Joseph Smith – Prophet of the Restoration

Those who focus on the mistakes of a great man will miss the mark (He demonstrated with Peter and then stated that many do the same thing with Joseph Smith)

Four great truths restored in the Sacred Grove:

1. First, Joseph learned that God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, are two separate, distinct beings.
• What would have been the motivational power of the Savior’s submission of His will to the Father if the Father and the Son were the same being and in reality the Son was merely following His own will under a different name?
2. The second great truth Joseph Smith discovered was that the Father and the Son have glorified bodies of flesh and bones.
3. The third truth that Joseph Smith learned was that God still speaks to man today – that the heavens are not closed.
4. The fourth truth that Joseph Smith learned was that the full and complete Church of Jesus Christ was not then upon the earth.
• Thankfully nobody need discover this truth anymore because the full and complete church of Jesus Christ is now upon the earth again.

Yet sorrowfully, on occasion, some are willing to set aside the precious gospel truths restored by Joseph Smith because they get diverted on some historical issue or some scientific hypothesis not central to their exaltation. They exchange the absolute certainty of the Restoration for a doubt, and in that process they fall into the trap of losing faith in the many things they do know because of a few things they do not know.