“Redeeming the Dead!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: D&C 137-138

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Opening Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7eniQR3nUA

Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "Redeeming the Dead!"
i. Added in April NET 1976, insert PGP: JS-V, JFS-V, 1976, 1979 moved to D&C (Ensign August 1979)
III. Point I 137
i. Kirtland Temple
ii. Point, innocent people not barred from heaven. Alvin a perfect case study.
iii. Families
1. Heavenly Father, Adam, Abraham, and JS's families
iv. "Who would have"
1. Counterfactual choices
2. Alternate realities
3. Modal logic (Leibniz, etc)
IV. Point II 138
i. More info about temple work
ii. Breakdown of revelation
1. Thinking about atonement (use of discretionary time, ill at time) cf. Enos and pondering with earbuds
2. Mind led to 1 Peter 3-4
3. Pondered and got revelation
a. Saw righteous dead gathered
i. Great ones in OT
ii. Eve and women
iii. Book of Mormon prophets
iv. This dispensation (my father Hyrum nice touch and detail)
b. Savior came to them
c. Did not go to wicked
4. Wondered about problem: ministry for 3 years, not successful, but 3 days and successful?
a. Wondered, pondered (not doubted, not criticized)
b. Understood delegated ministers. Missionary work to the dead, "divine investitures of authority"
c. Separated (D&C 76, and celestial people, terrestrial, but not telestial)
5. Prophets in this dispensation
a. Continue work in afterlife
b. were prepared in pre mortality
6. Dead "paid penalty for transgression" vs second change
7. MRB O 2018 testified of this section.
V. Point III
i. Second Chance Theory
1. Live it up and 1) deathbed repentance or 2) work for dead
a. Plato in Book II of Republic, live it up and then offer sacrifices
b. Indulgences
2. Family members who are not with the church, left, cooled, never joined, and concerned about separation
3. DHO April 2020, Wife
ii. Principles
1. We can't judge properly, but we do know some basics:
a. "And now, behold, I say unto you, never at any time have I declared from mine own mouth that they should return, for where I am they cannot come, for they have no power. But remember that all my judgments are not given unto men. D&C 29:29 - 30
2. Premeditated Repentance
a. JEF O 2000, RGS O 1994
b. Intentional sin
3. Elder Neal A. Maxwell, The Seventh Commandment: A Shield, Ensign (CR), November 2001, p.78
a. So sobering is all of the foregoing that what follows needs to be said, and I do not hesitate to say it. The revelations tell us that commensurate with their own sins, unrepentant sinners must suffer even as [Jesus] did for ours, as they one day personally experience the full justice of God (see D&C 19:16-18).
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient
1. More about Christ's atonement:
a. Resurrection
b. Atonement accepted after death in these circumstances
c. We don't know all
2. Work for dead glorious message
3. Adding Protestant Hymns, but what about Redeeming the Dead, Saviors on Mt. Zion?
ii. Second Coming
1. Premeditated sin, premeditated procrastination
2. foolishness
iii. Expansive influence of Christ's mission--Christ, that's the point.
 

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