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Sherilyn Farnes returns to discuss “infuriating unfairness” as it relates to the Saints in Missouri and Zion’s Camp. We also discuss enduring the Lord’s chastening with patience and how testimony or transgressions affect multiple generations.
How are the lives of Lydia and Edward Partridge like ours? Join Sherilyn Farnes as we discuss Doctrine and Covenants 98-101 and the many trials the Missouri Saints face while Joseph is over 800 miles away in Kirtland yet receives revelations for their day and ours. The Lord uses the evil actions of others to create a Zion-hearted people, which is a message for the early Saints and today.
Were the early Saints required to observe their covenants by sacrifice? Dr. Black returns to explain how the Saints are preparing for temple covenants and how the Lord tempers their expectations of Zion. We also discuss how the Lord is anxious to bless the Saints with temple blessings, power, and protection.
Have you ever received an assignment yet didn’t have the skills to complete it? Join Dr. Susan Easton Black as we discuss Joseph, Hyrum, and others were chastened for not building a temple and how the pattern for becoming like the Lord is established. Also, Dr. Black teaches how the temple amplifies our spiritual gifts and how the Saints can stop living beneath our privileges.
Does the Lord want His children comfortable, or does He want us to be like Him? Dr. Griffith instructs us how imitation is a form of worship and how we are to become a kingdom of Priests and Priestesses and inherit all that the “Father hath.” After a chastisement, Joseph is taught of our eternal nature and destiny.
Is our house in order? Don't get discouraged! Dr. Casey Griffiths returns and shares the Lord's rebuke of Joseph and others in Section 93, but as we pattern ourselves after the Savior and learn "grace to grace," as He did, we too will become like our Heavenly Parents.
Dr. Woodworth returns to discuss Joseph's desire for forgiveness, how the Lord magnifies each member's gifts, how the Saints are instructed to study revelations, and out of "good books" to serve one another better.
What guiding truths that guide decision-making can you find in Section 89? Dr. Jed Woodworth opens up the Word of Wisdom and shows how the Lord rebukes without rebuking. Dr. Woodworth illustrates new historical relevance in a section that addresses more than health and clarifies spiritual truths in a groundbreaking section for health and obedience codes in the Christian world.
Can you explain the importance of baptism or marriage in one sentence? Can you describe the significance of the temple endowment in one sentence? Understanding the temple endowment can be more complicated. Still, Dr. Anthony Sweat continues shares how the School of the Prophets enabled the Savior to reveal Himself to a company of endowed priests and priestesses and teaches the purpose of the endowment--a purpose you can share in a sentence!
How do we prepare for heaven on earth and what is the other Comforter? Dr. Anthony Sweat returns to discuss Section 88 and how we can become a celestial people. Learning from "The Olive Leaf," the Saints learn how to prepare the world, and themselves, for the return of the Savior.