Now
is the Time to Repent and Change Melvin J. Ballard
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is my judgment that any man or woman can do more to conform to the laws
of God in one year in this life than they could in ten years when they
are dead. The spirit only can repent and change, and then the battle
has to go forward with the flesh afterwards. It is much easier to overcome
and serve the Lord when both flesh and spirit are combined as one. This
is the time when men are more pliable and susceptible. We will find
when we are dead every desire, every feeling will be greatly intensified.
When clay is pliable it is much easier to change than when it gets hard
and sets. This life is the time to repent. That is why I presume it
will take a thousand years after the first resurrection until the last
group will be prepared to come forth. It will take them a thousand years
to do what it would have taken, but three score years and ten to accomplish
in this life... (Melvin J. Ballard, The Three Degrees of Glory, pp. 12, 19) |
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2 Nephi 6-10 |
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