Moses 5

Friday, May 24, 2013


To prove their obedience, God asked Adam and Eve to worship only Him and also to sacrifice the "firstlings of their flock."
(verse 6) Adam shows faith when he answers the angel's question by saying "I know not, save the Lord commanded me."
Everything we do is in the name of Christ (verse 8) this is something important to remember because when we do something, it should only be good things since it is in the name of Christ. 
Adam received testimony that Christ is the Only Begotten Son of Heavenly Father. When Adam received this, he was filled with the Holy Ghost and began prophesying about his children and families. 
Something that came to mind when reading this is that we can lean on Adam's faith when we have little or none of our own. One day when I was having a discussion with an Elder about whether or not God has a body, he told me, that for that time, I could lean on his faith until I had some of my own. Sometimes we do need to lean on each other's faith when we don't have our own. When times get us down, we can have help with this from someone else to help us be able to pray to Heavenly Father and ask for help from Him to get us back up on our feet. 
Satan is always in our lives to disrupt our obedience to Heavenly Father. In this section, there are some verses that talk about how he told the children of Adam and Eve not to believe and that he is also the son of God. Unfortunately, some people did follow him and from that time, evil people began to exist upon the earth. In our lives, we cannot allow this to happen. Somewhere I had read that even just having faith as big as a mustard seed is good enough because Christ can take that faith and make it grow into something much bigger. All we need is some faith, trust and hope, and things will be alright for us. 
Satan told Cain to make an offering of fruit unto the Lord and the Lord rejected it while He accepted the firstlings of the flock from Abel. This is because Cain did not follow what the Lord had commanded. This shows that the Lord wants us to listen to Him and will reject things, like the fruit, if we don't. The Lord is the one and only God and we need to listen to Him above everyone else. What pleases Him is what matters, and nothing else. 
In anger, Cain went and slew his brother. This was also because of jealousy. Many people become jealous of those who follow the commandments of the Lord. This is unavoidable. We need to hold our faith and never waiver. The Lord is always there to help us. With the story of Cain, we know that the Lord will never give us a punishment, or in our case trial, that is too much for us to bear. He knows what we can handle far better than we do. Sometimes it's all we can do to remember that and rely upon Him. There is a Bible verse that tells us to "wait upon the Lord." This means wait patiently and the Lord will help you because sometimes, certain things that happen or need to happen can only be done by the Lord, not us. 
One other thing that needs to be pointed out is in verse 58, we are told that angels themselves came down to earth to declare the truthfulness of the gospel. With this, we know that the gospel is real and true.