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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