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Re: The Endowment [message #3711 is a reply to message #3710] Sun, 10 November 2019 02:17 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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In the thread, "The Pre-Mortal Council in Heaven's Agenda," the Pre-Mortal Endowments were initially discussed. I would recommend a review of that thread prior to proceeding in order to gain understanding.

We are going to identify the "Fountain of All Righteousness" from a very familiar scripture:

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Ether 12:
27 And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.
28 Behold, I will show unto the Gentiles their weakness, and I will show unto them that faith, hope and charity bringeth unto me--the fountain of all righteousness.
An acceptable offering before the Lord of a "broken heart" and "contrite spirit" is born out of the realization, as King Benjamin taught, of our own nothingness before God. It is for this reason that we encounter, from time to time, in scripture things like the following:

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2 Nephi 4:
17 Nevertheless, notwithstanding the great goodness of the Lord, in showing me his great and marvelous works, my heart exclaimeth: O wretched man that I am! Yea, my heart sorroweth because of my flesh; my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities.
18 I am encompassed about, because of the temptations and the sins which do so easily beset me.
19 And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have trusted.
Another way of saying "having trust" is "having FAITH."

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Romans 7:
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that ado it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
We have every reason to retain a remission of our sins with the sacrifice of a broken heart and a contrite spirit for our own nothingness before the Almighty. So lets examine the merits of the "Fountain of All Righteousness."

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