Show Notes for Episode 15 of the Teach Me to Walk in the Light Podcast. Easter episode. In the analogy of the Golden Gate Bridge, learn how Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection is our safety net from the Fall. Teach your children how Christ sets us free from our sins and broke the bands of death with a simple mind-boggling object lesson. This episode goes along with the Come, Follow Me – for Individuals and Families for the week of April 15-21, 2019.
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PERSONAL STUDY [1:56]
1. In 2011 it was estimated that in the world…
- 55.3 million people die each year
- 151,600 people die each day
- 6,316 people die each hour
- 105 people die each minute
- Nearly two people die each second
In the United States approximately 7,452 people die every day or approximately one person dies every 12 seconds.
2. Life is a terminal illness, no one gets out of it alive.
3. In the book What’s on the Other Side? What the Gospel Teaches Us About the Spirit World by Brent L. Top, he quotes the Prophet Joseph Smith saying that the Lord in his wisdom has implanted the fear of death in every person that they might cling to life and thus accomplish the designs of their creator.
4. Losing someone you love is not easy for anyone – a testimony of the gospel or not – the ache of missing them is real. Someone I know who lost her father once said, “Yes, I’m happy for the plan of salvation but it doesn’t make me miss him any less.”
5. Hilary Weeks’ Live All In, Click HERE. Each month, as a member you get a new song download along with a music-only track, sheet music, printables, and more. So far one of my favorite songs of hers this year is called At the Same Time and it talks about this heartbreak and peace that we sometimes feel at the same time.
One verse and the chorus goes like this:
I didn’t see this coming
No way I could have known
Life has sent me on a detour
And I don’t recognize this road
And you might think I’m crazy
If I told you how I feel right now
I should be breaking
But I’m not, and somehow
I feel peace in the middle of my pain
I feel trust and hope even though my heart is aching
I can taste the bitter and the sweet
Walking where the valley and the mountain meet
There is something so divine
Where pain and grace collide
In the same place at the same time
It seems impossible
That one heart can feel two ways
But that’s where the miracle takes place
6. This miracle, this peace that we are able to receive as we deal with heartbreak over the death of a loved one, wouldn’t be possible had it not been for our Savior, Jesus Christ.
7. In a talk by Elder Uchtdorf entitled Behold the Man, he said:
“Recently I asked the internet, “What day most changed the course of history?” The responses ranged from surprising and strange to insightful and thought-provoking. Among them,..in 1440, Johannes Gutenberg finished his printing press; and, of course, the day in 1903 when the Wright brothers showed the world that man really can fly. If the same question were asked of you, what would you say? In my mind the answer is clear.
To find the most important day in history, we must go back to that evening almost 2,000 years ago in the Garden of Gethsemane when Jesus Christ knelt in intense prayer and offered Himself as a ransom for our sins…Later that night, Jesus was brought before religious and political authorities who mocked Him, beat Him, and sentenced Him to a shameful death. He hung in agony upon the cross until, finally, “it [was] finished.” His lifeless body was laid in a borrowed tomb. And then, on the morning of the third day, Jesus Christ, the Son of Almighty God, emerged from the tomb as a glorious, resurrected being of splendor, light, and majesty.
Yes, there are many events throughout history that have profoundly affected the destiny of nations and peoples. But combine them all, and they cannot begin to compare to the importance of what happened on that first Easter morning.”
8. Joseph Fielding Smith once explained that Adam and Eve’s transgression “placed all of us subject to Satan’s power after death. The Lord has told us through his prophets that if some remedy was not provided to restore life our spirits would become subject to Satan forever and he would have ruled over us while our bodies would have remained in the grave forever…Jesus Christ volunteered to come and atone for this transgression and thus gain the victory over the devil.” (taken from the book Selections from Answers to Gospel Questions)
9. Elder Neal A. Maxwell once said, “Death is a mere comma, not an exclamation point!”
10. Elder Uchtdorf has said, “He did this for all who believe in Him. He did this for all who do not believe in Him. He did this even for those who mock, revile, and curse His name.”
11. The second main reason the infinite sacrifice and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most important event in history is that we have all sinned and no unclean thing can enter into God’s kingdom. Jesus Christ was the Lamb without spot who willingly paid the price, who offered His life as a ransom for ALL of our sins. Had He not, we wouldn’t be permitted into God’s kingdom. It’s like we tell our kids, there are no muddy shoes allowed in the house. There are also no muddy or unclean spirits allowed in God’s kingdom. We have to be clean and pure and there’s no way that would even be possible had Christ not atoned for our sins.
12. Analogy of the Golden Gate Bridge along with Object Lesson, click HERE
13. Elder Holland once said:
“Because we were then born into that fallen world and because we too would transgress the laws of God, we also were sentenced to the same penalties that Adam and Eve faced.
What a plight! The entire human race in free fall—every man, woman, and child in it physically tumbling toward permanent death, spiritually plunging toward eternal anguish. Is that what life was meant to be? Is this the grand finale of the human experience?…The answer to those questions is an unequivocal and eternal no!”
14. In the book Infinite Atonement by Tad Callister, he points out that the physical symbol of the atonement is figuratively and literally symbolized by an embrace. Lehi talked about it in his dying sermon to his sons. 2 Nephi 1:15 “I have beheld his glory, and I am encircled about eternally in the arms of his love” In D&C 6:20 we read, “Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God, and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love” Alma 34:16 “Mercy can satisfy the demands of justice, and encircles them in the arms of safety.” Even “Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home.”
15. Excerpt from book Infinite Atonement:
“Contemplate for a moment the magnetic pull when a little child sees her father on bended knee with arms extended. The invitation is irresistible. The reaction to return is automatic. There is no intellectual analysis. It is like reaching for a blanket in cold weather, turning on the light in a dark room. Some things are not mind-driven, but heart-prompted. These are natural yearnings of the soul – the need for warmth, light, and love. Likewise, our Father in Heaven is extending his arms with the intent to entice us home. How irresistible those arms are to those who seek his warmth, his light, and his love. He invites us to the day of reunification…he invites us to run to his arms and bask in his embrace.”
FHE [17:14]
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TEACHING TIP [21:46]
1. Simple ways to minister to other sisters:
Pick them up for church
Sit by her in RS
Always say hello when you see her
Attend something she is involved in
Offer to run an errand for her while you’re out
Drop by and bring her her favorite soda
Interact with her on social media
Arrange for a play day with both your kids
Fast for her
Pray for her
Take her to a doctor’s appointment
Rave about her, let others know of her good qualities
There are hundreds of little ways that we can minister and I’m reminded of the scripture that says by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.
2. In the book What’s on the Other Side? What the Gospel Teaches Us About the Spirit World by Brent L. Top, he talks about how the little stuff we do in this life carries a tremendous weight on the other side. He shares a story from a man who had a near-death experience and while on the other side the man talks about seeing his life’s review. Watching his life, he said the hypocrisy of the life he led was almost nauseating but there was one moment that was redeeming. He said, “I got to see when my younger sister had a bad night one night. How I went into her bedroom and just put my arms around her. I didn’t say anything. I just laid there with my arm around her. As it turned out, that experience was one of the greatest triumphs of my life’s review.”
3, The little things, do make a difference. Don’t think that ministering has to be a grand gesture of sorts, remember, it is by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.
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