Today's Purpose:
To help us keep our thoughts and actions pure.
Music: Do you recognize this song?
1. Review some of the lessons we've already learned about.
2. Today's lesson will teach us to
D&C 88: 86
If we allow unclean thoughts and desires to grow in our minds, we may become entangled in sin and find it difficult to escape.
D&C 14:7
7 And, if you keep my commandments and endure to the end you shall have eternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God.
Mosiah 4: 30
30 But this much I can tell you, that if ye do not watch yourselves, and your thoughts, and your words, and your deeds, and observe the commandments of God, and continue in the faith of what ye have heard concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto the end of your lives, ye must perish. And now, O man, remember, and perish not.
Watch for how David did not keep the commandments, how he did not carefully watch his thoughts and words and deeds.
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King David and Bathsheba
What started King David’s downfall?
What started King David’s downfall?
2 Samuel 11: 1
1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
Be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there, doing what you're supposed to be doing!
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What did David do then?
? What did Joseph do when he was tempted by Potiphar’s wife?
What could David have done to be more like Joseph and avoid becoming entangled in sin?
Where have we heard the word covet in our lessons?
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
The word covet describes an intense desire for something that belongs to another.
David and Uriah
We need to control our thoughts and our words as well as our actions.
What did David do next?
David and Uriah
We need to control our thoughts and our words as well as our actions.
What can you do if you are tempted? (spin the wheel)
- • You hear someone swear. The thought comes into your mind to swear also.
- • Someone tries to show you pictures of people who are immodestly dressed. You are tempted to look.
- • Someone starts to tell a dirty joke or story. You want to listen.
- • A friend tells an unkind story about someone. The thought comes into your mind to spread the gossip.
- • You are looking up something on the Internet for school and a bad picture pops up.
- • You are watching a television program that shows immoral behavior. This program is popular with your friends and you want to watch it.
- • You are angry with someone and feel like punching him or her.
- • You see your favorite candy bar at the store. The thought comes into your mind to steal it.
The prophet Nathan tells King David the parable of the ewe lamb.
2 Samuel 12
1 And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
2 Samuel 12:13
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath not put away thy sin;
13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord.
But --
Heavenly Father loves us even when we do wrong, and he still wants us to stay close to him through prayer.
2 Samuel 12
1 And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
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| Nathan tells David, "Thou art the man." |
2 Samuel 12:13
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath not put away thy sin;
D&C 132:39 . . . he hath fallen from his exaltation. . .
Alma 41:10
Do not suppose, because it has been spoken concerning restoration, that ye shall be restored from sin to happiness. Behold, I say unto you, wickednessnever was happiness.
Alma 41:10
Do not suppose, because it has been spoken concerning restoration, that ye shall be restored from sin to happiness. Behold, I say unto you, wickednessnever was happiness.
But --
bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and
the Lord loved him.
•What does it mean to endure to the end?
D&C 14:7
7 And, if you keep my commandments and endure to the end you shall have eternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God.
Pure thoughts lead to clean lives,
and clean lives lead to happiness.
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