Vote:
Do we have to obey the commandments to go to the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom?
Do we have to obey the commandments to go to the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom?
Yes No Abstain
20 12 1
And other Institute notes from the Green Stickie!
And other Institute notes from the Green Stickie!
March 31, 2015
April the 13th --
John 6:22
releasing them from the Mosaic Law
Verse 21 -- miraculous
What is making people so ANGRY with Him?
Vote:
Do we have to obey the commandments to go to the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom?
Yes No Abstain
20 12 1
What is it that Jesus is doing for us?
Explain your position to someone else based on the standard works and teachings of the living prophets.
verse 28-29 the essence is belief
looking back at Manna
Jesus is the manna
Jesus is also the Passover
manna -- pascal lamb
into sacrament
No salvific power in you or in me --
easy believism
What does it mean to believe --
Does it mean that you will obey the commandments?
How does fallibility fit in?
What does it mean to obey?
legalism
Alma and Lehi
without the Atonement -- no hope
How does this fit with what we become?
partake of the bread - what we become
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The Living Christ
As we commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ two millennia ago, we offer our testimony of the reality of His matchless life and the infinite virtue of His great atoning sacrifice. None other has had so profound an influence upon all who have lived and will yet live upon the earth.
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Since [-- think of better wording --the beginning], Satan has twisted perceptions of our God-ordained sexual desires in attempts to destroy God's plan.
Institute 3-10-15
The Fundamentals == fundamentalism --- 1920
science over prophets
bottom line -- KEYS MATTER
Matthew 9:9
Matthew's response to the call
tax farming
Elder Faust -- What about your political connections (Democratic) -- I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican -- I'm an apostle of Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 6:6
an errant placement of attention on things that really are not embedded in salvation.
Mercy does not demand the abandonment of common sense -- It demands mercy.
Cold-heartedness is not Christianity.
Luke 8: 41 Capernaum
Jairus
Daughter on the brink of adulthood
married 12-14
on average 5 pregnancies
average lifespan 28
not literate
the next generation depends on her
has the love of her father
network of women
network of men
network of families
legend -- Veronica
separation
blood can equal death, but blood can equal life
The need to turn to Christ -- whose blood will bring life
One must be separate to -- separated from the world
at the forefront of our minds
cut away from the world
Leviticus
may be the most dramatic example of healing someone and bringing them back into normalcy
cultural severance
Middle East not a culture of lines --
Virtue -- power
Power in Christ
Ted Gibbons --
In spite of the throngs, Jesus knows your individual needs.
"Despite the universal throngs, Jesus knows my individual needs."
Jesus senses the ones
cleansing of sins associated with the font -- can be too closely
From where does the cleansing come?
Luke 8: 27-33 Legion of devils cast out
between this portion of Luke 8 and the last portion of Luke 8: a foil
no clothes
no home
lived in the tombs
kept bound in chains and in fetters
driven into the wilderness
legion 6000 soldiers
Where association with the adversary takes you.
a place for you at the feet of Jesus -- discipleship
sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind:
Luke 8:47 -
the text is virtue and faith
Two stories put side by side --
like a string of pearls -- relational -- stories
woman cleansing the Savior's feet
Matthew 11:280-30
yoke
covenant
Hebrew Brit
concept of covenant
Old and New Testament
1) selection process by God
agrarian -- selecting a portion of the field, animal husbandry
cutting covenants
Genesis -- Abraham's first vision experience
When you cut a check, you care communicating that the check is good -- if not good, you come back and cut my throat
a cutting away from
2) cutting away
3) fettering -- chaining to -- yoking to
if. . . . going where the Messiah is going
4) Promise -- You will be made better through the relationship.
could also approach -- the labor of Christ allows you to sleep well at night
the labor of the world leaves you without rest
the guilty fleeth when no one pursues
no rest for the wicked
covenants make your load lighter
Matthew 12:10
withered hand
a plot, a test, a ruse
life or death -- the mandate of the sabbath is suspended
Pharisees -- the sabbath become the ultimate expression of their religiosity
Shift the nature of the code -- Matthew 12:12
lawful to do good
President Kimball's sabbath lists
mid 80's shift of tone -- early to mid 90's
Elder Oaks -- stop making lists
stop teaching with lists
proscriptive vs. nonproscriptive
Jesus has created a courtroom -- takes control
Jesus is the leader of the Jews
What is the law
states the law
heals the man
Pharisees hold council to destroy him
a mini Sanhedrin
withdrew
healed them all (another 3rd Nephi 17)
Isaiah 42 first servant poem
Isaiah 49 servant poem -- bruised reed --
most decripit can be fanned back to life by Jesus Christ
Luke --
all you have to do is watch the father
the earth does not come to standstill
I do only what I see the Father do
The Father words on the Sabbath
work that does well
I am doing only what I see the Father do
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Institute 3-3-15
Notes on Class:
Matthew 8
Centurion
Galatian 2:16 - 21 "I do not frustrate the grace of God"
His perfection is stationary. Our imperfections are cleansed when we are brought to Him.
Healing, etc. activated by faith
Tad Callister -- The Priesthood in the Boy
Jesus is complimenting the man and making a statement about the level of faith within Israel
Matthew 8:16 The Healings at Evening
Luke and Mark --
the Savior gathered all the people of a significant Galilean village -- the village He called His own -- and said "Have you any sick. . . .bring them. . . .. "
Matthew 4:24
many --
synagogue at Capernaum - village -- bigger than Nazareth -- maybe around a thousand- two thousand
Matthew 8:17 Isaiah and King Benjamin
The other side is east.
Jordan -- flow down from Dan -- springs
a lot of soldiers in that area
getting out of town --
Luke 8
Mark 4:35
D&C 100:1
for missionaries serving in the field
D&C 31:
Matthew 10:37
Psalm 65:7, 89:9, 107:29
Master, the Tempest is Raging --
prophetically prescribed Messianic signs
Revelation 12:12 . . . . he knoweth that he hath but short time.
D&c 76:32-38
an eternal timetable
to torment us before the time
Luke 8:31
Why?
they besought him that he would depart out of theirbcoasts.
gentile -
cities of Decopolis -- a day's drive
cities in Wyoming a hundred miles apart -- steam engine to next need to get water
infusing Greco-Roman culture right in the middle of the Jewish society
hypodrome -- racing horses
on the Gentile side of the lake
Jack-Jews
a manifestation of power will not necessarily bring one to the Kingdom -- if independent of faith
D&C 63
bigger than calming water -- sentient beings
If you bring not faith to the table, you reject it.
Power and Faith have to come together or the power just an interesting curiosity -- not something that brings you to salvation.
Luke 8:37
after the pigs --
Luke 7:11 Widow of Nain
New Testament story overlaid over Old Testament Story
about 25 miles from Capernaum
must have walked in part through the night
posterity
family line -- name gone
financial
social situation
legal standing
ritual
16 And there came a afear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath bvisited his people.
How do I respond to manifestations of power?
Do I bring great faith to the table?
This woman is saved in so many ways.
Preparation Notes:
Institute 2-23-15
leprosy --
leprosy a curse from God (as is a barren woman)
(extensive also -- cleansing after contact with dead body -- water filtered through the ashes of a red heifer) -- overcoming death the biggest deal that the Gospel brings to the table --
without --- terminally cut off ritually
ritual cleansing
shaving -- outside camp
birds -- wrapped in scarlet
sacrificed
another bird washed in the water
set free
Jesus the Christ 199-201 Hansen's Disease, but could cover many other maladies
Home can have leprosy
Matthew 8: a year into his mission
Leviticus 14
The healing in the evening -- bring everyone who is sick and I'll heal them. like 3 Nephi Capernaum
Why command to tell no one?
1. keep the former leper from being denounced as a heretic
2. protect the interests of those who are converting to follow Christ
3. Jesus is going to test people throughout his ministry
can you keep a confidence?
4. likely occurs somewhere in the area of Capernaum -- in Nazareth could not do any more miracles after a certain point
Section 123:12
last 6 months + of His life -- excommunicated from synagogue if follow Jesus -- Matthew 10 may have to choose between family members and the Savior (Choose me.)
Matthew 10 --
Luke 6:12-16 Jesus prays all night prior to extending the calls
Mark 3:14-19
apostle = one sent forth
Matthew/Levi -- where he is a tax collector
collecting taxes at Capernaum -- trade route
Via Maris (Way of the Sea)? border from Philip's territory into Antipus' territory -- Nazareth -- fortified city Megiddo (armageddin -- hill of medgiddo == har Mediddon -- battle between ultimate good and ultimate evil -- temple covenants)
from Egypt to Mesopotamia -- Rivers make them the breadbaskets of the Middle East
most likely the wealthiest of the apostles
tax farming -- walks away -- had to give bids to Roman Empire
tax farm organization -- not the chief publican, but close to top
later chief publican -- Zachias
Jesus to train His twelve
Matthew 10:5
Matthew 10:7 preach a specific message
the kingdom of heaven is at hand
8 You have Priesthood power --
9. not in money belt
10. in ancient world comfortable shoes are for the hoity toities -- the wealthy -- you don't need the fancy rich adornments of the wealthy people who hold religious authority
stave --
Verse 19
thrown in jail -- just a different teaching opportunity
they don't fear man --
Let the Spirit guide.
Relax.
Apostles are going to take high-level heat -- WHEN they deliver you up
22 hated of all men for my name's sake
Bro VanDyke -- never heard anybody take a shot at Elder Perry
but all the rest. . . . .
Pray for the first pres. and quorum of twelve -- uphold them. . . .
24 The adisciple is not above his master, nor the servant above hislord. (not persecuted more than me -- but akin to the persecution I will receive -- You are going to have an experience -- guilt by association - that will cost you.)
John horseman of apocalypse -- blood of martyrs under altar
James the first martyr Acts 12
41 He that areceiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receivea prophet’s breward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in thename of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.
boxed and arrowed
Jesus' ministry is so short -- prior to that time and after that time we are leaning on special witnesses when they are on the earth. If born in this era, would I have followed Jesus. Verse 41 gives you the answer. The litmus test is -- how do you respond to prophetic teachings?
D&C 1
Sermon on the Mount an autobiography -- blueprint for our lives
1. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad! 2-12
beatus -- You will be happy if. . . . .
12 aRejoice, and be exceeding glad:
stairsteps -- an ascent
cycle
counter-intuitives only born out through living it
no matter what we do, we are teaching -- we are communicating
Paul puts in hierarchy calling in the church --
apostle, then teacher
D&C 68 teach children
When John has to use one word to describe God -- God is love.
In the middle of the sermon -- love everyone.
That is the challenge of Christianity.
prep notes --
Apostle -- The word means “one sent forth.”
D&C 107:23 The atwelve traveling councilors are called to be the Twelve bApostles, or special cwitnesses of the name of Christ in all the world—thus differing from other officers in the church in the duties of their calling.
7 previously called to leave their other business affairs and follow the Savior:
Andrew
John
Simon Peter
Philip
Nathanael
James
Levi
Matthew
The Twelve:
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2-17-15
no rebellion in kingdoms of glory
celestial beings dispense what relevant to them to terrestrial
Terrestrial minister relevant -- to telestial
Section 76
No ordinances for anything but the highest degrees of the
Joseph F. Smith's explanation of resurrection -- not resurrected with capacity (nor drives) to procreate -- gender will persist
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Prep: rejection of Jesus in His home village of Nazareth -
At the Great Temple in Jerusalem the annual tax levied on Jews was 1/2 shekel per male. the 1/2 shekel and shekel were not always used in everyday commerce, but were the only coins accepted by the temple. Many taxpayers required a currency exchange, so money changers set up in the Temple court. Jesus found this business and their shouting (advertising rates) offensive, so he threw over their tables.
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Lower Galilee Upper Galilee where Mount Hermon is
lake 7 miles wide, 12 miles long 250 ft deep
600 ft below sea level
Galilee means circle -- down in the Jordan Rift Valley
4000 mile long
Mountains wind comes down from funnel circle in counterclockwise
Nazareth 20 miles removed from the lake
Valley of Jezreel -- Armageddon
fertile -- breadbasket of ancient and modern Israel
Church had the opportunity to buy 5000 acres -- Lorenzo Snow -- not money
Cana about 7 miles away from Nazareth
All waiting for the Messiah
When Jesus walked into Nazareth --
Most of the people are convinced they are dealing with a Messianic figure.
Luke 4:16
Earliest 1st century explanation of what happens in the synagogue = gathering place
Synagogue rises in pre-eminance when don't hvave a temple. Priestly class de-emphasized -- rabbinical class arises
practices of synagogue brought back from Babylon
Ezra, Nehemiah,. .
Stand up to show deference to the word of God.
Then asked to offer commentary -- sit down to offer the commentary
booming population of about 400 (from modern archeology)
Galilee like the wild, wild west -- Herod (previous) killed a lot of Jews -- still edginess about Galilee
Herod Antipus building a new
Josephus will exaggerate numbers
Luke 4:17 -- scroll --
Isaiah 21 feet into the 26 feet of the Isaiah scroll
servant poems -- key in on characteristics of the Messiah -- bruised and beaten, chastisement on him,
Isaiah 61
considered Messianic imposter
acceptable year of the Lord
Exclusivism
all others external to the possibility of salvation
history of persecution from outsiders
the Lord rises up and crushes the enemies of the people of Jehovah -- very vengeful
editing as he reads --
Middrashic --
Joseph Smith Translation
In the gospel of Luke, the Jews usually come out looking bad.
Luke 4:
Psalm 45 -- when He would speak -- his language gracious, imbedded in power.
Does the fuse start burning in verse 18 or verse 24?
acceptable year of the Lord -- Luke 4:19
jubilee --
every seven years Sabbath don't plant let land lie fallow -- Earth will yield year before and year after so you don't die
49th Year of jubilee
7x7
three years of no planting
all debt forgiven (some in Sabbath years, but in year of jubilee total leveling of cultural playing field Leviticus
Messianic -- a way of referring to the eternal Jubilee
entire playing field leveled through the Atonement of Jesus Christ
usury
stoning -- hands tied behind back
cliff face 2 1/2 times height of person --
placing stones on the chest cavity
Capernaum -- may mean the village of Nahum (Old Testament prophet)
a timeframe demons are aware of
vrs 34-35 -- the source matters
witness of Jesus Christ must come from genuine, sincere followers of Christ
Satan will use the knowledge to lead people astray
Luke 5
a year into his ministry
gaining a claim in the eyes of the people as the Messiah
Gennesaret -- heart
Launch out into the deep -- Greek -- related to the word redemption Luke 5:4
26-27 species of fish in the lake -- most prefer cool water
dive deep during the day -- come up after surface waters begin to cool -- night
The nets don't go deep enough
Will the nets that the apostolic fisherman cast go deep enough?
Is there anywhere deep enough that the Savior's redemptive power cannot reach us?
20-30 foot long ships
Peter acknowledging Jesus as Redeemer
James and John likely cousins of Jesus
2nd call in John 21
I go a fishing. . .
process fish -- Magdala -- where they salted the fish
prosperous village
infinite amount of salt from Dead Sea
could use salt as money
mostly sardines in jerky form
draught of fishes -- funding missionary effort?
the Lord will call you when your nets are full
call when nets are empty
The Lord is just interested in service -- not the fullness or emptiness of nets
Sermon on the Mount -- autobiography of Jesus Christ --
why repeated in Book of Mormon?
Matthew, Luke, 3 Nephi,
the essense of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
blueprint
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Institute 2-10-15
Joseph Smith -- baptism not needed for any but Celestial Kingdom
Nicodemus -- something to be learned from our physical birth and growth that we can apply to
growth in increments
D&C 29
Not ready to really employ agency correctly at age 8.
accountabilty
Don't put edges on something that is organic.
"Time and place folks"
John 3:8 Jesus's own description of what it means to be born again and to live by the Spirit
Ecclesiastes 11:5
Christ is the High Priest of Good Things to Come
John 3:10 -- a slap, a rebuke
Genesis 28 - Jacob's Ladder -- at Bethel --
vision -- Joseph Smith explained that that was the same vision as Joseph had Section 76
A type or shadow of the Messianic occurance
The Son of Man must come down the ladder -- must atone, lay down his life for the sins of the universe, then be raised up and ascend into heaven.
Bednar April 2013
Samaria capital of 10 tribes -- many stories of Old Testament
90 miles
4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
Successfully Failing: Pursuing Our Quest for Perfection
BYU President Kevin J. Worthen January 6, 2015
“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”18 . . .
Yes, I am asking you to trust yourself more, but, more important, I am asking you to trust God. I urge you—in your moments of doubt and despair, in the times when you think you have failed and you think you can’t make it right—to focus more on Him and less on yourselves.
Too often we ask the wrong question when we fail. We ask, “Am I good enough?” But the real question is, “Is God good enough?” Is He as good as He says He is? Can He really deliver on His promise that “all things” will “work together for [our] good”30 if we will trust Him and strive to do the best we can and keep going whenever we fall short?
Elder Holland: https://www.lds.org/broadcasts/watch/evening-with-a-general-authority/2015/02?lang=eng
The mysteries of the kingdom can become a source of living water -- We can go to the throne of God boldly and supplicate Him and learn of Him.
Their temple never desecrated -- sacrifice on Passover
D&C 63:23
26 Jesus saith unto her, aI that speak unto thee am he.
First public declaration --
2nd miracle -- Nobleman's son
48 Your faith is not sufficient.
Faith --
"He doesn't care what Jesus thinks about him. More concerned about his child. Faith." The demands that faith may have upon you.
the man believed the word
or the man believed the Word
seventh hour --
Jewish day starts at 7 am
miracle 1:00 pm. complete light
about 5 pm into Capernum -- but it's the next day --
He wasn't worried -- Yesterday at the seventh hour --
More miracles in Capernum than anywhere else
tested
D&C 101 -- we will have Abrahamic tests
Next week start with rejection of Jesus in His home village of Nazareth -
Notes in preparation
Luke 5
at thy word I will let down the net.
from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
27 ¶And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.
28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him.
Institute 2-3-15
On September 23, 1995, in a general Relief Society meeting, President Gordon B. Hinckley introduced “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” This proclamation from the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles declares to the world the Lord’s standards and doctrines concerning the family. The proclamation also provides counsel for strengthening families and a warning about the consequences of the disintegration of families.
Open cannon
John 2 -- water to wine
priestly lens
stone and clay
temple experience in ancient Israel
presenting the wine -- blood
John 2;9
D&C 45:3-5
spare these my brethren -- bought them with His blood
behold the blood
Connections between the sacrificial animal and the person sacrificing it --
a distinct link and connection
We see Jesus going into the moments of the sacrifice
Don't mention the Father as much as we should
(like telling an Isaac-only narrative about Abraham sacrificing Isaac)
you worked, sweat, to raise it up
more tending to animal or crop?
Day of Atonement the day the blood would be taken before the Father
sprinkles blood of sacrificial lamb on the altar on the part of all Israel
blood being presented to the Father / Master of the Feast
acknowledges the unique status of the blood (wine)
John writing from a temple orientation
a blood story -- not a wine story
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culturally -- expectations -- marriage --
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John 2:13
marking the passage of time with ritual markers
based on the feasts of Judaism
Psalm 69:9
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
will cleanse the temple again -- My house a den of thieves
eventually claiming of the House as His own
marker -- transfiguration
Agora -- marketplace -- purchasing for sacrifice at the temple
money then becomes rep. of your blood, tears, sweat, labor
significant way to teach tithing
Elder Nelson --
plasma -- blood money
Biotic Rapport -- if not, not a sacrifice
gambling -- no biotic rapport -- Elder Oaks
Solomon's Porch
reconstruction in days of Zarrubabel -- line never changes very much 400 years before -- also Ottoman -- Eastern Wall
Administrative Building -- Royal Portico
money changers on Solomon's porch 36 ft pillars or to inside Royal Basillica
turned into a shopping mall
Wall between court of Gentiles and Court of Israelites
sacred space -- making the sacred profane
turned into
enormous income generator --
gouging people
hence Jesus's zeal important
Priestly home -- 4000 sq. feet
Fist-Pumping
(Essenes)
Pharisaical -
Sheep Pools
Herod a thug and murderous jerk, but what a builder
Solomon's Pools -- between Bethlehem and Hebron
Uphill to temple complex
aquaduct system -- moving water uphill 1.8" gradation
75 foot drop from temple complex
John 2:18
the great and last sacrifice -- priestly lens
the principle listeners get it
first public prophecy of his resurrection
Matthew 27:63
63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again
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John 2: 23- 24 Knew all things
Paul -- 1 Corinthians 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him:neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
the natural and fallen cannot understand spiritual things
The Holy Ghost not beholden to some check and balances in the World
No one can bring a judgement to the table that would override or trump what the Spirit would teach you.
modesty/humility matters
Don't need an appeals process, checks and balances
He does not need ratification.
He expects his disciples to take that position.
Brigham Young: There has never been a revelation communicated to a prophet in its purity -- coming through a mortal filter -- no imperfections in what God intended. LDS do not employ doctrine of infallibility
Jesus to go North -- - encounter with Nicodemus
Sanhedrin -- governing body -- 71 men top of Jewish society -- final word in ritual and civil -- up to civil execution Acts 7 (Stephen)
John 7:1
John 3
Nicodemus -- ruler = in Sanhedrin -- WE
Moses 6 -- sacrifice - born again
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Institute:
Notes:
How far were the people traveling to be baptized?
How much desert around the baptismal site?
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Institute
Press Conference --
same sex marriage starts to brew in Hawaii in 1993
1996 DOMA
prop 22
three paths
judiciary federal govt states
1996 DOMA Hawaii 1993 pro
Massachusetts state, but not federal
inheritance tax case to Supreme Ct
Prop. 22 state code
rules Prop. 22 unconstitutional Prop. 8 amendment to state const.
60%
Utah Amendment 3
suit to Supreme Court
New York couple DOMA
Supreme Court June 2013 rules on DOMA and state Prop. 8 (state rights issue)
(Roe V. Wade -- premature ruling -- before population allowed to debate)
DOMA Unconstitutional 2013 -- joint tax return fed.
Governor Herbert -- no state tax return
New York about two years ago
marital status shift based on geographical location
never in history of US marriage right granted, then stripped away
Dec. 2013 -- Judge Shelby -- if unconst. at fed level, must be unconst at state
3rd, 5th, 10th, 13th, 14th
first state to crash Utah -- other states went down after that
11,000 marriages before stopped in Utah
appealed Shelby's opinion
appeal to Supreme Court -- disenfranchised
not to hear -- The court has spoken -- it is done
at Federal level -- 3 judge panel in Ohio -- upheld some state's amendments banning same sex marriage
back to Supreme Court -- will hear this case
decision by June 2015
question -- will some be punished for maintaining a traditional view of marriage
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Matthew 3 -- John
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John Delynn -- question of authority
Do you believe that John the Baptist holds legal authority to perform saving ordinances?
Jesus comes to him.
authorization
apostate or authorized agent
Authorized priestly line
not in Jerusalem
to be integrated into Judaism -- by virtue of birth -- brought into the Abrahamic tribe through ritual
baptism into Judaism -- but not for the remission of sins
John bringing remission of sins to the table
Telling full-blooded Jews that they must submit to baptism.
outside of and in conflict with the power structure at the temple
Sadducces -- don't even believe in resurrection -- don't acknowledge
later when Jesus questions -- not disavow because so many people believed John held authority
had evaporated away --
Pearl of Great Price -- Adam's baptism -- the Prophet Joseph Smith
difficult to find in the text of the Old Testament
David purchases the threshing floor of ---- for tabernacle
Solomon builds first temple on threshing floor
images planting, harvesting, threshing machine, winnowing
Who is throwing the wheat and chaff into the air -- a judge figure
a judgement is coming
serve as a judge -- will winnow -- not be neutral
need to store the wheat in the garner
Elder Maxwell, Elder Bednar -- the garner is the temple
Baptism and confirmation is gathering
To the temple is garner
Someone who had figured out who Jesus was.
John recognizes a higher authority than his own. Presiding authority
Jesus is the source -- the one who made the possible.
Jesus is the eternal, most potent, cleansing agent for time and all eternity. John gets that.
(Do you wash your soap?)
Not a bird -- the Holy Ghost appearing as a man -- John and Jesus are seeing a man -- The Holy Ghost -- he then gives a sign -- a sign that was promised to John. Satan cannot come in the sign of the dove.
Facsimile 2 Figure #7 upside down -- picture of the sign of the Holy Ghost
T.P. J.S. 275-276
a token of truth and innocence
John most likely preaching about 6 months before Jesus came -- 30 the age that you can begin an itinerate mission -- so many followers
ratification of the ordinance
John fulfilling his mission
sealed by the Holy Spirit
unique -- all three members of the Godhead
Holy Ghost explicitly appearing
Matthew 4:2
JST adds communing with God
wilderness fastings -- purpose appears to be
JS -- at age 12 he possessed all of the capacities and abilities to run the kingdom of God on the earth, but just needed to physically grow up
J. Reuben Clark -- visions of heaven are open to him so He knows what his ministry is -- at age 12
The Adversary comes --
The Spirit taketh Him
11 JST --and Jesus knew that John had been cast into prison -- he sent angels to minister to John
From Judea to Galilee
John 2
with disciples
Cana 5, 6, 7 miles away from Nazareth
called to the marriage
not a hermit
engaging with a variety of people with different perspectives
contrast with Essenes
ruler of feast -- his job to certify the virginity of the bride
at the wedding ceremony in front of the wedding party
wine at the wedding
a symbol of life and of resurrection
fermentation a mystery to these people
type and symbol of marriage
two lives when separate barren
become fruitful
birth also miraculous
life come where there was not life before
so much water
6 waterpots of 27 gallons apiece
stone pots to be filled to the brim
ritual washings
draw out now and bear unto the governor
drawing out of a living source of water -- in Greek connotation
living water -- water that flows or comes out of the sky
ritual immersion pool must have a prescribed amount of rain water
not of this earth
vrs. 10 aged wine -- compressed time (Master over time)
Joseph Fielding Smith -- biblical literalism (not inerrancy) late 40's 1950's
prior to that wide spectrum of belief about how the earth created
2 serious, esteemed scientists --
turn of the 20th century
compressed time? Grand Canyon?
overflowing, no shortage of any kind in His persona
Afterward Jesus is going to go to the Passover
Samaritan woman -- at well - using a clay pot
text doesn't tell you that
link John 2 and John 4
stone water pots
Leviticus -- if clay pot receives into any type of unclean substance -- Law of Moses demands that you break it
stone vessel impervious to ritual contamination
volcanic
1 Corinthians 10: He is the Rock
John 4
Is the woman of Samaria walking away herself and full vessel -- full of living water.
28 -- left her waterpot
Book of John anciently divided into two sections
John 1-11 called -- the Book of Power (the word in Greek translated into Miracle revolves around power -- 7 miracles
whole, complete
he numbers the miracles
11 -- this beginning
4:54 this is the second. . . .
John 12-end -- the Book of Glory from the ministry to the people generally and show you how the Son of God executes the passion, the suffering of a God to save
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Mark was written in the late 60s, so finding a copy of Mark in Egypt dating to the 80s is not strange in the least.”
http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/oldest-gospel-fragment-discovered-in-mummy-mask/article/424171
“Mark, being the interpreter of Peter, whatsoever he remembered he wrote accurately, but not however in the order that these things were spoken or done by our Lord. For he neither heard the Lord, nor followed him, but afterwards, as I said, he was with Peter, who did not make a complete [or ordered] account of the Lord’s logia, but constructed his teachings according to chreiai [concise self-contained teachings]. So Mark did nothing wrong in writing down single matters as he remembered them, for he gave special attention to one thing, of not passing by anything he heard, and not falsifying anything in these matters.”
Papias, the Bishop of Hieropolis (wrote c.95 to 120 A.D.
Institute 1-20-15
cousins -- Elizabeth and Zacharius -- Levites
Leviticus 21
prescription for priestly marriage
someone in the male line had married outside of the priestly (Levitical) line
okay Leviticus 21
Davidic (line of Judah) and Levitical for Mary
both king and priest
Gabriel appears on the right side of the altar of incense in the Holy Place
waiting Numbers 6:22-27 Levitical Benediction
courses may be as far away as Alexandria in Egypt
twice a year for one week
Jewish temple in Egypt in antiquity
Gabriel to Mary -- inside
handmaid -- slave (connotation in Greek)
90 mile journey Mary to Elizabeth
Luke 1 Magnificat
great reversal
53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Mary and Elizabeth helping each other
Naming the son -
9 months of silence from Zacharias -
Elizabeth probably not literate -- oral traditions --
all access through her priestly husband
Why making signs? suggests he was deaf as well as dumb
music again
What year did Herod the Great die? 4 B.C. academic, historical, biblical scholarship
Jesus is born just prior to the death of Herod.
murdering all of the babies 3 and under
5-6-7 B.C.
6 A.D. Cæsar Augustus 31 BC to
Cyrenius begins in 6 AD
10 years gap 4 BC to 6 AD
Governor in Judea
Herod the Great -- facile king under Roman Power
married Miriam -- Maccabean princess
building things all over the Greco-Roman World
collects his own taxes
can collect his taxes any way he wants to
Antipus -- Herod Antipus (murders John the Baptist
Phillip
Archelaus - takes over Judea -- kicked out by Romans after 9 years
replaced by Cyreneus -- governor-- 10 years after the birth of Christ
Pilot a later governor -- weigh between his job and Jesus' life
Matthew 1:18
counted -- people who can be taxed
(woman's hair -- towel for husband's hands)
familial, ancestral lands -- why Joseph to Bethlehem
she also owns property? ancestral lands Moses -- though uncommon
Mary Magdala has property
or Joseph is from Bethlehem?
Mary is from Galilee --
arranged marriages
common to marry a family member like a cousin
bride price to secure her livelihood -- bride price
Joseph may have gone to Nazareth to get his bride and take her back?
or Nazareth-centric ?
Joseph chooses to divorce her privately --An upright, just son of the law who will follow with great care and charity the prescriptions of the law.
Angelic intervention -- Isaiah 9
Matthew 1:24
5 visitations reminiscent of Pentatuch -- recommending Joseph
taxing process may have begun with Herod the Great
Luke may be plugging in a practice of Herod the Great and plugging it in with Cyrenius
inn -- Khan --
rough bed and breakfast
inner court in city where animals could be gathered in -- humans bed down
arriving last in the town --
Jack Welch -- swaddling clothes -- overstated -- could abandon a baby -- slave
a child desired, wanted, cared for 6-8 inches in width
cold at this time of year
Jerusalem -- 20 thousand to over a hundred thousand -- men and women
shepherds Luke 2:8
kids of the shepherds in the field most nights
but in lambing season -- shepherds there
will leave the field --
celestial -- one can become a multitude very quickly -- (the cosmic atonement)
40 days bleeding has likely stopped -- verse 22
ritual cleansing process and everyone in her household
cleansed so can go to the temple
Exodus 13:2
Psalms of Ascent -- 15 steps
Priestly duty -- provide music
court of the women -- though gate beautiful
to present him -- to give him to the Father
lamb -- if poor dove --
Luke 2: verse 26 Simeon
Verse 36 Anna
2:39 -- to their own city Nazareth -- Matthew that the scripture might be fulfilled
workers of wood and stone Carpenter
J. Reuben Clark -- by time 12 - shown in vision his mission -- Wist he not
Luke 2:44
McConkie -- solo 5 days
VanDyke -- 3 days
swaddling clothes
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Institute 1-13-15
Birth narratives -- Matthew and Luke
probably added after the gospel accounts are written
becomes a tool by which Matthew and then Luke can further bolster the gospel account they have already recorded
The birth narrative grows out of the gospel account
Luke doesn't include threat to murder Jesus
or wise men
Greco Romans in the gentile world
Luke likely gentile -- likely brought into the church by Paul
Jews look bad -- not the Greeks and Romans
must make the case that this really is a God
religiously pluralistic Roman world -- no capital T Truth
no supreme god
Mary gets the focus
Who gets to tell the story? Who is he audience?
Davidic Geneology
Matthew is pitting king against king -- creating a second Moses --
Moses has to be taken away to be saved
Herod and Archelaus (deposed by Romans within about 9 years)-- terrible kings
thousands of Jews slaughtered -- You don't mess with kings
figure in Joseph willing to be guided by dreams and visions
5 dreams move Holy Family -- (number 5 significant -- Pentatuch)
Luke presents a universal saviour
literary point of view -- Luke - a dealbreaker -- not binding himself to historical facts --
In Luke -- shepherds -- not a trusted trade -- capacity to gouge you
WE are all sinners and Jesus is for everyone.
Eddershiem -- shepherds tending temple sheep?
converted to Christianlity
Luke a universalist
Matthew: Jesus is the Messiah to the Jews -- and exclusively Jewish story.
rightful king and heir of David
in common the essential elements -- synoptic
Mark doesn't start off with Birth story -- earliest Gospel
Luke might have Mark before him as he writes
Matthew might be aware of Luke?
Luke 60-70 AD
Paul writing down earliest stuff -- 50's
Luke's focus on women a reflection of Jesus' mortal ministry
women included in
the center of many stories
Luke focuses on that
Luke 1 --
Zacharias
In the day of Solomon priestly class organized into 24 courses
450 workers a day -- Mount Timp
Each course would serve for two weeks in the temple -- over the course of the year
hundreds in a course
Court of the Women
end of day -- offering of incense
sweet smelling to the Lord
presenting your best to the Lord at the end of the day
Individual priest identified by lot
Most would to their entire life and never have that opportunity
worshippers -- arms raised above head -- symbolic of total submission
Priest to offer a benediction after comes out
benediction releases the worshippers to go home
at this time, Romans have been identifying who the High Priest will be
Words of Joseph Smith p. 196 Lyndon Cook
Priesthood line ends without Zacharius having a son
also laying a case before the Lord to call in the blessing of the promised son so his Priesthood line will persist
National, Institutional, Personal
Granted, and then does not believe it
about 400 people in Nazareth at that time
one primary room, perhaps one bedroom just above it
may bring your animals inside during the night
foil characters -- Zacharias and Mary
In Luke -- just Mary and God
John -- Jesus basically being called an illegitimate son by his enemies
When does Joseph find out?
Elder Holland commended us -- 1997 or 95 -- during the sacrament, reflect upon Joseph (Mary's husband)
What kind of faith is he exercizing
Willing to follow dreams, follow visions -- exercise great faith
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John
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Not threat to murder Jesus – slaughter of innocents
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The Messiah to the Jews
Showing a second Moses – pitting king against king
Joseph willing to be guided by revelation
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A universal Savior
showing that the impossible can be possible
Shepherds
Focus on women
builds links to Old Testament through song
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Principle theme:
from pantheon to monotheism
showing that the impossible can be possible -- with what happened to Mary and the Elizabeth
Kent Brown -- Luke
Elizabeth and Mary -- cousins?
James, John, and Jesus probably first cousins
Mary's mother probably has passed away
eligible to marry
probably between 12 and 15 qualifies
Joseph probably around 19
Mary travels about 100 miles to see Elizabeth
Luke 1: 15 fulfilled in 44
filled with the Spirit from the womb
45 And blessed is she that believed:
Emphasis on belief, trust
You don't need status to believe.
Luke brings music to his gospel narrative -- (a gasoline that makes the Old Testament run)
The Psalms get a great deal of attention from Jesus
Lukc pulls from lyrics from the Old Testament -- verse 14
Magnificat
47 -- cross to 1 Samuel 1 and 2 -- Hannah
Samuel acknowledged from Dan to Bersheba
marginalized --
The great reversal
Pixner identifies the word Nazareth with Nazrit = to blossom Church of Annunciation -- looks like a flower from the air
Isaiah 11
out of dry ground --
Matthew 1: 17
fourteen -- generations
D (fourth letter -- no numerical
V 6
D 4
no vowels --
Connecting Jesus Christ to David
14 double 7 -- 7 fulfills Abrahamic covenant?
all of the Gospels quoting a central source -- Q -- central source
oral tradition
David Bachavoy -- source
Next Week -- John the Baptist
John 1
- JST, John 1:1–34.
- 30 And John bare record of him unto the people, saying, This is he of whom I said; After me cometh a man who is preferred before me; for he was before me, and I knew him, and that he should be made manifest to Israel; therefore am I come baptizing with water.
See JST John 6:44
greatest mysteries -- Atonement, creation
We don't know much -- according to Bruce R. McConkie
perdition -- rejecting the possibility of Christ's legitimacy --
Satan = accuser == the accusation is that the Atonement is not legitimate --
looking forward to the atonement -- looking back
1-6-15
Archbishop -- Permanent Observer to the United Nations -- April 13 -- 1 day conference
reception about 5 pm meeting start at 9 am
Series of books on Mormon Theology -- apologetics -- to defend apologeia (Greek)
Prominent Mormon Apologist: Dan Peterson (worked with Neal Maxwell in establishing FARMS, FAIR, FARMS (High Nibley), Welch,
assumes the answer in advance,
rules of the academy
The Learning Channel -- all about Mormons
Meridian -- Hancock
John the Beloved -- angels -- Name means Jehovah is gracious
1 Nephi 8
stewardship to receive knowledge and convey it
Mark 1: 15-20
Brother of James -- murdered in Acts 12
Sons of Thunder -- James and John
temple on the brain --
Eusebeus -- quotes early bishop in the Church 190 AD --- indicates that John of the priestly lineage -- wore the sacredotal plate -- a member of the priestly class --
The most fantastic building in the area -- part of the ritual infrastructure of that building
Watch for Temple imagery
John writing in the 90's AD
bring them to stand in the presence of God
Chapter 1: Christ laid out as the paramount authority in the universe, sent by the Father to and redeem.
2. miracle water and wine (blood)
3. bread of life
Feast of Tabernacles -- the Light of the World (and the water)
Altar of Incense -- Intermediary prayer John 17
crucifixion, resurrection, reuniting with the Father, resurrection
at issue from priestly perspective == Cherubum over the Mercy Seat -- Holy Place --
to get into the Holy place -- altar with blood and fire
laver -- water
a union with God
anointing John 12 --
John sees raising the dead, Gethsemene, resurrection, transfiguration
daughter of Jarius
Aaronic priesthood
tipping point -- transfiguration -- Melchezedik -- doing things only a God could do, moving toward something only a God could do.
Joseph restoring the concept of High Priest -- very Old Testament
McConkie on ordinances in the Bible -- every word we experience in the temple today, they would have experienced.
1 Corinthians twenty years after the
TPJS 308 - page --- ordinances don't change -- same as required of Adam
Cuba dedicated about 2 years ago
Joseph Smith said 3 Nephites and John the Beloved -- ministering to the lost tribes of Israel
JSTranslation --
In the beginning. . . . .. (bold opening)
declaration that there was another new beginning
comes with Jesus Christ
The word -- the Gospel
Gospel, life, light
Coming to understand what the Saviour would bring -- demands something beyond what this world can provide --
John the Baptist
JST John 1:12
spectrum of choices in the pre-earth life
we all maintained that status as sons and daughters of God
When did we figure out that Jesus would be our Savior
Jesus NOT chosen in the Council of Heaven
elevated by virtue of being the first born
by virtue of his perfection
by virtue of the fact that He reached Godhood
"huddle up with the Father": How can we help everybody else?
He is my Saviour for eons before earth life
The Lamb slain from before the foundations of the world
John's revelations
We repented in the pre-earth life.
not perfect -- noble, great, but not perfect
Alma 13 -- left to choose
agency dynamic
Atonement in place
the call came long before you sustained the bishop -- a pattern for what happened in the pre-earth life
infinite atonement
greatest mysteries -- Atonement, creation
We don't know much -- according to Bruce R. McConkie
perdition -- rejecting the possibility of Christ's legitimacy --
Satan = accuser == the accusation is that the Atonement is not legitimate --
looking forward to the atonement -- looking back
When you came to this earth -- King Benjamin born into sin
D&C 29 maturing into agency
accountability, capacity, mature use of agency
born under the influence of the fall
un-soned -- un-daughtered When born -- cut off for a time
Need the Saviour Jesus Christ to bring you to be an heir
temple -- brought back into the presence of the Father
You become the son or daughter again
John 1:12
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
temple re-soning and re-daughtering you
Moses 5: 58-59
58 And thus the Gospel began to be preached, from the beginning, being declared by holy angels sent forth from the presence of God, and by his own voice, and by the gift of the Holy Ghost.
59 And thus all things were confirmed unto Adam, by an holy ordinance, and the Gospel preached,and a decree sent forth, that it should be in the world, until the end thereof; and thus it was. Amen.
We were taught the plan in the pre-earth life.
The Power of Godliness manifest in Melchezidek priesthood
dispensed by angelic ministers -- restoration
Next time John 1 then to Luke and Matthew
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12-2-14
Efforts
mockery
stop the work physically
invitation to come down
open letter accusing them of rebelling
hired a false prophet to shake the feelings of Nehemiah and Co.
doors of Salt Lake Temple blown off
Elder Packer
not ever mentions -
Why be concerned about that?
Summer 1970
To Those Who Teach in Troubled Times
In all my years with the Quorum of the Twelve, I have never seen fear.
Religious Reformation
Nehemiah 8:1
Luke 4
Jesus standing up to read the law
The words of the scripture higher than anything mortals could communicate
Prayer merged with total and complete submission
Nehemiah 8:8
Ezra identified as the one who would bring the scriptures to the common individual --
discussed a way they haven't been discussed for ages.
refugee -
one thing lost -- common understanding of and access to the scriptures.
The building does not a holy people make.
People must be drawn individually, then collectively to the Lord.
reintroduced to the Sabbath -- other most fundamental aspects of Judaism
Spiritual refugees
first cuttings of barley
first cuttings of wheat
feast of tabernacles Yom Kippur
harvest -- all is safely gathered in
Ushpizin -- movie
9:29 withdrawing your shoulder
3: 5 their nobles put not their necks . . . .
The Out Migration from the Wasatch Front
Nehemiah 13:18 Observance of the Sabbath
helping the people guard their hearts and convictions
from guarding from outside forces to guarding from internal implosion
13:21
playing the card of precedent
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Nehemiah 13:31
Remember me, O my God,for good.
Zechariah = remember the Lord
Chapter 2 Do the people measure up?
pay attention to tenses
towns without walls -- no need for security
mountain bike and grizzly bear
2:6 Santa Claus in the Old Testament
north -- furthest limit -- not one outside this invitation
What forgiveness is like Zechariah 3:4
Isaiah 11
D&C 113
Joshua means Jehovah saves
The Savior cleanses us -- gives us outward reminders -- we get to serve with him.
The Branch
iniquity -- the iniquity of the entire earth can be removed in one day.
finish Zechariah
2 more weeks
first and second coming
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Givens -- Wrestling with Angels
300 words a day
consistent
Like Outliers -- 10,000 hours
This is the way we work together
people doing consistently good things
consistently productive
unified
like a war chapter in the Book of Mormon
That level of defense required today
Nehemiah 4:17
warns by blowing he shafar
- a sleeveless coat of mail or scale armor.
verse 5 financial captivity
mortgaging a promised land
leaving a great work to come down
There is Work to do in 2014
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides3/hound.html
Thompson Poem
The veil would have to be lifted for you to know nothing has happened -- in response to your prayer -- Psalm 23 --
a richness, a fullness -- Jesus atoning the fullest
Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days of my life -- surely
covenant Israel experiencing levels of protection
The Hounds of Heaven -- pursued --
(The Graveyard Book)
Angels before behind
Psalm 23:6
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow (pursue) me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of theLord for ever.
With Jesus Through Galilee
Bargil Pixner -- Catholic Priest -- lived on Mount Zion -- lived traditional site of Mary's burial
archeological, etc. scholar -- work on Galilee
The Fifth Gospel -- the geography and weather testify of Jesus's mission. ???
Isaiah 11 word attached to Isaiah 11 -- root
Nazareth -- why named --
We are descendants of Judah and the Savior will likely be born here.
The Messiah is on the mind of every Jew --
400 people there at Jesus's day
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crowns for Jeroboam and Rehoboam
Soloman -- picture
