Giving Our Spirits Control over Our Bodies

M. Russell Ballard October 2019 Sunday Afternoon Session

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  1. Doctrine and Covenants 42:45

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    As the days have turned into weeks, then months, and now a year since Barbara’s passing, I find myself more fully appreciating this scripture: “Thou shalt live together in love, insomuch that thou shalt weep for the loss of them that die.” Barbara and I were blessed to “live together in love” for 67 years.

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  2. Alma 42:8

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    During this past year, I have pondered more intently than ever before about our Heavenly Father’s plan.

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  3. Jacob 6:13

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    That thought brings me comfort and the assurance that I will be with Barbara again.

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  4. Doctrine and Covenants 82:10

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    I certainly married right.

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  5. Doctrine and Covenants 132:5

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    I certainly married right.

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  6. John 14:26

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    He said, “The greatest conflict that any man or woman will ever have … will be the battle that is had with self,” explaining that Satan, “the enemy of our souls,” attacks us through “the lusts, the appetites, the ambitions of the flesh.” So the primary battle is between our divine and spiritual nature and the carnal natural man.

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  7. Mosiah 3:19

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    This battle between our carnal and our spiritual natures isn’t a new thing.

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  8. Romans 8:5

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    “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

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  9. Alma 34:33

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    Still, there’s no question that flesh and earthly impulses complicate the decision-making.

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  1. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 10: In the Wilderness of Judea

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    • John 14:26

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      The incidents attending the emergence of Jesus from the baptismal grave demonstrate the distinct individuality of the three Personages of the Godhead.

  2. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 37: The Resurrection and the Ascension

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    • John 14:26

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      Assuring the apostles anew that the promise of the Father would be realized in the coming of the Holy Ghost, the Lord instructed them to remain in Jerusalem, whither they had now returned from Galilee, until they would be “endued with power from on high”;o and He added: “For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.”p

  3. The Articles of Faith

    Article 4

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