I am convinced that homosexuality is an addiction just as surely as pornography and drink and drugs are addictions. I do not believe that that is true. He that made them male and female, and the prophet says that every form of homosexuality is sin.
If children want families, they will have families, and that is vitally important. Writing this personal history will tell them a lot about who they are. I know, for instance, that I stand before you here today primarily because I have a wonderfully fine father. He is as honest and honorable as any man I have ever met. His word has been his bond all his life. He loves to talk about religion. He is open minded; he will talk to anybody about religion. He may have lacked a little bit in humility, but I never met a Protestant minister I thought was better than my dad either.
He is an open-minded man, willing to talk about religion or anything else. I grew up that way. Also I had a wonderfully fine grandmother. Her name was Lucy Ellen Mason Garvin.
We call her Mama Lucy. Mama Lucy believed in the Bible with all her heart. She knew it was true. She lived in a small town of Rennick, Missouri, population But in that small town of back there in central Missouri there were four churches.
That was a religious place, and every summer when I had the opportunity to spend a week with her just before school started, there was always a religious revival going on in one of those churches. We went every night. I loved to hear those old revival preachers; they called them evangelists. That meant a traveling preacher to them. They could preach hellfire and damnation with the best of them. I wanted to do that. I thought that would be important to me or would make a difference to me if I did it.
I never did. They still put potatoes in the exhaust pipes of cars. Someone would come out and turn on the headlights—nothing. And you had to be a mechanic to make a car run, back in those days. There were some of the wildest pictures in there that you have ever seen. Hell was a horrible place.
There were fire and brimstone. People there were naked, and these characters with pitchforks were sticking them, and they had horns on their heads and forked tails. I knew that. That was impressed upon me. And heaven was always a beautiful place.
There were angels there. They were always female, and my grandmother was sure that no man would ever be worthy of this exalted station. When the elders knocked on my door, they found someone who was open minded, was willing to talk about religion, read all kinds of books on religion because I was looking for the truth and believed the Bible with all my heart my grandmother had seen to that. I had to write all that down. The Prophet Joseph Smith seems to indicate that, in section of the Doctrine and Covenants, where he tells us how important it is that we write things down.
In this section, he emphasizes not only that we write it down, but that we put down witnesses, names. He says, beginning with verse You may think this order of things to be very particular; but let me tell you that it is only to answer the will of God, by conforming to the ordinance and preparation that the Lord ordained and prepared before the foundation of the world, for the salvation of the dead who should die without a knowledge of the gospel.
And further, I want you to remember that John the Revelator was contemplating this very subject in relation to the dead, when he declared as you will find recorded in Revelation —. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
You will discover in this quotation that the books were opened: and another book was opened, which was the book of life; but the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books [with an s], according to their works; consequently, the books spoken of must be the books which contained the record of their works and refer to the records which are kept on the earth.
The Prophet continues:. Now, the nature of this ordinance consists in the power of the priesthood, by the revelation of Jesus Christ, wherein it is granted that whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Or, in other words, taking a different view of the translation, whatsoever you record on earth shall be recorded in heaven, and whatsoever you do not record on earth shall not be recorded in heaven.
I think so. I am convinced that it is not what we do here upon this earth that will condemn us at the last day, anyway.
You see, the Lord Jesus Christ granted repentance to us all. That is not going to hurt us, for those sins will be blotted out. If we did something good, and we record that, we will get credit for it. So we ought to write it. It is vitally important that we do. And then the record is in heaven. The International Genealogical Index is a record, no doubt about that.
Well, if we have your birthdate, that will be there. Is that how you want to be judged? When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:. And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them from another, as a shepherd that divideth his sheep from the goats:.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:. Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? Are you sure it was me? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
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Company may use your information to serve you personalized advertising. In , he was called as a General Authority Seventy. Perhaps due to his experience as an adult convert, he found particular joy in missionary work. He also wrote several books on gospel topics to share his experience and testimony with others. Elder Rector was granted emeritus status in During his time of service as a General Authority, he spoke twelve times at BYU, sharing his experiences with the gospel and encouraging students to prepare to make a difference in the lives of others through their study, their service, and their examples as followers of Jesus Christ.
The Gospel September 29, MP3 PDF. May 3, February 10, Rector was born on August 20, , in Moberly, Missouri. He served in the United States Navy from to In , he returned to active service as a naval aviator with the Korean conflict.
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