“Wine, Keys, and False Revelations!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: D&C 27-28

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Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "Wine, Keys, and False Revelations!"
III. Point I D&C 27
i. 4 moths after church organized. Needed wine for sacrament, stopped by angel
1. Doesn't matter what you use for sacrament, do it with focus on Christ
2. Mission: forgot bread, had Maria cookies,but DL/Branch President went out and bough some rolls. Unnecessary.
3. Use "new" wine of own making
a. Adulteration
b. intoxication.
ii. Changes in ordinances
1. Wine to Water
2. Cup to cups (influenza)
3. temple changes
4. Changes: Isn't this a problem?
a. JS Manual
i. Ch 8 "[God] set the ordinances to be the same forever and ever, and set Adam to watch over them, to reveal them from heaven to man, or to send angels to reveal them"
ii. Ch 36 "Ordinances instituted in the heavens before the foundation of the world, in the priesthood, for the salvation of men, are not to be altered or changed. All must be saved on the same principles.
b. Issue of authorized versus unauthorized changes. Context of great apostasy
c. TPJS, 237 Endowment, "are always governed by the principle of revelation."
iii. Comment
1. Not an issue for us, yes for other faiths.
a. Transubstantiation/real presence.  
b. RC priest drinks wine, people get bread, wafer
c. Fly or spider in chalice. ST III.83.6
2. Some used water, Hydroparastatæ, or Aquarii
3. Jews use grape juice during Passover
IV. Point II D&C
i. Sacrament meeting in future.
1. Last Supper
2. Adam-onid-ahmen.
3. Way To Perfection, Ch 40.
ii. Keys and Dispensations
1. Moroni, keys of record of stick of Ephriam (keys associated with BOM)
2. Elias (Noah), restoration, forerunner
3. John the Baptist
4. Elijah
5. Joseph of Egypt
6. Jacob
7. Isaac
8. Abraham (gospel of Abraham)
9. PJJ
10. Need for keys, organized religion, and one true church
iii. Fullness of time
1. JS 7th, WJS, 370, 12 May 1844
2. Endgame
V. Skip armor of god, covered in Ephesians
VI. Point III
i. Hiram Page, one of 8 witnesses found a stone, got revelation, woman Hubble also got revelations. OC taken in
ii. JS Revelaton to correct it. OC talked, talk alone with him, and correct. DTC and chasten
iii. Fate of stone: Ground up, or in COC. We have JS chocolate one
iv. BOM
1. And it came to pass that after there had been false Christs, and their mouths had been shut, and they punished according to their crimes;
2. 16  And after there had been false prophets, and false preachers and teachers among the people, and all these having been punished according to their crimes; Words of Mormon 1:15 - 16
v. "Thou shalt not command him who is at thy head, and at the head of the church"
1. The huffy sister talking over the bishop, sucking up the ward budget for centerpieces?
2. Rebuke not an elder, entreat him as a father 1Tim 5:1. & sister missionary called elders "boys" and screamed at me because she couldn’t get a key to the bishopric's office
3. D&C 6:19 admonish in faults. Right way for feedback,privately
vi. Personal Revelation, and larger revelation
1. DHO https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2010/10/two-lines-of-communication?lang=eng
vii. Our day: False prophets, Utah, social media. Influencers, pundit and podcasters?
viii. NET, false prophets to ourselves.
VII. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient
1. You can get false revelations, deceive the church, and top church leaders, and still be forgiven
2. PH keys and Atonement
a. Free-floatingpower, grace, magic, or the force
b. Need order, confusion in protestant world, POV of Easter Orthodox Church
c. personalities and willpower. Ravi Zacharias, James MacDoanld
ii. Christ and Sacrament
1. Early 2000s, repeated trope that Christ not sacrament meeting; helping poor.
2. Stake president said it, sat down, and stayed though the remainder of sacrament meeting. Um...
3. NAM "hypertense, activist teachers (who do not understand the role of contemplation, reflection, and worship and who would empty the classrooms of the Church and have us all march off heedlessly to become involved"
4. Abandon covenant in favor of secular social activism
iii. Sacrament dilemma
1. not seriously, casual like munchies at a Superbowl Party
2. too serious, over-complex. Focusing on preparation is ill defined but rather important.
iv. Seek preview
1. Principle of Agree and Ask. Why ward councils go wrong.
v. Repeat first point: Infinite and Eternal power of Christ's atonement: Deceiver church leaders, and still be forgiven...Christ. that's the point.
 
 
 

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