“Gathering and Sifting!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: D&C 37-40

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Opening Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EKAU43GmxY
Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "Gathering and Sifting"
III. Point I D&C 37
i. gathering
1. Gathering of elect to church
2. Physical gathering place Ohio
IV. Point II 38: Charter for Kirtland
i. Section parallels Moses 7, Book of Moses JST.
1. Soapbox: We now own the mss. Third renaissance of JST
2. Look to City of Enoch as a pattern
3. Peface to D&C 42, 43
ii. Pre-mortality. Seraph unborn spirits, Isaiah 6, TPJS 325
iii. God knows all thing--Sorry BY and BHR--because all present before eyes, TPJS 220, one eternal now
iv. Promised Land, freedom
v. Combinations: "secret chambers"
1. Ye hear of wars in far countries, and you say that there will soon be great wars in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land.
2. I tell you these things because of your prayers; wherefore, treasure up wisdom in your bosoms, lest the wickedness of men reveal these things unto you by their wickedness, in a manner which shall speak in your ears with a voice louder than that which shall shake the earth; but if ye are prepared ye shall not fear.
3. Little bit different in context
4. gathering for physical safety, the Utah War.
vi. Poor and rich, and care of poor
1. Esteem one another as one.
2. Behold, this I have given unto you as a parable, and it is even as I am.  I say unto you, be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine.
3. Wealth inequality, which broke up Church in 3 Nephi 6, learning/education
4. HC 2:300, 12 condemned for partiality, same language
vii. Endowed with power
V. Point III 39-40
i. James Coville. Baptist. Made a covenant he would obey, then got this revelation 39
1. Life and Mission of Christ summarized
2. Definition. "And this is my gospel—repentance and baptism by water, and then cometh the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost, even the Comforter, which showeth all things, and teacheth the peaceable things of the kingdom." AF 4
3. Knows heart, and knows Covill rejected Christ for fear of men and care of world
4. Baptized: People who meet Dali Lama, edifying experience, but no covenant.
5. Got to Ohio and get endowed
ii. Result. Backslid
1. Wadding up patriarchal blessing, and ramming down the garbage disposal
2. We do the same, just not as drastic. Late to church, not read scriptures but play podcasts at 2x fast.
3. " it remaineth with me to do with him as seemeth me good."
a. D&C 29, not all judgements given unto man
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient
1. gathering as a vehicle for the atonement
2. get blessings when gathered
3. JS gathering for temple work, pat of the covenant path,not just baptism, socializing
ii. Urban Renewal, Sustainable societies
1. How improve your neighborhood with these principles: unity and class clashes
2. 3 Nephi 6, church and government collapse
iii. Personal Covill
1. Fear of persecution, Cares of world, Parable of sower
2. Delicate with Converts "still tender"
a. GBH Apr., Oct 1997, New convert with a mean branch president, never came back.
b. TPJS, 242 " it is often the case that young members of this Church for want of better information, carry along with them their old notions of things, and sometimes fall into egregious errors. "
c. Noticeable changes:
i. Using different translations, paraphrases, eisegesis.
ii. using crucifixes and crosses
iii. Adopting practices that evolved from the murky tar-pits of the Apostasy
1. JET GA, Internal causes of apostasy
a. 1). The corrupting of the simple principles of the gospel by the admixture of the so-called philosophic systems of the times.
b. (2). Unauthorized additions to the ceremonies of the Church, and the introduction of vital changes in essential ordinances.
i. Approaches to Christmas and Easter
ii. Ash Wednesday, Lententide, Day of the Dead shrines (Lares)
c. (3). Unauthorized changes in Church organization and government.
d. Childcraft Library, Holidays and Customs. Localized traditions, but not part of Christ’s doctrine.
iv. Gathering and sifting, grafting and pruning, all part of Christ's work. Covenants, doctrine, all part of Christ's work: that's the point
 
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