5/9/2018 - Section 95:3-8

May 9, 2018

Section 95:3-8

Lord’s Priorities, Temple Endowment, Lord’s Teachings, Obedience,

As the Lord continues in this section, he continues to explain to them some of the ways the new ‘saints’ have let him down. He tells them that it is important to have the temple built. They received that commandment 6 months earlier and had done nothing—and yet as I have read the sections leading up to this and looked at the history of those 6 months, they have been very busy. It seems that the Lord has priorities, and he wants his children to realize just what those priorities are. So now he does more teaching—and explains the deep importance of the temple: that when he is able to “endow those whom I have chosen with power from on high” (v 8) that that will make a tremendous difference in their lives. Reading this, I realize that I, most probably, do not understand the power and  strength of the endowment. I hope that will come with time and with temple attendance.

The student manual gives a quote from Church History and Modern Revelation, 1:406-7: “Four days after the Lord had rebuked the brethren for their neglect, without waiting for subscriptions, the brethren went to work on the temple. Elder George A. Smith, a recent convert, hauled the first load of stone for the Temple. Hyrum Smith and Reynolds Cahoon commenced digging the trench for the walls, and they finished the same with their own hands.”

I wish I could continue this now, but must stop as we have our first investigator coming to our house in 30 minutes.