Seek Ye Earnestly

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Seek Ye Earnestly

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More Kid Wisdom

• My three year old son was picking on his
  older sister and hit her. I reminded him that
  hitting was not allowed and then asked the
  question, "What would Jesus do?" He looked up at
  me and then crying said, "He would put me in
  time-out!"
• Many weeks during sacrament meeting, my brother
  and sister who were about 2 at the time, would be
  very squirmy and giggly and irreverant. Other
  weeks they would do great! My parents tried
  everything they could think of toys, treats,
  etc, but they always wanted to look toward the
  back of the chapel and laugh.
• Several months later in a meeting with the bishop
  the mystery was solved, he said, "It sure is hard
  to keep a straight face on the stand when we see
  Brother French pull out his teeth and start
  "chomping" at your kids."
• From then on, we always sat behind Brother French
  and they behaved much better.

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Mosiah

• Now it came to pass that there were many of the
  rising generation that could not understand the
  words of king Benjamin, being little children at
  the time he spake unto his people and they did
  not believe the tradition of their fathers.
• And now because of their unbelief they could not
  understand the word of God and their hearts were
  hardened.

unbelief
Understand
hardened
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Elder McConkie

• "If the saints are to be saved, they must accept,
  understand, and experience the gifts of the
  Spirit. Since religion itself is of the Spirit,
  and deals with spiritual things, it can be
  received and known only by the power of the
  Spirit.
• Thus where the gifts of the Spirit are manifest,
  there is true religion and where the gifts of
  the Spirit are not manifest, there true religion
  is not."
• (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 2366)

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Paul to the Saints in Corinth

• To understand why he wrote the letter,
  we need to read between the lines.
• Dealing with
• Conflict between the members
• Conflict with their Greek neighbors
• Lack of understanding about the Spirit
• Chapter 12- Outlines the Gifts of the Spirit

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1 Corinthians 13

• Though I
• speak with the tongues of men
• and of angels,
• have the gift of prophecy,
• and understand all mysteries,
• and all knowledge
• and though I have all faith, so that I could
  remove mountains,
• and ________________, I am nothing.
• And though I bestow all my goods to feed the
  poor,
• and though I give my body to be burned,
• and __________________, it profiteth me nothing.

have not charity
have not charity
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Then this description

• Charity suffereth long, and is kind charity
  envieth not charity vaunteth not itself, is not
  puffed up,
• Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her
  own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil
• Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the
  truth
• Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth
  all things, endureth all things.
• Charity never faileth

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Defining Charity
God
Us
Loyal

• Turning now to the New Testament we find that
  charity is translated from the Greek word xaris
  (charis). Before we look at the definition of
  this Greek word it is significant to note that
  the English words charity and grace both
  derive from the Greek word xaris.
• It means to have favor, good will, love, mercy
  and compassion upon another. Interestingly, this
  word is often used to describe the loving mercy
  and compassion given to those who do not deserve
  such acts. In this respect, the ultimate example
  of xaris-charity-grace is God, for none of us on
  our own efforts could ever be deserving of his
  boundless loving kindness. (Meridian Magazine,
  Lesson 34)

Loyal
Love Xaris
Others
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President Harold B. Lee

• Just before the dedication of the Los
  Angeles Temple, something new happened
  in my life when, along about three or four
  o'clock in the morning, I enjoyed an
  experience that I think was not a dream, but
  it must have been a vision.
• It seemed that I was witnessing a great spiritual
  gathering, where men and women were standing up,
  two or three at a time, and speaking in tongues.
  The spirit was so unusual.
• I seemed to hear the voice of President David O.
  McKay say, 'If you want to love God, you have to
  learn to love and serve the people. That is the
  way to show your love for God.' (April
  Conference, 1973)

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Paul concludes with

• For we know in part, and we prophesy part.
• But when that which is perfect is come, then that
  which is in part shall be done away.
• When I was a child, I spake as a child, I
  understood as a child, I thought as a child but
  when I became a man, I put away childish things.
• For now we see through a glass, darkly but then
  face to face now I know in part but then shall
  I know even as also I am known.

face to face now I know in part but one day I
will know me as God knows me.
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Sister from Pecos, Peru

• Dear Bro. Hinckley
• I spoke with you yesterday. I am the woman
  from Pecos Peru. I ran for my life for two
  days. The small voice of the spirit has
  always been with me through out my life. I
  prayed through out the first night as there
  was over 10 more earthquakes 5.0- 6.0.
• I had been asking the Lord why I was not hearing
  him for those two days. After I spoke to you, I
  went to my next class. The spirit said these
  words to me
• I was there, hearing your prayer
• You were doing the all the right thing.
• You did get out within a day
• If you were going the wrong way, I would have
  told you.
• But I was there, and you made it out.
• I protected you.
• After I heard these words, my anxiety (the racing
  of my chest, which I have felt since last
  Thursday), stop and went away.
• Thank you for telling me the spirit will come.
  The Lord has more for me and I will do his work.