I can do all things through Christ

1
I can do all things through Christ

• www.kevinhinckley.com

2
(No Transcript)
3
(No Transcript)
4
(No Transcript)
5
(No Transcript)
6
(No Transcript)
7
(No Transcript)
8
(No Transcript)
9
(No Transcript)
10
(No Transcript)
11
(No Transcript)
12
(No Transcript)
13
(No Transcript)
14
Question

• As Latter Day Saints, what drives us to do what
  we do?
• How can we tell when we are motivated more by

Fear?
Love?
15
13th Article of Faith- In Primary

• We believe in being honest, true, and chased by
  an elephant

16
13th Article of Faith

• We believe in being honest, true, chaste,
  benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all
  men indeed, we may say that we follow the
  admonition of Paul

17
Philippians 4

• Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
  whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things
  are just whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
  things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good
  report if there be any virtue, and if there be
  any praise, think on these things.
• Those things, which ye have both learned, and
  received, and heard, and seen in me, do and the
  God of peace shall be with you.

18
Question

• In our search for truth, how much truth can we
  find outside official LDS church sources?
• What is the danger in looking outside the church
  for truth?

19
President Hinckley and Church History

• We have critics who appear to cull out of a
  vast panorama of information those items
  which demean and belittle some men and women
  of the past who worked so hard in laying the
  foundation of this great cause. They find readers
  of their works who seem to delight in picking up
  these tidbits, in chewing them over and relishing
  them. In so doing they are savoring some small
  morsel, rather than eating a beautiful and
  satisfying dinner of many courses.
• My plea is that as we continue our search for
  truth, particularly we who are members of the
  Church, we look for strength and goodness rather
  than weakness and foibles in those who did so
  great a work in their time. We recognize that our
  forebears were human. They doubtless made
  mistakes. Some of them acknowledged making
  mistakes.
• But the mistakes were minor when compared with
  the marvelous work they accomplished. To
  highlight mistakes and gloss over the greater
  good is to draw a caricature. Caricatures are
  amusing, but they are often ugly and dishonest. A
  man may have a wart on his cheek and still have a
  face of beauty and strength, but if the wart is
  emphasized unduly in relation to his other
  features, the portrait is lacking in integrity.
• Faith The Essence of True Religion, 76-77.

Question In the search for truth, how much
weight should we put into older church history
sources?
20
Brother MilletWhat is Our Doctrine?

• very often the critics of the Church simply
  use our own "stuff" against us. They do not
  need to create new material they simply dig
  up and repackage what some of our own Church
  leaders have said in the past that would not
  be considered a part of the doctrine of the
  Church today.
• Latter-day Saints are eager to sustain and uphold
  their leaders. Consequently, we are especially
  hesitant to suggest that something taught by
  President Brigham Young or Elders Orson Pratt or
  Orson Hyde might not be in harmony with the truth
  as God has made it known to us "line upon line,
  precept upon precept
• Religious Educator, Volume 3

21
Brother Millet Continues

• Some time ago a colleague and I were in
  southern California speaking to a group of
  about five hundred people, both Latter- day
  Saints and Protestants. During the
  question-and-answer phase of the program,
  someone asked the inevitable "Are you really
  Christian? Do you, as many claim, worship a
  different Jesus?" I explained that we worship
  the Christ of the New Testament, that we
  believe wholeheartedly in His virgin birth,
  His divine sonship, His miracles, His
  transforming teachings, His atoning sacrifice,
  and His bodily resurrection from the dead. I
  added that we also believe in the teachings of
  and about Christ found in the Book of Mormon and
  modern revelation.
• After the meeting, a Latter-day Saint woman came
  up to me and said, "You didn't tell the truth
  about what we believe! Startled, I asked, "What
  do you mean? She responded, "You said we believe
  in the virgin birth of Christ, and you know very
  well that we don't believe that. "Yes, we do," I
  retorted. She then said with a great deal of
  emotion, "I want to believe you, but people have
  told me for years that we believe that God the
  Father had relations with Mary and thereby Jesus
  was conceived. I looked her in the eyes and
  said, "I'm aware of that teaching, but that is
  not the doctrine of the Church that is not what
  we teach in the Church today. Have you ever heard
  the Brethren teach it in conference? Is it in the
  standard works, the auricular materials, or the
  handbooks of the Church? Is it a part of an
  official declaration or proclamation?"
• I watched as a five-hundred-pound weight seemed
  to come off her shoulders, as tears came into her
  eyes, and she simply said, "Thank you, Brother
  Millet."

22
Paul Continues

• for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,
  therewith to be content.
• I know both how to be abased, and I know how to
  abound everywhere and in all things I am
  instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both
  to abound and to suffer need.
• I can do all things through Christ which
  strengtheneth me

23
President Hinckley and Paul

• According to my earnest expectation and
  my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed so
  now also Christ shall be magnified in my body,
  whether it be by life, or by death.
• But if I live in the flesh, ye are the fruit of
  my labor. Yet what I shall choose I know not.
• For me to live, is to do the will of Christ and
  to die, is my gain. Now I am in a strait betwixt
  two, having a desire to depart, and to be with
  Christ which is far better
• Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more
  needful for you.
• And having this confidence, I know that I shall
  abide and continue with you all for your
  furtherance and joy of faith