Today, on earth, we have living Prophets and Apostles. The Lord knew that in these Last Days that wars and terror would be happening all around us. He knew that the Devil or Satan would be in the hearts of men and women all over the world and that there would be much killing and destruction, especially of families.
WHERE DID WE COME FROM AND WHY ARE WE HERE.
Because we are spirits, inhabiting these earthly bodies, it was designed and told to us in the spirit world before we came here that our memory of our life with Our Heavenly Father, would be temporarily blocked off by a veil.
He knows us better than or own parents do or even better than we do. He put us in the nation, race and special experiences that would give us the training we were lacking.
We were as scared coming into a body here on earth as we are now scared of death or leaving the body. Both instances are because we do not know what to expect. When we leave this body, we will see all of our brothers and sisters in the spirit world and we will be glad in our hearts that we are home.
In our Father’s Plan of Salvation, we would come to earth, be married and make bodies for other brothers and sisters to come to earth for their tests. So, this means that our parents and grandparents and so forth, are our brothers and sisters who came here before we did, made our bodies for us and we became families.
Gender, which is man and woman, did not start here. It exists in Heaven. It has always been like that. That being true you should put 2 and 2 together and realize we have a Mother in Heaven also.
Yes, we are made in His image, Male and Female, meaning we all have arms, legs, toes, fingers, head, ears and all the rest. This means in His image.
But men are designed like Him and women are designed like Heavenly Mother. still with arms, legs, and so forth.
This may be surprising to most but it is true and logical. Your children are just your brothers and sisters coming down after you.
TEACHING OUR CHILDREN REPENTANCE AND HOW TO LIVE AND MAKE CHOICES.
We are given the responsibility to care for and raise our children to become good people. They were our Heavenly Parent’s children first and have been entrusted to us to teach them how to use their Free Agency to make decisions.
If they make wrong choices, we need to help them to figure out what they did wrong and teach them to use one of the greatest Gifts given to All of Us.
It is called Repentance.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Lord has told us that the Bishop is a Judge in Israel and that we are to confess to him and he will guide us on how to get back to a clear conscience.
Then we need to pray to our Heavenly Father and ask forgiveness and last of all, we need to forgive ourselves.
2 NEPHI 25: 23
23 For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.
After all we can do, the Atonement and Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ will take care of the rest.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Family comes first.
In the church we try not to let earning money, chasing pleasure, or even the needs of people outside our families divert our attention from our families.
After this life, when we go before the Lord on Judgment Day we will not have any excuses that He will accept if we neglected our duty to His children He has entrusted to us. He knows everything so we cannot lie to the Lord. The details of your life are recorded in our spirit and in Heaven.
Only those things we Repented of will be erased as if they had never happened.
Repentance is that you feel sorry for what you did and you corrected your life and you did not do it again. The next time you want to yell at your children, ask yourself, “What would Jesus Christ do?" Then do the same.
MARRIAGE, EARTHLY OR ETERNAL?
In our spirit being, all of us know that we are Eternal and when we love each other we think that we will be together in Heaven as husband and wife and children.
We think that way because that is the way our Heavenly Father taught us. We are Eternal.
Marriages performed today in all churches, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, are “Until Death Do Us Part” or “As Long As We Both Shall Live”.
Just thinking your marriage is forever will not make it happen. The ceremony means what it says. Other churches know that they do not have the authority to marry anyone for eternity.
When a man and woman enters a Temple in this Church, they covenant or promise they will stay together forever on earth and in Heaven after they die and if they keep their covenants to the Lord, Heavenly Father said He would recognize the marriage as Eternal throughout Eternity.
Otherwise, the marriage is ended at death of either party, and you become brothers and sisters, you, your spouse and your children. You will not continue as a family.
This is a very important document by Living Prophets and Apostles in our day.
The Proclamation On The Family
If you will Read it, you will understand what the purpose of a Family is in Heavenly Father's plan for us. Our family will be part of His family.
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