March 25, 2015

"Thoughts"




 

Today I was asked for my thoughts on this video – here they are!

 

Okay  - thoughts – it is a good presentation – like many others – similar – however strikingly being generic – much was left out that is most important.

 

First and foremost they forgot to say who we're to love first! First, we love Heavenly Father and His Only Begotten Son! Second, we love ourselves as our neighbors! Now back to the first - if you love Heavenly Father and His Only Begotten Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior - then you'll keep all of their Commandments! You'll believe them literally - and thus you'll believe those who speak with their authority on their behalf - their Prophets and Apostles - all of them - those from the past and those called and alive today.

 

The movie left all of this out! In order to do this one must make choices - either to be worldly or not! For none can have two masters. God our Heavenly Father and His Son - are not Gods of confusion - the Scriptures are quite clear on this. Therefore there are not many churches - if so then the Gospel would not be found on this earth today. As Paul testified and all of the Prophets and Apostles - that there would be an apostasy - an apostasy means a falling away from the truth - Gnosis! What would be left is Logismoi! Or other words - man's wisdom of rhetoric - a mixture of lies and a little bit of truth.

 

Thus, if one chooses to believe that the above is not the case - they can love all they want - they can do whatever they want - but they will not be completely following the Commandments of the Father or the Son. They'll be good people - which is why Paul explained the three (3) degrees of Glory that all living will someday attain - either Terrestrial - Telestial - or The Celestial - then within each Kingdom there are different levels - or Kingdoms within Kingdoms. Yet only in the Celestial at the highest degree of Glory will one find the eternal family of which the Prophets and the Savior taught about and still do today. Remember the Savior said, "In my Father's house there are many mansions, and I go to prepare a place for you," why mansions if all we're going to be is spirit without a body of flesh and bone like the Savior had at his resurrection and when he ascended into heaven?

 

One must understand they'll only believe what they want to believe - and all of the churches in the world - only one teaches this principle of eternal life - as a family unit for time and all eternity - but all of the Prophets understood this then and those alive today.

 

As to Prophets and Apostles - not one - zero ever called themselves to be a Prophet or Apostle - then as now it is the same. If there are Prophets and Apostles on this earth today - they have to have been called by the Savior! I testify that there is a living Prophet on this earth today - why, because the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored in it's fullness as so many in their repetitive 'Lord's Prayer' pray for - 'Thy kingdom come' - if the Kingdom hasn't been restored - then the King cannot come!

 

Our day is no different than any other dispensation where the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been on this earth - even to the point where they've murdered the Prophet of this last dispensation - they've murdered Apostles - and most of all they've murdered - raped - women and children as well as men who've followed the Prophet of this dispensation. They were forced out of Ohio, Missouri, Illinois across the mid-West into the Rocky Mountains as have always been the true followers of the Savior and those called by Him! Newspapers, churches, courts screamed for their blood - and even today they're attacked - not with the associated open violence - but still the same - as to how their treated - maybe Charles Dickens said it best, "It's not what they do that's so appalling - but it's what they say - believing in Angels, Revelation, Miracles in the day of railroad trains."

 

The thoughts are always the same - but few listen which is fine - each has their agency to be in the world - or a follower of the Savior - as Samuel said long ago, 'But for me and my family we'll follow the Lord!' 

 

“Thoughts”

 

cji

3/26/15

 

Amid the gray matter

occupying my mind

over and over screams

why can’t they listen

why can’t they test

why can’t they taste

sweetness in the word

literally understanding

what the world denies

my thoughts weary

repeated over and over

coring the apple again

fingers trembling often

inadequately typing

tears falling in darkness

feelings exposed to air

failing strength to express

truth in all its plainness

taxing my mind to find

words more understanding

amid gray matter of mind!

 

 

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