A Mighty Change

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A Mighty Change

• Mosiah 4-6

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Nephites Under King Benjamin

• Lived the
• Law of Moses

• Taught and lived the Law of the Gospel of Jesus
  Christ

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Did any one else live both?

• The Lord God hath sent his holy prophets among
  all the children of men to declare these things
  to every kindred, nation, and tongue, that
  thereby whosoever should believe that Christ
  should come, the same might receive remission of
  their sins, and rejoice with exceedingly great
  joy, even as though he had already come among
  them (Mosiah 313)

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Nephites response to the Gospel of Christ

• "Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast
  spoken unto us and also, we know of their surety
  and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord
  Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty change in
  us, or in our hearts, that we have no more
  disposition to do evil, but to do good
  continually" (Mosiah 52)

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President Benson

• "The Lord works from the inside out. The world
  works from the outside in. The world would take
  people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums
  out of people, and then they take themselves out
  of the slums. The world would mold men by
  changing their environment. Christ changes men,
  who then change their environment. The world
  would shape human behavior, but Christ can change
  human nature

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New Political Poll This Week

• Is Life Fair?
• Results
• 66- Yes
• 33- No

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Why do we do what we do?

• Our Behavior
• Is determined by
• What we think of ourselves
• Is determined by
• Our Relationship with Christ

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ARE WE ALL NOT BEGGERS?

• Beggars?
• How are we beggars?

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Mosiah 4

• Verse 19 For behold, are we not all
  beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same
  Being, even God, for all the substance which we
  have, for both food and raiment, and for gold,
  and for silver, and for all the riches which we
  have of every kind?
• Verse 20 And behold, even at this time, ye
  have been calling on his name, and begging for a
  remission of your sins. And has he suffered that
  ye have begged in vain?

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Natural Man?

• The Natural Man is an enemy to god
• What is the opposite of the Natural Man?
• becometh as a child submissive, meek, humble,
  patient, full of love, willing to submit to all
  things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon
  him, even as a child doth submit to his father

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Mosiah 411

• if you have known of His goodness
• and have tasted of His love
• andreceived a remission of your sins
• always retain in remembrance
• 1- the greatness of God
• 2- your own nothingness- unworthy creatures

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Contradiction?

• Psalm 8
• What is man, that thou art mindful of him?...For
  thou hast made him a little lower than the angels
  and hast crowned him with glory and honor

• Moses 110
• Now, for this cause I know that man is nothing,
  which thing I never had supposed.

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Finally, for the sake of retaining a remission
of your sins from day to day

• I would that ye should impart of your substance
  to the poorboth spiritually and temporally
• Why are the two forever tied to each?

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Mosiah 57

• And now, because of the covenant which ye have
  made
• Ye shall be called the children of Christ,
• For this day he hath spiritually begotten you

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The name of Christ

• I would that ye should remember to retain the
  name written always in your hearts
• And know the voice by which ye shall be called
  and also, the name by which he shall call you.
  (Mosiah 512)