I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness

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I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness

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Qantas gripe sheet

• Pilot Something loose in cockpit.
• Mechanic Something tightened in cockpit.
• P Dead bugs on windshield.
• M Live bugs on back-order.
• P Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
  
• M Evidence removed.
• P DME volume unbelievably loud.
• M DME volume set to more believable level.

• P Suspected crack in windshield.
• M Suspect you're right.
• P Number 3 engine missing.
• M Engine found on right wing after brief
  search.
• P Aircraft handles funny.
• M Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right,
  and be serious.
• P Mouse in cockpit.
• M Cat installed.

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Forgiveness

• Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who
  have trespassed against us.

Our Sins
Others Sins
Why?
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Elder Bruce Hafen

• It seems fair to ask why the victims of abuse
  should be required to do anything to deserve
  the Lords vast healing powers in such a case.
• the irony that they should need to forgive
  those who have wronged them is almost
  overpowering.
• Still, there lurks between the lines of the
  scriptures on forgiveness a message of
  transcendent meaning- not only about abuse
  victims but about all of us, and about all of
  the Atonement.
• What are we doing when we are willing to absorb a
  terrible trauma of the spirit, caused not by our
  own doing but by one who claimed to love us- and
  we absorb the trauma even to help the sinner.
• That picture somehow has a familiar look- weve
  seen all this before. Of course, because this
  picture depicts the sacrifice of Jesus Christ he
  took upon himself undeserved and unbearable
  burdens, heaped upon him by people who often
  said, and often believed that they loved him.
• So to forgive- not just abuse victims, but for
  each of us- is to be a Christ figure, a
  transitional point in the war between good and
  evil

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Life of Hosea

• Contemporary of Micah, Amos, and Isaiah
• Called to Northern Tribes
• One additional challenge
• The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea.
  And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a
  wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms
• Why would the Lord command that?
• for the land hath committed great whoredom,
  departing from the LORD. (Hosea 12)

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Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• In a spiritual sense, to emphasize how
  serious it is, the damning sin of idolatry is
  called adultery. When the Lord's people
  forsake him and worship false gods, their
  infidelity to Jehovah is described as whoredoms
  and adultery. (Jer. 3 8-9 Hos. 12 31.)
• By forsaking the Lord, his people are unfaithful
  to their covenant vows, vows made to him who
  symbolically is their Husband."

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Question

• What kind of idols are we, in the modern church,
  tempted with?

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President Kimball

• "Modern idols or false gods can take such forms
  as clothes, homes, businesses, machines,
  automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other
  material deflectors from the path to godhood.
  What difference does it make that the item
  concerned is not
  shaped like an idol?
• Brigham Young said
  'I would as soon see a
  man worshipping a little
  god made of
  brass or of wood
  as to see him
  worshipping his property'."

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What happens when we choose idolatry?

• I will punish them for their ways, and reward
  them their doings" (Hosea 49).
• Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in
  mercy break up your fallow ground for it is
  time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain
  righteousness upon you.
• Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped
  iniquity ye have eaten the fruit of lies
  because thou didst trust in thy way, in the
  multitude of thy mighty men" (Hosea 1012-13).

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Alma 29 4,5
for I know that he granteth unto men according
to their desire Whether it be unto
death
Or unto life
Whether they be unto
salvation
Or unto destruction
He that knoweth good and evil, to him It is given
according to his desires whether he desireth
or evil
good
or death
life
or remorse of conscience
joy
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Elder Eyring

• The story of Hosea was a love story.
  This was a story of a marriage covenant bound
  by love, by steadfast love. The Lord, with whom
  I am blessed to have made covenants, loves me,
  and you, with a steadfastness about which I
  continually marvel and which I want with all my
  heart to emulate.

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Psalm 107 26-30

• They mount up to the heaven, the psalmist
  sings, they go down again to the depths their
  soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to
  and fro, and stagger like drunken man, and are at
  their wits end. Then they cry unto the Lord in
  their trouble and he bringeth them out of their
  distresses.
• He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves
  thereof are still. Then are they glad because
  they be quiet so he bringeth them unto their
  desired haven.

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The good news

• God is not a loop hole God!
• God looks for reasons, any reason, to bless us in
  spite of ourselves! The history of the children
  of Israel, in Jerusalem and Zarahemla, is
  testament to the great lengths the Lord will go
  to bless his people the minute return to Him.
  Through forgetfulness and folly, sin and slumber,
  He pours down answers and blessings as soon as it
  is possible to do so. He asks only that call on
  His name and begin the process.