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2 Timothy 3
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, 11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me! 12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
Ephesians 4
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
27 Neither give place to the devil.
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
But WE are not defined by the bad that we do. We are NOT "filthy rags" as so many Christians believe. We are NOT born with ANY sin . . . sin is missing the mark and at birth we have not had any opportunity to even try to hit any mark. It is our undiscriminating and selfish animal nature that is the source of all bad behavior. It takes time to learn to control it. but as we do we produce more Good than Bad . . . "30 fold, 60 fold or 100 fold."
Amen!
I remember as a child, that the Lutheran Church across the street from our LDS Church was offering a summer Vacation Bible School for children. They passed out flyers to all the homes in the area. Several of us kids thought it sounded like fun and we asked our parents if we could go. Most of them agreed that it would be fine, and probably a good experience. Anyway, I started going (I was probably about 8 at the time). Every day I came home and told my parents what I'd learned that day. One day I told them that I'd learned that we were all wretched, despicable creatures and that we had been since the day we were born and that in the state we were in, we were all destined to spend eternity in Hellfire. That was the last time my parents let me to to Vacation Bible School.
Since the LDS Church has a similar year-round program, I really didn't miss going a lot. But I will always remember my favorite Christian hymn that I learned while I was attending: Beautiful Savior.
I remember as a child, that the Lutheran Church across the street from our LDS Church was offering a summer Vacation Bible School for children. They passed out flyers to all the homes in the area. Several of us kids thought it sounded like fun and we asked our parents if we could go. Most of them agreed that it would be fine, and probably a good experience. Anyway, I started going (I was probably about 8 at the time). Every day I came home and told my parents what I'd learned that day. One day I told them that I'd learned that we were all wretched, despicable creatures and that we had been since the day we were born and that in the state we were in, we were all destined to spend eternity in Hellfire. That was the last time my parents let me to to Vacation Bible School.
Since the LDS Church has a similar year-round program, I really didn't miss going a lot. But I will always remember my favorite Christian hymn that I learned while I was attending: Beautiful Savior.
Your parents deserve a big thumbs up for being open minded enough to let you give it a try.
I can't imagine many Lutheran parents were willing to send their kids to the LDS version.
We are NOT "filthy rags" as so many Christians believe.
They can believe it, but it doesn't make it the truth.
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