Earn your way to Heaven? - Brad Wilcox

"I have born-again Christian friends who say to me, “You Mormons are trying to earn your way to heaven.”
I say, “No, we are not earning heaven. We are learning heaven. We are preparing for it (see D&C 78:7). We are practicing for it.”
They ask me, “Have you been saved by grace?”
I answer, “Yes. Absolutely, totally, completely, thankfully-yes!”
Then I ask them a question that perhaps they have not fully considered: “Have you been changed by grace?” They are so excited about being saved that maybe they are not thinking enough about what comes next. They are so happy the debt is paid that they may not have considered why the debt existed in the first place. Latter-day Saints know not only what Jesus has saved us from but also what He has saved us for. As my friend Brett Sanders puts it, “A life impacted by grace eventually begins to look like Christ’s life.” As my friend Omar Canals puts it, “While many Christians view Christ’s suffering as only a huge favor He did for us, Latter-day Saints also recognize it as a huge investment He made in us.” As Moroni puts it, grace isn’t just about being saved. It is also about becoming like the Savior (see Moroni 7:48).
The miracle of the Atonement is not just that we can live after we die but that we can live more abundantly (see John 10:10). The miracle of the Atonement is not just that we can be cleansed and consoled but that we can be transformed (see Romans 8). Scriptures make it clear that no unclean thing can dwell with God (see Alma 40:26), but, brothers and sisters, no unchanged thing will even want to."
Brad Wilcox, His Grace Is Sufficient, BYU Speech, 2011-07-12
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Jesus is With me! 😊❤

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Strong words and even more powerful statements. Amazing sermon.

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Absolutely! Thank you for watching!

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@@HelamansArmy thank you for sharing! Keep them coming!

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Scripture says faith without works is dead. Being saved is not get Christ's gift and hide it. Being saved is to receive Christ's grace and live as He would as much as possible. The parable of the talents is clear. Three men got talents. Two used them properly. One man buried his. He was not blessed. Christ's grace must be used properly or it is nothing. Faith in Christ will show in our behavior. Faith without following Him, without keeping his commandments, without Christ like behavior on our part is dead.