“HE CAME!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: 3 Nephi 8-11

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"HE CAME!"
 
I. Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
ii. Patter
II. Theme: HE CAME!
III. 3 N 8 Destruction
i. Record keeping
1. Astronomy
2. Faithful person
a. Nameless clerk who could work miracles
3. How to coordinate calendars
a. debated topic.
ii. Natural disasters concurrent with crucifixion and death
1. 3 hours of disasters
a. Wizard of Oz
2. 3 days of darkness
3. "Whole face of earth deformed"
iii. What's the message for us?
1. Mini apocalypse? Mini Armageddon?
2. Denialism? D&C and apocalyptic passages
a. "Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, that the people in Ohio call upon me in much faith, thinking I will stay my hand in judgment upon the nations, but I cannot deny my word." D&C 39:16
IV. 3 N 9 Voice of Christ
i. Christ speaks
1. Most of chapter in red letters.
2. "I" caused disasters
a. Act vs occurrence; affirmative action vs. passive allowance: affirmative action
b. Unconditional love?
ii. List of cities
1. 3 Gad-names, Kishkumen: wide-spread of Gadiaton robbers
2. Jacobugath: burned with fire (SFO and 1906 earthquake)
3. Zarahemla: fire
a. Helaman 13:12-13 prediction of fire
iii. Righteous remnant
1. "O all ye that are spared because ye were more righteous than they, will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?" 3 Nephi 9:13
a. Righteous people still need to repent
2. "And as many as have received me, to them have I given to become the sons of God" 3 Nephi 9:17
3. Sacrifices
a. No more blood
b. Broke Heart and Contrite spirit
c. Lamanites converted, knew it not--sometimes unaware of spiritual experiences
4. JS and Sacrifices, TPJS, 172
a. It will be necessary here to make a few observations on the doctrine set forth in the above quotation, and it is generally supposed that sacrifice was entirely done away when the Great Sacrifice [i.e.,] the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus was offered up, and that there will be no necessity for the ordinance of sacrifice in future; but those who assert this are certainly not acquainted with the duties, privileges and authority of the Priesthood, or with the Prophets.    
b. The offering of sacrifice has ever been connected and forms a part of the duties of the Priesthood. It began with the Priesthood, and will be continued until after the coming of Christ, from generation to generation. ...
c. These sacrifices, as well as every ordinance belonging to the Priesthood, will, when the Temple of the Lord shall be built, and the sons of Levi be purified, be fully restored and attended to in all their powers, ramifications, and blessings. This ever did and ever will exist when the powers of the Melchizedek Priesthood are sufficiently manifest; else how can the restitution of all things spoken of by the Holy Prophets be brought to pass. It is not to be understood that the law of Moses will be established again with all its rites and variety of ceremonies; this has never been spoken of by the prophets; but those things which existed prior to Moses' day, namely, sacrifice, will be continued.
d. It may be asked by some, what necessity for sacrifice, since the Great Sacrifice was offered? In answer to which, if repentance, baptism, and faith existed prior to the days of Christ, what necessity for them since that time?
V. 3 N 10 The Gathering
i. Chapter with crowd reaction. Notice no division. As recorded, people knew what what was up, what was going on.
ii. Hen image, female
1. Have gathered
2. Would have gather
3. Will I gather
iii. Rejoice
1. destruction and cite missing prophets, 1 Nephi 19:11, God of Nature
VI. 3 N 11 He Came!
i. Gathered at bountiful, not Zarahemla, burned by fire
ii. Hear voice:
1. Still, small voice
2. John 12: thunder, Angel, or Father
3. Develop listening ears
iii. Christ comes
1. Witnesses: all touch Him
2. Apostles, or organized religion
3. Ordinances: baptism
iv. Disputations
1. Church broke up 3 years prior
2. Things go crazy quickly
3. DHO TheLord's Way, Contention
VII. Christ Quotient
i. Christ and Natrual Disasters
1. Our day
2. BY Manual, ch 45
a. All we have yet heard and we have experienced is scarcely a preface to the sermon that is going to be preached. When the testimony of the Elders ceases to be given, and the Lord says to them, “Come home; I will now preach my own sermons to the nations of the earth,” all you now know can scarcely be called a preface to the sermon that will be preached with fire and sword, tempests, earthquakes, hail, rain, thunders and lightnings, and fearful destruction. What matters the destruction of a few railway cars? You will hear of magnificent cities, now idolized by the people, sinking in the earth, entombing the inhabitants. The sea will heave itself beyond its bounds, engulfing mighty cities. Famine will spread over the nations and nation will rise up against nation, kingdom against kingdom and states against states, in our own country and in foreign lands; and they will destroy each other, caring not for the blood and lives of their neighbors, of their families, or for their own lives (DBY, 111–12).
3. GAS
a. Ch. 24. We are not out of the woods. This world is in for a housecleaning unless the sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father repent of their sins and turn to him. And that means the Latter-day Saints, or the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with all the rest, but we, first of all, ought to be setting the example.
b. It will not be long until calamities will overtake the human family unless there is speedy repentance. It will not be long before those who are scattered over the face of the earth by millions will die like flies because of what will come. (Conference Reports, April 1950, p. 169.)
4. D&C 84:114
a. New York,Albany,Boston
b. W: New York would be destroyed by earthquake, Boston by flood, and Albany by fire?
ii. What are we doing to prepare for Second Coming
1. BOM Pattern for Future
2. RMN:A Pattern for Unity in Jesus Christ, By President Russell M. Nelson
a. 1) Conversion
b. 2) Covenants
c. 3) Fairness, Equality, and Helping the Poor
d. 4) Obedience
e. 5) Meeting Together
f. 6) Love
g. 7) Divine Identity
h. Each of us is a child of God
i. Each of us is a child of the covenant.
j. Each of us is a disciple of Jesus Christ. I
k. 8) Be One
l. Study this, fill in outline, make this part of leadership agenda, ward council, presidency meeting, family councils, council with self
 
 
 
 
 

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