Remember, too, as we focus on the glories and importance of family life here, that all of us belong to the eternal family of our Father in Heaven. (See Jacob 1:19). Numerous billions we spend on liquor and tobacco. April 1966 General Conference, Ezra Taft Benson: Our God-given Rights October 1968 General Conference. Certainly, the fig tree is shooting forth its leaves and the summer is nigh and the signs of the times presage the harvest with its separation of the righteous and unrighteous. Granaries and barns will bulge in seed time and harvest. The Miracle of Forgiveness - Wikipedia Protection is not in walls nor mountains nor cliffs, yet foolish men still lean on the arm of flesh., The walls of Babylon were too high to be scaled, too thick to be broken, too strong to be crumbled, but not too deep to be undermined when the human element failed Dan. Changes can come best if we take one item at a time.https. He passed away in 1985 in Salt Lake City. Throughout my experience in leaving Disney, I pondered and searched this quote from President Spencer W. Kimball: "Security is not born of inexhaustible wealth but of unquenchable faith."1Our true security and peace is born of faith in Jesus Christ. People are destroyed by their own acts. Chapter 2: Tragedy or Destiny? - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter In the Church there is full equality between man and woman. It is so easy for leisure to turn into laziness. 2:7.) The Lord said to them: O all ye that are spared because ye were more righteous than they [the slain ones], will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you? 3 Ne. That infallible cure is simply righteousness, obedience, Godliness, honor, and integrity. In God is protection, safety, peace. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. Rushing for their lamps to light their way through the blackness, half of them found them empty. Partly due to his work in Brazil and other South American countries, he was led to question the Churchs policy of restricting priesthood and temple blessings from those of African descent, a practice which had begun during the time of Brigham Young. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. 20:7 italics added). (See Jonah 3:3.) On occasions when you ache for that acceptance and affection which belong to family life on earth, please know that our Father in Heaven is aware of your anguish, and that one day he will bless you beyond your capacity to express. By President Spencer W. Kimball From an address delivered to the Young Presidents organization, Sun Valley, Idaho, 15 January 1977 Spencer W. Kimball, "Jesus: The Perfect Leader," Ensign, Aug. 1979, 5 There are far more things to be said about the Lord Jesus Christ's remarkable leadership than I believe that the Ten Virgins represent the people of the Church of Jesus Christ and not the rank and file of the world. Spencer W. Kimball began work as a bank clerk, then moved on to the life insurance and real estate industries. (Matthew 25:1-13.) Fear envelops the world which could be at ease and peace. (See Moses 6.) BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 25 Issue 4 Article 14 10-1-1985 Spencer W. Kimball at College Edward L. Kimball Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Where else can you learn who you really are? (Published as Spencer W. Kimball, "'When the World Will Be Converted,'" Ensign, October 1974, 3-14.) Unfortunately for me, I am in the hospital here in Salt Lake City and will not be present with you in person, but I will be with you in spirit. President Boyd K. Packer indicated that Elder Kimball felt that his father came to him in this dream to let Spencer know that he approved of his life. It is very ill. Long ago it was born with brilliant prospects. ye cannot enter now. One stroke of his omnipotent hand could make powerless all nations who oppose and save a world even in its death throes. Spencer W. Kimball: A Prophetic Warning To the World - Oct. 1961 Thou shalt have no other gods before me Ex. Has there ever been an era when so many nations, large and small, have been involved in wars? Spencer Woolley Kimball (March 28, 1895 - November 5, 1985) was an American business, civic, and religious leader who was the twelfth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). These real heroines have true humility, which places a higher value on integrity than on visibility. The pioneers thought it would be soon and watched for signs; our grandparents watched for the sprouting of the fig tree; our parents watched for the reddening of the sky; and we ourselves have heard all our lives that the Second Coming is near. Can they not see the gross selfishness that will lead finally to deep loneliness? 45:1. Both a righteous man and a righteous woman are a blessing to all those their lives touch. We do reap what we sow. Sometimes people let their hearts get so set upon things and the honors of this world that they cannot learn the lessons they most need to learn. 26:46 The Israelites failed to heed the warning. But a controlling majority of the people of this world have relegated them to the past. If we are of the masses who are casual, passive, irreligious, irreverent, unholy, immoral, ungodly, then we must repent or suffer D&C 19:4. . They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.8. We read of Enoch who was called when but a lad. It is a capitulation to the carnal in man and a rejection of joy and beauty in this life and in the world to come. Perhaps they judged Paul by the timbre of his voice or by his style of speech, not the truths uttered by him. The trouble with rejection because of personal familiarity with the prophets is that the prophets are always somebodys son or somebodys neighbor. Their examples helped him gain a testimony of their callings as ministers of Jesus Christ. President Kimball commissioned extensive study of the scriptures in regard to the matter, and after hearing from Elder Bruce R. McConkie that there was nothing in the scriptures to necessitate the restriction, he made it a matter of fervent and exhaustive prayer in the temple. So long had it been since they began expecting him that they were rationalizing that he would never appear. He could not do the one last thing that Jesus asked: Sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor. (Luke 18:22.) It cannot remember its previous illnesses nor the cure which was applied. The late Elder JohnA. Widtsoe wrote: The place of woman in the Church is to walk beside the man, not in front of him nor behind him. 26:14-43. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. they cried, and all together we pulled and strained. These are eternal differenceswith women being given many tremendous responsibilities of motherhood and sisterhood and men being given the tremendous responsibilities of fatherhood and the priesthoodbut the man is not without the woman nor the woman without the man in the Lord (see 1Cor. They had the saving, exalting gospel, but it had not been made the center of their lives. For instance, we read that war, pestilence, plagues, famine, etc., will be visited upon the inhabitants of the earth, but if distress through the judgments of God comes upon this people, it will be because the majority have turned away from the Lord., The worlds living prophet has warned and pleaded that the people return to God, who has said again: I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise D&C 82:10. In Tennyson's poem "Guinevere," the queen, repenting her infidelity, recognizes that the harm she has caused cannot be undone: Neither shall the sword go through your land. The testimonies of the holy prophets of God have been written in the scriptures but also have often been written in red because these individuals are the Lords prophets. The householder said: Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. Precisely at the darkest hour, when least expected, the bridegroom came. They ignored the prophets. 20:9 italics added). He gave us the parable of the farmer who sowed good seed in his ground but whose enemy planted tares in the field. These study aids were helpful not only in clarifying meaning, but also in linking the Bible, Book of Mormon, and other scripture more closely together, fulfilling the prophecy that the sticks of Joseph and Judah would be one in hand. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain Ex. "There will be no general warning to the membership that things will be shortly falling apart. Decadence is very demanding and dogmatic, and it is no friend of liberty. It seems that rather than fast and pray, we prefer to gorge ourselves at the banquet tables and drink cocktails. . I should like first to pay special tribute to the divinely inspired Primary organization of the Church. And there are many among us who are not ready for the great and glorious event. With bulging eyes and gasping mouths they struggled. Paul wrote: For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. Timeline of Mormon Thinking About Homosexuality And the fulness of his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity Ether 2:9. Like. If, in the short term, we are sometimes dealt with insensitively and thoughtlessly by others, by imperfect men and women, it may still cause us pain, but such pain and disappointment are not the whole of life. Indeed, he seeks the misery of all mankind (2Ne. In multiple scriptures the Lord has indicated that he will perform his work through those whom the world regards as weak and despised. While the iron curtains rise and thicken, we eat, drink, and make merry. He predicted earthquakes and other terrestrial disturbances and we think of earthquakes and landslides in California, Chile and Greece, Japan and Alaska, and unprecedented floods in the United States. Education for Eternity Illegitimate births are said to reach as high as one in ten, yet promiscuity far exceeds illegitimacy. Hundreds of thousands of us today are in this position. Yet These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in Mt. They knew the way but gave only a small measure of loyalty and devotion. We think of Russia and China, of Africa and VietNam, of the Near East and Ireland. The initiated who knew fish and were able to judge picked the worthless ones and cast them back into the sea. The grandson of early Latter-day Saint apostle Heber C. Kimball, Kimball was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.He spent most of his early life in Thatcher, Arizona, where his . May you find every home to which you return a real Latter-day Saint home with all the gospel in it. Nothing less will do under those conditions. From whom else could you learn of our Father in Heavens glorious plan of happiness? (Matthew 13:49.) Some of you have not yet had the great privilege of marriage. Each began as an appetite that needed to be checked but which went unchecked. O that men would listen! (Acts 1:7.) Spencer W. Kimball From an address delivered at a Regional Representatives Seminar on Thursday, 4 April 1974. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. . 7:1-25 The thirteen colonies gained a permanent victory over superior forces, and America was born. No light had we; for that we do repent; The Second Century of Brigham Young University | BYU Speeches Fasting, family prayer, home teaching, control of bodily appetites, preaching the gospel, studying the scriptureseach act of dedication and obedience is a drop added to our store. Enduring in Faith to the End: "Take Heed That No Man Deceive You" I know that God lives, that Jesus is his Only Begotten Son, the Redeemer of the world, and that this is the Church of Jesus Christ, with him as its head. While we do not now remember the particulars, this does not alter the glorious reality of what we once agreed to. When the world is full of tribulation and help is needed, but it seems the time must be past and hope is vain, then Christ will come. I can transform my own life till it is perfected and then influence others when thus transformed. This saintly soul realizes there is one thing left undone to make him a totally honest man. From what other source can you learn about your own uniqueness and identity? How can one share obedience to the principle of tithing; a mind at peace from righteous living; an accumulation of knowledge? Your enemies will be astonished at the barrenness, sterility, desolation of the land they had been told was so choice, so beautiful, so fruitful. Few live up to the truth they know. At midnight! A closer look at Spencer W. Kimball's The Miracle of Forgiveness - MRM Ponder upon these great truths, especially in those moments when (in the stillness of such anxiety as you may experience as an individual) you might otherwise wonder and be perplexed. Many have found it too difficult and they slumber without due preparation. The wise had to go, else the bridegroom would have gone unwelcomed. I remember coming to this tabernacle as a boy from Arizona, with my father, to attend general conference. With no warning, no last-minute preparation is possible. By President Spencer W. Kimball Read by his wife, Sister Camilla Kimball My beloved sisters: I have been looking forward for months to the pleasure of meeting with you dear sisters once again in a worldwide conference of the women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Can they not see that their kind of fulfillment will produce a hollowness and an emptiness from which no fleeting pleasure can finally rescue them?
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