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Today we continue our study our Mosiah 26 and look at Alma and his concern about making the right decisions in the service of the Lord. We consider the role of forgiveness in our spiritual progression and we reflect on what we learn about revelation. 

Marion D Hanks: Does it not seem a supreme impudence to ask and expect God to forgive when we do not forgive?—openly? and “in our hearts”? 

 

The Lord affirms in the Book of Mormon that we bring ourselves under condemnation if we do not forgive. 

But not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?