Saturday, August 26, 2006

Charity - the pure love of Christ

From this quote I would focus on the gospel principle of tolerance and charity.
I would use the following scriptures:

Moses 7:20-27 - Here the Lord shows Enoch a vision of Satan having a chain
surrounding the earth. he and his angels are laughing.
Moses 7:28-33 - Enoch sees God weep and he asks, How can You, being The Most
Powerful Being, weep? God answer is that all He wants His children to do is
"choose" Him.

HOW CAN WE BE MORE TOLERANT OF OTHERS WHEN WE DO NOT APPROVE THEIR BEHAVIOR?

Matt. 22:36-40 - The two great commandments: love God and ALL men. This is how
prophets are chosen - they have the ability to love all the children of God and
see them how God does.

-Therefore, we must be able to look past those differences which separate us,
and draw near each other.

This is easier said than done. How can we "turn the other cheek" when we are
offended by others? Or how can we still love others when we are hurt by what
they have said or done to us? Or why should we go out of our way to support
another when we are not alike?

In order to overcome this obstacle we MUST draw nigh to Christ in order to be
filled with that love. A love which allows us to forgive, forget and trust
others. This charity, pure love of Christ, fills us with the desire to life all
our brothers and sisters to Christ.

1 Peter 4:18-21 - if we say we love God we must love our brother too.

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