Preparing to Enter the Holy Temple

Come to the Temple There are many reasons why one should want to come to the temple. Even its external appearance seems to hint of its deeply spiritual purposes. Much more is this evident within its walls. Over the door to the temple appears the

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Ideas for ApplicationAccording to your own needs and circumstances, follow one or both of these suggestions.• Review “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” (page iv). Determine ways you will better follow this prophetic counsel.• Obtain a

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Live by Covenant, Not ConvenienceSomehow we need to instill in our hearts the powerful testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ like unto that of our pioneer forefathers. We need to become so deeply converted to the gospel of Christ that the fire of the covenant will burn in our hearts like flame unquenchable.

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Endowed from on High: Temple Preparation Seminar Teacher’s Manual

Class members may mention the covenant of baptism, which is renewed each time we take the sacrament.) • What covenants do we make when we are baptized? Read the following statement: “We are a covenant people.

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Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Class Member Study Guide

Reading assignment: Joseph Smith—History 1:27–65; Doctrine and Covenants 3; 5; 10; 17; 20:5–15; 84:54–62; Our Heritage,pages 5–10.• What were some of the challenges that Joseph Smith faced while he translated the Book of Mormon? See D&C 84:57–58, 60–62.)Scripture Chain: What the Doctrine and Covenants Teaches about the Book of MormonD&C 1:29D&C 20:8–15D&C 3:18–20D&C 33:16D&C 17:6D&C 42:12D&C 19:26–27D&C 84:54–58

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Young Women Manual 1

It is usually also an act of symbolizing a covenant or agreement with the Lord” (Priesthood and Church Government, comp. I felt the reality of each covenant I made within every fiber and bone of my body.

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Young Women Manual 2

QuotationsExplain that living the covenants we have already made will prepare us to make temple covenants. President Joseph Fielding Smith wrote the following about how temple covenants can bless us throughout our lives:“If we go into the temple we raise our hands and covenant that we will serve the Lord and observe his commandments and keep ourselves unspotted from the world.

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Aaronic Priesthood Manual 3

When they mention marriage in the temple, write on the other side of the chalkboard, Celestial Marriage: Covenant for Eternity.Adviser presentation and chalkboard discussionAs you discuss the following questions, write the responses under the proper heading. No claim on our familyCelestial Marriage: Covenant for Eternity1.

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Aaronic Priesthood Manual 3

And as we do so, again we enter into a covenant as we accept both the bread and the water. And what is this covenant, and how serious is it?“Do we realize how serious it really is?“Only a god could bring about the Atonement.

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Aaronic Priesthood Manual 1

It means a lot to me that he was willing to die for us.”Second Testimony“In the past, I didn’t realize what covenant I was taking when I said ‘Amen’ to the sacrament prayer. Pray silently and ask for forgiveness; covenant and promise to pay the overlooked tithing from the next money you receive; covenant to always pay tithing first.)2.

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Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

The oath and covenant of the priesthoodWrite Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood on the chalkboard. Write Priesthood holders covenant to on the chalkboard.

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Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

Prayerfully study the following scriptures and other materials:a. Explanatory Introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants; Doctrine and Covenants 1.b. The revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants address the needs of our day.• Read the third paragraph in the Explanatory Introduction, found at the beginning of the Doctrine and Covenants (this paragraph begins with the phrase “The book of”).

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Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

Prayerfully study the following scriptures and other materials:a. Joseph Smith—History 1:27–65; Doctrine and Covenants 3; 5; 10; 17; 20:5–15; 84:54–62.b. Our duty to “remember the new covenant, even the Book of Mormon”• In September 1832 the Prophet Joseph received a revelation in which the Lord said that “the whole church [was] under condemnation” (D&C 84:55).

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Old Testament Class Member Study Guide

We later receive the fulness of the Abrahamic covenant in the temple.• What blessings did the Lord promise Abraham as part of the Abrahamic covenant? See Abraham 2:6–11; Genesis 12:1–8; 17:1–9.)• What are our responsibilities as heirs of the Abrahamic covenant?

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Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

What blessings did God promise Abraham in this covenant? How do we become heirs to this covenant?

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The Presidents of the Church: Teacher’s Manual

These blessings are conditional, however, based upon our part of the covenant, being faithful in keeping the Lord’s commandments.)• What covenants have you already made in your lives? Most class members will have been baptized.)Bring out in the discussion that baptism is a sacred and essential covenant.

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Old Testament Class Member Study Guide

Esau marries out of the covenant (26:34–35). Jacob marries Leah and Rachel in the covenant (29:1–30).

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Preparing for Exaltation: Teacher’s Manual

My brethren and sisters, … if I only knew how essential it was … that I should receive the spiritual life that comes from that Son, I am sure I would always be present at the sacrament table to do honor to the gift that has come unto us” (“The Sacramental Covenant,” Improvement Era, Oct. 1919, 1028–31). Keep his commandments.Refer to lesson 13, in which you discussed the baptismal covenant, and have class members review Doctrine and Covenants 20:37.• What aspects of this verse are like the promises on the chalkboard?1.

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Gospel Principles

The people who covenant with the Lord and with whom the Lord makes covenants are known as the Lord’s covenant people. The New and Everlasting Covenant The fulness of the gospel is called the new and everlasting covenant.

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Preparing for Exaltation: Teacher’s Manual

A covenant is an agreement between us and the Lord in which we promise to obey his commandments and he promises to bless us according to our obedience.• What do people have to covenant to do in order to be baptized? Point out the similarities between this prayer and the baptismal covenant in Doctrine and Covenants 20:37.

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