“A House of Glory!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: D&C 109-110

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Opening Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7eniQR3nUA
Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "A House of Glory!"
i. Born in the covenant in Oakland, CA. See the temple every day. Parent sealed in SLC, so always been there. Interstake Center. One night FHE did a temple tour. Watched fill "Man's Search For Happiness" in visitor's center theater, then walked on top of temple.
ii. Written dedicatory prayer. Catholics have set prayers, and we try to distinguish ourselves, and say we don't use them. Mostly true, but sacrament prayers, and dedicatory prayers. But sacrament prayers are words to an ordinance, so fixed, and dedicatory prayers are not used repetitively, each new temple getsanew prayer, even old Provo and old Ogden
iii. Title: talks on temples use
1. Truman G. Madsen: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/truman-g-madsen/a-house-of-glory/
2. Hugh W. Nibley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsIqU-gEvUU
3. Your temple dedicatory prayer: https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/
4. Solomon's temple: 1 Kings 8:22-53 and 2 Chronicles 6:12-42.
III. Point I 109 Prayer
i. Accept house
ii. Quoted D&C 88
1. Best books.
2. KT was a schoolhouse. But what books help us become empowered, endowed saints.
iii. Glory 8x
1. That thy glory may rest down upon thy people, and upon this thy house, which we now dedicate to thee, that it may be sanctified and consecrated to be holy, and that thy holy presence may be continually in this house
2. And we ask thee, Holy Father, that thy servants may go forth from this house armed with thy power, and that thy name may be upon them, and thy glory be round about them, and thine angels have charge over them
a. Missionaries
b. Married couples
c. Single soldiers, in a platoon of one.
iv. Let it be fulfilled upon them, as upon those on the day of Pentecost; let the gift of tongues be poured out upon thy people, even cloven tongues as of fire, and the interpretation thereof.
1. "tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high" (Luke 24:49)
a. Endue is Greek "to clothe" to invest (vestments)
b. Endow is Latin for a gift
c. both words work to describe this.
d. Hebrew atone = to cover. Adam and Eves coats.
2. Act 2, day of Pentecost
a. Tongues of flame, as Holy Ghost came in a special way
b. Speaking tongues, missionary work
v. Imprecations
1. " O Lord, we delight not in the destruction of our fellow men; their souls are precious before thee; But thy word must be fulfilled.Help thy servants to say, with thy grace assisting them: Thy will be done, O Lord, and not ours.
2. O Lord, how long wilt thou suffer this people to bear this affliction, and the cries of their innocent ones to ascend up in thine ears, and their blood come up in testimony before thee, and not make a display of thy testimony in their behalf?
3. Have mercy, O Lord, upon the wicked mob, who have driven thy people, that they may cease to spoil, that they may repent of their sins if repentance is to be found;
4. But if they will not, make bare thine arm, O Lord, and redeem that which thou didst appoint a Zion unto thy people.
5. Mobs were real. tarred and feathered? One person threw a rock at one meetinghouse. Cobblestones easy weapons.
6. Still love them.
vi. Political dynamics
1. US Constitution mentioned
2. Pray for president, world leaders
vii. Lamanites/Native Americans
viii. Church leaders and families "immediate connections"
ix. Future of Church is found in OT: Daniel and Songs/ Palm Sunday
1. that the kingdom, which thou hast set up without hands, may become a great mountain and fill the whole earth; That thy church may come forth out of the wilderness of darkness, and shine forth fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners; And be adorned as a bride
2. That our garments may be pure, that we may be clothed upon with robes of righteousness, with palms in our hands, and crowns of glory upon our heads, and reap eternal joy for all our sufferings.
x. Doxology: "O Lord God Almighty, hear us in these our petitions, and answer us from heaven, thy holy habitation, where thou sittest enthroned, with glory, honor, power, majesty, might, dominion, truth, justice, judgment, mercy, and an infinity of fulness, from everlasting to everlasting."
1. "infinity of fullness" and progression
xi. 78: O hear, O hear, O hear us, O Lord!And answer these petitions, and accept the dedication of this house unto thee, the work of our hands, which we have built unto thy name; And also this church, to put upon it thy name.
1. Name = approval and authority, Recognize as His church
IV. Point II 110
i. Jehovah
1. Reference to book of Revelation
2. Feet as amber, and Lorenzo Snow's vision
3. Accepts house
4. "endowment"
5. Pray to Jehovah
a. HC 5:94 (Ch. 5)
b. ... let us plead the justice of our cause; trusting in the arm of Jehovah, the Eloheim, who sits enthroned in the heavens ...
c. HC 5:127 (Ch 6)
d. There are many souls whom I have loved stronger than death. To them I have proved faithful—to them I am determined to prove faithful, until God calls me to resign up my breath. O Thou, who seest and knowest the hearts of all men—Thou eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Jehovah—God—Thou Eloheim, that sittest, as saith the Psalmist, "enthroned in heaven," look down upon Thy servant Joseph at this time; and let faith on the name of Thy Son Jesus Christ, to a greater degree than Thy servant ever yet has enjoyed, be conferred upon him, even the faith of Elijah; and let the lamp of eternal life be lit up in his heart, never to be taken away; and let the words of eternal life be poured upon the soul of Thy servant, that he may know Thy will, Thy statutes, and Thy commandments, and Thy judgments, to do them.
e. Also use of "eternal Jove."
f. Loose with terminology
g. Father and Son, JFS Manual Ch. 40
ii. Moses:
1. Gathering of Israel
2. leading 10 tribes out north countries (Russia)
iii. Elias
1. No idea who he is (title)
2. Gospel of Abraham
iv. Elijah
1. binding generations
2. full power of Melchizedek Priesthood
V. Point III: Now what?
i. understand need for
1. Temples: expenditure for buildings
2. Endowment: what goes on inside
3. Marriage
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient
1. Temples and Atonement
a. Need temples to endow; endowment to get full blessings of atonement
2. Keys and Atonement
a. Proper use of power
b. need priesthood and order to message
c. not free-floating chaos
3. Christ's approval of building, verses wanting to repurpose them as homeless shelters
ii. Second Coming
1. Allusions second coming
2. "Therefore, O Lord, deliver thy people from the calamity of the wicked; enable thy servants to seal up the law, and bind up the testimony, that they may be prepared against the day of burning."
3. One of cardinal things we can do is worship in temple by work for dead.
4. What power have you experienced by being endowed

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