Show Sermon for forBy big eek t By G. G CA CARLOS CIRLOS SMITH JR Big Cottonwood St Stake ko l Church of Jesus Christ of or Latter-day Latter Saints evil which h I choo choose t to The ever present evil e call the evil o of 1 is 19 r rapidly ma making sufficiency self Ing inroads u upon is not a new thing for I believe that it has been present the time of Cain and Able rAn r- r An individual self sufficient person IS is one who liv himself not himself not the hermit by any means eans bu but the person who h brought himself to a mental point wherein he thinks only himself and of no one else unless he can use others to his bis personal conditions Many husbands are arc forgetting their wives and chili to use them for personal advantage except referring to ti wives as the old lady and to the children a as anything anything children T This h his I s situation is not only true of husbands but butof i also The of wives and children s wives refer to their husbands o f as the old man and the i children use similar terms Many of us feel we have no i need of our neighbors and j 1 criticize every thing they say and do envying their accomplishments accomplishments accomplishments and defaming their characters Woman Climaxed Gods God's Work Vork After this world was created and the elements arranged in their sphere of activity the activity the plants and animals of the earth the fishes of the sea the fowls of the air placed in A their environment nt and told to I multiply therein man an was f a placed placed on the earth in In the express express ex ex- i press image of God Then as asa asa a fitting climax to His l labors boS j God created woman woman HIs His finest finest fin fm- t est creation the climax of His f IW 4 labors labo Then He gave that woman to man to be his helpmate helpmate helpmate help help- mate companion and wife to be the mother of his Ms c cl So God created man in his own image in theof the theof of God created he him male and female created he then them God blessed them and God said unto them Be fruitful multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and andi dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of th tl and over every living thing that upon the et w Gen 1 27 28 23 T Man Told to Cleave Unto Wife Man fan lan has been commanded from the beginning to t i unto his wife and to honor her in every respect and to th tobe tobe be worthy of her n nIt It stands to reason that we are responsible for our c cE and must rear them in righteousness before the Lore Lord homes should be holy places like unto Heaven for the I Ihas has said Suffer the little children to come unto me and ft them not for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven 1 10 1014 14 The homes wherein little ones are guided by kid loving fathers and mothers who feel the need for each and for their children are surely holy places The sufficient self-sufficient one who excludes his neighbor is isi miserable of men A short time ago a friend of mine minei had lived by herself passed away She too thought sk th U sufficient self-sufficient until too late She had driven her friends i with her selfish attitude and shortly before her death realized she was alone alone all all alone Hers was a I life e n which could have been one of richness happiness and and j When the Lord was asked which was the greatest greate c He made madeno no hesitation in replying Thou Thoin love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy and with all thy mind We- We WeAre e- e eAre Are Our Brothers Brother's Keeper It is impossible to sit in our smug little nests and think all is well for it is not so We Ve are our brothers brother's keeper keepe need his help If we are not one oneve we ve are not the Lords VI T V TI I say unto you inasmuch as ye have done it unto one onee of least of these my brethren ye have done it unto Me W Wa Wi Withe the Lord speaking of our neighbor Did the Lord have to go to the cross on Calvary because He was and is His brothers brother's keeper He did Dot noti idly by in sufficiency self-sufficiency but He gave His all that we a live I do not believe that many of us in this genera have to give our all as the Lord and others have bave done 1 sincerely pray that we can overcome the evil of self and love our wives husbands children and in very deed our neighbor as ourselves |