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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: "You: Savior on Mount Zion"
III. Point I 125. Colonizing
i. Character of people: "essaying to be saints," obedience, etc.
ii. Colony named Zarahemla.
1. BOM city?
2. Reuse of name like Manti, or Antioch or Pittsburgh, CA
iii. Nashville: Multiple gathering places, "lands of inheritance" 1 Nephi 22:12. D&C 101:21. Pioneer Era to Modern Era HBL, April 1973
IV. Point II 126. BY and doctrine of releases
i. Some sisters are "Church Calling Widows" husbands with callings. De facto widows.
ii. Issue of leaders neglecting families, D&C 93
iii. NAM " When he interviewed Elder Joseph Fielding Smith of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, he said, "Your father [Joseph F. Smith, sixth President of the Church] was gone a lot during your childhood. Did you resent that?" Neal expected him to say no, that his father was doing the Lord's work. Instead Elder Smith said, "Yes, it was very hard. But I would go see my aunt after school, and she would talk to me about the Prophet Joseph."
iv. Releasing
1. Dogpile callings against policy (30.1.1), law of diminish returns. Wisdom order, diligent, strength and means
2. Elder Duncan A 2025, "While the easier path may be to give faithful members a second calling, the more excellent way is to invite the unlikely to serve and let them learn and grow."
V. Point III Dead, 127, 128
i. 127, letter that shades into a revelation. Need for a recorder (term from parliamentary procedure). The record of the ordinance also binds with the ordinance
ii. 128
1. Ward recorders (delegation) and church recorder
2. Doctrine
a. Rev. 20:12. Books or records, and Book of Life. Saved by grace, but judged by works.
b. Record is part of binding on earth and in heaven."bold doctrine" very particular"
c. Matt. 16:18-19.
i. Peter successor to church (Aramaic not Greek. Not French)
1. Rock of Redeemer
2. Rock of Revelation CH 16, 195
ii. Two expressions: Keys of the Kingdom and gates of Hell. these keys reach into afterlife, realm of departed spirits
iii. Baptism and fonts reminds us of dead.
iv. 1 Cor. 15:46-48 (Chapter on Resurrection, see JST). Earthy and heavenly on a parallel.
v. 1 Cor. 15:29. Most obvious one.
vi. Mal. 4: 5-6. Elijah. Need some binding, welding.
3. Rhapsody: Voice of Gladness
a. Not just families, but linking or binding dispensations
b. Clue to restoration of MPH
c. Michael on banks of river: baptism?
d. Raphael. Apocrypha Tobit (Ch 6 mentions foreordained marriages)
e. Morning stars: premortal council
f. Sons of Levi offer a record
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient:
1. How do you save the dead, those that died ignorantly.
2. Questioning atheist and anti-theists bark and bray. But we have a solid answer. D&C 138
3. RC Masses for dead (Maccabees);Jews and proxy bar mitzvah for holocaust victims
4. Really understand and articulate to Gen Y Millennials and Gen Z and Gen Alpha
ii. Second Coming Quotient: These temples, 300+ really building them for the Millennium. Utterly wasted, smitten with a curse at 2nd Coming.
iii. JS"if the whole Church should go to with all their might to save their dead, seal their posterity, and gather their living friends, and spend none of their time in behalf of the world, they would hardly get through before night would come" CH 41.get as much done before the 2nd coming of Christ--Christ, that's the point.