“People, Procedures, and You!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: D&C 51-57

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Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "People, Procedures, and You!"
i. General revelations on procedures
ii. Commandments to people
III. Point I Goings on of Church
i. 51 Bishop’s duties
ii. 52 Missionaries
iii. 53 Sidney Gilbert
iv. 54 Consecrations and dissension (Autopsy of a deceased church; Anatomy of a Revived Church)
1. How to get out of order
2. Church and tithing lawsuits
v. 55 WW Phelps
vi. 56 Ezra Thayer and consecration
vii. 57 Missionaries and "center place"
IV. Point II Procedures
i. Principles of Consecration
1. appoint unto this people their portions, every man equal according to his family, according to his circumstances and his wants and needs. 51:3
a. circumstances
b. wants
i. "wants are just" 82:17
ii. Be in want, needy. Could be a parallelism
iii. Optional things
c. needs. Necessities, economizing
ii. Rich and Poor 56: Two Types of Poor
1. Rich: Wo unto you rich men, that will not give your substance to the poor, for your riches will canker your souls; and this shall be your lamentation in the day of visitation, and of judgment, and of indignation: The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and my soul is not saved!
2. Wicked poor: Wo unto you poor men, whose hearts are not broken, whose spirits are not contrite, and whose bellies are not satisfied, and whose hands are not stayed from laying hold upon other men's goods, whose eyes are full of greediness, and who will not labor with your own hands!
3. Pure Poor: But blessed are the poor who are pure in heart, whose hearts are broken, and whose spirits are contrite, for they shall see the kingdom of God coming in power and great glory unto their deliverance; for the fatness of the earth shall be theirs.
4. One class of rich, two classes of poor. Confusion between two types of poor.
iii. "As if for years"
1. "And the hour and the day is not given unto them, wherefore let them act upon this land as for years, and this shall turn unto them for their good. 51:17
2. Turnover and Autopsy of a Deceased Church
3. Plant sequoias. Think and act long-term.
4. Mobility, transience, and ward hopping. Act like a temporary ward situation is a vacation, or spiritual lay-over. Not good. throw you’re whole heart into wards
iv. Entwined Macro-trends
1. I will cut my work short in righteousness 52:11, Rom 9:28
2. I, the Lord, will hasten the city in its time 52:43
3. "space of not may years"
4. "whole earth in commotion"
5. SKW, Quicken your pace
6. russell M. Nelson and 2nd Coming 2x
7. Quick, Chaotic Confluence
v. 52 Pattern in all things
1. JRH Parable of the Homemade Shirt: https://broadcast.lds.org/WWLT/2008/WWLT_2008_02_00_RighteousPosterity_Complete_00383_eng_.pdf
a. Adapt to circumstances, more flexibility, without excesses
2. Type of language used. Pres. Donald Trump and Martin Luther be acerbic, crass, and vulgar.
3. RMN Peacemakers needed.
vi. 54: Dissolution
1. Order breaks up
2. Flee the land
3. Sometimes things in the church get "beyond salvage"
4. Autopsy of a deceased Church
vii. 56. Disobedience
1. "Behold, thus saith the Lord unto my people—you have many things to do and to repent of; for behold, your sins have come up unto me, and are not pardoned, because you seek to counsel in your own ways. And your hearts are not satisfied. And ye obey not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness." 14-15
a. Uniformity and adaptation; aberrations and unauthorized practices.
b. Golden calves, steadying the ark, changing things outside of bounds.
c. ETB "There were so many kinds of problems to handle. In one area so many false practices had slipped into local Church units during their years of isolation from headquarters that Ezra lamented that if the war had persisted much longer, there would have been "crowns and crosses" on every pulpit"
d. TSM"One of the bishops had had a statue of Christ installed in a recessed area in the chapel. During the sacrament service, a light would come on and illuminate the statue. The stake president had not been successful in getting the bishop to remove the statue, and the Brethren had to worry about that kind of departure from approved practices.
e. EQS, wanted me to do ministering interviews; bishop wanted me to write the ward history.
viii. Lord commands and revokes
1. Idea revelations are Platonic pronouncements, mathematical proofs. Periodic table. Are directions from God, but can change due to circumstances.
2. For example, Great grandfather Andrew Jensen, called to serve in Denmark, but due to WWI, reassigned to Northern States. Called to Portugal, but had visa issues for one month. 2 weeks in MTC, and two weeks in Miami. Covid 19 reassignments.
3. Temple changes, Texas
4. TPJS, 256
a. God said, "Thou shalt not kill;" at another time He said, "Thou shalt utterly destroy." This is the principle on which the government of heaven is conducted-by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed.
V. Point III People
i. Section 52 list of names, but each name is a person, with a calling and a mission
ii. Look at yourself: if your name in D&C 52, what would it say?
iii. Patriarchal blessing?
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient
1. Magnifying callings connects to atonement
a. D&C 53: Behold, I say unto you, my servant Sidney Gilbert, that I have heard your prayers; and you have called upon me that it should be made known unto you, of the Lord your God, concerning your calling and election in the church, which I, the Lord, have raised up in these last days.
b. 2Behold, I, the Lord, who was crucified for the sins of the world, give unto you a commandment that you shall forsake the world.
2. BKP Elder Boyd K. Packer, The Mediator, Ensign (CR), May 1977, p.54
a. This truth is the very root of Christian doctrine. You may know much about the gospel as it branches out from there, but if you only know the branches and those branches do not touch that root, if they have been cut free from that truth, there will be no life nor substance nor redemption in them.
ii. NAM (Second COming Quotient):
1. God will also “hasten” His work . He will also “shorten” the last days “for the elect’s sake”; hence, there will be a compression of events. Furthermore, “all things shall be in commotion”. Only those in the process of becoming the men and women of Christ will be able to keep their spiritual balance. Brethren, may we “walk by faith” and, if necessary, even on our knees!
2. Stability is in Christ--and that's the point

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