2 Nephi 2:27
“They are free to choose liberty and eternal life … or … captivity and death.”
Mosiah 2:17
“When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.”
2 Nephi 2:25
“Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.”
What does ASK stand for?
Acquiring Spiritual Knowledge
How the people reacted to King Benjamins sermon
Mos 5:2-5
2 And they all cried with one voice, saying: Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also, we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty achange in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do bevil, but to do good continually.
3 And we, ourselves, also, through the infinite agoodness of God, and the manifestations of his Spirit, have great views of that which is to come; and were it expedient, we could prophesy of all things.
4 And it is the faith which we have had on the things which our king has spoken unto us that has brought us to this great knowledge, whereby we do rejoice with such exceedingly great joy.
5 And we are willing to enter into a acovenant with our God to do his will, and to be obedient to his commandments in all things that he shall command us, all the remainder of our days, that we may not bring upon ourselves a bnever-ending torment, as has been spoken by the cangel, that we may not drink out of the cup of the wrath of God.
2 Nephi 32:8–9
“Ye must pray always.”
2 Nephi 32:3
“Feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.”
Mosiah 3:19
“[Put] off the natural man and [become] a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord.”
Principle 1:
Act in Faith
What made King Benjamin a great leader?
In King Benjamin’s address, we get a glimpse of the type of leader and example he was to his people. King Benjamin was one who served God by serving his people and teaching them to serve one another.
Mosiah 2:41
“Those that keep the commandments of God … are blessed in all things.”
1 Nephi 3:7
“I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded.”
parable of the two wolves
good and bad, the one you feed will win
Principle 2:
Examine Concepts and Questions with an Eternal Perspective
if we keep God’s commandments, God will bless us......
both temporally and spiritually
2 Nephi 26:33
“All are alike unto God.”
Mosiah 18:8–10
Be “baptized in the name of the Lord, as a witness … that ye have entered into a covenant with him.”
What is in a name?
"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.”
Principle 3:
Seek Further Understanding through Divinely Appointed Sources
What we owe God
Mos 2: 23-24
23 And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him.
24 And secondly, he doth arequire that ye should do as he hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately bbless you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and will be, forever and ever; therefore, of what have ye to boast?
Mosiah 4:9
“Believe in God; … believe that he has all wisdom.”
2 Nephi 28:30
God “will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept.”
What are we supposed to watch?
Mos 4:30
30 But this much I can tell you, that if ye do not awatch yourselves, and your bthoughts, and your cwords, and your deeds, and observe the commandments of God, and dcontinue in the faith of what ye have heard concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto the end of your lives, ye must perish. And now, O man, remember, and perish not.
The source of all truth
What is God?
How you should raise your children
Mos 4: 14-15
14 And ye will not suffer your achildren that they go hungry, or naked; neither will ye bsuffer that they transgress the laws of God, and fight and cquarrel one with another, and serve the devil, who is the master of sin, or who is the devil spirit which hath been spoken of by our fathers, he being an enemy to all righteousness.
15 But ye will ateach them to bwalk in the ways of truth and csoberness; ye will teach them to dlove one another, and to serve one another.