Elder Philip Bredsguard Testifies of Jesus Christ!: October 30, 2017, "Are We Not All Beggars?"

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"Are We Not All Beggars?"

This week as I was reading the passages from King Benjamin, I would like to reiterate his words. "And also, ye yourselves will succor those that stand in need of your succor; ye will administer of your substance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish.

"Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon himself his misery; therefore I will stay my hand, and will not give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just--"

"But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the same hath great cause to repent; and except he repenteth of that which he hath done he perisheth forever, and hath no interest in the kingdom of God."

"For behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches which we have of every kind?"

"And behold, even at this time, ye have been calling on his name, and begging for a remission of your sins. And has he suffered that ye have begged in vain? Nay; he has poured out his Spirit upon you, and has caused that your hearts should be filled with joy, and has caused that your mouths should be stopped that ye could not find utterance, so exceedingly great was your joy."

"And now, if God, who has created you, on whom you are dependent for your lives and for all that ye have and are, doth grant unto you whatsoever ye ask that is right, in faith, believing that ye shall receive, O then, how ye ought to impart of the substance that ye have one to another." (1)

The merciful will always obtain mercy. If you give to those in need, no matter their circumstance or what you may assume it may be, the Lord will be there right by your side ready to assist you and to forgive you of your needs.

I of myself am weak, and I hope you take nothing away from what I have said, but that you may take and live in your life what the Spirit has taught you from my words. I know in my weakness, God will make my words mighty by the power of his Holy Spirit.

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