God Is Love

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God Is Love

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Oh! That part!

• A few days ago I was having some work done at my
  local garage. A woman came in and asked for a
  seven-hundred-ten. We all looked at each other
  and another customer asked, "What is a
  seven-hundred-ten?" She replied, "You know, the
  little piece in the middle of the engine, I have
  lost it and need a new one.." She replied that
  she did not know exactly what it was, but
  thispiece had always been there.
• The mechanic gave her a piece of paper and a pen
  and asked her to draw what the piece looked like.
  She drew a circle and in the middle of it wrote
  710. He then took her over to another car which
  had its hood up and asked "is there a 710 on this
  car?" She pointed and said, "Of course, its right
  there."

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Mormon

• behold I say unto you that a man cannot have
  faith and hope, save he shall be meek, and lowly
  of heart
• and if a man be meek and lowly in heart, and
  confesses by the power of the Holy Ghost that
  Jesus is the Christ, he must needs have charity

Meekness
Faith
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Mormon continues

• Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the
  Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may
  be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed
  upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus
  Christ
• that ye may become the sons of God that we may
  be purified even as he is pure." (Moroni
  748)

How does Love purify us?
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John, whom Jesus loved

• He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is
  love." (1 John 48)
• And we have known and believed the love that God
  hath to us. God is love and he that dwelleth in
  love dwelleth in God, and God in him." (1 John
  416)
• We love him, because he first loved us." (1 John
  419)
• Love not the world, neither the things that are
  in the world. If any man love the world, the love
  of the Father is not in him.

Parents can become confused on this one. What is
the difference between
Loving
Fixing Or Enabling
Question How many examples can you name of those
who have done hateful things in the name of God?
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Bro. Rodney Turner

• As spirit is drawn to Spirit, so is love drawn to
  Love. John wrote "We love him, because he first
  loved us". Above all other attributes, it is the
  love of the Father and the Son that ultimately
  draws the souls of men and women to them "without
  compulsory means". It is a compelling power.
• Few men have experienced such visions,
  revelations, and angelic visitations as were
  granted Joseph Smith. If ever a man would seem
  unneedful of others it was he. And yet the
  Prophet remarked "When persons manifest the
  least kindness and love to me, O what power it
  has over my mind" (TPJS 240).
• Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective,
  218

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Question

• How many new converts to the Church join because
  they first felt loved?
• Answer all of them. The Gift of the Holy Ghost
  is an expression of love. (I will not leave you
  comfortless)

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Elder Enzio Busche

• The only way that we will not suffer from the
  hardness of our hearts, as Christ explains, is
  to build within ourselves the power of love,
  literally asking our Heavenly Father for this
  gift, and becoming sanctified through the
  atonement of Christ.
• When we become as children in humility, we can be
  filled with unconditional love and, in this love,
  we can be in the Spirit and with the Spirit,
  being directed in all the challenges of our
  lives.
• The Power of Love in the Family," in Love,
  27-28.

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President Thomas S. Monson

• "Our Heavenly Father's plan contains the
  ultimate expressions of true love. All that we
  hold dear--even our families, our friends, our
  joy, our knowledge, our testimonies--would vanish
  were it not for our Father and His Son, the Lord
  Jesus Christ.... 
• The world has witnessed no greater gift, nor has
  it known more lasting love."  (Ensign, May 1993,
  pp62-63)

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Elder Busche

• One day when circumstances made it necessary for
  me to be at home at an unusual time, I witnessed
  from another room how our eleven-year-old son,
  just returning from school, was directing ugly
  words toward his younger sister. They were words
  that offended mewords that I had never thought
  our son would use. My first reaction in my anger
  was to get up and go after him. Fortunately, I
  had to walk across the room and open a door
  before I could reach him, and in those few
  seconds I fervently prayed to my Heavenly Father
  to help me to handle the situation. Peace came
  over me. I was no longer angry.
• My son, being shocked to see me home, was filled
  with fear when I approached him. To my surprise,
  I heard myself saying, "Welcome home, son!" and I
  extended my hand to him. Then I invited him to
  sit close to me in the living room for a personal
  talk. I heard myself expressing my love for him.
  I talked with him about the battle that every one
  of us has to fight each day within ourselves.
• As I expressed my confidence in him, he broke
  into tears and began confessing his unworthiness,
  condemning himself beyond measure. Now it was my
  turn to put his transgression in proper
  perspective and to comfort him. A wonderful
  spirit came over us, and we ended up crying
  together, hugging each other in love and finally
  in joy. What might have been a disastrous
  confrontation between father and son became, with
  help from the power above, one of the most
  beautiful experiences of our relationship that we
  have ever had, an experience we have never
  forgotten