“The Three Sacred Groves!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: D&C 12-17

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Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "The Three Sacred Groves!"
i. SG proper, but PH Restoration Site, and 3 Witnesses Site
ii. Relationships
1. Joseph Knight
2. David, John, Peter Whitmer
3. Oliver Cowdery
4. John the Baptist
III. People
i. 12. Joseph Knight donated "a barrel of mackerel, some lined paper for writing, nine or ten bushels of grain, five or six bushels of taters, and a pound of tea"
1. Told to keep commandments
2. Bring forth and establish Zion
a. JST Matt 6:38 "Wherefore, seek not the things of this world but seek ye first to build up the kingdom of God, and to establish his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
3. "you and all those who have desires"
a. "Voice unto all," "what I say unto one, I say unto all"
b. Why we read--general application
4. Lists virtues: faith, hope, charity, humble, temperate
a. Not a to-do list, not action items: Why
b. "zeal without knowledge"
i. https://rsc.byu.edu/sites/default/files/pub_content/pdf/Zeal_without_Knowledge.pdf
ii. need to be a type of person to do action items correctly
ii. 14. David Whitmer,  3 W. JS Living with Peter Whitmer, family affair
1. Standard preface, reaffirms principles, need a base-point for further revelation.
2. Promised HG, greatest gift. Lost it, you know what I'm talking about
3. Focus on repentance.
a. That's what's stopping us from progressing. SWK and Miracle of Forgiveness--hell rages, and children of hate that book.
b. People who think church is zero hours, or one-our and bolt
4. Temporal and spiritual blessings
a. Temporal blessing of not smoking, how much money that's saved you.
i. Cigarettes, etc
ii. secondary things, health issues
iii. HJG and books "cigar money"
iii. 15. John Whitmer, historian. Wrote a history, tried to sell it to church. Now we own it. 8 W
1. Desire. DHO A 2011.
2. Declare repentance, rest with them D&C 18, worth of souls. Two men form my mission as mission presidents, think about all the missionaries and coverts they will have in next life
iv. 16. Peter Whitmer. Owner of house, 8 W
1. Two identical revelations. What does that mean?
2. P Blessings JEF, HJG short blessings (Oct 1995)
3. Continuing revelation to blessings
IV. Priesthood 13
i. New heading, 1921, had Harmony, 1981, changed to Susquehanna river,now back. PH site. RMN "another sacred grove"
ii. Key
1. JFS, Manual Ch 16;  GD, 143 "What is a key? It is the right or privilege which belongs to and comes with the Priesthood" DGR book
2. Privilege of having angles versus commanding
3. Michael to come down? Order around?
iii. Powers
1. Ministering of angels
2. Gospel of repentance (cf. Gospel of Abraham)
3. Baptism
iv. Promise
1. Sons of Levi cf Malachi 3:3/ 3 Nephi 24:3
a. Tribe of Levi, sons of Aaron
b. APH holders
2. JS "until" sons of Levi offer vs OC "may yet" which is closer to Malachi
3. What is this?
a. Baptisms for Dead D&C 128
b. Sacrifices, TPJS, 172-173
v. If have desires, called to serve
1. Need context. AF 6, called by prophets
2. This blessing part of authorization, but also need PH ordination 'HS and D&C 11, wait for call
V. Three Witnesses
i. Rely upon word
1. D&C 18 rely upon written
2. Word of mouth, hearsay, Reddit or sub-stack for direction?
3. “I heard someone say …” My mission president said...
ii. Items, relics
1. Plates
2. Breastplate
3. Sword of Laban
4. Liahona (ball, directors)
5. Other plates
iii. See and testify
1. Need for additional witnesses
2. JS and mother
iv. Same power faith, gift
1. God no respecter of persons
2. JS ch 22 "God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what He will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them, for the day must come when no man need say to his neighbor, Know ye the Lord; for all shall know Him … from the least to the greatest"
v. gates of Hell, D&C 128, has to do with work for dead
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient
1. Relation of ordinances and atonement
a. Baptism for remission of sins
b. Not immersion, not dunking, but need ceremony
c. Irreducible primary
2. Constant need for calls to repentance
ii. PH and organized religion
1. JS Ch 6 "Whenever there has been a righteous man on earth unto whom God revealed His word and gave power and authority to administer in His name, and where there is a priest of God—a minister who has power and authority from God to administer in the ordinances of the gospel and officiate in the priesthood of God, there is the kingdom of God"
2. Church restored on May 15, 1829; but organized on April 6, 1830
3. Not a discipline or free-floating power, but an "order"
iii. Grove of our Own: TSM Nov 1980
1. Three Sacred Groves
2. TSM: "Every bishop needs a sacred grove to which he can retire to meditate and to pray for guidance. Mine was our old ward chapel. I could not begin to count the occasions when on a dark night at a late hour I would make my way to the stand of this building where I was blessed, confirmed, ordained, taught, and eventually called to preside. The chapel was dimly lighted by the street light in front; not a sound would be heard, no intruder to disturb. With my hand on the pulpit I would kneel and share with Him above my thoughts, my concerns, my problems."
3. Your Sacred Grove, JC Closet.
4. Prayer makes us more Christlike--that's the point.

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