Administered by: Attorney-General's. Sunset Details. To sunset on. FL Table of contents. Contents The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered. Schedule 1 — Recognised denominations Note: See section 4. A2A Ltd. This instrument replaces the Marriage Recognised Denominations Proclamation due to sunset on 1 April on substantially the same terms, subject to the removal of four recognised denominations and changes to the names of three recognised denominations.
Schedule 1—Recognised denominations. Schedule 2—Repeals. Commencement information. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.
In the premortal realm, spirit sons and daughters knew and worshipped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize their divine destiny as heirs of eternal life. The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave.
Sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally. The first commandment that God gave to Adam and Eve pertained to their potential for parenthood as husband and wife.
We further declare that God has commanded that the sacred powers of procreation are to be employed only between man and woman, lawfully wedded as husband and wife. We declare the means by which mortal life is created to be divinely appointed. Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children. They had but admitted it when it had been dug out.
There is a wide difference between the two situations. They had thought of their heinous sin as nothing more than an indiscretion. They had been born and reared in the Church and had received the gift of the Holy Ghost at eight years of age. But in the successive nights of their perfidy they had driven the Holy Spirit away. They had made him unwelcome. They were not listening to his promptings.
It is inconceivable that they did not know how wrong their sin was but they had convinced themselves against the truth. Early in their married life they had both committed adultery, and for many years had been suffering untold agonies of remorse. They had forgiven each other but were still suffering tortures. They could stand it no longer.
The husband broke the silence. The specters of heartbreak and guilt [see Alma ; Moroni ] follow him about. Every soul confined to a concentration camp of sin and guilt has a key to the gate. The adversary cannot hold them if they know how to use it. The key is labeled Repentance.
The twin principles of repentance and forgiveness exceed in strength the awesome power of the adversary. I do not exempt abortion. The formula is stated in forty words:. With this in mind, I once wrote to a woman with whom I had had previous occasion to discuss at length her family problems. I had given counsel in my desire to prevent further misunderstandings and avoid a separation or divorce. After some weeks, she wrote that she would accept my decision. I responded in part as follows:. You have your free agency.
If you are determined to get a divorce it is your responsibility and your suffering if you are not willing to make adjustments. When I talked with you, I understood that you had forgiven each other and would start from there to build a beautiful life.
Apparently, I was mistaken. All my warnings and pleadings seem to have fallen on deaf ears. I want you to know that I do not justify in your husband anything that was wrong, but I recognized all the way through that his was not the whole fault. I have never been able to feel that you had wholly purged the selfishness from your own soul. I do know that two people as seemingly intelligent and apparently mature as you two, could have a gloriously happy life, if both of you would begin to let your concerns run in favor of the other, instead of in favor of your selfish selves.
If two people, selfish and self-centered, and without the spirit of forgiveness, escape from each other, they cannot escape from themselves. Occasionally we may stumble. I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.
When we drop the ball, when we make a mistake, there is held out to us the word of the Lord that he will forgive our sins and remember them no more against us. After a lifetime of dealing in the affairs of men and women, I believe it is the ability to overcome personal ego and pride—both are enemies to the full enjoyment of the Spirit of God and to walking humbly before him. The ego interferes with husbands and wives asking each other for forgiveness.
It prevents the enjoyment of the full sweetness of a higher love. The ego often prevents parents and children from fully understanding each other. The ego enlarges our feelings of self-importance and worth. It blinds us to reality. We need to make the marriage relationship sacred, to sacrifice and work to maintain the warmth and respect which we enjoyed during courtship. God intended marriage to be eternal, sealed by the power of the priesthood, to last beyond the grave.
Differences should be worked out in love and kindness and with a spirit of mutual reconciliation. A man should always speak to his wife lovingly and kindly, treating her with the utmost respect. When children come into that home, they are nurtured and cared for, loved and blessed with the feeling that their father loves their mother.
In that environment they find peace and strength and security. Watching their father, they develop respect for women. But with patience, mutual respect, and a spirit of forbearance, we can weather these storms. Where mistakes have been made, there can be apology, repentance, and forgiveness.
The most perfect music is a welding of two voices into one spiritual solo. Marriage is the way provided by God for the fulfillment of the greatest of human needs, based upon mutual respect, maturity, selflessness, decency, commitment, and honesty. I know of no more certain way to keep it on a lofty and inspiring plane than for a man occasionally to reflect upon the fact that the helpmeet who stands at his side is a daughter of God, engaged with Him in the great creative process of bringing to pass His eternal purposes.
I know of no more effective way for a woman to keep ever radiant the love for her husband than for her to look for and emphasize the godly qualities that are a part of every son of our Father and that can be evoked when there is respect and admiration and encouragement. When a woman understands that a man has the seeds of divinity within him, she honors him not only for who he is but for what he may become. An understanding of the divine nature allows each person to have respect for the other.
Mercy, charity, commiseration, empathy, pity, sympathy, clemency, grace, leniency. Harshness, cruelty, unkindness, abruptness, ruthlessness, enmity, animosity, bitterness, hatred, hostility, rancor, abuse. Possible definitions: Qal to spare, pity, have compassion on.
Example: Exodus Possible definitions: to love, love deeply, have mercy, be compassionate, have tender affection, have compassion.
Example: Deuteronomy Example: Matthew ; Mark Possible definitions: to have mercy on, to help one afflicted or seeking aid, to bring help to the wretched. Example: Mark Possible definitions: to be affected moderately or in due measure; to preserve moderation in the passions, especially anger or grief; hence of one who is not unduly disturbed by the errors, faults, sins of others, but bears them gently.
Example: Hebrews Possible definitions: a to be affected with the same feeling as another, to sympathize with b to feel for, have compassion on. Example: Hebrews see Greek and Hebrew lexicons. It cannot be legislated. It must come from the heart.
It must be stirred up from within. It is part of the endowment each of us receives as a son or daughter of God and partaker of a divine birthright. I plead for an effort among all of us to give greater expression and wider latitude to this instinct which lies within us.
The degree to which each of us is able to extend it becomes an expression of the reality of our discipleship under Him who is our Lord and Master. His sacrifice on the cross was an unparalleled act of mercy in behalf of all humanity. Most often it is quiet and unassuming. It receives few headlines. It is the antithesis of vengeance and hatred, of greed and offensive egotism.
I speak of the homes of the people.
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