Inherit the Kingdom Prepared for You

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Inherit the Kingdom Prepared for You

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Finally,A Politically Correct Moment.

• Unfortunately, It is an Inconvenient Truth!
• Global Warming is Real...
• ...And it is definitely man made.
• We must act before the earthas we know itis
  gone!
• All we have to do is repent

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Alma 34

• "And now, as I said unto you before, as ye
  have had so many witnesses, therefore, I
  beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the
  day of your repentance until the end for after
  this day of life, which is given us to prepare
  for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our
  time while in this life, then cometh the night of
  darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.
• "Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful
  crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to
  my God. Nay, ye cannot say this
• for that same spirit which doth possess your
  bodies at the time that ye go out of this life,
  that same spirit will have power to possess your
  body in that eternal world

Question Dont we believe that repentance is
possible in the Spirit World?
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Elder Eyring
1 Reason Ive done enough, give someone else a
turn

• All of us will need His help to avoid the tragedy
  of procrastinating what we must do here and now
  to have eternal life.
• For most of us the temptation to delay will come
  from one or both of two feelings

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Elder Eyring Continued

• Complacency is a danger for us all. It can
  come to naive youth who feel that there will
  be plenty of time in the future for spiritual
  things. They might think that they have
  already done enough, considering the brief time
  they have lived.
• Complacency can affect even the seasoned adult.
  The better and the longer you serve, the more
  likely that the tempter can place this lie in
  your mind "You have earned a rest." You may have
  been the Primary president in your little branch
  twice. Or you may have worked long and hard on
  your mission and sacrificed so much to serve.

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Reason 2
Its All Too Much! I Dont Even Know where to
Start!
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Promises

• For those who are discouraged by their
  circumstances and are therefore tempted to
  feel they cannot serve the Lord this day, I
  make you two promises.
• Hard as things seem today, they will be better
  in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord
  this day with your whole heart. Your
  circumstances may not be improved in all the
  ways which you desire. But you will have been
  given new strength to carry your burdens and new
  confidence that when your burdens become too
  heavy, the Lord, whom you have served, will carry
  what you cannot.
• He knows how. He prepared long ago. He suffered
  your infirmities and your sorrows when He was in
  the flesh so that He would know how to succor
  you.
• The other promise I make to you is that by
  choosing to serve Him this day, you will feel His
  love and grow to love Him more

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Matthew 25

• When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and
  all the holy angels with him, then he shall sit
  upon the throne of his glory
• And before him shall be gathered all nations and
  he shall separate them one from another, as a
  shepherd divideth sheep from the goats the sheep
  on his right hand, but the goats on his left.
• Question
• Why would sheep and goats need to be separated?

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Question

• How do we know when we are
• Sheep Thinking
• and when we are
• Goat Thinking?

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Elder Enzio Busche

• Some time ago the missionaries invited me to
  come see a couple they had been teaching for
  some time. The missionaries reported to me what
  a choice couple they were. However, they were
  very much afraid to make the change and the
  commitment of baptism. I recognized their
  fear and anxiety I felt prompted to ask them,
  "What do you think the Lord expects you to do
  when you enter into the bond of the covenant of
  baptism for the forgiveness of sins?"
• I remember that the woman looked at him and the
  man looked at her with the sweetness of two
  wonderful persons in their first years of
  marriage, and finally he said, "I think we will
  have to pay our tithing." I remember that I
  answered, "Yes, that is true, but there is
  something of more importance. What do you think
  the Lord will expect you to do when you enter
  into this covenant?"
• After some inquiring glances from her to him and
  from him to her, he said quite hesitantly, "We
  must give up our drinking, our coffee, and our
  smoking." Again I told him, "Yes, that is true,
  but there is something of more importance."
• I felt inspired to say to them, "I can see that
  you have learned to love the Lord and understand
  the basic principles of the covenant which you
  are about to make with him. Now the Lord wants
  you to take the Spirit, which will be given to
  you as his gift after baptism, and make it the
  greatest objective of your life--to let this
  Spirit be unfolded within you to its fullness of
  power. Thus, the Lord wants you both to love one
  another with an even deeper, more sensitive,
  caring love--a love of a new dimension that is
  different from the way the world knows--even to
  such a dimension that you will be overwhelmed by
  your insight, your patience, your caring, and
  sensitivity so that you will both be filled with
  a new dimension of joy and peace."
• The expressions on their faces changed from fear,
  anxiety, and despair to relaxed smiles of
  rejoicing. He reached for her hand, looked dearly
  into her eyes, pressed her hand to his lips, and
  said with conviction, "I think we are ready.
• (Rejoice in Christ Jesus, BYU Devotional, 28
  May,1985)