Why Stand we in Jeopardy

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Why Stand we in Jeopardy?

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Be Grateful, Brethren

• Your last name stays put.
• The garage is all yours.
• Wedding plans take care of themselves.
• Chocolate is just another snack
• You can never be pregnant.
• Car mechanics tell you the truth.
• You never have to drive to another gas station
  restroom because this one is just too icky.
• Wrinkles add character.
• Wedding dress 5000. Tux rental 100.
• New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your
  feet.
• Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
• A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
• You get extra credit for the slightest act of
  thoughtfulness.
• You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
• The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe
  decades.
• One wallet and one pair of shoes - one color for
  all seasons.
• You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
  
• You have freedom of choice concerning growing a
  mustache.
• You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on
  December 24 in 25 minutes

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Enos

• 3 Behold, I went to hunt beasts in the
  forests and the words which I had often
  heard my father speak concerning eternal
  life, and the joy of the saints, sunk deep
  into my heart.
• 4 And my soul hungered and I kneeled down
  before my Maker, and I cried unto him in
  mighty prayer and supplication for mine own soul
  and all the day long did I cry unto him yea, and
  when the night came I did still raise my voice
  high that it reached the heavens.
• 5 And there came a voice unto me, saying Enos,
  thy sins are forgiven thee, and thou shalt be
  blessed.
• 7 And I said Lord, how is it done?
• 8 And he said unto me Because of thy faith in
  Christ, whom thou hast never before heard nor
  seen wherefore, go to, thy faith hath made thee
  whole.
• 9 Now, it came to pass that when I had heard
  these words I began to feel a desire for the
  welfare of my brethren, the Nephites wherefore,
  I did pour out my whole soul unto God for them.

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Look Familiar?
More Accurate
Spirit World
Those who have accepted the gospel
Those who have Not.
Mortal Life
Mortals who have accepted the gospel
Those who have not accepted the gospel
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I Cor 15

• 29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for
  the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are
  they then baptized for the dead?
• 30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

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President Kimball

• Pauls last question has caused me much
  reflection in recent months. Why do the peoples
  of the world stand in jeopardy? Because they
  cannot be saved without their families and their
  associates. They will continue to stand in
  jeopardy until the gospel is taken to them in
  such a way that they are willing either to
  receive it or reject it.
• This responsibility also places us in jeopardy so
  far as missionary work is concerned if we dont
  share the gospel with them.

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Ephraim (LDS Bible Dictionary)

• Ephraim was given the birthright in Israel (1
  Chr. 51-2 Jer. 319), and in the last days it
  has been the tribe of Ephraim's privilege first
  to bear the message of the restoration of the
  gospel to the world and to gather scattered
  Israel on both sides of the veil.

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Bruce R. McConkie

• How shall Israel be gathered? First will come the
  conversion and gathering of the tribe of Joseph.
  Then Joseph shall gather the other tribes. "His
  horns are like the horns of the unicorns wild
  oxen with them he shall push the people
  together to the ends of the earth."
• It will not be an easy work. Every lost sheep
  must be taught the gospel every new convert must
  believe the Book of Mormon all must repent and
  forsake the world and come voluntarily, often in
  the face of great opposition, into the latter-day
  kingdom of the God of their fathers. Missionaries
  must labor with zeal and in the face of great
  odds.
• They must "push the people together." And who
  shall do this work? Moses says "They are the ten
  thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands
  of Manasseh" (Deuteronomy 3317). And such is an
  apt and accurate definition of the missionary
  force of the great latter-day kingdom. (2)

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DC 29

• 7 And ye are called to bring to pass the
  gathering of mine elect for mine elect hear my
  voice and harden not their hearts
• 8 Wherefore the decree hath gone forth from the
  Father that they shall be gathered in unto one
  place upon the face of this land, to prepare
  their hearts and be prepared in all things
• against the day when tribulation and desolation
  are sent forth upon the wicked

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Elder Jeffrey HollandTerror, Triumph, and a
Wedding Feast

• So, setting aside fear of the future or
  concerns about the dimensions of a backyard
  bomb shelter, I am filled with awe, with an
  overwhelming sense of duty to prepare my life
  (and to the extent that I can, to help prepare
  the lives of the members of the Church) for that
  long-prophesied day, for that transfer of
  authority, for the time when we will make a
  presentation of the Church to Him whose Church it
  is.
• I do know this When Christ comes, the members of
  His Church must look and act like members of His
  Church are supposed to look and act if we are to
  be acceptable to Him. We must be doing His work
  and we must be living His teachings. He must
  recognize us quickly and easily as truly being
  His disciples. As President J. Reuben Clark Jr.
  once advised, our faith must not be difficult to
  detect (2004 CES Fireside)

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1884 TennesseeCane Creek Massacre

• Mob attacked a meeting of the Saints
• Elders John Gibbs and William Barry Killed
• Two members of Gordon household
• President of mission was B.H. Roberts

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B. H. Roberts
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Rafael Monroy

• in 1907, Rey L. Pratt called as president of
  the Mexican Mission. In February 1913,
  missionaries were recalled to the mission home
  for safety.
• About this time, Rafael Monroy, a new convert
  from San Marcos, Hidalgo, received a strong
  impression to see President Pratt. When he
  arrived at the mission home, he found the
  leaders and missionaries ready to depart.
• Monroy had only one thought in the absence of
  these leaders, who would guide the little group
  of seven members in San Marcos? President Pratt
  replied, Sit down. We will ordain you an elder
  and set you apart as the leader of that group.
• The little town of San Marcos was in the path of
  two revolutionary forces, and when the
  Carranzistas were driven out of the town by the
  Zapatistas, the Zapatistas were falsely informed
  that Monroy had collaborated with their enemy,
  the Carranzistas. Monroy and Vincent Morales,
  another member of the branch, were placed under
  arrest. When asked to give up their arms, Monroy
  drew the standard works from his pocket and said,
  Gentlemen, these are the only arms I carry.
• Incensed at the response, the Zapatistas threw
  the two men in jail. At dusk they were taken to
  the outskirts of town to stand before a firing
  squad. The officer said he would free them if
  they would forsake their religion, but the
  brethren refused. Monroy was granted a final
  request to pray, and he asked the Lord to bless
  and protect his loved ones and to care for the
  little struggling branch. A few moments later,
  the rifles fired and the voices of Elder Monroy
  and Brother Morales were stilled.