Be Ye Therefore Complete

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Be Ye Therefore Complete

• www.kevinhinckley.com

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Early Morning Seminary- In Iraq
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Question

• How can you tell if someone
  is converted to Jesus Christ?
• Elder Marvin J. Astons answer
• By the way they treat other people (Ensign, May
  1992, 20)

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Zions Camp Timeline- 1834

• June 18th- Approach Fishing River
• June 19th- Joseph moves them to higher
  ground
• After midnight, a mob, about 200, begins to cross
  the river.
• Hail storm strips trees, river rises 30 feet.
  Some of the mob drown in the river
• June 20th- Joseph warns that if the Camp does not
  repent, some will die like sheep with
  the rot
• June 22nd- Revelation received
• June 24th- Cholera breaks out
• June 25th- Camp disbanded

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What Revelation?

• Behold, I say unto you, were it not for the
  transgressions of my people, they might have
  been redeemed even now.
• But behold, they have not learned to be obedient
  to the things which I required at their hands,
  but are full of all manner of evil,
• and do not impart of their substance, as becometh
  saints, to the poor and afflicted among them
• And Zion cannot be built up unless it is by the
  principles of the law of the celestial kingdom
  otherwise I cannot receive her unto myself.
• Therefore, in consequence of the transgressions
  of my people, it is expedient in me that mine
  elders should wait for a little season for the
  redemption of Zion

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Traditional Sermon on the Mount

• 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou
  shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
• 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless
  them that curse you, do good to them that hate
  you, and pray for them which despitefully use
  you, and persecute you
• 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do
  ye more than others? do not even the publicans
  so?
• 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father
  which is in heaven is perfect.
• Matthew Chapter 6
• 1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men,
  to be seen of them otherwise ye have no reward
  of your Father which is in heaven.
• 3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand
  know what thy right hand doeth

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3 Nephi (plus)

• And behold it is written also, that thou shalt
  love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy
• Therefore those things which were of old time,
  which were under the law, in me are all
  fulfilled.
• Old things are done away, and all things have
  become new.
• Therefore I would that ye should be perfect
  complete even as I, or your Father who is in
  heaven is perfect complete.
• Verily, verily, I say that I would that ye should
  do alms unto the poor but take heed that ye do
  not your alms before men to be seen of them
  otherwise ye have no reward of your Father who is
  in heaven.
• But when thou doest alms let not thy left hand
  know what thy right hand doeth

Question What kind of alms does the Lord do
in secret?
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Elder Oaks

• When we think of service, we usually think of the
  acts of our hands. But the Lord looks to our
  hearts as well as our hands. He is concerned not
  only with our acts but also with our motives.
• One of his earliest commandments to Israel was to
  "love the Lord your God, and to serve him with
  all your heart and with all your soul"
• In order to purify our service to God and to our
  fellowmen, it is therefore important to consider
  not only how we serve, but also why we serve.
  (Pure in Heart, 38.)

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Elder Antonie Ivins

• There is no limit to the good that you
  can do, if you don't care who gets the credit"
• (C.R., April 1946, p. 42).

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Savior Continues

• Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
  where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where
  thieves break through and steal
• But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven
  For where your treasure is, there will your heart
  be also.

Question When we give, are we more focused on
the alm, or the one who will receive the alm?
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DC 3

• For although a man may have many revelations, and
  have power to do many mighty works, yet if he
• 1) boasts in his own strength, and
• 2) sets at naught the counsels of God, and
• 3) follows after the dictates of his own will and
  carnal desires,
• 4) he must fall and incur the vengeance of a just
  God upon him.

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Who is in need our alms?

• The Christopher Williams family was struck
  late Friday, in Salt Lake, when a Jeep
  Cherokee traveling south on 2000 East slammed
  into the family's northbound Volkswagen Jetta
  beneath the Interstate 80 overpass.
• The SUV flipped, and the driver, who suffered
  minor scrapes and bruises, fled on foot.
• The sedan suffered heavy passenger-side
  damage, killing the pregnant mother, Michelle
  Williams, 41, and two of her children Ben,
  11, and Anna, 9. The surviving father and
  6- year-old boy, Sam, were transported in
  extremely critical condition to Salt Lake City
  hospitals. The couple's other son, Michael,
  14, was not in the car.
• Family spokesman James Wood said the father an
  LDS bishop in the Crystal Heights 2nd Ward - has
  improved considerably since the crash. His son,
  however, remains in the intensive care unit at
  Primary Children's Medical Center with bleeding
  and swelling of the brain, a broken collar bone
  and cracked ribs.
• From his hospital bed, Christopher Williams asked
  for a prayer - not for himself, but for the
  teenage driver who police say smashed into his
  family sedan, killing his wife and two of his
  children.
• At Williams' request, the 17-year-old's name was
  added to the prayer roll of an LDS temple, hoping
  to give some comfort to a teen now jailed on
  suspicion of automobile homicide.    
• "I don't know of anyone who believes in the
  redemption more than Chris Williams," said
  lifelong friend