09/11--
LORD'S DAY-SUNDAY-SABAOTH
Isaiah 14 IVHow To Win Friends And Influence People, pp. 19-28.I learned not to be critical of people generally from being criticized very harshly myself and my philosophy is to look for the good in people. But I have failed at these precepts majorly in the past.
Isaiah Chapter 14 is about the Restoration of Isreal and, I think, the Short Season at the end of the chapter.
I think the book, Rewire Your Heart: Replace Your Desire For Sin With Desire for God, is going to change my whole life, not to mention Dale Carnegie's book. I have those two books, as well as this Diary (56) and the IV Bible with me on the front porch as I wait for Gordon and Della to come pick me up for Church. There is a potluck lunch today.
Once I stop merely saying 'no' to sin and start also saying 'yes' to Jesus (which the book will teach me how to do practically) I will achieve the victory, but in the end, we all only do what we want to do. How bad do I want to quit the two bad things I do? How much more do I actually love God more than my sins? I'll find out soon enough, O Lord.
Last night I had 250 Casey's App points which I redeemed on the App for 1.00 Casey's Cash. Lacking 78¢ for an X-tra large pop, I called Rick who was up working on his mail at 2 AM and asked him if he had $0.78 . He looked and said he had a dollar and as I left to pick it up I locked myself out of my apartment again. I called Rick and asked him if he had the keys to the church and he said yes. I walked to Rick's house, gave him the dress shirt I had borrowed from him back, and Rick drove me to Pastor Pete's church, where he let me in and I got an X-tra Large Dr. Pepper, then home. I have my spare keys in my pocket to give back to Pastor Pete hopefully sometime today.
Tomorrow Della and Gordon should pick up my blue bike in their (just got in the car) truck when its done in the shop, which may take all day. Plus tomorrow I may have to go to the Office of Disability Determinations or Tuesday, I'm not sure which.
8:52 AM
@ Church. I am sitting next to Bro. Paul Ludy. Dee is playing the piano. It is before Early Morning Worship. God, help me to bring Alfred's Adult Piano Lesson Book Course A and Introduction To Musical Knowledge next Sunday. Amen. Help Dee to be able to give me a good Music Lesson. Help me to be a good student, apt to hear, slow to speak, but able to ask the right questions. Amen. Help me to learn how to Meditate properly. Amen. Help me to stop seeing false visions. Amen.
Help Pastor Pete to see a change in me as it regards porn. Amen. Help me to be a good husband to my future wife, and a good father to my children. Help me never to get a divorce or to be divorced nor to have my marriage annulled. Help me to be a couragious champion for my wife. Amen.
Help me to pay attention in Sunday School and to take good notes. Amen.
Help me to find a ride to the Central Missouri Branches Meeting tonight. Amen.
Sunday School Notes: Alma 16:171 RLDS.
Diligence, Faith,
Faith, Longsuffering,
Patience=Partake of the Fruit of the Tree of Life until ye are filled.
If ye are cast out of your synagogues, you can still worship God:
Alma Quotes Zenos.
-In the wilderness.
-In the field.
-In my closet.
-In the midst of thy congregations.
Prayer
Alma 16:219 RLDS
Parallels: Alma 16:184 RLDS
Zenos.
It is because of God's Son that thou hast been merciful to me. Thou hast turned away thy judgment because of thy Son.
Quotes another prophet.
God is angry because they did not understand his Son's mercies.
Look and be healed.
The Serpent was lifted up in the wilderness.
All men shall stand before Him to be judged at the last and judgment day.
They were part of a group (the Zoramites) that bragged that they didn't need to believe in Jesus. They didn't believe. They hardened their hearts. What about us? Do we not harden our hearts? The Seminaries teach Calvinism. Determinism is the doctrine of the Antichrist. Denies accountability. Denies our Agency.
I desire that ye plant this Word in your hearts.
Nourish it. It will become a tree springing up unto everlasting life.
Alma 16:201 RLDS
Amulek:
Alma spoke unto you to prepare your minds; to exhort you to faith and to patience.
The Word is in Christ unto Salvation.
For it is expedient that an atonement be made, for according to the great plan of the eternal God, there must be an atonement made, or else all mankind must unavoidably perish.
No man's blood can atone for another.
Must be a Great and Last Sacrifice.
There can be nothing short of an Infinite Atonement to. . .
bring salvation to all those who shall believe on his name.
And thy mercy can satisfy the demands of justice.
Those who do not have faith unto repentance... are exposed to the whole law, wherefore mercy cannot satisfy the demands of justice.
It's through Jesus that all of these things can be.
Ignorant people think its all been done away, "oh, that's in the Old Testament" but even Jesus pointed back to the Old Testament.
Loving God and loving our neighbor and eachother as he loved us is the fulfillment of the Law.
We have a law of speeding. You can go as fast as you want but there's no guarantee that (you will get away with it.).
Prayer.
Cry unto him in your fields.
Over all your flocks.
In your houses.
Over your households.
Against your enemies.
Against the devil.
Over your crops, over your fields that they may increase.
Pour out your souls in your closets.
Let your hearts be drawn out in prayer.
If you don't reach out to the poor and needy, all this is in vain.
The Law of Moses was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.
We don't still play the number games, 2+2=4, 4X4=16 (Examples) we played in school but we don't throw the facts away; we still use them.
Matthew 5:19.
After ye have received so many witnesses come forth with fruit meet for repentance. Harden your hearts no more.
He included baptism.
Saved from the fires of hell but saved for heaven. A saved person who is outside the Church is saved from the fires of hell (unless he/she is presented with the fullness of the Gospel, is accountable for his/her sins and rejects the fullness of the Gospel-BLSKV), but they may have to go to Purgatory or a temporary heavenly Paradise before the final judgment or temporary telestial or terrestrial Glory after the final judgment.
I believe Restoratonism has gone soft on their Doctrine of Exclusivity, that James Edwards so clearly described in a verse of 'I have Found The Glorious Gospel' conveniently left out of all three Saints' Hymnals. Our Exclusivity is a Fundamental Restoration Distinctive. Paul Ludy made me think of that Doctrine in a brand new way in Sunday School Class this morning.
Jesus, please help me to be more like You, O Lord, Amen.
Rewire Your Heart, Book Review Page.
John 6:44
No man can come to Me unless He doeth the will of the Father who sent Me; and this is the will of the Father who sent me, that he Believes in... also him who does the will of the Father who sent me him will the Father lift up in the Resurrection of the (last day.?)
Introit, Just A Closer Walk With Thee-Dan and Darcy Brotherton
"Be still and Know I am God
Hold on to that Iron Rod
(Walk) the Path Christ Trod
. . . . "
-Wonderful verse that was added.
Hymn 243 Shout the Tidings of Salvation
Invocation.
Offering and Children's offering.
Offertory prayer.
Sermon.
Phillippians 3:13-15
Becoming perfect.
:13 Apprehending-becoming perfect.
Press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling (. .?) Christ Jesus.
Keep your eye on the prize.
God helps direct us toward this state of perfection.
God will reveal what it is we need to do to become perfect.
God will show us our imperfections.
In the Book of Mormon I always wondered why the Vision of Lehi was in the beginning of the the Book.
Finally, the Lord revealed to him that that's a part of the culture of the people of the Book of Mormon.
Always in the Book of Mormon there is that imagery of us walking down the path holding onto the iron rod.
(And always in the Bible is the imagery of trying to get back through the fiery sword to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Life-BLSKV)
Isaiah 50 something verse 8-9.
As heaven is higher than earth. My ways higher than your ways; my thoughts than your thoughts.
God's ways are very different from our ways. Time and money are different to him.
A man was a captain on the bridge of a very large ship. They were on a collision course with a light. They messaged: 10 "Alter your course 10° South. The message came back: Alter your course 10° North.
"Alter your course 10° South. I am a Captain."
"Alter your course 10° North. I am a Seaman First Class."
"Alter your course 10° South. I am a Battleship."
"Alter your course 10° North. I am a Lighthouse."
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon Him while He is near.
Often in our better moments when we ask Him, what do you want me to do, he will answer us.
O DEAR LORD! Please help Colt to call me again! Amen!
Special Music "He Touched me."
Dan and Darcy Brotherton.
Hymn #236
We've A Story to Tell
Benediction
O Lord, you haven't forgotten any of the prayers I have ever prayed to You, anything I have ever prayed to You, anything I have ever asked you for, or any vow or covenant or promise I have ever made to you or with you, or that you made with or to me.
O God, help me to no longer procrastinate the hour or even the minute of my repentance. Help me to say not only no to sin but yes to Jesus as I said no to more food and yes to water, and teach me how to practically do that. Amen.
"When a man's fight begins with himself, he is worth something"-Robert Browning.
Genesis 16 IV.
In 536 AD, Krakatoa erupted in Indonesia in an eruption that could be heard as far as 3000 miles away, in China. Dust and ash spewed into the air and blocked out the sun all over the world for about 10 years, bringing on an untimely Winter, war, famine, etc.
Gordon and Della dropped me off at Pastor Pete's church, and I gave him my Spare Keys to keep at his church.
THREE WITNESSES THAT "THEIR TABLES ARE FULL OF VOMIT"
-The Scriptures in the Prophets say it in the Bible.
-The Prophet Joseph F. Smith said it.
-I once had a dream where the LORD showed me their tables being full of vomit. (Vomit communion).