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Opening Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYmSSGm02xo

Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "The Prison-Temple!"
i. Background: Part of long letter TPJS, 129ff; PWJS
ii. Two ancestors.
1. Thomas White McBride, elderly man. Lived at Haun's Mill. Tried to talk to mob. Took his gun, shot him with it, then mutilated his body CCA Christian painting, on the left.
2. Austin Cowels
a. Member of the high Council in Nauvoo, later counselor in stake presidency. Duaghter Elvira plural wife of JS. I'm though her sister, Mary Ann. Bothered by it
b. Involved with conspiracy to kill JS. Two young boys go to meeting, and report back to JS.
c. GAS JD 2:217 " While he was thus preaching he turned to the men sitting in the stand, and who were the men who should have backed him up, for instance, to our good old President Marks, William and Wilson Law, and father Cowles, and a number of other individuals about Nauvoo,...and said, "If I were to reveal the things that God has revealed to me, if I were to reveal to this people the doctrines that I know are for their exaltation, these men would spill my blood."
d. Excommunicated, wrote an affidavit published in Nauvoo Expositor.
3. Two ancestors--martyr and murderer--and this section.
III. Point I 121
i. Prayer
1. Frustration
2. Imprecatory prayer, CF 109, mercy upon mobbers. Day of mercy passed.
ii. Response
1. Temporal Context: a small moment
2. Endure it "well" lifted up
3. Comparative Context: not as Job
4. Effect of apostasy upon mind
a. JS Beware the Bitter Fruits of Apostasy
b. Scriptures
i. 2 Thess 2:11: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie
ii. Roman 1:28: And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient
iii. Jacob 4:14: Wherefore, because of their blindness, which blindness came by looking beyond the mark, they must needs fall; for God hath taken away his plainness from them, and delivered unto them many things which they cannot understand, because they desired it. And because they desired it God hath done it, that they may stumble.
iv. Alma 47:36 "strange to relate"
5. Talks about what going to happen to these people.
a. Cursed with cut off from PH
b. Swift judgment in season thereof
c. Despised by those who flattered them, Korihor.
6. Revelation
a. What good is revealed knowledge in jail? "Small moment," then need this in exaltation
b. Last dispensation, outpouring of knowledge. Space Shuttle. too much--read an encyclopedia in a year.
i. Nature of God
ii. Nature of Cosmos
iii. Premortal Council
c. Outer space--again, Moses 1, Abraham 3, Fac 3 Abraham lecturing on astronomy. BHR book TWL, Diagrams of outer space
iii. Leadership
1. Not technique but attributes
a. Virtue and Charity
b. love unfeigned, etc.
2. unrighteous dominion
a. Cover sin. Why first? think perfect because a leader? Diversion away from sins.
b. Pride and Vain ambition
c. Control--any degree of unrighteousness
d. Amen to Authority
i. Ten Keys to Successful Dating and Marriage Relationships
ii. Hugh W. Pinnock May 03, 1981
iii. He began pounding on my desk, “Tell her I have the priesthood, and she’s to do what I tell her to do.”
iv. The first thing I said was, “Stop pounding on my desk.” The second thing I said was, “Brother, you do not have the priesthood.”
v. “Oh, yes, I do. I was given the priesthood last June.”
vi. I said, “You don’t have the priesthood,” and I turned behind me to where my scriptures lay.... At that time, that good sister smiled briefly. I said, “Do you understand that you don’t have the priesthood?”
vii. He said, “I didn’t understand that before now.”
3. Without compulsory means flow unto you
IV. Point III 123
i. JS destiny
1. Fools vs pure in heart, wise, noble
ii. More trouble ahead
iii. Buildup to two principles
1. "for thy experience and for good"
2. Son of Man descended below all things, greater than He?
V. Point II 123
i. Very flowery, evocative imagery
ii. Records of persecution, 700 petitions
iii. Missionary Work:
1. Need this to help correct errors. Tell our side of the story.
2. "For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it" 1st Vision, "professors were all corrupt"
3. Waste and wear out life
4. "much which lieth in futurity ..which depends upon these things"
5. Cheerfully do our duty
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Christlike leadership
ii. Atonement Quotient
1. Son of Man descended below all things, during atonement
2. bowels of mercy
3. We can come to Christ without any fear
iii. Second Coming quotient
1. Collecting "church critical" document
2. Something important.
3. Maker sure speaking up,our side of story
4. Withholding information. MRB sept 1311, 2015: "Remember, the Lord commanded, “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” We ask other faiths not to speak about our church based on misrepresentations; therefore, we must not do so with them."
iv. Great message for people in trials, hope in Christ--that's the point!