Born Again

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Born Again

• John 3-5

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More religious descrimination

• The founder of the Jedi religion
  inspired by the Star Wars films was
  thrown out of a Tesco supermarket for
  wearing his distinctive brown hood.
• Daniel Jones, 23was told the hood
  flouted store rules and was ordered to
  remove it or leave the supermarket.
• Mr Jones has made an official
  complaint to Tesco, is considering a
  boycott of the store and is seeking
  legal advice.
• A Tesco spokesperson said 'He hasn't been
  banned. Jedis are very welcome to shop in our
  stores although we would ask them to remove their
  hoods.
• 'Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all
  appeared hoodless without ever going over to the
  Dark Side and we are only aware of the Emperor as
  one who never removed his hood.
• 'If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods
  on, they'll miss lots of special offers.'

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A little persective
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Bro. Robert Millett

• If you stood at the Gate of Heaven and God asked
  you, why should I let you in?, what would be
  your answer?
• His answer
• I claim entrance because of the Blood of Lamb
  and His mercy towards me a sinner.

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Leo
I am an enemy to God
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Elder Oaks

• Testimony is to know and to feel,
• conversion is to do and to become.
• Quoted in Kenneth Johnson, Contemplations of
  a Convert (2000), 106
• What stops most of us from becoming converted?

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Two Witnesses

• Witness 1
• John 31-7

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Moses 6 59, 60

• That by reason of transgression cometh the fall,
  which fall bringeth death,
• and inasmuch as ye were born into the world by
  water, and blood, and the spirit
• even so ye must be born again into the kingdom of
  heaven, of water, and of the Spirit, and be
  cleansed by blood, even the blood of mine Only
  Begotten
• For by the water ye keep the commandment by the
  Spirit ye are justified, and by the blood ye are
  sanctified

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Joseph Smith

• To "see" the kingdom of God is to receive a
  testimony of the gospel. To "enter" the kingdom
  of God is to have faith, repent, be baptized, and
  receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and
  another thing to enter into it.
• We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom
  of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to
  enter therein. (TPJS, p. 328.)

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Almas view of being born again?

• "I was in the darkest abyss but now I behold the
  marvelous light of God. My soul was racked with
  eternal torment
• but I am snatched, and my soul is pained no
  more. (Mosiah 2729)

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John 38,9

• Questions
• What is the wind thing?
• What can well-meaning Saints, not understanding
  the Atonement, try to claim their salvation
  through?
• Their callings?
• Their linage?

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Mosiah 52

•  And they all cried with one voice, saying
• Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast
  spoken unto us
• and also, we know of their surety and truth,
• because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent,
  which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in
  our hearts,
• that we have no more disposition to do evil, but
  to do good continually

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Question

• Is the mighty change limited only to those who
  need to repent?

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Moroni If they humble themselves before meI
will make weak things become strong unto them.
Ether 1227 And if men come unto me I will show
unto them their weakness. ..
Paul (2 Cor 12) there was given me a thorn in
the flesh, the messager of Satan For this I
besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart
from meAnd he saidmy strength is made perfect
in weakness Most gladly therefore will I gather
glory in my infirmities
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2nd Witness

• John 43-6
• John 47-10 (Watch the Saviors teaching style)

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Bruce R. McConkie

•  On each of the seven days at the Feast of
  Tabernacles one of these sons of Aaron, after
  the morning sacrifice was laid on the altar, drew
  three logs of watersomewhat more than two
  pintsfrom the Pool of Siloam.
• Attended by throngs of worshippers who carried
  their palm branches, to be waved in the Hosanna
  Shout, this priest brought the water from the
  pool in a golden ewer.
• A solemn procession carried the "living water to
  the temple joyous blasts on the sacred trumpets
  heralded its arrival and while one priest poured
  it into a silver basin on the western side of the
  altar,

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2nd Witness

• John 43-6
• John 47-10 (Watch the Saviors teaching style)
• John 4 10-19

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President Kimball

• Stake presidents, bishops, and branch
  presidents, please take a particular
  interest in improving the quality of
  teaching in the Church. ...
• I fear, that all too often many of our members
  come to church, sit through a class or a meeting,
  and ... then return home having been largely
  uninspired. It is especially unfortunate when
  this happens at a time ... of stress, temptation,
  or crisis in their life.
• We all need to be touched and nurtured by the
  Spirit, and effective teaching is one of the most
  important ways this can happen.
• We often do vigorous work, to get members to come
  to Church but then do not adequately watch over
  what they receive when they do come.
  Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, ed. Edward
  L. Kimball (1982), 524

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How do we teach others?

• 1- First understand their needs
• 2- Let them know you will help them solve their
  needs.
• 3- Help them ask the right questions
• 4- Help them see the solution
• John 4 20-26

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Elder C.S. Lewis

• T The more you obey your conscience, the
  more your conscience will demand of you. And
  your natural self, which is thus being starved
  and hampered and worried at every turn, will get
  angrier and angrier.
• It is as though Jesus were saying to each of us
  'Give me All. I don't want so much of your time
  and so much of your money and so much of your
  work I want You. I have not come to torment your
  natural self, but to kill it. . . .
• Hand over the whole natural self. . . . I will
  give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give
  you Myself my own will shall become yours.' 
  (Mere Christianity, p. 166)