THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TODAY - PART 7

SEVENTH COMMANDMENT:  Thou shalt not commit adultery.

We, men and women, are children of God the Father.  He is our Heavenly Father and He loves us. 

Being His children, we have a spark of divinity within us that most do not understand. 

As a child of God, man was given powers not granted to any other form of life. Being of the divine race, we have many of the privileges and powers related to divinity.

Spirit World knowledge.

When we lived in the spirit world before coming to the earth, we had much knowledge we had obtained during our existence there. 

We knew that we had spirit bodies.  We knew that our Heavenly Father and Mother had physical, but Immortal bodies and to eventually grow and be like them, we had to come to earth and obtain a physical body for our spirit.

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is what gives us Immortality after this life.  Immortality is a free gift to all, good or evil.

It does not give us Eternal life or Exaltation, we have to earn that. 

We earn it by accepting the Atonement of Jesus Christ by repenting of our sins and keeping the commandments.

We all knew our Heavenly Father’s Plan of Salvation and we were part of the two thirds of His children who accepted it and did not rebel.

Now you would say, I don't remember any plan or even the spirit world.  That is the way it is suppose to be, while in this test on earth.  We are here to make our choices as we feel it inside of us.

Satan and one third of Heavenly Fathers’ children, our brothers and sisters, followed Satan. 

They were cast out of Heaven to the earth and are being used to tempt and test us while we are here.

They never received a mortal body and never will. 

They will not be forgiven for their rebellion because they committed sin with full knowledge in the presence of God. 

They  are the sons of perdition.

We have always had our Free Agency to choose between right and wrong there and we also have it here on earth.

Use of these physical bodies. 

As we each come down here and obtain a body, we grow and fall in love, get married. 

We have been given, for the first time in our existence, the power to procreate. 

Man must reproduce himself and in doing so, we make physical bodies for our brothers and sisters waiting in the spirit world to come here to earth for their tests. 

This is the final testing ground to see how we treat and take care of these bodies and how we choose in all other things.

Eternal Marriage and the procreative process.

Our Heavenly father instituted Eternal Marriage with Adam and Eve. 

They were still in the Garden of Eden and were both in an immortal state. 

When Eve was given to Adam, that was the first Eternal marriage, and they were commanded to multiply and replenish the earth. 

At that time they were innocent in mind. 

They were also told not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil but He knew that they would and thereby discovering the procreative process as husband and wife.

Marriage that is “until death do us part” or “as long as we both shall live,” are for this life only. 

In the eternities, after they are dead, they are single again; individual spirits, like they were before coming here.

Adam and Eve were Eternally married.  Intimate relations between persons who are married to each other is sanctioned by the Lord. 

The Lord regards sexual sins next to murder. 

Murder is when you take innocent life and stop a person’s life test too early.  War is different and is another subject by itself. 

Sexual sins outside of marriage is the misuse of procreative powers, which is a divine gift to man and shows the Lord that you are not worthy to have that power in the next life. 

Sex between two people who are not married is considered fornication. 

Sex between two married persons who are not each other's spouse is Adultery for each. 

If one is married and one is not, the one married is committing Adultery and the other Fornication.

While in this earth test, anything is allowed. 

Living together unmarried, and all the diver ways of using the body will not be allowed after this life. 

All that was allowed for this testing period to see how each will choose. 

After this life the urge of the power of creation will be removed from those who could not handle that gift.

The bodies will be changed to facilitate that removal of that urge.

This is how we are tested to see what choices we make on our own. 

According to how we choose here, we will be assigned to a kingdom that we merit.  There is not just one kingdom where everyone goes. 

The power of reproduction was given also to lower forms of life to perpetuate their species by the power of instinct within each species. 

They cannot misuse it like humans do.

With man and women it is different.  They have the power of Choice. 

With the Free Agency and power of choice, humans can choose good or bad.  It is not just instinct with them. 

Animals cannot corrupt their reproductive powers but man can.

This question came to the very heart of the purpose for which man was sent here, to try him, and prove whether he was worthy to come back into God’s presence. 

With man's right of choice, he would be at liberty to select his own course.

He could do that which would be ennobling, or he could do that which would debase.

Laws were the solution, so Heavenly Father could deal with an intelligent child who had the right to choose while being tested on earth.

Children born to man and woman under divinely appointed marriage which is Eternal Marriage, are to remain as their children forever.

Families would continue as a family unit even into eternity. Children can grow up here and enter Eternal marriage on their own and still be children of their parents. 

The relationships of home established in earth life would last forever.

There is only one church on the earth with the Priesthood Authority to perform marriages for Time (earth life) and for Eternity (marriage after this life). 

That church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 

The only church on earth with Temples for those higher ordinances designated by the God of Heaven.

Keep it Sacred.

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IMMORTALITY AND ETERNAL LIFE

Part of the Plan of Salvation for God’s Children.

We all lived in the Spirit World.  At a certain point in our existence as spirits, we were sent to earth to gain a physical body for our spirits.

To progress in the eternities, a physical body is necessary and desired, counter to what some religions say. 

It was so important that Jesus Christ came back and resurrected His body before going to God the Father.

Immortality, what is it?

Adam and Eve and All forms of life were created in immortality.  Death had not come to the world until after the fall. 

When Adam and Eve fell, they became the first mortal flesh on the earth and the consequent death that came from this status of existence passed on to All forms of life.

Original immortality was designed to only be temporary up until the Fall. 

This immortality stopped when mortality started.

The Final Immortality is to live forever in the resurrected state with body and spirit inseparably connected, never to die again. 

Body and Spirit in mortality constitute the Soul of man. 

When they are separated at death, the body is alone and the spirit is alone.  The soul, at that point, does not exist. 

In the resurrection when the body and spirit come together permanently, the immortal soul is constituted again and will remain forever as a soul.

The Lord stated Himself in:

Moses 1: 39

39 For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

God is going to make all of His children immortal unconditionally. 

This will make it possible for all of His children to stand before Him in their physical bodies at the Judgment Bar. 

Eternal life is not given to man, eternal life must be earned.

Those who believe His Gospel and Obey the Gospel Plan go on to Eternal Life, the Greatest of all the Gifts of God.

Doctrine and Covenants 14: 7

7 And, if you keep my commandments and endure to the end you shall have eternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God.

Immortality is not just for man.  Every living thing will come forth in the resurrection with immortality.  So, don't be cruel to your animals!  :)

The Earth itself will be quickened and come forth as an Immortal Celestial Globe. 

So, what is Eternal Life?

Eternal Life and Exaltation.

As it is used in the scriptures, Eternal life is the name given to the kind of life that God the Father lives. 

The word Eternal is one of the formal names of Deity and has been chosen by God Himself as the particular name which identifies the kind of life that He lives.

He being God, the life He lives is God’s life and His name being Eternal, so, the kind of life He lives is eternal life.

Eternal life does not only mean the duration of a future life, immortality took care of that, but only those who will obey the fullness of the Gospel Law will inherit Eternal Life.

Doctrine and Covenants 29: 43-44

43 And thus did I, the Lord God, appoint unto man the days of his probation—that by his natural death he might be raised in immortality unto eternal life, even as many as would believe;

(The days of our Probation is this Earth Life Testing Period we are in now.)

44 And they that believe not unto eternal damnation; for they cannot be redeemed from their spiritual fall, because they repent not.

Eternal Life is the quality of life that God the Father enjoys.

Thus, those who follow and obey the Gospel become the sons of God and joint heirs with Christ and members of the Church of the Firstborn.

To obtain Eternal Life and Exaltation, it is required to be married for Time and for All Eternity, which is only performed in the Temples of God. 

Those who tried and cannot find a spouse while here on earth will have the chance later IF they are obeying the fullness of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

They will overcome all things and have the power and receive the fullness of the father.

Seek after Eternal Life. 

To read the details of the resurrection of the bodies and spirits, read all of this chapter:

2 NEPHI 9

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