1 Nephi 1:20
2 Nephi 2:27-29
Reading 1 – 2 Nephi 1:5-8
Reading 2 - Joseph Smith taught: "You know there has
been great discussion in relation to Zion--where it is, and where the gathering
of the dispensation is, and which I am now going to tell you. The prophets have
spoken and written upon it; but I will make a proclamation that will cover a
broader ground. The whole of America is Zion itself from north to south, and is
described by the prophets, who declare that it is the Zion where the mountain
of the Lord should be, and that it should be in the center of the land. When
elders shall take up and examine the old prophecies in the Bible, they will see
it." (TPJS, p362)
Reading 3 – 2 Nephi 2:1-10
Reading 4 - President Joseph F. Smith said, “Jesus came and
suffered, ‘the just for the unjust,’ he that was without sin for him that had
sinned, and was subjected to the penalty of the law which the sinner had
transgressed” (Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed. [1939], 204).
Reading 5 – 2 Nephi 2:11
Doctrine and Covenants 29:39
Reading 6 - Brigham Young taught: “Facts are made apparent
to the human mind by their opposites. We find ourselves surrounded in this
mortality by an almost endless combination of opposites, through which we must pass
to gain experience and information to fit us for an eternal progression.”
(Brigham Young, in Journal of Discourses, 11:42.)
Reading 7 – 2 Nephi 2:13-16
2 Nephi 2:16-25
2 Nephi 2:26-27
Reading 8 - Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin taught: “The Lord has
given you the gift of agency (see Moses 7:32) and instructed you sufficiently
to know good from evil (see 2 Nephi 2:5). You are free to choose (see 2 Nephi
2:27) and are permitted to act (see 2 Nephi 10:23; Helaman 14:30), but you are
not free to choose the consequences. With absolute certainty, choices of good
and right lead to happiness and peace, while choices of sin and evil eventually
lead to unhappiness, sorrow, and misery” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1989, 94;
or Ensign, Nov. 1989, 75).
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