A Google Slides presentation on the article entitled “Seven Lies Satan Wants You to Believe” written by David Dickson found in the January 2017 New Era. Also, an object lesson on how if you believe Satan’s lies he will lead you “by the neck with a flaxen cord.”
GOOGLE SLIDES:
SEVEN LIES SATAN WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE
This slide presentation is taken from the January 2017, New Era article, “Seven Lies Satan Wants You to Believe,” written by David Dickson. You can read the article by clicking HERE
This slide show automatically goes to the next slide every 15 seconds.
DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO BEST USE SLIDES
Click the FULL SCREEN button at the bottom of the slide show and then hit the PAUSE button. With the slide show paused, it will not advance every 15 seconds. This will allow you to take as long as you want at each slide. You can move back and forth between the slides using the ARROW buttons on your keyboard or by clicking on the arrows next to the Play/Pause button. When finished, simply hit EXIT FULL SCREEN at the bottom or ESC on your keyboard.
As you teach with these slides, I suggest pausing after each LIE and see if anyone can tell you what the TRUTH is.
To open in Google Slides, Click HERE
OBJECT LESSON:
HE LEADETH THEM BY THE NECK WITH A FLAXEN CORD
What happens if we do listen to Satan’s lies?
READ: 2 Nephi 26: 22
OBJECT LESSON: Wrap some thread around someone’s wrists to represent “a flaxen cord.” Keep wrapping until they can’t break it. As you wrap their wrist, ask the questions: How is a flaxen cord like Satan’s temptations? How might it become a strong cord?
Elder Carlos E. Asay describes being entangled by the flaxen cord this way…
QUOTE: “The first wrongdoing is like a single strand of flaxen thread; it is easily broken and thrown aside. But each time the wrong is repeated another strand is intertwined around the first, and on and on it goes until an almost unbreakable cord of multi-strands is woven. ‘The chains of habit,’ said Samuel Johnson, ‘are too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.'”
I like how Elder Asay describes it as an ALMOST unbreakable cord. Why do you think it’s ALMOST unbreakable?
It’s never completely unbreakable because we will always have the Atonement of Jesus Christ if we choose to use it.
Using scissors, cut 1 strand at a time as you explain:
Repentance is a process. It’s not always a quick break of all the strands – sometimes it’s little by little. But nonetheless, if we are truly repentant, through the Atonement of Jesus Christ we can be forgiven and break free of the flaxen cord that holds us bound.
Another lie of Satan’s is FEAR. Find out more about this lie from Tim Ballard in A Slave to Sin by clicking HERE
This slide show and object lesson was used in a Teach Me FHE outline. Sign up today to receive a weekly FHE outline delivered right to your inbox! Each outline goes along with the Come, Follow Me reading assignment for the upcoming week.
Yours Truly,
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