“Three Virtues, One Christ!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: Moroni 7-9

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"Three Virtues, One Christ!"

Intro

You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.

Patter

Theme: "Three Virtues, One Christ!"

Moroni 7

Preface

Peaceable followers of Christ

Intent of acts

Judging

night from day

Christ is standard (scriptures)

FHC, 3 legged stool DFU O 2008

Faith

Lectures on Faith in 18 verses

Angelic ministration

Miracles

Blessing by asking

Lost scripture:

26, 33, 34

Hope

Hope in resurrection

Intertwined with faith and charity (faith assurance of things hoped for; charity hopeth all things)

NAM: In the geometry of restored theology, hope has a greater circumference than faith. If faith increases, the perimeter of hope stretches correspondingly. (Ensign, November 1994, p. 35.)

"Faith and hope are constantly interactive and are not always easily or precisely distinguished. ... hope sometimes reconnoiters beyond the present boundaries of faith, but it always radiates from Jesus."

Charity

Pure love of Christ. agape

"all energy of heart"

Be like Christ to see him

Moroni 8

Infant Baptism

Sectarian ideas

Original sin

Total depravity/Absolute depravity

Limbo/Purgatory (Divine Comedy) https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09256a.htm

AF 2

JST, GENESIS 17:3–7, 11–12

3. And it came to pass, that Abram fell on his face, and called upon the name of the Lord.

4. And God talked with him, saying, My people have gone astray from my precepts, and have not kept mine ordinances, which I gave unto their fathers;

5. And they have not observed mine anointing, and the burial, or baptism wherewith I commanded them;

6. But have turned from the commandment, and taken unto themselves the washing of children, and the blood of sprinkling;

7. And have said that the blood of the righteous Abel was shed for sins; and have not known wherein they are accountable before me.

Doctrine of Infant salvation

D&C 137

Babies need to be sealed to a spouse AGQ 1:55; 3:174.

Are Children Inherently Good?

No

And our father Adam spake unto the Lord, and said: Why is it that men must repent and be baptized in water? And the Lord said unto Adam: Behold I have forgiven thee thy transgression in the Garden of Eden.

54 Hence came the saying abroad among the people, that the Son of God hath atoned for original guilt, wherein the sins of the parents cannot be answered upon the heads of the children, for they are whole from the foundation of the world.

(Pearl of Great Price | Moses 6:53 - 54)

"alive in Christ" no on their own. Born under fall, and healed by Christ

Vs 25-26, process of conversion

Moroni 9

This is what happens when defect from Christ

Human rights violations, war crimes

Rape

Torture

human sacrifice

Cannibalism

May Christ Life Thee Up

Christ Quotient

Atonement Quotient

Understand expansiveness of atonement "awful arithmetic" Infinite exponentiality.

Children, and those without law

Civilization Collapse is not a spectator sport

What happens when reject Christ

Church procedural manual, then virtues of faith, hope, and charity. Mechanics of meeting, but the gospel gracefulness of the graces and virtues of God. Contrast with checklists, awards, and activities approach as gospel substitutes

Solution--civilization collapse, household problems in local unitys, is Christ--may Christ life thee up--that's the point