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Re: Knowledge enough to sin [message #535 is a reply to message #528] Fri, 22 June 2012 07:11 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Amonhi,

You are really quite amazing. You knowledge and insights are really helpful and uplifting. What you say has the ring of truth and solidifies many things that I have already learned. I guess your post here reminds me of the Nephites, after hearing King Benjamin's speech, no longer having a desire to do evil. I know in my relatively brief life as a member, thanks to the Holy Ghost, the desire to do evil, or the ability to tolerate evil, has been diminishing gradually and consistently. I consider this to be part of the sanctification process (if not all of it).

All, I have struggled lately with some things that I read and hear - everything from people saying that the prophets are no longer true prophets to City Creek to Stake leaders telling my daughter not to pursue having her calling and election made sure. I'm reaching for the glory, (not personal, but to glorify God) but on all sides I see roads and snares that lead nowhere but apostacy. My testimony that I MUST cling to the rod - to scriptures, to the words of the prophets, AND to personal revelation - is strenthened as a result. My trust in the Lord to guide me through this less safe territory is strengthening. In order for Him to be able to do that, though, we must hold on to our testimony that He is in charge, that the prophets and the church are His, and that if we, in our weakness, perceive discrepancies, there is an answer; there IS a correlation and it will be granted us if we pray in faith. If we find ourselves questioning ANY of the components of the iron rod (again - words of the prophets, scriptures, validated by personal revelaltion)we must seek reconciliation - because it IS there. The gospel IS true, it always has been and it always will be, and our comprehension or lack thereof does not change that.

As we venture toward a greater understanding, grow beyond the law as Amonhi (and the scriptures) so eloquently describes, we leave the safe haven of the commandments and become even more subject to the law - the Celestial Law; we become even more reliant upon the personal guidance of the Lord and less reliant upon the structure of the Church. Perhaps, we even NEED the Second Comforter to guide us. That does NOT, however, relieve us of the responsibility to sustain the Church and its leaders with all of our faith, power, and commitment.

Men are that they might have joy.

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