Friday, February 20, 2004
"How Great the Goodness of God"
The Lord has said if anyone shall repent he will forgive them & remember their sins no more
Isaiah 43:25, Hebrews 8:12, Alma 36:19, D&C 58:42,
,b>How can we find comfort in the knowledge that the Lord remembers his covenant People?,.
1. That he does keep his promises
What did Jacob encourage the people to remember?
1. They are free to choose
2. Free to act for themselves
3. Free to choose eternal life
4. Free to choose everlasting death cut from Gods presence forever
5. Reconcile yourselves to the Will of God.
6. It is only through the grace & will of God ye are saved.
In what ways do we choose either the way of everlasting death or way of eternal Life?
1. To follow Satan & that leads us to everlasting death
2. To follow the Redeemer & that leads to eternal life
What does it mean to be reconciled to God?
1. Harmoninze
2. Resign to keeping Gods covenants
3. Make compatable
Why is it important to remember it is only through the Grace of God we are saved?
1. Will keep us on the right track that if we repent we can be forgiven for
our sins and they will be remembered no more by God we will have a
clean slate.
The Lord has said if anyone shall repent he will forgive them & remember their sins no more
Isaiah 43:25, Hebrews 8:12, Alma 36:19, D&C 58:42,
,b>How can we find comfort in the knowledge that the Lord remembers his covenant People?,.
1. That he does keep his promises
What did Jacob encourage the people to remember?
1. They are free to choose
2. Free to act for themselves
3. Free to choose eternal life
4. Free to choose everlasting death cut from Gods presence forever
5. Reconcile yourselves to the Will of God.
6. It is only through the grace & will of God ye are saved.
In what ways do we choose either the way of everlasting death or way of eternal Life?
1. To follow Satan & that leads us to everlasting death
2. To follow the Redeemer & that leads to eternal life
What does it mean to be reconciled to God?
1. Harmoninze
2. Resign to keeping Gods covenants
3. Make compatable
Why is it important to remember it is only through the Grace of God we are saved?
1. Will keep us on the right track that if we repent we can be forgiven for
our sins and they will be remembered no more by God we will have a
clean slate.
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Objective 2 Certain attitudes and actions prevent us from
receiving all the blessings of the Atonement
?What are some attitudes and actions that prevent us from receiving all the blessings of the
Atonement? (2 Nephi 9:27-38)
1. Transgresss the Laws of God, wasting the days of our probation2 Nephi 9:27.
The Prophets in the Book of Mormon often refer to our life on earth as a "State of probation,"
or a time to be tested ( 2 Nephi 2:21), 2 Nephi 2:30, Mormon 9:28.
2. How might people waste the days of their probabtion? 2 Nephi 9:38; Alma 34:31-33’ Heleman 13:38.
1.Die in their Sins
2.Harden their hearts
3.Don’t prepare to meet God
4. Don’t perform their labors
5. Proscratinate the day of their repentance until the end
The night will come in this life wherein there will be no time to repent and it will be to late for us.
3. Place learning and money, and other idols above God 2 Nephi 9:38-30,37)
1.Turn away the needy & the naked
2.Visit not the sick and afflicted
3.Impart not of your substance that ye have to those in need
4.Prayers are in vain
5.Hyprcritis
6.Not Charitable
We need to work out our Salvation with fear before God, and that ye should no more deny the coming of Christ.
4. How can the pursuit of knowledge and riches keep us from receiving all the blessings of the Atonement:? (2 Nephi 9:28, 30, 42)
1.We forget what we are here for
2. We need to remember patience and bear our afflictions with a firm hope that ye shall one day rest
from all your afflictions.
All the above of question three. Place learning above God.
5. Being spiritually deaf and blind ( 2 Nephi 9:33)
1.We proscratinate the day of our repentance
2. Don’t improve our time while in this life we keep our concentration on the things of t he world and tune out what we need to be doing sometimes.
6. How can we open our ears and eyes to the truths of the Gospel?
7. Being "uncircumcised was breaking a covenant with God> (Genesis 17:11, 14) Abrahmaic Covenant. With this understanding what does it mean to be uncircumcised of Heart?
1.Not clean
2.Not keeping the precepts of God and his ordinances
3.Have not remembered the covenants at baptism they made
4. Have not kept the commandments that were given them
5. Lying and committing murders and whoredoms? 2 (Nephi 9:34-36)
1.Not being chaste and not practicing chastity
2.They murder
3. They lie to one another
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
I was reading this morning on Temporal Death and Spiritual Death and learned some things than might be of help to someone .
You can find out more by going to lds.org.
What did the Savior do to overcome spiritual death & Temporal Death?
1. Atonement for our sins
2. The resurrection made it possible for boby & spirit to be reunited again.
What did the Savior do for us?
Luke 22:44
1. He bled at every pore for our sins so we might be forgiven if we repent & be able to
return to God again.
2. He suffered pain of the body, hunger, thirst, fatique even more than man can suffer.
3. He did this so we might not have to suffer as he did if we would repent
What are some of the things we must do to be saved in the Kingdom of God or be
permitted to dwell in God's persence forever?
1. Believe in Christ
2. Endure the crosses of the World (Luke 14:27), Matt16:24
3.Hearken to the Saviors voice(D&C1:38, 18:33-36, 88:66)
4.Must repent(2Nephi 9:23-24)
5.Be baptized in his name
6.Have perfect faith in him
7.Endure to the End
8.Don't transgress against the Holy One
9.Do not yield to the cunning one (Satan)
10.Do not be carnally minded (listen to the Flesh)
11.Be spiritually minded.(2 Nephi 9:39, Roman 8:5-8)
12.Come unto the Lord
13. Keep on the straight and narrow path to God.
14. Do not spend money on that which is of no worth.
15. Feast upon that which perisheth not, the Gospel of Christ(2Nephi 9:50-51)
16. Depise the Shame of it (abhore Sin) (2 Nephi 9:49)
What are some attitudes and actions that prevent us from receiving all the blessings
of the Atonment?
2 Nephi 9:27-38
1. Transgress the Laws of God
2.Waste the days of our probation here on earth
3.Become learned & not hearken to the counsel of God
4.Set aside the laws & think we know better than God & are wiser than him who
created us.
5. Persecute the Meek and despise the Poor the rich do.
6. Their hearts are upon their treasures & not upon God.
7. They are deaf as to the words of God won't listen
8. They are blind and cannot see they are doing anything in error as to the ways
of the Laws of God.
9. Wo unto the uncircumsied heart for the knowledge of their iniquities shall smite them
at the last days.
10.They lie
11. They murder
12. They commit whoredoms
13. They worship Idols (The Devil delighteth in those things, in their worldly possessions
14. They don't repent and die in their sins
What will the Lord do for these people when they Believe in him & repent of their sins?
1. Their children will be restored'
2. Be restored to thier land of inheitance
3.The Gentiles shall be brought great in the eyes of God.
4. Shall be gathered from the four corners of the earth
6. Shall be gatherd from their dispersion from the isles of the sea
7.The Lord will remember them that have been broken off
7. Shall be restored to the true church. (1 Nephi 21:15-16)
8. Shall have blessings bestowed upon them
9. Their seed shall not be utterly destroyed.
10.The Lord will keep his covenants he has made with them.
Jacob Proshesies
1. Redeemer will be called Christ
2. Nephites (ancient inhabitants of the American continents) will perish in unbelief
3. The Jews will crucify "Christ.
4. The lords covenants with his people
5. Exhorts them to reconcile themselves to the will of God.
Compare Isaiah 49:22-26 with 2 Nephi 6:6-7. 16-18
Isaiah 50: with 2 Nephi 7
Isaiah 51, with 2 Nephi 8:1-23
Iasaih 52:1-2 with 2 Nephi 8:24-25
What are the Things the Savior has done for us?
1. Deliver 2 Nephi 6:17; ( from spiritual death & temporal death)
2. Redeem 2 Nephi 7:2 ( provided a way for us to return back to God.)
3. Comforteth 2 Nephi 8:3.12
4. Light 2 Nephi 8:4 ( showed us the way back to God.)
5. Judgement ( stood in for us or will be there for us at judgement be our attorney )
2 Nephi 8:4-5
6. Salvation 2 Nephi 8:5-6 (He will save us if we repent. Made it possible for us to
return to Heavenly Father)
You can find out more by going to lds.org.
What did the Savior do to overcome spiritual death & Temporal Death?
1. Atonement for our sins
2. The resurrection made it possible for boby & spirit to be reunited again.
What did the Savior do for us?
Luke 22:44
1. He bled at every pore for our sins so we might be forgiven if we repent & be able to
return to God again.
2. He suffered pain of the body, hunger, thirst, fatique even more than man can suffer.
3. He did this so we might not have to suffer as he did if we would repent
What are some of the things we must do to be saved in the Kingdom of God or be
permitted to dwell in God's persence forever?
1. Believe in Christ
2. Endure the crosses of the World (Luke 14:27), Matt16:24
3.Hearken to the Saviors voice(D&C1:38, 18:33-36, 88:66)
4.Must repent(2Nephi 9:23-24)
5.Be baptized in his name
6.Have perfect faith in him
7.Endure to the End
8.Don't transgress against the Holy One
9.Do not yield to the cunning one (Satan)
10.Do not be carnally minded (listen to the Flesh)
11.Be spiritually minded.(2 Nephi 9:39, Roman 8:5-8)
12.Come unto the Lord
13. Keep on the straight and narrow path to God.
14. Do not spend money on that which is of no worth.
15. Feast upon that which perisheth not, the Gospel of Christ(2Nephi 9:50-51)
16. Depise the Shame of it (abhore Sin) (2 Nephi 9:49)
What are some attitudes and actions that prevent us from receiving all the blessings
of the Atonment?
2 Nephi 9:27-38
1. Transgress the Laws of God
2.Waste the days of our probation here on earth
3.Become learned & not hearken to the counsel of God
4.Set aside the laws & think we know better than God & are wiser than him who
created us.
5. Persecute the Meek and despise the Poor the rich do.
6. Their hearts are upon their treasures & not upon God.
7. They are deaf as to the words of God won't listen
8. They are blind and cannot see they are doing anything in error as to the ways
of the Laws of God.
9. Wo unto the uncircumsied heart for the knowledge of their iniquities shall smite them
at the last days.
10.They lie
11. They murder
12. They commit whoredoms
13. They worship Idols (The Devil delighteth in those things, in their worldly possessions
14. They don't repent and die in their sins
What will the Lord do for these people when they Believe in him & repent of their sins?
1. Their children will be restored'
2. Be restored to thier land of inheitance
3.The Gentiles shall be brought great in the eyes of God.
4. Shall be gathered from the four corners of the earth
6. Shall be gatherd from their dispersion from the isles of the sea
7.The Lord will remember them that have been broken off
7. Shall be restored to the true church. (1 Nephi 21:15-16)
8. Shall have blessings bestowed upon them
9. Their seed shall not be utterly destroyed.
10.The Lord will keep his covenants he has made with them.
Jacob Proshesies
1. Redeemer will be called Christ
2. Nephites (ancient inhabitants of the American continents) will perish in unbelief
3. The Jews will crucify "Christ.
4. The lords covenants with his people
5. Exhorts them to reconcile themselves to the will of God.
Compare Isaiah 49:22-26 with 2 Nephi 6:6-7. 16-18
Isaiah 50: with 2 Nephi 7
Isaiah 51, with 2 Nephi 8:1-23
Iasaih 52:1-2 with 2 Nephi 8:24-25
What are the Things the Savior has done for us?
1. Deliver 2 Nephi 6:17; ( from spiritual death & temporal death)
2. Redeem 2 Nephi 7:2 ( provided a way for us to return back to God.)
3. Comforteth 2 Nephi 8:3.12
4. Light 2 Nephi 8:4 ( showed us the way back to God.)
5. Judgement ( stood in for us or will be there for us at judgement be our attorney )
2 Nephi 8:4-5
6. Salvation 2 Nephi 8:5-6 (He will save us if we repent. Made it possible for us to
return to Heavenly Father)
Sunday, February 15, 2004
I was reading this morning and found some scriptures to overcome discouragement. There are answers to all we are dealing with in this life. It just seemed very interesting and enlightening. We all have to battle this in our lives and there are some really helpful things we can do. Because that is the tool of lucifer to discourage us so we give up. The Lord has provided ways to help us when we are going through this.
Things we can do to overcome discouragement
1. 2 Nephi 4:15 Read the Scriptures.
2. Delight in and ponder the things of the Lord 2 Nephi 4:16
Ponder how he has helped others in the past.
3. Trust in the Lord & look to him for support 2 Nephi 4:20-21,34
4. Engage in Mighty prayer for help to overcome our adversity 2 Nephi 4:24
Maybe it is trying to sale a house, trying to come up with money for our rent,
Maybe it is loss of a job etc. marriage problems etc.
5. Be industrious work. 2 Nephi 5:15,17 Sitting around feeling sorry for ourselves is another tool of the Adversary as long as he can keep us down he is winning the battle.
6. Serve in the Temple 2 Nephi 5:16 going to the Temple can really help when we are going through
7. Go to church and you can receive strength there.
hard times.
8.Keep going to the Temple as often as we can helps allot. That is what is so great about belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ we have some extra place we can go for peace and to recieve answers to our problems.
You know I have never thought of it in this way how to use the scriptures to help me with daily challenges. I know these things are true because I have tried them.
When I was going through the adversity with an employee at work I put my trust in the Lord and things worked out. I can look back now and see the light of this advice but when I was going through it , it was hard to see how the Lord helps. I knew the Lord was helping me but I see a clearer picture now how he had a hand in all things. They worked out for my good in the end.
Things we can do to overcome discouragement
1. 2 Nephi 4:15 Read the Scriptures.
2. Delight in and ponder the things of the Lord 2 Nephi 4:16
Ponder how he has helped others in the past.
3. Trust in the Lord & look to him for support 2 Nephi 4:20-21,34
4. Engage in Mighty prayer for help to overcome our adversity 2 Nephi 4:24
Maybe it is trying to sale a house, trying to come up with money for our rent,
Maybe it is loss of a job etc. marriage problems etc.
5. Be industrious work. 2 Nephi 5:15,17 Sitting around feeling sorry for ourselves is another tool of the Adversary as long as he can keep us down he is winning the battle.
6. Serve in the Temple 2 Nephi 5:16 going to the Temple can really help when we are going through
7. Go to church and you can receive strength there.
hard times.
8.Keep going to the Temple as often as we can helps allot. That is what is so great about belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ we have some extra place we can go for peace and to recieve answers to our problems.
You know I have never thought of it in this way how to use the scriptures to help me with daily challenges. I know these things are true because I have tried them.
When I was going through the adversity with an employee at work I put my trust in the Lord and things worked out. I can look back now and see the light of this advice but when I was going through it , it was hard to see how the Lord helps. I knew the Lord was helping me but I see a clearer picture now how he had a hand in all things. They worked out for my good in the end.
