Friday, March 23, 2012

The Third Article of Faith

3. We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

Simply, the suffering of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins, is what we refer to as the Atonement. We believe that the power to save created by this suffering is sufficient to save all mankind. If it is accepted and embraced, we will be prone to develop within one a desire to live the gospels teachings and strive to keep the commandments of God which will bring all closer to Christ.

Let us remember the conversion of the people addressed by King Benjamin who said "Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also, we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually" ~Mosiah 5:2

Thursday, February 23, 2012

The Book of Mormon: another testament of Jesus Christ

   Well lets begin with the what. What is the Book of Mormon? The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Holy Bible. Everything is clear in this video.....

                                                                         
                                                                        Any Questions?

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Take this Chance.

    How many times in our lives do we fall short of what God expects of us? Allow me to speak for myself in saying:  A LOT! How often are we given a second chance? A LOT! God has given us so many chances to come unto him and be forgiven of all of our misdeeds. This experience and "chance" for Repentance is mentioned in the scriptures many, many times.

   One of my personal favorite of these stories is given to us through the Prophet Mormon. In Mormon 2:26 it talks about the Nephites and how they have become wicked. "and did meet them again, and did beat them; nevertheless the stregnth of the Lord was not with us; yea, we were left to ourselves, that the Spirit of the Lord did not abide in us; therefore we had become weak like unto our brotheren." From this we learn how important it is to have the Holy Ghost with us, becuse of the lack of the Spirit being with them they had become weak. They came to war with there brothern the Lamanites, and had been spared as we learn in Mormon 3:3 "and they did not realize that it was the Lord that had spared them, and granted unto them a chance for repentance."

   The Lord came to Mormon and told him to Preach repentance to the pepole and told them if they repented they would be spared. "Behold they did hearden there hearts against the Lorg their God" Mormon 3:3.Did they take there chance? No. Later in the Book of Mormon we learn they were destroyed.

   Do you want to be daestoyed? No? Then take heed from the example of the Nephites Repent, come unto Christ and let the Lord through his Infinite Atonement take that burden of sin from you. I know that he loves you and all of us, he loves youand wants you to be counted among his flock. The Lord is My Light, he has done so much for me and if you take that chance and cone unto him he will be you Light too.

Please read Mormon 2:26 and 3:2-3

~Elder Maisey