Hearken unto the Voice of God
Bernard P. Brockbank April 1974 Sunday Afternoon Session
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The Lord said, “… Hearken, O ye nations of the earth, and hear the words of that God who made you.” (D&C 43:23.) Godliness in man goes undeveloped without the words of God and his program.
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“And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.” (Moses 4:3–4.)
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The apostle John said, “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
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“And they were thrust down, and thus came the devil and his angels.” (D&C 29:36–37.)
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he goeth up and down, to and fro in the earth, seeking to destroy the souls of men.”
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“And also the Lord shall have power over his saints, and shall reign in their midst, and shall come down in judgment upon … the world.” (D&C 1:35–36.)
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“And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written,”—here is the message; it is the written word of the Lord—“That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.” (Luke 4:1–4.)
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Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”
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brought him to Jerusalem and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence.”
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“And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said,” and he quoted the scriptures again, “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” (Luke 4:10–12.)
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neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
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is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for
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Jesus commanded that we protect ourselves from the power and dominion of the devil.
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“Pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work.”
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Lord shall have power over his saints, and shall reign in their midst, and shall come down in judgment upon the world.”
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 22: A Period of Darkening Opposition
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- Open paragraph (Luke 4:8)
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Peter was shocked at this unqualified declaration, and, yielding to impulse, remonstrated with Jesus, or, as two of the evangelists state, “began to rebuke him,” even going so far as to say: “This shall not be unto thee.”j The Lord turned upon him with this sharp reproof: “Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.” Peter’s words constituted an appeal to the human element in Christ’s nature; and the sensi...
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Jesus and the apostles returned by boat to the western shore of the lake, and landed near Magdala and Dalmanutha.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 10: In the Wilderness of Judea
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Soon after His baptism, immediately thereafter as Mark asserts, Jesus was constrained by the promptings of the Spirit to withdraw from men and the distractions of community life, by retiring into the wilderness where He would be free to commune with His God.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 2: Preexistence and Foreordination of the Christ
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In this struggle between unembodied hosts the forces were unequally divided; Satan drew to his standard only a third part of the children of God, who are symbolized as the “stars of heaven”;b the majority either fought with Michael, or at least refrained from active opposition, thus accomplishing the purpose of their “first estate”; while the angels who arrayed themselves on the side of Satan “kept not their first estate,”c and therefore rendered themselves ineligible for the glorious possibi...
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