Laws

It's obvious that god keeps laws. Look at laws. Are they restrictions? We take a wide field of possibilities and because of laws we are constricted rather down from the broad field to a narrow path. What is this like? It's a funnel. Why do we use funnels? to make sure whatever we are funneling arrives in the right place. God's laws are funnels for men to pass through, which allow us to arrive in heaven, and at that point we find the laws serving an opposite purpose, where suddenly it opens up the opposite way, and by those laws we are enabled to expand and broaden our own horizons eternally, as if we are led by laws to the door which then opens up for us to the eternies.

Powerful Undercurrents, Ominous Warnings

3 Nephi 27:11

•  If not built upon the gospel of Christ then even though the works of men will hold or seemingly suffice for a time, by and by the end always cometh and this joy ceases.  These things of men must fall.  The storm will come and is here among us.  Only the true gospel of Christ is strong enough to stand.  The rest is hewn down and cast into the fire.  What powerful undercurrents for the light, fun Primary Song.  Only the true gospel of Christ is strong enough to stand up to the storm, and maintain its foundations throughout the rains and floods.  Only by such can we avoid the foolish man's ominous fate.

A Masterful Arsenal

San Lucas 4:1-2, So we wonder how the word of God is like a sword.  Well, swords are used for fighting.  Against whom?  Satan, right?  So here the Son of God himself stands against the power of Satan, and what does he do to resist and retaliate?  What does He use to take the offensive in overcoming temptation?  Christ quoted the scriptures.  He wielded with masterful skill the word of God against the adversary.  The devil also tried to use scriptures against the Son of God.  And Christ had another scripture to retaliate again.  After all, it was He who had initially spoken the words to the ancient prophets.  This masterful arsenal of scriptures that He had were obtained and became of great worth to Him in those moments of trial and temptation.  

Steady Torrent

Ether 6:8

• These great winds and tempests continually carried them towards the promised land; So what if we didn’t have those trials, tribulations or those great winds and waves in this life?  What if the water were completely calm without wind or waves?  It would be a little more difficult to get anywhere.  How hard would that be to make it to the promised land?  344 days upon the water.  How much would that amount have increased without a steady torrent to blow them?

The Sting of Death

Alma 46:39, 41
• Isn’t that what Christ died and was resurrected for? To take away the sting of death? Why is it that at most funerals among Latter Day Saints there can be found a prevalent spirit of hope and peace rather than mournful, hopeless despairing? It is because that is precisely what our Savior did for us. Through Him the fear and sting of death is taken away and we can go out of this world rejoicing.

What does it take to have such rejoicing in a step that seems so sorrowful? A firm belief that our souls have been redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ. How tragic it would be to have no such hope. Those who die in the faith of Christ are happy in Him. But what’s more is that we can have firm belief and conviction that we will be reunited with these loved ones again. (Gen 49:29, 33 Numbers 20:24, 26 Gen 25:8 35:29) Thus it says that upon death these great ones were gathered up unto their people. They weren’t saved alone, but were blessed to be back with those they loved so much here. So we now ask, “o death where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory (1 Cor 15:55)? Even so Aaron also testified exultantly of the conquering of death and the hopes of glory we now have through Christ. Alma 22:14, Abinadi also and all of the prophets since the world began. Mosiah 16:6-7, 8-9, 2 Nephi 9:6-9. Awesome!

Insight to the Father

3 Nephi 27:30
• If you want to see the nature of our Heavenly Father, just look at what makes Him rejoice. Our righteousness and goodness cause Him to rejoice. Even all the heavens rejoice when we are found on His path. Is that not His great purpose, "to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man"? How great is His love for us if that is His greatest joy, knowing that one more of His precious children has found the way home!

Expect Miracles

Alma 57:26
• The stripling warriors, a veritable army of miracles. They fought and lost not a single soul. They had been taught- there was a just God, and whosoever did not doubt should be preserved and aided in all endeavors by God’s marvelous power. Because of their firmness of mind in what they’d been taught they received such aid. Is it any wonder they saw so many miracles, seeing as how that is what they had been taught to expect?