woes and judgments Isaiah 3-5

Moroni 8-9 ›What is your favorite thing about babies and little children? ›What has the Lord taught about children? ›Read Isaiah 3:4 ›Why would the Lord choose a ‘child’ to lead?

› The Mouths of Babes

›Read Isaiah 3: –Does the Lord not want women to beautify themselves? What is the principle He is teaching here? ›Isaiah 4:4-6 What blessings will the Lord provide for the righteous? ›How do these verse tie in with being ‘childlike’? Isaiah 3-5 P ART I

›Isaiah uses a symbol in Isaiah 5 to teach a principle. Read Isaiah 5:1–2,5-7 looking for the symbol and what it means. –How is the vineyard producing sour grapes symbolic of the house of Israel? –What would be the effects of taking away the hedge and breaking down the wall? –How are these results similar to the natural consequences that come from disobeying the Lord’s commandments? ›How do these verse tie in with being ‘childlike’? Isaiah 3-5 P ART II

› Isaiah 5:11–12 › Isaiah 5:18–19 › Isaiah 5:20–21 › Isaiah 5:22–23 Read about the ways people turn away from the Lord. Discuss two examples of these attitudes and behaviors in our day. › Isaiah 5:13–15 › Isaiah 5:24–25 Read about the consequences of turning from the Lord Discuss a time when you have seen someone experience sorrow and suffering because he or she turned away from the Lord. P ART III How do these verse tie in with being ‘childlike’?

UNDERSTAND Memorize For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

Galatians 5:17 “The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other” Spent time with Heavenly Father. Wants to get back to His presence. Has not been with Heavenly Father. Naturally desires fleshy things.

UNDERSTAND Memorize For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

Why is a baby dependent on parents? How dependent are little children on the Savior?

How dependent are we supposed to be on the Savior?

UNDERSTAND Memorize For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

“Sometimes I wonder if in our latter-day world of ease— in our world of microwave ovens and cell phones and air- conditioned cars and comfortable homes—I wonder if we ever learn to acknowledge our daily dependence upon the enabling power of the Atonement.” David A. Bednar, In the Strength of the Lord, BYU Devotional, October 2001

TAKE NAME + CHANGE BEHAVIOR = CHRISTLIKE by covenants and through atonement become like Christ

Starve and torture the Natural Man! It’s late at night. You haven’t read your scriptures yet. What do you do? Its Fast Sunday … and you pour a bowl of cereal… and then… you remember….it’s Fast Sunday. Friends are gossiping – and you know some dirt… It’s Mutual Night and you don’t want to go…

The Natural Student is an enemy to God

The Natural Basketball player is an enemy to God

The Natural Cheerleader is an enemy to God

The Natural Brother is an enemy to God

The Natural Parent is an enemy to God

The Natural Teenager is an enemy to God

What can you do today to more fully “yield to the enticings of the Holy Spirit”?

woes and judgments Isaiah 3-5