What Are We Doing With Our Gifts?

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What Are We Doing With Our Gifts?

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Editors Note

• In the upcoming slide, the parable of the Ten
  Virgins is partly discussed.
• The central ideas here are
• 1-The foolish virgins brought no oil at all. Why?
  They expected to get it from someone else.
• 2- A virgin at the time of Christ, would be very
  young, likely 12 or so. Any oil they might have
  brought would have been a gift from their parents.

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The Ten Virgins

• Watch therefore for ye know not what hour
  your Lord doth come.
• Therefore be ye also ready for in such an
  hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
• Who then is a faithful and wise servant,
• Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto
  ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went
  forth to meet the bridegroom.
• And five of them were wise, and five were
  foolish.
• They that were foolish took their lamps, and took
  no oil with them

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President Kimball

• In the parable, oil can be purchased at
  the market. In our lives the oil of
  preparedness is accumulated drop by drop
  in righteous living. Attendance at sacrament
  meetings adds oil to our lamps, drop by drop
  over the years. Fasting, family prayer, home
  teaching, control of bodily appetites,
  preaching the gospel, studying the
  scriptureseach act of dedication and obedience
  is a drop added to our store.
• Deeds of kindness, payment of offerings and
  tithes, chaste thoughts and actions, marriage in
  the covenant for eternitythese, too, contribute
  importantly to the oil with which we can at
  midnight refuel our exhausted lamps.

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Note

• There are three different reasons, presented
  here, for why we obey. Each time, ask the class
  how they would know theyre obeying for the
  reason stated
• The Maat principle comes from the Egyptian
  Goddess. It was her job to weigh the heart of
  each newly dead candidate. If their heart was as
  light as a feather (hence the feather on her
  head), then their heart was light and good. If it
  were too heavy, then they were delivered up to
  the underworld.

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Quiz Why do we obey the commandments?
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• 1- So that we can complete enough
  righteous merit badges to earn our
  Celestial Eagle Scout Award
• 2- Pile up enough heavenly reward
  points to offset our list of demerits
• 3- So that our hearts will be softened enough to
  receive the gifts of God (The Maat Principle)
• Such as
• The Gift of Faith
• The Gift of Hope
• The Gift of Charity
• The Gift of Love

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DC Section 4Given to Joseph Smith, Sr

• Now behold, a marvelous work is about to
  come forth among the children of men.
• if ye have desires to serve God ye are
  called to the work
• And the gifts of faith, hope, charity and love,
  with an eye single to the glory of God, qualify
  him for the work.

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Note

• A client of mine, struggling to heal from some
  traumatic events, reported feeling less than
  welcomed in her home ward. She struggled with
  angry thoughts towards some members who had been
  insensitive in their comments.
• Using this next diagram, I outlined how the path
  to healing occurs. These four gifts are also
  sequential in order, starting with ourselves,
  then moving outwardly towards others.

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Client
So, Where are you and I in the conversion
process?
Love
Charity
Hope
Faith
Well know by our desire to love and share the
Good News with those around us