268: The Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ - The Object of Faith is to Receive and Become

The Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ - The Object of Faith is to Receive and Become

Where can we plainly see Faith in practice? Luke 17:5-6 -the parable of the mustard seed, 7-10- the master of the household and his slave and verses 11-19- the story of the 10 Lepers illustrate what faith is and what it isn’t. Receiving, understanding, acting on personal revelation and becoming the sons and daughters of Jesus Christ is the object of our faith. Humility is the ounce of prevention from faith becoming self exalting. Obedience is the path on which the blessing of sanctification is received. As we receive a blessing from God in gratitude we glorify him. Alma 32 gives the blueprint of the experiment of faith that we may partake of the fruit of spiritual rebirth. Faith precedes the miracle (Ether 12:12). When a person walks the path of obedience hearkening to the words of Christ they undergo a transformative process even a mighty change of heart (Mosiah 5). Or in other words, the endowment of charity from God to the individual as a result of their entering into and keeping covenant with Him is manifested (Moroni 7:25-26, Mosiah 13:1-9, Mosiah 17:12-20). Phil illustrates these principles of exercising faith from the accounts of the lives of Abraham, Enoch, and Moses (Book of Jasher 9, 1 Book of Enoch 81 & 84, 2 Enoch 33:1-8, 44:1-3 and 66:1-7). "I give unto you these sayings that you may understand and know how to worship, and know what you worship"…(receiving truth and light is what changes a man or woman)..."that you may come unto the Father in my name and in due time receive of his fulness" (D&C 93:19, 27-28).

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