This generation will have my words though you

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This generation will have my words though you

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Words of a ProphetThe 10 year rule
President Hinckley So many of our people are
living on the very edge of their incomes. In
fact, some are living on borrowings. We have
witnessed in recent weeks wide and fearsome
swings in the markets of the world. The economy
is a fragile thing. A stumble in the economy in
Jakarta or Moscow can immediately affect the
entire world. It can eventually reach down to
each of us as individuals. There is a portent of
stormy weather ahead to which we had better give
heed. I urge you, brethren, to look to the
condition of your finances. I urge you to be
modest in your expenditures discipline
yourselves in your purchases to avoid debt to the
extent possible. (Oct 1998 Priesthood
Session)

• Statement
• 1950s (Pres. McKay)
• No other success
• 1978 (Pres. Kimball)
• Priesthood Declaration
• 1995 (President Hinckley)
• Declaration on the family
• 1998 (President Hinckley)
• Portent of stormy Weather

• 10 years later
• Family Decline in the 1960s
• Growth in Africa
• Gay Marriage
• Current Financial crisis

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Question

• What are we hearing, currently, from President
  Monson?

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President Monson

• Throughout our lives, we must deal with
  change. Some changes are welcome some
  are not. There are changes in our lives
  which are sudden, such as the unexpected
  passing of a loved one, an unforeseen
  illness, the loss of a possession we
  treasure. But most of the changes take place
  subtly and slowly.
• Day by day, minute by minute, second by second we
  went from where we were to where we are now. The
  lives of all of us, of course, go through similar
  alterations and changes. The difference between
  the changes in my life and the changes in yours
  is only in the details. Time never stands still
  it must steadily march on, and with the marching
  come the changes.
• This is our one and only chance at mortal
  lifehere and now. The longer we live, the
  greater is our realization that it is brief.
  Opportunities come, and then they are gone.
• I believe that among the greatest lessons we are
  to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are
  lessons that help us distinguish between what is
  important and what is not. I plead with you not
  to let those most important things pass you by as
  you plan for that illusive and non-existent
  future when you will have time to do all that you
  want to do. Instead, find joy in the journeynow.
  (Oct 2008 Priesthood Session)

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Early Church History

• 1838- Leadership Crisis in Kirtland
• Kirtland Safety Society (Bank)
• Apostates take over the temple
• Want to appoint David Whitmer as
  president
• Joseph has to leave in the middle of the
  night

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Nine years earlier (DC 5)

• Behold, I say unto you, that as my servant
  Martin Harris has desired a witness at my
  handAnd now, behold, this shall you say unto
  him
• (Martin is 46, Joseph is 24)
• he who spake unto you, said unto you I, the
  Lord, am God, and have given these things unto
  you, my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and have
  commanded you that you should stand as a
  witness of these things
• And I have caused you that you should enter into
  a covenant with me
• And you have a gift to translate the plates
• For hereafter you shall be ordained and go forth
  and deliver my words unto the children of men.
• Behold, if they will not believe my words, they
  would not believe you, my servant Joseph, if it
  were possible that you should show them all these
  things which I have committed unto you.
• But this generation shall have my word through
  you

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Brigham Young

• Joseph was a prophet, and I knew it, and
  that they might rail and slander him as much
  as they pleased they could not destroy
  the appointment of the Prophet of God,
• they could only destroy their own authority, cut
  the thread that bound them to the Prophet and to
  God and sink themselves to hell
• History of Brigham Young, p 386

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Elder Anthony W. Ivins

• "The word Prophet defined in the Hebrew
  language means one who has been called to
  denounce sin and foretell the consequences
  and punishment of it.
• -He is to be above all else a preacher of
  righteousness, to call the people back from
  idolatry ,
• -and when moved upon by the Spirit of the
  Lord, to foretell coming events.
• -But more particularly a prophet is to be
  an expounder of present duties
• -and an interpreter of the meaning and
  application of the written word."
• (CR, Oct 1933)

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Finally

• In 1833 the Prophet accompanied
  Freeman Nickerson to Canada to visit his
  sons Freeman and Moses. They were received
  rudely by young Freeman. He said, "Father, . . .
  I had just about as soon you had brought into my
  home a nest of scorpions and turned them loose
  upon us. . . . I know all about Joe Smith . . .
  the papers are full of him and his works, and I
  want none of either. . . . But, . . . I'll
  welcome them for your sake."
• Two days passed. Relations became more cordial,
  but there were no attempts to discuss religion.
  Freeman had boasted to his wife how he could
  handle Joe Smith.
• On the evening of the second day, Freeman invited
  everyone to the living room. "He threw the family
  Bible on to the table . . . with the challenging
  remark 'There! Now go to it!'"
• The Prophet did not "go to" the Bible. "Instead,
  he related his own dramatic experiences, . . .
  told with the utmost simplicity, but with great
  earnestness."
• Freeman apologized for his rudeness. Before the
  Prophet left town, 14 people, including the
  Nickerson brothers, were baptized by the Prophet.
  
• (Taken from John Henry Evans, Joseph Smith, an
  American Prophet New York Macmillan, 1936,
  8688.)