(1443.3) 131:1.7 “In your lives overthrow error and overcome evil by the love of the living truth. In all your relations with men do good for evil. The Lord God is merciful and loving; he is forgiving. Let us love God, for he first loved us. By God’s love and through his mercy we shall be saved. Poor men and rich men are brothers. God is their Father. The evil you would not have done you, do not to others.” (See Paper 131)
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Gems of thought
29 posts · 2 participants · started Feb 22, 2020, 5:12 PM
Thank you Mara. In our study group, now called a discovery group, we had a Part IV theme, What does it truly mean for me to follow Jesus? There are two ancillary questions to help determine personal meaning: What must I add to my life? Plus What should I remove from my life and beliefs? No one was required to answer to the group.
It seems to me these are super important questions for personal assessment for progress. What is doctrine or how could any ecclesiastical authority, compared to an honest look at spiritual self for relationships, be more important? To follow Jesus is everything to a brave and faithful soul.
Still working on this!!!!!
our study group, now called a discovery group
That’s cool!
150:5.2 [Part IV]“When men and women ask what shall we do to be saved, you shall answer, Believe this gospel of the kingdom; accept divine forgiveness. By faith recognize the indwelling spirit of God, whose acceptance makes you a son of God. Have you not read in the Scriptures where it says,’In the Lord have I righteousness and strength. Also where the Father says,’My righteousness is near; my salvation has gone forth, and my arms shall enfold my people.’My soul shall be joyful in the love of my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation and has covered me with the robe of his righteousness. Have you not also read of the Father that his name’shall be called the Lord our righteousness.’Take away the filthy rags of self-righteousness and clothe my son with the robe of divine righteousness and eternal salvation. It is forever true,’the just shall live by faith. Entrance into the Father’s kingdom is wholly free, but progress — growth in grace — is essential to continuance therein..“Salvation is the gift of the Father and is revealed by his Sons. Acceptance by faith on your part makes you a partaker of the divine nature, a son or a daughter of God. By faith you are justified; by faith are you saved; and by this same faith are you eternally advanced in the way of progressive and divine perfection. By faith was Abraham justified and made aware of salvation by the teachings of Melchizedek. All down through the ages has this same faith saved the sons of men, but now has a Son come forth from the Father to make salvation more real and acceptable.”From Paper 131
(1443.5) 131:1.9 “If the faith of the Most High has entered your heart, then shall you abide free from fear throughout all the days of your life. Fret not yourself because of the prosperity of the ungodly; fear not those who plot evil; let the soul turn away from sin and put your whole trust in the God of salvation. The weary soul of the wandering mortal finds eternal rest in the arms of the Most High; the wise man hungers for the divine embrace; the earth child longs for the security of the arms of the Universal Father. The noble man seeks for that high estate wherein the soul of the mortal blends with the spirit of the Supreme. God is just: What fruit we receive not from our plantings in this world we shall receive in the next.”
131:3.6 He is the greatest of warriors who overcomes and subdues himself. Restraint in all things is good. He alone is a superior person who esteems virtue and is observant of his duty. Let not anger and hate master you. Speak harshly of no one. Contentment is the greatest wealth. What is given wisely is well saved. Do not to others those things you would not wish done to you. Pay good for evil; overcome evil with the good.
131:8.4 He is a wise man who regards all parts from the point of view of the whole.
131:8.5 Always remember that God does not reward man for what he does but for what he is; therefore should you extend help to your fellows without the thought of rewards. Do good without thought of benefit to the self.
- 132:3.4 Revealed truth, personally discovered truth, is the supreme delight of the human soul. . . .
132:4.8 “Upon the impartiality, fairness, and integrity of its courts the endurance of a nation depends. Civil government is founded on justice, even as true religion is founded on mercy.”
