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- ...y Elder Hyde, and also in the Frontier Guardian. If as good a man as Jesus Christ went to hell, we may well expect that a wicked and ungodly man will go ther ...g like another people; nation state, kingdom, or society? They never will. Christ and Satan never can be friends. Light and darkness always remain opposites.22 KB (4,189 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...oom for improvement, upon all these principles, upon all the attributes of divinity, and upon everything that is good and Godlike. ...sessor of the whole; he inherits all things; he is a joint heir with Jesus Christ in the inheritance of the earth, and all the fulness thereof. Can you make30 KB (5,761 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...ere will be no difference in things only in what will relate to ourselves. Jesus is said to be the author of our salvation, having learned certain things, a ...ld Apostles said, it is eternal life, to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent.27 KB (5,162 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...desire all the time to say, as I plainly phrase it, "How do you do brother Christ, and how do you do brother devil? Walk in and take breakfast with me." ...ah, I have found some wood ready cut to my hand." That is being one out of Christ.40 KB (7,663 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...o Their Missions Without Purse or Scrip—The Lord Deals with the Saints—Jesus Their President—Satan Angry]] ...ort, happiness, joy, and peace must be received from the fountain head. As Jesus says, "In the world ye shall have tribulation, but in me ye have peace," so43 KB (8,315 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...O THEIR MISSIONS WITHOUT PURSE OR SCRIP—THE LORD DEALS WITH THE SAINTS—JESUS THEIR PRESIDENT—SATAN ANGRY ...O THEIR MISSIONS WITHOUT PURSE OR SCRIP—THE LORD DEALS WITH THE SAINTS—JESUS THEIR PRESIDENT—SATAN ANGRY34 KB (6,501 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...o Their Missions Without Purse or Scrip—The Lord Deals with the Saints—Jesus Their President—Satan Angry]] ...Gospel preached to them, whether they desire to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, to obey his counsels, and live to his glory, denying themselves of worldly8 KB (1,570 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...said, "O sinner, I seal you up to eternal damnation, in the name of Jesus Christ." He repeated it three times over, and concluded by saying, "O sinner, may ...ecisely as preached by the Apostle Peter and by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. These doctrines I was pleased to hear. I believed them and received them i38 KB (7,244 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- So it is with ourselves in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we have to learn by the things that take place around us and act in the st ...to now, and they are full of military science as the priests were full of divinity. But remember that but a little stone from {{page break|326|top}} the sling17 KB (3,127 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...his is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." ...is,—if he will search diligently his own heart—if the declarations of Jesus and the Apostles be true—he will realize that he has not eternal life; fo36 KB (6,972 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- It is good for those who profess to be believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and to practise his doctrines, to keep his principles before them. It is g .... All men should study to learn the nature of mankind, and to discern that divinity inherent in them. A spirit and power of research is planted within, yet the27 KB (4,981 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...desire to be dictated by the Spirit of the living God. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established upon the earth in the year 1830. Had i ...ll are required to have the same faith in the one as the other. But if the divinity of the Book of Mormon does not rest upon as sure a foundation as the Bible,59 KB (10,547 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...d have had the rights and privileges of receiving the revelations of Jesus Christ to guide and direct them in the path of truth and holiness, so that they co ...he spirit stays with it, which gives us an opportunity of doing good. That divinity within us needs food from the Fountain from which it emanated. It is not of29 KB (5,478 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- Who can define the divinity of man? Only those who understand the true principles of eternity—the pri ...n, enjoying the smiles and approbation of our Father and God, and of Jesus Christ our elder brother."7 KB (1,348 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...for instance, the Rationalists or Freethinkers, who deny the existence and divinity of the Gods that we believe in. But so far from their believing their own t ...have more or less truth, it is the business of the Elders of this Church (Jesus, their elder brother, being at their head,) to gather up all the truths in33 KB (6,050 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...of God. Such people I call unbelievers. They tell about believing in Jesus Christ, but they might as well talk about birds understanding the Hebrew language. ...dge of. This brings us under deep obligation to one another, to angels, to Jesus, and to God our Father. We have to live close to the Lord, in order to have23 KB (4,391 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...nd no person can reveal the things of God, but by the revelations of Jesus Christ. When we hear a man that can speak of heavenly things, and present them to ...l life, is within that person who lives so as to bear properly the yoke of Jesus. The heavens are open to such persons, and they see and understand things t15 KB (2,938 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...ons are placed upon these things, we shall either go out of the kingdom of Christ and miss being exalted sons of God, or will see our error, repent of our fo ...guided by the Almighty. Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them day by day in thei26 KB (4,780 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...rant. They may be very well informed upon certain principles pertaining to divinity, and upon others be ignorant. Their dispositions are also different from yo ...e every good act you perform to our Father in heaven, nor to his Son Jesus Christ, nor to the Holy Ghost; neither would you attribute every evil act of a man17 KB (3,321 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...ly, and reveal unto us precisely his mind, so that we may have the mind of Christ, and know precisely what to do. ...nd the things of the world. How shall we understand these things? With the divinity that is within us we should love divine things. Our spirits are born of our25 KB (4,859 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...tempting him, saying, "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and wit ...on the human face we look upon the image of our Father and God; there is a divinity in each person male and female; there is the heavenly, there is the divine7 KB (1,291 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...o bring forth the Zion of God and gather all things in one, even in Christ Jesus.21 KB (3,962 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- The Gospel of Jesus Christ is perhaps one of the most comprehensive subjects that mankind can reflect ...and of leading men of every grade—they wonder at it, as they wondered at Jesus when he was upon the earth; they wonder what this state of things will grow36 KB (6,661 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...OWLEDGE, CORRECTLY APPLIED, THE TRUE SOURCE OF WEALTH AND POWER—UNITY OF JESUS AND HIS FATHER—MIRACLES—SLAVERY—TRUE CHARITY, ETC. ...OWLEDGE, CORRECTLY APPLIED, THE TRUE SOURCE OF WEALTH AND POWER—UNITY OF JESUS AND HIS FATHER—MIRACLES—SLAVERY—TRUE CHARITY, ETC.29 KB (5,450 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...law. But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." He feels as Job did. "For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He sha ...ation of heaven, that we may be saved in his kingdom, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.26 KB (4,927 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...d are now being preached as a witness by the Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unto all nations, in order that every inhabitant of th ...of the truth of {{page break|43|top}} the words of the Savior, and of the divinity of this work. There is no other people with whom I am acquainted who so str28 KB (5,276 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...who stand at the head should know for themselves concerning this work, its divinity and the purposes of God connected with it, but that every member, however h ...could perceive evidences of His superiority over ordinary men, and of His divinity. But did Pilate? Did the Pharisees and Scribes? In the eyes of the latter c36 KB (6,802 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...urch of Christ Without the Priesthood—Responsibility of the Priesthood—Christ Coming in this Generation—Great Changes and Judgements Approaching—Exho ...tian era. We have no declarations in this Book, that about 400 years after Christ there should be a church or people on the earth that should collect togethe29 KB (5,471 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...flesh, but predictions that were to be fulfilled after the first coming of Christ down until the end of time. The book is full of these predictions. Would yo ...f the Church, and built upon apostles who were also revelators, as well as Jesus, and who received their revelations by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost36 KB (6,709 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...ill be closed, his heart will be hardened, and to all the evidences of the divinity of these things he will be impenetrable. ...one claim and some another. But the fact remains that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as it is organized in these mountains, has had the ap28 KB (5,080 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...n and every woman should enter into that relationship. They believe in the divinity of that first command, that the human race were destined to multiply and re ...ance and support, comfort and solace from the conceptions which pertain to divinity; and growing out from this fundamental religious idea or sentiment and esta28 KB (5,070 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...{{page break|341|top}} who love the appearing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Were it not for this hope, were it not for this spirit, were it not for th ...and that causes our hopes and aspirations to reach within the vail, where Christ our forerunner has gone, and we feel convinced that there is an eternal fit36 KB (6,856 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...the earth but what is, more or less, enlightened by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus. It is said of him, that he is the light of the world. He lighteth every ma ...rested upon him to such a degree as to manifest to him that Jesus was the Christ.32 KB (6,204 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...o idolatry; and they called him a "babbler," because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection. He disputed in the synagogue with the Jews and with t ...l glasses to reveal them to the vision of finite man, possess a portion of divinity, a portion of infinite power, knowledge, goodness and truth, and that these31 KB (5,725 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...when we meet with the Saints, or when we go forth to preach the Gospel. As Jesus told his Apostles, Take no thought what ye shall say, it is told us, Take n We are told in the 24th chapter of Matthew that Jesus, on a certain occasion, taught his disciples many things concerning his Gos29 KB (5,691 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE SACRAMENT—THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—DIFFERENT DOGMAS OF CHRISTIANITY—BOOK OF MORMON—THE TESTIMONY OF JOSE |T=Journal of Discourses 12: THE SACRAMENT—THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—DIFFERENT DOGMAS OF CHRISTIANITY—BOOK OF MORMON—THE TESTIMONY OF JOSE20 KB (3,650 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...il the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our God and His Christ, and He shall reign with universal empire over this earth, and to Him every ...tters. We are not indebted to any of the schools, academies, or systems of divinity, or theology, or any of the religious systems extant, nor to any of the hea28 KB (5,234 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...brief time allotted for our meeting, to enumerate all the evidences of the divinity of this Work, which are patent to the observer; but, look wherever we will, ...which are manifested by those who have been members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and have apostatized therefrom. In consequence of thi30 KB (5,440 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...nd sciences, law, medicine, politics, war, mechanism; and certain kinds of divinity, particularly if they are paying institutions, are studied. Anything that c ...d from Jerusalem;" when all men should be subject to that law, and when to Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue confess. There are a great many curio22 KB (4,200 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...upon they whom are bestowed. The gifts that pertain to the gospel of Jesus Christ can only be obtained by obedience to the truth; and can only be retained by ...ns from that time forward to keep them in the faith of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This our experience confirms. There is another class who obey the truth be33 KB (6,064 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...itality, intelligence, and revelation possessed by the religion that Jesus Christ introduced upon the earth. That, I confess, was the reason why I left them. ...e rest he is generally educated for the ministry and is called a Doctor of Divinity. And it is expected that that dull man, without common sense and without in27 KB (5,032 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST—THE LIVING TESTIMONY—WORD OF WISDOM |T=Journal of Discourses 12: THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST—THE LIVING TESTIMONY—WORD OF WISDOM18 KB (3,383 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...ng to your edification; and I ask my Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, that He will pour out upon me that Spirit which giveth utterance and enlig ...derful revolution as the one I have named, all in one day, or in one year. Jesus made his appearance on the earth in the meridian of time, and he establishe49 KB (8,952 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...in the image of our God, yet this mortality shrinks before that portion of divinity which we inherit from our Father. This is the cause of my timidity, and of ...f Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?"39 KB (7,481 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...His intelligence there. I feel it within myself. My nature shrinks at the divinity we see in others. This is the cause of that timidity to which I have referr ...ven, that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world; for me to tell you that Jesus will give his holy Spirit to them that believe on him and obey his Gospel,30 KB (5,696 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- "And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, there is no man that hath left ho ...he New Testament Abraham is held up to the converts to the doctrines which Jesus taught, as an example worthy of imitation, and in no place is there a word42 KB (7,550 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...ord call upon a learned man who has devoted his whole life to the study of divinity if He wanted anything done?" The real fact was they thought they knew too m ...the gentleman at the door what church it was. He said it was the Church of Christ. Said I, "What Apostle built it up?" He said, "There are no Apostles in the27 KB (4,977 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...hearts of those who are intelligent and reflecting in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is {{page break|24|top}} true that we believe and ...olated individuals, this message from God came, and there being a spark of divinity within us, we received it and embraced it, and have endeavoured to live up31 KB (5,763 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD—JESUS MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED—ONE-MAN POWER-TRUTH AND ERROR |T=Journal of Discourses 14: THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD—JESUS MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED—ONE-MAN POWER-TRUTH AND ERROR17 KB (3,189 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...words. There never would have been any such people as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, unless God had again manifested himself in fulfillmen ...e before us for many generations where people who have assumed the name of Christ disbelieved in new revelation, and {{page break|140|top}} persecuted those34 KB (6,263 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- "And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day. ...for the sins of the world, a new commission seems to have been given them. Jesus said unto them, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every cr42 KB (7,954 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...icient doctrine, truth and principle, that they will actually grow up into Christ, our living head. ...aw two parties, one on the right hand praying to the Father in the name of Jesus, and the other on the left with a cigar in his mouth, puffing away as vigor29 KB (5,606 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...l life, the revelations {{page break|247|top}} of God, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the principles of eternal truth, which you have received, from the God of ...il the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our God and His Christ, and He will rule for ever and ever!"17 KB (3,125 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...arth, but an angel. "I saw another angel," says John, before the coming of Christ, before he saw that personage sitting on the cloud. "I saw another angel fl ...stify it in the name of the Lord God who has sent us, in the name of Jesus Christ who has redeemed us, that that angel has already come, that the 19th centur43 KB (7,922 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...he children of men than it does now. We, as Christians, believe in God, in Christ and in his atonement, in repentance and obedience, and in receiving the Spi ...at criterion shall we go by? We have the Scriptures, we have the Prophets, Jesus and the Apostles; we have the revelations of the Spirit of God to ourselves32 KB (6,192 words) - 14:39, 13 April 2024
- ...ings unto the Lord their God. From the days of Abraham down to the days of Jesus the law of tithing was observed by the people of God. It was made a perpetu ...Melchisedec, paid to him the tithes of all, acknowledging by this act the divinity of the law, and the necessity of obedience thereunto. So strict was the Lor43 KB (8,001 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- That portion of these sayings of Jesus to which I wish more especially to call your attention, is contained in the ...istration of the Lord's Supper. There is no distinction with regard to the divinity of these ordinances—one is just as much divine as the other, one is a rel48 KB (8,882 words) - 14:39, 13 April 2024
- ..., to give a vast amount of evidence to the children of men, concerning the divinity of a message which he might at any time offer to them. It would be a very e ...from everything that is evil, reform their lives, and to believe in Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world, who died to atone for the sins of mankind; to b38 KB (6,922 words) - 14:39, 13 April 2024
- ...arer of the word, we are told, who is benefited, but he that doeth it. And Jesus says that many will say in that day, "Lord, have we not spoken in thy name, ...y, is what this sacred {{page break|303|top}} volume is composed of. Hence Jesus said to the people in his day—"Search the Scriptures, for in them ye thin39 KB (7,058 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- I was born in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but not under the sealing covenant; that principle wa ...the present, if there has been a moment in my life when I have doubted the divinity and truthfulness of these things, it has escaped my notice, and it is to-da21 KB (3,920 words) - 14:42, 13 April 2024
- ...Smith and the Book of Mormon, and the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, attracted but little of the attention of the masses. ...mighty and powerful, and the way prepared for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will rule from the rivers to the ends of the earth.23 KB (4,322 words) - 14:42, 13 April 2024
- |H=LEAVING NAUVOO—NO CHANGE ACCIDENTAL—DIVINITY MARKS THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH—DILIGENCE WILL AID IN SECURING SUCCESS— |T=Journal of Discourses 19: LEAVING NAUVOO—NO CHANGE ACCIDENTAL—DIVINITY MARKS THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH—DILIGENCE WILL AID IN SECURING SUCCESS—21 KB (3,913 words) - 14:42, 13 April 2024
- ...and when we join them we shall leave behind us the things of time, even as Jesus did himself who was the founder of the earth. This truth itself should inci ...idst of the people of God in this age of the world to preach the Gospel of Jesus, and to labor to build up Zion, in obedience to his commandments, and to ca18 KB (3,483 words) - 14:42, 13 April 2024
- ...m—Man in His Image—Pre-existence—Why Infants Die—The Redemption by Jesus—Plurality of Gods—The Word of the Lord is Truth]] ...s Father, and the express image of his person. And the accounts we have of Jesus represent him as being physically and in all essential parts, in the likene27 KB (5,115 words) - 14:42, 13 April 2024
- ..., and became so wicked, and Satan had so much control over them, that when Christ came preaching to them the everlasting Gospel in all its simplicity and pla We find that after Christ had established his Church, that angels continued to minister; and one of t24 KB (4,250 words) - 14:42, 13 April 2024
- ...oyed by man, by which men are enabled to act in the midst of the people in Christ's stead. And knowing these things we are encouraged as a people and as indi ...l find in the midst of these mountains and numbered in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.37 KB (6,851 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../29|The Gospel of Christ—Its Object, Principles and Power]] |>=[[../31|Slain for the Testimony of Jesus—Funeral Rites of Joseph Standing]]24 KB (4,248 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- |H=NECESSITY OF REVELATION—EVIDENCES OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—THE FUTURE OF THE SAINTS—PLURAL MARRIAGE ...nal of Discourses 20: NECESSITY OF REVELATION—EVIDENCES OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—THE FUTURE OF THE SAINTS—PLURAL MARRIAGE31 KB (5,708 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- ...hundreds of thousands have been gathered into this latter-day Church. The divinity of a message does not, however, depend upon the numbers who receive it. Num ...mbark, until the time of our landing, because we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, because we believe in repenting of our sins, and because we believe in bap26 KB (4,636 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- ...Latter-day Saints is built is the rock of revelation—upon the rock that Jesus said He would build His church, and the gates of hell should not prevail ag ...come off victorious in the end, which I ask in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.12 KB (2,272 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- ...as a certain fact that that man does not preach the truth as it exists in Christ. There is no disputing this, if this book (the Bible) be true; if there is ...e been themselves, in too many instances, the professed ministers of Jesus Christ. It was the High Priests, it was the Pharisees, it was the religious people28 KB (5,235 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- ...ming skeptical and unbelieving as to the principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...ultitude upon whose hearts is ineffaceably impressed the conviction of the divinity of this work.29 KB (5,464 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- ...ceive that values, business, or your faith in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ has been in the least disturbed. ...eems to me that every evidence that is necessary to convince people of the divinity of this work, people who examine it carefully and prayerfully, has been giv35 KB (6,558 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- ...men, those who profess to be Christians, and to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world. They have made many inquiries with regard to th ...njoy the light of his Spirit, enjoy communion with God, with his son Jesus Christ and with the Holy Ghost, so that they may be instructed day by day how to w21 KB (4,124 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- ...which are in heaven will also be gathered and united with those who are in Christ on the earth. We have but barely commenced in this glorious dispensation. T ...t pattern; but the ancient Apostles saw that, instead of being churches of Christ, they would have a form of godliness, denying the power, in other words, th46 KB (8,311 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- ...gers who may be present, some of the evidences that we have concerning the divinity of this book which we esteem so highly—the Book of Mormon. ...Israel, and a prophecy was uttered by one of the ancient Prophets, before Christ, that they should be many days without a Priest, without the Urim and Thumm47 KB (8,781 words) - 14:41, 13 April 2024
- ...e fulfillment of his prophecies is concerned, has so much to establish the divinity of his mission. ...d had spoken to me and had given me revelation. I knew also concerning the divinity of this work. Year after year passed away, while every little while some of25 KB (4,532 words) - 14:41, 13 April 2024
- ...ollow the believers, in order that all the world might be convinced of its divinity; but that when the Gospel had been fully established, by signs and wonders, ...ur little children and others, who were sick, and, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by virtue of the holy Priesthood, you have rebuked the sickness, and y23 KB (4,312 words) - 14:41, 13 April 2024
- ...ITH, DELIVERED AT THE FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, SATURDAY AFTER ...standing in society would be sacrificed. But he marvelled at the saying of Christ, and upon further inquiry the Savior explained by declaring that, "Except a22 KB (4,000 words) - 14:41, 13 April 2024
- ...od of the Living—Keys Committed to Joseph Smith. The Last Dispensation—Jesus the Great Redeemer—An Everlasting Priesthood—The Powers of the Resurrec ...y this is something that man should have nothing to do with, so far as the divinity of its formation was concerned. For it is interpreted thus—"And in the da46 KB (8,450 words) - 14:41, 13 April 2024
- ...ay to effect the ruin of those who believe in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who have submitted to its ordinances, as at any previous time in the histo ...xpect to be numbered among the happy throng who are to live and reign with Jesus. When we shall have done all they have done, passed through and experienced15 KB (2,787 words) - 14:41, 13 April 2024
- ...effect that whereas each of them take in but a part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as declared in the Scriptures, in their creeds, the Latter-day Saints embod ...tion; they were in communication with the great unseen Head of the Church, Jesus, who was crucified, and had departed from their midst.20 KB (3,830 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...he has expressed—the desire to proclaim the truth, and to win souls unto Christ, and to help establish that Zion of which God has laid the foundation. It i ...g witness whose testimony has come down to us authenticated respecting its divinity, and in fact it is so open to attack that there are thousands who deem them26 KB (4,848 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...e have received it. If this be imposture where is the truth? The Gospel of Christ was to produce union, its mission was to produce love, to destroy strife, t ...dolent and neglects his duties, needs more religion, the religion of Jesus Christ, to make him more industrious. An indolent man cannot have much of the Spir30 KB (5,639 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...with this latter-day work that one of the most remarkable features of the divinity of the work is to be found in the gathering together of the people called L ...hurches laying claim to being divine, and to being the authentic church of Christ, was the true church. He, if he could not obtain knowledge from God, or som37 KB (6,895 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...and establish it upon the foundation of Apostles and Prophets with Christ Jesus as the chief corner stone. There is no man who believes in the Revelations ...o a single passage of scripture from the time of father Adam down to Jesus Christ, showing that any man had power to administer in any of the ordinances of t23 KB (4,323 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...s uttered, as I have said there was no organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; there was no gathering place; no person had ever witn ...n's wisdom, not in their own strength, but calling upon God in the name of Jesus to bestow His Holy Spirit upon the people and to carry their words by that43 KB (8,146 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...IENT PROPHECY—RISE OF JOSEPH THE PROPHET—ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—PERSECUTION OF THE SAINTS—THERE UNDYING FAITH IN GOD—THE WORLD PROVIN ...IENT PROPHECY—RISE OF JOSEPH THE PROPHET—ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—PERSECUTION OF THE SAINTS—THERE UNDYING FAITH IN GOD—THE WORLD PROVIN32 KB (5,876 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...may receive the truth and be prepared for the great day of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord, in relation to sending this mission forth among the inhabitants ...omise in the last chapter of Mark. Not only were these signs promised, but Jesus said: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believ21 KB (3,827 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...OR ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY—ITS GROWTH AND PROGRESS DESPITE OF OPPOSITION—CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT—SIMILARITY OF ANCIENT, TO MODERN OPPOSITION TO THE ...OR ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY—ITS GROWTH AND PROGRESS DESPITE OF OPPOSITION—CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT—SIMILARITY OF ANCIENT, TO MODERN OPPOSITION TO THE24 KB (4,297 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../29|The Gospel of Christ or Ancient Christianity, etc.]] ...nts were chosen on the same principle. There was any amount of teachers of divinity, any amount of professors of theology, any amount of reverend, and right re46 KB (8,267 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...ht concerning our duties as Latter-day Saints, as members of the Church of Christ, and it is of the utmost importance that when we thus meet, that we should ...ing in any manner to establish the claims of what is called "Mormonism" to divinity, or that the Commissioners themselves, in coming here, have once thought th39 KB (7,344 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...etween the sects of Christendom and of heathendom, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The people of this peculiar Church worship a Being wh ...rone to walk in the ways of darkness rather than in the light, because, as Jesus explained it, "their deeds are evil." This is the reason why there is so mu46 KB (8,705 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...said to him, "I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?" Jesus said to him, "Suffer it to be so now; for thus it becometh us to fulfill al You know that Jesus said to His Apostles in ancient days, that they should "sit upon twelve thr37 KB (6,788 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...t that has ever lived of whom we have any knowledge, save and except Jesus Christ Himself. The world would say that he was an impostor; and the Lord said tha ...ieved His testimony. The great majority of mankind then living who knew of Christ, deemed Him an impostor, and considered him worthy to be put to death; prec26 KB (4,695 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../11|The Church of Christ, etc.]] ...of the most striking evidences that this people offer to the world of the divinity of this work, which the world opprobriously call "Mormonism," is the fact t35 KB (6,566 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...THE PEOPLE-INTEREST MANIFESTED BY THE WORLD IN THE "MORMONS"-EVIDENCES OF DIVINITY IN THE WORK-SAME EFFECTS FOLLOW THE GOSPEL IN DIFFERENT AGES-AUTHORITY REST ...THE PEOPLE-INTEREST MANIFESTED BY THE WORLD IN THE "MORMONS"-EVIDENCES OF DIVINITY IN THE WORK-SAME EFFECTS FOLLOW THE GOSPEL IN DIFFERENT AGES-AUTHORITY REST36 KB (6,687 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...clared in that dispensation God would gather together in one all things in Christ; not only the things in the earth, but also the things in the heavens—the ..."When darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people." When Jesus was upon the earth He told His disciples that the time would come when fals47 KB (8,759 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...n within its lids, but what agrees in sentiment and veracity with those of Christ and His Apostles, as contained in the Bible. Neither is there a word of cou ...f faith, and strengthen us to do the labors required of us, in the name of Jesus. Amen.15 KB (2,690 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- |H=PREDICTIONS IN THE BOOK OF MORMON—EVIDENCE OF ITS DIVINITY—PROOF THAT JOSEPH SMITH WAS INSPIRED—PREDICTIONS CONCERNING THE INDIANS ...rnal of Discourses 25: PREDICTIONS IN THE BOOK OF MORMON—EVIDENCE OF ITS DIVINITY—PROOF THAT JOSEPH SMITH WAS INSPIRED—PREDICTIONS CONCERNING THE INDIANS33 KB (6,107 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024