![]() Is it easy for you to wrap your mind around what Benjamin is teaching about each individual’s debt to God? Or, is indebtedness to God a foreign concept for you? “…Ye are eternally indebted to your heavenly Father, to render to him all that you have and are.” ( Mosiah 2:34) Is it possible to treat others the way God wants us to if we don’t remember, with gratitude, all God has done for us? Ye Are Eternally Indebted to Your Heavenly Father to Render Him All That You Have and AreĪ second time, during his sermon to the Nephite people, King Benjamin teaches about each individual’s true standing with God. And again, I say unto the poor, ye who have not and yet have sufficient, that ye remain from day to day I mean all you who deny the beggar, because ye have not I would that ye say in your hearts that: I give not because I have not, but if I had I would give.” ( Mosiah 4:21-24) ![]() I say unto you, wo be unto that man for his substance shall perish with him and now, I say these things unto those who are rich as pertaining to the things of this world. And if ye judge the man who putteth up his petition to you for your substance that he perish not, and condemn him, how much more just will be your condemnation for withholding you substance, which doth not belong to you but to God, to whom also your life belongeth and yet ye put up no petition, nor repent of the thing which thou hast done. “…If God, who has created you, on whom you are dependent for your lives and for all that ye have and are, doth grant unto you whatsoever ye ask that is right, in faith, believing that ye shall receive, O then, how ye ought to impart of the substance that ye have one to another. For behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches which we have of every kind?” ( Mosiah 4:17-19) “Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon himself his misery therefore I will stay my hand, and will not give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just-But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the same hath great cause to repent and except he repenteth of that which he has done he perisheth forever, and hath no interest in the kingdom of God. ![]() King Benjamin teaches that we should give generously to others as God has so generously given to us. ![]()
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