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Title: Doctrine and Covenants 111-120


1
Doctrine and Covenants 111-120
2
  • Doctrine and Covenants 1111
  • Notwithstanding your follies
  • The Prophets folly lay less in the fanciful
    hope of finding a treasure than it did in his
    failure to counsel with the Lord. A little over
    two years earlier he had received direction from
    the Lord about the Churchs indebtedness. At that
    time the Saints were told that if they would
    humble themselves and be prayerful and diligent
    that he would send means for their deliverance
    (DC 10478-80).
  • The trip to Salem was a venture of their own
    design, not one of divine direction.
  • Have you ever done anything in your life similar
    to this?

3
  • Doctrine and Covenants 112
  • This revelation was given during some of the
    darkest days in the history of the Church. As
    night follows day, so the light and glory that
    surrounded the dedication of the Kirtland Temple
    was supplanted by darkness and evil. In the
    summer of 1837, members of the Quorum of the
    Twelve, witnesses to the Book of Mormon, and
    other key priesthood leaders meet in the upper
    room of the temple to dispose of Joseph Smith as
    the prophet of the Lord. Their plan was to
    organize a new Church with David Whitmer as its
    head. They had determined to reject the Prophet,
    the Book of Mormon, and the Priesthood, while
    seeking to unite the Christian world around
    repentance, baptism, and the Bible (George A.
    Smith, JD, 1111).

4
  • In the midst of this darkness, Joseph Smith
    said,
  • God revealed to me that something new must be
    done for the salvation of His Church, He
    approached Heber C. Kimball in the Kirtland
    Temple and called him to go to England. Heber C.
    Kimball asked him why England?
  • Josephs reply was to save the Church
    (Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball, 104).

5
  • DC 11210 Be thou Humble
  • Several years after Joseph Smith was martyred,
    he appeared to President Brigham Young. Hear his
    message Tell the people to be humble and
    faithful, and be sure to keep the spirit of the
    Lord and it will lead them right. Be careful and
    not turn away the still small voice it will
    teach you what to do and where to go it will
    yield the fruits of the kingdom. Tell the
    brethren to keep their hearts open to conviction,
    so that when the Holy Ghost comes to them, their
    hearts will be ready to receive it (Elden J.
    Watson, Manuscript History of Brigham Young,
    1846-1847, Salt Lake City Elden Jay Watson,
    1971, 529).

6
  • In a dream Elder Wilford Woodruff was instructed
    by President Brigham Young I want you to teach
    the people --- and I want you to follow this
    counsel yourself --- that they must labor and so
    live as to obtain the Holy Spirit, for without
    this you cannot build up the kingdom without the
    spirit of God you are in danger of failing to
    accomplish your calling (Journal of Discourses,
    21 318).

7
  • Doctrine and Covenants 11214
  • Rebel not against my servant Joseph
  • The spirit of darkness in Kirtland in 1837 was
    so pervasive that no quorum of the priesthood
    could escape it. Nor was this mist of darkness
    quick to lift.
  • At the quarterly conference assembled in Far
    West, April 7, 1838, David W. Patton declared
    that, as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, he
    could confidently recommend Thomas B. Marsh,
    Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde,
    Parley P. Pratt, and Orson Pratt as being men of
    God. However, in a spirit of discernment rather
    than of disparagement, he stated that he somewhat
    doubted William Smith, and that he could not
    recommend William E. McLellin, Luke S. Johnson,
    Lyman E. Johnson, or John F. Boynton. As time was
    to prove, Elder Pattens discernments were valid
    (Talbot, Acts of the Modern Apostles, 40).

8
  • John Taylor, who was called to fill the place of
    one of the fallen apostles in December the
    following year, had occasion to counsel Parley P.
    Pratt, also an apostle and the missionary who had
    converted him, After their temptations, and much
    tribulation. Elder Taylor recounted part of that
    dialogue thus
  • I am surprised to hear you speak so, Brother
    Parley. Before you left Canada you bore a strong
    testimony to Joseph Smith being a Prophet of God,
    and to the truth of the work he has inaugurated
    and you said you knew these things by revelation,
    and the gift of the Holy Ghost. You gave me a
    strict charge to the effect that though you or an
    angel from heaven was to declare anything else I
    was not to believe it. Now Brother Parley, it is
    not man that I am following but the Lord. The
    principles you taught me led me to Him, and I now
    have the same testimony that you then rejoiced
    in. If the work was true six months ago, it is
    true today if Joseph was then a prophet, he is
    now a prophet (Roberts, Life of John Taylor,
    40).

9
  • Doctrine and Covenants 11230-32
  • Keys Restored
  • It was not until the end of Joseph Smiths
    ministry in Nauvoo that all the keys had been
    restored in fullness to the Twelve.

10
  • Doctrine and Covenants 10722
  • Counselors to the First Presidency
  • Additional counselors became counselors to that
    Quorum, not counselors in that quorum.
  • Those who had served as counselors to that
    quorum include the following John C. Bennett
    (1841-42), Amasa M. Lyman (1843-44), Joseph F.
    Smith (1866-77), Lorenzo Snow (1873-77), Brigham
    Young Jr. (1873-77), Albert Carrington (1873-77),
    John W. Young (1973-77), George Q. Cannon
    (1873-77), Hugh B. Brown (1961), Joseph Fielding
    Smith (1968-70), H. Thorpe B. Isaacson (1965-70),
    Alvin R. Dyer (1968-70), and Gordon B. Hinckley
    (1981-82, 1999-2000) Church Almanac, 16, 47-55).

11
  • 3 Nephi 262-3,6-21
  • Jesus expounded all things from the beginning to
    the end.
  • 3 Nephi 2611
  • It takes revelation to share revelation!
  • 3 Nephi 273,8
  • What did they call themselves?
  • (3 Nephi 2621)

12
  • DC 1154
  • We received our official name eight years after
    the Church was organized.
  • Church of Christ
  • Church of God
  • Church of Latter-day Saints
  • In 1834, the Mormonites
  • Don't let the Lord down by calling this the
    Mormon Church. He didnt call it the Mormon
    Church (George Albert Smith, C.R. April 1948,
    160).

13
  • The name of the Church was not obtained through
    study or research, but by revelation directed
    from the Lord Of all the churches in the world,
    there was not one that bore His name when the
    Lord restored His Church in this dispensation
    (LeGrand Richards, Marvelous Work and a Wonder,
    131-32).
  • I suppose that regardless of our efforts, we
    may never convert the world to general use of the
    full and correct name of the Church, conceded
    President Gordon B. Hinckley.
  • He continued Because of the shortness of the
    word Mormon, and the ease with which it is spoken
    and written, they will continue to call us the
    Mormons, the Mormon Church and so forth.
    President Hinckley recalled the Prophet Joseph
    Smiths comment that the name Mormon means more
    good, and therefore suggested we should not be
    ashamed of this nickname (Teachings, 299-300).

14
  • Doctrine and Covenants 116
  • Adam-ondi-Ahman
  • An extract from the journal of the Prophet
    Joseph Smith.
  • It was first included in the 1876 edition of the
    Doctrine and Covenants.
  • The site where the Saints intended to build the
    temple at Adam-ondi-Ahman is not known.
  • Lyman Wights home was at the foot of Tower
    Hill (a name Joseph gave to the place in
    consequence of the remains of an old Nephite
    alter or tower that stood there), where they
    camped for the Sabbath.

15
  • Doctrine and Covenants 117
  • The plains of Olaha Shinehah
  • Joseph Fielding Smith said, The plains of Olaha
    Shinehah, or the place where Adam dwelt, must be
    a part of, or in the vicinity of Adam-ondi-Ahman.
    This name Olaha Shinehah, may be, and in all
    probability is, from the language of Adam. We may
    without great controversy believe that this is
    the name which Adam gave to this place, at least
    we may venture this as a probable guess.
    Shinehah, according to the Book of Abraham, is
    the name give to the sun. (Abraham 313) Elder
    Janne M. Sjodahl commenting on the name, Olaha
    Shinehah, has said, Shinehah means sun, and
    Olaha is possible a variant of the word Olea,
    which is the moon (Abraham 313).

16
  • If so the plains of Olaha Shinehah would be the
    Plains of the Moon and the Sun, so called,
    perhaps because of the astronomical observations
    there made, We learn from the writings of Moses
    that the Lord revealed to the ancients great
    knowledge concerning the stars, and Abraham by
    revelations and through the Urim and Thummin
    received wonderful information concerning the
    heavens and the governing planets, or stars. It
    was also revealed by the Prophet Joseph Smith
    that Methuselah was acquainted with the stars as
    were others of the antediluvian prophets
    including Adam. So it may be reasonable that her
    in this valley important information was made
    known anciently in relation to the stars of our
    universe (Church History and Modern Revelation,
    297-98).

17
  • DC 11711 Nicolaitane band
  • Anciently, Nicolas turned from a similar calling
    to a life of worldiness.
  • Elder McConkie taught that those in the church
    today who want their records, but dont want to
    devote themselves to the gospel (DNTC, vol. 3
    446).
  • Revelation 26, 15 Which Thing I Hate
  • Members of the church who are trying to maintain
    their church standards while living the ways of
    the world.

18
  • Doctrine and Covenants 1184-5
  • The Apostles Depart on Their Mission
  • Prior to leaving on their missions, Brigham
    Young asked the Twelve who were with him What
    shall we do with regard to the fulfillment of
    this revelation? He wanted to know their
    feelings. Father Smith, the Patriarch, said the
    Lord would take the will for the deed others
    said the Lord could not expect the Twelve
    Apostles to go up and sacrifice their lives to
    fulfill that revelation but the Spirit of the
    Lord rested upon the twelve, and they said The
    Lord God has spoken, and we will fulfill that
    revelation and commandment and that was the
    feeling of President Young and of those who were
    with him. We went through the State, and we laid
    that cornerstone. George A. Smith and myself were
    ordained to the Apostleship on that corner-stone
    upon that day. We returned in safety, and not a
    dog to move his tongue, and no man shed our
    blood (JD, 18123).

19
More on DC 1185
  • It was a simple revelation which quickly got
    very complicated. On April 26th, 1838 the Twelve
    were to dedicate the temple spot in Far West,
    Missouri before they left on their mission to
    England. Joseph Smith Sr. thought the Lord would
    not require it of them because of the
    persecutions from their enemies. Brigham Young,
    however knew the doctrine too well and he would
    not be deterred.
  • The mobs also knew about the revelation because
    of apostates. One was Isaac B. Russell who said
    that Joseph was not a prophet because that
    revelation was one that would not be fulfilled.

20
  • The mob and apostates bragged constantly how
    that was one revelation that would not come to
    pass.
  • Theodore Turley was told that he would give up
    Mormonism after the mob prevented the prophecy
    from coming to pass.
  • Turley jumped to his feet and said, In the name
    of God, that revelation will be fulfilled.
  • The above event happened 21 days prior to April
    26th, 1838.

21
  • The night before the revelation was to be
    fulfilled John E. Page was unsure whether he
    wanted to go. Brigham Young insisted that he
    should. They stayed just outside of Far West.
  • After midnight they gathered at the temple lot
    in Far West. Seven members of the Twelve were
    present (two had not yet been ordained).
  • Both Wilford Woodruff and George A. Smith were
    ordained Apostles at the Far West Temple spot.
  • George A. Smith was only 22 years old. Willard
    Richards would have been ordained also but he was
    serving in the British Mission Presidency.
    Willard will be ordained later in England.

22
  • They excommunicated several people from the
    Church, including Isaac Russell, John Goodson and
    their wives.
  • They rolled a stone on one of the corners and
    Brigham Young dedicated the site of the temple.
  • Darwin Chase and Norman Sheer were ordained
    70s.
  • They sang Di Ahman as they departed to take
    up their journey and start their missions.

23
  • A Classic Story
  • As they had completed their meeting in Far West
    and began traveling out of town, Theodore Turley
    asked a couple of the Twelve if they would wait
    for a few moments because he wanted to say
    goodbye to his old friend Isaac Russell. The sun
    was just barely up enough to give some light when
    he knocked at the Russell home.
  • Mrs. Russell was dumbfounded to see Theodore
    Turley. Theodore Turley said, I have come to
    say goodbye. I have taken up my mission with the
    Twelve. Isaac Russell said, What day is it?
    Theodore Turley said, Its April 26th!
  • It turned out that the mob had simply forgotten
    about the date. It was considered by the Saints
    to be a great miracle from God.
  • Isaac Russell could not speak. Theodore Turley
    bore his testimony to Isaac Russell and his wife.
    Theodore then left, never to see Isaac in
    mortality again.
  • Isaac Russell never came back into the Church
    even after witnessing such a great prophecys
    fulfillment.

24
  • Doctrine and Covenants 1191-5
  • The Law of Tithing
  • Though it is little known, the command that the
    Saints pay one-tenth of their increase annually
    required a greater sacrifice of property than
    that required by the law of consecration and
    stewardship, as practiced in the early days of
    this dispensation. In the law of consecration,
    after the Saints put their substance and
    properties before the bishop, they received a
    stewardship to provide for their needs. Later, if
    from their stewardship they had more than was
    necessary for their support (DC 4233), or in
    other words, a residue or a surplus, then they
    would contribute surplus to the Church. The great
    difference in the law of tithing is that it
    requires the Saints to pay a tenth of their
    income before any expenses are met, not from
    their surplus after their needs have been
    satisfied.

25
  • Because the law of tithing requires an act of
    faith before the day of the harvest, it provides
    a greater promise of blessing than that found in
    the law of consecration as it was applied to
    temporal stewardships in the early 1830s.
  • Consecration is a higher law only when it
    extends beyond that which is temporal and
    involved dedicating all of ones time, talent,
    and energies that may be needed to building up
    the Lords kingdom (DC 1053-5).
  • Before I started, I asked brother Joseph, Who
    shall be the judge of what is surplus property?
    Said he, Let them be the judges themselves, for
    I care not if they do not give a single dime. So
    far as I am concerned, I do not want anything
    they have.

26
  • Then I replied, I will go and ask them for
    their surplus property and I did so I found
    the people said they were willing to do about as
    they were counseled, but, upon asking them about
    their surplus property, most of the men who owned
    land and cattle would say, I have got so many
    hundred acres of land, and I have got so many
    boys, and I want each one of them to have eighty
    acres, therefore this is not surplus property.
    Again, I have got so many girls, and I do not
    believe I shall be able to give them more than
    forty acres each. Well, you have got two or
    three hundred acres left. Yes, but I have a
    brother-in-law coming on, and he will depend on
    me for a living my wifes nephew is also coming
    on, he is poor, and I shall have to finish him a
    farm after he arrives here. I would go on to the
    next one, and he would have more land and cattle
    that he could make use of to advantage. It is a
    laughable idea but is nevertheless true, men
    would tell me they were young and beginning the
    world, and would say, We have no children, but
    our prospects are good, and we think we shall
    have a family of children, and if we do, we want
    to give them eighty acres of land each we have
    no surplus property. How many cattle have you?
    So many. How many horses, etc.? So many,
    but I have made provisions for all these, and I
    have use for everything I have got.

27
  • Some were disposed to do right with their
    surplus property, and once in a while you would
    find a man who had a cow which he considered
    surplus, but generally she was of the class that
    would kick a persons hat off, or eyes out, or
    the wolves had eaten off her teats. You would
    once in a while find a man who had a horse that
    he considered surplus, but at the same time he
    had the ringbone, was broken-winded, spavined in
    both legs, had the pole evil at one end of the
    neck and a fistula at the other and both knees
    sprung (JD, 2306-7)

28
  • Doctrine and Covenants 118-120
  • The Law of Tithing
  • (DC 6423 Malachi 38-12)
  • This revelation established a new and exacting
    law to replace the law of consecration.
  • Those who live the law of tithing will be
    preserved to live the law of consecration. It
    does away with selfishness, greed, pride, envy,
    etc.
  • No man may hope to expect to have an inheritance
    on this Celestial Globe who has failed to pay his
    tithing (Marvin J. Ballard, Oct., C.R., 1929).

29
  • I hope you are paying your tithing my fellow
    Latter-day Saints. The Church actually can get
    along without your money, but you cant get along
    without the blessings of the Lord, I mean that
    (Gordon B. Hinckley).
  • If we neglect to pay our tithes and offerings we
    will neglect other things and this will grow upon
    us until the spirit of the Gospel is entirely
    gone from us, and we are left in the dark, and
    know not whither to go (Brigham Young).

30
  • Definition of Tithing
  • The First Presidency has written The simplest
    statement we know of is the statement of the Lord
    himself, namely, that the members of the Church
    should pay one-tenth of all their interest
    annually, which is understood to mean income. No
    one is justified in making any other statement
    than this (First Presidency letter, 19 Mar.
    1970).
  • When and How to Pay Tithing
  • Local leaders should encourage members to pay
    tithing as they receive their income. However,
    members who wish to pay annually may do so.

31
  • Why should I pay my tithing
  • Payment of an honest tithing is essential to the
    attainment of salvation in the celestial kingdom.
    President McKay has said, To members of the
    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
    tithing is as much a law of God as is baptism
    (David O. McKay, Treasures of Life, 183).
  • I bear witness and I know that the witness I
    bear is true that the men an the women who have
    been absolutely honest with God, who have paid
    their one-tenth, God has given them wisdom
    whereby they have been able to utilize the
    remaining nine-tenths, and it has been of greater
    value to them, and they have accomplished more
    with it than they would if they had not been
    honest with the Lord (Heber J. Grant, C.R., April
    1912, 30).

32
  • A religion that does not require the sacrifice
    of all things never has the power sufficient to
    produce the faith necessary unto life and
    salvation (Joseph Smith, Lectures on Faith,
    658).
  • Tithing is a donation. It is not optional for
    members. It is a commandment from God (Ezra Taft
    Benson).
  • The time to pay your tithes is every week, or
    every month, or every time an income is in your
    hands (Spencer W. Kimball).

33
  • I have wept as I have seen the poverty and the
    sufferings of the people in this part of the
    earth. My heart reaches out to them. I do not
    know what the solution is, except the gospel of
    Jesus Christ. I think it is the only thing that
    will help them and bless their lives. If they,
    even living in poverty and misery, can look to
    God with hope and faith, it will sustain them in
    their hours of sorrow. Furthermore, I believe
    with all my heart that if they will accept the
    gospel and live it, pay their tithes and
    offerings, even though it is meager, the Lord
    will keep His ancient promises in their behalf,
    and they will have rice in their bowls, and
    clothing on their backs, and shelter over their
    heads. I do not see any other solution (Gordon B.
    Hinckley).
  • No one is ever too poor to pay tithing, and the
    Lord has promised that he will open the windows
    of heaven when we are obedient to his law
    (Spencer W. Kimball).

34
  • Types of Tithing
  • Property tithing
  • the 10 assessment on all property owned by
    church members.
  • Labor tithing
  • one day in ten on various projects.
  • Produce and Stock tithing
  • the increase from the farm ranch or mine.

35
  • Institutional tithing
  • business gave one tenth to the church.
  • Cash tithing
  • this was what was needed in early Church History
    and remains the case today.

36
  • Doctrine and Covenants 120
  • Since this is sacred funds/property it must be
    dealt with properly and that was to be taken care
    of by the named groups. Today the Presiding
    Bishopric continues to hold that function and
    reports at General Conferences in April about how
    the money was used.

37
  • Doctrine and Covenants 1201
  • Disposed of by a council
  • The Council is composed of the First Presidency,
    the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and the
    Presiding Bishopric (C.R., April 1999, 26).
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