10 days ago

Get a copy of my book: https://www.amazon.com/Consider-Servant-Kendal-Brian-Hunter/dp/1555177522
Cedar Fort Affiliate Link: https://www.cedarfort.com?sca_ref=8708076.JbqjgSURggaFb
(I get commissions. Thank you for support!)
Opening Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2dHWT5PCG8

Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Today's vocabulary word is Interregnum.
III. Theme: "Light In the Shadow of Apostasy!"
i. This is a time of creeping darkness. The Kirtland Temple dedication was a jubilee and Pentecost. But shadows follow sunshine. Issues of pride, dissension, the Kirtland Safety Society, new members coming in with seasoned leaders on missions. And debts.
IV. Point I 111 Boston Treasure hunting
i. Context of debts:
1. D&C 104:78-80, pay debts, Lord send people to help, soften hearts
2. Hadn't come, and scrambling. May have been trusting in the arm of flesh.
3. Treasure-seeking.
a. JT JD 7:322: "Joseph Smith was considered a fool-a gold-digger. Although all the world nearly have turned gold-diggers since that, it has become a respectable profession; but it is highly unpopular to be a Prophet and receive revelation from God. And these priests and professors have always been the most bitter opposers of God and his revelations. "
b. California: 1848 Sutter's Mill, 1849 gold rush, 1850 statehood. Why so big, get all the goldfields in one swoop.
ii. "Not displeased ... not withstanding follies" Kind of Heavenly Father. Long-suffering with our foolishness.
iii. Don’t worry about debts, and don't worry about Zion.
iv. "more treasure"
1. acquaintance with men. Networking with city fathers and cultural gatekeepers.
2. more ancient inhabitants.
a. New England and old growth settlements
b. Genealogy and work for dead
V. Point II 112, 114 Staffing and Duties
i. 112 Thomas B. Marsh
1. Personal
a. "not pleased" but "abased himself" forgiven of sins.
b. Promised powerful things, call high people to repentance
c. don't be partial, don't play favorites with quorum members.
d. Pray and admonish them "sharply." After trials, HF will "feel after them" Refning in quorum.
2. Quorum v14
a. Staccato commands: gird up loins. Take up cross. Follow me. Feed my sheep. Exalt not. Rebel not.
i. Charachter and spirituality, not tasks and behavior.
b. Given keys of kingdom
i. got themselves
ii. Send (70, other missionaries)
c. Warning about darkness and second coming
i. "Upon my house shall it begin" 1 Peter 4:17. Before the Second Coming, a cleaning of the church. We have the greatest light.
ii. 31.BKP O 1996 "We know that we hold the power of the priesthood “in connection with all those who have received a dispensation at any time from the beginning of the creation.” D&C 112:31 We think of those who have preceded us in these sacred offices, and at times we feel their presence.
ii. 114 David Patten. "deny name, others planted in stead" God with harvest out tares, and fill callings.
VI. Point III 113 Q&A
i. Covered this previously
ii. Relationship between Christ and JS. Their missions
1. Isaiah 11, 29, 53.
2. 1st Presidency MFP 6:4, "Two great truths must be accepted by mankind if they shall save themselves: first, that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Only Begotten, the very Son of God ... and next, that God has again restored to the earth, in these last days, through the Prophet Joseph ... Without these truths man may not hope for the riches of the life hereafter. "
iii. JFS GD, 133 " The day will come-and it is not far distant, either-when the name of the Prophet Joseph Smith will be coupled with the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Son of God, as his representative, as his agent whom he chose, ordained and set apart to lay anew the foundations of the Church of God in the world, which is indeed the Church of Jesus Christ ..."
VII. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient
1. Forgivness of sins, but what about "follies" or foolishness.
a. Sins versus mistakes DHO Aug 16, 1994, BYU.
b. "Overtaken in a fault" D&C 20:80, Gal. 6:1,
c. D&C 124:116. repent of folly.
2. Thomas B. Marsh's repentance.
ii. Second Coming Quotient
1. D&C 112
a. And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord; First among those among you, saith the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house, saith the Lord.
2. 1 Peter 4:17-18
a. "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
b. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
3. Wise and foolish Virgins again. Praying for wisdom to prepare. He's coming, and that's the point.