True to the Faith

The Gift of Eternal Life The Savior has declared that eternal life is “the greatest of all the gifts of God” (D&C 14:7). To gain eternal life is to be made worthy to dwell in God’s presence, inheriting a place in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom.

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True to the Faith

The Lord declared, “This is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39). Staying on the Path to Life Eternal When you were baptized and received the gift of the Holy Ghost, you entered the path that leads to eternal life.

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God Loveth His Children

Notwithstanding your present same-gender attractions, you can be happy during this life, lead a morally clean life, perform meaningful service in the Church, enjoy full fellowship with your fellow Saints, and ultimately receive all the blessings of eternal life. Eternal life means much more than long or unending life.

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Gospel Fundamentals

Our Father in Heaven Has Given Us the Gospel to Prepare Us for Eternal Life in the Celestial KingdomOur Father in Heaven gives every one of us a chance to have eternal life with Him. Eternal life is the kind of life our Father in Heaven and Jesus live.

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Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

This index lists hymns according to topic. It may be useful in locating hymns suitable for a particular meeting, talk, or lesson. If you do not find the precise word you are looking for as a heading in the index, consider synonyms and other related

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Family Home Evening Resource Book

This approach should emphasize the eternal plan of a loving Father in Heaven, a plan that enables us to have eternal families. It is not part of my life now, but will be later.

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A Parent’s Guide

Teaching human intimacy to our children is only one of many ways in which we help them to prepare for eternal life. Everything he does and has done is to help us toward immortality and eternal life.

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True to the Faith

And then are [we] in this strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life” (2 Nephi 31:17–18). The Spirit will guide you in the paths of righteousness and peace, leading you to eternal life.

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True to the Faith

In the scriptures, the words saved and salvation often refer to eternal life, or exaltation (see Abraham 2:11). If we use the word salvation to mean eternal life, none of us can say that we have been saved in mortality.

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Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood: Basic Manual for Priesthood Holders, Part B

The most important choice we have to make, a choice made possible by the Savior’s Atonement, concerns eternal life. Lehi explained agency to his son Jacob: “Wherefore, men are free … to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil” (2 Nephi 2:27).

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The Latter-day Saint Woman: Basic Manual for Women, Part B

What are some of the choices that will put you on the road to eternal life? Conclusion Our Savior has shown us the way to use our agency to gain eternal life.

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Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood: Basic Manual for Priesthood Holders, Part B

As we set goals that help us be more like the Savior and Heavenly Father, we will become worthy to have eternal life with our families. What other goals can help us prepare for eternal life and draw nearer to God?

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Gospel Principles

Commandments: Directions given by God to his children to prepare them for eternal life in the world to come. Plan of salvation: Our Heavenly Father’s plan for his children by which they can overcome sin and death and gain eternal life.

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2009 Outline for Sharing Time and the Children’s Sacrament Meeting Presentation: My Eternal Family

Arrange to have a grandmother come to Primary and share ways her extended family members have supported her in her life. In the premortal life, I chose to follow Jesus Christ (Abraham 3:24–27; GP, chapter 2 and chapter 3).2.

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Family Home Evening Resource Book

FOR THE PARENT As Latter-day Saints, we frequently hear the phrases “eternal life” and “eternal family.” They remind us that our families are our greatest source of happiness and joy. See chapter 2, “Our Heavenly Family,” Gospel Principles [31110], pp. 11–15.) After we come to earth we can begin to develop our own eternal families. if we succeed with our families in this life, we may return with them to our Heavenly Father.

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Family Home Evening Resource Book

Blessed are all they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.[3 Nephi 12:4] PURPOSE Help members of the bereaved family find comfort in having each other and in being able to trust in the Lord, accepting death as a necessary part of eternal life. Pick up the glove and put it on again, wiggling the fingers.) As resurrected beings, they can receive a fulness of joy and have eternal life, which is the greatest gift of all.

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2007 Outline for Sharing Time and the Children’s Sacrament Meeting Presentation: I’ll Follow Him in Faith

Set up areas representing premortal life, earth life, and life after death. Because of the Atonement, I can repent and return to live with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ (1 John 2:25; D&C 19:16; “Repentance” [CS, 98]; “Salvation from Our Sins,”“The Gift of Eternal Life,” and “Repentance,”TTF, 18–19, 132–35; GP,chapter 19). 4.

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Gospel Principles

President David O. McKay said, “With all my heart I believe that the best place to prepare for … eternal life is in the home” (“Blueprint for Family Living,” Improvement Era, Apr. 1963, p. 252). Why is the home the best place to prepare for eternal life?

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True to the Faith

Those who followed Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ were permitted to come to the earth to experience mortality and progress toward eternal life. This part of your existence is a time of learning in which you can prove yourself, choose to come unto Christ, and prepare to be worthy of eternal life.

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Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood: Basic Manual for Priesthood Holders, Part B

This process requires endurance, but the Lord has told us that we must endure to the end in righteous living to achieve the goal of exaltation, or eternal life (see D&C 14:7). Teach Children the Principles of the Gospel President N. Eldon Tanner said: “Parents also should teach their children early in life the glorious concept and fact that they are spirit children of God, and [that] choosing to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ is the only way to enjoy success and happiness here and eternal life hereafter.

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