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The 3 R’s of Choice The Right The Responsibility The Result

“The commandments, ordinances, and covenants of the gospel are not a list of deposits required to be made in some heavenly account. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a plan that shows us how to become what our Heavenly Father desires us to become.” (Elder Oaks, “The Challenge to Become”) BROTHERERIC Richards @Brotherichards @Brotherichards @Brotherichards

D&C 1:31 “I the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance.” SCRIPTURE 1

Mosiah 2:38-39 “If that man repenteth not, the demands of divine justice are like an unquenchable fire, whose flame ascendeth up forever and ever; therefore his final doom is to endure a never-ending torment.” SCRIPTURE 2

JACOB 6:10: “according to justice, ye must go away into that lake of fire and brimstone, whose flames are unquenchable, and whose smoke ascendeth up forever and ever, which is endless torment.” SCRIPTURE 3

Alma 42:25 “What. do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice Alma 42:25 “What? do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice? I say unto you, Nay; not one whit. If so, God would cease to be God.” SCRIPTURE 4

QUOTE 1 “The book of life is written in the body, engraven on the bones, sinews, and flesh. Every thought, word, and deed has an effect on the human body and leave their marks which God can read like a book.” (Bruce R McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 97.)

SCRIPTURE 5 D&C 19:15 “Repent, lest … your sufferings be sore—how sore you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not.”

SCRIPTURE 6 Alma 12:33 “But God did call on men, in the name of his Son, (this being the plan of redemption which was laid) saying: If ye will repent, and harden not your hearts, then will I have mercy upon you, through mine Only Begotten Son”

Mosiah 26:30 “as often as my people repent, I will forgive them” SCRIPTURE 7

D&C 58:43 “By this ye may know if a man repenteth of his sins—he will confess them and forsake them.” SCRIPTURE 8

QUOTE 2 Spencer W. Kimball “Repentance is an all-out, total surrender to the program of the Lord. God cannot forgive unless the transgressor shows a repentance which spreads to all areas of his life.”

QUOTE 3 Elder Holland: “You can change and you can do it very fast. repentance can come instantaneously, even if you have serious amends to make. Repentance takes exactly as long as it takes you to say, “I’ll change”—and mean it.”

3 Nephi 27:13 “This is the gospel which I have given unto you—that I came into the world to do the will of my Father.” SCRIPTURE 9

QUOTE 4 “Let me be direct and clear. you are going to make it as long as you keep repenting and do not rationalize or rebel. God is not a heartless referee looking for any excuse to throw us out of the game. He yearns more than anything else to have all of His children come back home. please take hope and comfort from this eternal truth: He intends for us to make it! That is His work and His glory.” (EldeR Cornish, October 2016 General Conference

QUOTE 5 “The Final Judgment is not the sum of good vs evil– what we have done.  It is effect of our acts– what we have become.” Dallin H. Oaks, Nov. 2000, p. 32

Scripture 10 D&C 45:3-5 “Listen to him who is the advocate with the Father, who is pleading your cause before him  Saying: Father, behold the sufferings and death of him who did no sin, in whom thou wast well pleased; behold the blood of thy Son which was shed. Wherefore, Father, spare these my brethren that believe on my name, that they may come unto me and have everlasting life.”