Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Jacob 3

As Jacob concludes his remarks -

"...warning them against fornication and lasciviousness, and every kind of sin, telling them the awful consequences of them." (Book of Mormon | Jacob 3:12)

He also teaches an important doctrine to -

"...also, remember that ye may, because of your filthiness, bring your children unto destruction, and their sins be heaped upon your heads at the last day." (Book of Mormon | Jacob 3:10)

It becomes clear that the Lord will judge all people in fairness. Each will be given a fair opportunity with their agency to come to Christ. But where a parent fails to teach their children properly, the demands of justice may fall upon the parents for the sins of their posterity.

In summary, Jacob counsels -

"Look unto God with firmness of mind, and pray unto him with exceeding faith, and he will console you in your afflictions, and he will plead your cause, and send down justice upon those who seek your destruction.
2 O all ye that are pure in heart, lift up your heads and receive the pleasing word of God, and feast upon his love; for ye may, if your minds are firm, forever." (Book of Mormon | Jacob 3:1 - 2)