Come Follow Me 46: Doctrine and Covenants 129-132

 Come, Follow Me Lesson 46: Doctrine and Covenants 129-132

Introduction:

Can you teach the gospel in such a way that those who have never been introduced to it can understand it? Is there room in your teaching for the Holy Ghost to be the main Teacher?

What does it mean to you to understand that Jesus is a person just like you?

What does it mean to you to understand that the relationships you have here on earth will continue in heaven (See D&C 130:1-2)? What does it mean to you to know that through the atonement of Jesus Christ, and the sealing powers within His gospel and His priesthood, that your family relationships can be eternal (see D&C 130:19)?

We may all be asked to make sacrifices that will stretch us or break us. What is necessary for us to have in order to be able to follow the Lord and do as He commands us? How does D&C 132:50 strengthen your understanding of the Lord’s love for you?

Doctrine and Covenants 130-131 or a compilation of notes written by William Clay that contain gospel truths that were taught by Joseph Smith.

How do this sections help you answer the following questions: What do I learn about God? What do I learn about the life after mortality? How does this knowledge affect my life?

William Clayton was was a secretary of Joseph Smith and came to know him intimately, strengths and faults. He joyed in recording gospel truths and gems taught by the prophet. Many of his writings became the basis for these sections of the Doctrine and Covenants. He rejoiced in how Joseph made heaven and heavenly blessings be felt as real and tangible truths.

D&C 129: The three grand keys for recognizing whether a messenger is sent from God or not.

D&C 130 Family section:

What things can we carry with us into the next life?

We can take our family relationships (vs 2).

We can take with us the truths that we learn (vs 18-19).

What blessings have you received from keeping the commandments of the Lord?

The angels who minister to this earth belong to the same (vs 5).

Angels reside on a sphere like sea and glass where all things are manifest for their glory (vs 6-7).

This earth will become as a great Urim and Thummin (vs 8-9).

Those of the celestial kingdom will be given a white stone which will aid in revealing all things (vs 10-11). A new name, a key word, will be written thereon.

Prophecy of the beginning struggles that led to the Civil War (vs 12-13).

We will all live to see the Coming of the Son of Man, whether in our mortal lives or spiritual (see vs 14-16).

How do we attain blessings (vs 20-21).

What does vs 22 teach us about the nature of the Godhead?

What must we do in order to have the Holy Ghost abide with us (see vs 23)?

Watch video: Marriage is Sacred: https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/come-follow-me-for-individuals-and-families-doctrine-and-covenants-2021/46?lang=eng

Patterns of the Shopper

1. Wise shoppers study their options thoroughly before making a selection. Focus on quality and durability. They want the best.

2. Some shoppers look for bargains

3. Others may splurge

They may learn later that their choice did not endure well.

4. Others cast aside their personal integrity and steal what they want. Shoplifters.

Apply patterns of the shopper to the topic of marriage.

We can choose marriage of the highest quality or a lesser type that will not endure. Or they can choose neither and brazenly steal what they want as marital shoplifters.

Elder Nelson declared, as an apostle of the Lord, that marriage between a man and a woman is sacred. It is ordained of God. He asserted the virtue of a temple marriage. “It is the highest and most enduring type of marriage that our Creator can offer to His children.”

What great truths do we learn in Doctrine and Covenants 131? How important is temple marriage to you?

In D&C 32 we learn more about the Abrahamic Covenant and how Eternal marriage, the New and Everlasting Covenant, is part of that, or even the culmination of it. We are also taught that once we receive or understand a commandment, we are supposed to live it, and that the Lord can give or revoke commandments according to His knowledge and our circumstances at the time.

D&C 32 also testifies that families can be linked together throughout eternity.

Revelations in Context further declares the doctrine that marriages need to be sealed on earth and in heaven by Priesthood authority and the Holy Spirit of promise, in order to continue after the grave.

[From Revelations in Context: In Latter-day Saint belief, the earth is alive with heavenly communication, the angels invested in comforting the burdens of the bereaved.]

Mary Fielding was sealed to Hyrum Smith for eternity; Mercy, her sister, was sealed to Robert Thompson for eternity, and only married to Hyrum for time (10 months).