Lesson 33: Sharing the Gospel with the World

Reading 1 – Matthew 12:38-40

Reading 2 – Jonah 1:1-2

Reading 3 – Nahum 3:1-5

Reading 4 – Jonah 1:3

Reading 5 – Jonah 1:10-17

Reading 6 – Jonah 2:1-9

Reading 7 – Jonah 3:3-8

Jonah 3:10 – Note Footnote C

Reading 8 - Jonah 4:1-3

Reading 9 – Micah 5:2

Reading 10 – Micah 2:12-13

Reading 11 – Micah 4:1-7

President Hinckly said:
Ever since the Salt Lake Temple was dedicated, we have interpreted that scripture from Isaiah, repeated again in Micah (see Micah 4:1–2), as applying to this sacred house of the Lord. And of this place, since the day of its dedication, an ever-increasing number from across the world have said in effect, “Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that He might teach us of His ways, that we might walk in His paths.”

I believe and testify that it is the mission of this Church to stand as an ensign to the nations and a light to the world. We have had placed upon us a great, all-encompassing mandate from which we cannot shrink nor turn aside. We accept that mandate and are determined to fulfill it, and with the help of God we shall do it.

There are forces all around us that would deter us from that effort. The world is constantly crowding in on us. From all sides we feel the pressure to soften our stance, to give in here a little and there a little.

We must never lose sight of our objective. We must ever keep before us the goal which the Lord has set for us. (Gordon B. Hinckley, “An Ensign to the Nations, a Light to the World,” Liahona, Nov 2003, 82–85)

Reading 12 – Micah 5:7-9

In 1842 the Prophet Joseph Smith declared, “No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done” (History of the Church, 4:540).