While he that exercises not faith unto repentance is exposed to the whole law of the demands of justice. Therefore, only him that has faith unto repentance is brought about the great and eternal plan of redemption.

Now let me turn to D&C 45:3,5, and you listen to the Saviour telling its about it;

"Listen to Him who is the advocate with the Father, who is pleading your cause before him..."

"...spare these my brethren that believe on my name...."

You see how he did that? — "spare these my brethren that believe on my name" — he didn't plead for those that don't believe. He can't! He isn't allowed to! It would rob justice.

"Wherefore, Father, spare these my brethren that believe on my name, that they may come unto me and have everlasting life."

And the Father can do it without ceasing to be God. Because of what? Mercy. Let me give you an example of how that works:

During the Civil War, there was a nineteen-year-old soldier who went to sleep on guard duty. A whole section of the Union Army was wiped out in that particular sector. He lost many of his very best friends, all because he went to sleep and they were able to make a surprise attack on one flank of that particular defense effort. He survived the battle, was court marshaled and sentenced to be hanged for neglect of duty in going to sleep while serving as a guard, which is routine military law.

The death sentence and order of execution was placed on the desk of President Lincoln and he was prepared to sign it. We'd lost a lot of valuable men because a nineteen-year-old soldier went to sleep.

(I don't remember whether it was by letter or personal visit, but it's not too significant." President Lincoln was communicated with by an old woman — (I think she came in person) — and this little mother said to President Lincoln, "When this war started, I had a husband and six sons. First I lost my husband, then I lost my sons—five of them. I just have one son left, and he's about to be executed for neglect of duty. He feels terrible about what he did and he knows he deserves to die—he's expecting to die, President Lincoln. But I'm wondering, if maybe, because you have pardoning power in the Constitution, if you could find it in your heart to let me have the last of my family, for my sake."

President Lincoln said to the mother, "For your sake, I pardon your son. I pray to God he'll survive the war and be a blessing to you all the days of your life."

See how compassion works? It completely overcomes the demands of justice and nobody criticized President Lincoln for using his pardoning power in that case once they found out what the plea of that little mother had been. Now that's the way all of us are.

I might just pause at this moment to ask you the question, what do you think an intelligence is? What is an intelligence? Well, we know not. it's a wonderful, self-knowing, eternal little entity that says, "I am." You can see Cleon Skousen up here, he's lost his hair in quiet dignity. What you are really looking at is something that I'm expecting to, well, lay aside one of these days.

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...you back slide. You work with him if you have to forgive him seventy times seven, as long as he's trying, keep in there, push him. He might make it eventually. Maybe you've got an Alma the younger in the making, who knows.

Toward the evening they went to the Last Supper. They partook of the Passover lamb and he looked out at the twelve apostles and said, "One of you will betray me."

Peter said to. John, "You're closest, ask Him who."

And John the Beloved said, "Master, who?"

The Savior whispered, "Him to whom I give the sop."

He picked up a piece of bread, dipped it in the gravy, handed it to Judas Iscariot and said, "Judas, whatsoever thou doest, do thou quickly."

Judas got up and went out.

I wonder if he suspected that maybe Jesus suspected. We don't know. In fact, we don't think so. He'd already received the thirty pieces of silver. He'd already agreed to betray the Christ.

And he went out to see the Elders of the city (Judas).

Now it says that Jesus became very depressed. And then he rose up and gave that beautiful High Priest's prayer found in John chapter seventeen, where he pleads with the Father to "bless these that they may be one as thou Father, art in me and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us."

And he says, "Bless those who shall believe on their words, who have not seen, that they also may be one; that we all may be one. I pray not for the world but for those that thou hast given me out of the world, that they may be one.

And in the greatest suffering and anguish He pleaded with that prayer. Then he said, "Let us be gone. I need to pray."