“The Plan, the History, the Destiny!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: D&C 29

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Opening Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHGPhrQzLtw
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i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "The Plan, the History, the Destiny!"
i. Background:
1. Given in the presence of six elders
a. JS not hiding things
b. BOM translation and use of curtain was a bad source
2. Preparation for conference was a revelation. Upcoming general conference.
3. Points, but out of order. Not 3 point homily.
4. Easy to printout and rearrange in chronological order
III. Point I Plan of Salvation
i. Terminology
1. Plan of Salvation, three estates and three degrees of glory
2. vs Earth dispensational history
3. Boyd K Packer Our Father's Plan, great minibook
4. Obsessed with no Christ in middle bubble, but just a model.
ii. Preface:
1. Christ's existence and atonement, our forgiveness
2. Our repentance "sin no more, lest perils come upon you"
iii. War in Heaven
1. Give honor which is power. One talk Cleon Skouses attributed to JAW
2. 33%. third part wasn't 33%, just a smaller part,
iv. Adam and Eve and the Fall
1. First and Last/Second death
a. spiritual death, dead to spiritual things
b. Cut off from presence of Father
2. tempted and enticed to be agents. BRM
a. Four great principles must be in force if there is to be agency:
b. 1. Laws must exist, laws ordained by an Omnipotent power, laws which can be obeyed or disobeyed;
c. 2. Opposites must exist - good and evil, virtue and vice, right and wrong - that is, there must be an opposition, one force pulling one way and another pulling the other;
d. 3. A knowledge of good and evil must be had by those who are to enjoy the agency, that is, they must know the difference between the opposites;
e. 4. An unfettered power of choice must prevail.
v. Christ
1. Identity
2. Power of atonement
vi. Gathering of Israel
1. Term gathering of elect. We don't use this, need for an improper egalitarianism. Are we loosing something, to get people to like us?
2. Elect
a. Calvinism and predestination
b. chosen eklectos, eclectic.
c. There are chosen souls
vii. Last Days
1. gathering of elect, one place, prepare for "tribulation and desolation"
2. hailstorm
3. Malachi wicked burnt as stubble
4. Zecharia 14 flies, maggots, and burnt eyes and tongues
5. Ezekiel 38 destroy by fire, Great and Abominable Church fall
viii. Second Coming: RMN, Read JS-M and JSt Revelation
ix. Resurrection
1. Michael, not Gabriel sounds
2. Order first resurrection
x. Judgment of Twelve
1. vs 29-30" And now, behold, I say unto you, never at any time have I declared from mine own mouth that they should return, for where I am they cannot come, for they have no power.
a. no progression from Kingdom to Kingdom
2. Sons of perdition not redeemed, contrary to what you hear in testimony. D&C 76.
a. funeral of a woman I ministered to, "So what did you learn in church today that wasn't true?"
b. D&C 50
3. 30  But remember that all my judgments are not given unto men
a. unaccountable people/ developmentally disabled
b. People without law
c. Singles AF2, and agency
xi. Millennium
1. In discussing millennium, some people focus on one quote by BY ch 3
a. My mission to the people is to teach them with regard to their every-day lives. ... I cared very little about what will take place after the Millennium. ... My desire is to teach the people what they should do now, and let the Millennium take care of itself.
i. But BY manual Ch 45 deals with millennium. Context of building up Deseret
ii. Focs on work not woolly speculation
2. Spencer W. Kimball, 172 "When Satan is bound in a single home-when Satan is bound in a single life-the Millennium has already begun in that home, in that life. "
3. Study in manuals
xii. End of Millennium
1. Devil loosed for sort season
2. JFiS and BRM suggested 1,000 years (DS 1:181, MM 695) JS quote from Henry Miller WWJ Feb 4, 1879
xiii. New Heaven, New Earth
IV. Point II RMN Conference Talks
V. Point III Principles
i. RGS Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained: “Principles are concentrated truth, packaged for application to a wide variety of circumstances. A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and compelling circumstances. It is worth great effort to organize the truth we gather to simple statements of principle”
ii. Agree and Ask:
1. 3 Nephi 27
a. What happens, fuzzy thinking and woolly ideas. Podcasts and TED talks, conventional wisdom, hearsay and conjecture. Need to teach doctrine of Christ
b. We rush to solutions, burrow through, versus talking.
c. People who need to make decision by talking, Managin Oneself, Peter Druker. Think aloud
d. Preparation beforehand
2. unity of doctrine verse personal perspective (Rorschach test, Ink blot Test)
3. Bad decisions because bad doctrine
iii. Last First, First Last
1. Jews, gentiles, gentiles, then Jews
iv. Temporal, Spiritual
1. BY Ch 3
a. DBY, 293 We may say that eight or nine-tenths of the doctrines and principles set forth in the revelations given to those men were of a temporal nature.
2. Tithing, Word of Wisdom, Church's investment fund, cleaning service projects
v. Old Things Pass Away, All New
1. continuing revelation ongoing restoration
vi. Judgment
1. Where I am cannot come
2. Repent not
3. Love darkness
vii. Three points
1. Individualism, Egalitarianism, Community vs Obedience, hierarchy, Communion
2. chosen people, exclusionary punishment (cast of heaven Lucifer or in Final Judgment)
3. Egalitarianism and community, misunderstanding or over stressing leads to darkness
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient: Integrating Atonement into Plan of Salvation, and Earth History
1. NAM: "Conversationally, we reference God's great design almost too casually at times; we even sketch its rude outlines on chalkboards and paper as if it were the floor plan for an addition to one's house. However, when we really take time to ponder the Plan, it is breathtaking and overpowering!
2. Talk about grace, and now want to sing about it, but more to it, and it is not isolated
ii. Christ and principles vs facts and rules. FSY
iii. Principles and Principals
1. People and points
2. Trick to get keyholders to follow doctrine, versus inertial
iv. Christ is center of all of this, Christ, that's the point
 
 
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