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Title: speak, for thy servant heareth


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speak, for thy servant heareth
  • Khinckley1_at_yahoo.com

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True Story?
  • It was time for sacrament meeting to begin and a
    mother couldn't find her son. She searched all
    through the meetinghouse then she looked
    outside. Finally she found him sitting on the
    curb with his head in his hands. "Son, we have to
    go in now," she said. "Church is about to start."
  • "I don't want to," he said.
  • "Why not?"
  • "Because nobody likes me. Nobody cares if I'm
    there or not. I'll bet you can't give me one good
    reason why I should."
  • "Oh, yes, I can," said the mother. "You're the
    bishop!"

3
Elder Eyring Questions
  • A few may wonder about the requirement to listen
    to other people at church and ask, "Why do I
    have to get my directing and teaching from
    somebody else? Why can't I go to God for myself
    and get my own revelation? Why can't I have the
    Holy Ghost inspire me? Why does every call to
    lead, in fact, call others to listen? Why are we
    all, therefore, called to listen? Why should even
    a prophet have a home teacher?"

4
Elder Eyring Continues
  • Clearly, my problem and your problem is to hear
    the word of God from and through imperfect
    teachers and leaders. That is your test and mine.
    And it is our opportunity. All of us--today, next
    week, and for the rest of our lives--are going to
    be sitting somewhere while someone leads us or
    teaches us who will seem weak and simple because
    they are human, like us.
  • God has said that if we are going to make it home
    again, we must not only hear his voice privately
    by our own effort, but also through the voice of
    his servants who, when the speak by the power of
    the Spirit, speak as if it were his voice.

5
President Hinckley
  • Unless there is loyalty toward the bishop and
    stake president on a local level, there will
    be an absence of harmony, there will be
    suspicion and hesitation to serve with
    fidelity, there will be that kind of division
    which is always destructive of faith.
  • Let it ever be remembered that no President
    of this church, no counselor in the
    Presidency, no General Authority, no member
    of a stake presidency or of a bishopric or of
    an elders quorum presidency is there because
    he wished to be there and requested the
    privilege. Each is there because he was "called
    of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of
    hands by those who are in authority, to preach
    the Gospel and administer in the ordinances
    thereof."
  • Loyalty to leadership is a cardinal requirement
    of all who serve in the army of the Lord. A house
    divided against itself cannot stand. Unity is
    basic and essential

6
From Judges to Kings- Flawed Leaders
Eli
Samuel
Saul
David
Solomon
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Eli, The High Priest, and his sons
  • 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial they
    knew not the LORD but they were temple
    priests!.
  • 17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very
    great before the LORD for men abhorred the
    offering of the LORD.
  • 22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his
    sons did unto all Israel and how they lay with
    the women that assembled at the door of the
    tabernacle of the congregation.
  • 23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things?
    for I hear of your evil dealings by all this
    people.
  • 24 Nay, my sons for it is no good report that I
    hear ye make the LORD's people to transgress.

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Question
  • If we set a bad example in our calling, how does
    that effect other church members?
  • How do we avoid not being negatively effected by
    a church leaders flaws?

9
Can you really do better?
  • DC 675
  • Your eyes have been upon my servant Joseph
    Smith, Jun., and his language you have known, and
    his imperfections you have known and you have
    sought in your hearts knowledge that you might
    express beyond his language this you also know.

10
Samuels Call
  • 1 And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord
    before Eli.
    And the word of the Lord was
    precious in those days
    there was no
    open vision.
  • 3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple
    of the Lord,
    where the ark of God was, and
    Samuel was laid down to sleep.
  • 4 That the Lord called Samuel and he answered,
    Here am I.
  • 5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I for
    thou calledst me.
    And he said, I called not lie
    down again.
  • 6 And the Lord called yet again, Samuel. And
    Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am
    I for thou didst call me. And he answered, I
    called not, my son lie down again.
  • 7 Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither
    was the word of the Lord ye revealed unto him.
  • 8 And the Lord called Samuel again the third
    time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said,
    Here am I for thou didst call me. And Eli
    perceived that the Lord had called the child.
  • 9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down
    and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt
    say, Speak, Lord for thy servant heareth. So
    Samuel went and lay down in his place.
  • 10 And the Lord came, and stood, and called as at
    other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel
    answered, Speak for thy servant heareth.
  • 11 And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I will do
    a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of
    everyone that heareth it shall tingle.
  • 12 In that day I will perform against Eli all
    things which I have spoken concerning his house
  • 13 For I have told him that I will judge his
    house forever for the iniquity which he knoweth
    because his sons made themselves vile, and he
    restrained them not.
  • Note
  • Like Samuel, sometimes the Lord speaks to us
    muliple times before we
  • recognize His voice and,
  • 2) and commit to listen.

11
Question-
  • When the Lord is trying to communicate with us,
    why wouldnt we recognize it?

12
Elder F. Enzio Busche
  • There seems to be, inside of us, the
    capability to be spiritually illiterate, in
    spite of the brilliant knowledge that we may
    have about the facts of the Restoration, the plan
    of salvation, and the organizational part of the
    restored gospel.

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Old Christian Preacher
  • If you will here stop, and ask yourselves, why
    you are not as pious as the primitive Christians
    were, your own heart will you, that it is neither
    through ignorance nor inability, but purely
    because you never thoroughly intended it!

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Elder Busche Cont
Especially of church members and leaders who have
offended us!!!
  • In my humble understanding, it can be said
    that there are only two elements that separate
    us from the Holy Spirit
  • First, our lack of desire to repent, and
  • Second, our lack of desire to forgive.
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