Ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me

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Ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me

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How to identify groups of saints

• Class of 10 year old girls-
• A giggle of girls
• A tent full of Boy Scouts?
• A smell of scouts
• Grandmothers with photos?
• A pride of Grandmas
• Many grandfathers?
• A grump of grandpas
• High Priests meeting?
• A snooze of High Priests
• Classroom full of 2 year olds?
• A tantrum of toddlers
• Dinner with the full time missionaries
• A starve of Elders
• More than two patriarchs
• A tribe of patriarchs

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Brother Robert Millet

• "As has been observed before, it was one thing to
  get Israel out of Egypt, and another thing
  entirely to get Egypt out of Israel!
• Indeed, the compelling drama of the deliverance,
  exodus, and wanderings of Israel proved to be a
  tragedy, a story of lost opportunities--a saga of
  things as they might have been."

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During Times of Trial
Trial
Depressed and Murmur
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Humble and Teachable
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Exodus 14

• 8 And Pharaoh hardened his heart and he pursued
  after the children of Israel
• 10 And the children of Israel lifted up their
  eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after
  them and they were sore afraid and the children
  of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
• 11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were
  no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to
  die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt
  thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
• 12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in
  Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve
  the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to
  serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in
  the wilderness.

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Children of Israel

• Murmured
• Before they were delivered from Egypt
• Before the dividing of the Red Sea
• Before getting water from the rock
• Before receiving manna
• After receiving manna!

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President David O. McKay

• Let us watch ourselves and be true to the
  examples set by the Church and the brethren and
  sisters who have sacrificed their lives, their
  all, to build the Church and to advance the
  principles taught therein.
• This warning is sometimes expressed in this
  way 'Speak not against the authorities.' What
  does it mean. Be not a murmurer that is what it
  means. It is one of the most poisonous things
  that can be introduced into the home of a
  Latter-day Saint--this murmuring against
  presidents of stakes, high councilors, Sunday
  school superintendents, presidents of
  high-priests' quorums, seventies, elders,
  priests, teachers and deacons.... and yet because
  of his weakness, because, perhaps, of some little
  fault that we see in an officer, we begin to
  murmur and find fault.
• Better stop murmuring, and build up. Remember
  that one of the worst means of tearing down an
  individual is slander. It is one of the most
  poisonous weapons that the evil one uses.
  Backbiting and evil speaking, throw us into the
  class of malefactors rather than the class of
  benefactors." (CR, Apr 1909, p67)

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Elder Maxwell

• For us, as laborers in the Lord's vineyard,
  to murmur over life's
  inequities is, Jesus
  indicated, "to murmur against
  the goodman of the house" (Matthew
  2011). The goodness of the Lord of the house is
  attested to in many ways, yet as guests many of
  us still murmur about present accommodations
• As in the case of the episode of the golden calf,
  the view from the desert floor is very different
  from that atop Mount Sinai. Perspective makes
  such an enormous difference.

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The Lords Response to Israels murmuring?

• Exodus 193
• And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called
  unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt
  thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the
  children of Israel
• 4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and
  how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you
  unto myself.
• 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed,
  and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar
  treasure unto me above all people for all the
  earth is mine

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What was Moses trying to do at Sinai?

• DC 84
• 20 Therefore, in the ordinances thereof, the
  power of godliness is manifest.
• 22 For without this no man can see the face of
  God, even the Father, and live.
• 23 Now this Moses plainly taught to the children
  of Israel in the wilderness, and sought
  diligently to sanctify his people that they might
  behold the face of God

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What happened at Sinai?

• People agree to be kingdom of priests (Ex
  196,8)
• God reveals Ten Commandments and directions for
  the Tabernacle in the wilderness (Ex 20-23)
• Moses writes these words and teaches the people
  (Ex 243)
• Moses builds an alter and 12 pillars
• Moses performs sacrifices
• Moses reads book of covenants
• Israel responds with all that the Lord hath said
  will we do and be obedient. (Ex 247)
• 1st Presidency and Quorum of the Seventy see God
  (Ex 2410)

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The Tabernacle In the Wilderness
Traditional Mt. Sinai
Holy of Holies (High Priest)
Holy of Holies (Moses)
Holy Place (Priests)
Holy Place (Priests)
18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and
the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and
the mountain smoking and when the people saw it,
they removed, and stood afar off. 19 And they
said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will
hear but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Outer Court (Israel)
Outer Court (Israel)
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What happened at Sinai?

• People agree to be kingdom of priests (Ex
  196,8)
• God reveals Ten Commandments and directions for
  the Tabernacle in the wilderness (Ex 20-23)
• Moses writes these words and teaches the people
  (Ex 243)
• Moses builds an alter and 12 pillars
• Moses performs sacrifices
• Moses reads book of covenants
• Israel responds with all that the Lord hath said
  will we do and be obedient. (Ex 247)
• 1st Presidency and Quorum of the Seventy see God
  (Ex 2410)
• Moses goes back up for 40 days to receive
  instruction on how to bring them into the
  presence of God (The Temple)
• The Lord writes this instruction on two tables
  of testimony (Ex 3118)
• Aaron persuaded to build golden calf (Ex 32)
• Moses acts as intermediary between Israel and God
  (Ex 349)
• Then, the carnal commandments or Law of Moses,
  were given

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Exodus 34 Joseph Smith Translation

• "And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two other
  tables of stone, like unto the first, and I will
  write upon them also, the words of the law,
  according as they were written at the first on
  the tables which thou brakest
• but it shall not be according to the first, for I
  will take away the priesthood out of their midst
  therefore my holy order, and the ordinances
  thereof, shall not go before them for my
  presence shall not go up in their midst, lest I
  destroy them.
• But I will give unto them the law as at the
  first, but it shall be after the law of a carnal
  commandment for I have sworn in my wrath, that
  they shall not enter into my presence, into my
  rest, in the days of their pilgrimage.

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Sec 84 Continues

• 25 Therefore, he took Moses out of their midst,
  and the Holy Priesthood also
• 26 And the lesser priesthood continued, which
  priesthood holdeth the key of the ministering of
  angels and the preparatory gospel
• 27 Which gospel is
• 1) the gospel of repentance
• 2) and of baptism,
• 3) and the remission of sins,
• 4) and the law of carnal commandments,
• which the Lord in his wrath caused to continue
  with the house of Aaron among the children of
  Israel until John

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Question

• What things might we miss out on, simply because
  were not willing to wait on the Lord?

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Elder Hugh B. Brown