%PDF-1.6 % We are sparing no effort to give this venerable temple, which had become increasinglyvulnerable, a foundation that will withstand the forces of nature into the Millennium. Capture your enemies? This He desires foralltemple patrons, no matter where they live.. We need the temple and Jesus. Everything taught in the temple, through instruction and through the Spirit, increases our understanding of Jesus Christ. After examining the footnotes, I have decided that President Nelson only spoke about half of his message. Deep cleaning is more than doing an exterior wipe-down. Here are the final details about yourself to complete the picture: You are the youthful age of 25, your name is Hezekiah, you are king over Judah around 729 B.C., and your first activity, in light of the mandate, is to get the Temple of the Lord consecrated and ready for use, basically reopened for business, to use a colloquial phrase. See the example of the sacrament in the original post. "Temple ordinances and covenants are ancient. Interesting, I re-listened to that talk again yesterday. pic.twitter.com/46xjAsXs6X, Subscribe for free and get daily or weekly updates straight to your inbox, The three things you need to know everyday, Highlights from the last week to keep you informed. You will learn how to part the veil between heaven and earth, how to ask for Gods angels to attend you, and how better to receive direction from heaven. Whenever any kind of upheaval occurs in your life, the safest place to be spiritually is living inside your temple covenants! We are a nondogmatic, nonprofit foundation that promotes human potential and growth. Ordinances instituted in the heavens before the foundation of the world, in the priesthood, for the salvation of men, are not to be altered or changed. His plan of eternal progression is not complicated, and it honors your agency. Then, as we keep our covenants, He endows us with His healing, strengthening power. Here are five key areas: 1. Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures.. It is something I really want to dive into the next six months and how I can improve my own discipleship. President Dallin H. Oaks teaches about the need for a church, especially the restored Church of Jesus Christ (excerpts from the October 2021 general conference). Fifth, follow the current admonitions of the prophet, President Nelson. The center of "strengthening our faith and spiritual fortitude" is the temple, which increases understanding of Jesus Christ, binds us to Him through sacred priesthood covenantsand endows us with His healing, strengthening power. Think for a moment of the second great commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves. Are we locked up in bitterness or anger or envy or sorrow or greed? Why is President Nelson expressing urgency with our spiritual preparedness what do you see happening in the world around you that supports his haste? Wait, he told us to just keep going until we learn to love it. And ask God how you can proclaim the great things He has done so that all the world can see and glorify Him. This suggests that we have work to do to change our hearts and to become unified as the Saviors true disciples. President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency, greets Amos and Asher Geilman after the Sunday morning session of the 191st Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. 7:21). Meanwhile, the TBMs in my life hear it and are terrified about the coming perils and are doubling down. Thus, in the house of the Lord, we can make the same covenants with God that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob made. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. We may attend to rites and rituals and yet overlook the weightier matters such as brotherly kindness, honesty, mercy, virtue, and integrity. (Yes, Im repeating this from the first section!) They were the only ones who could do the job because they had obediently kept themselves pure in the sight of God. When renovations on the Salt Lake Temple are completed, there will be no safer place during an earthquake in the Salt Lake Valley than inside the temple. As you are true to your covenants made in the temple, you will be strengthened by His power. The Temple and Your Spiritual Foundation - President Russell M. Nelson APRIL 2021 TALKS Our Sorrow Shall Be Turned into Joy - Elder S. Mark Palmer The Grave Has No Victory - Reyna I. Aburto I Love to See the Temple - President Henry B. Eyring Defending Our Divinely Inspired Constitution - President Dallin H. Oaks 2:21-22; 1 Peter 2:4-5). Your email address will not be published. Finally, President Nelson told us to let God prevail in all aspects of our lives. Many times, cultural teachings have crept in and disguised themselves as doctrine, which leads to perplexing situations and uncomfortable course corrections. In the same way, each of us grows line upon line and precept upon precept individually we also grow collectively as a church unit. Using television and the Internet, CBN is proclaiming the Good News in 149 countries and territories, with programs and content in 67 languages. President Russell M. Nelson, 17th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke during the Sunday morning session of the October 2021 general conference. He noted that the Restoration of the gospel and church is an ongoing process, and the same applies to individual lives. Bless you heart! The problem is that you are in this same state that the Apostle Paul mentions, and that is that the things you do you dont want to do, and the things you dont want to do you do (Rom. It allows the Mormon sealings to be held hostage to the same standards. Does it need repairing? It is the Lord, our Savior Jesus Christ who wants us to come to the temple, to understand what we are being taught, to receive the blessings and power available by keeping the covenants we make, and to return again and again to strengthen ourselves and to offer the blessings of salvation to our family. (Matt. And like that vacant Temple, those ancestors had vacant hearts, unfilled by the presence of God, unwilling to communicate with the God of the Universe. Back in the Old Testament days, Jesus wasnt there to be the atonement, so the people had to sacrifice animals. Hezekiah and his entourage praised God in joyous worship because of what God did to cleanse the Temple of defilement. Elder Vaiangina Sikahema noted that hundreds and maybe thousands of young missionaries of the church from his native Tonga have been unable to return home at the end of their missionary service during the COVID-19 pandemic. Copyright 2023 Deseret News Publishing Company. The temple lies at the center of strengthening faith and spiritual fortitude because everything taught in the temple increases understanding of Jesus Christ. 28:40-29:9). They were set apart by God to do this spiritual act of service. https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Question:_Did_Joseph_Smith_make_up_the_temple_ordinances_or_borrow_them_from_an_earthly_source%3F. 3:16-17; 2 Cor. Copyright 2023 Deseret News Publishing Company. He delivered the message, accompanied by striking video and other images of his visit to the renovation site in May, during the 191st . And to each of you who has made temple covenants, I plead with you to seekprayerfully and consistentlyto understand temple covenants and ordinances. He can rid us . Please believe me when I say that when your spiritual foundation is built solidly upon Jesus Christ, you haveno need to fear. The masonic tokens and signs were made up a few hundred years ago. These Levites were told to go in and take out the defiled things (verse 4-5). We just need to be willing and obedient participants as we enter into the shadowy and cluttered sections of our soul and clean up our lives as He directs. If the Jewish people did not behave like a people meant to represent God - to be a kingdom of spiritual leaders, and a holy people (Exodus 19:6) - what value was the Temple? I believe that President Nelson has strong spiritual reasons for urging us to place temple worship and covenant keeping at the center of our spiritual lives. We are here to help and encourage you! Think of it as your personal, daily restoration, he said. And recognize that when you meet resistance it simply means that the adversary knows the good that is about to come of it. Now when the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord according to the directions of King David of Israel. Attendees walk into the Conference Center prior to the Sunday morning session of the 191st Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. Nobody changes the principles and [doctrine] of the Church except the Lord by revelation. I literally left feeling like he had just told me that I really can't trust the scriptures, the prophet, or the Lord. Discover God's peace now. October 10, 2021 The Temple and Your Spiritual Foundation We arrived to Maui a few days ago and have spent every evening on the beach just outside our condo. The leaders of this church constantly seek direction from our Savior for guidance on making temples accessible to all members of the Lords restored church and to ensure that the truths are accurately taught and translated in every temple and language around the world. The Lord has declared that despite todays unprecedented challenges, those who build their foundations upon Jesus Christ, and have learned how to draw upon His power, need not succumb to the unique anxieties of this era. And we can receive the same blessings!". Elder Ulisses Soares teaches how we can follow the Saviors example of compassion (excerpts from the October 2021 general conference). Joseph Fielding Smith (1976),308]. Press J to jump to the feed. Jointly published by the Deseret News and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, its content supports the doctrines, principles and practices of the Church. President Russell M. Nelson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks Oct. 3, 2021, during the Sunday morning session of the 191st Semiannual General Conference, which was held in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. Elder Dale G. Renlund, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks during the Sunday morning session of the 191st Semiannual General Conference in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. Thus was one of my favorites talks. Make temple covenants your goal and strive to live worthy to enter His holy house. Those who try to center everything on the temple and its ordinances might like to read Jeremiah 7. There's even more in this talk, but this post is already long. God made it possible for you to know. I'm going to give several quotes from this talk, with commentary on each (emphasis in the original). Because he knows our potential perfectly, he will take us to places we never imagined ourselves. Seriously, the sacrament is my example of how things DON'T change. He could have claimed that his relationship with God was strictly personal and stayed tight-lipped about it. Lets go back to the story of Hezekiah. It really blesses my life to get that kind of insightful advice! Now is the time to develop that relationship and that understanding. He asked listeners to consider how firm their spiritual foundations are and what reinforcement their spiritual lives and understanding need. Your diligent efforts to do so will reinforce and strengthen your spiritual foundation. This is His Church, restored to help you fulfill your divine destiny. President Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, tours the renovation work at tours the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City on Saturday, May 22, 2021. God is pleased when we proclaim Christ in our lives, as Hezekiah and his cohorts did. Do you believe there is strength and power found in the temple? 6:16; Eph. President Nelsons counsel is clear and direct, yet he empowers us. Rather than think past temple procedures were wrong or needed correction consider that our collective latter-day understanding of the temple grows line upon line, precept upon precept. Elder David A. Bednar teaches how honoring our covenants arms us with power of God in great glory (excerpts from the October 2021 general conference). It is imperative that we daily dedicate ourselves to the Lord and offer our bodies, our temples, as instruments of righteousness. The heavens will open and angels will attend. We look to the blood of the Lamb. Error: There was an internal error submitting your form. Share your prayer requests, receive prayer and pray for others! Spiritual doors will open. Your trust in God, your growing relationship with Christ, and your obedience and application of God's Word are all crucial to building a solid foundation of faith. In like manner, it is now time that we each implement extraordinary measuresperhaps measures we have never taken beforeto strengthen ourpersonal spiritualfoundations. So helpful! If we have experienced a radical rededication to our Savior, then we need to proclaim it loudly and joyously as Hezekiah did. The Lord instructed Adam and Eve to pray, make covenants, and offer sacrifices. Let temple worship become part of the bedrock of your marriage. Lets make a covenant, as Hezekiah did (verse 10) that we will clear the path for the Lord of Hosts to enter in and sup with us and show us what to do for His sake. Actually, the plan for temples was established even before the foundation of the world," President Russell M. Nelson says. In his first month of service, King Hezekiah reopened the doors of the Temple and repaired them (verse 3). Its where you put things that are broken or unused or ugly. etc.). Now, lets go back to you and me. I think this could possibly be seen as blame avoidance, or in other words, throwing God under the bus. The Conference Center during the 191st General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. Elder Gerrit W. Gong, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, with his wife Sister Susan Gong waves to attendees after the Sunday morning session of the 191st General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. Exact time unknown (5:1-2) 8. I highly recommend every member read this talk carefully, thoroughly, and critically. It might work for a while, but eventually you find yourself unable to keep up. He encouraged church members to recognize that the gospel requires some things to happen sequentially, including covenants and ordinances, miracles and repentance. They also went one step further and made sure that every item that should be there in the Temple was there and that each piece was clean and ready for use (verse 18-19). I don't buy it. The Church News is an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Get more than a Sunday sermon. Primary General President Camille N. Johnson invited listeners to allow Jesus Christ to author their stories over writing comfortable narratives for themselves. the University of Utah honored President Nelson, President Nelsons 97th birthday on Sept. 9, repeated, miraculous tutoring prepared Joseph Smith, first post on his Spanish Instagram account, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and United Negro College Fund, Read more October 2021 general conference coverage. Then, as we keep our covenants, He endows us with His healing, strengthening power. We arrivedtoMaui a few days ago and have spent every evening on the beach just outside our condo. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. Ask the Lord God to help you discover what defilements in your own heart need to go. I think this is an appeal to fear. PRESCHOOL: Starting as early as 18-months old in our toddler program, we provide a secure and loving place for growth and transition. 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