Joseph Smith taught, "We came to this earth that we might have a body and present it pure before God in the celestial kingdom. The great principle of happiness consists in having a body. The devil has no body, and herein is his punishment." It is very important that we have a body, it is important that we do not forget the important of having a body. The devil's ultimate goal is make force us into taking advantage of using our body.
Joseph Continue's by saying, "The devil has no power over us only as we permit him; the moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power." I'm not sure which apostle said this, but we are stronger than sin the moment it first presents itself to us. However as we dwell on it and allow it to enter our mind, we are allowing satan to take control. We need to immediately conquer sin. In Brother Bott's Mission preperation class, we recently discussed the importance of overcoming sin immediately. Brother Bott teaches that there is an internal battle between your perfect spirit body and your imperfect physical body. Before we came to earth, we perfected our spiritual body. We could exist in the presence of God. However now that we have obtain an imperfect physical body, our goal is to prefect them so that we can have perfect control over it. Once we can complete this, we will be able to experience true happiness. In Doctrine and Coventants 93:33-34 its states, "For man is spirit. The elements are eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably connected, receive a fulness of joy; And when separated, man cannot receive a fulness of joy." Our body's can make us eternally happy. If we can follow God's commandments, we will be able to return our perfected body's back to Heavenly Father.
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