Living The Full Word Of Wisdom - PDF and Audio Lecture By Jack H. West

Living The Full Word of Wisdom is a Lecture on the Mormon code of Health.

I will sincerely try to LIVE THE 8 POSITIVE ELEMENTS of THE WORD of WISDOM, and AVOID THE 3 NEGATIVE ELEMENTS, that I may RECEIVE THE 5 GREAT PROMISES of the LORD.

BACKGROUND: Smoke-filled room ... soiled floor (tobacco juice)...upstairs room of Joseph Smith home...first School of the Prophets, Kirkland, Ohio. 1833. JOSEPH prayed about it. As usual. he not only got an answer, but an answer-PLUS!

RESULT: Revelation of the Lord ... "Not by Commandment or constraint, but a WORD of WISDOM...Given for A PRINCIPLE WITH PROMISE, ADAPTED TO TH E WEAK AND WEAKEST OF ALL SAINTS WHO ARE, or CAN BE CALLED SAINTS." (D&C 89:2-3) (We can't even be called Saints it we don't keep this law.)

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said. "Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be food."

The Word of Wisdom doesn't belong to the order of the eternal Gospel. It is temporal and temporary but no less the will of God. We do not covenant and promise to keep the Word of Wisdom. Because our promises and covenants are eternal. But we are bound while we're here so it is not secondary in importance.

However, we (Mormons) often make a big fuss about the Word of Wisdom while ignoring the other commandments.

President Joseph F. Smith used to say that we make the Word of Wisdom a subject of religious hobbyism. "As long as I keep the Word of Wisdom---that's the thing," someone may say, and then preach that and nothing else. That is not the fullness of the Gospel. It is a minimal requirement- a principle with a promise- "a first step: No great achievement but you get a reward for it! Others keep it better than we do.
For example, on the whole the Seventh Day Adventists are better keepers of the Word of Wisdom than we are, but it's not the Gospel.

We have been warned and forewarned against the evil designs which do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men. Today this is recognized as the promotion of harmful products. But where do we draw the line of harmful products?

YOU CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO LIVE THE WORD OF WISDOM ...THE COST IS TOO HIGH!

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