YOUTH GOAL PLANNER helps youth answer questions Alma asks and list things to do to prepare to enter the temple and receive blessings.
Great for Sunday School – Seminary – family night – Youth Goal activity
YOUTH GOAL PLANNER
“Preparing for the Temple”
Part 1 List Questions Alma Asks and My Answers found in Alma 5 (detailed below).
Part 2 List Things I Will Do to Prepare to Be Pure and Worthy to Enter the Temple and Receive Heavenly Father’s Promised Blessings.
“Preparing for the Temple”
Part 1 Questions Alma Asks and My Answers (Alma 5)
See Alma’s Questions(below).
Part 2 Things I Will Do to Prepare to Be Pure and Worthy to Enter the Temple and Receive Heavenly Father’s Promised Blessings
A PROPHET’S VIEW:
“Now, if you have made mistakes, make today the beginning of a change of your lives. Turn from the thing that you have been doing that is wrong. The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today. If it is one of dishonesty, if it is one of unchastity, if it is one of falsifying, not telling the truth, today is the day for you to work on that until you have been able to conquer that weakness. Put that aright and then you start on the next one that is most difficult for you to keep. That’s the way to sanctify yourself by keeping the commandments of God.” – Harold B. Lee, Devotional, Long Beach California, 4/29/73; see The Teachings of Harold B. Lee (Prophet in 1972 – 73 – 18 month), p. 82
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“Preparing for the Temple”
Part 1 Questions Alma Asks and My Answers (Alma 5)
PREPARING FOR THE TEMPLE (ABOUT ALMA’S TEACHINGS) Alma 5:13 “And behold, he preached the word unto your fathers, and a mighty change was also wrought in their hearts, and they humbled themselves and put their trust in the true and living God. And behold, they were faithful until the end; therefore they were saved.“
QUESTION Alma 5:14 “Have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts?”
QUESTION Alma 5:15 “Do ye exercise faith in the redemption of him who created you? Do you look forward with an eye of faith, and view this mortal body raised in immortality, and this corruption raised in incorruption, to stand before God to be judged according to the deeds which have been done in the mortal body?”
QUESTION Alma 5:19 “I say unto you, can ye look up to God at that day with a pure heart and clean hands? I say unto you, can you look up, having the image of God engraven upon your countenances?”
QUESTION Alma 5:27 “Have ye walked, keeping yourselves blameless before God? Could ye say, if ye were called to die at this time, within yourselves, that ye have been sufficiently humble? That your garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins?“
QUESTION Alma 5:28 “Behold, are ye stripped of pride? I say unto you, if ye are not ye are not prepared to meet God. Behold ye must prepare quickly; for the kingdom of heaven is soon at hand, and such an one hath not eternal life.”
QUESTION Alma 5:30-31 “And again I say unto you, is there one among you that doth make a mock of his brother, or that heapeth upon him persecutions?
Wo unto such an one, for he is not prepared, and the time is at hand that he must repent or he cannot be saved!”
MORE WORDS OF COUNSEL FROM ALMA (the Younger)
MORE WORDS FROM ALMA Alma 5:37-40 (vs. 40) “For I say unto you that whatsoever is good cometh from God, and whatsoever is evil cometh from the devil.” HOW TO DISCERN GOOD FROM EVIL?
MORE WORDS FROM ALMA Alma 5:46 “Behold, I say unto you they are made known unto me by the Holy Spirit of God. Behold, I have fasted and prayed many days that I might know these things of myself. And now I do know of myself that they are true; for the Lord God hath made them manifest unto me by his Holy Spirit; and this is the spirit of revelation which is in me.”
MORE WORDS FROM ALMA Alma 5:48 “I say unto you, that I know of myself (see crossmatch activity below about Alma the younger) that whatsoever I shall say unto you, concerning that which is to come, is true; and I say unto you, that I know that Jesus Christ shall come, yea, the Son, the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace, and mercy, and truth. And behold, it is he that cometh to take away the sins of the world, yea, the sins of every man who steadfastly believeth on his name.”
MORE WORDS FROM ALMA Alma 5:52 “And again I say unto you, the Spirit saith: Behold, the ax is laid at the root of the tree; therefore every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the fire, yea, a fire which cannot be consumed, even an unquenchable fire. Behold, and remember, the Holy One hath spoken it.”
MORE WORDS FROM ALMA Alma 5:58 “For the names of the righteous shall be written in the book of life, and unto them will I grant an inheritance at my right hand* (see activity below). And now, my brethren, what have ye to say against this? I say unto you, if ye speak against it, it matters not, for the word of God must be fulfilled.”
*The sheep are the ones that sit on the right hand of God.
MORE WORDS FROM ALMA Alma 5:59-60 “For what shepherd is there among you having many sheep doth not watch over them, that the wolves enter not and devour his flock? And behold, if a wolf enter his flock doth he not drive him out? Yea, and at the last, if he can, he will destroy him.
And now I say unto you that the good shepherd doth call after you; and if you will hearken unto his voice he will bring you into his fold, and ye are his sheep; and he commandeth you that ye suffer no ravenous wolf to enter among you, that ye may not be destroyed.”
MORE WORDS FROM ALMA Alma 5:62 “I speak by way of command unto you that belong to the church; and unto those who do not belong to the church I speak by way of invitation, saying: Come and be baptized unto repentance, that ye also may be partakers of the fruit of the tree of life.”
