Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood

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Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood

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• Jeremiah 3418 And I will give the men that have
  transgressed my covenant, which have not
  performed the words of the covenant which they
  had made before me, when they cut the calf in
  twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
• 20 I will even give them into the hand of their
  enemies, and into the hand of them that seek
  their life

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President Hinckley

• Oliver Cowderyreceived the Aaronic
  Priesthood under the hands of John the
  Baptist, and subsequently the Melchizedek
  Priesthood under the hands of Peter, James,
  and John. He magnified that priesthood as a
  witness to the Book of Mormon, as a Counselor
  to the Prophet, as one to select the Twelve
  Apostles and to instruct them, as a
  missionary in moving the Church across the
  frontiers of the western territories, and as a
  teacher and speaker whose voice rang with
  great and persuasive power.
• But he turned and began to look through the
  wrong end of the lens. He found fault. He
  complained. His calling shrank, he diminished
  his priesthood, he distanced himself from
  those in authority in the Church.
• Gone was the voice of persuasion, gone was the
  power of the priesthood of God which he once held
  and magnified. For eleven years, he walked almost
  alone, without friends. He walked in poverty and
  in sickness
• His is one of the most touching, pathetic stories
  in the history of this great work. So long as he
  magnified his calling, he was magnified. When he
  diminished that calling, he shrank to oblivion
  and poverty. He came back, but he never regained
  his previous stature. (April Conference, 1989)

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Oath and Covenantof Baptism
of the Word of Wisdom
of the Priesthood

• OATH
• COVENANT

For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these
two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the
magnifying their calling
And all saints who remember to keep and do these
sayings, walking in obedience to the
commandments,
a witness before him that ye have entered into
a covenant with him
shall receive health in their navel and marrow
to their bones 19 And shall find wisdom and
great treasures of knowledge, even hidden
treasures 20 And shall run and not be weary, and
shall walk and not faint.
that he may pour out his Spirit more abundantly
upon you? (Mosiah 1810
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What Are the Promises?

• 33 For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these
  two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the
  magnifying their calling,
• are sanctified by the Spirit unto the renewing of
  their bodies.

DC 76 70 These are they whose bodies are
celestial, whose glory is that of the sun, even
the glory of God, the highest of all,
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What Are the Promises?

• 33 For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these
  two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the
  magnifying their calling, are sanctified by the
  Spirit unto the renewing of their bodies.
• 34 They become the sons of Moses and of Aaron

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Orson Pratt

• When the Temple in New Jerusalem is built the
  sons of the two
  Priesthoods, that is, those who are
  ordained to the Priesthood of Melchizedek and
  those who have been
  ordained to the Priesthood
  of Aaron the former called the sons of
  Moses, the latter the sons of Aaron, will enter
  into that Temple . . .
• and all of them who are pure in heart will behold
  the face of the Lord . . In doing this, he will
  purify not only the minds of the Priesthood in
  that Temple, but he will purify their bodies
  until they shall be quickened, renewed and
  strengthened, and they will be partially changed,
  not to immortality, but changed in part that they
  can be filled with the power of God, and they can
  stand in the presence of Jesus, and behold his
  face in the midst of that Temple.
• JD 15365-66.

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What Are the Promises?

• 33 For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these
  two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the
  magnifying their calling, are sanctified by the
  Spirit unto the renewing of their bodies.
• 34 They become the sons of Moses and of Aaron
• and the seed of Abraham

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President Joseph F. Smith

• Let me conclude by saying to you what I have said
  many times, and what I hope I will ever stand by.
  I would a thousand times rather go to my grave as
  I am, with the convictions that I possess, than
  to falter for one instant in that which God has
  revealed to me. It is more than mortal life to
  me.
• My standing in the Church is worth to me more
  than this lifeten thousand thousand times. For
  in this I have life everlasting. In this I have
  the glorious promise of the associations of my
  loved ones throughout all eternity.
• In obedience to this work, in the Gospel of Jesus
  Christ, I shall gather around me my family, my
  children, my children's children until they
  become as numerous as the seed of Abraham, or as
  countless as the sands upon the sea shore. For
  this is my right and privilege, and the right and
  privilege of every member of the Church of Jesus
  Christ of Latter-day Saints who holds the
  Priesthood and will magnify it in the sight of
  God.

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What Are the Promises?

• 33 For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these
  two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the
  magnifying their calling, are sanctified by the
  Spirit unto the renewing of their bodies.
• 34 They become the sons of Moses and of Aaron and
  the seed of Abraham,
• and the church and kingdom, and the elect of God.

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Section 76

• 66 These are they who are come unto Mount Zion,
  and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly
  place, the holiest of all.
• 67 These are they who have come to an innumerable
  company of angels, to the general assembly and
  church of Enoch, and of the Firstborn.

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What Are the Promises?

• 33 For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these
  two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the
  magnifying their calling, are sanctified by the
  Spirit unto the renewing of their bodies.
• 34 They become the sons of Moses and of Aaron and
  the seed of Abraham, and the church and kingdom,
  and the elect of God.
• 35 And also all they who receive this priesthood
  receive me, saith the Lord

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Section 76

• 69 These are they who are just men made perfect
  through Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
  who wrought out this perfect atonement through
  the shedding of his own blood.

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Funeral of Elias Higbee1843

• "That which hath been hid from before the
  foundation of the world is revealed to babes and
  sucklings in the last days. The world is reserved
  unto burning in the last days. He shall send
  Elijah the prophet, and he shall reveal the
  covenants of the fathers in relation to the
  children, and the covenants of the children in
  relation to the fathers."
• When a seal is put upon the father and mother, it
  secures their posterity, so that they cannot be
  lost, but will be saved by virtue of the covenant
  of their father and mother"
• (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 320-21

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Orson F. Whitney

• "The Prophet Joseph Smith declared and he
  never taught a more comforting doctrine that
  the eternal sealings of faithful parents and the
  divine promises made to them for valiant service
  in the Cause of Truth, would save not only
  themselves, but likewise their posterity.
• Though some of the sheep may wander, the eye of
  the Shepherd is upon them, and sooner or later
  they will feel the tentacles of Divine Providence
  reaching out after them and drawing them back to
  the fold. Either in this life or the life to
  come, they will return." (Conference Report,
  April 1929, p. 110.)