Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The Atonement:the power of forgivness-part 3 Ressurection
In this the final part of my atonement triology, I discuss the final, and probably the most important part of the atonement. Again, I will take my refrence from the book of alma; in Alma 7:12 From this scripture we see that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, upon completion of his earthly ministry, Christ, Died, taking upon him Death, so to speak. Then after 3 days, in the tomb, he arose again, he was ressurected, that we might have Newness of life. We will arise again, that we may stand before the Judgement bar of Christ, and be Judged according to our works in this life, 3 Nephi 27:15. It is my testimony, as a representitive of Jesus Christ, that he lives! That he gave his life for us, and has provided the path by which we may return to live with him. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
The atonement:the power of forgivness-part 2 healing
Well, in this second part of my atonement, trilogy, I discuss the healing aspect of the atonement. Most of us know about the forgivness aspect of the atonement, but how many of us; really and truely understand how much the atonement actually does for us? The atonement provides us with comefort, and healing; in addition to the forgivenss and relief it provides from our sins. In Alma 7:11 We learn that the savior did more then just take upon him our sins, he took on him our pains and our weaknesses, our infirmities, and sicknesses! He loved us so much that he was actually willing to suffer that for us. Through the atonement I know that we can find ease from these burdens, and much more. I say these things in the name of jesus Christ amen!
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The Atonement:and the power of Forgiveness! part 1-forgiveness
I would love to go on and on about the atonement, so I've taken the liberty of breaking this up, so that this blog doesn't get too long!
Through Jesus Christ, our older brother and savior, we learn of something called the "Atonement". Broken up, it literaly is "At, one, ment" which is to say, that we as children of our Heavenly Father, sometimes are estranged to him through sin. That is to say, we draw away from him as we sin. However, our Father in Heaven, lovingly provided us a way to return to him, even when we are estranged to him, through his atonement. Isaiah 1:18, our sins are as scarlet, but they become white as snow, or as wool throught he atonement of Jesus Christ; and Jesus Christ was so loving, he was willing to do it for us. He didn't have to do that for us either! To often I think we over look our Saviors title, as redeemer! We are as a precious jewel, when we sin we detract from our over all value, but through the atoneing power of Jesus Christ, our value is restored to us, and we are "Bought with a price". An example in my own life, and I don't mean to get to personal with it, but recently I had a fight with one of my siblings! We disagree on alot on somethings, particularly religion; so some words were said, and we both got mad at eachother. We were both too stubborn to listen to what the other one had to say, well, as I humbled myself and appologized to this sibling, this sibbling was looking for a way back as well. I appologized for my stubornness, and this sibbling asked me if we could just establish a system, if either of us gets too preachy, then we just tell the other one, and we both stop! As we established this system, and (Digitally) embraced eachother through the arms of sibling love, I felt the cleansing power of the atonement wash over me! I knew that our savior loved us both, and has redeemed us both, because he loves us so much. Through our pride, we had degraded ourselves, but through the atonement we were able to be cleansed of our sins, and to be brought back to our Father in love!
Alma 7:13 christ has suffered all that we might be cleansed from our sins and iniquities, he loves us so much that he wishes only for us to return to him! I know that we can be cleansed every whit, from our sins and iniquities, its my prayer that we will use this power to rise triumphant and stand before god, cleansed and holy! May we all bear his image in our countence, and bear the love that both Jesus Christ and our heavely Father have given us. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ amen.
Through Jesus Christ, our older brother and savior, we learn of something called the "Atonement". Broken up, it literaly is "At, one, ment" which is to say, that we as children of our Heavenly Father, sometimes are estranged to him through sin. That is to say, we draw away from him as we sin. However, our Father in Heaven, lovingly provided us a way to return to him, even when we are estranged to him, through his atonement. Isaiah 1:18, our sins are as scarlet, but they become white as snow, or as wool throught he atonement of Jesus Christ; and Jesus Christ was so loving, he was willing to do it for us. He didn't have to do that for us either! To often I think we over look our Saviors title, as redeemer! We are as a precious jewel, when we sin we detract from our over all value, but through the atoneing power of Jesus Christ, our value is restored to us, and we are "Bought with a price". An example in my own life, and I don't mean to get to personal with it, but recently I had a fight with one of my siblings! We disagree on alot on somethings, particularly religion; so some words were said, and we both got mad at eachother. We were both too stubborn to listen to what the other one had to say, well, as I humbled myself and appologized to this sibling, this sibbling was looking for a way back as well. I appologized for my stubornness, and this sibbling asked me if we could just establish a system, if either of us gets too preachy, then we just tell the other one, and we both stop! As we established this system, and (Digitally) embraced eachother through the arms of sibling love, I felt the cleansing power of the atonement wash over me! I knew that our savior loved us both, and has redeemed us both, because he loves us so much. Through our pride, we had degraded ourselves, but through the atonement we were able to be cleansed of our sins, and to be brought back to our Father in love!
Alma 7:13 christ has suffered all that we might be cleansed from our sins and iniquities, he loves us so much that he wishes only for us to return to him! I know that we can be cleansed every whit, from our sins and iniquities, its my prayer that we will use this power to rise triumphant and stand before god, cleansed and holy! May we all bear his image in our countence, and bear the love that both Jesus Christ and our heavely Father have given us. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ amen.
The book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ.
Imagine that you are sitting at a table, listening to two men who have actually witnessed christ, his works, his ressurection, his love. Imagine that those two men have been speaking to you for hours; suddenly another man comes in, who says that he has witnessed christ just as much as the others. He is from a different country, but he describes the same things they do, except for they were given to him under completely different circumstances. He witnessed Christ just after Christ was ressurected. He can tell you that he does live, and that he loves each of us. He tells you how he learned about these other two men from the very same Christ. All 3 witnesses agree with eachother, all 3 witness that the other one is telling the truth, and certifies that what the other one said is true. Would you accept all three of their witnesses of Jesus Christ? ofcourse you would, and that is the same thing with the Book of Mormon! It is just another nations witness of Jesus Christ. Both saw christ, one only witnessed him after his ressurection, but both are telling you how much he loves you!
As you watch this video remember, the book of Mormon does not replace the bible. It does not add anything new to the bible, it only reiterates, and retestifies of what the bible says in more plain reading. The book of Mormon only simply backs up what the bible says. Jeffery R. holland: My words....never cease.
I give my witness, that I know the Book of Mormon to be the word of God, and by so doing, I have to accept the Bible as the word of God as well. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
As you watch this video remember, the book of Mormon does not replace the bible. It does not add anything new to the bible, it only reiterates, and retestifies of what the bible says in more plain reading. The book of Mormon only simply backs up what the bible says. Jeffery R. holland: My words....never cease.
I give my witness, that I know the Book of Mormon to be the word of God, and by so doing, I have to accept the Bible as the word of God as well. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
The true nature of the Father
I choose to adress in my blog at this point, a truely sacred subject, that needs to be adressed. In the world today, we seem to have forgotten what it truely means to have a Loving Heavenly Father. In the New testament, we learn what our true relationship with God is, in Romans 8:15 we learn that we are truely the Children of God. Now the word abba, in this scripture, does not convey the true meaning in english, as it does in hebrew. In hebrew, this word tranlates to "Daddy", it is so significant to me that we have a "Perfect Father in heaven, so infinitely loving, and kind, that he gave us bodies, that we might enjoy everything he does. He gave us the ability to speak to him whenever we so choose, through prayer, and throught he scriptures. He taught us how to be happy in this life, and he gave us a world, beautiful and vast, that we might spend our days, that we might not be bored, but that we would be able to enjoy ourselves! Our Father in Heaven, is filled with a perfect love, perfect Joy, and peace. He loves us, and he wants us to come home! He loves you, and wishes to hear from you. You will know by the pattern shown in Glatians 5:22-23. You will feel these feelings as you get down on your knee's and plead with the Father that he tell's you what his plan is for your life, how he feels about you, and if he's really there! I testify as a servant and representive of his son, that he lives, that he has a body of flesh and bones that is perfect and glorified, and that he loves you each personally! He is perfect, and even if you don't have a good relationship with your Earthly Father, just remember, that your Heavenly Father is not like your Earthly Father, he is infinitely better. He will never leave you, and he always wants that relationship with you. He'll be there, I know this to be true! I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ amen.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Judge not, that ye be not Judged!
Sometimes in our lives, we become too focused on what other people are doing. Now if we can help another out, in a kind loving, and ultimately caring way thats one thing. But its entirely different to get in someones face and tell them what they're doing wrong, and what they need to do to fix it. You know, I reflect a lot on our first impressions of people, how the first one is always the hardest one to shake. It can be really tough, but the problem is, when we intentionally move forward matthew 7:1-2, from this scripture we learn that we are not to judge one another, and determine what their state and standing is before God. Well why not? Won't it help us determine which church is the right one? The answer is no! Our job is to focus on our own personal salvation, and not worry about what others may think or do! When we worry about what others are doing, and look here and there to determine how everybody else is standing with god, we are infact, ignoring our own personal salvation. We then fall short of our own potential, because we are busy recognizing the wickedness in the lives of others, and not our own lives. To help others is good, but only when you are in the path of righteousness as christ latter states in the next few verses " 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye". When we focus on the bad, we will also find that we have a tendency to fall into the bad. As christ said "The light of the body is the eye, therefore if our eye be single, then our whole body shall be full of light". He also conversely said "But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness". We will only grow to be in the next life, what we allow ourselves to become in this life. Thefore if we are too busy focusing on what other people are doing, and judging them, rather then focusing on following all the doctirines of Christ, it can lead you astray. You may not follow christ, or go to his church, only because you focus too much on what other peole do, instead of what his church really should, and does teach! Let us not judge one another, but try to walk uprightly before God! I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye". When we focus on the bad, we will also find that we have a tendency to fall into the bad. As christ said "The light of the body is the eye, therefore if our eye be single, then our whole body shall be full of light". He also conversely said "But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness". We will only grow to be in the next life, what we allow ourselves to become in this life. Thefore if we are too busy focusing on what other people are doing, and judging them, rather then focusing on following all the doctirines of Christ, it can lead you astray. You may not follow christ, or go to his church, only because you focus too much on what other peole do, instead of what his church really should, and does teach! Let us not judge one another, but try to walk uprightly before God! I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
He's always there.
Today I wish to write about our Lord and Savior Jesus christ, and what he has done for us. There is a special spirit that accompanies this subject, and I pray that I will be able to do it justice.
So turning to the scriptures, we find in the Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 8:20 In this scripture we find Lehi a prophet of God, who in vision see's the tree of life, which is a representation of Jesus christ, and ofcourse eternal life. Lehi tell's his son's what he saw, and in a later scripture, Nephi, the writter of this account and the son of Lehi, prays to know about the vision that his father recieved. In exchange he is given a glorious manifestation, an angel, speaks to him face to face and explains the vision. In 1 Nephi 11:25 we learn that the iron rod is the word of God; which is a representation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. But what do we learn that the word of God is in the Book of John? John 1:1-5 through this scripture we learn, that the word of god is the very son of God, Jesus Christ. The iron rod, is a representation of Jesus Christ. In Lehi's vision we learn that Jesus Christ literally died for our sins, that we may partake in eternal life. But also, we learn that the key to gaining this, is to hold fast to the iron rod, or the word of God. We are to Hold fast to Jesus Christ. Jesus christ is so anxious to bless you that he is willing, and ready to guide you down the path of righteousness, to guide you through these peverbial "mists of darkness", which is anything that could distract us from this course. He is our great guide, our savior Jesus Christ, he wants to guide you. He's so excited to bless you with his atonement, that he's willing to guide you right to the fruits that he bore, his atonement, the perfection he provides us! He's there every step of the way, as we learn in Moroni 7:48 Christ's intentions are to purify us, that we may become like him. That we may stand with him, in the presence of the Father, having eternal life and Joy before us, and life with our families, with our Father in heaven, with the whole family of God forever. The Tree of life also represents this life, the fruit that Christ bore. He wants to guide you, through his words he is able to guide us, and through it we are able to get to know him on a personal level, to gain that relationship with him, that we may live with him eternally. Let us pray to our Father in heaven, and read his words! Let our redeemers cleansing love wash away our sins, and present us spotless before the Father. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
So turning to the scriptures, we find in the Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 8:20 In this scripture we find Lehi a prophet of God, who in vision see's the tree of life, which is a representation of Jesus christ, and ofcourse eternal life. Lehi tell's his son's what he saw, and in a later scripture, Nephi, the writter of this account and the son of Lehi, prays to know about the vision that his father recieved. In exchange he is given a glorious manifestation, an angel, speaks to him face to face and explains the vision. In 1 Nephi 11:25 we learn that the iron rod is the word of God; which is a representation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. But what do we learn that the word of God is in the Book of John? John 1:1-5 through this scripture we learn, that the word of god is the very son of God, Jesus Christ. The iron rod, is a representation of Jesus Christ. In Lehi's vision we learn that Jesus Christ literally died for our sins, that we may partake in eternal life. But also, we learn that the key to gaining this, is to hold fast to the iron rod, or the word of God. We are to Hold fast to Jesus Christ. Jesus christ is so anxious to bless you that he is willing, and ready to guide you down the path of righteousness, to guide you through these peverbial "mists of darkness", which is anything that could distract us from this course. He is our great guide, our savior Jesus Christ, he wants to guide you. He's so excited to bless you with his atonement, that he's willing to guide you right to the fruits that he bore, his atonement, the perfection he provides us! He's there every step of the way, as we learn in Moroni 7:48 Christ's intentions are to purify us, that we may become like him. That we may stand with him, in the presence of the Father, having eternal life and Joy before us, and life with our families, with our Father in heaven, with the whole family of God forever. The Tree of life also represents this life, the fruit that Christ bore. He wants to guide you, through his words he is able to guide us, and through it we are able to get to know him on a personal level, to gain that relationship with him, that we may live with him eternally. Let us pray to our Father in heaven, and read his words! Let our redeemers cleansing love wash away our sins, and present us spotless before the Father. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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