“My Voice Unto All!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: D&C 23-26

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Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "My Voice Unto All"
III. Point I. 23-24
i. Overview 23
1. D&C 5 revelations in BC
2. Individual counsel
3. Like PH blessings of counsel
ii. "A few words"
1. Versus micromanaging
2. Multiply many words
3. How to act on few words?: expands agency. Tired to enforce a bad policy, but can't change it?
iii. Themes:
1. Open heart
2. Exhortation
3. Samuel "not yet called"
4. True church
a. Organized religion
b. one true church
iv. Overview 24
1. JS and OC first and second elders, precedence?
v. "not excusable in transgressions/Go they way and sin no more?
1. Not hiding flaws
a. Why would a person need to "feed on the faults of another"?
2. Woman in adultery, Grace and truth
vi. Counsel
1. Temporary commandments, DHO
2. Expression: given in moment (not wing it and ad lib) and "time to time"
3. Temporal labors, no strength
a. BY, JD 1:215
i. You that have lived in Nauvoo, in Missouri, in Kirtland, Ohio, can you assign a reason why Joseph could not keep a store, and be a merchant? Let me just give you a few reasons, and there are men here who know how matters went in those days. Joseph goes to New York and buys 20,000 dollars' worth of goods, comes into Kirtland and commences to trade. In comes one of the brethren, "Brother Joseph, let me have a frock pattern for my wife." What if Joseph says, "No, I cannot without the money." The consequence would be, "He is no Prophet," says James. Pretty soon Thomas walks in. "Brother Joseph, will you trust me for a pair of boots?" "No, I cannot let them go without the money." " Well," says Thomas, "Brother Joseph is no Prophet; I have found that out, and I am glad of it." After a while, in comes Bill and sister Susan. Says Bill, "Brother Joseph, I want a shawl, I have not got the money, but I wish you to trust me a week or a fortnight." Well, brother Joseph thinks the others have gone and apostatized, and he don't know but these goods will make the whole Church do the same, so he lets Bill have a shawl. Bill walks off with it and meets a brother. "Well," says he, "what do you think of brother Joseph?" "O he is a first-rate man, and I fully believe he is a Prophet. See here, he has trusted me this shawl." Richard says, "I think I will go down and see if he won't trust me some." In walks Richard. "Brother Joseph, I want to trade about 20 dollars." "Well," says Joseph, "these goods will make the people apostatize; so over they go; they are of less value than the people." Richard gets his goods. Another comes in the same way to make a trade of 25 dollars, and so it goes. Joseph was a first-rate fellow with them all the time, provided he never would ask them to pay him. In this way it is easy for us to trade away a first-rate store of goods, and be in debt for them.
ii. Church's stock portfolio. People just nosy and covetous
b. leave labor to do church work
i. Alma 1:26
ii. Mosiah 18:26, depend upon grace for support.
vii. Dust feet
1. Differing ideas
a. Just 12 or elders in general
b. "violence" versus rudeness
2. Mission: In apartment complex, got turned around and re-hit the same door. gat angry with us. My companion wrote a note back, hit the doorbell and we left. Not sure what Christlike activity accomplished.
IV. Point II 25
i. Overview
1. Revelation given to wife, and only one canonized for woman
2. Nancy Hide, HC 4:426, 2 Dec 1841
3. JS and other women: Vinenna Jaques
4. RMN had sisters read this
5. Voice unto all, not just all women, but to everyone
ii. Daughter in kingdom, not evolutionary byproduct
iii. Forgiveness of sins
1. We all sin, so did early church heroes.
2. Issues with plural marriage, Left church
3. Reevaluation, Emma: My Story
iv. Murmur not, never saw plates, Wives of prophets and limelight
1. Biographies
2. Teachings of ...
3. YH history, RS histories, At the Pulpit, T Eliza R Snow, Emmiline Wells Diaries (need ebook for easier reading, nighttime mode)
v. Women, PH authority vs PH; JT Set apart vs Ordain
1. Elect Lady and Ordain
a. 2 John 1
2. Joseph Smith:
a. “the elect meant to be elected to a certain work, &c., and that the revelation was then fulfilled by Sister Emma's election to the Presidency of the Society, she having previously been ordained to expound the Scriptures. Emma was blessed, and her counselors were ordained by Elder John Taylor” (HC 5:552-553).    
3. John Taylor JD 21:367-368:    
a. “At that meeting the Prophet called Sister Emma to be an elect lady. That means that she was called to a certain work; and that was in fulfillment of a certain revelation concerning her. She was elected to preside over the Relief Society, and she was ordained to expound the scriptures. In compliance with Brother Joseph's request, Sister Whitney, wife of Bishop Newel K. Whitney, and Sister Cleveland, wife of Judge Cleveland, were selected to be her counselors.”    
b. “Some of the sisters have thought that these sisters mentioned, were, in this ordination, ordained to the priesthood. And for the information of all interested in this subject, I will say, it is not the calling of these sisters to hold the priesthood, only in connection with their husbands, they being one with their husbands.” (JD 21:367-368)    
4. HC 4:603: "At two o'clock I met the members of the "Female Relief Society," and after presiding at the admission of many new members, gave a lecture on the Priesthood, showing how the sisters would come in possession of the privileges, blessings and gifts of the Priesthood, and that the signs should follow them, such as healing the sick, casting out devils, &c., and that they might attain unto these blessings by a virtuous life, and conversation, and diligence in keeping all the commandments."
5. TPJ, 224 " He asked the Society if they could not see by this sweeping promise, that wherein they are ordained, if it is the privilege of those set apart to administer in that authority, which is conferred on them"
vi. Call
1. Study, writing, and expound scripture
a. Other denominations just ordain, whereas we have set apart and ordain, difference
2. Seek a better world
3. hymnbook: Our recod collection, on our playlist? All NC-17
4. Beware of pride
5. Where I am, ye cannot come. No progression.
vii. Point III  26
1. Study scripture
a. how goes our lessons? Talks
b. Scriptures, versus
i. Broadway
ii. Hollywood
iii. Old Classics and new bestsellers
iv. Other churches
1. Pope in Portugal
2. No thought for  theological rummage sale. We understood, we knew, that the BOM had the fullness of the gospel, and was to sweep the whole earth,including Portugal, as a flood.
2. Common consent
3. We agree, and can speak up. times wondered if I should?
V. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient
1. JS, OC, Emma, all called to repent
2. Heroes who needed perfecting
ii. Common consent: take seriously
1. Not rubber stamp
2. Shouting in tabernacle
3. Covenant:Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, selected and arranged by John A. Widtsoe, p.396
4. A great many of you have had your endowments, and you know what a vote with uplifted hands means.
iii. 24: OC
1. he shall not suppose he cannot say enough in cause
2. Strength as such not known among men
iv. Focus message on Christ, and empowered by Him: Christ--that's the point.
 
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