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Show "Repent Ye, and Believe the Gospel." "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is lifr- and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Nicodemus ye must be born Qgain answered and said unto him, How can these things beT "Behold the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that who soever believeth in him should not perish, ,.but have everlasting life. For God sent mot his Son into the world to condemn "the world; but that the world through Him, miqht be saved. He that believeth but he that on him is not condemned: . . . condemned !already." Mk. 1:15, Ro. 8:6-7, John 3:6-7, (lost) 9, John 1 :29, John 3: 16-18 and Mat. 18: 11). bellevetln not is "For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been, from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever; but if he yeilds to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth. oft the natural man, and becometh a saint, thro,ugh the atonement of Christ, the Lord, and be cometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things- which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father." Wherefore, all manjkind were in a lost and in a fallen " state, and should rely ever on would this be, save Redeemer." they "And I have told you this, that ye may learn wisdom, that ye may learn of me that there is no other way nor means whereby man can be saved. only in and throuqh Christ." (Book of Mormon, Pages 218:119-120, 24:6 and 444:11). now, Thus we s'ee by these scriptures that the natural person is an enemy of God and their mind is not subject to God's law, which is righteousness. Jesus said, "¥e must be born again." This is speak ing of our spirit. Christ is the way to re ceive this rebirth. When to hear we are willing the message of salvation, which is to hear of the Savior who came into the world to sarve sinners; when we are willing to receive the word of God, which plainly tells us "All have sinned" or in other words we are all sinners by Our own natures; when our ears are opened to this message we can go to God through Christ for a forgiveness of sin. Then we are washed from our past sins through the blood of Christ. When God grants us forgiveness, He also baptizes |
