Show 1 V. V k I Iii 81 Blessings I Through r h hW li W Obedience 11 11 by Arden W. W WStewart Stewart j Bishop of Davis Ward WardIn y yin i 1 I In order to live together as a society we must be governed by rules and regulations They are necessary and have been since the beginning of time III Father Adam was given laws and commandments We have the law of the Universe We have laws in our county state and nation as well as in our ourI I churches schools and homes III 1 Ther children of Israel were given the ten commandments from God on Mt I sinai And God spoke all these words saying I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage 11 Thou have no other gods gods' before me Thou not make unto thee 11 any graven image or any likeness of that is in the earth beneath 1 or that is in the water under the earth Thou not bow down thyself to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God Gad visiting il 1 the Iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth j generation of them that hate me met And mercy unto thousands of them i that love me and keep my commandments Thou not take the name j of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless i that his name in vain Remember the sabbath day dayto to keep it holy Six days labour and do all thy wor work But the seventh I Iday day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou not do any J work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter thy man servant nor maid servant nor nor thy cattle nor thy stranger that is within thy gates For in six days the Lord made mode heaven and earth the sea and andall andall all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it it Honour thy father and thy mother S that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God I thee Thou not kill Thou shall not commit Thou not steal Thou not bear false witness against thy neighbour Thou not covet thy neighbours neighbour's house thou not covet thy neighbours neighbour's wife nor his manservant nor his maidservant nor his ox nor his ass nor anything that is thy neighbours neighbour's Exodus 17 2011 i There is a law low irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations j of this world upon which all blessings are predicated And when we obtain any blessing from God it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicted Doctrine Covenants 21 21 i Likewise when we transgress or break the laws aws and commandments of God j we loose our blessing and cause heartache and sorrow to come up upon n j ourselves Often we bame borne God or someone else for our problems It is not Godor God j or our fellow beings we need blame but only ourselves God is the 1 same yesterday today and forever The laws of the land are here to protect you and I I. I We cannot expect permanent peace nor will it come until such time j jas as the hearts of men are turned to peace and men will not have peace in their hearts until they no longer permit selfishness to be their ruling power Until men recognize God as the ruler of the universe and hisSon his Son Sor Jesus Christ to be the Savior and Redeemer of the world Satan will reign in the hearts of men Man must love God and his neighbor as r himself Man the world over must recognize that we are all the children of God truly brothers and sisters before peace in the true sense will prevail upon the earth Elder J Joseph seph Anderson to C C. C of the Twelve Every Christian should sustain in honor and obey the constitutional laws of the land in which he lives and nd keep the commandments of God in heaven |