44 House unto My Name
House unto My Name
After the dismal days in Carthage jail and Missouri, the
saints because to gather again in Nauvoo, Illinois. They drained the swamp and
began building.
Here in Nauvoo, the beautiful, the Lord began to reveal unto
Joseph principles to be taught in the temples. He wanted His saints to be
endowed with power from on high.
Doctrine
and Covenants 124:55 55 And again, verily I say unto you, I
command you again to build a house to my name, even in this place,
that you may prove yourselves unto me that ye
are faithful in all things whatsoever I command you, that I may bless
you, and crown you with honor, immortality, and eternal life.
There is a sense of urgency in the Lord’s work. He wants all
of His children to have a chance to hear and accept the gospel and to be
blessed by him for making and keeping covenants.
Saints, 1:399–427
Organizing
the Church in Nauvoo
Learn
more about the Church historic sites in Illinois.
I can invite others to come unto Christ.
Doctrine
and Covenants 124:2–11
124:2–11
How can I make a solemn proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ in my sphere
of influence? Will you testify of God’s love, of Jesus Christ’s atonement, of
the resurrection, of the restoration of the gospel and the Church in these last
days? Will you share in natural and meaningful ways?
For Kids
Jesus Christ loves integrity.
Doctrine
and Covenants 124:15, 20
124:15, 20
Why was the Lord pleased with Hyrum? Are you living in a way that’s pleasing to
the Lord too?
Video: Jane Manning Travels to Nauvoo: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/pnoyoiad43jcv4q1j6mueluogx9y23fmpust71qj?lang=eng
15 And again, verily I say unto you, blessed is
my servant Hyrum Smith; for I, the Lord, love him because of
the integrity of his heart, and because he loveth that which is right
before me, saith the Lord.
20 And again, verily I say unto you, my servant
George Miller is without guile; he may be trusted because of
the integrity of his heart; and for the love which he has to my
testimony I, the Lord, love him.
Live with Integrity: page
31: Living with integrity means that you love truth with all your heart—more
than you love personal comfort, popularity, or convenience. It means doing what
is right simply because it is right.
verse 20
Can you be trusted because of the integrity of your heart.
How can you show more integrity in your daily life?
I can be a disciple whom the Lord trusts.
Doctrine
and Covenants 124:12–21
124:12–21
Pay attention to how the Lord points out the Christlike qualities He sees in
others. Work on doing the same. (See notes below)
The Lord has shown His love and trust for me by giving me
many opportunities to teach and serve His children, and the testimony and
capacity to be able to do that.
Earning
the Trust of the Lord and Your Family
The Lord wants me to welcome and accept others.
Doctrine
and Covenants 124:22–24, 60–61
124:22–24,
60–61 How can you make your home, your ward, and the places you serve the
kind of place the Lord envisioned for Nauvoo to be? (See notes below)
Video: A Friend to All: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/2018-06-0020-a-friend-to-all?lang=eng
Video: Inviting Others to Come and Stay: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/2019-04-0030-inviting-others-to-come-and-stay?lang=eng
For Kids
Jesus commands His people to build temples.
Doctrine
and Covenants 124:28–29, 39
ChurchofJesusChrist.org/temples/list:
Take some time to look at temples.
Read 124:39 Jesus
has always commanded His people to build temples. They are holy places where
sacred ordinances are performed, and covenants are made. In the temple we are
endowed with power from on high, as we choose to do what is right and serve
Heavenly Father and His children.
Take a leisurely walk around the temple and enjoy the Spirit
there. Teach your children the importance of reverence in this holy place and
show them the words above the front door: Holiness to the Lord; the House of
the Lord.
Being
Baptized and Confirmed for Ancestors Children can participate in this great
work beginning at age 11 or 12.
The
Temple and the Plan of Happiness
We build temples unto the Lord to receive sacred
ordinances.
Doctrine
and Covenants 124:25–45, 55
Why do you think the Lord has always commanded His people to
build temples?
124:25–45, 55
Make a list of reasons the Lord asks us to build temples. (See notes below)
Video: What is a temple: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/2013-02-1070-temples?lang=eng
The Lord blesses people who strive to obey His
commandments.
Doctrine
and Covenants 124:45–55
Becoming
Exemplary Latter-day Saints
Since the Nauvoo Temple was built in the 1840s, over 300
temples have been built or announced. President Russell M. Nelson taught:
“We know that our time in the temple is crucial to our salvation and exaltation
and to that of our families. … The assaults of the adversary are increasing
exponentially, in intensity and in variety. Our need to be in the temple on a
regular basis has never been greater.”
How has the temple helped you withstand “the assaults of the
adversary”? What do you feel impressed to do to follow President Nelson’s
counsel?
Why
Latter-day Saints Build Temples
For Kids
The Lord can guide me through my patriarchal blessing.
Doctrine
and Covenants 124:91–92
Read 124:91–92:
Hyrum Smith was ordained as the first Patriarch in this dispensation.
Members of the Church who desire to receive a blessing can,
when they desire it and live worthy to receive it. A Patriarchal Blessing is a
special blessing in which the Lord teaches us about heritage and our gifts, how
He would like us to live and serve, and how He wants us to grow and become like
Him.
Receiving
a Patriarchal Blessing
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/124?lang=eng
Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo,
Illinois, January 19, 1841. Because of increasing persecutions and illegal
procedures against them by public officers, the Saints had been compelled to
leave Missouri. The exterminating order issued by Lilburn W. Boggs,
governor of Missouri, dated October 27, 1838, had left them no
alternative. In 1841, when this revelation was given, the city of Nauvoo,
occupying the site of the former village of Commerce, Illinois, had been built
up by the Saints, and here the headquarters of the Church had been established.
Vs 6 The Lord is going to call upon kings, presidents, and
leaders to give heed to the light and glory of Zion. Zion will be favored. We
need to prepare for that.
Vs 8-9 It is up to us to teach and share the gospel, through
word, testimony, and service, so that the world has the opportunity to accept
the Lord's teachings and His testimony, and so that He can soften their hearts
for our good, and so that we can find grace in their eyes.
Vs 11 Wouldn't it be lovely if the nations were uploading
good and supporting the gospel of Jesus Christ and aiding in the establishment
and redemption of Zion?
124:12–21
Pay attention to how the Lord points out the Christlike qualities He sees in
others. Work on doing the same.
Vs 12 The Lord is well pleased with Robert B. Thompson, and
wants to bless him.
Vs 15 blessed is my servant Hyrum Smith; for I, the Lord, love him because of
the integrity of his heart, and because he loveth that which is right
before me, saith the Lord.
Vs 16-17 The Lord is please with the love and work that John
C. Bennett has done, and He is allowing Him greater responsibility so that He
can give him a crown of blessings and great glory.
Vs 18 it is my will that my servant Lyman Wight should
continue in preaching for Zion, in the spirit of meekness, confessing me before
the world; and I will bear him up as on eagles’ wings; and he shall
beget glory and honor to himself and unto my name.
19 That when he shall finish his work I
may receive him unto myself, even as I did my servant David Patten,
who is with me at this time, and also my servant Edward Partridge, and
also my aged servant Joseph Smith, Sen., who sitteth with Abraham at
his right hand, and blessed and holy is he, for he is mine.
Vs 20 my servant George Miller is without guile; he may
be trusted because of the integrity of his heart; and for the love
which he has to my testimony I, the Lord, love him.
21 I therefore say unto you, I seal upon his
head the office of a bishopric, like unto my servant Edward
Partridge, that he may receive the consecrations of mine house, that he may
administer blessings upon the heads of the poor of my people, saith the Lord.
Let no man despise my servant George, for he shall honor me.
124:22–24,
60–61 How can you make your home, your ward, and the places you serve the
kind of place the Lord envisioned for Nauvoo to be?
24 This house shall be a healthful habitation if
it be built unto my name, and if the governor which shall be appointed unto it
shall not suffer any pollution to come upon it. It shall be holy, or the Lord
your God will not dwell therein.
124:25–45, 55
Make a list of reasons the Lord asks us to build temples.
Vs 28 Temples are needed for the restoration of what was
lost to us, that we might be blessed with the fullness of the Priesthood.
Vs 29-30 Temples are needed for baptisms for the dead.
Vs 34 The keys of the Holy Priesthood are ordained to be
used in the temple that we and our dead may receive glory and honor.
Vs 37 Washings and Anointings are to be performed within
holy temples.
Vs 38 In temples ordinances are revealed which had been hid
from before the world was.
39 Therefore, verily I say unto you, that
your anointings, and your washings, and your baptisms for the
dead, and your solemn assemblies, and your memorials for
your sacrifices by the sons of Levi, and for your oracles in
your most holy places wherein you receive conversations, and your
statutes and judgments, for the beginning of the revelations and foundation of
Zion, and for the glory, honor, and endowment of all her municipals, are
ordained by the ordinance of my holy house, which my people are always commanded
to build unto my holy name.
40 And verily I say unto you, let
this house be built unto my name, that I may reveal mine ordinances
therein unto my people;
41 For I deign to reveal unto my
church things which have been kept hid from before the foundation of
the world, things that pertain to the dispensation of the fulness of
times.
42 And I will show unto my servant
Joseph all things pertaining to this house, and the priesthood thereof, and the
place whereon it shall be built.
44 If ye labor with all your might, I will
consecrate that spot that it shall be made holy.
45 And if my people will hearken unto my voice,
and unto the voice of my servants whom I have appointed to lead my
people, behold, verily I say unto you, they shall not be moved out of their
place.
54 For I am the Lord your God, and will save all
those of your brethren who have been pure in heart, and have
been slain in the land of Missouri, saith the Lord.
Vs 55 The Lord blesses us with the possibility of honor,
immortality, and eternal life in the temple.
Vs 57 In the temples, we are not just blessed alone, but
also our posterity after us.
Vs 58 In thee and in thy seed shall the kindred of
the earth be blessed.
Vs 75 How can I do better in lifting up my voice for the
cause of the poor? The Lord loves the poor and needy, and no matter what
society says, we have an obligation to the Lord to help them.
Vincent Knight:
76 Let his family rejoice and turn away their hearts from
affliction; for I have chosen him and anointed him, and he shall be honored in
the midst of his house, for I will forgive all his sins, saith the Lord. Amen.
Isaac Galland:
Vs 78 I, the Lord, love him for the work he hath done, and will forgive all his
sins; therefore, let him be remembered for an interest in that house from
generation to generation.
85 Let no man go from this place who
has come here essaying to keep my commandments.
86 If they live here let them live unto me; and
if they die let them die unto me; for they shall rest from all their
labors here, and shall continue their works.
87 Therefore, let my servant William put his
trust in me, and cease to fear concerning his family, because of the sickness
of the land. If ye love me, keep my commandments; and the sickness of
the land shall redound to your glory.
William is also given great responsibility for the poor and
for being a counselor to Joseph.
Hyrum is called as Patriarch in the stead of his father.
Patriarchs are given sealing power.
Hyrum is esteemed by the Lord the same as Joseph:
94 And from this time forth I appoint unto him
that he may be a prophet, and a seer, and a revelator unto my church, as
well as my servant Joseph;
95 That he may act in concert also with
my servant Joseph; and that he shall receive counsel from my servant
Joseph, who shall show unto him the keys whereby he may ask and
receive, and be crowned with the same blessing, and glory, and honor, and
priesthood, and gifts of the priesthood, that once were put upon him that was
my servant Oliver Cowdery;
96 That my servant Hyrum may bear record of the
things which I shall show unto him, that his name may be had in honorable
remembrance from generation to generation, forever and ever.
97 Let my servant William Law also receive the
keys by which he may ask and receive blessings; let him
be humble before me, and be without guile, and he shall receive
of my Spirit, even the Comforter, which shall manifest unto him the truth
of all things, and shall give him, in the very hour, what he shall say.
116 And let him repent of all his folly,
and clothe himself with charity; and cease to do evil, and lay
aside all his hard speeches
I believe that this is good counsel for all of us.
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