C.S. Lewis, 2 types of people
- Those who say to God “Thy will be done”
- Those to whom God says “Thy will be done”
The context of this parable is Matthew 19 with the rich young man.
This one is directed towards the Apostles
It is a rebuke against the spirit of entitlement.
The Penny = eternal life
- 2 Nephi 25:23
- 2 Nephi 2:3
Those who labored the full day expected more than a penny. A penny is what they agreed to and what is more than eternal life?
Living the gospel all your life should be viewed as a blessing – you got the extra reward you were asking for.
October 2001 conference Ballard (doctrine of inclusion)
The “One True Church” doctrine is the one that bothers other Christians more than any other.
Stephen E. Robinson Jan 1988 (I might be slightly off of the year but not the month) (Ensign I assume)
Sometimes the Lord prepares people outside the church so that a short labor in the church prepares them as well as many who have labored all their lives in the church.
General Conference April 1928 Orson F. Whitney
Our efforts to get to know others should be to build relationships – we should have no ulterior motives to change them.
The Church of the Lamb and the Church of the Devil are churches of devotion and loyalty, not churches of record or affiliation people in all churches of affiliation are found in each of those churches. The Church of the Firstborn and the Elect of God is also a church of loyalty and not affiliation – it is a church of covenant and only has members of the church who have made the appropriate covenant as well as the appropriate loyalty of heart – having His law written on the fleshy tables of the heart and His image in our countenance.