"Judgment...will occur after the Resurrection. God through Jesus Christ, will judge each person to determine the eternal glory [he or she] will receive. This judgment will be based on each person's obedience to God's commands, including [his or her] acceptance of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ" There will be 'unfailing consequence of blessings for righteous thoughts and acts, and punishment for unreported sins. Justice is an eternal law that requires a penalty each time a law of God is broken (Alma 42:13-24). The sinner must pay the penalty if he doesn't not repent (Mosiah 2: 38-39; D&C 19:17). If he does repent, the Savior pays the penalty through the Atonement, invoking mercy (Alma 34:16)" (Guide to the Scriptures, "Judgment, Justice")
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Elder Holland Quote about Heavenly Help
“God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.” ―Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Created for Greater Things "In the gospel of Jesus Christ, you have help from both sides of the veil, and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement strike—and they will—you remember and never forget that if our eyes could be opened we would see horses and chariots of fire as far as the eye can see riding at reckless speed to come to our protection. They will always be there, these armies of heaven, in defense of Abraham's seed.” ―Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Created for Greater Things
Monday, August 30, 2021
Perfect Worship is Emulation
Elder McConkie says, "Perfect worship is emulation. We honor those whom we imitate. The most perfect way to worship Jehovah is to be holy as He is holy. It's to be pure as Christ is pure. It's to do the things that enable us to become like the Father and the course is one of obedience."
So Elder McConkie says worship is imitation. When you start to think about it that way, what we call a worship service in the Church, you go to a building, you have somebody get up and preach a sermon, which is something Jesus did. When we have the most important part of our worship service, which all of us have thought a lot about in the last year, we have a person, a young man, get up, and break bread, and bless water, and then distribute it to everybody. Those are all things that Jesus did.
dand give it to people. So literally, we're asking a priest, a teacher and a deacon to act like Jesus for five minutes, and that'll help you become more like Jesus. We, in taking the sacrament also imitate Jesus. He took the sacrament to. That worship as imitation.
So it's like when we go to church, the reason why the sacrament is such a big deal is because for those four or five minutes, we're literally just setting everything down, turn off your phone, act like Jesus, and literally imitate actions that He did down here on earth. The idea being that that spreads to our entire life, but when Jesus is saying, "I want you to worship Me," now He starts to sort of take the lens off Himself and put it back onto us.
From a Follow Him Podcast about Doctrine and Covenants 93