“King Benjamin’s sermon is one of the greatest on record: ‘For
the natural man is an enemy to God and has been from the fall of Adam, and will
be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and
putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of
Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient,
full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to
inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.’ By juxtaposing
these lines from Benjamin’s sermon with the Savior’s words concerning the
childlikeness required to enter the celestial kingdom, we are admitted into a
wondrous but demanding realm of understanding regarding developmental
discipleship: ‘Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as
little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.’”- Neal A.
Maxwell
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