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Doctrine and Covenants 82-84

Doctrine and Covenants 82-84. Doctrine and Covenants 82:1 “Forgive one another’s trespasses” Sidney Rigdon and Edward Partridge were in the middle of an eight month feud concerning money and the distribution thereof. Doctrine and Covenants 82:2 “Yea, even all of you have sinned!”

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Doctrine and Covenants 82-84

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  1. Doctrine and Covenants 82-84

  2. Doctrine and Covenants 82:1 “Forgive one another’s trespasses” Sidney Rigdon and Edward Partridge were in the middle of an eight month feud concerning money and the distribution thereof. Doctrine and Covenants 82:2 “Yea, even all of you have sinned!” Relative to the Law of Consecration.

  3. Doctrine and Covenants 82:3 “Much is given, much is required” “I do not want you to think that I am very righteous, for I am not. God judges men according to the use they make of the light which he gives them (Teachings, Joseph Smith, 303).

  4. Doctrine and Covenants 82:7 “Former Sins Return” Brigham Young said, “When an individual refuses to comply with the further requirements of Heaven, then the sins he had formerly committed return upon his head, his former righteousness departs from him, and is not accounted to him for righteousness” (JD, 8:124). “Continue to repent and you will eventually conquer” (Teachings, Spencer W. Kimball, 91).

  5. Joseph F. Smith said, “God loved His only Begotten Son, who was without sin, more than He loved sinners. And yet He loved the world so much that He gave His own son for the redemption of the world. But it is righteousness that God loves, and He cannot endure wickedness. Therefore it is our business to put wickedness away, to cease committing it, and to set up Jesus Christ and the righteous exemplars. Let us follow in their footsteps, and cease to follow the lead of D.L. Moody and the Prodigal son, and of anybody else who is or has been a sinner, simply because he repents of his sins. All good men rejoice exceedingly when they see a man repent of his sins, and cease to do them. We love that man because of his turning away from evil, and commencing to do good. But our love and confidence in him is not, or may never be, like that which we feel for one who has never sinned at all. I do not expect to ever feel toward myself or any of my brothers just as I feel toward my Elder Brother, Jesus Christ. I have absolute confidence in Him. My whole heart and soul goes out with love for him. My hopes are built upon His glorious character and His word. He was without sin; He was spotless, and possessed power unto life eternal; He opened the way from the grave to everlasting life for me and all the children of men. My confidence in Him is boundless (Collected Discourses, 5 vols., 5:).

  6. Some Latter-day Saints…wrongly think…that a person is better off after he has sinned and repented. “Get a little experience with sin,” one argument goes…I plead with you…avoid transgression! The idea that one can deliberately sin and easily repent or that one is better off after sinning and repenting are devilish lies of the adversary. Would anyone seriously contend that it is better to learn firsthand that a certain blow will break a bone…(Dallin H. Oaks, “Sin and Suffering,” Ensign, July 1992, 70).

  7. Doctrine and Covenants 82:22 “Friends with the mammon of unrighteousness.” Live at peace with your enemies (D&C 104:8-9).

  8. Doctrine and Covenants 83:2-6 “Self Reliance” • Yourself • Family • Church, (only if faithful) Joseph Smith taught that a sign of wicked people is that they don’t take care of their poor!

  9. Doctrine and Covenants 84 “The Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood” Section 84 becomes the first great revelation on the nature and purpose of the Melchizedek Priesthood for our dispensation. Doctrine and Covenants 84:4-5 “The New Jerusalem” The Lord excused the Saints from building the temple because the mobs prevented it and because the Saints had not kept the commandments as they should. Generation = 1. 100 years 2. 120 years 3. A period of time

  10. Doctrine and Covenants 84:14 “Melchizedek and Shem, the same person?” It has been frequently taught that Melchizedek and Shem are one and the same. The argument traces back to Jewish traditions, more particularly to those who could not countenance the idea that Abraham, the father of the Semitic race, would bow down to or be subservient to someone not of that lineage. Melchizedek is an enigma to the scholars of the world who often think that he is a Canaanite priest. These verses lay that tradition to rest with the revelation that Melchizedek traced his priesthood through the “fathers even till Noah,” the father of Shem.

  11. Doctrine and Covenants 84:16 “Abel” Joseph Smith tells us that Abel held the keys of his dispensation (Teachings, 169). He later mentioned that Adam held the keys over all dispensations. Doctrine and Covenants 84:19 “The Priesthood” The priesthood can exist without the Church, but the Church cannot exist without the priesthood.

  12. Doctrine and Covenants 84:20, 22-24 “Ordinances” The power of Godliness is manifest! With ordinances = live! “Which rest is the fullness of his glory” Without ordinances = die!

  13. Doctrine and Covenants 84:25 “He took Moses out of their midst” Joseph Smith taught that “all the prophets had the Melchizedek Priesthood and were ordained by God himself” (Teachings, 181).

  14. Doctrine and Covenants 84:26 “Key of the ministering of angels” Wilford Woodruff illustrates the principles here involved with the following experience: “I was once moved upon to go and warn old Father Hakeman, living on Petty-John Creek, Arkansas. He had been in Jackson County during the persecution period. His wife died there. His family consisted of five sons, all over six feet tall. Most of them had been whipped with hickory gads by mobs, and he went south into Arkansas, taking his sons with him. We went a good deal out of our way for the purpose of visiting Father Hakeman. I had a vision the night previous, in which was manifested to me the trouble that lay before us, but that the Lord would deliver us.

  15. We arrived at his house on Sunday morning. He was taking breakfast. We had had breakfast at the place where we stayed overnight. I saw a Book of Mormon on his shelf. He did not seem to pay any attention to us, or to take any interest in us. I took up the Book of Mormon, and said, “You have a very good book here.” “’Yes,’ said he, ‘but it is a book that came from the devil.’ “That opened my eyes. He had been an elder; he had been in Zion; had been persecuted there and driven out; but I found that he had apostatized, and he was our enemy. I saw he would do anything he could against us. “We left him and went to Brother Hubbard’s and stayed with him three weeks, during which we took our axes and cleared some land for him. I was strongly impressed three times to go up and warn Father Hakeman. At last I did so, according to the commandment of God to me. The third time I met with him, his house seemed to be full of evil spirits, and I was troubled in spirit at the manifestation.

  16. When I finished my warning, I left him. He followed me from his house with the intention of killing me. I have no doubt about his intention, for it was shown to me in vision. When he came to where I was, he fell dead at my feet, as if he had been struck with a thunderbolt from heaven. I was then a priest, but God defended me and preserved my life. I speak of this because it is a principle that has been manifest in the church of God in this generation as well as in others. I had the administration of angels while holding the office of a priest. I had visions and revelations” (Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, 297-98).

  17. To this Wilford Woodruff added, “I went out as a priest, and my companion as an elder, and we traveled thousands of miles, and had many things manifested to us. I desire to impress upon you the fact that it does not make any difference whether a man is a priest or an apostle, if he magnifies his calling. A priest holds the key of the ministering of angels. Never in my life, as an apostle, as a seventy, or as an elder, have I ever had more of the protection of the Lord than while holding the office as a priest. The Lord revealed to me by visions, by revelations, and by the Holy Spirit, many things that lay before me” (Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, 300).

  18. Doctrine and Covenants 84:28 “Baptized while in childhood, ordained when eight days” Not yet to the Aaronic Priesthood, but to prepare the way. He probably received the Aaronic Priesthood sometime after baptism (Bruce R. McConkie, Mortal Messiah, 384-85). Joseph Fielding Smith taught that it was a literal ordination at eight days of age!

  19. Doctrine and Covenants 84:33-38 “Magnifying their calling” You cannot magnify the greatest power in the universe. You can magnify your calling in the priesthood (Romans 11:13). President Romney said the only way to have our calling and election made sure is to get the priesthood and magnify it (General Priesthood Mtg., 1974).

  20. “Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality” (Elder Packer, C.R., Apr. 1987, 27).

  21. Doctrine and Covenants 84:38 “All that my Father hath shall be given unto him” Doctrine and Covenants 88:107 And then shall the angels be crowned with the glory of his might, and the saints shall be filled with his glory, and receive their inheritance and be made equal with him. Doctrine and Covenants 84:41 “Lose eternal life” When we refuse to live all covenants we stand in jeopardy of losing the promise of eternal life (C.R., April, 1972, 99).

  22. Doctrine and Covenants 84:54-57 “Read the Book of Mormon” Every L.D.S. should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise he is placing his soul in jeopardy and neglecting that which could give spiritual and intellectual unity to his whole life (President Benson, C.R., April, 1975, 96-97).

  23. Doctrine and Covenants 84:64-73 “Signs shall follow them that believe” “One day when I rose from the dinner table I walked directly to the door and commenced vomiting most profusely. I raised large quantities of blood and poisonous matter, and so great were the muscular contortions of my system, that my jaw in a few moments was dislocated. This I succeeded in replacing with my own hands, and made my way to Brother Whitney (who was on the bed with a broken leg and foot), as speedily as possible he laid his hands on me and administered to me in the name of the Lord, and I was healed in an instant, although the effect of the poison was so powerful, as to cause much of my hair to become loosened from my head. Thanks be to my Heavenly Father for His interference in my behalf (HC, 1:271).

  24. Doctrine and Covenants 84:99-106 “This New Song” We may believe that no music has yet been produced that will compare with the music for this song when Zion is redeemed!

  25. Doctrine and Covenants 84:114 “New York, Boston, Albany” In Logan, Utah on the 22nd of August, 1863, Elder Wilford Woodruff addressed a conference saying that New York will be destroyed by an earthquake, Boston will be swept in a sea, and Albany destroyed by fire. President Brigham Young then got up and said that it is revelation and will be fulfilled (Temples of the Most High, 97-98).

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