Reading Be Ye Therefore Perfect—Eventually – By Elder Jeffrey R. Holland in Voice Dream http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2017/10/be-ye-therefore-perfect-eventually?lang=eng
Be Ye Therefore Perfect—Eventually – By Elder Jeffrey R. Holland Highlights
28.5%:
President Russell M. Nelson has taught, here in mortality perfection is still “pending.”
45.5%:
“Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him … ,” Moroni pleads. “Love God with all your might, mind and strength, then … by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ.” Our only hope for true perfection is in receiving it as a gift from heaven—we can’t “earn” it. Thus, the grace of Christ offers us not only salvation from sorrow and sin and death but also salvation from our own persistent self-criticism.
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65.9%:
Jesus uses an unfathomable measurement here because His Atonement is an unfathomable gift given at an incomprehensible cost. That, it seems to me, is at least part of the meaning behind Jesus’s charge to be perfect. We may not be able to demonstrate yet the 10,000-talent perfection the Father and the Son have achieved, but it is not too much for Them to ask us to be a little more godlike in little things, that we speak and act, love and forgive, repent and improve at least at the 100-pence level of perfection, which it is clearly within our ability to do.
90.9%:
If we persevere, then somewhere in eternity our refinement will be finished and complete—which is the New Testament meaning of perfection.
94.6%:
I testify that in this and every hour He is, with nail-scarred hands, extending to us that same grace, holding on to us and encouraging us, refusing to let us go until we are safely home in the embrace of Heavenly Parents.
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