Just A Little Reminder

I just want to remind everyone that God is real. You can stand before Him in this life. There are many of us who have seen Him and talked to Him.
I remember the first time that my wife saw Heavenly Father. We had just recently gotten engaged, and we went out for an evening walk in a meadow. I had often prayed for her to receive a testimony that Heavenly Father approved of our plans to marry, and this evening my prayer would be answered.
In the meadow we found a nice grassy knoll where we sat, hand in hand, starting up at the stars. When the veil grew thin and the sky began to lighten, and we saw into heaven.
We saw Heavenly Father standing in His court, and my bride-to-be saw and heard our Father give me instructions concerning her.
She had her testimony, and that testimony has been a source of great strength to both her and me.
The Heavenly Father waits for all His children to call upon him. There is nothing more important to Him than you. You are everything to Him. As the Father ran to his prodigal son to embrace him home, so the Father will receive you when you return to Him.
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The Gift Of Eternal Marriage

The gift of Eternal Marriage is offered to those who have kept themselves pure and have qualified themselves.  It is not granted to those who have disqualified themselves.  The Lord will not be mocked, neither will he allow His laws to be trampled upon, especially by those who hold the oracles/claim to hold the oracles and perform sealings that are not in accordance with the laws that He has set to govern these things. 

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The Wicked Take The Truth To Be Hard

From time to time I am asked rather serious questions whose answers are often painful, both to the person asking the question, as well as to me.  It is also painfully obvious that the person asking the question is quite aware of the answer, and they are really only looking for justification or excuse to behave as they wish to behave. 

Jesus related that in His father’s house are many mansions. 
And Paul was caught up to the seventh heaven. 
Joseph and Sydney saw the various degrees of glory. 

From these accounts and others, we find that God has prepared a place for all of us.  And it is evident that we are agents unto ourselves as to how far we progress.  What a great God who allows us the freedom to choose how we progress, and loves each of His children so much that He has prepared a place for each and every one. 

Nevertheless, no matter the extent of God’s grace, there are those who still want to do evil and gain a reward.  And often not just any evil, but the most heinous evils, and not just any reward, but they want the greatest reward, the greatest blessings, so they have devised a false doctrine to satiate their souls.  That being that they can go and do the most heinous crimes, then when they are filled, just get baptized and feign claim hold on Celestial glory. 

God cannot be deceived!  Nor can He be mocked.  His grace is sufficient for all those who humble themselves before Him and do the will of the Father, but He will not be mocked. 

Those who commit heinous crimes can repent.  They can “leave there thy gift before the alter, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.”  The Lord is merciful and kind, and all those who repent in sackcloth and ashes He will forgive, with the exceptions that Jesus related.  Those who repent and are forgiven can be released from Hell, but that does not mean that Celestial Glory, Eternal Marriage, or Godhood awaits.  That is why there are many mansions, different levels of heaven, and degrees of glory.  The scriptures are very clear on this issue. 

The gifts of Celestial Glory, Eternal Marriage, and Godhood are offered to those who have kept themselves pure and have qualified themselves.  They are not granted to those who have disqualified themselves.  The Lord will not be mocked, neither will he allow His laws to be trampled upon, especially by those who hold the oracles/claim to hold the oracles and perform sealings that are not in accordance with the laws that He has set to govern these things. 

Fear not to do good little flock, for it is your Father’s will to give you the Kingdom. 

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From "Realities"

I love these couple of paragraphs from the book, Realities, by M. Basilea Schlink. They can be found in chapter 18. 

"Scripture speaks about the faith that can move mountains. This is far more than merely believing something to be true or possible. It is a divine hurricane. It grips a man. It completely fills him. It lets him think and desire nothing else except that one thing which God has bidden him to obtain. For this, the man gripped by the spirit of faith gives his all. He is ready for any sacrifice. His will is linked to the will of Almighty God. Retreat is out of the question, so long as he is acting according to God's Word. Should God, however, give him to understand that He has changed His plan, he would at once give in."

"Our Lord Jesus said: "If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move hence to yonder place,' and it will move" (Matthew 17:20). And after this experience we could say: If you do not have faith and have no goal for your faith, because you are complacent and indifferent the "mountains" stay put. Those things which hinder the victory and the building of God's kingdom are removed only by a fighting faith. God wanted a house to be built. When that desire of God met with faith in us, the house was built."

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The Father and The Son

In my last post I wrote how the knowledge of who God really was, was lost.  In this post, I will share some of what was revealed and taught at the time of the Prophet Joseph. 

"There are two personages who constitute the great, matchless, governing, and supreme power over all things, by whom all things were created and made, that are created and made, whether visible or invisible, whether in heaven, on earth or in the earth, under the earth, or throughout the immensity of space.  They are the Father and the Son -- the Father being a personage of spirit, glory, and power, possessing all perfection and fullness, the Son, who was in the bosom of the Father, a personage of tabernacle, made or fashioned like unto man, or being in the form and likeness of man, or rather man was formed after his likeness and in his image ; he is also the express image and likeness of the personage of the Father, possessing all the fullness of the Father, or the same fullness with the Father ; being begotten of him, and ordained from before the foundation  of the world to be a propitiation for the sins of all those who should believe on his name, and is called the Son because of the flesh, and descended in suffering below that which man can suffer ; or, in other words, suffered greater sufferings, and was exposed to more powerful contradictions than any man can be.  But, notwithstanding all this, he kept the law of God, and remained without sin, showing thereby that it is in the power of man to keep the law and remain also without sin ; and also, that by him righteous judgment might come upon all flesh, and that all who walk not in the law of God may justly be condemned by the law and have no excuse for their sins.  And he being the Only Begotten of the Father , full of grace and truth and having overcome, received a fullness of the glory of the Father, possessing the same mind with the father, which mind is the Holy Spirit, that bears record of the Father and the Son, and these three are one ; or, in other words, these three constitute the great, matchless, governing and supreme power over all things ; by whom all things were created and made that were created and made, and these three constitute the Godhead, and are one ; the Father and the Son possessing the same mind, the same wisdom, glory, power, and fullness -- filling all in all ; the Son being filled with the fullness of the mind, glory, and power ; or, in other words, the spirit, glory, and power, of the Father, possessing all knowledge and glory, and the same kingdom, sitting at the right hand of power, in the express image and likeness of the Father, mediator for man, being filled with the fullness of the mind of the Father ; or, in other words, the Spirit of the Father, which Spirit is shed forth upon all who believe on his name and keep his commandments ; and all those who keep his commandments shall grow up from grace to grace, and become heirs of the heavenly kingdom, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ ; possessing the same mind, being transformed into the same image or likeness, even the express image of him who fills all in all ;  being filled with the fullness of his glory, and become one in him, even as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one." 

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Another Jesus, Another Gospel

In the 1920's, the LDS President Heber Grant commissioned James Talmage (one of their quorum of the Twelve) to sequester himself in the Holy of Holies in the Salt Lake Temple.  There, he was to write, or I should say rewrite, the doctrine of the character of Christ.  The infamous book entitled "Jesus The Christ" was the result. 

"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity
that is in Christ. 

"For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we
have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him." 

It was not long after the death of Christ, when the Christians rewrote the doctrine of Christ, fulfilling prophecy and created "another Christ". 

It was not long after the death of the Prophet of the Restoration, when Grant and Talmage fulfilled the same prophecy, creating "another Christ". 

In order to have perfect faith in God, we need to have a proper understanding of God.  And it certainly looks like Grant didn't want people talking to God.  I have noticed that it is a common trait among all those who exercise unrighteous dominion to change true doctrine to keep their followers from talking directly with God. 

Talmage, just as the Romans, created the other Christ, the Beast, the Trinity doctrine.  And thereby the true character of God and His Son was lost. 

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Whose On The Lord's Side, Who?

Matthew 6:24 
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

How horrible it is when I hear people teaching false, and vain, and foolish doctrines.

Everyone has a right to believe what ever they want, but do I have to stay and listen to it?  And what do you do when they are teaching false doctrines in front of children? Children!

I spoke my peace that we should live the gospel. And when it was trampled underfoot, I left.

I have to side with the Gospel of Christ. We have to love each other. We cannot compromise with the world. We cannot lower our standard to get along in the world. The Lord said to take up our cross.

Matthew 16:25–29.

25 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me. 

26 And now for a man to take up his cross, is to deny himself all ungodliness, and every worldly lust, and keep my commandments. 

27 Break not my commandments for to save your lives; for whosoever will save his life in this world, shall lose it in the world to come. 

28 And whosoever will lose his life in this world, for my sake, shall find it in the world to come. 

29 Therefore, forsake the world, and save your souls; for what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

It doesn't get much clearer than that!

There is no compromise with the Lord. There is no middle ground, no half way, no leeway, no happy medium.

There is only His way, or the world's way.

Whose side are you on?