The Worth of Souls

[onefour1]

In modern revelation we read:

Doctrine and Covenants 18:10
10 Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God;

In the Bible we read:

John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The two great commandments that Jesus gave were:

Mark 12:28-31
28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

John 13:34
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

There is a prophecy in the bible which states:

Matthew 24:12
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Do we love our fellow man? Do we truly care for their welfare? What are the iniquities that cause men's hearts to grow cold and to not love his fellow man? What are we to do to not let our hearts become as stones and despise and hate one another? Are we not all the children of the same Father? Are we not all brothers and sisters? What should we be doing to keep our hearts from waxing cold toward our fellow man?

 

[presonorek]

It could be true. Who knows for sure?

 

[onefour1]

The parable of the Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37
25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

What makes some of us avoid helping those in need? Do we see any value in helping others? Is it viewed as a burden? If so why?

 

[onefour1]

John 13:34
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

 

[dpr112yme]

In modern revelation we read:

Doctrine and Covenants 18:10
10 Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God;

In the Bible we read:

John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The two great commandments that Jesus gave were:

Mark 12:28-31
28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

John 13:34
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

There is a prophecy in the bible which states:

Matthew 24:12
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Do we love our fellow man? Do we truly care for their welfare? What are the iniquities that cause men's hearts to grow cold and to not love his fellow man? What are we to do to not let our hearts become as stones and despise and hate one another? Are we not all the children of the same Father? Are we not all brothers and sisters? What should we be doing to keep our hearts from waxing cold toward our fellow man?

May I share with you what I learned about God's 2 Commandments?
#1:
The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

And the second Commandment is: #2:
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

20 And God spake all these words, saying,

2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

13 Thou shalt not kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

15 Thou shalt not steal.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

The first 4 Commandments, first set, from verses 2 - 8 are verses on how to Love The Lord Your God with all your heart, mind and strength and soul.

The second set of Commandments from verses 12 - 17, the next 6 Commandments, are verses on how to Love Your neighbor as yourself.

Following the basics of even the Ten Commandments will prove beneficial to a Christian's life.

The first 4 Commandments deal with the person's relationship with God and the next 6 Commandments deal with the person's relationships with other humans.

 

[BreezeWood]

In modern revelation we read:

Doctrine and Covenants 18:10
10 Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God;

In the Bible we read:

John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The two great commandments that Jesus gave were:

Mark 12:28-31
28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

John 13:34
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

There is a prophecy in the bible which states:

Matthew 24:12
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Do we love our fellow man? Do we truly care for their welfare? What are the iniquities that cause men's hearts to grow cold and to not love his fellow man? What are we to do to not let our hearts become as stones and despise and hate one another? Are we not all the children of the same Father? Are we not all brothers and sisters? What should we be doing to keep our hearts from waxing cold toward our fellow man?

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16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son ...

16 For God so loved the world, that they gave their only begotten Son ...

Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani


the only thing worse happening to Jesus was what became - christianity, used in their name ...

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[onefour1]

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has looked upon Jesus' cry "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani" in this way:

"With all the conviction of my soul I testify that He did please His Father perfectly and that a perfect Father did not forsake His Son in that hour. Indeed, it is my personal belief that in all of Christ’s mortal ministry the Father may never have been closer to His Son than in these agonizing final moments of suffering. Nevertheless, that the supreme sacrifice of His Son might be as complete as it was voluntary and solitary, the Father briefly withdrew from Jesus the comfort of His Spirit, the support of His personal presence. It was required, indeed it was central to the significance of the Atonement, that this perfect Son who had never spoken ill nor done wrong nor touched an unclean thing had to know how the rest of humankind—us, all of us—would feel when we did commit such sins. For His Atonement to be infinite and eternal, He had to feel what it was like to die not only physically but spiritually, to sense what it was like to have the divine Spirit withdraw, leaving one feeling totally, abjectly, hopelessly alone.

But Jesus held on. He pressed on. The goodness in Him allowed faith to triumph even in a state of complete anguish. The trust He lived by told Him in spite of His feelings that divine compassion is never absent, that God is always faithful, that He never flees nor fails us. When the uttermost farthing had then been paid, when Christ’s determination to be faithful was as obvious as it was utterly invincible, finally and mercifully, it was “finished.” Against all odds and with none to help or uphold Him, Jesus of Nazareth, the living Son of the living God, restored physical life where death had held sway and brought joyful, spiritual redemption out of sin, hellish darkness, and despair. With faith in the God He knew was there, He could say in triumph, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.”

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[BreezeWood]

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has looked upon Jesus' cry "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani" in this way:

"With all the conviction of my soul I testify that He did please His Father perfectly and that a perfect Father did not forsake His Son in that hour. Indeed, it is my personal belief that in all of Christ’s mortal ministry the Father may never have been closer to His Son than in these agonizing final moments of suffering. Nevertheless, that the supreme sacrifice of His Son might be as complete as it was voluntary and solitary, the Father briefly withdrew from Jesus the comfort of His Spirit, the support of His personal presence. It was required, indeed it was central to the significance of the Atonement, that this perfect Son who had never spoken ill nor done wrong nor touched an unclean thing had to know how the rest of humankind—us, all of us—would feel when we did commit such sins. For His Atonement to be infinite and eternal, He had to feel what it was like to die not only physically but spiritually, to sense what it was like to have the divine Spirit withdraw, leaving one feeling totally, abjectly, hopelessly alone.

But Jesus held on. He pressed on. The goodness in Him allowed faith to triumph even in a state of complete anguish. The trust He lived by told Him in spite of His feelings that divine compassion is never absent, that God is always faithful, that He never flees nor fails us. When the uttermost farthing had then been paid, when Christ’s determination to be faithful was as obvious as it was utterly invincible, finally and mercifully, it was “finished.” Against all odds and with none to help or uphold Him, Jesus of Nazareth, the living Son of the living God, restored physical life where death had held sway and brought joyful, spiritual redemption out of sin, hellish darkness, and despair. With faith in the God He knew was there, He could say in triumph, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.”

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“Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.”

the two sides of Jesus during the final moments, humility in the end would be his salvation not so those that misconstrue its meaning and persist in wreckless, self inflicting and decietfull Idolatry.

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[onefour1]

One of the great stumbling blocks of people is pride.

2 Nephi 26:20
20 And the Gentiles are lifted up in the pride of their eyes, and have stumbled, because of the greatness of their stumbling block, that they have built up many churches; nevertheless, they put down the power and miracles of God, and preach up unto themselves their own wisdom and their own learning, that they may get gain and grind upon the face of the poor.

President Ezra Taft Benson wrote a great speech about pride:

 

[Zebra]

May I share with you what I learned about God's 2 Commandments?
#1:
The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

And the second Commandment is: #2:
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

20 And God spake all these words, saying,

2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

13 Thou shalt not kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

15 Thou shalt not steal.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

The first 4 Commandments, first set, from verses 2 - 8 are verses on how to Love The Lord Your God with all your heart, mind and strength and soul.

The second set of Commandments from verses 12 - 17, the next 6 Commandments, are verses on how to Love Your neighbor as yourself.

Following the basics of even the Ten Commandments will prove beneficial to a Christian's life.

The first 4 Commandments deal with the person's relationship with God and the next 6 Commandments deal with the person's relationships with other humans.

tomorrow is all souls day