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February 5 – To create something means to bring into being from nothing, to cause to exist.  The Hebrew word is “bara”, which is to create.  Gen. 1:1 says; “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”.

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January 31 – Leviticus 18:21; “And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God; I am the LORD”.

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January 29 – Jesus told us in Matthew 16:18; “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gate of hell shall not prevail against it”.

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January 28 – Romans 7:25; “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.  So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God: but with the flesh the law of sin.”

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January 27 – “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous”. – Romans 5:19.

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January 26 – Deuteronomy 18 gives us explicit directions of what not to participate in.  Verses 10-12 tells us not to be witches, charmers, and consulter with familiar spirits or wizards…

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January 25 – Ephesians 2:8-9 is a golden scripture reminding us of how we are saved.  “For by grace ye are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

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January 24 – Aside from the perfect announcement that God came in human flesh to pay the price for sin, the New Testament is mainly about the doctrines of God.  In it we find how to conduct ourselves even through the simple structure of church life.  1 Tim. 3:12 says; “let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well”.

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Mormon Decisions 101 Nephi 2:4; “And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness. And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family, and provisions, and tents, and departed into the wilderness.”

400+ kilometer journey to flee Jerusalem

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January 23 – The Promise.  God explicitly told Abraham the promise of his seed would come through the lineage of Isaac.  Gen. 17:19; “And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him”.

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Mormon Decisions 10Journal of Discourses 16:166; “If we could make every man upon the earth get him a wife, live righteously and serve God, we would not be under the necessity, perhaps, of taking more than one wife. But they will not do this; the people of God, therefore, have been commanded to take more wives.” — Brigham Young, Paris, Idaho, August 31, 1873

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Mormon Decisions 10General Conference, ‘The Coming Tests and Trials and Glory,’ April 1980; “If we, as a people, keep the commandments of God; if we take the side of the Church on all issues, both religious and political; if we take the Holy Spirit for our guide; if we give heed to the words of the apostles and prophets who minister among us—then, from an eternal standpoint, all things will work together for our good.” — Bruce R. McConkie

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January 21 –Jesus told us in Matthew 16:18 the “gates of hell would not prevail against His church”.

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Mormon Decisions 10Gospel Doctrine, p 139, 159; “WHAT IS THE PRIESTHOOD? It is nothing more nor less than the power of God delegated to man by which man can act in the earth for the salvation of the human family…and act legitimately; not assuming that authority, nor borrowing it from generations that are dead and gone…

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January 20 – Romans 5:8 says; “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us”.

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Mormon Decisions 10The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 595; “The coming forth of the Constitution is of such transcendent importance in the Lord’s plan that ancient prophets foresaw this event and prophesied of it… The Constitution fulfilled the ancient prophecy of Isaiah [2:3] that ‘out of Zion shall go forth the law.’” — Ezra Taft Benson

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January 19 – 1 Cor. 15:3; “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures”.

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Mormon Decisions 10Journal of Discourses 2:314; “The laws that the Lord has given are not fully perfect, because the people could not receive them in their perfect fulness; but they can receive a little here and a little there, a little today and a little tomorrow, a little more next week, and a little more in advance of that next year, if they make a wise improvement upon every little they receive; if they do not, they are left in the shade, and the light which the Lord reveals will appear darkness to them, and the kingdom of heaven will travel on and leave them groping. Hence, if we wish to act upon the fulness of the knowledge that the Lord designs to reveal, little by little, to the inhabitants of the earth, we must improve upon every little as it is revealed.” — Brigham Young,  SLC,  July 8, 1855

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January 18 – In 1 Cor.15:29 we see Paul asking the Corinthians why they were being baptized for their dead when they didn’t even believe in the resurrection.

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January 17 – We are adopted sons and daughters of God.  John 1:13; “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God”.

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