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- ...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