Helaman 4

Helaman 4

This chapter gives a great formula for failure:

1. Pride over riches
2. Oppression to the poor beginning with

a. Not helping them, then

b. Actually harming them

      3.  Mocking sacred things

      4.  Murder

      5.  Plunder

      6.  Lying

      7.  Stealing

      8.  Committing adultery

      9.  Rising up in contention.

Find an individual or a society like this, and you have found an individual or a society whose path is pointed straight for failure.  So, if this is a formula for failure, what’s a formula for success?

1. Humility
2. Find strength in the Savior
3. Seek and follow His will.  Remember what Paul wrote: “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (Phil 4:13).