The New and Everlasting Covenant

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The New and Everlasting Covenant

• Dallas Institute
• Religion 234

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Just a warning
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President Kimball

• If we live in such a way that the considerations
  of eternity press upon us, we will make better
  decisions.
• (Ensign, Jan 1977, p.3)

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Your generation?

• My generation?
• Baby Boomer
• What would you call your generation?
• The NOW Generation

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Commitments- Pres. Hinckley

• Said she I met my husband when he was a
  freshman. He was from a very active family with
  many years of service in the Church. He was so
  enthused about serving a mission. I thought we
  shared the gospel as our most important value in
  this life. We both enjoyed music and nature and
  had a high priority on gaining knowledge. We
  dated a few months, easily fell in love, and
  wrote to one another while he served an honorable
  mission.
• When he came back home, he got back into school
  and we were married in the Salt Lake Temple. We
  followed the counsel of Church leaders and began
  our family. I had been attending the university
  on an Honors at Entrance scholarship, but I
  became pregnant and sick and left school to
  devote my time and energy to my husband and
  infant son.
• For the next eighteen years I supported my
  husband while he finished school, got some work
  experience, and started his own business. We both
  served in leadership positions in the Church and
  community. We had five wonderful children. I
  taught the children the gospel, how to work, how
  to serve, how to communicate, and how to play the
  piano. I baked bread canned peaches, apples,
  tomatoes sewed dresses and quilts cleaned
  house and tended my flowers and vegetables. In
  many ways it seemed that we were an ideal family.

• Our relationship was sometimes sweet and
  sometimes difficult. Things were never perfect
  because I am not a perfect woman and he is not a
  perfect man, but many things were good. I did not
  expect perfection I just kept trying.
• Then came the crash. About a year ago he decided
  that he never loved me and that our marriage was
  a mistake from the beginning. He was convinced
  that there was nothing in our relationship for
  him. He filed for divorce and moved out.
• Wait, I kept saying. Oh, no. Stop! Dont do
  this. Why are you leaving? What is wrong? Please,
  talk to me. Look at our children. What of all our
  dreams? Remember our covenants. No, no! Divorce
  is not the answer. He would not hear me. I
  thought I would die. Now I am a single parent.
  What an enormous load of heartache, pain, and
  loneliness is behind that statement. It explains
  so much trauma and so much anger from my teenage
  sons. It explains so many tears from my little
  girls. It explains so many sleepless nights, so
  many family demands and needs. Why am I in this
  mess? What did I choose wrong?

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Daniel Jones

• In Feb, the first Indian came to our campAt the
  time of his arrival we were out of everything,
  having not only eaten the hides taken from the
  cattle killed, but had eaten the wrappings from
  the wagon-tongues, old moccasin-soles were eaten
  also, and a piece of buffalo hide that had been
  used for a foot mat for two months
• -A few weeks later-
• When another company arrived, some of our boys
  were getting the pack saddle soaked up ready for
  cooking the hide covering. Boyd always calls me
  the man that ate the pack saddle. But this is
  slander. The kindness of him and others prevented
  me from eating my part of it. I think if they had
  not arrived, probably I would have taken a wing
  or leg, but dont think I would have eaten the
  whole of it.. As it was, the saddle was allowed
  to dry up again, and may be in existence yet and
  doing well so far as I know

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Elder Russell M. Nelson

• If you really want to be like the Lordmore than
  anything or anyone elseyou will remember that
  your adoration of Jesus is best shown by your
  emulation of Him.
• Then you will not allow any other love to become
  more important than love for your companion, your
  family, and your Creator. You will govern
  yourself not by someone elses set of rules but
  by revealed principles of truth.

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Which is right?
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Do not blindly follow Church Leaders
Follow the Prophets
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Hugh B. BrownApril 1963 Conference

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Elder George Q. Cannon

• Many young people with no particular desire,
  only to get married, without realizing the
  character of the obligations that they take upon
  themselves or the covenants that they make and
  the promises involved in the taking of these
  covenants.
• The result is that hundreds among us go to the
  house of the Lord and receive these blessings and
  come away without having any particular
  impression made upon them."

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Kirtland Temple
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Sacrament prayer

• and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal
  Father, that they are willing to take upon them
  the name of thy Son
• So, what does it mean to take the Lords name in
  vain

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Why was this Earth created?

• DC 49
• 16 Wherefore, it is lawful that he should have
  one wife, and they twain shall be one flesh, and
  all this that the earth might answer the end of
  its creation
• 17 And that it might be filled with the measure
  of man, according to his creation before the
  world was made

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Brigham Young

• The whole subject of the marriage relation is
  not in my reach, nor in any other mans reach on
  this earth. It is without beginning of days or
  end of years it is a hard matter to reach.
• We can tell some things with regard to it it
  lays the foundation for worlds, for angels, and
  for the Gods for intelligent beings to be
  crowned with glory, immortality, and eternal
  lives. In fact, it is the thread which runs from
  the beginning to the end of the holy Gospel of
  Salvationof the Gospel of the Son of God it is
  from eternity to eternity (in Discourses of
  Brigham Young, 195).

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Abrahamic Covenant

• Abraham 2
• 6 But I, Abraham, and Lot, my brother's son,
  prayed unto the Lord, and the Lord appeared unto
  me, and said unto me
• 8 My name is Jehovah, and I know the end from the
  beginning therefore my hand shall be over thee.
• 9 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I
  will bless thee above measure, and make thy name
  great among all nations, and thou shalt be a
  blessing unto thy seed after thee, that in their
  hands they shall bear this ministry and
  Priesthood unto all nations
• 10 And I will bless them through thy name for as
  many as receive this Gospel shall be called after
  thy name, and shall be accounted thy seed, and
  shall rise up and bless thee, as their father

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DC Section 84

• 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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Covenants
His Children
The Lord
The Holy Spirit Of Promise
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Question

• Are there any covenants and commitments in dating
  and courtship?

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DC 131

• 1 In the celestial glory there are three heavens
  or degrees
• 2 And in order to obtain the highest, a man and
  woman must enter into this order of the
  priesthood meaning the new and everlasting
  covenant of marriage
• 3 And if he does not, he cannot obtain it.
• 4 He may enter into the other, but that is the
  end of his kingdom he cannot have an increase.