Reading 1 – Isaiah 11:11-12
Reading 2 – Daniel 2:44-45
Reading 3 – Read the heading to Doctrine and Covenants 20
(beginning "Revelation on Church Organization and Government")
Reading 4 – Then-Elder Gordon B. Hinckley said: “This day of
organization was, in effect, a day of commencement, the graduation for Joseph
from ten years of remarkable schooling. It had begun with the incomparable
vision in the grove in the spring of 1820, when the Father and the Son appeared
to the fourteen-year-old boy. It had continued with the tutoring from Moroni,
with both warnings and instructions given on multiple occasions. Then there was
the translation of the ancient record, and the inspiration, the knowledge, the
revelation that came from that experience. There was the bestowal of divine
authority, the ancient priesthood again conferred upon men by those who were
its rightful possessors—John the Baptist in the case of the Aaronic Priesthood,
and Peter, James, and John in the case of the Melchizedek. There were
revelations, a number of them, in which the voice of God was heard again, and
the channel of communication opened between man and the Creator. All of these
were preliminary to that historic April 6” (“150-Year Drama: A Personal View of
Our History,” Ensign, Apr. 1980, 11–12).
Reading 5 – Doctrine and Covenants 20:1
Reading 6 – Doctrine and Covenants 21:1-6,9
Reading 7 - President Harold B. Lee said, "Now the only safety we have as members
of this church is to do exactly what the Lord said to the Church in that day
when the Church was organized. We must learn to give heed to the words and
commandments that the Lord shall give through his prophet, 'as he receiveth
them, walking in all holiness before me; ... as if from mine own mouth, in all
patience and faith.' (D&C 21:4-5.)
There will be some things that take patience and faith. You may not like
what comes from the authority of the Church. It may contradict your political
views. It may contradict your social views. It may interfere with some of your
social life. But if you listen to these things, as if from the mouth of the
Lord himself, with patience and faith, the promise is that 'the gates of hell
shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers
of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and
his name's glory.' (D&C 21:6)." (CR, Oct 1970)
Reading 8 – Doctrine and Covenants 20:29-31
Reading 9 - Elder D. Todd Christofferson has said, “Justification
and sanctification are at the center of God’s gracious plan of salvation and
are the essence of our witness of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because of “the infinite virtue of His great atoning
sacrifice,” Jesus Christ can satisfy or “answer the ends of the law” on our
behalf. Pardon comes by the grace of Him who has satisfied the demands of
justice by His own suffering, “the just for the unjust, that he might bring us
to God” (1 Pet. 3:18). He removes our condemnation without removing the law. We
are pardoned and placed in a condition of righteousness with Him. We
become, like Him, without sin. We are sustained and protected by the law, by
justice. We are, in a word, justified.
Thus, we may appropriately speak of one who is justified as pardoned,
without sin, or guiltless.” (D. Todd
Christofferson, “Justification and Sanctification,” Ensign, June 2001, 18)
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