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Woe unto youHypocrites Or When Stewards Go
BAD!

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The Natural Man 12 Step Program

• I decided I could handle any emotional problems
  if other people would just
  
  quit trying to run my life.
• 2. I firmly believe that there is no greater
  power than myself and anyone
  who
  says differently is insane.
• 3. Made a decision to remove my will and my life
  from God, who didn't
  understand me
  anyhow.
• 4. I made a searching and thorough inventory of
  everyone I know, so they
  couldn't fool me
  and take advantage of my good nature.
• 5. I sought these people out and tried to get
  them to admit to me the nature of their wrongs.
• 6. I became willing to help these people get rid
  of their defects of character.
• 7. I was humble enough to ask these people to
  remove their shortcomings.
• 8. I kept a list of all people who had harmed me
  and waited patiently for a chance to get even
  with them.
• 9. I got even with all these people whenever
  possible except when to do so would get me into
  trouble too.
• 10. I continued to take everyone's inventory and
  when they are wrong, which is most of the time, I
  promptly make them admit it.
• 11. Sought through concentration of my will power
  to tell God what to do, so He would see that my
  ideas were best after all and that He ought to
  give me the power to carry it out.
• 12. Having maintained my emotional problems with
  these steps, I can thoroughly recommend them to
  others who don't want to lose their hard earned
  status, but wish to be left alone to keep doing
  stupid things.

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Charles SteizleQuoted by President Kimball

• What must I do to be damned? Nothing. That's all.
  You're damned condemned if you just sit still.
  That is the law of this physical world.
• If you sit still long enough you'll never get up
  again. If you never lift your arm, you'll soon be
  unable to raise it at all. If you remain in
  darkness and never use your eyes, you'll soon
  become blind.
• It is the law in the mental world. If you never
  exercise your brain never read, study, nor talk
  to anyone, never permit anyone to talk to you
  your mind will became blank maybe you'll become
  insane.
• The most horrible punishment that could be
  inflicted upon you is not twenty years of hard
  labor, but twenty years of solitary confinement.
• It's the law in the spiritual world. Simply shut
  your heart to all truth, and after a while you
  won't be able to believe anything-that is the
  severest penalty for not accepting truth.
• The process of disintegration and death begins
  when a man shuts himself out from the forces that
  make for life. The body and mind and spirit are
  kept alive through constant constructive use.

Why are sins of omission particularly destructive?
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Matt 21 28-31Parable of the Two Sons

• But what think ye? A certain man had two sons
  and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work
  to day in my vineyard.
• He answered and said, I will not but afterward
  he repented, and went.
• And he came to the second, and said likewise. And
  he answered and said, I go, sir and went not.
• Whether of them twain did the will of his father?
  They say unto him, The first.
• Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you,
  That the publicans and the harlots go into the
  kingdom of God before you.

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President McKay

• The peril of this century is spiritual
  apathy.
• As the body requires the sunlight, good
  food, proper exercise, and rest, so the spirit of
  man requires the sunlight of the Holy Spirit
  proper exercise of the spiritual functions
• avoiding of evils that affect spiritual health,
  which are more ravaging in their effects than
  typhoid fever, pneumonia, or other diseases that
  attack the body.

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John 12

• Then Jesus six days before the passover came to
  Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead,
  whom he raised from the dead.
• There they made him a supper and Martha served
  but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table
  with him.
• Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard,
  very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and
  wiped his feet with her hair and the house was
  filled with the odor of the ointment.
• Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot,
  Simon's son, which should betray him,
• Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred
  pence, and given to the poor?
• This he said, not that he cared for the poor but
  because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare
  what was put therein,

Try and put yourself in the moment. What were
they probably feeling?
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Eternal Struggle

• Our Body
• Possessions
• Talents
• Children
• Callings

Are We An Owner?
Are We A Steward?
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Eternal Struggle

• What/Who Do We Take Pride in?
• Whos Will Do We Follow?
• During Trial, Who Do We Blame?
• Who Do We Love
• Who Do We Forgive?

Are We An Owner?
Are We A Steward?
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James

• If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
  that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth
  not and it shall be given him.
• But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For
  he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven
  with the wind and tossed.
• For let not that man think that he shall receive
  any thing of the Lord.
• A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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The REAL OwnerC. S. Lewis

• Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in
  to rebuild that house.
• At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is
  doing. He is getting the drains right and
  stopping the leaks in the roof and so on you
  knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are
  not surprised.
• But presently He starts knocking the house about
  in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem
  to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The
  explanation is that He is building quite a
  different house from the one you thought of-
  throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra
  floor there, running up towers, making
  courtyards.
• You thought you were going to be made into a
  decent little cottage but He is building a
  palace.
• (Mere Christianity p. 174.)