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#REDIRECT [[Mosiah 4:1-6:7]]
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[[The Book of Mormon]] > [[Mosiah]] > [[Mosiah 4|Chapter 4]]
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== Questions ==
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* [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.26?lang=eng#25 Mosiah 4:26]: What is a "remission" of sins? 
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* [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.26?lang=eng#25 Mosiah 4:26]: What is the relationship between service and retaining a remission of sins?  While the ordinances of baptism and the sacrament provide lifetime and weekly opportunities to remit sins, how does service do so on a daily basis?  Is this part of fulfilling baptismal covenants?
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* [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.26?lang=eng#25 Mosiah 4:26]: In the sacrament prayer, we are told to always remember Christ so that we can have His Spirit to be with us.  Is there a relationship between daily service of others, and having the Spirit with us always? 
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* [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.26?lang=eng#25 Mosiah 4:26]: Does this verse imply that we should be involved with daily service?  Or just that the occasional service will suffice to help us retain the daily remission of sins?
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* [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.26?lang=eng#25 Mosiah 4:26]: What does it mean to "walk guiltless before God"?
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* [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.26?lang=eng#25 Mosiah 4:26]: Why is it important to minister to both spiritual and temporal wants?
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* [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.26?lang=eng#25 Mosiah 4:26]: What is a "want"?  Is that the same as a desire?  Should we be giving people what they want, or just what we think they need?
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== Lexical notes ==
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* '''[https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.26?lang=eng#25 Mosiah 4:26]: Remission.''' [http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/search/word,remission Websters 1828] dictionary gives six definitions of remission, including: ''5. Forgiveness; pardon; that is, the giving up of the punishment due to a crime; as the remission of sins. Matt. 26. Heb. 9.''
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== Exegesis ==
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* '''[https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.28?lang=eng#27 Mosiah 4:28]: New Year's resolution.''' Scholars believe that the origin of New Year's Resolutions can be "traced back 4000 years to the ancient Babylonians." The most popular yearly resolution was to return borrowed tools to their rightful owners, showing that returning borrowing items was an ancient problem. It is interesting that in the ancient Americas that returning borrowed items was a big enough of a problem to be addressed in the same speech as taking care of the poor, teaching children properly and realizing one's reliance on God - all which are discussed by ancient leaders in Babylon.
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* '''[https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.30?lang=eng#29 Mosiah 4:30]: Watch yourselves.''' [[Alma 39:9]] uses the phrase ''cross yourself'' to describe the same heightened sense of self-awareness. Because it is impossible to hide our sins from God, our words, works, and even thoughts can condemn us (see [[Alma 12:14]]).
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* '''[https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.30?lang=eng#29 Mosiah 4:30]: Remember.''' Remembering is sometimes a greater task than it seems, and so important to "retaining a remission of sins" that is used in the sacrament prayers (see [[D&C 20:77|D&C 20:77,79]]). It may help you to remember that the Lord has promised to "abundantly pardon" the man who forsakes his evil thoughts (see [[Isa 55:6|Isaiah 55:6-9]]).
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== Related links ==
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* '''[https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.27?lang=eng#26 Mosiah 4:27].'''Use [[2 Tim 4:6|2 Timothy 4:6-8]] as an example of proper attitude towards enduring to the end. "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith..." Likewise, [[Heb 12:1|Hebrews 12:1-2]] reminds us how to choose our focus: "Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith..."
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* '''[https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.30?lang=eng#29 Mosiah 4:30]: Remember.''' Bruce R. McConkie, "[http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/basic/doctrines/thoughts.htm Thoughts]" from ''Mormon Doctrine'', 1966.
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* '''[https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/4.30?lang=eng#29 Mosiah 4:30]: Remember.''' Robert Couch, "[[User:RobertC/Remember|Remember]]" (a collection of related links and quotes).
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