Freedom Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 It is our destiny. Do you think you will retire one day?
VideoGameJunkie Posted October 29, 2013 Author Posted October 29, 2013 Some day I will retire. If I will be exalted depends on if I'm really forgiven for all of my serious sins.
VideoGameJunkie Posted October 29, 2013 Author Posted October 29, 2013 The choice is ours to make.Wouldn't everyone choose exaltation? I mean who wouldn't?
Hamba Tuhan Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 Wouldn't everyone choose exaltation? I mean who wouldn't? You mean like the third part of the hosts of heaven? Regardless, 'choose you this day whom ye will serve'. Christ has already won exaltation for all who choose it. Your agency, your call.
VideoGameJunkie Posted October 29, 2013 Author Posted October 29, 2013 You mean like the third part of the hosts of heaven?Regardless, 'choose you this day whom ye will serve'. Christ has already won exaltation for all who choose it. Your agency, your call.I hope it's not too late for me. I hope my repenting washed away my sins and that I can be exalted one day. It's the deepest desire of my heart to be exalted, but I had a rough past that I hope won't tarnish my chances. I've repented though.
Duncan Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 I am already exalted I don't live in Rhode Island
Hamba Tuhan Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 I hope it's not too late for me. Have you read the Book of Mormon?
VideoGameJunkie Posted October 29, 2013 Author Posted October 29, 2013 Have you read the Book of Mormon?Yup. Why?
thesometimesaint Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 I hope it's not too late for me. I hope my repenting washed away my sins and that I can be exalted one day. It's the deepest desire of my heart to be exalted, but I had a rough past that I hope won't tarnish my chances. I've repented though. Whenever Satan reminds you of your past remind him of his future. 2
Hamba Tuhan Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 (edited) Yup. Why? I would suggest that the experiences of Alma the Younger, Zeezrom, and the entire group of Anti-Nephi-Lehies (just to name an obvious few) might relieve your worries by clarifying the infinite power of the Saviour to rescue those who place their faith in Him. Outside of my personal experiences, I know of no greater testament to the grace of Christ than the Book of Mormon, in both its narrative and its preaching. Edited October 29, 2013 by Hamba Tuhan 1
halconero Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 If I told you that I have gotten to the point where I have no doubt about my place in heaven, I would be lying. Don't think that I'm too righteous, for I'm not.
Rivers Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 Exaltation is a very mind boggling thing to think about. It's difficult to imagine. The after-life alone is mysterious enough for me. 2
Hamba Tuhan Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 If I told you that I have gotten to the point where I have no doubt about my place in heaven, I would be lying. As Paul said, 'Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall'. We don't fall, however, because God yanks the rug out from under us. We fall when we choose to take our eyes off the Saviour. And once again, that's a choice. 1
VideoGameJunkie Posted October 29, 2013 Author Posted October 29, 2013 I would suggest that the experiences of Alma the Younger, Zeezrom, and the entire group of Anti-Nephi-Lehies (just to name an obvious few) might relieve your worries by clarifying the infinite power of the Saviour to rescue those who place their faith in Him. Outside of my personal experiences, I know of no greater testament to the grace of Christ than the Book of Mormon, in both its narrative and its preaching.Very good examples. I believe I will be exalted one day thanks to the atonement and my heart. 2
VideoGameJunkie Posted October 29, 2013 Author Posted October 29, 2013 Whenever Satan reminds you of your past remind him of his future.Thanks! I like that line.
canard78 Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 I hope so, yes. But it may take a while. I believe we have eternity to work on it:15 “None would inherit this earth when it became celestial and translated into the presence of God but those who would be crowned as Gods — all others would have to inherit another kingdom — they would eventually have the privilege of proving themselves worthy and advancing to a celestial kingdom but it would be a slow process [progress?].”-Brigham Young, in Wilford Woodruff Journal, 5 Aug 185516 You that are mourning about your children straying away will have your sons and your daughters. If you succeed in passing through these trials and afflictions and receive a resurrection, you will, by the power of the Priesthood, work and labor, as the Son of God has, until you get all your sons and daughters in the path of exaltation and glory. This is just as sure as that the sun rose this morning over yonder mountains. Therefore, mourn not because all your sons and daughters do not follow in the path that you have marked out to them, or give heed to your counsels. Inasmuch as we succeed in securing eternal glory, and stand as saviors, and as kings and priests to our God, we will save our posterity. When Jesus went through that terrible torture on the cross, He saw what would be accomplished by it; He saw that His brethren and sisters the sons and daughters of God would be gathered in, with but few exceptions those who committed the unpardonable sin. That sacrifice of the divine Being was effectual to destroy the powers of Satan. I believe that every man and woman who comes into this life and passes through it, that life will be a success in the end. It may not be in this life. It was not with the antedeluvians. They passed through troubles and afflictions; 2,500 years after that, when Jesus went to preach to them, the dead heard the voice of the Son of God and they lived. They found after all that it was a very good thing that they had conformed to the will of God in leaving the spiritual life and passing through this world.Lorenzo Snow, MS 56:49-53; Collected Discourses 3:364-65.17 “It is reasonable to believe, in the absence of direct revelation by which alone absolute knowledge of the matter could be acquired, that, in accordance with God’s plan of eternal progression, advancement from grade to grade within any kingdom, and from kingdom to kingdom, will be provided for. But if the recipients of a lower glory be enabled to advance, surely the intelligences of higher rank will not be stopped in their progress; and thus we may conclude, that degrees and grades will ever characterize the kingdoms of our God. Eternity is progressive; perfection is relative; the essential feature of God’s living purpose is its associated power of eternal increase.”James E. Talmage, The Articles of Faith [1899 edition] pp. 420-42118 “I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all of His children that he can: and while, if we live unrighteously here, we shall not go to the other side in the same status, so to speak, as those who lived righteously; nevertheless, the unrighteous will have their chance, and in the eons of the eternities that are to follow, they, too, may climb to the destinies to which they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come.”J. Reuben Clark, Church News, 23 April 1960, p. 319 The question of advancement within the great divisions of glory celestial, terrestrial, and telestial; as also the question of advancement from one sphere of glory to another remains to be considered. In the revelation from which we have summarized what has been written here, in respect to the different degrees of glory, it is said that those of the terrestrial glory will be ministered unto by those of the celestial; and those of the telestial will be ministered unto by those of the terrestrial”that is, those of the higher glory minister to those of a lesser glory. I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father’s children along the lines of eternal progression. Whether or not in the great future, full of so many possibilities now hidden from us, they of the lesser glories after education and advancement within those spheres may at last emerge from them and make their way to the higher degrees of glory until at last they attain to the highest, is not revealed in the revelations of God, and any statement made on the subject must partake more or less of the nature of conjecture. But if it be granted that such a thing is possible, they who at the first entered into the celestial glory”having before them the privilege also of eternal progress”have been moving onward, so that the relative distance between them and those who have fought their way up from the lesser glories may be as great when the latter have come into the degrees of celestial glory in which the righteous at first stood, as it was at the commencement. Thus: Those whose faith and works are such only as to enable them to inherit a telestial glory, may arrive at last where those whose works in this life were such as to enable them to entrance into the celestial kingdom”they may arrive where these were, but never where they are.”B. H. Roberts, New Witnesses for God 1:391-392.20 "Some years ago I was in Washington, D.C., with President Harold B. Lee. Early one morning he called me to come into his hotel room. He was sitting in his robe reading Gospel Doctrine, by President Joseph F. Smith, and he said, “Listen to this!”“Jesus had not finished his work when his body was slain, neither did he finish it after his resurrection from the dead; although he had accomplished the purpose for which he then came to the earth, he had not fulfilled all his work. And when will he? Not until he has redeemed and saved every son and daughter of our father Adam that have been or ever will be born upon this earth to the end of time, except the sons of perdition. That is his mission. We will not finish our work until we have saved ourselves, and then not until we shall have saved all depending upon us; for we are to become saviors upon Mount Zion, as well as Christ. We are called to this mission.”“There is never a time,” the Prophet Joseph Smith taught, “when the spirit is too old to approach God. All are within the reach of pardoning mercy, who have not committed the unpardonable sin.”Boyd K. Packer, “The Brilliant Morning of Forgiveness,” Ensign, Nov. 1995, 18https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1995/10/the-brilliant-morning-of-forgiveness?lang=engOriginal JFS quote here: https://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-joseph-f-smith/chapter-46?lang=eng 2
rpn Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 Yes, and many many others. It is not a zero sum game.
Kenngo1969 Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 (edited) I hope it's not too late for me. I hope my repenting washed away my sins and that I can be exalted one day. It's the deepest desire of my heart to be exalted, but I had a rough past that I hope won't tarnish my chances. I've repented though.You've heard that old saying, "If you pray, why worry? If you worry, why pray?" I think a similar principle is at work here: If you've repented, and if you truly believe Christ is "mighty [enough] to save," why worry? Remember the Parable of the Hired Servants: those who labored an hour received the same wage as those who labored the whole day. My $0.02, actual value $0.1950251250625 ... P.S.: While we should do everything we can to make the most of our time in mortality and to learn all we can, we also ought not forget that there will be a great deal of learning and growth even after we pass through the veil before we're finally judged and receive our eternal reward. Exaltation happens like a great painting (a stroke of color here, a splotch of color there) rather than like a Polaroid . Edited October 29, 2013 by Kenngo1969 1
jkwilliams Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 I was going to say, "No," but the question got me thinking--a scary proposition. It occurs to me that I don't care whether I'm exalted or not. What matters to me is being a good husband and father, serving people the best I can, and hopefully leaving the world slightly better because I was here. Someone pointed me to this yesterday: No, I'm not an atheist, but this made sense to me: I don't want to regret wasting the "normal" time in my life on stuff that doesn't matter (like message boards? ). 1
janderich Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 I hope it's not too late for me. I hope my repenting washed away my sins and that I can be exalted one day. It's the deepest desire of my heart to be exalted, but I had a rough past that I hope won't tarnish my chances. I've repented though.What we have done in the past will not matter if it has led us to God. Once exaltation is achieved imagine looking back over the past. All "failures" will simply be stepping stones. One can, and should, obtain a sure knowledge that he will be exalted. To not know is to always doubt. One who does know, will have anchor to their soul.
The Grimace Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 Yes. I have no doubt in my mind, whatsoever, that I will be exalted.
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