Agency—A Blessing and a Burden
Sharon G. Larsen October 1999 Saturday Morning Session
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Today there are infinite telephone numbers, movies of all kinds and colors, e-mail at our fingertips 24 hours a day, and many roads that relentlessly call for our judgment.
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The Lord told Abraham that He sent us to earth to see if we would do what He asked us to do (see Abr.
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Lehi teaches us that if there was no opposition, there would be no righteousness nor wickedness, neither good nor bad.
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Lehi teaches us that if there was no opposition, there would be no righteousness nor wickedness, neither good nor bad.
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“How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.” The scriptures say, “The people answered him not a word”
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In stark contrast, one lone prophet of the true and living God was not only heard, he was magnified in his efforts.
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Our faith and commitment are tested when the world offers tempting and enticing alternatives that can turn our faces from the Lord’s kingdom.
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Our faith and commitment are tested when the world offers tempting and enticing alternatives that can turn our faces from the Lord’s kingdom.
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Because our purpose here on earth has not changed, nor will it ever, our Father steadily and regularly supplies additional gifts to make our world safe and strengthen our wise use of agency.
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“eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him”
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I close with the prayer of Nephi speaking for you and for me: “O Lord, wilt thou not shut the gates of thy righteousness before me, that I may walk in the path of the low valley, that I may be strict in the plain road” (2 Ne.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 17: The Sermon on the Mount
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“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”: The first part of this petition has occasioned comment and question.
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Chapter 3: The Need of a Redeemer
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We have heretofore shown that the entire human race existed as spirit-beings in the primeval world, and that for the purpose of making possible to them the experiences of mortality this earth was created.
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