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Title: Broken Hearts


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Broken Hearts
  • Khinckley1_at_yahoo.com

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Question
  • The world likes to debate
  • Why do bad things happen to good people?
  • Question
  • Why do good people do bad things?

3
What kind of person was King David?
  • The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and
    my deliverer
  • The God of my rock in him will I trust
    he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
    my high tower, and my refuge, my savior...
  • The Lord rewarded me according to my
    righteousness according to the cleanness of my
    hands hath he recompensed me. For I have kept the
    ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed
    from my God.
  • The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word
    was in my tongue

Question- Was this psalm written before or after
Davids sin with Bathsheba and Uriah?
Answer After- this psalm includes the last words
before he died.
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Tragic Story
  • And it came to passat the time when kings go
    forth to battle David tarried still at
    Jerusalem.
  • And it came to pass in an evening-tideDavid
    walked upon the roof of the king's house andsaw
    a woman washing herself and the woman was very
    beautiful to look upon.
  • And David sent and inquired after the woman
  • David sent messengers, and took Bathsheba and
    she came in unto him and he lay with her
  • the woman conceived, andtold DavidI am with
    child.
  • And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the
    Hittite
  • And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house
  • But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house
    with all the servants of his lord, and went not
    down to his house
  • And David wrote to his battlefield general,
    saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the
    hottest battle, and retire ye from him that he
    may be smitten, and die.
  • And the men of the city went out, and fought with
    Joab and there fell some of the people of the
    servants of David and Uriah the Hittite died
    also.

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When good people do bad things
3 Nephi 1219 And behold, I have given you the
law and the commandments of my Father, that ye
shall believe in me, and that ye shall repent of
your sins, and come unto me with a broken heart
and a contrite spirit.
The Lord
Heart full of Righteous Desires
Reserve
Satan
Contrite comes from the Hebrew word that means
bruised
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Ole steps to Repentance
  • 1- Recognize the sin
  • 2- Feel Remorse
  • 3- Resolve to change the behavior
  • 4- Relate the sin to proper authorites
  • 5- Make Restitution
  • 6- Refrain from the sin

So what is wrong with this list?
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Nephi knew!
  • We talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we
    preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we
    write according to our prophecies
  • Why?
  • that our children may know to what source they
    may look for a remission of their sins!

8
Lawrence FlakeBYU Professor
  • Redeemer is the most important of the
    overlooked R wordsTo fail to recognize our
    complete dependence on the Savior in seeking
    and receiving forgiveness is to make a serious
    oversight.
  • What a huge mistake to speak of the process of
    repentance and forgiveness as if it is somehow a
    do-it-yourself project.

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Elder Holland
  • Repentance is not easy or painless or
    convenient. It is a bitter cup from
    Hell.
  • But only Satan, who dwells there, would have you
    think that a necessary and required
    acknowledgment is more distasteful than permanent
    residence.
  • Only he would say, "You can't change. You won't
    change. It's too long and too hard to change.
    Give up. Give in. Don't repent. You are just the
    way you are." That, my friends, is a lie born of
    desperation. Don't fall for it.

10
King Benjamin
  • And now, for the sake of these things which I
    have spoken unto you- that is, for the sake of
    retaining a remission of your sins from day to
    day, that ye may walk guiltless before God-
  • I would that ye should impart of your substance
    to the poor, every man according to that which he
    hath, such as feeding the hungry, clothing the
    naked, visiting the sick and administering to
    their relief, both spiritually and temporally,
    according to their wants.

The final R word to repentance is living a
Righteous life
11
Bro. Robert Millet
  • It would be like finding my wife in the kitchen
    boiling twenty jars in a large container on the
    stove. I say to her, Shauna, what are you
    doing?
  • Sterilizing jars,, she answers.
  • I ask, Why are you sterilizing the jars?
  • To get them clean.
  • What are you going to do with the clean jars?
  • Put them on the counter.
  • What are you going to do with them there?
  • Im going to put them there so everyone can see
    just how clean they are.
  • What purpose will they serve?
  • People will know we have clean jars.

12
Elder Featherstone
  • One day a woman came to my business office. She
    leaned across the desk and said, "President, I
    have carried a transgression on my heart for
    thirty-four years that I cannot carry one more
    step in this life. I know how tenderhearted you
    are, and I wouldn't add one particle of a burden
    to your soul."
  • I said, "My dear sister, before you go on, let me
    share with you a principle of the gospel. When
    you take a burden off your soul, it is lifted
    from the priesthood leader's soul also."
  • She said, "I know I will be cast out I know I
    will be excommunicated, but does it have to be
    forever? Thirty-four years ago, before my first
    husband and I were married, I was involved in an
    abortion. Since that time, I have felt like a
    murderess. It was my husband's idea, and I did
    not resist. I had an abortion. Later we got
    married. He was unfaithful constantly during the
    first two years of our marriage.

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Elder Featherstone Continues
  • I finally divorced him and have since remarried a
    wonderful man who is a convert to the Church. He
    knows everything and he still wants to be sealed
    to me. President, do you think that either in
    time or in eternity we can be sealed together? I
    know I will have to be cast out, but does it have
    to be forever?" The tears flowed down her cheeks.
  • I had known this woman and thought she was one of
    the most Christlike women I had ever met. She
    always baked bread, rolls, or cookies for
    the people in the neighborhood. Whenever
    they had a ward party and the Relief
    Society sisters cleaned up, she always
    scrubbed the floor. She said that she didn't
    feel worthy to stand by them and do the
    dishes after what she had done she only
    felt worthy to scrub the floor where they
    walked. She told me that she had never
    gossiped about anyone else. "How could I,"
    she said, "after what I had done?"

14
Finally
  • I listened to her confession, humbled to
    tears, and told her, "I have never had a case
    of abortion before. I will need to write to
    President Kimball, then the President of the
    Quorum of the Twelve, and get his counsel."
  • I wrote to President Kimball and shared the
    entire story. I told him that she was one of
    the most Christlike women I had known and that
    she was willing to submit to any decision he
    would have for her. Two weeks later I received
    his response. I called the sister and asked her
    to meet me at the stake office as soon as she
    could. When I arrived at the stake center, she
    was already there. Her eyes were red, and she
    was pale. I know she must have been on her
    knees several times after my call, asking for
    mercy.
  • Again I sat across the desk from her and said, "I
    do not want to keep you waiting one second
    longer. We are not even going to stop for prayer.
    Let me read you President Kimball's letter 'Dear
    President Featherstone You inquired about a
    woman who had been involved in an abortion
    thirty-four years ago. From the way you describe
    her, it sounds like she has long since repented.
    You may tell her on behalf of the Church she is
    forgiven. After a thorough and searching
    interview, you may issue this sweet sister a
    temple recommend so she can go to the temple and
    be sealed to her present husband.'
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