Stand Forever" Ep. 3 | Christ Is The Standard | Elder Lawrence E. Corbridge

The Lord posed what is sometimes viewed as a troubling question. He said, “What manner of men ought ye to be?” Then answering His own question, he said, “Even as I am.” Equally troubling, Christ also said, “Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect.” Popular advice today is “compare yourself with yourself and not with others, each day trying to do and be a little better.” That is pretty good advice, but it doesn’t quite go far enough. You can’t really improve without a standard. You may putter around comparing yourself today with yesterday, but ultimately you must look up and ahead to where you are going and deliberately steer in that direction. Then and only then can you measure your progress We do not surpass whatever our measure is. “We stretch not ourselves beyond our measure”, as Paul said, and the measure which God has given us is His Son. The best course is the highest of all human endeavors, meaning, look to Christ and compare yourself with Him. If the standard be not Christ, then who in the world, who? If the standard be not perfection, then what in the world what? Christ is the standard against which we should measure ourselves but not break ourselves. And He is perfection. The fact that we do and will fall short does not mean the bar should be lowered to close the gap. There is a different plan for closing the gap. Transcription/Notes: https://tinyurl.com/mwr59s3k - - - - - - - - - - 0:00 Intro - Title sequence 0:45 Our ultimate measure: Jesus Christ 5:30 “Be perfect even as I” 8:18 Feeling inadequate to this daunting commission 12:02 Jesus closes the gap 15:34 Sister Corbridge’s dream 21:56 Those engaged in God’s work are entitled to God’s power 24:45 All mankind may be saved Thank you for joining us at Scripture Central! We hope that you have enjoyed this content. Please leave a comment below with your thoughts and insights regarding this video, and please consider subscribing to this channel and visiting our website for more content like this: https://scripturecentral.org/ *Donate to Scripture Central: https://form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/scripture-central/donations *Sign up for our email list: https://forms.aweber.com/form/87/2078810487.htm *Download our free scripture study tool, the ScripturePlus app: https://www.scriptureplus.org/ ____________________________________________ *The opinions expressed may represent the views of the individual creators or guests alone, and do not necessarily represent official positions of Scripture Central or of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. *This channel may make use of copyrighted material, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. *This Channel may also make use of artwork, voices, video, and effects that are generated by AI (Artificial Intelligence). We do our best to disclose when necessary our use of AI, but know that we make regular usage of AI materials in our content. We do not use AI to deceive or mislead. #ScriptureCentral #ComeFollowMe #ChurchOfJesusChristOfLatterdaySaints Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices