Counsel

1.  Arguments:  Paul asks us to be of one heart and one mind.  Content on the glory of God and to esteems others higher than ourselves.  Just like Heavenly Father and the Savior are one in purpose and love.

2.  Testimony:  We are to work out our own salvation with God because without our own light we cannot stand as witnesses to the power of the Gospel.  With your testimony God can do great things with you.

3.  We are to count our losses unto Christ.  To give our life to him and sometimes we have to give up our family


4.  We have these words of Paul and if we are to study and feast upon them we be able to find answers to our problems and the issues that we have in life.

Live as Saints should live Choice 1

1.  In order for us to "Awake" out of our sleep we must walk in the paths of righteousness.  We only have a short time to repent of our sins in this place of probation.  In order for us to awake we just continue to follow the Gospel of Christ and always try to do better everyday as we live for Christ.  The simple principles of repentance and enduring goes so far but there are so many details that go into following those principles that if we overlook anything we run the risk of turning from Righteousness.

2. We are a self sacrifice for Christ, live in the world but not of this world, Cleave to that which is good, give service to others, be humble, love one another, live the ten commandments.

3. We are all children in Christ and because we are not the ones with perfect love we really have no business judging people because we will judge unjustly and unfairly.  It's important to remember that even though we have different backgrounds, cultures, and personalitys we are all children of Christ and that is the most important thing to remember.

Baptism: Choice 3

1. In order for us to be baptized Paul tells us in Romans Chapter 6 that we need to be "Dead to sin".  That's much more black and white than other scriptures that tell us we need to just have a desire to not sin.  I think he is pretty much saying the same thing now that I think about it but in much stronger language.

2.  The events in Christ's life that are symbolized in Baptism are His death, burial, and resurrection.

3. Sprinkling of water over an infant's head would not work for baptism simply because when you do down into the water it symbolizes burial in water which the metaphor wouldn't quite work with sprinkling.

4.  He keeps mentioning becoming dead to sin and alive in Christ.  I think ultimately he is trying to say that our desires need to be the same as Christ.  Even though we will make mistakes and fall short of the Glory of God still if we have a desire to live as Christ would have us live and not to live as the natural man.

5.  Our natural man should die with us at baptism.

6.   If we search after righteousness and are truly dead from sin we will be followers of Christ and seen on His right hand at the last day.  That's what will really happen in the end is God will examine and know the intentions of our heart and our nature and by this God will know if we are true followers of Him or we "Listeth to obey satan."  That's one thing that I've been working on is just trying to set myself right.  There are still things I struggle with and I wonder if I really try to overcome them and live as Christ would have me live.

Forgiveness

The Saints of Corinth were commanded to forgive those who have trespassed against them.  When we forgive we have the promise of the Lord's forgiveness through the Atonement.  When we don't forgive we are in danger of damning our own progression by holding onto things that are in the past that we cannot control.