February 18 – Being Reverent: Don’t Listen to Music on Your Way to Temple. Isaiah 64:6 “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”
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Ask a Mormon why they need a special permission slip to enter their temples, when this wasn’t the model for entering temples in biblical times. If the Church is a ‘restoration’ of the original, why aren’t they doing so? Also, don’t miss sharing the real meaning of the Hebrew translation for ‘filthy rags’ with your Mormon friend. The graphic description God gave us really puts our useless works in perspective!
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Preparing to do Baptisms for the Dead “Have an interview with your bishop or branch president. If you are worthy, he will give you a limited-use temple recommend.
Help do family history work so you can take family names to the temple, if possible.
Study the scriptures and Church publications (such as the October 2010 Liahona) that will help you understand temple work….
Pray to feel the Holy Ghost when you are in the temple.
Don’t take books, electronics, or music on the way to the temple that will not help you feel reverent.”
“Shout for joy to the Lord, all ye earth. Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him with JOYFUL SONGS.Know that the Lord is good. (Psalm 100:1,2)
In the Book of Acts, Chapter 16, Paul and Silas were in jail. Instead of complaining on moaning aout their situation, they began to sing hymns to God. God heard them and tore down the walls of the prison. The jailer also heard them singing hymns to God (faith comes by hearing the Word of God ( Romans 10:17) t. When the prison walls came down, the jailer runs to Paul and Silas and asks them: “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Paul tells the jailer,”Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you and your household will all be saved. The jailer takes Paul and Silas with him to his home that night. By the end of the evening, the jailer and his family were all baptized.(Acts 16:25-34)
AMEN!!! Soldiermp…Color me irreverent, because I listen to music from a local Christian station; and sometimes I look at the verses used in the sermon, before church starts. Oh the horror.
Michelle, what was your first experience like in a Christian Church? Did you freak out to see people stand and lift their hands in the air?
Well… 🙂
I got saved! I know it sounds weird, but as I walked through the front doors of that church, I felt God spoke to me and said, ‘Michelle, you’re finally home’. It was Palm Sunday of 1993. I cried, and fell to my knees as they played the song, ‘Great are You Lord’.
That’s not weird… that’s awesome. I’m glad you listened to the voice and not think it was from satan; after all you were entering the “church of the devil”.
I should clarify my comment a bit. Oh dear! After I hit the send button, my memory bank went into action…
My first experience inside a Christian church didn’t go so well. Back in 1990 I went to a church service in Vegas @ Nellis Air Force Base at the invite of another Air Force wife. Both our husbands were away at the 1st Gulf War and I was pregnant with our 2nd daughter, Jacquelyn. All I remember is that it was a service hosted by a liturgical church, and they all stood up at the beginning of the service reciting a prayer in which they stated they were sinners.
Throughout the prayer recital, the arrogant thing that I was, began telling my friend I wasn’t a sinner. As I kept yammering on, the prayer ended, everyone sat down, and I was the only one in the audience left standing while still proclaiming I wasn’t a sinner. WOW!
At that, I picked up my purse, and marched my very pregnant self out of the service while everyone watched.
I still can’t believe my horrid behavior, and it’s been 30 yrs.
The next time I stepped into a church was my experience I spoke of in ’93. 🙂 Obviously, if there were any songs played, or hands raised, I didn’t stick around for that part. It’s amazing how much grace and patience our Lord has – especially for the likes of me!
That’s hilarious…and when I started looking into the LDS church that was 1thing I thought was funny (odd), they really don’t see themselves as sinners. I guess if you have to admit you’re a sinner, that somehow makes you a horrible person. The only sin they see is “blood attornment” type sin. Which is today’s topic boys and girls.