heaven.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/god-shall-wipe-away-all-tears?lang=eng#note6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> And
as we read in scripture, “If thou art sorrowful, call on the Lord
thy God with supplication, that your souls may be joyful.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/god-shall-wipe-away-all-tears?lang=eng#note7"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">7</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p7"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The
Apostle Paul, himself no stranger to affliction, drew from his own
experience to teach with depth and beauty the eternal perspective
that comes when we endure well and with patience. He said, “For our
light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/god-shall-wipe-away-all-tears?lang=eng#note8"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> In
other words, we can know in the midst of our afflictions that God has
provided an eternal compensating reward.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Many
of us have pleaded with God to remove the cause of our suffering, and
when the relief we seek has not come, we have been tempted to think
He is not listening. I testify that, even in those moments, He hears
our prayers, has a reason for allowing our afflictions to
continue,</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/god-shall-wipe-away-all-tears?lang=eng#note10"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">10</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> and
will help us bear them.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/god-shall-wipe-away-all-tears?lang=eng#note11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">11</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p20"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Elder
Neal A. Maxwell once shared what he had learned of purposeful
suffering in these words:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Certain
forms of suffering, endured well, can actually be ennobling. …</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p22"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“… </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Part
of enduring well consists of being meek enough, amid our suffering,
to learn from our relevant experiences. Rather than simply passing
through these things, they must pass through us … in ways
which sanctify [us].”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/god-shall-wipe-away-all-tears?lang=eng#note18"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">18</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p26"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">When
all is finished and we have endured all things with faith in Jesus
Christ, we have the promise that “God shall wipe away all [the]
tears from [our] eyes.”</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/god-shall-wipe-away-all-tears?lang=eng#note21"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">21</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p27"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I
testify that God our Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, live and that
They are keepers of promises. I testify that the Savior invites all
of us to come and partake of His Atonement. As we exercise our faith
in Him, He will lift us up and carry us through all of our trials
and, ultimately, save us in the celestial kingdom. May I invite you
to come unto Christ, endure well in faith, become perfected through
Him, and have perfect joy in Him. In the sacred name of Jesus Christ,
amen.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">APRIL
2012</span></b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> | </span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Power of Deliverance</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span></span></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/l-tom-perry?lang=eng">By
Elder L. Tom Perry</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p211"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
dominant theme of the Book of Mormon is expressed in the final verse
of the first chapter of 1 Nephi. Nephi writes, “But behold, I,
Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are
over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make
them mighty even unto the power of deliverance” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/1.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">1 Nephi
1:20</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">).</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p221"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I
wish to speak about how the Book of Mormon, which is a tender mercy
of the Lord preserved for these latter days, delivers us by teaching
us in a pure and “most correct” way the doctrine of Christ.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p23"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Many
of the stories of the Book of Mormon are stories of deliverance.
Lehi’s departure into the wilderness with his family was about
deliverance from the destruction of Jerusalem. The story of the
Jaredites is a story of deliverance, as is the story of the
Mulekites. Alma the Younger was delivered from sin. Helaman’s
stripling warriors were delivered in battle. Nephi and Lehi were
delivered from prison. The theme of deliverance is evident throughout
the entire Book of Mormon.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p271"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
second story is similar in many respects but also different. The
account is recorded in </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/24?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mosiah
24</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p28"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Alma
and his people had settled in the land of Helam, when an army of the
Lamanites came into the borders of the land. They met and worked out
a peaceful solution. (See </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/23.25-29?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Mosiah
23:25–29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">.)
Soon the leaders of the Lamanites began to impose their will on the
people of Alma and placed heavy burdens on them to bear (see </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/24.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Mosiah
24:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">).
In </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/24.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">verse
13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> we
read, “And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord came to them
in their afflictions, saying: Lift up your heads and be of good
comfort, for I know of the covenant which ye have made unto me; and I
will covenant with my people and deliver them out of bondage.”</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p29"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The
people of Alma were delivered from the hands of the Lamanites and
safely made their way back to be united with the people of Zarahemla.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><b>Apply</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">From
Elder Perry</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
can be delivered from the ways of evil and wickedness by turning to
the teachings of the holy scriptures. The Savior is the Great
Deliverer, for He delivers us from death and from sin (see </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rom/11.26?lang=eng#25"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Romans
11:26</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">2 Nephi
9:12</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">).
“</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Music</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Hymns-</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/lean-on-my-ample-arm?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lean
on My Ample Arm (#120)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/god-of-our-fathers-whose-almighty-hand?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">God
of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand (#78)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Children</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/he-sent-his-son?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
Sent His Son (#34)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-31126513396772504522017-02-14T07:54:00.002-06:002017-02-14T07:54:43.031-06:00Fortify Your Faith 3 Nephi 3:14<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
3 Nephi 3:14</div>
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<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fortify
Your Faith</span></span></span></h2>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The Lord isn’t
asking us to load up a handcart; He’s asking us to fortify our
faith.”—Elder M. Russell Ballard, “</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/the-truth-of-god-shall-go-forth?lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Truth of God Shall Go Forth</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="14"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote15"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">14 And
he caused that a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#14a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">fortifications</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">should
be built round about them, and the strength thereof should be
exceedingly great. And he caused that armies, both of the Nephites
and of the Lamanites, or of all them who were numbered among the
Nephites, should be placed as guards round about to watch them, and
to guard them from the robbers day and night.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
robbers were a real threat to their safety. They would kill them and
destroy their whole nation and their families if they did not protect
themselves so they built walls or fortifications to protect
themselves inside. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pattern</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.28in; margin-bottom: 0.2in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Morm.
2:4</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">4
And it came to pass that we did come to the city of Angola, and we
did take possession of the city, and make preparations to defend
ourselves against the Lamanites. And it came to pass that we
did </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">fortify</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> the
city with our might; but notwithstanding all our fortifications the
Lamanites did come upon us and did drive us out of the city.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Morm.
2:21</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">21
And it came to pass that we did </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">fortify</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> the
city of Shem, and we did gather in our people as much as it were
possible, that perhaps we might save them from destruction.</span></span></span></div>
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<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/nahum/3.14?lang=eng#13"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nahum
3:14</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">14
Draw thee waters for the siege, <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">fortify</span> thy
strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the
brickkiln.</span></span></div>
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<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-chr/26.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2
Chronicles 26:9</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">9
Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at
the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">fortified</span> them.</span></span></div>
</ul>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-chr/11.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2
Chronicles 11:11</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">11
And he <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">fortified</span> the
strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of
oil and wine.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/jacob/7.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Jacob
7:25</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">25
Wherefore, the people of Nephi did <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">fortify</span>against
them with their arms, and with all their might, trusting in the God
and rock of their salvation; wherefore, they became as yet,
conquerors of their enemies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Christ</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">They
were fortified against evil and seeking the protection of Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Conference</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1979/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>APRIL
1979</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Fortify
Your Homes Against Evil</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/spencer-w-kimball?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Spencer W.
Kimball</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p12"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
all of this evidence of progress, there is cause for rejoicing, but
unfortunately we cannot proclaim that “all is well in Zion.” We
find that we Latter-day Saints are also vulnerable to the destructive
forces of evil that are all about us in this sin-sick world. Of the
greatest concern in this day are those evils which tear at the fabric
of the home and family.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p13"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Often
we have called upon our people, and we repeat it again, to give
attention to the outward appearance of their homes and buildings, the
barns, the sheds, the fences, the places of business, to make our
communities attractive and desirable. We have asked, and repeat it
again and again, that you plant trees and shrubs and vegetables and
berry gardens to beautify your properties and help provide for your
needs. Your response to these appeals has been gratifying, and many
letters have been received telling of your cooperation in these
matters, and we are very proud of you.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Don’t
stop. Continue on. But while we would encourage you to continue to
give attention to the outward appearance of your homes, we now
implore you to give more and more attention to the </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">interior</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> of
your homes. I do not refer alone to the cleanliness and
attractiveness of the home and furnishings, as important as these may
be, but to the cleanliness and godliness of the family members and to
the general atmosphere that prevails.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Church’s long-standing concern for children and its massive
commitment in time and energy and resources to improve their lot are
well-documented. We are constantly seeking ways to strengthen
families and bless children, and that commitment will be continued
and reinforced this year and in all the years to come.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Church welcomes the concerns of others to achieve these beneficial
ends through appropriate means. We again are reemphasizing, however,
that the greatest blessing we can give our own children and that can
be extended to all the children of the world will come through the
simple processes of teaching and training them in the way of the
Lord.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p17"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Home
life, proper teaching in the home, parental guidance and
leadership—these are the panacea for the ailments of the world and
its children. They are the cure for spiritual and emotional diseases
and the remedy for its problems. Parents should not leave the
training of children to others.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Such
evils are very real and very threatening. One has but to read the
headlines of our newspapers and magazines to become frighteningly
aware of the crumbling, destructive influences which surround us.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p22"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps
I sound like an alarmist. If so, it is because I </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">am</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> alarmed.
I am greatly concerned, and so are my Brethren in the First
Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles and others of the
General Authorities.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p23"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">If
we could but suggest you go home and lock these evils out by closing
and bolting the windows and locking the doors of your homes securely,
it would be a simple matter.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p24"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">However,
such security would be ineffective against the evils of which we
speak. They come into our homes on ether waves by radio and the
television screen. We find these evil forces almost everywhere we go.
Exposure is almost constant. We track them into the home from the
school, from the playground, from the theater, the office, and the
marketplace. There are but few places we go in our everyday world
where we can escape them.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p25"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What
then must be our service? What must we do? We must be constantly
alert to their evil presence in our homes and destroy them as we
would the germs and filth of disease. We must hunt them from the
closets of our minds, freeing ourselves of such worldliness,
quenching the embers of wickedness before they become destructive
flames. How do we do this?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">If
we would escape those deadly thrusts of the evil one and keep our
homes and families free and solidly fortified against all destructive
influences so rampant about us, we must have the help of the very
founder and organizer of this family plan—the Creator himself.
There is only one sure way and that is through the gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ and being obedient to its profound and inspired
teachings. Surely we must be made to realize that the purchase price
of a family hearth free of such evil influences is the keeping of the
commandments of God.</span> </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Apply</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">from
President Kimball</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p49"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
history of man evidences that these teachings are true. The rise and
fall of civilizations according to the alternating righteousness and
wickedness of the peoples proclaim the need to hear and to heed the
Savior’s divine messages. We must prepare ourselves, both
individually and as a church, to defend the gospel truths against a
world steeped in atheism and godlessness. We must oppose the
so-called intellectuals who reason that they have all the answers,
and we must contend mightily with those whose lust for power and
worldly gain destroy their sense of right and wrong.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p50"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
members of Christ’s true church we must stand firm today and always
for human rights and the dignity of man who is the literal offspring
of God in the spirit. We cannot condone a separation of our religious
beliefs from our daily living. Righteousness must prevail in our
lives and in our homes.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p51"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">It
is a </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">must</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> that
we develop a love for Christ and give full allegiance and service in
the establishment of his kingdom. Being a good Christian means we
must be a good citizen of our country, wherever we live. We must be
respectful and honorable in all our relationships with our fellowmen.
We must worship the Lord in truth and keep all of his commandments.
We must seek for an enlarged capacity to influence the world toward a
return to righteousness and a pure love of God.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p52"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">May
the Lord bless us all in our homes and families as we strive to draw
nearer to him and keep his commandments, I humbly pray, my beloved
brothers and sisters, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hymns</span></div>
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<li><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/we-are-all-enlisted?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
Are All Enlisted (#250)</span></span></a></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Children</span></div>
<ul>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/teach-me-to-walk-in-the-light?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Teach
Me to Walk in the Light (#177)</span></span></a></div>
</li>
</ul>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-33269566450954619722017-02-13T08:29:00.001-06:002017-02-13T08:29:59.480-06:00Gather 3 Nephi 3:13<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Nephi 3:13</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Children
Gather around Jesus</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jesus sits and talks
with the children as they gather around Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="13"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote14"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">13 Yea,
he sent a proclamation among all the people, that they
should a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#13a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">gather</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">together
their women, and their children, their flocks and their herds, and
all their substance, save it were their land, unto one place.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">there
is strength in numbers and unity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pattern</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.28in; margin-bottom: 0.2in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">3 Ne.
3:22</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">22
And it came to pass in the seventeenth year, in the latter end of the
year, the proclamation of Lachoneus had gone forth throughout all the
face of the land, and they had taken their </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">horses</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
and their chariots, and their cattle, and all their flocks, and their
herds, and their grain, and all their substance, and did march forth
by thousands and by tens of thousands, until they had all gone forth
to the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">place</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> which </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">had</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> been
appointed that they should gather themselves together, to defend
themselves against their enemies.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.28in; margin-bottom: 0.2in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">4:1</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">1
And it came to pass that in the latter end of the eighteenth year
those armies of </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">robbers</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> had
prepared for battle, and began to come down and to sally forth from
the hills, and out of the mountains, and the wilderness, and their
strongholds, and their </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">secret</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> places,
and began to take possession of the lands, both which were in the
land south and which were in the land north, and began to take
possession of all the lands which had been </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">deserted</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> by
the Nephites, and the cities which had been left desolate.</span></span></span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Christ</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">this
could be symbolic of when Jesus spoke of gathering His flocks and the
gathering of Israel. </span></span></span>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/luke/13.34?lang=eng#33"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Luke
13:34</span></span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them
that are sent unto thee; how often would I have <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">gathered</span> thy
children together, as a hen doth <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">gather</span> her
brood under her wings, and ye would not!</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/13.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Matthew
13:30</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Ensign
article</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/1997/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">OCTOBER
1997</span></span></a></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(""); background-origin: initial; background-position: center top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p3"></a>
<span style="color: #737373;">“</span><span style="color: #737373;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">HOW
SHALL I GATHER?”</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">By </span><a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/1997/10/how-shall-i-gather?lang=eng#pop_001-97910_000_003"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">William
G. Hartley</span></span></a></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(""); background-origin: initial; background-position: center top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Church
leaders and members covenanted to gather “all the Saints with us,
to the extent of our ability, … influence and property.”</span></u></span><span style="color: #147ea7;"><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
</span></u></span></span></span>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3 class="western" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(""); background-origin: initial; background-position: center top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.03in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/jst/jst-luke/17.37?lang=eng#36"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">JST,
Luke 17:37</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">37
And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">gathered</span>;
or, in other words, whithersoever the saints are <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">gathered</span>,
thither will the eagles be <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">gathered</span> together;
or, thither will the remainder be <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">gathered</span> together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Conference</span></u></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(""); background-origin: initial; background-position: center top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.03in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>OCTOBER
2006</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> | </span></u></span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The
Gathering of Scattered Israel</span></u></span></span></span><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
</span></u></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/russell-m-nelson?lang=eng">Russell
M. Nelson</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">My
beloved brothers and sisters, thank you for your faith, your
devotion, and your love. We share an enormous responsibility to be
who the Lord wants us to be and to do what He wants us to do. We are
part of a great movement—the gathering of scattered Israel. I speak
of this doctrine today because of its unique importance in God’s
eternal plan.</span></span></div>
<h2 class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.22in; margin-top: 0.63in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="title2"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Abrahamic Covenant</span></span></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p4"></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Anciently,
the Lord blessed Father Abraham with a promise to make his posterity
a chosen people.</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> References
to this covenant occur throughout the scriptures. Included were
promises that the Son of God would come through Abraham’s lineage,
that certain lands would be inherited, that nations and kindreds of
the earth would be blessed through his seed, and more.</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> While
some aspects of that covenant have already been fulfilled, the Book
of Mormon teaches that this Abrahamic covenant will be fulfilled only
in these latter days!</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> It
also emphasizes that we are among the covenant people of the
Lord.</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note4"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Ours
is the privilege to participate personally in the fulfillment of
these promises. What an exciting time to live!</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p13"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This
doctrine of the gathering is one of the important teachings of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Lord has declared:
“I give unto you a sign … that I shall gather in, from their long
dispersion, my people, O house of Israel, and shall establish again
among them my Zion.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note17"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">17</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> The
coming forth of the Book of Mormon is a sign to the entire world that
the Lord has commenced to gather Israel and fulfill covenants He made
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note18"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> We
not only teach this doctrine, but we participate in it. We do so as
we help to gather the elect of the Lord on both sides of the veil.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Book of Mormon is central to this work. It declares the doctrine of
the gathering.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note19"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">19</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">It
causes people to learn about Jesus Christ, to believe His gospel, and
to join His Church. In fact, if there were no Book of Mormon, the
promised gathering of Israel would not occur.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note20"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">20</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="title9"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">Gathering
of Souls on the Other Side of the Veil</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p25"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mercifully,
the invitation to “come unto Christ”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note34"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">34</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> can
also be extended to those who died without a knowledge of the
gospel.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note35"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">35</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Part
of their preparation requires earthly efforts of others. We gather
pedigree charts, create family group sheets, and do temple work
vicariously to gather individuals unto the Lord and into their
families.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note36"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">36</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
choice to come unto Christ is not a matter of physical location; it
is a matter of individual commitment. People can be “brought to the
knowledge of the Lord”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note39"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">39</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">without
leaving their homelands. True, in the early days of the Church,
conversion often meant emigration as well. But now the gathering
takes place in each nation. The Lord has decreed the establishment of
Zion</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note40"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">40</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in
each realm where He has given His Saints their birth and nationality.
Scripture foretells that the people “shall be gathered home to the
lands of their inheritance, and shall be established in all their
lands of promise.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note41"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">41</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> “Every
nation is the gathering place for its own people.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note42"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">42</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> The
place of gathering for Brazilian Saints is in Brazil; the place of
gathering for Nigerian Saints is in Nigeria; the place of gathering
for Korean Saints is in Korea; and so forth. Zion is “the pure in
heart.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/10/the-gathering-of-scattered-israel?lang=eng#note43"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">43</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Zion
is wherever righteous Saints are. Publications, communications, and
congregations are now such that nearly all members have access to the
doctrines, keys, ordinances, and blessings of the gospel, regardless
of their location.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Spiritual
security will always depend upon </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">how</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> one
lives, not </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">where</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> one
lives. Saints in every land have equal claim upon the blessings of
the Lord.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">Hymns</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/arise-o-glorious-zion?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Arise,
O Glorious Zion (#40)</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">Children</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/little-lambs-so-white-and-fair?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Little
Lambs So White and Fair (#58)</span></span></a></div>
handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-1404598504602945002017-02-13T08:26:00.000-06:002017-02-13T08:26:15.380-06:003 Nephi 3:11-12- Christ the Center of Our Lives<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Nephi 3:11-12</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Center of Our Lives</span></span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As we make Christ
the center of our lives, our fears will be replaced by the courage of
our convictions.” —President Thomas S. Monson, “</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/10/be-an-example-and-a-light?lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Be
an Example and a Light</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">11 And
now it came to pass when Lachoneus received this epistle he was
exceedingly astonished, because of the boldness of Giddianhi
demanding the possession of the land of the Nephites, and also of
threatening the people and avenging the wrongs of those that had
received no wrong, save it were they had a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#11a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">wronged</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> themselves
by dissenting away unto those wicked and abominable robbers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">12 Now
behold, this Lachoneus, the governor, was a just man, and could not
be frightened by the demands and the threatenings of a a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#12a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">robber</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
therefore he did not hearken to the epistle of Giddianhi, the
governor of the robbers, but he did cause that his people should cry
unto the Lord for b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#12b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">strength</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> against
the time that the robbers should come down against them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lachoneus
had faith in God and was a righteous leader. He knew of the
wickedness of the robbers. </span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pattern</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Hel.
14:30</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">30
And now remember, remember, my brethren, that whosoever perisheth,
perisheth unto </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">himself</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">;
and whosoever doeth iniquity, doeth it unto himself; for behold, ye
are </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">free</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">;
ye are permitted to act for yourselves; for behold, God hath given
unto you a </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">knowledge</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and
he hath made you free.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
every tree … thou mayest freely eat: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/2.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Gen.
2:16</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">men
are free … to choose: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.27?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 2:27</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">ye
are free to act for yourselves: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/10.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 10:23</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">yield
unto the devil and choose works of darkness: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/26.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 26:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 And
Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and <i>there
were</i> thirty
and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and
besieged Samaria, and warred against it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 And
he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said
unto him, Thus saith a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/20.3.2-3?lang=eng#2a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ben-hadad</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 Thy a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/20.3.2-3?lang=eng#3a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">silver</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and
thy gold </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>is</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> mine;
thy wives also and thy children, </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>even</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> the
goodliest, </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>are</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> mine.
1 Kings 20</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Strength</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/arm?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Arm</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/courage?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Courage</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/health?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Health</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/might?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Might</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/power?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Power</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/priesthood-power-of?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Priesthood,
Power of</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/strengthen?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Strengthen</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/strong?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Strong</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
is my strength: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/15.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ex.
15:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/19.14?lang=eng#13"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps.
19:14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/27.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 27:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/118.14?lang=eng#13"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 118:14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/12.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa.
12:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/26.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 26:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/22.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
22:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">God
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22:33</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>OCTOBER
2016</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> | </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rise
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<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/bonnie-l-oscarson?lang=eng">By
Bonnie L. Oscarson</a> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Young
Women General President</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sisters,
we live in “perilous times.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/rise-up-in-strength-sisters-in-zion?lang=eng#note2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> The
conditions of our day should not be a surprise to us. They have been
foretold for millennia as a warning and admonition so that we can be
prepared. The </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/morm/8"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">8th
chapter of Mormon</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> gives
a disconcertingly accurate description of the conditions of our day.
In this chapter, Moroni says he has seen our day, and it includes
wars and rumors of wars, great pollutions, murders, robbing, and
people who tell us that there is no right or wrong in God’s eyes.
He describes people who are filled with pride, caught up in the
wearing of expensive clothing, and who make fun of religion. He is
shown people who are so obsessed with worldly things that they allow
“the needy, and the naked, and the sick and the afflicted to pass
by”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/rise-up-in-strength-sisters-in-zion?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> without
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">President
Russell M. Nelson told us a year ago: “Attacks against the
Church, its doctrine, and our way of life are going to increase.
Because of this, we need women who have a bedrock understanding of
the doctrine of Christ and who will use that understanding to teach
and help raise a sin-resistant generation. We need women who can
detect deception in all of its forms. We need women who know how to
access the power that God makes available to covenant keepers and who
express their beliefs with confidence and charity. We need women who
have the courage and vision of our Mother Eve.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/rise-up-in-strength-sisters-in-zion?lang=eng#note7"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">7</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This
message reassures me that despite the conditions of our day, we have
many reasons to rejoice and be optimistic. I believe with all of my
heart that we sisters do have the innate strength and faith that will
allow us to meet the challenges of living in the last days. Sister
Sheri Dew has written, “I believe that the moment we learn to
unleash the full influence of converted, covenant-keeping women, the
kingdom of God will change overnight.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/rise-up-in-strength-sisters-in-zion?lang=eng#note8"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">8</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">I
love the gospel of Jesus Christ, and I am eternally grateful for the
direction, power, and daily help I receive as a covenant daughter of
God. I testify that the Lord has blessed us, as women who live in
these perilous times, with all of the power, gifts, and strength that
are needed in order to prepare the world for the Second Coming of the
Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that we may all see our true potential and
rise up to become the women of faith and courage our Father in Heaven
needs us to be. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. </span></span></span>
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faith in the Lord. Pray often and keep the commandments. We can be
strong and have the strength of the Lord.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">10 And
I write this epistle unto you, Lachoneus, and I hope that ye will
deliver up your lands and your possessions, without the shedding of
blood, that this my people may recover their rights and a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#10a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">government</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
who have dissented away from you because of your wickedness in
retaining from them their rights of government, and except ye do
this, I will avenge their wrongs. I am Giddianhi.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">11 And
now it came to pass when Lachoneus received this epistle he was
exceedingly astonished, because of the boldness of Giddianhi
demanding the possession of the land of the Nephites, and also of
threatening the people and avenging the wrongs of those that had
received no wrong, save it were they had a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#11a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">wronged</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> themselves
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For there is no </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">power</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">but
of God</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">:
the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">powers</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> that
be are ordained of God.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;"><span style="color: #111111;">Hel.
14:30</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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And now remember, remember, my brethren, that whosoever perisheth,
perisheth unto </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">himself</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">;
and whosoever doeth iniquity, doeth it unto himself; for behold, ye
are </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">free</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">;
ye are permitted to act for yourselves; for behold, God hath given
unto you a </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">knowledge</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and
he hath made you free.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">29 And
this to the intent that whosoever will believe might be saved, and
that whosoever will not believe, a a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/14.30?lang=eng#29a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">righteous
judgment</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> might
come upon them; and also if they are condemned they bring upon
themselves their own condemnation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">30 And
now remember, remember, my brethren, that whosoever perisheth,
perisheth unto a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/14.30?lang=eng#30a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">himself</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
and whosoever doeth iniquity, doeth it unto himself; for behold, ye
are b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/14.30?lang=eng#30b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">free</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
ye are permitted to act for yourselves; for behold, God hath given
unto you a c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/14.30?lang=eng#30c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">knowledge</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and
he hath made you free.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">31 He
hath given unto you that ye might a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/14.30?lang=eng#31a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">know</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> good
from evil, and he hath given unto you that ye might b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/14.30?lang=eng#31b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">choose</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> life
or death; and ye can do good and be c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/14.30?lang=eng#31c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">restored</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> unto
that which is good, or have that which is good restored unto you; or
ye can do evil, and have that which is evil restored unto you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;"><span style="color: #111111;">Deut.
30:19</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">that</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> I
have set before you life and death, blessing and </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">cursing</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">:
therefore </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">choose</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> life,
that both thou and thy seed may live:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #111111;">Christ</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #111111;">The
robbers were in total opposition to Christ. The war that began in
heaven is not over. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;"><span style="color: #111111;">TOPICS</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>APRIL
2015</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> | </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Preserving
Agency, Protecting Religious Freedom</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/robert-d-hales?lang=eng">By
Elder Robert D. Hales</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
blessings we enjoy now are because we made the choice to follow the
Savior before this life. To everyone hearing or reading these words,
whoever you are and whatever your past may be, remember this: it is
not too late to make that same choice again and follow Him.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Through
our faith in Jesus Christ, believing in His Atonement, repenting of
our sins, and being baptized, we may then receive the supernal gift
of the Holy Ghost. This gift provides knowledge and understanding,
guidance and strength to learn and gain a testimony, power, cleansing
to overcome sin, and comfort and encouragement to be faithful in
tribulation. These incomparable blessings of the Spirit increase our
freedom and power to do what is right, for “where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note8"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">8</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
we walk the path of spiritual liberty in these last days, we must
understand that the faithful use of our agency depends upon our
having religious freedom. We already know that Satan does not want
this freedom to be ours. He attempted to destroy moral agency in
heaven, and now on earth he is fiercely undermining, opposing, and
spreading confusion about religious freedom—what it is and why it
is essential to our spiritual life and our very salvation.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p17"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">There
are four cornerstones of religious freedom that we as Latter-day
Saints must rely upon and protect.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
first is freedom to believe. No one should be criticized, persecuted,
or attacked by individuals, or governments either, for what he or she
believes about God. It is very personal and very important. An early
declaration of our beliefs regarding religious liberty states:</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p19"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No
government can exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held
inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of
conscience. …</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p20"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“… </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
civil magistrate should restrain crime, but never control conscience
[or] suppress the freedom of the soul.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note9"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">9</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Apply</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">From
Elder Hales “</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #111111;">Brothers
and sisters, we are responsible to safeguard these sacred freedoms
and rights for ourselves and our posterity. What can you and I do?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">First,
we can become informed. Be aware of issues in your community that
could have an impact on religious liberty.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p34"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Second,
in your individual capacity, join with others who share our
commitment to religious freedom. Work side by side to protect
religious freedom.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p35"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Third,
live your life to be a good example of what you believe—in word and
deed. How we live our religion is far more important than what we may
say about our religion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #111111;"><b>Hymns
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #111111;"><b>God
Speed the right</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #111111;"><b>Children</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #111111;"><b>I
Will Follow God's Plan for me</b></span></span></span></div>
handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-49914435528968493812017-02-09T08:12:00.001-06:002017-02-09T08:12:43.911-06:00Lest Thou Forget -3 Nephi 3:9<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 3:9</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">Lest Thou forget</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember</span></span></span></h2>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Always
remember—you matter to Him!”—President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/you-matter-to-him?lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">You
Matter to Him</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="9"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote6"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote7"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote8"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote9"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">9 And
behold, I am a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#9a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Giddianhi</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
and I am the governor of this the b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#9b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">secret
society</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of
Gadianton; which society and the works thereof I know to be c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#9c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">good</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
and they are of d</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#9d"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">ancient</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">date
and they have been handed down unto us.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Giddianhi
is signing the letter and identifying himself and his society. He is
a liar and a follower of Satan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pattern</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
gets his due reward in the next chapter</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">3 Ne.
4:14</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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And it came to pass that Giddianhi, who had stood and fought with
boldness, was pursued as he fled; and being weary because of his much
fighting he was overtaken and slain. And thus was the end of
Giddianhi the robber.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Secret
Combinations</span></b></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/conspiracy?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Conspiracy</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">stirreth
up … secret combinations: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
9:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">must
needs destroy the secret works of darkness: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/10.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 10:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">secret
combinations … the combinations of the devil: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/26.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 26:22</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/6.27-30?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 Ne.
6:27–30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">their
works shall be in the dark: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/28.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 28:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">judgments
of God did come upon … secret combinations:</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/37.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
37:30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">to
gain power … was their secret plan, and their
combination:</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/2.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hel.
2:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/11.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ether
11:15</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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these things were done in secret: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/5.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moses
5:30</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">from
the days of Cain, there was a secret combination: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/5.51?lang=eng#50"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moses 5:51</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Satan
had great dominion … because of secret works: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/6.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moses 6:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/4.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Gen.
4:23</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/64.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ps.
64:5</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/3.19?lang=eng#18"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>John
3:19</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/eph/6.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Eph.
6:12</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-thes/2.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>2 Thes.
2:7</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/17.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Rev.
17:5</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/27.27?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>2 Ne.
27:27</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/37.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Alma
37:21</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/16.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hel.
16:21</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/9.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>3 Ne.
9:5</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/123.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>D&C
123:13</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Alma
30:53</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">53
But behold, the devil hath </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">deceived</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> me;
for he </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">appeared</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> unto
me in the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">form</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
an angel, and said unto me: Go and reclaim this people, for they have
all gone astray after an unknown God. And he said unto me: There
is </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">no</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> God;
yea, and he taught me that which I should say. And I have taught his
words; and I taught them because they were pleasing unto
the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">carnal</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> mind;
and I taught them, even until I had much success, insomuch that I
verily believed that they were true; and for this cause I withstood
the truth, even until I have brought this great </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">curse</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> upon
me. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">(Korihor)</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #e1e1e1;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">Moses
5:29 (29, 49–52)</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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And Satan said unto Cain: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Swear</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> unto
me by thy throat, and if thou tell it thou shalt die; and swear thy
brethren by their heads, and by the living God, that they tell it
not; for if they tell it, they shall surely die; and this that thy
father may not know it; and this day I will deliver thy brother Abel
into thine hands.<br /><br />49 For </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Lamech</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> having
entered into a covenant with Satan, after the manner of Cain, wherein
he became Master Mahan, master of that great secret which was
administered unto Cain by Satan; and Irad, the son of Enoch, having
known their secret, began to reveal it unto the sons of Adam;<br />50
Wherefore Lamech, being angry, slew him, not like unto Cain, his
brother Abel, for the sake of getting gain, but he slew him for
the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">oath’s</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> sake.<br />51
For, from the days of Cain, there was a secret </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">combination</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
and their works were in the dark, and they knew every man his
brother.<br />52 Wherefore the Lord </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">cursed</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> Lamech,
and his house, and all them that had covenanted with Satan; for they
kept not the commandments of God, and it displeased God, and he
ministered not unto them, and their works were abominations, and
began to spread among all the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">sons</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
men. And it was among the sons of men.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Christ</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">The
Gadianton Robbers are in total opposite to Christ. Their purpose is
to deny Him</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Conference</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Pahoran, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b><span style="background: transparent;">OCTOBER
2016</span></b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> | </span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lest
Thou Forget</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Pahoran, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/ronald-a-rasband?lang=eng">By
Elder Ronald A. Rasband</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Pahoran, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
friend, like perhaps some of you, asked the question so poignantly
phrased in the Primary song: “Heavenly Father, are you really
there?”</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/lest-thou-forget?lang=eng#note1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">1</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> For
those of you who may be asking this same question, I would like to
share with you the counsel I would offer to my friend and hope that
each of you may find your faith strengthened and your resolve renewed
to be a committed disciple of Jesus Christ.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
begin by reminding you that you are a son or daughter of a loving
Father in Heaven and that His love remains constant. I know that such
reassuring feelings of love are difficult to recall when you are in
the midst of personal struggles or trials, disappointments, or broken
dreams.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Jesus
Christ knows about fierce struggles and trials. He gave His life for
us. His final hours were brutal, beyond anything we can even
comprehend, but His sacrifice for each one of us was the ultimate
expression of His pure love.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">No
mistake, sin, or choice will change God’s love for us. That does
not mean sinful conduct is condoned, nor does it remove our
obligation to repent when sins are committed. But </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">do
not forget,</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Heavenly
Father knows and loves each of you, and He is always ready to help.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">from
Elder Rasband's talk above. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Pahoran, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each
of us must first strengthen ourselves spiritually and then strengthen
those around us. Ponder the scriptures regularly, and remember the
thoughts and feelings you experience as you read them. Seek other
sources of truth as well, but heed this caution from the scriptures:
“But to be learned is good </span></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>if</i></span></span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> they
hearken unto the counsels of God.”</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/lest-thou-forget?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Attend
Church meetings, especially sacrament meeting, and partake of the
sacrament and renew covenants, including the promise to always
remember the Savior, that His Spirit may ever be with you.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Conference</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Pahoran, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b><span style="background: transparent;">OCTOBER
2011</span></b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> | </span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You
Matter to Him</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Pahoran, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/dieter-f-uchtdorf?lang=eng">Dieter
F. Uchtdorf</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Second
Counselor in the First Presidency</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Third,
no matter where you live, no matter how humble your circumstances,
how meager your employment, how limited your abilities, how ordinary
your appearance, or how little your calling in the Church may appear
to you, you are not invisible to your Heavenly Father. He loves you.
He knows your humble heart and your acts of love and kindness.
Together, they form a lasting testimony of your fidelity and faith.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Fourth
and finally, please understand that what you see and experience now
is not what forever will be. You will not feel loneliness, sorrow,
pain, or discouragement forever. We have the faithful promise of God
that He will neither forget nor forsake those who incline their
hearts to Him.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/you-matter-to-him?lang=eng#note21"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Have
hope and faith in that promise. Learn to love your Heavenly Father
and become His disciple in word and in deed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">I
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Heavenly
Father Are You Really There?</span></span></span></div>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-52290631010167723642017-02-08T09:26:00.001-06:002017-02-08T09:26:55.214-06:00Why Make and Keep Covenants with the Lord? 3 Nephi 3:8<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 3:8</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
Make and Keep Covenants?</span></span></span></h2>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Covenant keeping
strengthens, empowers and protects. Keeping covenants is essential
for true happiness. Keeping our covenants demonstrates our love for
the Savior and our Father in Heaven.”—Sister Linda K. Burton,
“</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Power, Joy, and Love of Covenant Keeping</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="8"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote5"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">8 And
behold, I a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#8a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">swear</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">unto
you, if ye will do this, with an oath, ye shall not be destroyed; but
if ye will not do this, I swear unto you with an oath, that on the
morrow month I will command that my armies shall come down against
you, and they shall not stay their hand and shall spare not, but
shall slay you, and shall let fall the sword upon you even until ye
shall become extinct.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the
type of swearing that is referred to in this verse is an oath or a
pledge. Satan copies the Lord in this practice of pledging
obedience. The other type of swearing is profanity using the Lord's
name in vain. </span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">An
oath is a covenant. We should be covenant keepers with the Lord. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pattern</b></span></span></div>
<h2 class="western">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oath</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/conspiracy?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Conspiracy</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/covenants?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Covenants</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/pledge?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pledge</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/priesthood-oath-and-covenant?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Priesthood,
Oath and Covenant</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/promise?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Promise</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/secret-combinations?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Secret
Combinations</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/swearing?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Swearing</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/vow?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Vow</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
will perform the oath which I sware: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/26.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Gen.
26:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Joseph
took an oath of the children of Israel: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/50.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Gen. 50:25</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">an oath of
the Lord be between them: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/22.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ex.
22:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">If
a man … swear an oath to bind his soul: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/num/30.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Num.
30:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
… would keep the oath which he had sworn: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/7.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut.
7:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">enter
into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into
his oath: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/29.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut. 29:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">hast
thou not kept the oath of the Lord: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/2.43?lang=eng#42"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Kgs.
2:43</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">took
an oath of them in the house of the Lord: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/11.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Kgs.
11:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of
his oath unto Isaac: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-chr/16.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Chr.
16:16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/105.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps.
105:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">entered
… into an oath, to walk in God’s law: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/neh/10.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Neh.
10:29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
may perform the oath which I have sworn: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/11.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jer.
11:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">despised
the oath in breaking the covenant: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/16.59?lang=eng#58"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ezek.
16:59</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/17.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ezek. 17:18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">shalt
perform unto the Lord thine oaths: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/5.33?lang=eng#32"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt.
5:33</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/12.33?lang=eng#32"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 Ne.
12:33</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">king
was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/14.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt. 14:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/mark/6.26?lang=eng#25"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mark
6:26</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">oath which
he sware to our father Abraham: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/luke/1.73?lang=eng#72"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Luke
1:73</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Hel.
1:11</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">11
And he went unto those that sent him, and they all entered into a
covenant, yea, </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">swearing</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> by
their everlasting Maker, that they would tell no man that Kishkumen
had murdered Pahoran.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Ether
8:14 (13–</span></span></span></b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">14)</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">13
And it came to pass that Akish gathered in unto the house of Jared
all his kinsfolk, and said unto them: Will ye swear unto me that ye
will be faithful unto me in the thing which I shall desire of
you?<br />14 And it came to pass that they all </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">sware</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> unto
him, by the God of heaven, and also by the heavens, and also by the
earth, and by their heads, that whoso should vary from the assistance
which Akish desired should lose his head; and whoso should divulge
whatsoever thing Akish made known unto them, the same should lose his
life.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Gen.
24:3</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">3
And I will make thee </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">swear</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> by
the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou
shalt </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">not</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> take
a </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">wife</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> unto
my son of the daughters of the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Canaanites</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
among whom I dwell:</span></span></span></div>
<h2 class="western">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Swearing,
Swear, Sware, Sworn</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/blaspheme?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Blaspheme</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/covenants?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Covenants</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/honesty?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Honesty</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/oath?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oath</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/obedience?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Obedience</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/pledge?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pledge</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/profanity?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Profanity</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/promise?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Promise</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/vow?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Vow</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Beer-sheba;
because there they sware: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/21.31?lang=eng#30"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Gen.
21:31</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
did swear to give it to Abraham: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/6.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ex.
6:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">which
he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/13.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ex. 13:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">not
take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/20.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ex. 20:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">not swear by
my name falsely: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/lev/19.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lev.
19:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
… sware that I should not go over Jordan: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/4.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut.
4:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Thou
… shalt swear by his name: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/6.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut. 6:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">possess
the good land which the Lord sware unto thy
fathers: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/6.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut. 6:18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">hath
not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/24.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps.
24:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I sware in
my wrath: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/95.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 95:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/3.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Heb.
3:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/4.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Heb. 4:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
hath sworn, and will not repent: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/110.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 110:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/7.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Heb.
7:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
hath sworn in truth: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/132.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 132:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/2.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Acts
2:30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">every
knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/45.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa.
45:23</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">swear …
but not in truth: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/48.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 48:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/20.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Ne.
20:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">how
should my name be polluted: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/48.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 48:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
hath sworn by his right hand: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/62.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 62:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">sware by
him that liveth for ever: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/dan/12.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Dan.
12:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/10.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rev.
10:6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">By swearing …
they break out: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/hosea/4.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hosea
4:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">They
have spoken words, swearing falsely: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/hosea/10.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hosea 10:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
God hath sworn by his holiness: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/amos/4.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Amos
4:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">They
that swear by the sin of Samaria: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/amos/8.14?lang=eng#13"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Amos 8:14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">every
one that sweareth shall be cut off: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/zech/5.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Zech.
5:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">swift
witness … against false swearers: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/mal/3.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mal.
3:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/24.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 Ne.
24:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conference</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">OCTOBER
2013</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></b><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Power, Joy, and Love of Covenant Keeping</span></span><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></b>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/linda-k-burton?lang=eng">By
Linda K. Burton</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Relief
Society General President</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p8"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Elder
Jeffrey R. Holland explained that “a covenant is a binding
spiritual contract, a solemn promise to God our Father that we will
live and think and act in a certain way—the way of His Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ. In return, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost promise
us the full splendor of eternal life.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> In
that binding contract, the Lord sets the terms and we agree to keep
them. Making and keeping our covenants is an expression of our
commitment to become like the Savior.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> The
ideal is to strive for the attitude best expressed in a few phrases
of a favorite hymn: “I’ll go where </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">you</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> want
me to go. … I’ll say what </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">you</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> want
me to say. … I’ll be what </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">you</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> want
me to be.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note4"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="title2"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why
Make and Keep Covenants?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p9"></a><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1.
Covenant keeping strengthens, empowers, and protects.</span></strong></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p10"></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Nephi
saw in vision the significant blessings the Lord bestows upon
covenant keepers: “And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld the
power of the Lamb of God, that it descended … upon the covenant
people of the Lord, … and they were armed with righteousness and
with the power of </span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p101"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">God
in great glory.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note5"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">5</span></span></span></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p11"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
recently met a dear new friend. She testified that after she had
received her temple endowment, she felt strengthened with the power
to resist temptations she had previously struggled with.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p12"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
we keep our covenants, we also receive courage and strength to help
us bear one another’s burdens. A heartbroken sister had a son who
was experiencing a difficult mortal challenge. Because of her faith
in her Relief Society sisters as covenant keepers, she courageously
invited them to fast and pray for her son. Another sister expressed
how she wished she had asked for similar prayers from her sisters.
Years before, her own son was struggling. She wished she had invited
them to help her family bear this burden. The Savior said, “By this
shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to
another.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">6</span></span></span></a></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
know that the Lord always rejoices “in the soul that
repenteth,”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note9"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> but
we desire above all to have our children follow the counsel of
President Henry B. Eyring to “start early and be steady” in
making and keeping covenants.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note10"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Not
long ago a thought-provoking and sincere question was raised in a
council of priesthood and auxiliary leaders: do we really expect
eight-year-olds to keep their covenants? As we counseled together, it
was suggested that one way to prepare children to make and keep
sacred baptismal covenants is to help them learn to make and keep a
simple promise.</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Faithful
parents are entitled to know how to best teach to meet the needs of
their children. As parents seek and act on personal revelation,
counsel together, minister and teach the simple principles of the
gospel, they will have power to strengthen and protect their
families. Other family members can also help. My cute grandpa taught
us the importance of keeping promises through a simple song. It went
something like this: “Before you make a promise, consider well its
importance. Then when made, engrave it upon your heart. Engrave it
upon your heart.” That little song was taught with love,
conviction, and power because Grandpa engraved his own promises on
his heart.</span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p28"></a><strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2.
Keeping covenants is essential for true happiness.</span></span></strong><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p29"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">President
Thomas S. Monson taught, “Sacred covenants are to be revered
by us, and faithfulness to them is a requirement for
happiness.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note14"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In 2 Nephi
we read, “And it came to pass that we lived after the manner of
happiness.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note15"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Earlier
in this same chapter we learn that Nephi and his people had just
built a temple. Surely they were joyful covenant keepers! And in Alma
we read, “But behold there never was a happier time among the
people of Nephi, since the days of Nephi, than in the days of
Moroni.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note16"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Why?
Again we learn in a previous verse that they “were faithful in
keeping the commandments of the Lord.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note17"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">17</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Covenant
keepers are commandment keepers!</span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p33"></a><strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3.
Keeping our covenants demonstrates our love for the Savior and our
Father in Heaven.</span></span></strong><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p34"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
all the reasons we ought to be more diligent in our covenant keeping,
this reason is more compelling than all—love. A verse in the Old
Testament is one that touches my heart as we consider the principle
of love. Who of us is not moved by Jacob and Rachel’s biblical love
story as we read, “And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and
they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to
her”?</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note21"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Sisters,
do we keep our covenants with that kind of deep and devoted love?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">If
we fully appreciated the many blessings which are ours through the
redemption made for us, there is nothing that the Lord could ask of
us that we would not anxiously and willingly do.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note23"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">23</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">According
to this statement by President Joseph Fielding Smith, covenant
keeping is one way to express our love for the incomprehensible,
infinite Atonement of our Savior and Redeemer and the perfect love of
our Father in Heaven</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">Apply</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">continued
from Sister Burton's talk above</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p18"></a><span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elder
Richard G. Scott observed, “One of the greatest blessings we
can offer to the world is the power of a Christ-centered home where
the gospel is taught, covenants are kept, and love abounds.”</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> What
are some ways we can create such a home to prepare our children to
make and keep temple covenants?</span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p19"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
can discover together what it means to be worthy of a temple
recommend.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p20"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
can discover together how to listen to the Holy Ghost. Because the
temple endowment is received by revelation, we need to learn that
vital skill.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
can discover together how to learn through the use of symbols,
beginning with the sacred symbols of baptism and the sacrament.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p22"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
can discover together why the body is sacred, why it is sometimes
referred to as a temple, and how modest dress and grooming relates
to the sacred nature of temple clothing.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p23"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
can discover the plan of happiness in the scriptures. The more
familiar we are with Heavenly Father’s plan and the Atonement in
the scriptures, the more meaningful temple worship will be.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p24"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
can learn the stories of our ancestors together, research family
history, index, and perform vicarious temple work for deceased loved
ones.</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p25"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
can discover together the meaning of terms such as </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">endowment,
ordinance, sealing, priesthood, keys,</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and
other words related to temple worship.</span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p26"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
can teach that we go to the temple to make covenants with Heavenly
Father—we return home to keep them!</span></span><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-power-joy-and-love-of-covenant-keeping?lang=eng#note12">12</a>”</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hymns</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">270-I'll
Go where You Want Me To Go</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Children</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">161-I
Pledge Myself To Love the Right </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="13"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote32"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote33"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
25:13 </span></span><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">13 Wherefore, a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/25.13?lang=eng#13a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">lift
up</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">thy
heart and b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/25.13?lang=eng#13b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">rejoice</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
and cleave unto the covenants which thou hast made.</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">hast made.</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-76584420470812052902017-02-07T07:41:00.003-06:002017-02-07T07:42:13.085-06:00Come Follow Me- 3 Nephi 3:6-7<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 3:6-7</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><img align="BOTTOM" border="0" height="447" name="graphics1" src="https://media.ldscdn.org/images/media-library/mormonads/christ/mormonad-follow-the-leader-1118290-gallery.jpg" width="340" /></span></div>
<h2 class="western" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Follow
the Leader</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Follow the Leader.
Accept the invitation to follow Him. You’ll have joy in the
journey, because He’ll walk beside you. (See 2 Nephi 31:10–12.)
Apr. 1998</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Come
Follow Me</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="6"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6 Therefore
I write unto you, desiring that ye would yield up unto this my
people, your cities, your lands, and your possessions, rather than
that they should visit you with the sword and that destruction should
come upon you.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="7"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote4"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">7 Or
in other words, yield yourselves up unto us, and unite with us and
become acquainted with our a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#7a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">secret</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> works,
and become our brethren that ye may be like unto us—not our slaves,
but our brethren and partners of all our substance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Why</span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">Giddianhi
is seeking power over the people and the government so he wants
Lachoneus and his people to follow him in his evil ways.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pattern</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Hel.
6:22 (22–26)</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">22
And it came to pass that they did have their signs, yea,
their </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">secret</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> signs,
and their </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">secret</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> words;
and this that they might distinguish a brother who had entered into
the covenant, that whatsoever wickedness his brother should do he
should not be injured by his brother, nor by those who did belong to
his band, who had taken this covenant.<br />23 And thus they
might murder, and plunder, and steal, and commit </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">whoredoms</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and
all manner of wickedness, contrary to the laws of their country and
also the laws of their God.<br />24 And whosoever of those who
belonged to their band should reveal unto the world of
their </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">wickedness</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and
their abominations, should be tried, not according to the laws of
their country, but according to the laws of their wickedness, which
had been given by Gadianton and Kishkumen.<br />25 Now behold, it
is these secret </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">oaths</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and
covenants which Alma commanded his son should not go forth unto the
world, lest they should be a means of bringing down the people unto
destruction.<br />26 Now behold, those </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">secret</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> oaths
and covenants did not come forth unto Gadianton from
the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">records</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> which
were delivered unto Helaman; but behold, they were put into the heart
of </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Gadianton</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> by
that </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">same</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> being
who did entice our first parents to partake of the forbidden fruit—</span></span></span></div>
<h2 class="western">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Secret
Combinations</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/conspiracy?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Conspiracy</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">stirreth
up … secret combinations: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">2 Ne.
9:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">must
needs destroy the secret works of darkness: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/10.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">2 Ne. 10:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">secret
combinations … the combinations of the devil: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/26.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">2 Ne. 26:22</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/6.27-30?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">3 Ne.
6:27–30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">their
works shall be in the dark: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/28.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">2 Ne. 28:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">judgments
of God did come upon … secret combinations: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/37.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Alma
37:30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">to
gain power … was their secret plan, and their
combination: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/2.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Hel.
2:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/11.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Ether
11:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">secret oaths
and covenants … were put into the heart of Gadianton by that same
being: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/6.26?lang=eng#25"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Hel. 6:26</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">secret society
of Gadianton: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">3 Ne.
3:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/4-ne/1.42?lang=eng#41"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">4 Ne.
1:42</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">secret
combinations and the works of darkness: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/morm/8.27?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Morm.
8:27</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/morm/8.40?lang=eng#39"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Morm. 8:40</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">a secret
combination … most abominable and wicked: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/8.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Ether
8:18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">old
plans, and administered oaths after the manner of the
ancients: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/10.33?lang=eng#32"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Ether 10:33</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .</span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">reject
… prophets, because of their secret society: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/11.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Ether 11:22</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Nicolaitane
band and of all their secret abominations: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/117.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">D&C
117:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/2.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Rev.
2:6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">all
these things were done in secret: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/5.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Moses
5:30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">from
the days of Cain, there was a secret combination: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/5.51?lang=eng#50"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Moses 5:51</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Satan
had great dominion … because of secret works: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/6.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Moses 6:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/4.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Gen.
4:23</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/64.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ps.
64:5</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/3.19?lang=eng#18"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>John
3:19</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/eph/6.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Eph.
6:12</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-thes/2.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>2 Thes.
2:7</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/17.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Rev.
17:5</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/27.27?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>2 Ne.
27:27</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/37.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Alma
37:21</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/16.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hel.
16:21</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/9.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>3 Ne.
9:5</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ;</i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Alma
37:29 (27–32)</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">27
And now, my son, I command you that ye retain all their oaths, and
their covenants, and their agreements in their secret abominations;
yea, and all their </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">signs</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and
their wonders ye shall </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">keep</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> from
this people, that they know them not, lest peradventure they should
fall into darkness also and be destroyed.<br />28 For behold,
there is a </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">curse</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> upon
all this land, that destruction shall come upon all those workers of
darkness, according to the power of God, when they are fully ripe;
therefore I desire that this people might not be destroyed.<br />29
Therefore ye shall keep these secret plans of their </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">oaths</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and
their covenants from this people, and only their wickedness and their
murders and their abominations shall ye make known unto them; and ye
shall teach them to </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">abhor</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> such
wickedness and abominations and murders; and ye shall also teach them
that these people were destroyed on account of their wickedness and
abominations and their murders.<br />30 For behold,
they </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">murdered</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> all
the prophets of the Lord who came among them to declare unto them
concerning their iniquities; and the blood of those whom they
murdered did cry unto the Lord their God for vengeance upon those who
were their murderers; and thus the judgments of God did come upon
these workers of darkness and secret </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">combinations</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">.<br />31
Yea, and </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">cursed</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> be
the land forever and ever unto those workers of darkness and secret
combinations, even unto destruction, except they repent before they
are fully </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">ripe</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">.<br />32
And now, my son, remember the words which I have spoken unto you;
trust not those secret plans unto this people, but teach them an
everlasting </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">hatred</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> against
sin and iniquity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">The
opposite of this is to get to know the Lord and to understand the
plan of salvation and the war that took place in heaven and is still
going on. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Conference</span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">OCTOBER
2016</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span></span></span></b><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">| </span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">“</span></span></span></span></b><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">If
Ye Had Known Me”</span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></span></span></b>
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<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/david-a-bednar?lang=eng">By
Elder David A. Bednar</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p32"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Lehi’s
dream in the Book of Mormon identifies the path we should follow, the
challenges we will encounter, and the spiritual resources available
to assist us in following and coming unto the Savior. Pressing
forward on the strait and narrow path is what He would have us do.
Tasting the fruit of the tree and becoming deeply “converted unto
the Lord”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/if-ye-had-known-me?lang=eng#note23"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">23</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> are
the blessings He yearns for us to receive. Hence, He beckons us,
“Come, follow me.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/if-ye-had-known-me?lang=eng#note24"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">24</span></span></span></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p33"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Both
exercising faith in and following Jesus Christ are necessary
preparations for serving Him.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p37"></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>...</b></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">We
come to know the Savior as we do our best to go where He wants us to
go, as we strive to say what He wants us to say, and as we become
what He wants us to become.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/if-ye-had-known-me?lang=eng#note27"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">27</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> As
we submissively acknowledge our total dependence upon Him, He
enlarges our capacity to serve ever more effectively. Gradually, our
desires align more completely with His desires, and His purposes
become our purposes, such that we would “not ask that which is
contrary to [His] will.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/if-ye-had-known-me?lang=eng#note28"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">28</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p38"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Serving
Him requires all of our heart, might, mind, and
strength.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/if-ye-had-known-me?lang=eng#note29"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Consequently,
selflessly serving others counteracts the self-centered and selfish
tendencies of the natural man. We grow to love those whom we serve.
And because serving others is serving God, we grow to love Him and
our brothers and sisters more deeply. Such love is a manifestation of
the spiritual gift of charity, even the pure love of Christ.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/if-ye-had-known-me?lang=eng#note30"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">30</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p52"></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>...</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Believing
Him is trusting that His bounteous blessings are available and
applicable in our individual lives and families. Believing Him with
our whole soul</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/if-ye-had-known-me?lang=eng#note38"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">38</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> comes
as we press forward along the covenant pathway, surrender our will to
His, and submit to His priorities and timing for us. Believing
Him—accepting as true His power and promises—invites perspective,
peace, and joy into our lives.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="title7"></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Promise
and Testimony</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p53"></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">On
a future day, “every knee shall bow, and every tongue
confess”</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/if-ye-had-known-me?lang=eng#note39"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">39</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> that
Jesus is the Christ. On that blessed day, we will know He knows each
of us by name. And I witness and promise we can not only know about
the Lord but also come to know Him as we exercise faith in, follow,
serve, and believe Him. I so testify in the sacred name of Jesus
Christ, amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Apply-</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">This
is all about choices and whom we will follow. There are only two
choices. Jesus or Satan. </span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Sitting
on the fence is also to follow Satan because progress is stopped and
when it is stopped we go downhill. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">from
Elder Bednar “</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">True
faith is focused in and on the Lord and always leads to righteous
action. “Faith [in Christ is] the first principle in revealed
religion, … the foundation of all righteousness, … and the
principle of action in all intelligent beings.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/if-ye-had-known-me?lang=eng#note9"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">9</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Because
acting in accordance with the correct principles the Redeemer
proclaimed is central to receiving and exercising true faith, “faith
without works is dead.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/if-ye-had-known-me?lang=eng#note10"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">10</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">We
are to be “doers of the word, and not hearers only.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/if-ye-had-known-me?lang=eng#note11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">11</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">
“</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Hymns-</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Come
Follow Me-116</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I
Believe In Christ-134</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Children</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I'm
Trying to Be Like Jesus-78</span></div>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-14588954351649447082017-02-04T09:59:00.000-06:002017-02-04T09:59:20.459-06:00Badge of Courage 3 Nephi 3:5<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 3:5</b></span></span></div>
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<h2 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Badge
of Courage</span></span></span></h2>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The true badge of
courage is overcoming the fear of men.”—Elder Lynn G. Robbins,
“</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10/which-way-do-you-face?lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Which
Way Do You Face?</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="5"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">5 Therefore
I have written this epistle, sealing it with mine own hand, feeling
for your welfare, because of your firmness in that which ye believe
to be right, and your noble spirit in the field of battle.</span>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Giddianhi
knew that Lachoneus was a noble and valiant man and tried to weaken
him by acknowledging that . </span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pattern</b></span></span></div>
<h2 class="western">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Noble</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/triple-index/honorable?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Honorable</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/triple-index/nobleman?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Nobleman</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/triple-index/valiant?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Valiant</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">wise
and noble to be invited to supper in house of the
Lord: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/58.9-10?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
58:9–10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">wise
and noble shall seek counsel from Joseph
Smith: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/122.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 122:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">noble spirits
chosen in beginning to be rulers in Church: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138.55?lang=eng#54"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 138:55</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">among
intelligences seen by Abraham are many noble and great
ones: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/3.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Abr.
3:22</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="western">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Valiant,
Valiantly</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/triple-index/courage?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Courage</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/triple-index/diligence?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Diligence</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/triple-index/noble?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Noble</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/triple-index/uprightness?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Uprightness</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
have put down inhabitants like valiant man: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/20.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
20:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/10.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa.
10:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">king-men
are brought down to fight valiantly for freedom: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/51.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
51:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ammonite
youths are exceedingly valiant for courage: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/53.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 53:20</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">cities
obtained by shedding blood of valiant men: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/56.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 56:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Nephites
fight valiantly by day and toil by night to maintain
cities: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/56.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 56:16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Teancum
fought valiantly for his country: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/62.37?lang=eng#36"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 62:37</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">they
who are not valiant in testimony of Jesus Christ inherit
terrestrial glory: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/76.79?lang=eng#78"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
76:79</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">all
powers to be set upon all who have endured valiantly for
gospel: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/121.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 121:29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="28"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote58"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote59"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote60"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">28 A
time to come in the which a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/121.29?lang=eng#28a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">nothing</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> shall
be withheld, whether there be b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/121.29?lang=eng#28b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">one
God</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> or
many c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/121.29?lang=eng#28c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">gods</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
they shall be manifest.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="29"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote61"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote62"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">29 All
thrones and dominions, principalities and powers, shall
be a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/121.29?lang=eng#29a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">revealed</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and
set forth upon all who have endured b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/121.29?lang=eng#29b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">valiantly</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> for
the gospel of Jesus Christ.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Conference</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>OCTOBER
2014</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Which
Way Do You Face?</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/lynn-g-robbins?lang=eng">By
Elder Lynn G. Robbins</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Presidency of the Seventy</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p3"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
way do you face?” President Boyd K. Packer surprised me with
this puzzling question while we were traveling together on my very
first assignment as a new Seventy. Without an explanation to put the
question in context, I was baffled. “A Seventy,” he continued,
“does not represent the people to the prophet but the prophet to
the people. Never forget which way you face!” It was a powerful
lesson.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p4"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Trying
to please others before pleasing God is inverting the </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">first
and second great commandments</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> (see </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/22.37-39?#36"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matthew
22:37–39</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
It is forgetting which way we face. And yet, we have all made that
mistake because of the fear of men. In Isaiah the Lord warns us,
“Fear ye not the reproach of men” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/51.7?#6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isaiah
51:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
see also </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/8.7?#6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Nephi
8:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
In Lehi’s dream, this fear was triggered by the </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">finger
of scorn</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> pointed
from the great and spacious building, causing many to forget which
way they faced and to leave the tree “ashamed” (see </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/8.25-28?#24"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Nephi
8:25–28</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p5"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This
peer </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">pressure</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> tries
to change a person’s attitudes, if not behavior, by making one feel
guilty for giving offense. We seek respectful coexistence with those
who point fingers, but when this fear of men tempts us to condone
sin, it becomes a “snare” according to the book of Proverbs
(see </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/29.25?#24"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Proverbs
29:25</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
The snare may be cleverly baited to appeal to our compassionate side
to tolerate or even approve of </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conference</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1974/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>OCTOBER
1974</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Be
Valiant in the Fight of Faith</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/bruce-r-mcconkie?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Bruce
R. McConkie</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
-quorum of the 12 apostles</span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p6"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Speaking
of himself and the great warfare with the world which he had won,
Paul said:</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p7"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the
faith:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p8"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Henceforth
there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but
unto all them also that love his appearing.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-tim/4.7-8?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2
Tim. 4:7–8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p9"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
members of the Church, we are engaged in a mighty conflict. We are at
war. We have enlisted in the cause of Christ to fight against Lucifer
and all that is lustful and carnal and evil in the world. We have
sworn to fight alongside our friends and against our enemies, and we
must not be confused in distinguishing friends from foes. As another
of our ancient fellow apostles wrote: “Know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will
be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/james/4.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">James
4:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p10"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
great war that rages on every side and which unfortunately is
resulting in many casualties, some fatal, is no new thing. There was
war even in heaven, when the forces of evil sought to destroy the
agency of man, and when Lucifer sought to lead us away from the path
of progression and advancement established by an all-wise Father.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p11"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">That
war is continuing on earth, and the devil is still wroth with the
Church and goes forth “to make war with the remnant of her seed,
which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus
Christ.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.17?lang=eng#16"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rev.
12:17</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p12"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
it is now as it has always been. The Saints can only overcome him and
his forces “by the blood of the Lamb, … by the word of their
testimony,” and if they love “not their lives unto the death.”
(</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rev.
12:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p13"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Now
there neither are nor can be any neutrals in this war. Every member
of the Church is on one side or the other. The soldiers who fight in
its battles will either, with Paul, come off victorious and win “a
crown of righteousness,” or they shall, in Paul’s language, “be
punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power” in that day when he comes to take
“vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel
of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-thes/1.9,8?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2
Thes. 1:9, 8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
this war all who do not stand forth courageously and valiantly are by
that fact alone aiding the cause of the enemy. “They who are not
for me are against me, saith our God.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/10.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2
Ne. 10:16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
are either for the Church or we are against it. We either take its
part or we take the consequences. We cannot survive spiritually with
one foot in the Church and the other in the world. We must make the
choice. It is either the Church or the world. There is no middle
ground. And the Lord loves a courageous man who fights openly and
boldly in his army.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
certain members of his ancient church, he said:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p17"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert
cold or hot.</span></span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p18"></a><span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">So
then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue
thee out of my mouth.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/3.15-16?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rev.
3:15–16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)
The summer patriot and the sunshine saint retreat when the battle
wages fiercely around them. Theirs is not the conqueror’s crown.
They are overcome by the world.</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p19"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Members
of the Church who have testimonies and who live clean and upright
lives, but who are not courageous and valiant, do not gain the
celestial kingdom. Theirs is a terrestrial inheritance. Of them the
revelation says, “These are they who are not valiant in the
testimony of Jesus; wherefore, they obtain not the crown over the
kingdom of our God.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/76.79?lang=eng#78"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
76:79</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p20"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
Jesus said, “No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking
back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/luke/9.62?lang=eng#61"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Luke
9:62</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What
is the testimony of Jesus? And what must we do to be valiant therein?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p22"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Be
not … ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,” Paul wrote to
Timothy, “… but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the
gospel.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-tim/1.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2
Tim. 1:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)
And to the Beloved John came this divine message: “The testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/19.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rev.
19:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p29"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. It is a gift of the
Spirit. It comes in full measure only to faithful members of the
Church. It is reserved for those whose right it is to have the
constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. It is the spiritual
endowment which sets a man apart as a prophet in fulfillment of the
prayer of Moses: “Would God that all the Lord’s people were
prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/num/11.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Num.
11:29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p30"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Now
what does it mean to be valiant in the testimony of Jesus?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">It
is to be courageous and bold; to use all our strength, energy, and
ability in the warfare with the world; to fight the good fight of
faith. “Be strong and of a good courage,” the Lord commanded
Joshua, and then specified that this strength and courage consisted
of meditating upon and observing to do all that is written in the law
of the Lord. (See </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/josh/1.6-9?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Josh.
1:6–9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)
The great cornerstone of valiance in the cause of righteousness is
obedience to the whole law of the whole gospel.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p32"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
be valiant in the testimony of Jesus is to “come unto Christ, and
be perfected in him”; it is to deny ourselves “of all
ungodliness,” and “love God” with all our “might, mind and
strength.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/10.32?lang=eng#31"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moro.
10:32</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p33"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
be valiant in the testimony of Jesus is to believe in Christ and his
gospel with </span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p331"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">unshakable
conviction. It is to know of the verity and divinity of the Lord’s
work on earth.</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p34"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
this is not all. It is more than believing and knowing. We must be
doers of the word and not hearers only. It is more than lip service;
it is not simply confessing with the mouth the divine Sonship of the
Savior. It is obedience and conformity and personal righteousness.
“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is
in heaven.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/7.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt.
7:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Apply</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">continued
from Elder McConkie:</span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p35"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
be valiant in the testimony of Jesus is to “press forward with a
steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a
love of God and of all men.” It is to “endure to the end.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/31.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2
Ne. 31:20</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)
It is to live our religion, to practice what we preach, to keep the
commandments. It is the manifestation of “pure religion” in the
lives of men; it is visiting “the fatherless and widows in their
affliction” and keeping ourselves “unspotted from the world.”
(</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/james/1.27?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">James
1:27</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p36"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
be valiant in the testimony of Jesus is to bridle our passions,
control our appetites, and rise above carnal and evil things. It is
to overcome the world as did he who is our prototype and who himself
was the most valiant of all our Father’s children. It is to be
morally clean, to pay our tithes and offerings, to honor the Sabbath
day, to pray with full purpose of heart, to lay our all upon the
altar if called upon to do so.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p37"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
be valiant in the testimony of Jesus is to take the Lord’s side on
every issue. It is to vote as he would vote. It is to think what he
thinks, to believe what he believes, to say what he would say and do
what he would do in the same situation. It is to have the mind of
Christ and be one with him as he is one with his Father.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hymns</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">246
Onward Christian Soldiers</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Children</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">162
I Will Be Valiant</span></div>
handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-84505517012194800802017-02-02T08:40:00.000-06:002017-02-02T08:40:05.489-06:00Winning the War Against Evil-3 Nephi 3:4<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
3 Nephi 3:4</div>
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<h2 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: DistrictLight, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My
Peace I Give unto You</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 9pt;">My Peace I Give unto You. “Peace
I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth,
give I unto you.” (See John 14:27.) Jan. 2002</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Winning
The War Against Evil</u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
What</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Pahoran, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">4 And
I, knowing of their unconquerable spirit, having proved them in the
field of battle, and knowing of their everlasting hatred towards you
because of the many wrongs which ye have done unto them, therefore if
they should come down against you they would visit you with utter
destruction.</span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
Giddianhi is telling Lachoneus that the robbers can destroy the
Nephites. This is not true.
</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
Why</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
the Robbers want to scare the Nephites into surrendering without a
battle.
</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
Pattern</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">tThreats have been
given throughout the scriptures from the bad guys to the good guys.</span></div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">New Testament Study
Guide</span></div>
<h2 class="western" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p3"></a>
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Introduction</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p4"></a>
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation
12–14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> contains
an interruption in the chronological flow of the Apostle John’s
vision. John saw a vision of a dragon threatening a woman and her
child. He wrote about the War in Heaven and about the kingdoms of the
world that would fight against the followers of God.</span></span></div>
<h2 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p5"></a>
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Revelation 12</span></span></span></span></span></a></h2>
<h3 class="western" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.17in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p6"></a>
<span style="color: #3c424e;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
is shown that Satan and his angels have always warred against the
Lord and His Church</span></span></span></h3>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p7"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Draw
connecting lines between each of the threats listed in the left-hand
column and the ways to combat them listed in the right-hand column.</span></span></div>
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 423px;">
<colgroup><col width="145"></col>
<col width="270"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr>
<th width="145">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p8"></a>
<span style="color: #737373;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">THREATS</span></span></div>
</th>
<th width="270">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p9"></a>
<span style="color: #737373;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">WAYS
TO COMBAT THREATS</span></span></div>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="145">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p10"></a>
<span style="color: #434444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sunburn</span></span></div>
</td>
<td width="270">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p11"></a>
<span style="color: #434444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Repentance
and trust in </span></span><a href="http://www.mormon.org/beliefs/jesus-christ"><span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jesus
Christ</span></span></span></a></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="145">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p12"></a>
<span style="color: #434444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Enemy
soldiers</span></span></div>
</td>
<td width="270">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p13"></a>
<span style="color: #434444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Medicine
or rest</span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="145">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #434444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sickness</span></span></div>
</td>
<td width="270">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #434444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sunscreen
or clothing</span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="145">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #434444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sin
and guilt</span></span></div>
</td>
<td width="270">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p17"></a>
<span style="color: #434444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Truths
in </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation 12</span></span></span></a></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="145">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p18"></a>
<span style="color: #434444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Influences
of Satan</span></span></div>
</td>
<td width="270">
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p19"></a>
<span style="color: #434444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Weapons
of war</span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p20"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Which
of these threats have you had to combat lately? Which one do you
think is the most dangerous?
Why? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
you study </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation 12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
look for truths that can help you combat Satan’s
influences. </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation
12–14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> is
an interruption in John’s description of his vision of the events
of the seventh seal. With this pause the Lord may have been helping
John understand the meaning of the phrases “the kingdoms of this
world” and “the kingdoms of our Lord” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/11.15?lang=eng#14" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation
11:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
The </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/jst/jst-rev/12?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Joseph
Smith Translation of all of Revelation 12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> is
found in the </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bible?lang=eng"><span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Bible</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> appendix
and the Guide to the Scriptures.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p211"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
you study </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation 12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
look for truths that can help you combat Satan’s
influences. </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation
12–14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> is
an interruption in John’s description of his vision of the events
of the seventh seal. With this pause the Lord may have been helping
John understand the meaning of the phrases “the kingdoms of this
world” and “the kingdoms of our Lord” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/11.15?lang=eng#14" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation
11:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
The </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/jst/jst-rev/12?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Joseph
Smith Translation of all of Revelation 12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> is
found in the </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bible?lang=eng"><span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Bible</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> appendix
and the Guide to the Scriptures.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p22"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Look
at the following picture, and consider what the symbols in it might
represent.</span></span></div>
<img align="BOTTOM" alt="dragon, woman with child" border="0" height="327" name="graphics1" src="https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/manual/12340/book-revelation-art_1249259_tmb.jpg" width="245" /><br />
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p23"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Read </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.1-2%2C5?lang=eng#0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Revelation
12:1–2, 5</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
looking for what happened to the woman. (The </span></span><a href="http://www.mormon.org/beliefs/joseph-smith"><span style="color: #2f393a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Joseph
Smith</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Translation
places </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.5?lang=eng#4" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">verse 5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> directly
after </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.2?lang=eng#1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">verse 2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Notice
that the woman’s child would “rule all nations with a rod of
iron” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.5?lang=eng#4" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation
12:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p25"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p251"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Read </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.3-4?lang=eng#2" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation
12:3–4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
looking for what threatened the woman and her child.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p26"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What
do you think the symbols described in </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.1-4?lang=eng#0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">verses
1–4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> could
represent?</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p27"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Read </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/jst/jst-rev/12.7-8?lang=eng#6" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Joseph
Smith Translation, Revelation 12:7–8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> (in
the Bible appendix), looking for what the dragon, the woman, and the
child represent. You may want to write or note the meaning of each
symbol next to </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.1-5?lang=eng#0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation
12:1–5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p28"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
dragon represents Satan (see </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/jst/jst-rev/12.8?lang=eng#7" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Joseph
Smith Translation, Revelation 12:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">),
the woman represents “the church of God,” and the child
represents the “kingdom of our God and his Christ” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/jst/jst-rev/12.7?lang=eng#6" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Joseph
Smith Translation, Revelation 12:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
This kingdom includes faithful members of the Lord’s Church. (For
more explanation of the symbolism in these passages, see </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>New
Testament Student Manual</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> [Church
Educational System manual, 2014], </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/manual/new-testament-student-manual/revelation/chapter-55-revelation-12-16.p14-36?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">550–52</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p29"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">According
to </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.4?lang=eng#3" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation
12:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
what was the dragon’s intent?</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.22in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p30"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why
do you think Satan seeks so diligently to destroy the kingdom of God
and Christ? </span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Understanding
how we overcame Satan in our pre-earth life can help us know how to
overcome his influences and attacks here on earth. From these
passages in </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation 12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> we
can identify the following principle: </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We
can overcome Satan’s influences through the Savior’s Atonement
and by remaining true to our testimonies of the gospel.</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> You
may want to write or note this principle in your scriptures. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">The
Lord Is my shepherd, I shall not want.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">John
14:27 </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>,</b><span style="color: #333333;">My
Peace I Give unto You. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give
unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.” (See John
14:27.</span> </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conference</b></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/liahona/2008/11?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">NOVEMBER
2008</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #737373;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">WINNING
THE WAR AGAINST EVIL</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Elder
James J. Hamula</span></span></span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2a3753;">Quoted
in the New Testament Study Guide for Home Study Seminary.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p40"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">...<span style="color: #333333;">Elder
James J. Hamula of the Seventy taught how Satan is attacking
your generation:</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p41"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reserved
to come forth in these last days and labor for our Father and His Son
are some of the most valiant and noble of our Father’s sons and
daughters. Their valiance and nobility were demonstrated in the
pre-earth struggle with Satan. …</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p42"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">With
God’s kingdom restored to the earth and your entry into the world,
Satan knows that ‘he hath but a short time’ [</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.12?lang=eng#11" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Revelation
12:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">].
Therefore, Satan is marshalling every resource at his disposal to
entice you into transgression. He knows that if he can draw you into
transgression, he may prevent you from serving a full-time mission,
marrying in the temple, and securing your future children in the
faith, all of which weakens not only you but the Church. He knows
that nothing can overthrow God’s kingdom ‘save it [be] the
transgression of [his] people’ [</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/27.13?lang=eng#12" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah
27:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">].
Make no mistake about it—the focus of his war is now on you”
(</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/liahona/2008/11/winning-the-war-against-evil.p16%2C18?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“Winning
the War against Evil,”</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ensign</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">or </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Liahona,</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Nov.
2008, 50–51).</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p43"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">How
do Satan and his followers try to weaken us? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Apply</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Quote from New
Testament Study Guide</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p44"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Consider
how Satan is waging war against you personally.</span></span></span></div>
<ol>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><img align="BOTTOM" alt="journal icon" border="0" height="22" name="graphics2" src="https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/manual/12340/pencil-icon_1116590_tmb.jpg" width="30" /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. </span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p45"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
your scripture study journal, list some <u>ways you can increase
your faith in Jesus Christ and strengthen your testimony of Him.</u></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><img align="BOTTOM" alt="journal icon" border="0" height="22" name="graphics3" src="https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/manual/12340/pencil-icon_1116590_tmb.jpg" width="30" /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. </span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p46"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Respond
to one or both of the following in your scripture study journal:</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p47"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Write
about an experience when your testimony of and faith in the
Savior’s Atonement helped you combat Satan’s influences.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">b. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p48"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Write
your testimony of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and explain how
the Atonement can help us in our war against Satan and his
followers.</span></span></div>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p49"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Select
one or more of the ideas you listed, and apply them in your battles
against Satan and his followers. You may want to write your goals on
a separate piece of paper and put the paper where you can see it
often. As you rely on the Savior’s Atonement, the Lord will help
you in your fight against Satan.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Hymns</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">134-
I Believe In Christ</span></span></span></div>
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-Stand For The Right</span></span></span></div>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-89822500555741417472017-02-01T11:11:00.000-06:002017-02-01T11:11:32.497-06:00With God, All Things Are Possible 3 Nephi 3:3<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 3:3</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>With
God, all things Are Possible</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="3"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote3"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 And
it seemeth a pity unto me, most noble Lachoneus, that ye should be so
foolish and vain as to suppose that ye can stand against so many
brave men who are at my command, who do now at this time stand in
their arms, and do await with great anxiety for the word—Go down
upon the Nephites and a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#3a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">destroy</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">them.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Giddianhi
is belittling Lachoneus for his courage and his faith in God to
deliver them from the Robbers. He is boasting about their strengths
and trying to scare Lachoneus into surrendering without a battle. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pattern</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Alma
60:29</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">29
Behold it is time, yea, the time is now at hand, that except ye do
bestir yourselves in the defence of your country and your little
ones, the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2.19?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">sword</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
justice doth hang over you; yea, and it shall fall upon you and visit
you even to your utter destruction.</span></span></span></div>
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<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/1.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2
Nephi 1:22</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">22
That ye may not be cursed with a sore cursing; and also, that ye may
not incur the displeasure of a just God upon you, unto
the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>, yea,
the eternal <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
both soul and body.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/27.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Alma
27:4</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4
Now when Ammon and his brethren saw this work of <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> among
those whom they so dearly beloved, and among those who had so dearly
beloved them—for they were treated as though they were angels sent
from God to save them from everlasting <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>—therefore,
when Ammon and his brethren saw this great work of <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>,
they were moved with compassion, and they said unto the king:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/14.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1
Nephi 14:3</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
And that great pit, which hath been digged for them by that great and
abominable church, which was founded by the devil and his children,
that he might lead away the souls of men down to hell—yea, that
great pit which hath been digged for the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
men shall be filled by those who digged it, unto their
utter <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>,
saith the Lamb of God; not the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
the soul, save it be the casting of it into that hell which hath no
end.</span></span></div>
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<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/7.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1
Nephi 7:13</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">13
And if it so be that we are faithful to him, we shall obtain the land
of promise; and ye shall know at some future period that the word of
the Lord shall be fulfilled concerning the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
Jerusalem; for all things which the Lord hath spoken concerning
the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
Jerusalem must be fulfilled.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/13.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Helaman
13:10</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">10
Yea, I will visit them in my fierce anger, and there shall be those
of the fourth generation who shall live, of your enemies, to behold
your utter <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>;
and this shall surely come except ye repent, saith the Lord; and
those of the fourth generation shall visit your <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/js-m/1.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joseph
Smith—Matthew 1:4</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4
And Jesus left them, and went upon the Mount of Olives. And as he sat
upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately,
saying: Tell us when shall these things be which thou hast said
concerning the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
the temple, and the Jews; and what is the sign of thy coming, and of
the end of the world, or the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
the wicked, which is the end of the world?</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/7.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Matthew
7:13</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">13
¶Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way, that leadeth to <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>,
and many there be which go in thereat:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">hardhearted
to be brought down to destruction, both temporally and
spiritually: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/14.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Ne. 14:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the
Lord curses land against children of land unto
their destruction: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/17.32%2C35?lang=eng#31"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Ne. 17:32,
35</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the
Lord destroys nations of wicked: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/17.37-38?lang=eng#36"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Ne. 17:37–38</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">all
who fight against Zion shall be destroyed: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/22.14?lang=eng#13"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Ne. 22:14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">God
shall not suffer that wicked destroy righteous: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/22.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Ne. 22:16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lehi1 exhorts
sons to unity, that they not incur God’s displeasure
unto destruction: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/1.21-22?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
1:21–22</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">seed
of Joseph2 shall not utterly be destroyed: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/3.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 3:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">seed
of Lemuel shall not utterly be destroyed: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 4:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">they
that believe not in the Messiah shall be destroyed: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/6.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 6:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">because
of iniquities, destructions shall come upon
Jews: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/10.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 10:6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/25.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 25:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Christ</span></b></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">they
that believe not in the Messiah shall be destroyed: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/6.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 6:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">As
Jesus was destroyed in the flesh so he was restored and became the
victor over death and hell. If we have </span><span style="color: #333333;"><u>faith
in Him </u></span><span style="color: #333333;">then
we too shall not be destroyed but have everlasting life with Him.</span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">Matthew
8</span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="23"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">23 ¶And
when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.</span></span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="24"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote26"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">24 And,
behold, there arose a great a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/8.23-27?lang=eng#24a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">tempest</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in
the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he
was asleep.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="25"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">25 And
his disciples came to <i>him,</i> and
awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="26"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote27"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote28"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">26 And
he saith unto them, Why are ye a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/8.23-27?lang=eng#26a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">fearful</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/8.23-27?lang=eng#26b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>rebuked</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> the
winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="27"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote29"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">27 But
the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the
winds and the a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/8.23-27?lang=eng#27a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">sea</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> obey
him!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Helaman
3</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="28"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote23"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote24"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">28 Yea,
thus we see that the a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/3.28-30?lang=eng#28a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">gate</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> of
heaven is open unto b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/3.28-30?lang=eng#28b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">all</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
even to those who will believe on the name of Jesus Christ, who is
the Son of God.</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="background-color: #fefbbf;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="29"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote25"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote261"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote271"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote281"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote291"></a></span>
<span style="background-color: #fefbbf; color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">29 Yea,
we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/3.28-30?lang=eng#29a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">word</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> of
God, which is b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/3.28-30?lang=eng#29b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">quick</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and
powerful, which shall c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/3.28-30?lang=eng#29c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">divide</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> asunder
all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead
the man of Christ in a strait and d</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/3.28-30?lang=eng#29d"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">narrow</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> course
across that everlasting e</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/3.28-30?lang=eng#29e"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">gulf</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> of
misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked—</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">30 And
land their souls, yea, their immortal souls, at the a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/3.28-30?lang=eng#30a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">right
hand</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> of
God in the kingdom of heaven, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac,
and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers, to go no more out.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>OCTOBER
2009</b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> | </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Safety
for the Soul</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/jeffrey-r-holland?lang=eng">Jeffrey
R. Holland</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prophecies
regarding the last days often refer to large-scale calamities such as
earthquakes or famines or floods. These in turn may be linked to
widespread economic or political upheavals of one kind or another.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
there is one kind of latter-day destruction that has always sounded
to me more personal than public, more individual than collective—a
warning, perhaps more applicable inside the Church than outside it.
The Savior warned that in the last days even those of the covenant,
the very elect, could be deceived by the enemy of truth.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> If
we think of this as a form of spiritual destruction, it may cast
light on another latter-day prophecy. Think of the heart as the
figurative center of our faith, the poetic location of our loyalties
and our values; then consider Jesus’s declaration that in the last
days “men’s hearts [shall fail] them.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
encouraging thing, of course, is that our Father in Heaven knows all
of these latter-day dangers, these troubles of the heart and soul,
and has given counsel and protections regarding them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
light of that, it has always been significant to me that the Book of
Mormon, one of the Lord’s powerful keystones</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in
this counteroffensive against latter-day ills, begins with a great
parable of life, an extended allegoryLove. Healing. Help. Hope. The
power of Christ to counter all troubles in all times—including the
end of times. That is the safe harbor God wants for us in personal or
public days of despair. That is the message with which the Book of
Mormon begins, and that is the message with which it ends, calling
all to “come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> That
phrase—taken from Moroni’s final lines of testimony, written
1,000 years after Lehi’s vision—is a dying man’s testimony of
the only true way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">May
I refer to a modern “last days” testimony? When Joseph Smith and
his brother Hyrum started for Carthage to face what they knew would
be an imminent martyrdom, Hyrum read these words to comfort the heart
of his brother:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thou
hast been faithful; wherefore … thou shalt be made strong, even
unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the
mansions of my Father.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">...“Hearken
unto these words and believe in Christ; and if ye believe not in
these words believe in Christ. </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for
they are the words of Christ,</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> …
and they teach all men that they should do good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
if they are not the words of Christ, judge ye—for Christ will show
unto you, with power and great glory, that they are his words, </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">at
the last day.</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note14"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">14</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Brothers
and sisters, God always provides safety for the soul, and with the
Book of Mormon, He has again done that in our time. Remember this
declaration by Jesus Himself: “Whoso treasureth up my word, shall
not be deceived”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note15"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">—and
in the last days neither your heart nor your faith will fail you. Of
this I earnestly testify in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">Faith
in Jesus Christ and His gospel brings safety to the soul, peace to
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">How we live our
religion is far more important than what we may say about our
religion.”—Elder Robert D. Hales, “</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Preserving
Agency, Protecting Religious Freedom</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Lachoneus,
most noble and chief governor of the land, behold, I write this
epistle unto you, and do give unto you exceedingly great praise
because of your firmness, and also the firmness of your people,
in a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#2a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">maintaining</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">that
which ye suppose to be your right and b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#2b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">liberty</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
yea, ye do stand well, as if ye were supported by the hand of a god,
in the defence of your liberty, and your property, and your country,
or that which ye do call so.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Beginning of epistle
to Lachoneus, the governor of the land from Gidgiddoni, the leader of
the Gadianton robbers. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He is trying to
flatter Lachoneus before he tells him he is going to destroy him and
his people. To get Lachoneus to surrender without a battle. </span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">3 Ne.
2:12--- </span></b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">In
a few verses -this happens</span></span></span></span></div>
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Therefore, all the Lamanites who had become converted unto the Lord
did unite with their brethren, the Nephites, and were compelled, for
the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">safety</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
their lives and their women and their children, to take up arms
against those Gadianton robbers, yea, and also to maintain their
rights, and the privileges of their church and of their worship, and
their freedom and their </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">liberty</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">TG Liberty</span></span></span></span></div>
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also </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Agency</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Bondage,
Physical</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Bondage,
Spiritual</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Citizenship</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ;</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Deliver</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Freedom</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Governments</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ;</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Opposition</span></u></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Mosiah
23:13</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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And now as ye have been delivered by the power of God out of these
bonds; yea, even out of the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">hands</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
king Noah and his people, and also from the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">bonds</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
iniquity, even so I desire that ye should </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">stand
fast</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> in
this </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">liberty</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> wherewith
ye have been made free, and that ye trust </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">no
man</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> to
be a king over you.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Christ</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Gal.
5:1</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">1 </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Stand</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> fast
therefore in the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">liberty</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> wherewith
Christ hath made us </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">free</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
and be not </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">entangled</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> again
with the yoke of </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">bondage</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Conference</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>APRIL
2015</b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> | </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Preserving
Agency, Protecting Religious Freedom</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
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<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/robert-d-hales?lang=eng">By
Elder Robert D. Hales</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">The
faithful use of our agency depends upon our having religious freedom.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p3"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This
is Easter Sunday: a day of gratitude and remembrance honoring our
Savior Jesus Christ’s Atonement and Resurrection for all mankind.
We worship Him, grateful for our freedom of religion, freedom of
assembly, freedom of speech, and our God-given right of agency.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p4"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
prophets foretold about these latter days in which we live, there are
many confused about who we are and what we believe. Some are “false
accusers … [and] despisers of those that are good.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Others
“call evil good, and good evil; [and] put darkness for light, and
light for darkness.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p5"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
those around us make choices about how to respond to our beliefs, we
must not forget that moral agency is an essential part of God’s
plan for all His children. That eternal plan, presented to us in the
premortal Council in Heaven, included the gift of agency.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
that Grand Council, Lucifer, known as Satan, used his agency to
oppose God’s plan. God said: “Because … Satan rebelled
against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the
Lord God, had given him, … I caused that he should be cast
down.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note4"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
continued: “And also a third part of the hosts of heaven turned he
away from me because of their agency.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note5"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">5</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
a result, Heavenly Father’s spirit children who chose to reject His
plan and follow Lucifer lost their divine destiny.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Jesus
Christ, using His agency, said:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Here
am I, send me.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">6</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Thy
will be done, and the glory be thine forever.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note7"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">7</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jesus,
who exercised His agency to sustain Heavenly Father’s plan, was
identified and appointed by the Father as our Savior, foreordained to
perform the atoning sacrifice for all. Similarly, our exercise of
agency to keep the commandments enables us to fully understand who we
are and receive all of the blessings our Heavenly Father
has—including the opportunity to have a body, to progress, to
experience joy, to have a family, and to inherit eternal life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
keep the commandments, we need to know the official doctrine of the
Church so we are not diverted from Christ’s leadership by the
ever-changing whims of individuals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
blessings we enjoy now are because we made the choice to follow the
Savior before this life. To everyone hearing or reading these words,
whoever you are and whatever your past may be, remember this: it is
not too late to make that same choice again and follow Him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">...</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">As
we walk the path of spiritual liberty in these last days, we must
understand that the faithful use of our agency depends upon our
having religious freedom. We already know that Satan does not want
this freedom to be ours. He attempted to destroy moral agency in
heaven, and now on earth he is fiercely undermining, opposing, and
spreading confusion about religious freedom—what it is and why it
is essential to our spiritual life and our very salvation.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">There
are four cornerstones of religious freedom that we as Latter-day
Saints must rely upon and protect.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
first is freedom to believe. No one should be criticized, persecuted,
or attacked by individuals, or governments either, for what he or she
believes about God. It is very personal and very important. An early
declaration of our beliefs regarding religious liberty states:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No
government can exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held
inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of
conscience. …</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">The
second cornerstone of religious liberty is the freedom to share our
faith and our beliefs with others. The Lord commands us, “Ye shall
teach [the gospel to] your children … when thou sittest in thine
house.”</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> He
also said to His disciples, “Go ye into all the world, and preach
the gospel to every creature.”</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note12"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> As
parents, full-time missionaries, and member missionaries, we rely on
religious freedom in order to teach the Lord’s doctrine in our
families and throughout the world.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p23"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
third cornerstone of religious liberty is the freedom to form a
religious organization, a church, to worship peacefully with others.
The </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">eleventh
article of faith</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> declares,
“We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the
dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege,
let them worship how, where, or what they may.” International human
rights documents and many national constitutions support this
principle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
fourth cornerstone of religious liberty is the freedom to live our
faith—free exercise of faith not just in the home and chapel but
also in public places. The Lord commands us not only to pray
privately</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note13"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> but </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">also
to go forth and “let [our] light so shine before men, that they may
see [our] good works, and glorify [our] Father which is in heaven.”</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note14"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">14</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">As
we face increased pressure to bow to secular standards, forfeit our
religious liberties, and compromise our agency, consider what the
Book of Mormon teaches about our responsibilities. In the book of
Alma we read of Amlici, “a very cunning” and “wicked man” who
sought to be king over the people and “deprive them of their rights
and privileges,” which “was alarming to the people of the
church.”</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note15"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> They
were taught by King Mosiah to raise their voices for what they felt
was right.</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note16"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> Therefore
they “assembled themselves together throughout all the land, </span></span></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">every
man according to his mind,</span></i></span></span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> whether
it were for or against Amlici, in separate bodies, having much
dispute … one with another.”</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note17"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">17</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
these discussions, members of the Church and others had the
opportunity to come together, experience the spirit of unity, and be
influenced by the Holy Ghost. “And it came to pass that the voice
of the people came against Amlici, that he was not made king.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note18"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">18</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p28"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
disciples of Jesus Christ we have a responsibility to work together
with like-minded believers, to raise our voices for what is right.
While members should never claim or even imply that they are speaking
for the Church, we are all invited, in our capacity as citizens, to
share our personal witness with conviction and love—“every man
[and woman] according to his [or her own] mind.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note19"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">19</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Said
the Prophet Joseph Smith:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in
defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of
any other denomination [as for a Mormon]; for the same principle
which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day Saints would
trample upon the rights of the Roman Catholics, or of any other
denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">It
is a love of liberty which inspires my soul—civil and religious
liberty to the whole of the human race.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note20"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">20</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p32"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Brothers
and sisters, we are responsible to safeguard these sacred freedoms
and rights for ourselves and our posterity. What can you and I do?</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p33"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">First,
we can become informed. Be aware of issues in your community that
could have an impact on religious liberty.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p34"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Second,
in your individual capacity, join with others who share our
commitment to religious freedom. Work side by side to protect
religious freedom.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p35"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Third,
live your life to be a good example of what you believe—in word and
deed. How we live our religion is far more important than what we may
say about our religion.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p36"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Our
Savior’s Second Coming is drawing nearer. Let us not delay in this
great cause. Remember Captain Moroni, who hoisted the title of
liberty inscribed with the words “In memory of our God, our
religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our
children.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note21"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Let
us remember the people’s response: exercising their agency, they
“came running together” with a covenant to act.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/preserving-agency-protecting-religious-freedom?lang=eng#note22"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">22</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p37"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">My
beloved brothers and sisters, don’t walk! Run! Run to receive the
blessings of agency by following the Holy Ghost and exercising the
freedoms God has given us to do His will...</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Apply</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">to
sum up what elder Hales said:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">1-Become
informed</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">2-Work
with others to protect religious freedom</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">3-Be
a good example of what you believe</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">I
would add one more thing. Be grateful for the freedom you have. Be
grateful for the gift of the plan of salvation and the atonement.
That Christ has made us free through the gift of agency.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Hymns</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/know-this-that-every-soul-is-free?lang=eng"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Know
This, That Every Soul Is Free (#240)</span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Children</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">224
-My Country</span></span></span></div>
handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-25498243363092499312017-01-30T09:35:00.000-06:002017-01-30T09:35:10.635-06:00Stand Firm- 3 Nephi 3:1<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Nephi 3:1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Stand
Firm</span></div>
<h2 class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.22in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">and
make Christ The Center of Our Lives</span></span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As we make Christ
the center of our lives, our fears will be replaced by the courage of
our convictions.” —President Thomas S. Monson, “</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/10/be-an-example-and-a-light?lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Be
an Example and a Light</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What</span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="1"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote0"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 And
now it came to pass that in the sixteenth year from the coming of
Christ, a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#1a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lachoneus</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
the governor of the land, received an epistle from the leader and the
governor of this band of robbers; and these were the words which were
written, saying:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why</span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The robbers were
threatening the Nephites. They first sent a written communication
called an epistle.. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pattern</span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.28in; margin-bottom: 0.2in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">3 Ne.
1:1</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">1
Now it came to pass that the ninety and first year had passed away
and it was </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">six
hundred</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> years
from the time that Lehi left Jerusalem; and it was in the year
that </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Lachoneus</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> was
the chief judge and the governor over the land.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Epistle</span></span></span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/triple-index/letter?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Letter</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moroni1 writes epistle to
Ammoron: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/54.4%2C15?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
54:4, 15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ammoron
writes epistle to Moroni1: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/54.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 54:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/55.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 55:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moroni1 receives epistle from
Helaman2: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/56.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 56:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Helaman2 had
received epistle from Ammoron: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/57.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 57:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Helaman2 wrote epistle to
Ammoron: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/57.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 57:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moroni1 writes epistle to
Pahoran1: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/59.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 59:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moroni1 writes
second epistle to Pahoran1: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/60.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 60:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moroni1 receives epistle from
Pahoran1: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/61.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 61:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/62.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 62:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lachoneus1 receives epistle from
leader of robbers: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/3.1-2%2C11?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 Ne.
3:1–2, 11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lamanite
king sends epistle to Mormon2: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/morm/3.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Morm.
3:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mormon2 writes epistle to
Lamanite king: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/morm/6.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Morm. 6:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Coriantumr2 sends epistle to
Shiz: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/15.4-5?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ether
15:4–5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Shiz
writes epistle to Coriantumr2: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/15.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ether 15:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Coriantumr2 writes
second epistle to Shiz: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/15.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ether 15:18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moroni2 records
two epistles from Mormon2: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/8?lang=eng&span=8-9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moro.
8–9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sidney
Rigdon to write epistle to be presented to all churches to
obtain moneys: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/58.51?lang=eng#50"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
58:51</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">epistle from
Joseph Smith to Saints at Nauvoo: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/127.intro?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 127: Intro.</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 align="LEFT" class="western" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Epistles</span></span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Several
kinds are spoken of in the scriptures. (1) Epistles of commendation,
which were letters by which travelers were commended by one branch of
the Church to the members of another branch, as in </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/18.27?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Acts
18:27</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/3.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Cor.
3:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.
(2) A letter or decree such as that announcing the decision of the
Jerusalem conference negating circumcision as a requirement for
Gentiles to become members of the Church, as mentioned in </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/15.23-29?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Acts
15:23–29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/16.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">16:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/21.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">21:25</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.
(3) An epistle in its best sense is more than a letter; it is a
formal teaching instrument. Twenty-one of the 27 books of the
New Testament are epistles. See </span></span><em><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bd/general-epistles?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">General
Epistles</span></span></span></a></em><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">; </span></span></em><em><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bd/pauline-epistles?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pauline
Epistles</span></span></span></a></em><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">war</span></span></em></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">war between
Rehoboam and Jeroboam: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/14.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">1 Kgs.
14:30</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> .
( </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/15.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">1 Kgs. 15:6</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> ; </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-chr/12.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">2 Chr.
12:15</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> .
)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">up
to Jerusalem to war: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/16.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Kgs.
16:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/7.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa.
7:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">though war should
rise against me: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/27.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps.
27:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">maketh wars to
cease: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/46.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 46:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">scatter
thou the people that delight in war: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/68.30?lang=eng#29"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps. 68:30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">with
good advice make war: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/20.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prov.
20:18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">by
wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/24.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prov. 24:6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">time
of war, and a time of peace: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Eccl.
3:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">neither
shall they learn war any more: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/2.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa.
2:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/micah/4.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Micah
4:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ; </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/12.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
12:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">they
fled … from the grievousness of war: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/21.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 21:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">they
that war against thee shall be as nothing: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/41.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 41:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">set
in array as men for war against thee: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/6.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jer.
6:23</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Egypt,
where we shall see no war: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/42.14?lang=eng#13"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jer. 42:14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">same
horn made war with the saints: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/dan/7.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Dan.
7:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/13.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rev.
13:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Proclaim
ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/joel/3.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Joel
3:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Christ</span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Ex.
15:1-2</span></b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="11"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote01"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote1"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">1 Then a</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/15.3?lang=eng#1a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">sang</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> Moses
and the children of Israel this song unto the </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Lord</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
and spake, saying, I will b</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/15.3?lang=eng#1b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">sing</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> unto
the </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Lord</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he
thrown into the sea.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote3"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote4"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote5"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote6"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 The </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/15.3?lang=eng#2a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>is</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> my b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/15.3?lang=eng#2b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">strength</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and
song, and he is become my c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/15.3?lang=eng#2c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">salvation</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">:
he </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>is</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> my
God, and I will d</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/15.3?lang=eng#2d"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">prepare
him an habitation</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
my father’s God, and I will e</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/15.3?lang=eng#2e"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">exalt</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Lord
is a man of war: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/15.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">Ex.
15:3</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> .</span></span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Jesus
fought the war in Heaven which is the war that has continued on earth
since Adam and Eve.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Conference</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<b><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2003/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">APRIL
2003</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span></span></span></b><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">| </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">War
and Peace</span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></span></span></span></b>
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<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/gordon-b-hinckley?lang=eng">Gordon
B. Hinckley</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">President
of the Church </span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b><span style="color: #333333;">I
hope that the Lord’s people may be at peace one with another during
times of trouble, regardless of what loyalties they may have to
different governments or parties.</span><span style="color: #333333;">
</span></b></u></span></span>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p6"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">And
so I venture to say something about the war and the gospel we teach.
I spoke of this somewhat in our October conference of 2001. When I
came to this pulpit at that time, the war against terrorism had just
begun. The present war is really an outgrowth and continuation of
that conflict. Hopefully it is now drawing to a conclusion.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p7"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
I discuss the matter, I seek the direction of the Holy Spirit. I have
prayed and pondered much concerning this. I recognize it is a very
sensitive subject for an international congregation, including those
not of our religious faith.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p8"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
nations of the earth have been divided over the present situation.
Feelings have run strong. There have been demonstrations for and
against. We are now a world Church with members in most of the
nations which have argued this matter. Our people have had feelings.
They have had concerns.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p9"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">War,
of course, is not new. The weapons change. The ability to kill and
destroy is constantly refined. But there has been conflict throughout
the ages over essentially the same issues.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p10"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
book of Revelation speaks briefly of what must have been a terrible
conflict for the minds and loyalties of God’s children. The account
is worth repeating:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p11"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the
dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p12"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p13"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil,
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the
earth, and his angels were cast out with him” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.7-9?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rev.
12:7–9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isaiah
speaks further concerning that great conflict (see </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/14.12-20?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa.
14:12–20</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).
Modern revelation gives additional light (see </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/76.25-29?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
76:25–29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">),
as does the book of Moses (see </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/4.1-4?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moses
4:1–4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">),
which tells of Satan’s plan to destroy the agency of man.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
sometimes are prone to glorify the great empires of the past, such as
the Ottoman Empire, the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and in more
recent times, the vast British Empire. But there is a darker side to
every one of them. There is a grim and tragic overlay of brutal
conquest, of subjugation, of repression, and an astronomical cost in
life and treasure.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
great English essayist Thomas Carlyle once ironically shared the
observation, “God must needs laugh outright, could such a thing be,
to see his wondrous mannikins here below” (quoted in </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sartor
Resartus</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> [1836],
182). I think our Father in Heaven must have wept as He has looked
down upon His children through the centuries as they have squandered
their divine birthright in ruthlessly destroying one another.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p17"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
the course of history tyrants have arisen from time to time who have
oppressed their own people and threatened the world. Such is adjudged
to be the case presently, and consequently great and terrifying
forces with sophisticated and fearsome armaments have been engaged in
battle.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p18"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Many
of our own Church members have been involved in this conflict. We
have seen on television and in the press tearful children clinging to
their fathers in uniform, going to the battlefront.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">There
have been casualties in this terrible conflict, and there likely will
be more. Public protests will likely continue. Leaders of other
nations have, in no uncertain terms, condemned the coalition
strategy.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p22"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
question arises, “Where does the Church stand in all of this?”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p23"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">First,
let it be understood that we have no quarrel with the Muslim people
or with those of any other faith. We recognize and teach that all the
people of the earth are of the family of God. And as He is our
Father, so are we brothers and sisters with family obligations one to
another.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p24"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
as citizens we are all under the direction of our respective national
leaders. They have access to greater political and military
intelligence than do the people generally. Those in the armed
services are under obligation to their respective governments to
execute the will of the sovereign. When they joined the military
service, they entered into a contract by which they are presently
bound and to which they have dutifully responded.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p25"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">One
of our Articles of Faith, which represent an expression of our
doctrine, states, “We believe in being subject to kings,
presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and
sustaining the law” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">A
of F 1:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p26"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
modern revelation states that we are to “renounce war and proclaim
peace” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/98.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
98:16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p27"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
a democracy we can renounce war and proclaim peace. There is
opportunity for dissent. Many have been speaking out and doing so
emphatically. That is their privilege. That is their right, so long
as they do so legally. However, we all must also be mindful of
another overriding responsibility, which I may add, governs my
personal feelings and dictates my personal loyalties in the present
situation.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p28"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">When
war raged between the Nephites and the Lamanites, the record states
that “the Nephites were inspired by a better cause, for they were
not fighting for … power but they were fighting for their homes and
their liberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea,
for their rites of worship and their church.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p29"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
they were doing that which they felt was the duty which they owed to
their God” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/43.45-46?lang=eng#44"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
43:45–46</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p30"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Lord counseled them, “Defend your families even unto bloodshed”
(</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/43.47?lang=eng#46"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
43:47</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
Moroni “rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon
it—In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace,
our wives, and our children—and he fastened it upon the end of a
pole.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p32"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
he fastened on his headplate, and his breastplate, and his shields,
and girded on his armor about his loins; and he took the pole, which
had on the end thereof his rent coat, (and he called it the title of
liberty) and he bowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily
unto his God for the blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren”
(</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/46.12-13?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
46:12–13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p33"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">It
is clear from these and other writings that there are times and
circumstances when nations are justified, in fact have an obligation,
to fight for family, for liberty, and against tyranny, threat, and
oppression.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p34"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p341"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">When
all is said and done, we of this Church are people of peace. We are
followers of our Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, who was the Prince
of Peace. But even He said, “Think not that I am come to send
peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/10.34?lang=eng#33"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt.
10:34</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p35"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This
places us in the position of those who long for peace, who teach
peace, who work for peace, but who also are citizens of nations and
are subject to the laws of our governments. Furthermore, we are a
freedom-loving people, committed to the defense of liberty wherever
it is in jeopardy. I believe that God will not hold men and women in
uniform responsible as agents of their government in carrying forward
that which they are legally obligated to do. It may even be that He
will hold us responsible if we try to impede or hedge up the way of
those who are involved in a contest with forces of evil and
repression.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p36"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Now,
there is much that we can and must do in these perilous times. We can
give our opinions on the merits of the situation as we see it, but
never let us become a party to words or works of evil concerning our
brothers and sisters in various nations on one side or the other.
Political differences never justify hatred or ill will. I hope that
the Lord’s people may be at peace one with another during times of
trouble, regardless of what loyalties they may have to different
governments or parties.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p37"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Let
us pray for those who are called upon to bear arms by their
respective governments and plead for the protection of heaven upon
them that they may return to their loved ones in safety.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p38"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
our brothers and sisters in harm’s way, we say that we pray for
you. We pray that the Lord will watch over you and preserve you from
injury and that you may return home and pick up your lives again. We
know that you are not in that land of blowing sand and brutal heat
because you enjoy the games of war. The strength of your commitment
is measured by your willingness to give your very lives for that in
which you believe.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p39"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
know that some have died, and others may yet die in this hot and
deadly contest. We can do all in our power to comfort and bless those
who lose loved ones. May those who mourn be comforted with that
comfort which comes alone from Christ the Redeemer. It was He who
said to His beloved disciples:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p40"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let
not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p41"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, … that where I am,
there ye may be also.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p42"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Peace
I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth,
give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/14.1-3,27?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">John
14:1–3, 27</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p43"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
call upon the Lord, whose strength is mighty and whose powers are
infinite, to bring an end to the conflict, an end that will result in
a better life for all concerned. The Lord has declared, “For I, the
Lord, rule in the heavens above, and among the armies of the earth”
(</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/60.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">D&C
60:4</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">).</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p44"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
can hope and pray for that glorious day foretold by the prophet
Isaiah when men “shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/2.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa.
2:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p45"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Even
in an evil world we can so live our lives as to merit the protecting
care of our Father in Heaven. We can be as the righteous living among
the evils of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham pleaded that these cities
might be spared for the sake of the righteous. (See </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/18.20-32?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Gen.
18:20–32</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p46"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And,
above all, we can cultivate in our own hearts, and proclaim to the
world, the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through His atoning
sacrifice we are certain life will continue beyond the veil of death.
We can teach that gospel which will lead to the exaltation of the
obedient.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p47"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Even
when the armaments of war ring out in deathly serenade and darkness
and hatred reign in the hearts of some, there stands immovable,
reassuring, comforting, and with great outreaching love the quiet
figure of the Son of God, the Redeemer of the world. We can proclaim
with Paul:</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p48"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For
I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p49"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate
us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rom/8.38-39?lang=eng#37"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rom.
8:38–39</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p50"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This
life is but a chapter in the eternal plan of our Father. It is full
of conflict and seeming incongruities. Some die young. Some live to
old age. We cannot explain it. But we accept it with the certain
knowledge that through the atoning sacrifice of our Lord we shall all
go on living, and this with the comforting assurance of His
immeasurable love.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p51"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
has said, “Learn of me, and listen to my words; walk in the
meekness of my Spirit, and you shall have peace in me” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/19.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
19:23</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p52"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
there, my brothers and sisters, we rest our faith. Regardless of the
circumstances, we have the comfort and peace of Christ our Savior,
our Redeemer, the living Son of the living God. I so testify in His
holy name, even the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</span></span></div>
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Hinckley said it best</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even
in an evil world we can so live our lives as to merit the protecting
care of our Father in Heaven. We can be as the righteous living among
the evils of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham pleaded that these cities
might be spared for the sake of the righteous. (See </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/18.20-32?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Gen.
18:20–32</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">And,
above all, we can cultivate in our own hearts, and proclaim to the
world, the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through His atoning
sacrifice we are certain life will continue beyond the veil of death.
We can teach that gospel which will lead to the exaltation of the
obedient.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-27460084282107639452017-01-28T11:44:00.000-06:002017-01-28T11:44:19.395-06:00agency-accept the atonement<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 2:19</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Accept
the atonement-Agency</b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="img5"></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>He
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Because
He loves you, He will find you. He will place you upon His shoulders,
rejoicing. And when He brings you home, He will say to one and all,
“Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/he-will-place-you-on-his-shoulders-and-carry-you-home?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">19 And
thus ended the fifteenth year, and thus were the people in a state of
many afflictions; and the a</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of
destruction did hang over them, insomuch that they were about to be
smitten down by it, and this because of their iniquity.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Iniquity brings
destruction. “wicked never was happiness” prophecy is being
fulfilled. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pattern</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Alma
60:29</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">29
Behold it is time, yea, the time is now at hand, that except ye do
bestir yourselves in the defence of your country and your little
ones, the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">sword</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">of
justice doth hang over you; yea, and it shall fall upon you and visit
you even to your utter destruction.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Hel.
13:5</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">5
And he said unto them: Behold, I, Samuel, a Lamanite, do speak the
words of the Lord which he doth put into my heart; and behold he hath
put it into my heart to say unto this people that the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">sword</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
justice hangeth over this people; and four hundred years pass not
away save the sword of justice falleth upon this people.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #e1e1e1;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">3 Ne.
3:3</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">3
And it seemeth a pity unto me, most noble Lachoneus, that ye should
be so foolish and vain as to suppose that ye can stand against so
many brave men who are at my command, who do now at this time stand
in their arms, and do await with great anxiety for the word—Go down
upon the Nephites and </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">destroy</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Isa.
1:20 (19–20)</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">19
If ye be </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">willing</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">obedient</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
ye shall eat the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">good</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
the land:<br />20 But if ye refuse and </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">rebel</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
ye shall be </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">devoured</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> with
the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">it.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Punish,
Punishment</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/accountability?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Accountability</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/chastening?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Chastening</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/correction?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Correction</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/curse?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Curse</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/damnation?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Damnation</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/god-justice-of?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>God,
Justice of</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/hell?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hell</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/reproof?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Reproof</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ;</i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/retribution?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Retribution</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/spirits-in-prison?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Spirits
in Prison</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/vengeance?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Vengeance</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Cain
said … My punishment is greater than I can bear: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/4.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Gen.
4:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/5.38?lang=eng#37"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moses </span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">hurt
a woman … he shall be surely punished: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/21.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ex. 21:22</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
will smite thee … with the scab: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/28.27?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut. 28:27</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">man
shall be put to death for his own sin: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/14.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Kgs.
14:6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">false
witness shall not be unpunished: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/19.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prov.
19:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">if
ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/1.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa.
1:20</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
will punish the world for their evil: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/13.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 13:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/23.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
23:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord
shall punish the host of the high ones: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/24.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 24:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">accordingly
he will repay: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/59.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa. 59:18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">time
of their visitation they shall be cast down: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/8.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jer.
8:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
will punish all them which are circumcised: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/9.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jer. 9:25</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord, correct me,
but with judgment: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/10.24?lang=eng#23"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jer. 10:24</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">bear
the punishment of their iniquity: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/14.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ezek.
14:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">soul
that sinneth, it shall die: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/18.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ezek. 18:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">son
shall not bear the iniquity of the father: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/18.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ezek. 18:20</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">they
that take the sword shall perish with the
sword: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/26.52?lang=eng#51"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt. 26:52</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">blaspheme
against the Holy Ghost … in danger of eternal damnation:</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/mark/3.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mark
3:29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I punished them
oft in every synagogue: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/26.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Acts
26:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">deliver
such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the
flesh: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/1-cor/5.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Cor.
5:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">punished with
everlasting destruction: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-thes/1.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Thes.
1:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">how
much sorer punishment … shall he be thought: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/10.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Heb.
10:29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">unjust
unto the day of judgment to be punished: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-pet/2.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Pet.
2:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">suffering
the vengeance of eternal fire: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/jude/1.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jude
1:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">driven out
by our fathers, do ye suppose that they were righteous: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/17.33?lang=eng#32"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Ne.
17:33</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">by
the spiritual law they … become miserable forever: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
2:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">punishment …
is in opposition to … happiness: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 2:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">torment is
as a lake of fire and brimstone: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 9:16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">where
there is no law given there is no punishment: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne. 9:25</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">spake
of hell … and of eternal punishment: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/jacob/7.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jacob
7:18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">they punished according
to their crimes: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/w-of-m/1.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">W of M
1:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/29.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah
29:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">receiveth
for his wages an everlasting punishment: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/2.33?lang=eng#32"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah
2:33</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote4"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote5"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote6"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 We
believe that men will be a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.2?lang=eng#2a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">punished</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> for
their b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.2?lang=eng#2b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>own</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> sins,
and not for c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.2?lang=eng#2c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Adam’s</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> transgression.
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Christ</b></span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/10.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hebrews
10:29</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">29
Of how much sorer <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">punishment</span>,
suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot
the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith
he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the
Spirit of grace?</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="30"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote42"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote43"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote44"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">30 For
we know him that hath said, a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/10.29?lang=eng#30a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Vengeance</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>belongeth</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">unto
me, I will b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/10.29?lang=eng#30b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">recompense</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/10.29?lang=eng#30c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">judge</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">his
people.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conference</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1988/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>APRIL
1988</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Atonement,
Agency, Accountability</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/boyd-k-packer?lang=eng">Boyd
K. Packer</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p12"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Before
the Crucifixion and afterward, many men have willingly given their
lives in selfless acts of heroism. But none faced what the Christ
endured. Upon Him was the burden of all human transgression, all
human guilt.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p13"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
hanging in the balance was the Atonement. Through His willing act,
mercy and justice could be reconciled, eternal law sustained, and
that mediation achieved without which mortal man could not be
redeemed.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He,
by choice, accepted the penalty for all mankind for the sum total of
all wickedness and depravity; for brutality, immorality, perversion,
and corruption; for addiction; for the killings and torture and
terror—for all of it that ever had been or all that ever would be
enacted upon this earth.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
choosing, He faced the awesome power of the evil one who was not
confined to flesh nor subject to mortal pain. That was Gethsemane!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">How
the Atonement was wrought, we do not know. No mortal watched as evil
turned away and hid in shame before the light of that pure being.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p17"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">All
wickedness could not quench that light. When what was done was done,
the ransom had been paid. Both death and hell forsook their claim on
all who would repent. Men at last were free. Then every soul who ever
lived could choose to touch that light and be redeemed.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p18"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">By
this infinite sacrifice, through this atonement of Christ, all
mankind may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the
gospel.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
they were restored. In the Book of Mormon the word </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">atone</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in
form and tense appears fifty-five times. I quote but one verse from
Alma: “And now, the plan of mercy could not be brought about except
an </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">atonement</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> should
be made; therefore God himself </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">atoneth</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> for
the sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to appease
the demands of justice, that God might be a perfect, just God, and a
merciful God also” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/42.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
42:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
italics added).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p32"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Only
once in the New Testament—fifty-five times in the Book of Mormon.
What better witness that the Book of Mormon is indeed another
testament of Jesus Christ?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p41"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
seldom use the word </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">absolute.</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> It
seldom fits. I use it now—twice. Because of the Fall, the Atonement
was absolutely essential for resurrection to proceed and overcome
mortal death.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p42"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Atonement was absolutely essential for men to cleanse themselves from
sin and overcome the second death, which is the spiritual death,
which is separation from our Father in Heaven. For the scriptures
tell us, seven times they tell us, that no unclean thing may enter
the presence of God.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p43"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Those
scriptural words, “Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given
unto thee” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/3.17?lang=eng#16"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moses
3:17</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">),
introduced Adam and Eve and their posterity to all the risks of
mortality. In mortality men are free to choose, and each choice
begets a consequence. The choice Adam made energized the law of
justice, which required that the penalty for disobedience would be
death.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p44"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
those words spoken at the trial, “Thou couldest have no power at
all against me, except it were given thee from above” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/19.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">John
19:11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">),
proved mercy was of equal rank. A redeemer was sent to pay the debt
and set men free. That was the plan.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p48"></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">...<span style="color: #333333;">I
readily confess that I would find no peace, neither happiness nor
safety, in a world without repentance. I do not know what I should do
if there were no way for me to erase my mistakes. The agony would be
more than I could bear. It may be otherwise with you, but not with
me.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p49"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">An
atonement was made. Ever and always it offers amnesty from
transgression and from death if we will but repent. Repentance is the
escape clause in it all. Repentance is the key with which we can
unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and
agency is ours to use it.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p50"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">How
supernally precious freedom is; how consummately valuable is the
agency of man.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p61"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
the Passover would be commemorated forever as the sacrament, in which
we renew our covenant of baptism and partake in remembrance of the
body of the Lamb of God and of His blood, which was shed for us.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p62"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">It
is no small thing that this symbol reappears in the Word of Wisdom.
Beyond the promise that Saints in this generation, who obey, will
receive health and great treasures of knowledge is this: “I, the
Lord, give unto them a promise, that the destroying angel shall pass
by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/89.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
89:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p63"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
cannot with composure tell you how I feel about the Atonement. It
touches the deepest emotion of gratitude and obligation. My soul
reaches after Him who wrought it, this Christ, our Savior of whom I
am a witness. I testify of Him. He is our Lord, our Redeemer, our
advocate with the Father. He ransomed us with His blood.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p64"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Humbly
I lay claim upon the atonement of Christ. I find no shame in kneeling
down in worship of our Father and His son. For </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">agency</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> is
mine, and this I </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">choose</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> to
do!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>APRIL
2016</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
Will Place You on His Shoulders and Carry You Home</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/dieter-f-uchtdorf?lang=eng">By
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Second
Counselor in the First Presidency</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">Just
as the Good Shepherd finds His lost sheep, if you will only lift up
your heart to the Savior of the world, He will find you.</span><span style="color: #333333;">
</span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p45"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Because
He loves you, He will find you. He will place you upon His shoulders,
rejoicing. And when He brings you home, He will say to one and all,
“Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/he-will-place-you-on-his-shoulders-and-carry-you-home?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">3</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
we increase in faith, we also must increase in faithfulness. Earlier
I quoted a German author who lamented the destruction of Dresden. He
also penned the phrase “Es gibt nichts Gutes, ausser: Man tut es.”
For those who do not speak the celestial language, this is translated
as “There is nothing good unless you do it.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/he-will-place-you-on-his-shoulders-and-carry-you-home?lang=eng#note10"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">10</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p46"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">You
and I may speak most eloquently of spiritual things. We may impress
people with our keen intellectual interpretation of religious topics.
We may rhapsodize about religion and “dream of [our] mansion
above.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/he-will-place-you-on-his-shoulders-and-carry-you-home?lang=eng#note11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">11</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> But
if our faith does not change the way we live—if our beliefs do not
influence our daily decisions—our religion is vain, and our faith,
if not dead, is certainly not well and is in danger of eventually
flatlining.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/he-will-place-you-on-his-shoulders-and-carry-you-home?lang=eng#note12"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">12</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p47"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Obedience
is the lifeblood of faith. It is by obedience that we gather light
into our souls.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p481"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
sometimes I think we misunderstand obedience. We may see obedience as
an end in itself, rather than a means to an end. Or we may pound the
metaphorical hammer of obedience against the iron anvil of the
commandments in an effort to shape those we love, through constant
heating and repeated battering, into holier, heavenly matter.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p491"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">No
doubt about it, there are times when we need a stern call to
repentance. Certainly, there are some who may be reached only in this
manner.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p501"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
perhaps there is a different metaphor that can explain why we obey
the commandments of God. Maybe obedience is not so much the process
of bending, twisting, and pounding our souls into something we are
not. Instead, it is the process by which we discover what we truly
are made of.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p51"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
are created by the Almighty God. He is our Heavenly Father. We are
literally His spirit children. We are made of supernal material most
precious and highly refined, and thus we carry within ourselves the
substance of divinity.</span></span></div>
<h2 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="title5"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You Are Worthy of
Rescue</span></span></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p55"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">My
dear brothers and sisters, my dear friends, I testify that God sees
us as we truly are—and He sees us worthy of rescue.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p56"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">You
may feel that your life is in ruins. You may have sinned. You may be
afraid, angry, grieving, or tortured by doubt. But just as the Good
Shepherd finds His lost sheep, if you will only lift up your heart to
the Savior of the world, He will find you.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p57"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
will rescue you.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p58"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
will lift you up and place you on His shoulders.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p59"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
will carry you home.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p60"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">If
mortal hands can transform rubble and ruins into a beautiful house of
worship, then we can have confidence and trust that our loving
Heavenly Father can and will rebuild us. His plan is to build us into
something far greater than what we were—far greater than what we
can ever imagine. With each step of faith on the path of
discipleship, we grow into the beings of eternal glory and infinite
joy we were designed to become.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p611"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This
is my testimony, my blessing, and my humble prayer in the sacred name
of our Master, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hymns</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/know-this-that-every-soul-is-free?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Know
This, That Every Soul Is Free (#240)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">children</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/he-died-that-we-might-live-again?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
Died That We Might Live Again (#65)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/he-sent-his-son?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
Sent His Son (#34)</span></span></span></a></div>
</li>
</ul>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-58579312042376261292017-01-27T10:13:00.000-06:002017-01-27T10:34:34.043-06:00Kindness is the Essence of Greatness 3 Nephi 2:18<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Nephi 2:18</span></div>
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<h2 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kindness</span></span></span></h2>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Kindness is the
essence of greatness.”—Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, “</span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2005/04/the-virtue-of-kindness?lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Virtue of Kindness</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="18"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">18 And
thus ended the fourteenth year. And in the fifteenth year they did
come forth against the people of Nephi; and because of the wickedness
of the people of Nephi, and their many contentions and dissensions,
the Gadianton robbers did gain many advantages over them</span>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">when
people can't get along with each other then they are not going to be
able to work together to protect their country/tribes/ people.
Opposite of unity. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pattern</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Contentions</span></div>
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<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/11.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">3
Nephi 11:29</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">29
For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit
of <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contention</span> is
not of me, but is of the devil, who is the father of <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contention</span>,
and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with
another.</span></span></div>
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<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/10.63?lang=eng#62"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Doctrine
and Covenants 10:63</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">63
And this I do that I may establish my gospel, that there may not be
so much <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contention</span>;
yea, Satan doth stir up the hearts of the people
to <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contention</span> concerning
the points of my doctrine; and in these things they do err, for they
do wrest the scriptures and do not understand them.</span></span></div>
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<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/29.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mosiah
29:7</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">7
And now if there should be another appointed in his stead, behold I
fear there would rise <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contentions</span> among
you. And who knoweth but what my son, to whom the kingdom doth
belong, should turn to be angry and draw away a part of this people
after him, which would cause wars and <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contentions</span> among
you, which would be the cause of shedding much blood and perverting
the way of the Lord, yea, and destroy the souls of many people.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/18.19?lang=eng#18"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Proverbs
18:19</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">19
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and
their <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contentions</span> are
like the bars of a castle.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/23.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mosiah
23:15</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">15
Thus did Alma teach his people, that every man should love his
neighbor as himself, that there should be no <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contention</span> among
them.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/29.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mosiah
29:21</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">21
And behold, now I say unto you, ye cannot dethrone an iniquitous king
save it be through much <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contention</span>,
and the shedding of much </span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/13.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Proverbs
13:10</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">10
Only by pride cometh <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contention</span>:
but with the well advised is wisdom.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/10.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Helaman
10:18</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">18
And it came to pass that they would not hearken unto his words; and
there began to be <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contentions</span>,
insomuch that they were divided against themselves and began to slay
one another with the sword.</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/titus/3.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Titus
3:9</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contentions</span>,
and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.</span></span></div>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li value="1"><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/15.39?lang=eng#38"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Acts
15:39</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">39
And the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contention</span> was
so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the
other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;</span></span></div>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li value="1"><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/17.14?lang=eng#13"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Proverbs
17:14</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">14
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore
leave off <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">contention</span>,
before it be meddled with.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">beware
lest there shall arise contentions: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/2.32?lang=eng#31"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mosiah
2:32</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">not
suffer your children … fight and quarrel one with
another: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.14?lang=eng#13"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah 4:14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">commanded
them that there should be no contention: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/18.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah 18:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
fear there would rise contentions among you: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/29.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah 29:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">there
began to be great contentions: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/4.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
4:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">it
not been for a contention which took place: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/50.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 50:25</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">such contentions …
again stirred up the hearts: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/51.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 51:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">there
were no contentions and disputations: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/4-ne/1.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4 Ne.
1:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">no contention …
because of the love of God: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/4-ne/1.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4 Ne. 1:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">began
to be wars and contentions in all the land: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/11.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ether
11:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Satan
doth stir up the hearts of the people to contention: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/10.63?lang=eng#62"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D&C
10:63</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">contention among
the people concerning the law: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/74.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 74:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">contentions arose
in the school of the prophets: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/95.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 95:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">there
were jarrings, and contentions: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/101.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 101:6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Christ</span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">he
that hath the spirit of contention is not of me: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/11.29?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 Ne.
11:29</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Conference</span></span></div>
<h1 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Helam, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Virtue of Kindness </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/joseph-b-wirthlin?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joseph
B. Wirthlin</span></span></span></span></span></a></h1>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I
often wonder why some feel they must be critical of others. It gets
in their blood, I suppose, and it becomes so natural they often don’t
even think about it. They seem to criticize everyone—the way Sister
Jones leads the music, the way Brother Smith teaches a lesson or
plants his garden.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p22"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Even
when we think we are doing no harm by our critical remarks,
consequences often follow. I am reminded of a boy who handed a
donation envelope to his bishop and told him it was for him. The
bishop, using this as a teaching moment, explained to the boy that he
should mark on the donation slip whether it was for tithing, fast
offerings, or for something else. The boy insisted the money was for
the bishop himself. When the bishop asked why, the boy replied,
“Because my father says you’re one of the poorest bishops we’ve
ever had.”</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p23"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The
Church is not a place where perfect people gather to say perfect
things, or have perfect thoughts, or have perfect feelings. The
Church is a place where imperfect people gather to provide
encouragement, support, and service to each other as we press on in
our journey to return to our Heavenly Father.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p24"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Each
one of us will travel a different road during this life. Each
progresses at a different rate. Temptations that trouble your brother
may not challenge you at all. Strengths that you possess may seem
impossible to another.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p25"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Never
look down on those who are less perfect than you. Don’t be upset
because someone can’t sew as well as you, can’t throw as well as
you, can’t row or hoe as well as you.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p311"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">When
we are filled with kindness, we are not judgmental. The Savior
taught, “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye
shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2005/04/the-virtue-of-kindness?lang=eng#note4"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">4</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> He
also taught that “with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged:
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2005/04/the-virtue-of-kindness?lang=eng#note5"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">5</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p32"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">But,”
you ask, “what if people are rude?”</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p33"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Love
them.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p34"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">If
they are obnoxious?”</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p35"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Love
them.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p36"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">But
what if they offend? Surely I must do something then?”</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p37"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Love
them.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p38"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Wayward?”</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p39"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The
answer is the same. Be kind. Love them.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p40"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Why?
In the scriptures Jude taught, “And of some have compassion, making
a difference.”</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2005/04/the-virtue-of-kindness?lang=eng#note6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">6</span></span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p41"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Who
can tell what far-reaching impact we can have if we are only kind?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p42"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p312"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My
brothers and sisters, the gospel of Jesus Christ transcends
mortality. Our work here is but a shadow of greater and unimaginable
things to When we are filled with kindness, we are not
judgmental. The Savior taught, “Judge not, and ye shall not be
judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye
shall be forgiven.”</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2005/04/the-virtue-of-kindness?lang=eng#note4"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">4</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> He
also taught that “with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged:
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2005/04/the-virtue-of-kindness?lang=eng#note5"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">5</span></span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p321"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">But,”
you ask, “what if people are rude?”</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p331"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Love
them.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p341"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">If
they are obnoxious?”</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p351"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Love
them.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p361"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">But
what if they offend? Surely I must do something then?”</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p371"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Love
them.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p381"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Wayward?”</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p391"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The
answer is the same. Be kind. Love them.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p401"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Why?
In the scriptures Jude taught, “And of some have compassion, making
a difference.”</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2005/04/the-virtue-of-kindness?lang=eng#note6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">6</span></span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p411"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Who
can tell what far-reaching impact we can have if we are only kind?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p421"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My
brothers and sisters, the gospel of Jesus Christ transcends
mortality. Our work here is but a shadow of greater and unimaginable
things to come.</span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1989/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>APRIL
1989</b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The
Canker of Contention</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/russell-m-nelson?lang=eng">Russell
M. Nelson</a><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p3"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Some
months ago my esteemed colleague Elder Carlos E. Asay and I stood
atop Mount Nebo, where Moses once stood. (See </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/34.1-4?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut.
34:1–4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)
We saw what he saw. In the distance to our right was the Sea of
Galilee. The river Jordan flowed from there to the Dead Sea on our
left. Ahead was the promised land into which Joshua led the Israelite
faithful so long ago.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p4"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Later
we were permitted to do what Moses could not. We were escorted from
the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan to its western border with Israel.
From there, we and our associates walked over the Allenby Bridge. We
felt the tension as armed soldiers nearby guarded both sides of the
international boundary.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p5"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">After
safely enduring this experience, I thought of the irony of it all.
Here in the land made holy by the Prince of Peace, contention has
existed almost continuously from that day to this.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p6"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prior
to His ascension from the Holy Land, the Savior pronounced a unique
blessing: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as
the world giveth, give I unto you.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/14.27?lang=eng#26"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">John
14:27</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p7"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">His
peace is not necessarily political; His peace is personal. But that
spirit of inner peace is driven away by contention. Contention does
not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts
with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple
matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect
neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p8"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so
should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the
spirit. I appreciate the counsel of Abraham Lincoln, who said:</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p9"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quarrel
not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare
time for personal contention. … Better give your path to a dog than
be bitten by him.” (Letter to J. M. Cutts, 26 Oct. 1863, in </span></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Concise
Lincoln Dictionary of Thoughts and Statements,</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> comp.
and arr. Ralph B. Winn, New York: New York Philosophical Library,
1959, p. 107.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p10"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">President
Ezra Taft Benson in his keynote address yesterday described
contention as “another face of pride.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p11"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">My
concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.
From what we see and hear in the media, the classroom, and the
workplace, all are now infected to some degree with contention. How
easy it is, yet how wrong it is, to allow habits of contention to
pervade matters of spiritual significance, because contention is
forbidden by divine decree:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p12"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Lord God hath commanded that men should not murder; that they should
not lie; that they should not steal; that they should not take the
name of the Lord their God in vain; that they should not envy; that
they should not have malice; that they should not contend one with
another.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/26.32?lang=eng#31"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2
Ne. 26:32</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">...“Satan
did stir them up to do iniquity continually; yea, he did go about
spreading rumors and contentions upon all the face of the land, that
he might harden the hearts of the people against that which was good
and against that which should come.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/16.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hel.
16:22</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">When
Christ did come to the Nephites, He confirmed that prophecy:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
that hath the spirit of contention is not of me [saith the Lord], but
is of the devil, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up
the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p17"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Behold,
this is not my doctrine, to stir up the hearts of men with anger, one
against another; but this is my doctrine, that such things should be
done away.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/11.29-30?lang=eng#28"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Ne. 11:29–30</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p27"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">...The
home is the great laboratory of learning and love. Here parents help
children overcome these natural tendencies to be selfish. In rearing
our own family, Sister Nelson and I have been very grateful for this
counsel from the Book of Mormon:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p28"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ye
will not suffer your children that they go hungry, or naked; neither
will ye suffer that they transgress the laws of God, and fight and
quarrel one with another, …</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p29"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
ye will teach them to walk in the ways of truth and soberness; ye
will teach them to love one another, and to serve one another.”
(</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.14-15?lang=eng#13"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah
4:14–15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p30"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
I might add, please be patient while children learn those lessons.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Parents
should be partners to cherish and protect one another, knowing that
the aim of the adversary is to destroy the integrity of the family.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="title8"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Leaders
of the Church are targets for attack by those who stir contention.
This is true even though not a single leader has called himself or
herself to a position of responsibility. Each General Authority, for
instance, chose another path to pursue as his life’s occupation.
But the reality is, as with Peter or Paul, each was surely “called
of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are
in authority.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">A
of F 1:5</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)
With that call comes the commitment to emulate the patterns of the
Prince of Peace. Steps to Supplant Contention</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p54"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What
can we do to combat this canker of contention? What steps may each of
us take to supplant the spirit of contention with a spirit of
personal peace?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p55"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
begin, show compassionate concern for others. Control the tongue, the
pen, and the word processor. Whenever tempted to dispute, remember
this proverb: “He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour:
but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/11.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prov.
11:12</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
see also </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/17.28?lang=eng#27"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prov.
17:28</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p56"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Bridle
the passion to speak or write contentiously for personal gain or
glory. The Apostle Paul thus counseled the Philippians, “Let
nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind
let each esteem other better than themselves.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/philip/2.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Philip.
2:3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p57"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Such
high mutual regard would then let us respectfully disagree without
being disagreeable.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p58"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
the ultimate step lies beyond beginning control of expression.
Personal peace is reached when one, in humble submissiveness, truly
loves God. Heed carefully this scripture:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p59"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">There
was no contention in the land, </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">because
of</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> the
love of God which did dwell in the hearts of the people.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/4-ne/1.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4
Ne. 1:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
see also </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/4-ne/1.2?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4
Ne. 1:2</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
italics added.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p60"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p601"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Thus,
love of God should be our aim. It is the first
commandment—the foundation of faith. As we develop love of God
and Christ, love of family and neighbor will naturally follow. Then
will we eagerly emulate Jesus. He healed. He comforted. He taught,
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children
of God.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/5.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt.
5:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
see also </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/12.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Ne. 12:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p61"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Through
love of God, the pain caused by the fiery canker of contention will
be extinguished from the soul. This healing begins with a personal
vow: “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.”
(“Let There Be Peace on Earth,” Sy Miller and Jill Jackson, ©
Jan-Lee Music, Beverly Hills, Calif., 1972.) This commitment will
then spread to family and friends and will bring peace to
neighborhoods and nations.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p62"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Shun
contention. Seek godliness. Be enlightened by eternal truth. Be
like-minded with the Lord in love and united with Him in faith. Then
shall “the peace of God, which passeth all understanding”
(</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/philip/4.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Philip.
4:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">),
be yours, to bless you and your posterity through generations yet to
come. I so testify in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Apply</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
we strive to be more Christlike, we will have more patience and love
for others and we will find ways to spread peace instead of
contention. </span></span>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p6011"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thus,
love of God should be our aim. It is the first
commandment—the foundation of faith. As we develop love of God
and Christ, love of family and neighbor will naturally follow. Then
will we eagerly emulate Jesus. He healed. He comforted. He taught,
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children
of God.” (</span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/5.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt.
5:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
see also </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/12.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Ne. 12:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)”
Elder Nelson</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hymns</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">318
Love At Home</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">129
Where Can I Turn for Peace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Children</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">78
-I am Trying To Be Like Jesus</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">45-
Kindness Begins With Me.</span></span></div>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-16928895770824597022017-01-25T09:16:00.000-06:002017-01-25T09:16:37.292-06:00Ready or Not-3 Nephi 2:17<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Nephi 2:17</span></div>
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<h2 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="color: #c15d1a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ready
or Not</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ready or Not. The
battle is on. The enemy won’t wait. Now is the time to put on the
whole armor of God. (See Ephesians 6:11–18.) June 2010</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="17"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">17 And
it came to pass in the commencement of the fourteenth year, the war
between the robbers and the people of Nephi did continue and did
become exceedingly sore; nevertheless, the people of Nephi did gain
some advantage of the robbers, insomuch that they did drive them back
out of their lands into the mountains and into their secret places.</span>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">When fighting for a
righteous cause we can win because the Lord is on our side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pattern</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the Israelites
defeat Pharaoh by a miracle of the Red Sea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Joshua and the
battle of Jericho</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">David and Goliath</span></div>
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</div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/10.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mosiah
10:10</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">10
And it came to pass that we did go up to <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">battle</span>against
the Lamanites; and I, even I, in my old age, did go up
to <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">battle</span> against
the Lamanites. And it came to pass that we did go up in the strength
of the Lord to <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">battle</span>.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/98.37?lang=eng#36"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Doctrine
and Covenants 98:37</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">37
And I, the Lord, would fight their <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">battles</span>,
and their children’s <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">battles</span>,
and their children’s children’s, until they had avenged
themselves on all their enemies, to the third and fourth generation.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/jst/jst-ps/24.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">JST,
Psalms 24:7</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">7
Lift up your heads, O ye generations of Jacob; and be ye lifted up;
and the Lord strong and mighty; the Lord mighty in <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">battle</span>,
who is the king of glory, shall establish you forever.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/gs/war.p2?lang=eng&letter=w"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">War
— The Guide to the Scriptures</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">battle</span> or
armed conflict; fighting with weapons. <u>The Lord approves of war
only as a last means for his Saints to defend their families,
property, rights, privileges, and freedoms (Alma 43:9, 45–47).</u></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
43:9</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="9"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote15"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote16"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote17"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">9 And
now the design of the Nephites was to support their lands, and their
houses, and their a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/43?lang=eng#9a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">wives</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
and their children, that they might preserve them from the hands of
their enemies; and also that they might preserve their b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/43?lang=eng#9b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">rights</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and
their privileges, yea, and also their c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/43?lang=eng#9c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">liberty</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
that they might worship God according to their desires.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Christ</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
is our general. The battle started way back in the pre existence and
is still going on. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/25.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2
Nephi 25:12</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">12
But, behold, they shall have <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">wars</span>,
and rumors of <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">wars</span>; and
when the day cometh that the Only Begotten of the Father, yea, even
the Father of <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">heaven</span> and
of earth, shall manifest himself unto them in the flesh, behold, they
will reject him, because of their iniquities, and the hardness of
their hearts, and the stiffness of their necks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2
Kings 6</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">14 Therefore
sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came
by night, and compassed the city about.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">15 And
when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth,
behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And
his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">16 And
he answered, Fear not: for they that <i>be</i> with
us <i>are</i> more
than they that <i>be</i> with
them.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="171"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote3"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">17 And
Elisha prayed, and said, </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
I pray thee, open his a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/6?lang=eng#17a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">eyes</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
that he may see. And the </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> opened
the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the
mountain </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>was</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> full
of horses and b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/6?lang=eng#17b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">chariots</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> of
fire round about Elisha.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="18"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote4"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">18 And
when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/6?lang=eng#18a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">blindness</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.
And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="19"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">19 ¶And
Elisha said unto them, This <i>is</i> not
the way, neither <i>is</i> this
the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek.
But he led them to Samaria.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="20"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote5"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">20 And
it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha
said, </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
open the eyes of these </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>men,</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> that
they may see. And the </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Lord</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/6?lang=eng#20a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">opened</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> their
eyes, and they saw; and, behold, </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>they
were</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in
the midst of Samaria.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/josh/24.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joshua
24:15</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">15
And if it seem evil unto you to <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">serve</span> the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">Lord</span>,
choose you this day whom ye <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">will</span> <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">serve</span>;
whether the gods which your fathers <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">served</span> that
were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in
whose land ye dwell: <u>but as for me and my
house, </u><u><span style="background: #f6f2c3;">we</span></u><u> </u><u><span style="background: #f6f2c3;">will</span></u><u> </u><u><span style="background: #f6f2c3;">serve</span></u><u> the </u><u><span style="background: #f6f2c3;">Lord</span></u><u>.</u></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Conference</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1986/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>OCTOBER
1986</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
War We Are Winning</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/gordon-b-hinckley?lang=eng">Gordon
B. Hinckley</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">First
Counselor in the First Presidency</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p5"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
there is another war that has gone on since before the world was
created and which is likely to continue for a long time yet to come.
John the Revelator speaks of that struggle:</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p6"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the
dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p7"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p8"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil,
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the
earth, and his angels were cast out with him” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/12.7-9?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rev.
12:7–9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p9"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">That
war, so bitter, so intense, has gone on, and it has never ceased. It
is the war between truth and error, between agency and compulsion,
between the followers of Christ and those who have denied Him. His
enemies have used every stratagem in that conflict. They’ve
indulged in lying and deceit. They’ve employed money and wealth.
They’ve tricked the minds of men. They’ve murdered and destroyed
and engaged in every other unholy and impure practice to thwart the
work of Christ.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">...<span style="color: #333333;">There
came a time of renaissance, with struggles for liberty—struggles
for which much of blood and sacrifice was paid. The Spirit of God
moved upon men to found a nation wherein freedom of worship and
freedom of expression and freedom of agency were protected. There
followed then the opening of the dispensation of the fulness of times
with a visit to earth of God the Eternal Father and His Beloved Son,
the Resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. This glorious event was followed
by visits of angels restoring the ancient keys and priesthood.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
the war was not over. It was renewed and redirected. There was
contempt. There was persecution. There were drivings from one place
to another. There was the murder of the young prophet of God and of
his beloved brother.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Our
people fled their homes, their comfortable homes, their farms, their
fields, their shops, their beautiful temple built at such tremendous
sacrifice. They came to these valleys, thousands of them dying along
the way. They came, as President Brigham Young said, to establish a
place where “the Devil can’t come and dig us out.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p17"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
the adversary has never stopped trying. Ninety years ago, in the
October conference of 1896, President Wilford Woodruff, then an aged
man, standing where I stand in this Tabernacle, said:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p18"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are two powers on the earth and in the midst of the inhabitants of
the earth—the power of God and the power of the devil. In our
history we have had some very peculiar experiences. When God has had
a people on the earth, it matters not in what age, Lucifer, the son
of the morning, and the millions of fallen spirits that were cast out
of heaven, have warred against God, against Christ, against the work
of God, and against the people of God. And they are not backward in
doing it in our day and generation. </span></span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p181"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Whenever
the Lord set His hand to perform any work, those powers labored to
overthrow it” (</span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deseret
Evening News,</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> 17
Oct. 1896).</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p19"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">President
Woodruff knew whereof he spoke. He had then only recently passed
through those difficult and perilous days when the government of the
nation had come against our people, determined to destroy them. The
buildings on this Temple Square, this tabernacle in which we meet
tonight and the temple then under construction, were escheated to the
federal government. Many citizens were disfranchised. But in faith
they moved forward. They kept going. They put their trust in the
Almighty, and He revealed unto them the path they should follow. In
faith they accepted that revelation and walked in obedience.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p20"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
the war did not end. It abated somewhat, and we’re grateful for
that. Nonetheless, the adversary of truth has continued his struggle.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Notwithstanding
the present strength of the Church, it seems that we are constantly
under attack from one quarter or another. But we go on. We must go
on. We have gone forward, and we will continue to go forward. In some
seasons the issues are major. At other times they are only local
skirmishes. But they are all part of a pattern.</span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p27"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">You
boys who are here, you deacons, teachers, and priests, are all a part
of this. The Lord has laid upon you in your priesthood offices the
duty to preach the gospel, to teach the truth, to encourage the weak
to be strong, to “invite all to come unto Christ” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/20.59?lang=eng#58"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
20:59</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p28"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">You
cannot afford to partake of things that will weaken your minds and
your bodies. These include cocaine, “crack,” alcohol, tobacco.
You cannot be involved in immoral activity. You cannot do these
things and be valiant as warriors in the cause of the Lord in the
great, everlasting contest that goes on for the souls of our Father’s
children.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p29"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">You
men of the Melchizedek Priesthood, you cannot be unfaithful or untrue
to your wives, to your families, to your priesthood responsibilities
if you are to be valiant in moving the work of the Lord forward in
this great battle for truth and salvation. You cannot be dishonest
and unscrupulous in your business affairs without tarnishing your
armor.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p30"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
our meetings, we occasionally sing an old hymn:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Who’s
on the Lord’s side? Who?</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p32"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Now
is the time to show.</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p33"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
ask it fearlessly:</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p34"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Who’s
on the Lord’s side? Who?</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p35"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
wage no common war,</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p36"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Cope
with no common foe.</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p37"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
enemy’s awake;</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p38"></a>
<em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Who’s
on the Lord’s side? Who?</span></span></em></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p39"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(</i></span></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hymns,</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> 1985,
no. 260).</i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p50"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">...<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;">Stand,
therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, having on the
breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation
of the gospel of peace, which I have sent mine angels to commit unto
you;</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p51"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taking
the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the
fiery darts of the wicked;</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p52"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of my Spirit, … and be
faithful until I come, and ye shall be caught up, that where I am ye
shall be also” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/27.15-18?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
27:15–18</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p53"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
war goes on. It is waged across the world over the issues of agency
and compulsion. It is waged by an army of missionaries over the
issues of truth and error. It is waged in our own lives, day in and
day out, in our homes, in our work, in our school associations; it is
waged over questions of love and respect, of loyalty and fidelity, of
obedience and integrity. We are all involved in it—men and boys,
each of us. We are winning, and the future never looked brighter.</span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p54"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">God
bless us, my beloved brethren of the priesthood, in the work that is
so clearly laid out before us. May we be faithful. May we be valiant.
May we have the courage to be true to the trust God has placed in
each of us. May we be unafraid. “For [to quote the words of Paul to
Timothy] God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and
of love, and of a sound mind.</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p55"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Be
not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-tim/1.7-8?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2
Tim. 1:7–8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p56"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Apply</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Be
valiant in your testimony of Christ. Recognize that opposition is
here to stay and we must always be on our guard to stand up for the
right. We can win if we rely of our Savior to help us. If we could
see through the veil as Elisha did, we would see that angels do
attend us and help us through our battles if we are faithful. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
love this scripture which brings me courage and peace and energy to
actively do what is right. </span></span>
</div>
<h3 class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.22in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/84.88?lang=eng#87"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doctrine
and Covenants 84:88</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">88
And whoso receiveth you, there I <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">will</span> be
also, for I <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">will</span> <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">go</span> <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">before</span> <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">your</span> <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">face</span>.
I <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">will</span> be
on <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">your</span> right hand
and on <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">your</span> left,
and my Spirit shall be in <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">your</span> hearts,
and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u> Joshua
24:15 but as for me and my house, <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">we</span> <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">will</span> <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">serve</span> the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">Lord</span>.</u></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hymns</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">239
choose the Right </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">260-Who's
On The Lord's side Who?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">250-
We Are All Enlisted</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Children</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">158-Dare
To Do Right </span>
</div>
handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-50250468339878369262017-01-24T08:51:00.000-06:002017-01-24T08:51:07.566-06:00Deep Beauty 3 Nephi 2:16<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 2:16</b></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Deep
Beauty</b></span></span></div>
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“If you want to give a light to others, you have to glow yourself.”—President Thomas S. Monson, “<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1999/04/for-i-was-blind-but-now-i-see?lang=eng" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #486fae; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For I Was Blind, but Now I See</a>”</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="16"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">16 And
their young men and their daughters became exceedingly fair, and they
were numbered among the Nephites, and were called Nephites. And thus
ended the thirteenth year.</span> </span>
</div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why</b></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">When parents are
good their families are blessed. When parents are bad their families
suffer as children follow the examples of their parents as a rule. </span>
</div>
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<br />
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pattern</b></span></span></div>
<h3 class="western" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/45.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Genesis
45:10</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">10
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near
unto me, thou, and thy <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">children</span>,
and thy <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">children</span>’s <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">children</span>,
and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:</span></span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/98.46?lang=eng#45"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Doctrine
and Covenants 98:46</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">46
And upon his <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">children</span>,
and upon his <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">children</span>’s <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">children</span> of
all them that hate me, unto the third and fourth generation. [It
would be well to read all of section 98 on this subject]</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<h3 align="LEFT" class="western" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/luke/18.17?lang=eng#16"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Luke
18:17</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">17
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God
as a little <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">child</span> shall
in no wise enter therein.</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/68.28?lang=eng#27"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Doctrine
and Covenants 68:28</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">28
And they shall also <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">teach</span> their <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">children</span> to
pray, and to walk uprightly before the Lord.</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/43.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Doctrine
and Covenants 43:15</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">15
Again I say, hearken ye elders of my church, whom I have appointed:
Ye are not sent forth to be <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">taught</span>,
but to <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">teach</span> the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">children</span> of
men the things which I have put into your hands by the power of my
Spirit;</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.42?lang=eng#41"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Doctrine
and Covenants 93:42</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">42
You have not <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">taught</span> your <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">children</span> light
and truth, according to the commandments; and that wicked one hath
power, as yet, over you, and this is the cause of your affliction.</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/84.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Doctrine
and Covenants 84:23</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">23
Now this Moses plainly <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">taught</span> to
the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">children</span> of
Israel in the wilderness, and sought diligently to sanctify his
people that they might behold the face of God;</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/68.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Doctrine
and Covenants 68:25</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">25
And again, inasmuch as parents have </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background: #f6f2c3;">children</span></span><span style="color: #333333;">in
Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized, that </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background: #f6f2c3;">teach</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"> them
not to understand the doctrine of repentance, faith in Christ the
Son of the living God, and of baptism and the gift of the Holy
Ghost by the laying on of the hands, when eight years old, the sin
be upon the heads of the parents.</span> </span>
</div>
</ul>
<h2 class="western">
<span style="color: #2a3753;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Family,
Children, Responsibilities toward</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/children?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Children</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/family?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Family</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/marriage-fatherhood?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Marriage,
Fatherhood</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/marriage-motherhood?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Marriage,
Motherhood</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">command his
children and his household … keep the way of the Lord: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/18.19?lang=eng#18"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Gen.
18:19</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">teach them
thy sons, and thy sons’ sons: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/4.9?lang=eng#8"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut.
4:9</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">teach them
diligently unto thy children: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/6.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut. 6:7</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">teach …
your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine
house: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/11.19?lang=eng#18"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut. 11:19</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">command your
children to observe to do, all the words of this law: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/32.46?lang=eng#45"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Deut. 32:46</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">make them
known to their children: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/78.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps.
78:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">son:
but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/13.24?lang=eng#23"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prov.
13:24</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Train up
a child in the way he should go: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/22.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prov. 22:6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
( </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.5?lang=eng#4"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
4:5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .
)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Withhold
not correction from the child: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/23.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prov. 23:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">all
thy children shall be taught of the Lord: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/54.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Isa.
54:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">despise
not one of these little ones: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/18.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt.
18:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">bring
them up in the nurture … of the Lord: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/eph/6.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Eph.
6:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Fathers, provoke
not your children to anger: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/col/3.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Col.
3:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">having
his children in subjection with all gravity: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/1-tim/3.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Tim.
3:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">if
any provide not for his own: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/1-tim/5.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Tim. 5:8</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">having
been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/1.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Ne.
1:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">exhort …
with all the feeling of a tender parent: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/8.37?lang=eng#36"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1 Ne. 8:37</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">that
our children may know to what source they may look: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/25.26?lang=eng#25"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2 Ne.
25:26</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">remember your
children … because of the example: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/jacob/3.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jacob
3:10</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">father
… a just man—for he taught me: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/enos/1.1?lang=eng#0"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Enos
1:1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">teach them
to his children, that thereby they could teach: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/1.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah
1:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">teach them
to walk in the ways of truth and soberness: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Mosiah 4:15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">prepare the
minds of their children to hear the word: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/39.16?lang=eng#15"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma
39:16</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">defend your
families even unto bloodshed: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/43.47?lang=eng#46"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Alma 43:47</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pray in
your families … that … children may be blessed: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/18.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 Ne.
18:21</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">thy
children shall be taught: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/22.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3 Ne. 22:13</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">children
also may receive instruction before me: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/55.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
55:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">parents
… that teach them not to understand: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/68.25?lang=eng#24"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 68:25</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">children
have claim upon their parents for their maintenance: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/83.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 83:4</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">bring up
your children in light: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#39"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C 93:40</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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</ul>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">teach these
things freely unto your children: </span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/6.58?lang=eng#57"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moses
6:58</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> .</span></span></div>
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</ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
also </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/josh/24.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Josh.
24:15</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-sam/2.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1 Sam.
2:12</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-sam/3.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1 Sam. 3:13</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/29.15?lang=eng#14"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Prov.
29:15</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/mal/4.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mal.
4:6</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/3-jn/1.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>3 Jn.
1:4</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/jacob/2.35?lang=eng#34"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Jacob
2:35</i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> ; </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/6.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Moses
6:6</i></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Christ</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the
children became exceedingly fair because they reflected the light of
Christ. When we follow him our countenances become lighter and more
fair. </span>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">37 Light
and truth forsake that a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#37a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">evil
one</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">38 Every a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#38a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">spirit</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> of
man was b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#38b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">innocent</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in
the beginning; and God having c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#38c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">redeemed</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> man
from the d</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#38d"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">fall</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
men became again, in their infant state, e</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#38e"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">innocent</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> before
God.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="39"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote81"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote82"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote83"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote84"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">39 And
that a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#39a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">wicked
one</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> cometh
and b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#39b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">taketh</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> away
light and truth, through c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#39c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">disobedience</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
from the children of men, and because of the d</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#39d"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">tradition</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> of
their fathers.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="40"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote85"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote86"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">40 But
I have commanded you to bring up your a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#40a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">children</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#40b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">light</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and
truth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">41 But
verily I say unto you, my servant Frederick G. Williams, you
have continued under this condemnation;</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="42"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote87"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote88"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">42 You
have not a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#42a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">taught</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> your
children light and truth, according to the commandments; and that
wicked one hath power, as yet, over you, and this is the cause of
your b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#42b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">affliction</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="43"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote89"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">43 And
now a commandment I give unto you—if you will be delivered you
shall set in a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.40?lang=eng#43a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">order</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> your
own house, for there are many things that are not right in your
house.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Alma
asks a penetrating question for each of us to consider: “Have [you]
received his image in your countenances?”</u></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/remember-who-you-are?lang=eng#note17"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">17</span></u></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conference</b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1978/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>APRIL
1978</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“</span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Trust
in the Lord”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">L<a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/l-tom-perry?lang=eng">.
Tom Perry</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Assistant
to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p4"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trust
in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily
thou shalt be fed.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p5"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delight
thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine
heart.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p6"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Commit
thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to
pass.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p7"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy
judgment, as the noonday.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/37.3-6?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ps.
37:3–6</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p8"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
scriptures have always seemed to equate righteous living with a
special light, spirit, joy, and happiness in the lives of those who
so live.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p9"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Many
years ago when I was a retail executive, we had a night watchman in
one of our stores whose teenage daughter had just joined our church.
He would often comment on the change that had occurred in the life of
his daughter. Her baptism had brought a new spirit into their home. I
was attempting to use this event as a base to teach him the gospel.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p10"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">One
evening as I was leaving the store, he was by the exit checking out
the late customers who had completed their purchases after the store
had closed. I stopped for a minute to visit with him. He immediately
commenced to tell me about his daughter. He said, “You know, she
just radiates since she joined your church.”</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p11"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p111"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
proceeded to tell him that having a trust in the Lord and conforming
our life to the gospel plan does make a change, even in our
countenance. Just at that time I noticed two ladies approaching the
door with several other customers. They were neatly dressed, and
their faces reflected a special glow. As if my eyes were directed, I
immediately noticed a “Duty to God” pin on one of the lady’s
dresses, which many of our fine young men present to their mothers
after achieving this special award. I turned to my friend and said,
“Look at those two ladies coming towards the door. They have a
different look. They, too, are members of our church.”</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p12"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
was so caught up in my remark that he rushed over to them and asked,
“Are you Mormons?” After confirming this fact, he returned to me
shaking his head and saying, “You know, you can tell the
difference.” I agree with him. There is a difference in those “who
trust in the Lord and do good.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
one follows the course marked by the road signs of the gospel of
Jesus Christ and places his trust in the Lord, its influence is such
that it is manifest not only in action and deed but by a marked and
visible change in his very being. There is a special light and a
spirit which radiates from his eternal soul. It can be described in
words like </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>brightness,
light, joy, happiness, peace, purity, contentment, spirit,
enthusiasm,</i></span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> etc.
</span></span></span></span></span>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p33"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where
is happiness, real happiness? Nowhere but in God. By possessing the
spirit of our holy religion, we are happy in the morning, we are
happy at noon, we are happy in the evening; for the spirit of love
and union is with us, and we rejoice in the spirit because it is of
God, and we rejoice in God, for he is the giver of every good thing.
Every Latter-day Saint, who has experienced the love of God in his
heart, after having received the remission of his sins, through
baptism, and the laying on of hands, realizes that he is filled with
joy, and happiness, and consolation. He may be in pain, in error, in
poverty, or in prison, if necessity demands, still, he is joyful.
This is our experience, and each and every Latter-day Saint can bear
witness to it.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p34"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Truly
happy is that man or woman, or that people, who enjoys the privileges
of the Gospel of the Son of God, and who know how to appreciate his
blessings.” (</span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Discourses
of Brigham Young,</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> sel.
John A. Widtsoe, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1941, pp. 235–36.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Conference</span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>APRIL
2010</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> | </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Remember
Who You Are!</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/elaine-s-dalton?lang=eng">Elaine
S. Dalton</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Young
Women General President</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="kicker1"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">There
is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who glows with the
light of the Spirit, who is confident and courageous because she is
virtuous.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p3"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">are</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> daughters
of our Heavenly Father. He loves us, and we love Him.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/remember-who-you-are?lang=eng#note1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> I
am humbled and grateful to be in your presence. The Lord has blessed
me with a very clear understanding of who you are and why you are
here on the earth at this time. The Lord loves you, and I know you
love Him. It shows in your countenance, in your modesty, in your
desire to choose the right, and in your commitment to remain virtuous
and pure.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p41"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Together
we have shared many choice spiritual moments. We have borne testimony
in camps around campfires, in chapels, and in firesides. We have been
warmed by the fire of our faith. We have climbed mountains and
unfurled golden banners—from Brazil to Bountiful—signifying the
commitment deep within our hearts to remain virtuous and to always be
worthy to enter the temple. We have prayed, read the Book of Mormon,
and smiled every day, and together with our mothers, grandmothers,
and leaders, we are working on our Personal Progress. And we have
only just begun!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Young
women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, remember
who you are! You are elect. You are daughters of God. You cannot be a
generation of young women who are content to fit in. You must have
the courage to stand out, to “arise and shine forth, that thy light
may be a standard for the nations.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/remember-who-you-are?lang=eng#note10"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">10</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> The
world would have you believe that you are not significant—that you
are out of fashion and out of touch. The world calls to you with
unrelenting, noisy voices to “live it up,” “try everything,”
“experiment and be happy.” Conversely, the Holy Ghost whispers
and the Lord invites you to “walk in the paths of virtue,” “lay
aside the things of this world,” “and cleave unto [your]
covenants.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/remember-who-you-are?lang=eng#note11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">11</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p13"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">When
I was attending Brigham Young University, I learned what it truly
means to be a queen. I was given a unique opportunity, along with a
small group of other students, to meet the prophet, President David
O. McKay. I was told to wear my best dress and to be ready to travel
early the next morning to Huntsville, Utah, to the home of the
prophet. I will never forget the experience I had. As soon as we
entered the home, I felt the spirit which filled that home. We were
seated in the prophet’s living room, surrounding him. President
McKay had on a white suit, and seated next to him was his wife. He
asked for each of us to come forward and tell him about ourselves. As
I went forward, he held out his hand and held mine, and as I told him
about my life and my family, he looked deeply into my eyes.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">After
we had finished, he leaned back in his chair and reached for his
wife’s hand and said, “Now, young women, I would like you to
meet </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">my
queen.</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”
There seated next to him was his wife, Emma Ray McKay. Although she
did not wear a crown of sparkling diamonds, nor was she seated on a
throne, I </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">knew</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> she
was a true queen. Her white hair was her crown, and her pure eyes
sparkled like jewels. As President and Sister McKay spoke of their
family and their life together, their intertwined hands spoke volumes
about their love. Joy radiated from their faces. Hers was a beauty
that cannot be purchased. It came from years of seeking the best
gifts, becoming well educated, seeking knowledge by study and also by
faith. It came from years of hard work, of faithfully enduring trials
with optimism, trust, strength, and courage. It came from her
unwavering devotion and fidelity to her husband, her family, and the
Lord.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">On
that fall day in Huntsville, Utah, I was reminded of my divine
identity, and I learned about what I now call “</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>deep
beauty”—the kind of beauty that shines from the </u></span></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>inside</u></i></span></span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u> out.</u></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
It is the kind of beauty that cannot be painted on, surgically
created, or purchased. It is the kind of beauty that doesn’t wash
off. It is </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">spiritual</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> attractiveness.
Deep beauty springs from virtue. It is the beauty of being chaste and
morally clean. It is the kind of beauty that you see in the eyes of
virtuous women like your mother and grandmother. It is a beauty that
is earned through faith, repentance, and honoring covenants.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
world places so much emphasis on physical attractiveness and would
have you believe that you are to look like the elusive model on the
cover of a magazine. The Lord would tell you that you are each
uniquely beautiful. When you are virtuous, chaste, and morally clean,
your inner beauty glows in your eyes and in your face. My grandfather
used to say, “If you live close to God and His infinite grace—you
won’t have to tell, it will show in your face.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/remember-who-you-are?lang=eng#note14"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">14</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> When
you are worthy of the companionship of the Holy Ghost, you are
confident and your inner beauty shines brightly. And so “let virtue
garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax
strong in the presence of God; and … the Holy Ghost shall be thy
constant companion.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/remember-who-you-are?lang=eng#note15"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">15</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Alma
asks a penetrating question for each of us to consider: “Have [you]
received his image in your countenances?”</u></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/remember-who-you-are?lang=eng#note17"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">17</span></u></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
</u></span></span>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Remember,
you are daughters of our Heavenly Father. He loves you so much that
He sent His Son to show you the way to live, so that you could return
to Him someday. I testify that as you draw close to the Savior, His
infinite Atonement makes it possible for you to repent, to change, to
be pure, and to receive His image in your countenance. His Atonement
will enable you to be strong and courageous as you continue to raise
your banner for virtue. You are golden. You </u></span></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>are</u></i></span></span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u> the
banner!</u></span></span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p22"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
so I conclude with the Lord’s words to each of us, His precious
daughters: “Behold, … thou art an elect lady, whom I have
called.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/remember-who-you-are?lang=eng#note19"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">19</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“Walk
in the paths of virtue. … Lay aside the things of [the] world. …
Cleave unto the covenants which thou hast made. … Keep my
commandments continually, and a crown of righteousness thou shalt
receive.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/remember-who-you-are?lang=eng#note20"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">20</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Of
this I bear my witness in the holy name of our Savior, Jesus Christ,
amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>Apply</u></b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
love these words of Sister Dalton-”</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Young
women, look into the mirror of eternity. Remember who you are! See
yourself as our Heavenly Father sees you. You are elect. You are of
noble birth. Don’t compromise your divine inheritance. You were
born to be a queen. Live so you are worthy to enter the temple and
there receive “all that [the] Father hath.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/remember-who-you-are?lang=eng#note18"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">18</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Develop
deep beauty. There is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who
glows with the light of the Spirit, who is confident and courageous
because she is virtuous.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
“</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hymns</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">305-
The Light Divine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Children</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">144-Shine
On</span></div>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-90706691142881634152017-01-23T09:56:00.000-06:002017-01-23T09:56:36.829-06:00Choose the Light 3 Nephi 2:14-15<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3
Nephi 2:14-15</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Choose
the Light</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What</b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">14 And
it came to pass that those Lamanites who had united with the Nephites
were numbered among the Nephites;</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="15"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote13"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote14"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">15 And
their a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#15a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">curse</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> was
taken from them, and their skin became b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#15b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">white</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> like
unto the Nephites;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
change when we change our peers. We tend to become more like them.
In this case it was a good change and as the Lamanites became a
righteous people, the curse of darkness was removed and they radiated
light like the Nephites. </span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Lamanites joined the church and were members and numbered among them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pattern</b></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.28in; margin-bottom: 0.2in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Alma
17:15</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">15
Thus they were a very indolent people, many of whom did worship
idols, and the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">curse</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
God had fallen upon them because of the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">traditions</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
their fathers; notwithstanding the promises of the Lord were extended
unto them on the conditions of repentance.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.28in; margin-bottom: 0.2in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">23:18</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">18
And they began to be a very </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">industrious</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> people;
yea, and they were friendly with the Nephites; therefore, they
did </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">open</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> a
correspondence with them, and the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">curse</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
God did no more follow them.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Alma
9</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="16"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote18"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote19"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote20"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote21"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">16 For
there are many promises which are a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/9.16.16-24?lang=eng#16a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">extended</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> to
the Lamanites; for it is because of the b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/9.16.16-24?lang=eng#16b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">traditions</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> of
their fathers that caused them to remain in their state
of c</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/9.16.16-24?lang=eng#16c"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">ignorance</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">;
therefore the Lord will be merciful unto them and d</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/9.16.16-24?lang=eng#16d"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">prolong</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> their
existence in the land.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="17"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote22"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="footnote23"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">17 And
at some period of time they will be a</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/9.16.16-24?lang=eng#17a"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">brought</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> to
believe in his word, and to know of the incorrectness of the
traditions of their fathers; and many of them will be saved, for the
Lord will be merciful unto all who b</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/9.16.16-24?lang=eng#17b"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">call</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> on
his name.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">2 Ne.
5:21</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">21
And he had caused the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">cursing</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> to
come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity.
For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had
become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and
exceedingly fair and </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">delightsome</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
that they might not be </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">enticing</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> unto
my people the Lord God did cause a </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">skin</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">blackness</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> to
come upon them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">30:6</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">6
And then shall they rejoice; for they shall </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">know</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> that
it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">scales</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> of
darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations
shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a pure and
a </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">delightsome</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> people.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #e1e1e1;">Jacob
3:8</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">8
O my brethren, I fear that unless ye shall repent of your sins that
their skins will be </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/2?lang=eng#"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">whiter</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> than
yours, when ye shall be brought with them before the throne of God.</span></span></span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/luke/11.34?lang=eng#33"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Luke
11:34</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">34
The <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> of the
body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body
also is full of <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>;
but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/6.22?lang=eng#21"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Matthew
6:22</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">22
The <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> of the
body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body
shall be full of <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>.</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/luke/11.33?lang=eng#32"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Luke
11:33</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">33
No man, when he hath <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">lighted</span> a
candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on
a candlestick, that they which come in may see the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>.</span></span></div>
</ul>
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Christ</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">They
became lighter because they gained the light of Christ.</span></div>
<h3 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/eph/5.8?lang=eng#7"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ephesians
5:8</span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">8
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> in
the Lord: walk as children of <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>:</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/1-jn/1.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1
John 1:7</span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">7
But if we walk in the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>,
as he is in the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>,
we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ
his Son cleanseth us from all sin.</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/12.35?lang=eng#34"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">John
12:35</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">35
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> with
you. Walk while ye have the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>,
lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth
not whither he goeth.</span></span></div>
</ul>
<h3 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/8.12?lang=eng#11"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>John
8:12</u></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>12
¶Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> of
the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall
have the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>of life.</u></span></span></span></div>
<h3 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.6?lang=eng#5"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2
Corinthians 4:6</span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">6
For God, who commanded the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> to
shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give
the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.</span></span></div>
<h3 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.11?lang=eng#10"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doctrine
and Covenants 88:11</span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">11
And the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> which
shineth, which giveth you <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>,
is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the
same <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> that
quickeneth your understandings;</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/50.24?lang=eng#23"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Doctrine
and Covenants 50:24</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">24
That which is of God is <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>;
and he that receiveth <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>,
and continueth in God, receiveth more <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span>;
and that <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> groweth
brighter and brighter until the perfect day.</span></span></div>
</ul>
<h3 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/45.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doctrine
and Covenants 45:7</span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">7
For verily I say unto you that I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end, the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> and
the life of the world—a <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> that
shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not.</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.7?lang=eng#6"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Doctrine
and Covenants 88:7</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">7
Which truth shineth. This is the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> of
Christ. As also he is in the sun, and the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">light</span> of
the sun, and the power thereof by which it was made.</span></span></div>
</ul>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conference</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">OCTOBER
2016</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></b><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
Will Bring the Light of the Gospel into My Home</span></span><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></b>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/jean-b-bingham?lang=eng">By
Jean B. Bingham</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">First
Counselor in the Primary General Presidency</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p13"></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">President
James E. Faust is remembered to have said, “The older I get,
the less judgmental I become.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/i-will-bring-the-light-of-the-gospel-into-my-home?lang=eng#note5"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">5</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> That
reminds me of the Apostle Paul’s observation:</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p14"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought
as a child: but when I became [older], I put away childish things.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Words
have surprising power, both to build up and to tear down. We can all
probably remember negative words that brought us low and other words
spoken with love that made our spirits soar. Choosing to say only
that which is positive about—and to—others lifts and strengthens
those around us and helps others follow in the Savior’s way.
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p15"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">For
now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know
in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/i-will-bring-the-light-of-the-gospel-into-my-home?lang=eng#note6"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">6</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p21"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">How
like that glorious wind can be the sincere compliment of a friend,
the cheerful greeting of a parent, the approving nod of a sibling, or
the helpful smile of a co-worker or classmate, all supplying fresh
“wind in our sails” as we battle the challenges of life!
President Thomas S. Monson put it this way: “We can’t direct
the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace,
and contentment, may we </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">choose</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> a
positive attitude.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/10/i-will-bring-the-light-of-the-gospel-into-my-home?lang=eng#note7"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">7</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p22"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Words
have surprising power, both to build up and to tear down. We can all
probably remember negative words that brought us low and other words
spoken with love that made our spirits soar. Choosing to say only
that which is positive about—and to—others lifts and strengthens
those around us and helps others follow in the Savior’s way.</u></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p16"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>When
we see our own imperfections more clearly, we are less inclined to
view others “through a glass, darkly.” We want to use the light
of the gospel to see others as the Savior does—with compassion,
hope, and charity. The day will come when we will have a complete
understanding of others’ hearts and will be grateful to have mercy
extended to us—just as we extend charitable thoughts and words to
others during this life.</u></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Yes,
we </u></span></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>can</u></i></span></span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u> </u></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>bring
the light of the gospel into our homes, schools, and workplaces if we
look for and share positive things about others and let the
less-than-perfect fade away. What gratitude fills my heart when I
think of the repentance that our Savior, Jesus Christ, has made
possible for all of us who have inevitably sinned in this imperfect
and sometimes difficult world!</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
</u></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conference</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>OCTOBER
2015</b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">| </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Choose
the Light</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/vern-p-stanfill?lang=eng">By
Elder Vern P. Stanfill</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the Seventy</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p11"></a><strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">First,
no matter how intense the darkness of doubt, we choose how long and
to what extent we allow it to influence us.</span></span></strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> We
must remember how much our Heavenly Father and His Son love us. They
will neither abandon us, nor will They allow us to be overcome if we
seek Their help. Remember Peter’s experience in the hostile waves
of the Sea of Galilee. As Peter felt the cold darkness close around
him, he recognized his dilemma immediately and chose in that very
moment to call out for help. He did not question the Savior’s power
to save him; he simply called out, “Lord, save me.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/10/choose-the-light?lang=eng#note1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1</span></span></span></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p12"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
our lives, the extended hand of the Savior may take the form of help
from a trusted friend, leader, or loving parent. While we are
struggling in the darkness, there is nothing wrong with relying
temporarily upon the light of those who love us and have our best
interests at heart.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p131"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">When
we consider thoughtfully, why would we listen to the faceless,
cynical voices of those in the great and spacious buildings of our
time and ignore the pleas of those who genuinely love us? These
ever-present naysayers prefer to tear down rather than elevate and to
ridicule rather than uplift. Their mocking words can burrow into our
lives, often through split-second bursts of electronic distortions
carefully and deliberately composed to destroy our faith. Is it wise
to place our eternal well-being in the hands of strangers? Is it wise
to claim enlightenment from those who have no light to give or who
may have private agendas hidden from us? These anonymous individuals,
if presented to us honestly, would never be given a moment of our
time, but because they exploit social media, hidden from scrutiny,
they receive undeserved credibility.</span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p20"></a><strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Third,
there is no darkness so dense, so menacing, or so difficult that it
cannot be overcome by light.</span></span></strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Elder
Neil L. Andersen recently taught: “As evil increases in the
world, there is a compensatory spiritual power for the righteous. As
the world slides from its spiritual moorings, the Lord prepares the
way for those who seek Him, offering them greater assurance, greater
confirmation, and greater confidence in the spiritual direction they
are traveling. The gift of the Holy Ghost becomes a brighter light in
the emerging twilight.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/10/choose-the-light?lang=eng#note7"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">7</span></span></span></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p211"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Brothers
and sisters, we have not been left alone to be influenced by every
whim and change in the world’s attitude, but we have the power to
choose belief over doubt. In order to access the promised
compensatory spiritual power, we must choose to heed prophetic
counsel, recognize and act upon spiritual promptings, be obedient to
God’s commandments, and seek personal revelation. We must choose.
May we choose the light of the Savior. In the name of Jesus Christ,
amen.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Apply</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">How
are we influenced by the light or darkness around us? Do we seek the
light? Do we share the light? Do we choose to think negatively
about others and to say negative things to them that hurt them?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We
can choose the light. We can choose to do as Christ did and still
does. He loves us all. We can share that love and lift and
strengthen others. Kind words bring light and happiness to others.
We can share our testimonies by example and by word. We can share
our talents by teaching others to gain the same good skills and
talents that we have. Our talent for loving others, for faith and
kindness and every other talent the Lord has blessed us with. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
we share these talents then others will be blessed.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Goodness
shows in the faces of those who have it. It is a radiance that we
seek to obtain and to share. </span></span>
</div>
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handmadegiftsarebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292168310112596864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723563503098159594.post-40917994403995536342017-01-21T10:13:00.000-06:002017-01-21T10:13:10.142-06:00Cling to the Rod- 3 Nephi 2:13<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
Nephi 2:13</span></span></div>
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<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Cling
to the Rod</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What</span></div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="13"></a>
<span style="color: #0091bc;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">13 And
it came to pass that before this thirteenth year had passed away the
Nephites were threatened with utter destruction because of this war,
which had become exceedingly sore.</span> </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Why</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Gadianton Robbers were ferocious and were winning the war and the
Nephites and Lamanites were seriously threatened with destruction.
War stinks! </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Pattern</span></div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/4.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Jeremiah
4:20</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">20 <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">Destruction</span> upon <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> is
cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled,
and my curtains in a moment.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/8.21?lang=eng#20"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ether
8:21</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">21
And they have caused the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
this people of whom I am now speaking, and also the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
the people of Nephi.</span></span></div>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/14.3?lang=eng#2"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1
Nephi 14:3</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3
And that great pit, which hath been digged for them by that great and
abominable church, which was founded by the devil and his children,
that he might lead away the souls of men down to hell—yea, that
great pit which hath been digged for the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
men shall be filled by those who digged it, unto their
utter <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>,
saith the Lamb of God; not the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
the soul, save it be the casting of it into that hell which hath no
end.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/7.13?lang=eng#12"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1
Nephi 7:13</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
<ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">13
And if it so be that we are faithful to him, we shall obtain the
land of promise; and ye shall know at some future period that the
word of the Lord shall be fulfilled concerning the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
Jerusalem; for all things which the Lord hath spoken concerning
the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
Jerusalem must be fulfilled.</span></span></div>
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<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/13.10?lang=eng#9"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Helaman
13:10</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">10
Yea, I will visit them in my fierce anger, and there shall be those
of the fourth generation who shall live, of your enemies, to behold
your utter <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>;
and this shall surely come except ye repent, saith the Lord; and
those of the fourth generation shall visit your <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>.</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/enos/1.23?lang=eng#22"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Enos
1:23</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></h3>
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</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">23
And there was nothing save it was exceeding harshness, preaching and
prophesying of wars, and contentions, and <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destructions</span>,
and continually reminding them of death, and the duration of
eternity, and the judgments and the power of God, and all these
things—stirring them up continually to keep them in the fear of the
Lord. I say there was nothing short of these things, and exceedingly
great plainness of speech, would keep them from going down speedily
to <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>. And
after this manner do I write concerning them.</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="western" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/prov/16.18?lang=eng#17"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Proverbs
16:18</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></h3>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">18
Pride goeth before <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span>,
and an haughty spirit before a fall.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Christ</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Jesus
mission was to save souls from spiritual destruction. </span>
</div>
<h3 class="western">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/js-m/1.4?lang=eng#3"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joseph
Smith—Matthew 1:4</span></span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4
And Jesus left them, and went upon the Mount of Olives. And as he sat
upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately,
saying: Tell us when shall these things be which thou hast said
concerning the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
the temple, and the Jews; and what is the sign of thy coming, and of
the end of the world, or the <span style="background: #f6f2c3;">destruction</span> of
the wicked, which is the end of the world?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Conference</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>OCTOBER
2011</b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> | </span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Cleave
unto the Covenants</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/barbara-thompson?lang=eng">Barbara
Thompson</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Second
Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p52"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
grandmother Ellen Hanks Rymer was a young mother in 1912 when she
received her patriarchal blessing. When I read her blessing, these
lines jumped off the page and stayed in my mind: “Thou wast chosen
from before the foundation of the earth, and a chosen spirit to come
forth in this day. … Thy testimony shall be magnified and thou
shalt be able to testify. … The destroyer has sought to destroy
thee, but if thou wilt cleave unto thy God, he [the destroyer] shall
not have power to harm thee. Thou through thy faithfulness shalt have
great power and the destroyer shall flee from before thee because of
thy righteousness. … When the hour of fear and trials come upon
thee if thou wilt retire to thy secret closet in prayer thy heart
shall be comforted and the obstacles removed.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/cleave-unto-the-covenants?lang=eng#note2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">2</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p62"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">My
grandmother was promised that if she would keep her covenants and
stay close to God, Satan could have no power over her. She would find
comfort and help in her trials. These promises were fulfilled in her
life.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p711"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Today
I want to talk about (1) the importance of cleaving unto covenants
and (2) the joy and protection that come from keeping our covenants.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="title2"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Importance of Cleaving unto Covenants</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p91"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Bible Dictionary tells us that a covenant is a contract made between
God and man. “God in his good pleasure fixes the terms, which man
accepts. … The gospel is so arranged that principles and ordinances
are received by covenant placing the recipient under strong
obligation and responsibility to honor the commitment.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/cleave-unto-the-covenants?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> In
the phrase “cleave unto covenants,” the word </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">cleave</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> means
“to adhere firmly and closely” to something.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/cleave-unto-the-covenants?lang=eng#note4"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4</span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p10"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
the scriptures we learn of men and women who have made covenants with
God. God has given instructions on what to do to honor those
covenants, and then as those covenants have been kept, the promised
blessings have followed.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="title3"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joy
and Protection Come from Keeping Our Covenants</span></span></span></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p18"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
the Book of Mormon we read King Benjamin’s sermon. He taught the
people about Jesus Christ, that He would come to the earth and suffer
all manner of afflictions. He taught the people that Christ would
atone for the sins of all mankind and that His name was the only name
by which man could obtain salvation.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/cleave-unto-the-covenants?lang=eng#note11"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">11</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p33"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our
beloved prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, told us in our last
general conference: “As you and I go to the holy houses of God, as
we remember the covenants we make within, we will be more able to
bear every trial and to overcome each temptation. In this sacred
sanctuary we will find peace; we will be renewed and fortified.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/cleave-unto-the-covenants?lang=eng#note22"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">22</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p34"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Once
again: “Lift up thy heart and rejoice, and cleave unto the
covenants which thou hast made.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/cleave-unto-the-covenants?lang=eng#note23"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">23</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Keeping
covenants is true joy and happiness. This is comfort and peace. This
is protection from the evils of the world. Keeping our covenants will
help us in times of trial.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1977/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">OCTOBER
1977</span></b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> | </span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Tragic Cycle</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Marion
G. Romney </span></span>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p2"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">That
the inhabitants of the earth are today floundering in confusion is no
secret. That chaos threatens society is common knowledge. If the
prevailing course of men and nations is not changed, it will
culminate in a cataclysmic disaster. God has so predicted, and
history bears witness.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p3"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">For
six thousand years civilizations have risen, flourished, declined,
and passed away pursuant to the same cycle of events.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p4"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Civilizations
rise as their people comply with the laws upon which prosperity,
success, and happiness depend. These laws God revealed in the
beginning and, through His prophets, He has repeated them in every
dispensation since.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p5"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Civilizations
have flourished as long as these laws are obeyed. Civilizations
decline to the extent such laws are disobeyed. Civilizations pass
away when these laws are completely disregarded.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p6"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Beginning
in the days of Adam, and in every gospel dispensation since, the Lord
has warned the inhabitants of the earth that their continued
violation of the laws of righteousness, which He has revealed, would
bring on their destruction.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p7"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p64"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">All
history, sacred and profane, testifies to the accuracy of this
prediction....Now my beloved brothers and sisters, I realize that
these predictions are not pleasing, but nevertheless they speak the
truth. They are the words of the true and living God, who said:...</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p65"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
tell you these things, even as I also told the people of the
destruction of Jerusalem; and my word shall be verified at this time
as it hath hitherto been verified.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/5.20?lang=eng#19"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">D&C
5:20</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p66"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">There
is but one way these impending calamities can be avoided, and that
way is repentance.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p67"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">You
know and I know that the inhabitants of the earth are steeped in sin
and iniquity and that they are sinking deeper into the mire every
day.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p68"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But—and
this is the glorious message—the Lord not only gave the warnings;
He also revealed anew the means by which the ominous calamities may
be averted.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p69"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">He
has revealed anew the same simple truths He taught Adam and Eve in
the beginning. Collectively, these teachings constitute the
principles, doctrines, and ordinances of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
which begins with a knowledge of and faith in God our Eternal Father
in heaven and Jesus Christ His Only Begotten Son in the flesh, our
Savior and Redeemer. They include the truth that the inhabitants of
the earth, God’s offspring, are in mortality for the purpose of
being proved to see if they will keep the commandments of God.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p70"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">These
commandments are not arbitrary edicts of a vindictive tyrant. They
but set forth the laws and ordinances which produce—as a matter of
cause and effect—peace, success, and happiness. Rejection of and
disobedience to them has in the past always brought, and will
continue to bring, failure and disaster as a natural consequence.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p71"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
closing of the tragic cycle by the coming of the foreboding
calamities can be averted if the inhabitants of the earth will
repent, believe, and have faith in God as our Heavenly Father, in His
Son Jesus Christ as our Redeemer, and will conform to their
teachings. A good beginning would be to obey the commandments God
gave to the children of Israel through Moses, the ones President
Kimball has already quoted from this pulpit this day. The Lord said
then and it is still true:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.22in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p72"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
am the Lord thy God. …</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p73"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thou
shalt have no other gods before me. …</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p74"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. …</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember
the sabbath day, to keep it holy. …</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p76"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Honour
thy father and thy mother. …</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p77"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thou
shalt not kill.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thou
shalt not commit adultery.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p79"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thou
shalt not steal.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p80"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p81"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Thou
shalt not covet.” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/20.2-3,7-8,12-17?lang=eng#1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ex.
20:2–3, 7–8, 12–17</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.)</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p82"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">If
the inhabitants of the earth will obey these commandments and, in
addition, strive with full purpose of heart to comply with the words
of Jesus to “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy mind” and “love thy neighbour as
thyself” (</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/22.37,39?lang=eng#36"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Matt.
22:37, 39</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">)
the predicted calamities can be prevented. But only in this manner
can the closing of the tragic cycle in our day be averted.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p83"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">That
it will be so I do not say. I do know, and I say, that as there was a
Zion in the days of Enoch in which those who complied with God’s
laws were saved, so there shall be a Zion in this last dispensation
in which all those who live God’s revealed laws will be saved.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p84"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To
all of these things which the Lord has spoken, I bear my solemn
witness in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10?lang=eng"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">OCTOBER
2009</span></b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #a2aaad;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> | </span></span></span><span style="color: #53565a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Safety
for the Soul</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/jeffrey-r-holland?lang=eng">Jeffrey
R. Holland</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p31"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Prophecies
regarding the last days often refer to large-scale calamities such as
earthquakes or famines or floods. These in turn may be linked to
widespread economic or political upheavals of one kind or another.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p41"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
there is one kind of latter-day destruction that has always sounded
to me more personal than public, more individual than collective—a
warning, perhaps more applicable inside the Church than outside it.
The Savior warned that in the last days even those of the covenant,
the very elect, could be deceived by the enemy of truth.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note1"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> If
we think of this as a form of spiritual destruction, it may cast
light on another latter-day prophecy. Think of the heart as the
figurative center of our faith, the poetic location of our loyalties
and our values; then consider Jesus’s declaration that in the last
days “men’s hearts [shall fail] them.”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note2"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p51"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
encouraging thing, of course, is that our Father in Heaven knows all
of these latter-day dangers, these troubles of the heart and soul,
and has given counsel and protections regarding them.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p61"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
light of that, it has always been significant to me that the Book of
Mormon, one of the Lord’s powerful keystones</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note3"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in
this counteroffensive against latter-day ills, begins with a great
parable of life, an extended allegory of hope versus fear, of light
versus darkness, of salvation versus destruction—an allegory of
which Sister Ann M. Dibb spoke so movingly this morning.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p710"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
Lehi’s dream an already difficult journey gets more difficult when
a mist of darkness arises, obscuring any view of the safe but narrow
path his family and others are to follow. It is imperative to note
that this mist of darkness descends on </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>all</i></span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> the
travelers—the faithful and the determined ones (the elect, we might
even say) as well as the weaker and ungrounded ones. The principal
point of the story is that the successful travelers resist all
distractions, including the lure of forbidden paths and jeering
taunts from the vain and proud who have taken those paths. The record
says that the protected “did press their way forward, continually
[and, I might add, tenaciously] holding fast” to a rod of iron that
runs unfailingly along the course of the true path.</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note4"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">4</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> However
dark the night </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>or</i></span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> the
day, the rod marks the way of that solitary, redeeming trail.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
beheld,” Nephi says later, “that the rod of iron … was the word
of God, [leading] … to the tree of life; … a representation of
the love of God.” Viewing this manifestation of God’s love, Nephi
goes on to say:</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p9"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
looked and beheld the Redeemer of the world, … [who] went forth
ministering unto the people. …</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p23"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hearken
unto these words and believe in Christ; and if ye believe not in
these words believe in Christ. </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>And
if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for
they are the words of Christ,</i></span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> …
and they teach all men that they should do good.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p24"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And
if they are not the words of Christ, judge ye—for Christ will show
unto you, with power and great glory, that they are his words, </span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">at
the last day.</span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note14"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">14</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p25"></a>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Brothers
and sisters, God always provides safety for the soul, and with the
Book of Mormon, He has again done that in our time. Remember this
declaration by Jesus Himself: “Whoso treasureth up my word, shall
not be deceived”</span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng#note15"><span style="color: #147ea7;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">15</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">—and
in the last days neither your heart nor your faith will fail you. Of
this I earnestly testify in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Apply</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As
we read about the nearing complete physical destruction of the
Nephites and the Lamanites, we might realize that an even worse
destruction would be spiritual destruction. We are always at war
with Satan. There are always people who follow him and try to cause
our spiritual downfall. We have much to loose if we loose our
testimonies and our faith in God an all that is good. We can loose
our happiness on earth and also our eternal happiness and the great
privilege of living with God, our loving father and our children as
families in the eternal realms. Our spiritual armor is in our daily
actions of learning of Him and being a strong advocate to bless the
lives of others through our families and our Church and communities.
With personal righteousness, we can grow until our faith becomes a
spiritual knowledge that God lives and has a plan for our salvation
and the the devil has a plan for our destruction. It is our choice
which it will be. “I can follow God's plan for me. Holding fast
to the iron rod.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hymns</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/jesus-savior-pilot-me?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jesus,
Savior, Pilot Me (#104)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/the-lord-is-my-light?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Lord Is My Light (#89)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Children</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/i-will-follow-gods-plan?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
Will Follow God's Plan (#164)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Zoram, noto sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/i-will-be-valiant?lang=eng"><span style="color: #0091bc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
Will Be Valiant (#162)</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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