Class 4 – Sections 78-82

Consecration and Stewardship

What was happening during

March – April 1832?

What was happening?• Joseph Smith was still in John Johnson’s home.•Joseph and Sidney were tarred and feathered on March 24, 1832.• Joseph and Sidney left for Missouri in early April.

Zion - Foundations • Book of Moses: June 1830 – Feb. 1831• D&C 42:30-35, Feb. 1831 http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/42/30-35#30

• Law of Consecration to be observed in Zion

“United Order” or “Order of Enoch”

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. D&C 57:2.

Why does the Lord care about our social order?

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.

• We need to learn to live a celestial law while on the earth. D&C 78:5-7.http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/78/5-7#5

What were the Saints to do?

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.

Some Important Verses• 78:17-18 What the Lord has in store for us• 78:19 Thankfulnesshttp://scriptures.lds.org/dc/78/17-19#17

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

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.

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

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.”

Sect. 80• Stephen Burnett and Eden Smith called on a mission:

• “whether to the north or to the south, it mattereth not…”

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 Lord’s 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.