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Class 4 Sections 78-82 Consecration and
Stewardship
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What was happening during March April 1832?
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• What was happening?
• Joseph Smith was still in John Johnsons home.
• Joseph and Sidney were tarred and feathered on
  March 24, 1832.
• Joseph and Sidney left for Missouri in early
  April.

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• Zion - Foundations
• Book of Moses June 1830 Feb. 1831
• DC 4230-35, Feb. 1831 http//scriptures.lds.org
  /dc/42/30-3530
• Law of Consecration to be observed in Zion
• United Order or Order of Enoch

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• Zion - Foundations
• More details in Sect 51, May 1831, to Edward
  Partridge.
• Joseph Smith visited Missouri in July 1831
• Independence, Jackson County, the center place.
  DC 572.

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Why does the Lord care about our social order?
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• Why does the Lord care about our social order?
• The Lord would like us to prosper.
• We can only give time to the Lord when we have
  time to give.
• Giving time to the Lord is giving to ourselves.

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• We need to learn to live a celestial law while
  on the earth. DC 785-7.
• http//scriptures.lds.org/dc/78/5-75

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What were the Saints to do?
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• What were the Saints to do?
• Establish a storehouse for the poor.
• Establish an order and enter it by covenant.
• Those who break the covenant will be delivered
  to the buffetings of Satan.

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• Some Important Verses
• 7817-18 What the Lord has in store for us
• 7819 Thankfulness
• http//scriptures.lds.org/dc/78/17-1917

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• Some interesting terms in Sect. 78
• Adam-ondi-Ahman
• Son Ahman
• Ahman
• Church of the Firstborn

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• Some interesting terms in Sect. 78
• Adam-ondi-Ahman Adam unto God
• Son Ahman Christ
• Ahman God man of holiness
• Church of the Firstborn those who have entered
  and kept the covenant of celestial marriage.

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• Unusual Names -- Sect. 78
• Personal names and place names Enoch or
  GazelamJoseph Smith, Pelagoram Sidney Rigdon,
  ShinehahKirtland, etc.
• Appear in Doctrine and Covenants from 1835 until
  about 1980.
• Used to conceal identities from enemies of the
  Church.

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• Sect. 79
• Jared Carter called on a mission
• in the power of the ordination
• led by the Comforter to teach truth and where to
  go
• Let your heart be glad... fear not.

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• Sect. 80
• Stephen Burnett and Eden Smith called on a
  mission
• whether to the north or to the south, it
  mattereth not

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• Sect. 81
• Jesse Gause called to the First Presidency
• Gause left on a mission and disappeared a
  Shaker, went back to the Shakers
• Call changed to Frederick G. Williams

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• Sect. 82
• Given in Jackson County
• Joseph Smith ordained to the Presidency of the
  High Priesthood.
• On the Order of Enoch

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What was the High Priesthood? 1- The office of
High Priest? 2- The Melchizedek Priesthood? The
term Priesthood first used in June 1831 when
the High Priesthood was first conferred.
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• Some Teachings from Sect. 82
• v. 3 For of him unto whom much is given much is
  required and he who sins against the greater
  light shall receive the greater condemnation.

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• Some Teachings from Sect. 82
• v. 4 Ye call upon my name for revelations, and
  I give them unto you and inasmuch as ye keep not
  my sayings, which I give unto you, ye become
  transgressors.
• v. 11 I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I
  say but when ye do not what I say, ye have no
  promise.

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• Some Teachings from Sect. 82
• v. 22 Make unto yourselves friends with the
  mammon of unrighteousness, and they will not
  destroy you.

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• Some Teachings from Sect. 82
• Church leaders to be bound in this covenant
  (Law of Consecration) to administer to the poor
  and coordinate the storehouses in Zion and
  Kirtland.
• v 17 And you are to be equal, or in other words,
  you are to have equal claims on the properties,
  every man according to his wants and his needs,
  inasmuch as his wants are just.

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Some Teachings from Sect. 82 v 18-19 And all
this for the benefit of the church of the living
God, that every man may improve upon his talent,
that every man may gain other talents, yea, even
an hundred fold, to be cast into the Lords
storehouse, to become the common property of the
whole church Every man seeking the interest of
his neighbor, and doing all things with an eye
single to the glory of God.