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La vidéo dure 00:15:37 secondes et porte le titre Why Chastity Matters: A Powerful Message from David A. Bednar, fournis par l’auteur. La description détaillée est la suivante :« Dans ce message puissant, David A. Bednar, du Collège des douze apôtres, partage de profondes réflexions sur la loi de chasteté. Plus qu’un simple ensemble de règles, découvrez pourquoi la chasteté est un principe divin essentiel à notre bonheur, à notre croissance spirituelle et à la force des familles. Elder Bednar explique comment vivre la loi de chasteté protège nos relations les plus sacrées, renforce notre lien avec Dieu et ouvre la porte à une plus grande paix et une plus grande joie. Il aborde les idées fausses entourant ce principe vital et éclaire sa signification éternelle d’une manière claire et convaincante. ».

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Le concept de chasteté était central dans la moralité médiévale. Les élites utilisaient la chasteté pour asseoir leur domination sociale.

La chasteté féminine était un pilier de nombreuses traditions religieuses.

La chasteté était un idéal majeur pour les femmes au Moyen Âge. Avant le mariage, la virginité et après, la fidélité étaient des vertus fondamentales, encouragées par l’Église. La chasteté des femmes était liée à leur rôle de gardiennes de la pureté familiale et à la légitimité des héritiers.

L’influence des croisades a été marquante sur les pratiques de chasteté des chevaliers.

Les chevaliers engagés dans les croisades faisaient souvent vœu de chasteté avant leur départ, croyant que l’abstinence augmentait leur pureté spirituelle et morale, et les rendait plus aptes à combattre pour Dieu.

La chasteté était un aspect crucial des règlements des ordres monastiques, intégrée dans leur mode de vie quotidien.

Les ordres monastiques médiévaux, comme les bénédictins, les cisterciens et les chevaliers teutoniques, se caractérisaient par des vœux de chasteté rigoureux. Les religieux médiévaux voyaient la chasteté comme un moyen de transcender les plaisirs mondains et d’atteindre une hauteur spirituelle. Les légendes médiévales mettent en lumière le rôle crucial de la chasteté dans les sphères religieuses, morales, et sociales. La chasteté, qu’elle soit symbolisée par des ceintures légendaires, des engagements solennels avant les croisades, ou des batailles personnelles contre la tentation, était au cœur d’un mysticisme et d’une dévotion intenses. Les récits médiévaux mettent en lumière comment la chasteté a été utilisée pour exercer le contrôle, affirmer le pouvoir, et poursuivre un idéal spirituel dans un contexte de conflit entre le corps et l’âme.

Méthodes et techniques de la chasteté masculine contrôlée :

Les civilisations antiques de la Grèce et de Rome.

Dans les civilisations grecque et romaine, la chasteté était souvent associée à la pureté et à la vertu. Elle n’était pas traditionnellement imposée par des instruments physiques comme les ceintures de chasteté. Elle se rattachait davantage à des notions spirituelles et religieuses. Les Vestales, prêtresses de la déesse Vesta, étaient obligées de rester vierges, sous peine de mort. Il s’agit d’un exemple significatif de la manière dont la chasteté était institutionnalisée.

L’Égypte antique a laissé une empreinte durable sur l’histoire mondiale.

En Égypte ancienne, les prêtres et prêtresses choisissaient parfois la chasteté de manière volontaire. L’abstinence, selon eux, augmentait leur force spirituelle. Il n’existe pas de preuves matérielles prouvant l’usage de moyens physiques pour assurer la chasteté. Le contrôle de la sexualité était plutôt une question de maîtrise personnelle. Les traditions religieuses influençaient aussi la gestion de la sexualité.

Instruments pour les hommes et les femmes : La lutte contre la masturbation et les premiers outils de chasteté.

La masturbation était considérée comme une menace importante pour la santé mentale et physique à l’époque victorienne. Les médecins et les moralistes de l’époque étaient en faveur de mesures sévères pour contrer ce qu’ils appelaient « l’auto-abus ». Cela a résulté dans la mise en place et l’usage de dispositifs de chasteté, tant pour les hommes que pour les femmes. De nos jours, beaucoup choisissent la chasteté pour des raisons personnelles, et des coachs qualifiés sont disponibles pour offrir leur soutien (en particulierce service pour la chasteté masculine)

On pense souvent que les ceintures de chasteté remontent au Moyen Âge. Toutefois, l’Histoire ne corrobore pas ces idées reçues.

Il est courant de relier les ceintures de chasteté au Moyen Âge. Toutefois, ce lien avec les ceintures de chasteté est dû à des récits légendaires tardifs. La légende raconte que les croisés auraient enfermé leurs épouses dans des ceintures de chasteté. Ces ceintures étaient censées garantir leur fidélité pendant l’absence des croisés. Les récits et représentations graphiques ont aidé à ancrer cette légende. Les faits historiques sont rares pour corroborer cette légende.

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Retranscription des paroles de la vidéo: [Music] The eternal importance of chastity can only be understood within the overarching context of our heavenly father’s plan of happiness for his children. All human beings, male and female, are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents and has a divine nature and destiny. All men and women lived with God as his spirit children before coming to the earth as mortal beings. The father’s plan enables his spirit sons and daughters to obtain physical bodies to gain mortal experience and to progress toward exaltation. Our physical bodies make possible a breadth, a depth, and an intensity of experience that simply could not be obtained in our premortal existence. Thus, our relationships with other people, our capacity to recognize and act in accordance with truth, and our ability to obey the principles and ordinances of the gospel of Jesus Christ are amplified through our physical bodies. In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity. Simply stated, there are lessons we must learn and experiences we must have, as the scriptures describe, according to the flesh. After the earth was created, Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden. Importantly, however, God said it was not good that the man should be alone, and Eve became Adam’s wife and help. The unique combination of spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional capacities of both males and females was needed to enact the plan of happiness. Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord. The man and the woman are intended to learn from, strengthen, bless, and complete each other. The means by which mortal life is created is divinely appointed. The first commandment God gave to Adam and Eve pertain to their potential for parenthood as husband and wife. The commandment to multiply and replenish the earth remains enforced today. Thus, marriage between a man and a woman is the authorized channel through which premortal spirits enter mortality. Complete sexual abstinence before marriage and total fidelity within marriage protect the sanctity of the sacred channel. The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the father’s plan and of our mortal existence. Our heavenly father and his beloved son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of their creative power. Specific guidelines for the proper use of the ability to create life are vital elements in the father’s plan. How we feel about and use that suppernal power will determine in large measure our happiness in mortality and our destiny in eternity. Elder Delan H. Oaks explained, quote, « The power to create mortal life is the most exalted power God has given his children. Its use was mandated in the first commandment, but another important commandment was given to forbid its misuse. The emphasis we place on the law of chastity is explained by our understanding of the purpose of our procreative powers in the accomplishment of God’s plan. Outside the bonds of marriage, all uses of the procreative power are to one degree or another a sinful degrading and perversion of the most divine attribute of men and women. Close quote. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a single undeviating standard of sexual morality. Intimate relations are proper only between a man and a woman in the marriage relationship prescribed in God’s plan. Such relations are not merely a curiosity to be explored, an appetite to be satisfied, or a type of recreation or entertainment to be pursued selfishly. They are not a conquest to be achieved or simply an act to be performed. Rather, they are immortality one of the ultimate expressions of our divine nature and potential and a way of strengthening emotional and spiritual bonds between husband and wife. We are agents blessed with moral agency and are defined by our divine heritage as children of God and not by sexual behaviors, contemporary attitudes or secular philosophies. To some degree, the natural man described by King Benjamin is alive and well in each of us. The natural man or woman is unrepentant, is carnal and sensual, is indulgent and excessive, and is prideful and selfish. As President Spencer W. Kimble taught, quote, « The natural man is the earthy man who has allowed rude animal passions to overshadow his spiritual inclinations. » Close quote. In contrast, the man or woman of Christ is spiritual and bridles all passions, is temperate and restrained, and is benevolent and selfless. Men and women of Christ lay hold upon the word of God, deny themselves and take up his cross and press forward along a straight and narrow course of faithfulness, obedience, and devotion to the Savior and his gospel. As sons and daughters of God, we have inherited divine capacities from him. But we presently live in a fallen world. The very elements out of which our bodies were created are by nature fallen and ever subject to the pull of sin, corruption, and death. Consequently, the fall of Adam and its spiritual and temporal consequences affect us most directly through our physical bodies. And yet, we are dual beings. For our spirit that is the eternal part of us is tabernacled in a physical body that is subject to the fall. As Jesus emphasized to the apostle Peter, the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak. The precise nature of the test of mortality then can be summarized in the following question. Will I respond to the inclinations of the natural man? Or will I yield to the enticings of the Holy Spirit and put off the natural man and become a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord? That is the test. Every appetite, desire, propensity, and impulse of the natural man may be overcome by and through the atonement of Jesus Christ. We are here on the earth to develop god-like qualities and to bridle all of the passions of the flesh. The father’s plan is designed to provide direction for his children to help them become happy and to bring them safely home to him with resurrected exalted bodies. Heavenly Father desires us to be together in the light and filled with hope. In contrast, Lucifer labors to make the sons and daughters of God confused and unhappy and to hinder their eternal progression. The overarching intent of the father of lies is that all of us would become miserable like unto himself. Lucifer wants us ultimately to be alone, in the dark, and without hope. Satan relentlessly works to distort the most important elements of the father’s plan. He does not have a body and his eternal progress has been halted. Just as water flowing in a riverbed is stopped by a dam, so the adversar’s eternal progress is thwarted because he does not have a physical body. Because of his rebellion, Lucifer has denied himself all of the mortal blessings and experiences made possible through a body of flesh and bones. He cannot learn the lessons that only an embodied spirit can learn. He resents the reality of a literal and universal res resurrection of all mankind. One of the potent scriptural meanings of the word damned is illustrated in his inability to continue developing and becoming like our heavenly father. Because a physical body is so central to the father’s plan of happiness and our spiritual development, Lucifer seeks to frustrate our progression by tempting us to use our bodies improperly. One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body entices us to share in his misery through the improper use of our bodies. The very tool he does not have is thus the primary target of his attempts to lure us to spiritual destruction. Violating the law of chastity is a grievous sin and a misuse of our physical tabernacles. To those who know and understand the plan of salvation, defiling the body is an act of rebellion and a denial of our true identity as sons and daughters of God. As we look beyond mortality and into eternity, it is easy to discern that the counterfeit companionship advocated by the adversary is temporary and empty. Elma counseledled his son Shiban to bridle all of his passions that he may be filled with love. Significantly, disciplining the natural man in each of us makes possible a richer, a deeper, and a more enduring love of God and of his children. Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence. President Marian G. Romney declared, quote, I can think of no blessings to be more fervently desired than those promised to the pure and the virtuous. Jesus spoke of specific rewards for different virtues, but reserve the greatest for the pure in heart, for they said he shall see God. And not only shall they see the Lord, but they shall feel at home in his presence. Here is the Savior’s promise. Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly. Then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God. Close quote. We also are promised that as we pursue the pathway of virtue, the Holy Ghost shall be our constant companion. Thus, living the law of chastity invites some of the greatest blessings men and women can receive in mortality. appropriate spiritual confidence in the presence of family, friends, church associates, and ultimately the Savior. Our innate longing to belong is fulfilled in righteousness as we walk in the light with hope. Some of you who receive this message need to repent of sexual or other sins. The savior is often referred to as the great physician and this title has both symbolic and literal significance. All of us have experienced the pain associated with a physical injury or wound. When we are in pain, we typically seek relief and are grateful for the medication and treatments that help to alleviate our suffering. Consider sin as a spiritual wound that causes guilt or as described by Elma, remorse of conscience. Guilt is to our spirit what pain is to our body. A warning of danger and a protection from additional damage. From the atonement of the Savior flows the soothing sav that can heal our spiritual wounds and remove guilt. However, this SAV can only be applied through the principles of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, repentance, and consistent obedience. The results of sincere repentance are peace of conscience, comfort, and spiritual healing and renewal. Your bishop or branch president is the spiritual physician’s assistant who is authorized to help you repent and heal. Please remember, however, that the extent and intensity of your repentance must match the nature and severity of your sins, especially for Latter-day Saints who are under sacred covenant. Serious spiritual wounds require sustained treatment and time to heal completely and fully. The doctrine I have described will seem to be archaic and outdated to many people in a world that increasingly mocks the sanctity of procreation and minimizes the worth of human life. But the Lord’s truth is not altered by fads, popularity, or public opinion polls. I promise that obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. Chastity and virtue are now, always have been, and always will be most dear and precious above all things. I so testify in the sacred name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. [Music] .

Déroulement de la vidéo:

0.0 [Music]
8.96 The eternal importance of chastity can
11.36 only be understood within the
13.759 overarching context of our heavenly
16.0 father’s plan of happiness for his
18.16 children. All human beings, male and
21.359 female, are created in the image of God.
24.8 Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter
27.599 of heavenly parents and has a divine
30.16 nature and destiny.
32.64 All men and women lived with God as his
35.04 spirit children before coming to the
36.96 earth as mortal beings. The father’s
40.0 plan enables his spirit sons and
42.16 daughters to obtain physical bodies to
45.52 gain mortal experience and to progress
48.0 toward exaltation.
50.239 Our physical bodies make possible a
53.36 breadth, a depth, and an intensity of
56.8 experience that simply could not be
59.28 obtained in our premortal existence.
62.559 Thus, our relationships with other
64.72 people, our capacity to recognize and
67.84 act in accordance with truth, and our
70.72 ability to obey the principles and
72.64 ordinances of the gospel of Jesus Christ
75.68 are amplified through our physical
77.92 bodies. In the school of mortality, we
81.36 experience tenderness, love, kindness,
84.72 happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain,
88.4 and even the challenges of physical
90.56 limitations in ways that prepare us for
93.759 eternity.
95.28 Simply stated, there are lessons we must
98.079 learn and experiences we must have, as
101.68 the scriptures describe, according to
104.24 the flesh.
106.72 After the earth was created, Adam was
109.28 placed in the Garden of Eden.
111.6 Importantly, however, God said it was
113.92 not good that the man should be alone,
116.56 and Eve became Adam’s wife and help.
120.479 The unique combination of spiritual,
123.36 physical, mental, and emotional
125.68 capacities of both males and females was
129.36 needed to enact the plan of happiness.
132.239 Neither is the man without the woman,
134.319 neither the woman without the man in the
136.56 Lord.
138.16 The man and the woman are intended to
140.48 learn from, strengthen, bless, and
144.08 complete each other.
146.64 The means by which mortal life is
148.72 created is divinely appointed. The first
152.4 commandment God gave to Adam and Eve
155.12 pertain to their potential for
157.04 parenthood as husband and wife. The
160.0 commandment to multiply and replenish
161.84 the earth remains enforced today.
164.8 Thus, marriage between a man and a woman
167.44 is the authorized channel through which
170.64 premortal spirits enter mortality.
174.239 Complete sexual abstinence before
176.72 marriage and total fidelity within
179.44 marriage protect the sanctity of the
182.879 sacred channel.
185.12 The power of procreation is spiritually
187.68 significant.
189.2 Misuse of this power subverts the
191.599 purposes of the father’s plan and of our
194.8 mortal existence.
196.8 Our heavenly father and his beloved son
199.68 are creators and have entrusted each of
202.8 us with a portion of their creative
204.8 power.
206.4 Specific guidelines for the proper use
208.56 of the ability to create life are vital
211.599 elements in the father’s plan.
214.319 How we feel about and use that suppernal
216.879 power will determine in large measure
220.4 our happiness in mortality and our
223.28 destiny in eternity.
226.159 Elder Delan H. Oaks explained, quote,
229.2 « The power to create mortal life is the
231.68 most exalted power God has given his
234.239 children. Its use was mandated in the
237.36 first commandment, but another important
240.0 commandment was given to forbid its
242.0 misuse.
243.76 The emphasis we place on the law of
246.08 chastity is explained by our
248.799 understanding of the purpose of our
250.799 procreative powers in the accomplishment
253.68 of God’s plan.
256.16 Outside the bonds of marriage, all uses
258.88 of the procreative power are to one
261.68 degree or another a sinful degrading and
265.12 perversion of the most divine attribute
267.919 of men and women. Close quote.
271.52 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
273.84 Saints has a single undeviating standard
277.6 of sexual morality.
279.919 Intimate relations are proper only
282.32 between a man and a woman in the
284.72 marriage relationship prescribed in
287.04 God’s plan.
289.04 Such relations are not merely a
290.88 curiosity to be explored, an appetite to
294.8 be satisfied, or a type of recreation or
298.4 entertainment to be pursued selfishly.
302.0 They are not a conquest to be achieved
304.72 or simply an act to be performed.
308.0 Rather, they are immortality one of the
310.32 ultimate expressions of our divine
312.4 nature and potential and a way of
315.36 strengthening emotional and spiritual
317.44 bonds between husband and wife.
320.96 We are agents blessed with moral agency
324.4 and are defined by our divine heritage
327.12 as children of God and not by sexual
330.8 behaviors, contemporary attitudes or
334.16 secular philosophies.
337.759 To some degree, the natural man
339.68 described by King Benjamin is alive and
342.4 well in each of us. The natural man or
345.919 woman is unrepentant, is carnal and
349.28 sensual, is indulgent and excessive, and
353.28 is prideful and selfish. As President
356.24 Spencer W. Kimble taught, quote, « The
359.199 natural man is the earthy man who has
362.4 allowed rude animal passions to
364.72 overshadow his spiritual inclinations. »
368.16 Close quote.
370.0 In contrast, the man or woman of Christ
372.4 is spiritual and bridles all passions,
376.24 is temperate and restrained, and is
379.039 benevolent and selfless.
381.919 Men and women of Christ lay hold upon
383.919 the word of God, deny themselves and
386.8 take up his cross and press forward
389.52 along a straight and narrow course of
391.759 faithfulness, obedience, and devotion to
394.88 the Savior and his gospel.
398.479 As sons and daughters of God, we have
400.88 inherited divine capacities from him.
404.24 But we presently live in a fallen world.
407.68 The very elements out of which our
409.6 bodies were created are by nature fallen
413.12 and ever subject to the pull of sin,
415.759 corruption, and death.
418.4 Consequently, the fall of Adam and its
420.72 spiritual and temporal consequences
423.68 affect us most directly through our
425.759 physical bodies.
427.84 And yet, we are dual beings. For our
430.24 spirit that is the eternal part of us is
433.52 tabernacled in a physical body that is
436.4 subject to the fall. As Jesus emphasized
439.919 to the apostle Peter, the spirit indeed
443.039 is willing but the flesh is weak.
446.319 The precise nature of the test of
448.319 mortality then can be summarized in the
450.96 following question. Will I respond to
453.84 the inclinations of the natural man? Or
456.96 will I yield to the enticings of the
458.88 Holy Spirit and put off the natural man
462.319 and become a saint through the atonement
464.56 of Christ the Lord? That is the test.
470.16 Every appetite, desire, propensity, and
473.28 impulse of the natural man may be
475.919 overcome by and through the atonement of
478.72 Jesus Christ.
480.56 We are here on the earth to develop
482.319 god-like qualities and to bridle all of
485.68 the passions of the flesh.
489.199 The father’s plan is designed to provide
491.52 direction for his children to help them
494.319 become happy and to bring them safely
497.039 home to him with resurrected exalted
499.68 bodies.
501.199 Heavenly Father desires us to be
503.599 together in the light and filled with
506.879 hope.
508.24 In contrast, Lucifer labors to make the
510.879 sons and daughters of God confused and
514.159 unhappy and to hinder their eternal
516.8 progression.
518.479 The overarching intent of the father of
521.039 lies is that all of us would become
523.76 miserable like unto himself.
527.12 Lucifer wants us ultimately to be alone,
530.16 in the dark, and without hope.
534.0 Satan relentlessly works to distort the
536.56 most important elements of the father’s
538.48 plan. He does not have a body and his
542.48 eternal progress has been halted.
545.36 Just as water flowing in a riverbed is
547.68 stopped by a dam, so the adversar’s
550.72 eternal progress is thwarted because he
553.519 does not have a physical body.
556.24 Because of his rebellion, Lucifer has
559.04 denied himself all of the mortal
561.12 blessings and experiences made possible
563.839 through a body of flesh and bones. He
566.72 cannot learn the lessons that only an
568.959 embodied spirit can learn. He resents
572.72 the reality of a literal and universal
576.0 res resurrection of all mankind.
579.2 One of the potent scriptural meanings of
581.2 the word damned is illustrated in his
584.16 inability to continue developing and
587.279 becoming like our heavenly father.
590.64 Because a physical body is so central to
593.12 the father’s plan of happiness and our
595.279 spiritual development,
597.36 Lucifer seeks to frustrate our
599.44 progression by tempting us to use our
602.399 bodies improperly.
604.72 One of the ultimate ironies of eternity
607.92 is that the adversary who is miserable
610.88 precisely because he has no physical
613.6 body entices us to share in his misery
618.24 through the improper use of our bodies.
621.68 The very tool he does not have is thus
624.8 the primary target of his attempts to
627.2 lure us to spiritual destruction.
631.12 Violating the law of chastity is a
633.36 grievous sin and a misuse of our
636.399 physical tabernacles.
638.56 To those who know and understand the
640.64 plan of salvation, defiling the body is
644.0 an act of rebellion and a denial of our
647.36 true identity as sons and daughters of
649.76 God.
651.519 As we look beyond mortality and into
653.839 eternity, it is easy to discern that the
656.88 counterfeit companionship
659.279 advocated by the adversary is temporary
662.88 and empty.
665.76 Elma counseledled his son Shiban to
668.079 bridle all of his passions that he may
670.56 be filled with love. Significantly,
673.76 disciplining the natural man in each of
676.32 us makes possible a richer, a deeper,
680.0 and a more enduring love of God and of
682.8 his children.
684.8 Love increases through righteous
687.6 restraint and decreases through
690.8 impulsive indulgence.
694.16 President Marian G. Romney declared,
696.079 quote, I can think of no blessings to be
699.279 more fervently desired than those
701.839 promised to the pure and the virtuous.
704.88 Jesus spoke of specific rewards for
707.36 different virtues, but reserve the
709.76 greatest for the pure in heart, for they
712.32 said he shall see God. And not only
715.44 shall they see the Lord, but they shall
718.0 feel at home in his presence. Here is
721.2 the Savior’s promise. Let virtue garnish
724.399 thy thoughts unceasingly.
726.56 Then shall thy confidence wax strong in
729.519 the presence of God. Close quote.
733.2 We also are promised that as we pursue
735.279 the pathway of virtue, the Holy Ghost
738.32 shall be our constant companion.
741.279 Thus, living the law of chastity invites
744.079 some of the greatest blessings men and
746.72 women can receive in mortality.
749.44 appropriate spiritual confidence in the
752.32 presence of family, friends, church
755.12 associates, and ultimately the Savior.
759.76 Our innate longing to belong is
763.68 fulfilled in righteousness
766.16 as we walk in the light with hope.
770.639 Some of you who receive this message
772.72 need to repent of sexual or other sins.
776.639 The savior is often referred to as the
778.88 great physician and this title has both
781.92 symbolic and literal significance.
785.2 All of us have experienced the pain
787.2 associated with a physical injury or
789.68 wound. When we are in pain, we typically
793.12 seek relief and are grateful for the
795.6 medication and treatments that help to
797.92 alleviate our suffering. Consider sin as
801.92 a spiritual wound that causes guilt or
805.12 as described by Elma, remorse of
807.839 conscience.
809.6 Guilt is to our spirit what pain is to
813.279 our body. A warning of danger and a
816.399 protection from additional damage.
819.279 From the atonement of the Savior flows
821.68 the soothing sav that can heal our
824.8 spiritual wounds and remove guilt.
827.839 However, this SAV can only be applied
830.16 through the principles of faith in the
832.079 Lord Jesus Christ, repentance, and
835.279 consistent obedience.
838.079 The results of sincere repentance are
840.959 peace of conscience, comfort, and
844.079 spiritual healing and renewal.
847.44 Your bishop or branch president is the
849.76 spiritual physician’s assistant who is
852.639 authorized to help you repent and heal.
856.0 Please remember, however, that the
857.76 extent and intensity of your repentance
860.8 must match the nature and severity of
863.92 your sins, especially for Latter-day
866.72 Saints who are under sacred covenant.
869.76 Serious spiritual wounds require
872.959 sustained treatment and time to heal
876.079 completely and fully.
879.839 The doctrine I have described will seem
882.0 to be archaic and outdated to many
885.36 people in a world that increasingly
887.279 mocks the sanctity of procreation and
890.399 minimizes the worth of human life. But
893.92 the Lord’s truth is not altered by fads,
896.48 popularity, or public opinion polls.
899.839 I promise that obedience to the law of
902.079 chastity will increase our happiness in
905.279 mortality and make possible our progress
908.8 in eternity.
910.959 Chastity and virtue are now,
915.12 always have been, and always will be
919.36 most dear and precious above all things.
924.0 I so testify in the sacred name of the
927.199 Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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