@SmallHelmonABigShip Thank y💖u as "always" for all your studies & work to dig up & find all these special spiritual priceless stories that I love with all my heart!!!
I'll disagree about the gift of healing is no longer with us. I've received many times and witnessed as well. It is the power in the priesthood which has done this.
You need to understand the difference between being healed by faith and healing by the power of the Holy Ghost. Anyone of any persuasion can and do become healed through their faith. Catholics do it. Even atheists do it. The LDS Church members have no monopoly on that. You have lost your light and you are no different thn other people. Nobody in this church speaks and interprets in tongues after the laying on of hands for the reception of the Holy Ghost. In fact such things are so discouraged, they are essentially forbidden.
@smallhelmonabigship3524 I don't know where you're getting that impression. I have never heard of people being disciplined in the church for preaching these doctrines of healing. Maybe you're ward is weird. We preach it and practice it. I encourage you to ask around whether or not people are seeing the same thing you're seeing. I get your point about people putting their faith in pharmaceuticals over the word of wisdom and our ability to be healed, and that there are few who actually have the faith to heal and be healed, but we are out there. We have seen it. It is happening. I have never seen it discouraged or forbidden, but I have seen the exact opposite. Please be very careful about this. It sounds like you are denying the existence of God performing miraculous healings just because you don't see it around you personally. I say this with love and encouragement: maybe you need to take a good look inward and repent of this and humbly ask if He might condescend enough to allow you to know the truth of it with an open heart without condemning the whole church based on something that's just not true. I testify in Jesus' name that healings are part of the Gospel from the beginning and they are still happening among the faithful without oppression from Christ's restored church...at least in my proximity.
@@smallhelmonabigship3524 *Why aren’t there miracles today like in the scriptures?* " The scriptures contain many accounts of miracles. Some are quite big and impressive, like parting the Red Sea or raising a person from the dead. But what about today? Do miracles still happen? Yes, they do. We may not always hear about them, but miracles are still happening in people’s lives all the time. Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has said: _“Many of you have witnessed miracles, more than you realize. They may seem small. … But the magnitude does not distinguish a miracle, only that it came from God”_ (Apr. 2021 general conference [Liahona, May 2021, 110]). Any help from God could be called a miracle. Many people experience miracles. Those people sometimes share their stories, but often they keep them sacred-between themselves and God. And remember these two important things about miracles: (1) miracles come only as people have faith, and (2) miracles happen according to the Lord’s will and timing. We may not get to choose how or when, but the Lord’s miracles do happen, even today. Even for you. " ( Why aren’t there miracles today like in the scriptures? www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ftsoy/2022/07/questions-and-answers/15-why-no-miracles?lang=eng )
Love that you draw from gospel doctrine!! We need to truly study the doctrine, Bible, Book of Mormon and all other sources revealed in truth through the Lord! Now is the time to know the gospel and differentiate between that and the “culture” of the church or other false teachings!! Thanks
Thanks. I listened the other day to a woman who left the Church and she was complaining about the policy of the Church on birth control. Which she is in favor of and is angry the Church used to be opposed to it. She mentioned the Church is now paying their employee's birth control through their insurance policy starting in 2023. True men of God would never accept the continual moral degradation and changes which the Church is contstantly undergoing. In the early twentieth century, The United States legalized involuntary sterilizations of innocent people against their will and without due process of law for eugenics reasons. 150,000 Americans were then sterilized. Utah was one of 33 states which legalized involuntary sterilizations. The stated goal by many American Eugenicists was to eventually sterilize 10% of the U.S. population. Many thousands more were imprisoned in Eugenics camps. Germany of course used the U.S. as a model for their own "final solution." Almost 400,000 Germans were sterilized after given the choice between euthanasia and sterilization. Less than 30 years after the end of WWII, Abotion was legalized in the U.S. The LDS Church promptly changed to accept abortions for eugenics reasons like incest. It is the idea that because the parents are relatives, their baby should be destroyed so it doesn't grow up get married and corrupt the gene pool. Today, 99% of the membership in the Church believes that is a Godly doctrine and become extremely angry if told otherwise. Like Isaiah says, good is promoted as evil, and evil is promoted as good. There is no hope for the Holy Ghost to be reintroduced among this people unless they have a change of heart and repent.
I've been in the church all my life and I have never heard anyone being disciplined by the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints speaking about the Holy Ghost, that sounds more like rumor because it's always been encouraged to receive the Holy Ghost, even in the early church. Also I have not heard in the church or any of the cases of abortion or pills except incest. I believe Elder Oaks explained it pretty well about abortion and other things and the teachings of the Apostle Paul it's pretty clear no one should consent or influence abortion at any time. I hear complaints by different individuals that has a problem with the church. Accusing the church or Bishops for not doing their job. I'm not saying they're all perfect, they should be inspired men to speak the words of Christ. The church does not condone the abortion the gays and lesbians or the those who want to abused their bodies however they desire. The Apostle Paul speaks of this also, our bodies are the temple and to take care of it. I haven't heard from you in awhile, I'm getting ready to head back to Idaho. Will be coming back through Utah. The gift of the Holy Ghost is pretty strong where I live with people in the church.
As a friend, I wish to appeal to the logic, reason and honesty within your heart. Please watch this shot five and a hlaf minute video call Baby Steps, 4D ultrasound. It shows a baby in his mother's womb, smiling, yawning, sucking his thumb, reacting to loud noises. ruclips.net/video/RBKKnCtNeRU/видео.html Basically, this baby is doing everything you would see a new born baby do. If you are honest, you cannot escape the conclusion that there is no difference between a baby in his mother's womb and one that is born. They are the same. If you have ever hekld a new bon baby in your arms, would you ever think to your self that you could destroy it? Of course not. You would lose your eternal life. Yet that is exactly what happens when we consent to abortion for any reason. There is no doubt that a baby feels intense pain and agony being ripped apart in the process. It should go without saying. Yet that is what happened 65 million times since this nation endorsed the practice in 1973. In the Bible James says that if we break even a single commandment we are in violation of the whole law. If we consent to even one of those 65 million babies lost, we are in violation of the law. All because a leader told us it was okay to do it, and we trusted in the arm of flesh. Exactly what we were warned against in the book of Mormon. If you studied the American Eugenics movement in the 20th century you would know the roots of where and how this started. People took to heart the teachings of Charles Darwin and his book the evolution of man and the preservation of the favoured races. People thought that they could speed up the evolution of men into a race of of supermen by eliminating what they considered the weak among the world. Many American Eugenicists wanted to sterilize ten percent of the American population so they could not have children. Ultimately 150,000 Americans were declared genetically unfit and sterilized against their will. Some were imprisoned in eugenics camps. It is a shameful chapter in American history. Americans helped finance the rise of the Nazi party following the chaos in Germany. When they came to power, they ultimately sterilized nearly 400,000 innocnet Germans, as a part of their final solution program. This is the wrong side of history. This is the devil's leacy. And you do not want any connection to it. Millions of American children were educated in public schools on eugencis and evolution. These policies have been like a poison on the landscape ever since. The current teaching that you can committ abortions for incest is purely a eugenics argument. It does not come from God, yet it is taught to the members as a godly principle. It is the idea that if two parents are related to each other, their baby should be destroyed because the baby might be flawed genetically. Because, if that baby should grow up and have children of his or her own, they would be corrupting the gene pool. And it is believed, that would inhibit the evolution of man into a race of supermen. The same old doctrine of devils which led to so much suffering in the world. All of my life when I try to explain that to members of the Church, they become bitter anf angry against me. It is the saddest thing. They think I am hating them. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am only trying to enlighten them. To educate them. It is the saddest and strangest thing.
You are SOOO Right about the modern true Church. What are we to do, I mean I do still try to preach the Gospel but I’m almost afraid to turn people over to the Elders and especially the church members because they are so lost. Apostle Runland used to use aborted fetus parts as a surgeon, and when asked about it he replied “that wasn’t on the temple recommend interview. When did it all go wrong? I our dear custodial prophet is a Pharmacist/sorcerer?? Love your videos,
Wow! I did not know that. Just like I did not know what someone else said about them paying for birth control for their employees starting in 2023. But it came out a couple of years back the manufacturers of this latest "jab" which has sickened so many millions of people issued a memo to their employees, instructing them not to talk about the role abortion played in their research and development. Yet, the leader of this Church told everyone, he was a man of science and to go and get it. I have struggled with this all my life. There are a lot of good people in the Church. It is the true Church, but so many of the members are so fragile, and cannot take even the smallest constructive criticism without feeling crushed. They have all been trained to be hypersensitive to what the world thinks and says about them. If only the members could grow a backbone and live up to the honor their hardy ancestors bestowed upon them. A lot of men, after going through a bitter divorce, stop worrying about what women think of them. The people of this church need to stop being so paranoid of what the world thinks of them. A world that will still hate them no matter how many concessions they make, or how many times they bow in submission before them. Maybe then, they could start worrying about what God thinks of them instead, and realize how badly they have been deceived. The people of this Church were given to be a salt to savor the earth. How different things would be if they were united and valiant, instead of being on the wrong side of history. The gifts of the Holy Ghost were promised to us so we would have the means to survive the coming tribulation. We will soon need those gifts more than ever. But there is only one way to get them.
It seems to me that the restored church of the Lamb of God is a lot like the Savior amongst the the Jews at Jerusalem Pharisees and Sadducee’s. Which really is the merging of the corporate side of the church with the spiritual side. I’m with you on the “jab” many young missionaries came home dead after the prophetic encouragement for it. And true we were once a hardy people, ones who went to war with the US army and won!! We have gotten real soft physically mentally and spiritually. It’s a shame
And we won without having to fight a single battle with them. The Catholic Church introduce the canon of infallibility of the Pope. The Pope is the mouthpiece for God and is infallible. They didn't create that canon because the Pope is always right. They did it so the vast majority of their members would defend them when they are wrong. @@dougfisher2078
I just want to point out at this point it says there are twelve comments. Yet only four show up for me to see as of this writing. That really frustrates me about youtube. What do the other comments say? Who knows?
Sorry, several of those were my attempts at posting my comment. YT kept deleting my comment every time so I had to keep editing it and trying to repost it. It apparently didn't like my testimony about witnessing miracles in healing.
He was an adulterous man got shot in the back and killed for having sex with another man’s wife. Same stuff Brigham pulled then tried putting the blame on Joseph who is innocent of all the crimes of adultery and polygamy!
SmallHelm, no more ambiguity son, what then should we do? What's your advice on whom to follow and where to turn to?, because it's starting to feel like all is lost, nobody is beyond reproach and even the author you keep referring to offers no real answers (I found and downloaded, printed out and tried to read his kit). Serious request for advice from an act conv rm who srvd in Cal frm Aus' who is looking for a rope..........
I have always been an unrighteous man. I am definitely not above reproach. If you don't know the answer to your question by now, you won't ever know it. If you are looking for a man to follow in this day of wickedness, you won't find one. "Cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh." The wicked are in charge of everything, because the people accepted them and followed them. They voted for them, they sustained them, they supported their policies. For decades the people in both major political parties were told to vote for the lesser of two evils. And both sides did. They voted for evil for decades piled on decades, and now some wonder how evil came to be in charge? And now they are wondering who to follow now? Joseph Smith found his answer by getting down on his knees and praying. And the world destroyed him for doing it. All of the prophets bowed themselves before the Lord to pray. Heber C. Kimball prophesied that a Test, a Test a TEST would fall on the people, and the more righteous among this people would pray night and day for deliverance. He said that unless a man knew for himself in his own heart that Jesus is the Christ, He wouldn't be able to stand. I am not talking about the lip service most people pay in church when they express their testimonies. It has to be written on your heart. The Doctrine and Covenants tells us the inhabitants of the telestial kingdom will be the followers. Some who follow Christ, some who follow Moses. Some who follow Paul, some who follow Joseph Smith. Some who follow others. This political party or that one. This leader or that one. The people who do not know for themselves that Jesus is the Christ. The people who suffer the wrath of God on earth, and to not wake again until the second resurrection. God tests us in this life because he wants leaders to govern His kingdoms not followers. People who think and reason for themselves and not depend on others to know what to think. People who wish to be followers in this life will be followers in the life to come. The people in this church need to grow a backbone, and learn how to be men. And stop worrying about what a wicked world thinks of them.
@smallhelmonabigship3524 Thanks for your time and honesty, evil truly is all around, think I've tried yet failed, maybe (at 23) I started too late, my die was cast, couldn't change my inherent being, cannot cast off the natural man we are warned about. After 44 years of trying and doing all I thought was expected of me I begin to realise all is probably lost and I quietly ask for a quick painless death to escape the pain of simply being alive. Have a good life SmallHelm, I like many others thank you and appreciate the work you do. Am not really / truly sure what is 'written on my heart', maybe in reality there is nothing there at all?
Never give up hope. God doesn't want us to do that, no matter what personal tragedy or failings we deal with in our lives. My dad always told me to do the best you can and endure to the end, and you will get the best that can be had. Evil and evil influences are all around us, but never give up hope. Part of being an upright man before the Lord is that we endure to the end no matter the trials, in spite of who we have been in our lives. Not many years ago, I prayed to God to deliver me from the sins and temptations which are all around me. Which surround all of us. And God gave me a change of heart. Literally. I am still a work in progress. But I know who the winning side in all of this is. The Bible says here is the patience and the faith of the Saints. Whoso liveth by the sword shall perish by the sword. God says in the D&C that the wicked will slay the wicked until they are no more and the righteous shall hardly escape. Although it is such a sad thought that so many of our brothers and sisters who have gone astray will sleep in torment to awake not again until the end of time, we should take joy it will usher in a golden age, even if we are not there to see it. @@malcolmcarter2675
Remember also that it was prophesied that Joseph Smith will return again to lead this people. Whether he comes in a resurrected state I do not know. But we will know it when it happens. The Savior will also make appearances among this people before His second great coming. Most of the people will not even know it when he does. Those are times to live for and look forward to. We must live as good as we can and look forward to that day. Zion will have gathered unto it every nation under heaven.
@SmallHelmonABigShip Thank y💖u as "always" for all your studies & work to dig up & find all these special spiritual priceless stories that I love with all my heart!!!
I'll disagree about the gift of healing is no longer with us. I've received many times and witnessed as well. It is the power in the priesthood which has done this.
You need to understand the difference between being healed by faith and healing by the power of the Holy Ghost. Anyone of any persuasion can and do become healed through their faith. Catholics do it. Even atheists do it. The LDS Church members have no monopoly on that. You have lost your light and you are no different thn other people. Nobody in this church speaks and interprets in tongues after the laying on of hands for the reception of the Holy Ghost. In fact such things are so discouraged, they are essentially forbidden.
@smallhelmonabigship3524 I don't know where you're getting that impression. I have never heard of people being disciplined in the church for preaching these doctrines of healing. Maybe you're ward is weird. We preach it and practice it.
I encourage you to ask around whether or not people are seeing the same thing you're seeing. I get your point about people putting their faith in pharmaceuticals over the word of wisdom and our ability to be healed, and that there are few who actually have the faith to heal and be healed, but we are out there. We have seen it. It is happening. I have never seen it discouraged or forbidden, but I have seen the exact opposite.
Please be very careful about this. It sounds like you are denying the existence of God performing miraculous healings just because you don't see it around you personally. I say this with love and encouragement: maybe you need to take a good look inward and repent of this and humbly ask if He might condescend enough to allow you to know the truth of it with an open heart without condemning the whole church based on something that's just not true.
I testify in Jesus' name that healings are part of the Gospel from the beginning and they are still happening among the faithful without oppression from Christ's restored church...at least in my proximity.
@@smallhelmonabigship3524
*Why aren’t there miracles today like in the scriptures?*
" The scriptures contain many accounts of miracles. Some are quite big and impressive, like parting the Red Sea or raising a person from the dead. But what about today? Do miracles still happen?
Yes, they do. We may not always hear about them, but miracles are still happening in people’s lives all the time.
Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has said: _“Many of you have witnessed miracles, more than you realize. They may seem small. … But the magnitude does not distinguish a miracle, only that it came from God”_ (Apr. 2021 general conference [Liahona, May 2021, 110]).
Any help from God could be called a miracle. Many people experience miracles. Those people sometimes share their stories, but often they keep them sacred-between themselves and God.
And remember these two important things about miracles: (1) miracles come only as people have faith, and (2) miracles happen according to the Lord’s will and timing. We may not get to choose how or when, but the Lord’s miracles do happen, even today. Even for you. "
( Why aren’t there miracles today like in the scriptures?
www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ftsoy/2022/07/questions-and-answers/15-why-no-miracles?lang=eng )
I missed the music and am happy you are back
Thank you. Some times it is hard to find the time to make videos. I should be more consistent.
Love that you draw from gospel doctrine!! We need to truly study the doctrine, Bible, Book of Mormon and all other sources revealed in truth through the Lord! Now is the time to know the gospel and differentiate between that and the “culture” of the church or other false teachings!!
Thanks
Thanks. I listened the other day to a woman who left the Church and she was complaining about the policy of the Church on birth control. Which she is in favor of and is angry the Church used to be opposed to it. She mentioned the Church is now paying their employee's birth control through their insurance policy starting in 2023. True men of God would never accept the continual moral degradation and changes which the Church is contstantly undergoing. In the early twentieth century, The United States legalized involuntary sterilizations of innocent people against their will and without due process of law for eugenics reasons. 150,000 Americans were then sterilized. Utah was one of 33 states which legalized involuntary sterilizations. The stated goal by many American Eugenicists was to eventually sterilize 10% of the U.S. population. Many thousands more were imprisoned in Eugenics camps. Germany of course used the U.S. as a model for their own "final solution." Almost 400,000 Germans were sterilized after given the choice between euthanasia and sterilization.
Less than 30 years after the end of WWII, Abotion was legalized in the U.S. The LDS Church promptly changed to accept abortions for eugenics reasons like incest. It is the idea that because the parents are relatives, their baby should be destroyed so it doesn't grow up get married and corrupt the gene pool. Today, 99% of the membership in the Church believes that is a Godly doctrine and become extremely angry if told otherwise. Like Isaiah says, good is promoted as evil, and evil is promoted as good.
There is no hope for the Holy Ghost to be reintroduced among this people unless they have a change of heart and repent.
I've been in the church all my life and I have never heard anyone being disciplined by the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints speaking about the Holy Ghost, that sounds more like rumor because it's always been encouraged to receive the Holy Ghost, even in the early church. Also I have not heard in the church or any of the cases of abortion or pills except incest. I believe Elder Oaks explained it pretty well about abortion and other things and the teachings of the Apostle Paul it's pretty clear no one should consent or influence abortion at any time. I hear complaints by different individuals that has a problem with the church. Accusing the church or Bishops for not doing their job. I'm not saying they're all perfect, they should be inspired men to speak the words of Christ. The church does not condone the abortion the gays and lesbians or the those who want to abused their bodies however they desire. The Apostle Paul speaks of this also, our bodies are the temple and to take care of it. I haven't heard from you in awhile, I'm getting ready to head back to Idaho. Will be coming back through Utah. The gift of the Holy Ghost is pretty strong where I live with people in the church.
As a friend, I wish to appeal to the logic, reason and honesty within your heart. Please watch this shot five and a hlaf minute video call Baby Steps, 4D ultrasound. It shows a baby in his mother's womb, smiling, yawning, sucking his thumb, reacting to loud noises.
ruclips.net/video/RBKKnCtNeRU/видео.html
Basically, this baby is doing everything you would see a new born baby do. If you are honest, you cannot escape the conclusion that there is no difference between a baby in his mother's womb and one that is born. They are the same. If you have ever hekld a new bon baby in your arms, would you ever think to your self that you could destroy it? Of course not. You would lose your eternal life. Yet that is exactly what happens when we consent to abortion for any reason. There is no doubt that a baby feels intense pain and agony being ripped apart in the process. It should go without saying. Yet that is what happened 65 million times since this nation endorsed the practice in 1973.
In the Bible James says that if we break even a single commandment we are in violation of the whole law. If we consent to even one of those 65 million babies lost, we are in violation of the law. All because a leader told us it was okay to do it, and we trusted in the arm of flesh. Exactly what we were warned against in the book of Mormon.
If you studied the American Eugenics movement in the 20th century you would know the roots of where and how this started. People took to heart the teachings of Charles Darwin and his book the evolution of man and the preservation of the favoured races. People thought that they could speed up the evolution of men into a race of of supermen by eliminating what they considered the weak among the world.
Many American Eugenicists wanted to sterilize ten percent of the American population so they could not have children. Ultimately 150,000 Americans were declared genetically unfit and sterilized against their will. Some were imprisoned in eugenics camps. It is a shameful chapter in American history.
Americans helped finance the rise of the Nazi party following the chaos in Germany.
When they came to power, they ultimately sterilized nearly 400,000 innocnet Germans, as a part of their final solution program.
This is the wrong side of history. This is the devil's leacy. And you do not want any connection to it. Millions of American children were educated in public schools on eugencis and evolution. These policies have been like a poison on the landscape ever since.
The current teaching that you can committ abortions for incest is purely a eugenics argument. It does not come from God, yet it is taught to the members as a godly principle. It is the idea that if two parents are related to each other, their baby should be destroyed because the baby might be flawed genetically. Because, if that baby should grow up and have children of his or her own, they would be corrupting the gene pool. And it is believed, that would inhibit the evolution of man into a race of supermen. The same old doctrine of devils which led to so much suffering in the world.
All of my life when I try to explain that to members of the Church, they become bitter anf angry against me. It is the saddest thing. They think I am hating them. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am only trying to enlighten them. To educate them. It is the saddest and strangest thing.
You are SOOO Right about the modern true Church. What are we to do, I mean I do still try to preach the Gospel but I’m almost afraid to turn people over to the Elders and especially the church members because they are so lost. Apostle Runland used to use aborted fetus parts as a surgeon, and when asked about it he replied “that wasn’t on the temple recommend interview.
When did it all go wrong? I our dear custodial prophet is a Pharmacist/sorcerer?? Love your videos,
Wow! I did not know that. Just like I did not know what someone else said about them paying for birth control for their employees starting in 2023. But it came out a couple of years back the manufacturers of this latest "jab" which has sickened so many millions of people issued a memo to their employees, instructing them not to talk about the role abortion played in their research and development. Yet, the leader of this Church told everyone, he was a man of science and to go and get it.
I have struggled with this all my life. There are a lot of good people in the Church. It is the true Church, but so many of the members are so fragile, and cannot take even the smallest constructive criticism without feeling crushed. They have all been trained to be hypersensitive to what the world thinks and says about them. If only the members could grow a backbone and live up to the honor their hardy ancestors bestowed upon them.
A lot of men, after going through a bitter divorce, stop worrying about what women think of them. The people of this church need to stop being so paranoid of what the world thinks of them. A world that will still hate them no matter how many concessions they make, or how many times they bow in submission before them.
Maybe then, they could start worrying about what God thinks of them instead, and realize how badly they have been deceived. The people of this Church were given to be a salt to savor the earth. How different things would be if they were united and valiant, instead of being on the wrong side of history.
The gifts of the Holy Ghost were promised to us so we would have the means to survive the coming tribulation. We will soon need those gifts more than ever. But there is only one way to get them.
It seems to me that the restored church of the Lamb of God is a lot like the Savior amongst the the Jews at Jerusalem Pharisees and Sadducee’s. Which really is the merging of the corporate side of the church with the spiritual side. I’m with you on the “jab” many young missionaries came home dead after the prophetic encouragement for it. And true we were once a hardy people, ones who went to war with the US army and won!! We have gotten real soft physically mentally and spiritually. It’s a shame
And we won without having to fight a single battle with them. The Catholic Church introduce the canon of infallibility of the Pope. The Pope is the mouthpiece for God and is infallible. They didn't create that canon because the Pope is always right. They did it so the vast majority of their members would defend them when they are wrong. @@dougfisher2078
What were you reading from at the end of the video? It says section 17 but it wasn’t in the D&c
ruclips.net/video/h_UcUS_Dwg0/видео.html
You can go to this linbk to watch the first part of the message.
I just want to point out at this point it says there are twelve comments. Yet only four show up for me to see as of this writing. That really frustrates me about youtube. What do the other comments say? Who knows?
Sorry, several of those were my attempts at posting my comment. YT kept deleting my comment every time so I had to keep editing it and trying to repost it. It apparently didn't like my testimony about witnessing miracles in healing.
Thanks, I would still like to read it. It sounds exactly like what I look for. @@ylluminarious151
He was an adulterous man got shot in the back and killed for having sex with another man’s wife. Same stuff Brigham pulled then tried putting the blame on Joseph who is innocent of all the crimes of adultery and polygamy!
If you are gullible enough to believe that, you'll believe anything. That is the problem with our modern society. Illiteracy abounds.
SmallHelm, no more ambiguity son, what then should we do? What's your advice on whom to follow and where to turn to?, because it's starting to feel like all is lost, nobody is beyond reproach and even the author you keep referring to offers no real answers (I found and downloaded, printed out and tried to read his kit). Serious request for advice from an act conv rm who srvd in Cal frm Aus' who is looking for a rope..........
I have always been an unrighteous man. I am definitely not above reproach.
If you don't know the answer to your question by now, you won't ever know it. If you are looking for a man to follow in this day of wickedness, you won't find one. "Cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh." The wicked are in charge of everything, because the people accepted them and followed them. They voted for them, they sustained them, they supported their policies. For decades the people in both major political parties were told to vote for the lesser of two evils. And both sides did. They voted for evil for decades piled on decades, and now some wonder how evil came to be in charge? And now they are wondering who to follow now?
Joseph Smith found his answer by getting down on his knees and praying. And the world destroyed him for doing it. All of the prophets bowed themselves before the Lord to pray.
Heber C. Kimball prophesied that a Test, a Test a TEST would fall on the people, and the more righteous among this people would pray night and day for deliverance. He said that unless a man knew for himself in his own heart that Jesus is the Christ, He wouldn't be able to stand. I am not talking about the lip service most people pay in church when they express their testimonies. It has to be written on your heart.
The Doctrine and Covenants tells us the inhabitants of the telestial kingdom will be the followers. Some who follow Christ, some who follow Moses. Some who follow Paul, some who follow Joseph Smith. Some who follow others. This political party or that one. This leader or that one. The people who do not know for themselves that Jesus is the Christ. The people who suffer the wrath of God on earth, and to not wake again until the second resurrection.
God tests us in this life because he wants leaders to govern His kingdoms not followers. People who think and reason for themselves and not depend on others to know what to think. People who wish to be followers in this life will be followers in the life to come.
The people in this church need to grow a backbone, and learn how to be men. And stop worrying about what a wicked world thinks of them.
@smallhelmonabigship3524 Thanks for your time and honesty, evil truly is all around, think I've tried yet failed, maybe (at 23) I started too late, my die was cast, couldn't change my inherent being, cannot cast off the natural man we are warned about. After 44 years of trying and doing all I thought was expected of me I begin to realise all is probably lost and I quietly ask for a quick painless death to escape the pain of simply being alive. Have a good life SmallHelm, I like many others thank you and appreciate the work you do. Am not really / truly sure what is 'written on my heart', maybe in reality there is nothing there at all?
Never give up hope. God doesn't want us to do that, no matter what personal tragedy or failings we deal with in our lives. My dad always told me to do the best you can and endure to the end, and you will get the best that can be had. Evil and evil influences are all around us, but never give up hope. Part of being an upright man before the Lord is that we endure to the end no matter the trials, in spite of who we have been in our lives.
Not many years ago, I prayed to God to deliver me from the sins and temptations which are all around me. Which surround all of us. And God gave me a change of heart. Literally. I am still a work in progress. But I know who the winning side in all of this is. The Bible says here is the patience and the faith of the Saints. Whoso liveth by the sword shall perish by the sword. God says in the D&C that the wicked will slay the wicked until they are no more and the righteous shall hardly escape. Although it is such a sad thought that so many of our brothers and sisters who have gone astray will sleep in torment to awake not again until the end of time, we should take joy it will usher in a golden age, even if we are not there to see it. @@malcolmcarter2675
Remember also that it was prophesied that Joseph Smith will return again to lead this people. Whether he comes in a resurrected state I do not know. But we will know it when it happens. The Savior will also make appearances among this people before His second great coming. Most of the people will not even know it when he does.
Those are times to live for and look forward to. We must live as good as we can and look forward to that day. Zion will have gathered unto it every nation under heaven.
My email is smallhelm@proton.me if you want to contact me. If you could please answer me and tell me you are doing okay I would appreciate it.