Lesson 17: “Beware Lest Thou Forget” – Quotes and Scriptures

Lesson 17: “Beware Lest Thou Forget” – Quotes and Scriptures

Reading 1 - "Moses speaks like a dying father to his children. The words are earnest, inspired, impressive. He looks back over the whole of the forty years of their wandering in the desert, reminds the people of all the blessings they have received, of the ingratitude with which they have so often repaid them, and of the judgments of God, and the love that continually broke forth behind them; he explains the laws again and again, and adds what is necessary to complete them, and is never weary of urging obedience to them in the warmest and most emphatic words, because the very life of the nation was bound up with this; he surveys all the storms and conflicts which they have passed through, and, beholding the future in the past, takes a survey also of the future history of the nation, and sees, with mingled sorrow and joy, how the three great features of the past--viz. apostasy, punishment, and pardon--continue to repeat themselves in the future also." (Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary quoted in a previous Old Testament Student Manual, p216)

Reading 2 – Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Doctrine and Covenants 59:5

Reading 3 – President Ezra Taft Benson said: ". . . men captained by Christ will be consumed in Christ . . . . Enter their homes, and the pictures on their walls, the books on their shelves, the music in the air, their words and acts reveal them as Christians" (Ezra Taft Benson, "Born of God," Ensign, Nov. 1985, 6,7).

Reading 4 – President Howard W. Hunter said - "Let us be a temple-attending people. Attend the temple as frequently as personal circumstances allow. Keep a picture of a temple in your home that your children may see it" (Howard W. Hunter, "Exceeding Great and Precious Promises," Ensign, Nov. 1994, 8).   

Reading 5 – Then-Elder Spencer W. Kimball taught: "When you look in the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is? It could be "remember." Because all of you have made covenants--you know what to do and you know how to do it--our greatest need is to remember. That is why everyone goes to sacrament meeting every Sabbath day--to take the sacrament and listen to the priests pray "that they may always remember him and keep his commandments which he has given them." Nobody should ever forget to go to sacrament meeting. Remember is the word. Remember is the program." (Elder Spencer W. Kimball, Charge to Religious Educators, pp. 9-12).

Reading 6: Deuteronomy 8:7-20

President Brigham Young said: “The worst fear that I have about [members of this Church] is that they will get rich in this country, forget God and his people, wax fat, and kick themselves out of the Church and go to hell. This people will stand mobbing, robbing, poverty, and all manner of persecution, and be true. But my greater fear for them is that they cannot stand wealth; and yet they have to be tried with riches, for they will become the richest people on this earth” (in Preston Nibley, Brigham Young: The Man and His Work [1936], 128).

Reading 7 – Doctrine and Covenants 59:21

Reading 8 – Deuteronomy 32:1-4, 30-31

2 Nephi 9:45

Doctrine and Covenants 50:44

Deuteronomy 30:19-20

Deuteronomy 32:46-47

2 Nephi 2:27-28