Tag: Doctrine and Covenants
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1 May 2008
D&C 65Even before reading that Joseph declared that this revelation was a prayer my thought as I read it was that it was a prayer to the Lord.
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30 April 2008
D&C 64In 1831 the Lord told the people that he intended to retain a church presence in Kirtland for 5 years and that after that any church members would be welcome to leave for Zion.
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29 April 2008
D&C 63Verse 15 is a warning to sinners that if they do not repent before their sin is generally known they will be remembered by the people for that sin even after they have repented. The Lord promises to make some things known not by way of commandment because many do not keep the commandments.…
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28 April 2008
D&C 62You are not done until you are done, though you may be blessed for whatever you have done so far. In other words, part is not all. Our goal is to get to the land of Zion, not just journey in that direction and be happy with some progress.
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27 April 2008
D&C 61The day will come in the last days when it shall not be safe for any man upon the waters. The waters are apparently getting progressively less safe for man. I thought it interesting that the elders were called to leave everything which was not necessary with Sidney Gilbert who was an agent of…
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26 April 2008
D&C 60Those who are called to preach the gospel are specifically commanded not to idle away their time. Our young missionaries should probably be reminded of that. I know there was too much of that taking place on my mission (myself some, and I observed others even worse about that).
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25 April 2008
D&C 59The saints – those who have obeyed the gospel – are promised “commandments not a few.” Next they are counseled to keep the sabbath day hold with the promise that the good things of the earth would be theirs and the insight that all the earth is for the benefit of man and that…
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24 April 2008
D&C 58All the men were commanded to preach wherever they went. They were not to simply travel from place to place, but to declare the word as they went.
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23 April 2008
D&C 57I had never realized that the Lord said in revelation that the church should obtain money through business operations for the furthering of the work (as they do now with many media and business holdings which are both for-profit and taxable) but here he gives such instructions to Edward Partridge, Sidney Gilbert, and William…
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22 April 2008
D&C 56Wo unto you poor men . . . 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.