Doctrine and Covenants + Church History – Lesson 7

Faith in Christ

What does it mean?
Why in Christ?
(Compare this to faith in a light switch)
How do we demonstrate faith?
James 2:14 – What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
D&C 63:11 – and with whom God is angry he is not well pleased; wherefore, unto such he showeth no signs, {except} in wrath unto their condemnation.

Repentence

It is a process of becoming cleansed and being born again.
As an adult I have reflected upon the things I observed in our kitchen during canning season. This morning I want to discuss some of the spiritual lessons we can learn from the process by which a cucumber becomes a pickle. I invite the Holy Ghost to be with us as we consider the significance of those lessons for me and for you as we come unto Christ and are spiritually reborn.

A pickle is a cucumber that has been transformed according to a specific recipe and series of steps. The first steps in the process of changing a cucumber into a pickle are preparing and cleaning. I remember many hours spent on the back porch of my home removing stems from and scrubbing dirt off of the cucumbers we had picked. My mom was very particular about the preparing and cleaning of the cucumbers. She had high standards of cleanliness and always inspected my work to make sure this important task was properly completed. {This is the step in the process in which we prepare ourselves by cleaning our hands and purifying our hearts in preparation for the pickling/refining process.}

The next steps in this process of change are immersing and saturating the cucumbers in salt brine for an extended period of time. To prepare the brine, my mom always used a recipe she learned from her mother