Sermon at the Temple

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Sermon at the Temple

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Angels- According to kids

• I only know the names of two angels, Hark
  and Harold.
• Gregory, 5
• Everybody's got it all wrong. Angels don't
  wear halos anymore. I forget why, but
  scientists are working on it.
• Olive, 9
• It's not easy to become an angel! First, you die.
  Then you go to Heaven, and then there's still the
  flight training to go through. And then you got
  to agree to those angel clothes.
• Matthew,
• My guardian angel helps me with math, but he's
  not much good for science.
• Henry, 8
• When an angel gets mad, he takes a deep breath
  and counts to ten. And when he lets out his
  breath, somewhere there's a tornado.
  Reagan, 10
• Angels have a lot to do and they keep very busy.
  If you lose a tooth, an angel comes in through
  your window and leaves money under your pillow.
  Then when it gets cold, angels go south for the
  winter. Sara, 6

• All angels are girls because they gotta wear
  dresses and boys didn't go for it.
• Antonio, 9
• My angel is my grandma who died last year. She
  got a big head start on helping me while she was
  still down here on earth.
• Lynn, 9
• Some of the angels are in charge of helping heal
  sick animals and pets. And if they don't make the
  animals get better, they help the child get over
  it. Vicki, 8
• What I don't get about angels is why, when
  someone is in love, they shoot arrows at them.
  Sarah, 7
• Angels talk all the way while they're flying you
  up to heaven. The main subject is where you went
  wrong before you got dead.
• Daniel, 9

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President Harold B. Lee
Question Isnt it hard to compare His example,
as the Son of God, with our imperfect life
today? Arent we prone to be overwhelmed by the
huge difference?

• Christ came not only into the world to make an
  atonement for the sins of mankind but to set an
  example before the world of the standard of
  perfection of God's law and of obedience to the
  Father. 
• In his Sermon on the Mount (when combined with
  the Sermon at the Temple) the Master has given us
  somewhat of a revelation of his own character,
  which was perfect, or what might be said to be an
  'autobiography, every syllable of which he had
  written down in deeds,' and in so doing has given
  us a blueprint for our own lives."
• (Stand Ye In Holy Places, pp341-342)

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Brigham Young

• "we all occupy diversified stations in
  the world and in the kingdom of God. Those
  who do right, and seek the glory of the
  Father in heaven, whether they can do
  little or much, if they do the very best
  they know how, they are perfect ....
• 'Be ye as perfect as ye can,' for that is all we
  can do ....
• To be as perfect as we possibly can according to
  our knowledge is to be just as perfect as our
  father in Heaven is. He cannot be any more
  perfect than he knows how, any more than we. When
  we are doing as well as we know in the sphere and
  station which we occupy here we are justified."
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  (Journal of Discourses, 2129-130)

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Its all relative
Knowledge (Understanding)
Capacity for Perfection
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The Blue Print for Perfection?

• The Sermon on the Mount
• Clarified and expanded by the
  Sermon at the Temple (3 Nephi)

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3 Nephi 12 2 Yea, blessed are they who shall
believe in your words
3 Nephi 12 3 Yea, blessed are the poor in
spirit (who come unto me), for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven
FAITH AND BELIEF
and again blessed are all they that mourn, (for
their sins) for they shall be comforted
and come down into the depths of humility
REPENT
and be baptized
and blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit
the earth
BAPTISM
and blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst
after righteousness, for they shall be filled
(with the Holy Ghost)
for they shall be visited with fire and with the
Holy Ghost
HOLY GHOST
and blessed are the merciful, for they shall
obtain mercy
and shall receive a remission of sins.
FORGIVE TO BE FORGIVEN
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President Hinckley

• I watched on television the summary
  trial given one who had been a merciless
  despot. Now in the moment of his extremity he
  wished for mercy on the part of his accusers. I
  know nothing of the court system under which he
  and his wife were tried. I know only that the
  hearing was short, the judgment death, and the
  execution quick and final. There had been no
  mercy shown through long years of oppression,
  harsh and unrelenting and now in this hour of
  bitter culmination none was extended.
• Mercy is of the very essence of the gospel of
  Jesus Christ. The degree to which each of us is
  able to extend it becomes an expression of the
  reality of our discipleship under Him who is our
  Lord and Master.
• ("Blessed Are the Merciful," Ensign,
  May 1990, pp. 68-69.)

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3 Nephi 12 2 Yea, blessed are they who shall
believe in your words
3 Nephi 12 3 Yea, blessed are the poor in
spirit (who come unto me), for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven
FAITH AND BELIEF
and again blessed are all they that mourn, (for
their sins) for they shall be comforted
and come down into the depths of humility
REPENT
and be baptized
and blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit
the earth
BAPTISM
and blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst
after righteousness, for they shall be filled
(with the Holy Ghost)
for they shall be visited with fire and with the
Holy Ghost
HOLY GHOST
and blessed are the merciful, for they shall
obtain mercy
and shall receive a remission of sins.
FORGIVE TO BE FORGIVEN
and blessed are all the pure in heart, for they
shall see God
..ye shall testify that ye have seen me and know
that I am
TEMPLE
LIVE THE GOSPEL OF PEACE
3 Nephi 1834blessed are ye if ye have no
disputations among you
And Blessed are all the peacemakers, for they
shall be called the children of God.
3 Nephi 159for unto him that endureth to the
end will I give eternal life
and Blessed are all they which are persecuted
(for my names sake) for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven
ENDURE TO THE END
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Finally, keep perspective

• a divorced mother of several children who was
  back in school trying to get a better life for
  herself and her family. She continued, "I used to
  try to do and be everything that the Church
  wanted, but I finally had to give up. They always
  wanted more than I had. I can't help that I'm
  broke, or a single parent with two jobs trying to
  go to school full-time. I can't do what the other
  Saints can, and they always want more out of
  memore time, more talent, more money, more
  commitmentand I just don't have more to give.
  The demands of the Church exceed my supply."
• Why does the Church sometimes seem to
  demand more of me than I think I can do?
  Why is there always so much pressure for
  me to be and to do and to give more? Well,
  first of all we've got to remember that
  perfection is the goal, a real goal, and we
  should be working for it with all our best
  efforts.
• We just need to remember at the same time
  that our salvation is not hanging in the
  balance.
• Stephen Robinson
  Believing Christ, 97