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.
For more information go to www.lds.org.
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Friday, August 23, 2013
COVENANTS WITH GOD
What is a Covenant?
In a Gospel sense, a Covenant is a binding and solemn compact, agreement, contract, or mutual promise between God and a single person or a group of chosen persons.
How can a Covenant be made with God?
God has always required His children to make Covenants with Him. God promises to bless us if we make and follow the Covenant, and we promise to obey Him.
God sets the terms of gospel covenants, which we can accept and obey and this brings blessings in this life and exaltation in the life to come, or we can reject them and reap the consequences.
To keep our covenants, we must give up activities or interests that prevent us from honoring those covenants.
We should desire and strive to keep them and those Covenants should remind to repent daily each day of our lives.
By serving others and keeping the Commandments we retain a remission of our sins.
Covenants are made by ordinances like baptism.
These ordinances are administered by priesthood authority that has been restored again to the earth in 1829.
To make a Covenant with God, His mind and will must be known having to do with the particular contractual relationship involved.
Covenants come only by direct revelation between God and the person making the covenant.
As far as people now living, the only people that can make a Covenant with God, because of having the companionship or Gift of the Holy Ghost, are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
This sounds arrogant but that is the situation of the world at this time.
As we keep our part of the baptismal covenant, God promises the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, a remission of our sins, and being born again.
The Prophet and the Apostles, who are considered prophets, seers and revelators, are the only spiritual leaders receiving revelation for the church and the World.
The members, because of the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, receive revelations for their personal lives.
Through sacred ordinances, such as baptism and confirmation, we learn about and experience God’s power (see D&C 84:20).
Jesus taught that we must be baptized by immersion for the remission, or forgiveness, of our sins by someone holding the priesthood authority that has been restored since 1829.
Priesthood Authority.
If you call yourself a doctor and have not gone to, and graduated from, medical school, you are not a doctor. You do not have authority from the medical school who Authenticates you to act in the profession as a doctor.
The priesthood is the same. If you have gone to a religious school and come out with a diploma saying you are a minister, priest or pastor, you have their authority to practice it on the earth, in this life, but what is done is not recognized out of this life and in the eternities by God Himself.
That authority has to come from God Himself, through His appointed servants the same way that Moses ordained Aaron and the Lord ordained His Twelve Apostles, namely, by the Laying on of Hands by those already holding the Authority.
Then what they do on earth and in the Eternities will be recognized by God here on earth and after this life.
Baptism is an essential ordinance of salvation. No person can enter the kingdom of God without being baptized.
Christ set the example for us by being baptized even though He was perfect and did not need it.
Baptism by immersion is a symbol of the death, burial, and resurrection of the Savior.
Little children do not need to be baptized and are redeemed through the mercy of Jesus Christ (see Moroni 8:4–24).
They are not to be baptized until they reach the age of accountability, which is eight years of age, being revealed by modern revelation by a latter day prophet. (See D&C 68:27).
OTHER OFFICIAL ORDINANCES.
The New and Everlasting Covenant is the fullness of the gospel and embraces within its terms and conditions every other covenant that Deity ever has made or ever will make with men. (See D&C 132: 5-7)
The New and Everlasting Covenant is the Covenant of Eternal Marriage, not marriage until death do us part.
This marriage is recognized by God in the Eternities meaning your family will continue, intact, as a family and you will be able to have children forever.
The provisions of this covenant are that if men will believe, repent, be baptized, receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost and endure in righteousness to the end, they shall have an inheritance in the Celestial World.
Taking the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper each Sunday will renew those baptismal covenants and salvation is assured.
Some of the Covenants God makes with us are:
1. Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. (Exodus 20: 8-11)
2. Paying Tithes and Offerings. (Malachi 3: 7-10)
3. Keeping the Words of Wisdom. (Doctrine and Covenants 89)
There are many others.
To remember to keep the Covenants is a standing obligation resting upon the Lord’s people.
Those who keep the Covenants have the Lord’s promise that all things will work together for their good.
In a revelation to the Prophet Joseph Smith on August 6, 1833, the Lord said:
Doctrine and Covenants 98: 3
3 Therefore, he giveth this promise unto you, with an immutable covenant that they shall be fulfilled; and all things wherewith you have been afflicted shall work together for your good, and to my name’s glory, saith the Lord.
You are blessed if you keep the commandments and the covenants you have made, and because of this, you will obtain mercy. (D&C 54: 6)
For further information, go to www.lds.org
Comments are welcome.
In a Gospel sense, a Covenant is a binding and solemn compact, agreement, contract, or mutual promise between God and a single person or a group of chosen persons.
How can a Covenant be made with God?
God has always required His children to make Covenants with Him. God promises to bless us if we make and follow the Covenant, and we promise to obey Him.
God sets the terms of gospel covenants, which we can accept and obey and this brings blessings in this life and exaltation in the life to come, or we can reject them and reap the consequences.
To keep our covenants, we must give up activities or interests that prevent us from honoring those covenants.
We should desire and strive to keep them and those Covenants should remind to repent daily each day of our lives.
By serving others and keeping the Commandments we retain a remission of our sins.
Covenants are made by ordinances like baptism.
These ordinances are administered by priesthood authority that has been restored again to the earth in 1829.
To make a Covenant with God, His mind and will must be known having to do with the particular contractual relationship involved.
Covenants come only by direct revelation between God and the person making the covenant.
As far as people now living, the only people that can make a Covenant with God, because of having the companionship or Gift of the Holy Ghost, are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
This sounds arrogant but that is the situation of the world at this time.
As we keep our part of the baptismal covenant, God promises the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, a remission of our sins, and being born again.
The Prophet and the Apostles, who are considered prophets, seers and revelators, are the only spiritual leaders receiving revelation for the church and the World.
The members, because of the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, receive revelations for their personal lives.
Through sacred ordinances, such as baptism and confirmation, we learn about and experience God’s power (see D&C 84:20).
Jesus taught that we must be baptized by immersion for the remission, or forgiveness, of our sins by someone holding the priesthood authority that has been restored since 1829.
Priesthood Authority.
If you call yourself a doctor and have not gone to, and graduated from, medical school, you are not a doctor. You do not have authority from the medical school who Authenticates you to act in the profession as a doctor.
The priesthood is the same. If you have gone to a religious school and come out with a diploma saying you are a minister, priest or pastor, you have their authority to practice it on the earth, in this life, but what is done is not recognized out of this life and in the eternities by God Himself.
That authority has to come from God Himself, through His appointed servants the same way that Moses ordained Aaron and the Lord ordained His Twelve Apostles, namely, by the Laying on of Hands by those already holding the Authority.
Then what they do on earth and in the Eternities will be recognized by God here on earth and after this life.
Baptism is an essential ordinance of salvation. No person can enter the kingdom of God without being baptized.
Christ set the example for us by being baptized even though He was perfect and did not need it.
Baptism by immersion is a symbol of the death, burial, and resurrection of the Savior.
Little children do not need to be baptized and are redeemed through the mercy of Jesus Christ (see Moroni 8:4–24).
They are not to be baptized until they reach the age of accountability, which is eight years of age, being revealed by modern revelation by a latter day prophet. (See D&C 68:27).
OTHER OFFICIAL ORDINANCES.
The New and Everlasting Covenant is the fullness of the gospel and embraces within its terms and conditions every other covenant that Deity ever has made or ever will make with men. (See D&C 132: 5-7)
The New and Everlasting Covenant is the Covenant of Eternal Marriage, not marriage until death do us part.
This marriage is recognized by God in the Eternities meaning your family will continue, intact, as a family and you will be able to have children forever.
The provisions of this covenant are that if men will believe, repent, be baptized, receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost and endure in righteousness to the end, they shall have an inheritance in the Celestial World.
Taking the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper each Sunday will renew those baptismal covenants and salvation is assured.
Some of the Covenants God makes with us are:
1. Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. (Exodus 20: 8-11)
2. Paying Tithes and Offerings. (Malachi 3: 7-10)
3. Keeping the Words of Wisdom. (Doctrine and Covenants 89)
There are many others.
To remember to keep the Covenants is a standing obligation resting upon the Lord’s people.
Those who keep the Covenants have the Lord’s promise that all things will work together for their good.
In a revelation to the Prophet Joseph Smith on August 6, 1833, the Lord said:
Doctrine and Covenants 98: 3
3 Therefore, he giveth this promise unto you, with an immutable covenant that they shall be fulfilled; and all things wherewith you have been afflicted shall work together for your good, and to my name’s glory, saith the Lord.
You are blessed if you keep the commandments and the covenants you have made, and because of this, you will obtain mercy. (D&C 54: 6)
For further information, go to www.lds.org
Comments are welcome.
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