From the Bulletin
“Combined with the Spirit of the Lord, the Book of Mormon is the greatest single tool which God has given us to convert the world.” (President Ezra Taft Benson, “A New Witness for Christ”, October 1984 General Conference)
Sacrament Service
First Speaker
A missionary that just returned from the Washington Redmond Mission. Might have just been the mission that contains Redmond.
2 Nephi 2:25
25 Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.
1 John 4:8
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 Corinthians 10:13
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
CPR - Church, Pray, Read
Next Speaker
“President Joseph F. Smith described the priesthood as ‘the power of God delegated to man by which man can act in the earth for the salvation of the human family.’ Other leaders have taught us that the priesthood ‘is the consummate power on this earth. It is the power by which the earth was created.’ The scriptures teach that ‘this same Priesthood, which was in the beginning, shall be in the end of the world also’ (Moses 6:7). Thus, the priesthood is the power by which we will be resurrected and proceed to eternal life.”
“Men and women are equal in God’s eyes and in the eyes of the Church, but equal does not mean they are the same. The responsibilities and divine gifts of men and women differ in their nature but not in their importance or influence. Our Church doctrine places women equal to and yet different from men. God does not regard either gender as better or more important than the other.”(Elder M. Russell Ballard, “Men and Women in the Work of the Lord”, April 2014 General Conference)
“The system of sacrifice expressly enjoined in the Mosaic code was essentially a prototype of the sacrificial death to be accomplished by the Savior on Calvary. The blood of countless altar victims, slain by Israel's priests in the course of prescribed ritual, ran throughout the centuries from Moses to Christ as a prophetic flood in similitude of the blood of the Son of God appointed to be shed as an expiatory sacrifice for the redemption of the race.” (James E Talmage, “Jesus the Christ”, P46)
“The Higher or Melchizedek Priesthood was held by the patriarchs from Adam to Moses. Aaron was ordained to the priest's office, as were his sons; but that Moses held superior authority is abundantly shown (Numb. 12:1-8). After Aaron's death his son Eleazar officiated in the authority of the Lesser Priesthood; and even Joshua had to take counsel and authority from him (Numb. 27:18-23). From the ministry of Moses to that of Jesus Christ, the Lesser Priesthood alone was operative upon the earth, excepting only the instances of specially delegated authority of the higher order such as is manifest in the ministrations of certain chosen prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and others.” (James E Talmage, “Jesus the Christ”, P780)
Doctrine and Covenants 132:8
8 Behold, mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion.
Hebrews 5:1-4
1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
“That scene has been reenacted one way or another a thousand times, a hundred thousand times, in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—a fear, a need, a call, a danger, a sickness, an accident, a death. I have been a participant in such moments. I have beheld the power of God manifest in my home and in my ministry. I have seen evil rebuked and the elements controlled. I know what it means to have mountains of difficulty move and ominous Red Seas part. I know what it means to have the destroying angel “pass by them.” To have received the authority and to have exercised the power of “the Holy Priesthood, after the Order of the Son of God,” is as great a blessing for me and for my family as I could ever hope for in this world. And that, in the end, is the meaning of the priesthood in everyday terms—its unequaled, unending, constant capacity to bless.” (Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, “Our Most Distinguishing Feature”, April 2005 General Conference)
Sunday School
The Plan of Salvation
What Is the Difference Between Sin and Transgression?
Elder Dallin H. Oaks explained the difference between sin and transgression: “[The] contrast between a sin and a transgression reminds us of the careful wording in the second article of faith: ‘We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression’ (italics added). It also echoes a familiar distinction in the law. Some acts, like murder, are crimes because they are inherently wrong. Other acts, like operating without a license, are crimes only because they are legally prohibited. Under these distinctions, the act that produced the Fall was not a sin—inherently wrong—but a transgression—wrong because it was formally prohibited. These words are not always used to denote something different, but this distinction seems meaningful in the circumstances of the Fall” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1993, 98; or Ensign, Nov. 1993, 73)
Elders Quorum
My lesson - Chapter 10, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Ezra Taft Benson.
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