Sunday, September 7, 2025

Loyalty

    Loyalty to God combines your faith with obedience. It involves serving, following, staying, losing yourself, being firm and focused, pondering, delighting, praising, and above all knowing God and Christ. To be loyal often means obeying before understanding, being proud of your testimony and staying true to the love that is in your heart. If you know God and love Him, then your loyalty to Him will not let you stray, but rather bring you to Him and all the blessings, love, and power that come with your relationship to Him.


*Gen 18:19 - Loyalty = obedience=blessings of the covenant

*Gen 22:12 - Loyalty to God should be above even loyalty to family

*Josh 24:15 - Loyalty = service, Judges 2:7

*Ruth 1:16 - Loyalty is following, staying, your people/God are my people/God

*Matt 6:24 - You cannot serve 2 masters, hold to the one

*Matt 10:39 - Loyalty sometimes requires you to lose yourself, 

*Rom 1:16 - Loyalty sometimes requires you to lose yourself, to lay down your life, D&C 103:27-28

*1 Ne 3:7 - "I will go and do" - Loyalty is knowing God and obeying

*Jacob 1:8 - If you know Christ, you will not rebel

*Mosiah 17:9 - Be loyal to your testimony

*Alma 48:13 - Capn' M = man of loyalty, firm in faith of Christ, sworn to protect rights

*D&C 134:5 - Be loyal to your government as long as it protects freedom of conscience

*Moses 5:6 - Loyalty sometimes means obeying before understanding

*JSH 1:25 - JS Jr stayed loyal to the First Vision

*1 Ne 17:50 - Loyalty is a combination of faith and obedience - the two most powerful things to bring miracles

*2 Ne 4:16 - Loyalty = delighting and pondering, 2 Ne 9:49 - and praising

*Alma 20:26 - Loyalty brings blessings, love, and power