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September 2003 Ensign THE ENSIGN OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS • SEPTEMBER 2003 The Surety of a Better Testament, p. 2 Honesty in the Small Things, p. 28 Christ Calls Two Disciples, by Gary E. Smith “Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:18–19). SEPTEMBER 2003 • VOLUME 33, NUMBER 9 2 FIRST PRESIDENCY MESSAGE The Surety of a Better Testament President James E. Faust How I Came Back: 7 How I Came Back: Personal Accounts Personal Accounts of Activation 7 of Activation 12 Lead Me, Guide Me Elder John B. Dickson 18 Finding Grandpa Pablo Lead Me, Raquel Pedraza de Brosio Guide Me 12 20 Teaching by Faith Elder Robert D. Hales 28 Honesty in the Small Things Elder Marcos A. Aidukaitis 31 The E-Mail Investigator Russell W. Wallace 34 Reading His Words Together David Brent Marsh 38 Love in Every Stitch Aimee H. Hansen The E-Mail 44 Words of the Early Apostles: 31 Investigator Building Up the Church Elder Richard J. Maynes 48 PARABLES OF JESUS The Laborers Elder Henry F. Acebedo 52 Learning to Rely on the Lord Name Withheld 56 Thomas L. Kane: Outrider for Zion Elder Lance B. Wickman 64 LATTER-DAY SAINT VOICES 68 Unto the Least Víctor Guillermo Chauca Rivera 71 VISITING TEACHING MESSAGE Prepare to Receive Personal Revelation Love in 38 Every Stitch 72 RANDOM SAMPLER 74 NEWS OF THE CHURCH AN OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE CHURCH Aimee H. Hansen, Lisa Ann Jackson, Carrie Kasten, American Express) may be placed by phone. Subscription OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS Sally J. Odekirk, Judith M. Paller, Rebecca M. Taylor, help line: 1-800-537-5971. Roger Terry, Paul VanDenBerghe THE FIRST PRESIDENCY: Gordon B. Hinckley, TOCHANGE ADDRESS: Sixty days’ notice required. Include old Thomas S. Monson, James E. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Click on “Gospel Library.” Stephen A. West The Ensign (ISSN 0884-1136) is published monthly by Everything in the Ensign may be copied for incidental, non- MANAGING DIRECTOR: David Frischknecht The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 50 E. commercial Church or home use unless otherwise indicated. PLANNING AND EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Victor D. Cave North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3220, USA. Other uses require permission of the copyright owner. Unto the Least GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Allan R. Loyborg Periodicals Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah, and at POSTMASTER: Send address changes to additional mailing offices. MAGAZINES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Richard M. Romney Distribution Services, P.O. Box 26368, Salt Lake City, UT 68 MANAGING EDITOR: Don L. Searle TOSUBSCRIBE: Send $10 U.S. check or money order to 84126-0368, USA. EDITORIAL STAFF: Collette Nebeker Aune, Susan Barrett, Distribution Services, P.O. Box 26368, Salt Lake City, UT CANADA POST INFORMATION: Publication Agreement Linda Stahle Cooper, LaRene Gaunt, Jenifer L. Greenwood, 84126-0368. Credit card orders (Visa, MasterCard, #40017431 THE SURETY OF A Better Testament BY PRESIDENT JAMES E. FAUST Second Counselor in the First Presidency he Apostle Paul was well acquainted an undertaking”; it also refers to “one who with the adjustment in thinking has become legally liable for the debt, default, Tneeded when moving from the Old or failure in duty of another.”1 Does not the Testament to the New Testament. It is a jour- Savior, with His mission, have claim upon all TOGRAPH BY DON BUSATH BY TOGRAPH ney from the rigid formality of the letter of these meanings? the law taught by Moses to the spiritual guid- What is a testament? To us, the primary ance found in the Holy Spirit. meaning of testament is that it is a covenant In his epistle to the Hebrews, Paul with God. It is also holy scripture, a will, a described this adjustment: “For the law witness, a tangible proof, an expression of It is important that we 2 HEINRICH HOFMANN; RIGHT: PHO RIGHT: HEINRICH HOFMANN; [of Moses] made nothing perfect, but [was conviction. So the Savior as a surety is a study, learn, and live BY , only] the bringing in of a better hope . ; guarantor of a better covenant with God. the hard doctrines by the which we draw nigh unto God. taught by the Savior, [And] by so much was Jesus made [the] Harder Doctrine that our Christlike surety of a better testament” (Hebrews The New Testament is “a better testament” behavior may move us 7:19, 22; see also Joseph Smith Translation, because the intent of a person alone be- up to a much higher CHRIST AND THE RICH YOUNG RULER CHRIST AND THE RICH YOUNG Hebrews 7:19–20). comes part of the rightness or wrongness level of spiritual It is important that we study, learn, and of human action. So our intent to do evil or attainment. live the hard doctrines taught by the Savior— our desire to do good will be a freestanding “[the] surety of a better testament”—that our element of consideration of our actions. We Christlike behavior may move us up to a are told we will be judged in part by the Y JED A. CLARK; DETAIL FROM Y JED A. CLARK; DETAIL much higher level of spiritual attainment. intent of our hearts (see D&C 88:109). An example of being convicted by freestanding The Guarantor of a Better Covenant intent is found in Matthew: What is a surety? We find in turning to the “Ye have heard that it was said by them of dictionary that surety is a “state of being sure”; old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: LEFT: BACKGROUND PHOTOGRAPH B PHOTOGRAPH BACKGROUND LEFT: it is also a pledge “given for the fulfillment of “But I say unto you, That whosoever ENSIGN SEPTEMBER 2003 3 looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adul- “And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away tery with her already in his heart” (Matthew 5:27–28). thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. This New Testament is harder doctrine. “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love Because of the formality and rigidity developed in the thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. administration of the old English common law, in order to “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that obtain justice the law of equity was developed. One of my curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for favorite maxims in equity is “Equity does what ought to be them which despitefully use you, and persecute you” done.” The New Testament takes the concept of law even (Matthew 5:39–40, 43–44). farther. In a large measure we will be judged not only by In the New Testament, the Savior teaches a new and what we have done but what we should have done in a higher form and content of prayer. It is profoundly simple given situation. and uncomplicated. “When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen A Higher Law do: for they think that they shall be Much of the spirit of this higher law heard for their much speaking. of the New Testament is found in the “Be not ye therefore like unto them: Sermon on the Mount. Here Jesus taught for your Father knoweth what things ye that His law requires a reconciliation of have need of, before ye ask him. differences with others before coming “Af ter this manner therefore pray JAMES J. TISSOT JAMES J. BY unto Him: ye: Our Father which art in heaven, , “Therefore if thou bring thy gift to Hallowed be thy name. the altar, and there rememberest that “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be thy brother hath ought against thee; done in earth, as it is in heaven. “Leave there thy gift before the altar, As “the mediator of the new “Give us this day our daily bread. and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy testament,” the Savior introduced “And forgive us our debts, as we brother, and then come and offer thy gift” a higher law. The challenge Jesus forgive our debtors. (Matthew 5:23–24). issued was for people to replace “And lead us not into temptation, THE SEASHORE JESUS TEACHING THE PEOPLE BY Another example of the harder doc- the rigid, technical “thou shalt not” but deliver us from evil: For thine is trine is this passage, in which swearing is of the law of Moses with the spirit the kingdom, and the power, and completely prohibited: of the “better testament.” the glory, for ever.
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