David Journal

Tag: Moroni

  • Gifts to teach

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    I don’t often consider the implications of the gift to teach words of wisdom and the gift to teach words of knowledge. The gift is not simply to have them, to understand them, or to speak them—it is to transmit them (wisdom and/or knowledge) to the understanding of others.

  • Notwithstanding their hardness

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    And now, my beloved son, notwithstanding their hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the kingdom of…

  • Redemption cometh to them that have no law

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    This is the opposite of a works-based theology. Of course we provide baptism for any that we can identify who lived long enough to have been accountable but if we understand the doctrine we would also understand that they will only be held accountable to whatever portion of law they had been exposed to (which…

  • “The rest of the Lord”

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    I am fascinated by the way Mormon introduces his discourse. He talks of being permitted to speak into them which makes me think this was after the period where the spirit constrained him not to preach. He also says: I would speak unto you that are of the church, that are the peaceable followers of…

  • “As oft as they repented”

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    Christ is the center of the gospel but the defining feature of His church is this statement that as often as the people of the church sincerely repented they were forgiven. That tells us an important characteristic of the plan of happiness—it is built around the premise that our weaknesses and shortcomings do not define…

  • Renewing covenants (part 2)

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    We take the bread in remembrance of the body of Christ and express a willingness to take His name upon us. We take the water in remembrance of the blood of Christ and witness that we do always remember Him. Until today I never considered that the body is what Christ laid down to break…

  • Renewing covenants (part 1)

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    We renew our covenants by witnessing a willingness to take the name of Christ upon us and always remember Him and keep His commandments.

  • The through line

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    I’m seeing the theme of Aaronic priesthood responsibility. The Aaronic priesthood holds the keys of the ministering of angels and of the gospel of repentance; the office of their (angels) ministry is to call men to repentance and do the work of the covenants of the Father; priests and teachers were ordained to preach “repentance…

  • Apostolic Ordination

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    Somehow I had thought about the words in Moroni 2 that Christ spoke to His disciples as something He said to the group like an explanation of the power He would give them. I realize today that it was something He said to each of them as He set them apart for the ministry. In…

  • Wandering alone

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    I wonder if Moroni was constantly on the move and kept the minimum resources with him necessary to write or if he would set up a secluded base of operations and stayed in one place so long as he could remain undetected. Either case would have been a hard way to live.