“Easter!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: D&C Easter

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Opening Hymn: https://youtu.be/VlR9AAYMa3A?si=0D6YStdby1hB5Hx1
Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "Easter"
i. Easter and Christmas, holidays that developed through the great apostasy. Wikipedia, Encyc Britannica online or World Book, Catholic Encyclopedia
ii. Many languages Easter and Passover same work
1. Hebrew Pesach PAY-sach guttural)
2. NT Peshka 28x, bad translation. NKJV, KJV 2K
3. German and English have different words, Our word comes from Germanic, Easter or east, or Sunrise
iii. 3 Nephi, D&C not mentioned. BOM, contains the fullness of the gospel, Christmas and East do not appear once; Easter 3x in JSP. Passion Week, holy Week, Palm Sunday, never.
iv. Easter every week, with sacrament
1. 1 Co. 11:26: For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
2. 3 N 18; d&c 59
III. Point I Christ
i. Three pillars of eternity
1. Creation
2. Fall
3. Atonement
ii. Divine Sonship
IV. Point II Covenants
i. This is different than a commitment or an altar call
ii. PH ordinance, and our express avowal that we will comply
1. Robotic habit, do it because were; supposed to; social pressure and acculturation. But do it without "taking thought."
2. Prid, narcissisms, and desire incoherent autonomy--we want the effects without the cause, the harvest without planting.
3. Agency is a priciple, so is accountability, so is relaity. Need toc omply with external reality to get blessings. Covennats align us to Christ who created the world.
V. Point III. Second Coming
i. "lively members" D&C 92:2
ii. "And whoso treasureth up my word, shall not be deceived, for the Son of Man shall come" JS-Matthew 1:37
1. JS M (Matt. 24) then
2. Matt 25 Virgins, Talents, Sheep and Goats
iii. General Conference
1. Paravble of Wise and foolish Virgins
2. RMN: We do not know the day or the hour of His coming. But I do know that the Lord is prompting me to urge us to get ready for that “great and dreadful day.”
3. JS: APril 6, 1843: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/discourse-6-april-1843-b-as-reported-by-james-burgess/1#full-transcript
4. Christ says no man knoweth the day or the hour when the Son of Man cometh. This is a sweeping argument for sectarianism against Latter day ism.
5. Did Christ speak this as a general principle throughout all generations Oh no he spoke in the present tense no man that was then liveing upon the footstool of God knew the day or the hour
6. But he did not say that there was no man throughout all generations that should not know the day or the hour. No for this would be in flat contradiction with other scripture for the prophet says that God will do nothing but what he will reveal unto his Servants the prophets. Consequently if it is not made known to the Prophets it will not come to pass;
7. again we find Paul 1st of Thesslonians 5th Chapter expressly points out the characters who shall not know the day nor the hour when the Son of Man cometh for says he it will come upon them as the theif or unawares.
8. Who are they they are the children of darkness or night. But to the Saints he says yea are not of the night nor of darkness of that that day should come upon you unawares.
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient: It all atonement. Christ is the point.
 
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