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Applying the scriptures: Spritual progress depends on obedience

Published: Saturday, July 12, 1997

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But I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth. - D&C 93:40.

At the October 1983 general conference, Elder Charles Didier of the Seventy asked: "Do we treat our sons and daughters as children of God? Do we teach by example? Do we pray with them? Do we attend church with them? Do we have family home evening regularly? Our spiritual progress and qualifying to become friends with Christ and His Father depend on how faithfully we live the gospel in our homes and how diligently we impart the teachings to our children." `Ye will not suffer your children that they go hungry, or naked; neither will ye suffer that they transgress the laws of God, and fight and quarrel one with another, and serve the devil, . . . he being an enemy to all righteousness.' " (Mosiah 4:14.)