Doctrine of the Resurrection

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Doctrine of the Resurrection

• Doctrinal Highlights of the DC
• Sections 43, 45, 76, 88

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Quiz

1. Call upon the nations to repent, both old and
   young, both bond and free This is a precursor
   to what? (DC 4320)
2. Christ is our Advocate with the Father. What
   does Advocate with the Father mean? (DC
   453-5)
3. When will you be resurrected?
4. What is the order of glorified kingdoms that we
   can sent to following the Final Judgement?
5. Families can be together forever. Why use the
   word can and not will? Where can they be together
   forever?
6. EC At the end of what year did Jesus appear to
   the Nephites? (3 Nephi 1018)

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Quiz

1. The Millennium
2. He will plead our case and be our representive to
   our Heavenly Father
3. First Resurrection, or Second Resurrection
4. Celestial, Terrestrial, Telestial, Outer Darkness
5. Can a possiblity. It only happens in the
   celestial kingdom
6. 34 AD

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Think about it.

• What matters most in life?
• What matters least in life?
• What are your top three goals for your life?
• What must be done to achieve them?
• If they are so important, have you made them a
  priority in your life?

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Priorities in Life

• Spiritual and Physical Self
• Spouse
• Children
• Church Calling
• Profession or Academics
• Civic Responsibilities
• Nintendo and Xbox!

Jeffery R. Holland CES Fireside Temple Square 5
February 1999
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The Body is a Blessing
It is primarily the spirit that sees, hears,
feels, knows passion and desire it is the spirit
that becomes addicted to drugs, bad habits, and
evil desires. It is not just the physical body
that is addicted, but the spirit also, which, of
course, is the real you and me. We are spirits
just as God is a spirit.
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The Body is a Blessing
Sometimes we make excuses for ourselves, when we
do what we should not do or fall short of what we
should have done. We use such expressions as,
Oh! the spirit is willing but the flesh is
weak. With such rationalizations we insinuate
that it is completely our physical body's fault
that we sin. In my opinion, this is not true.
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The Body is a Blessing
I believe the physical body is a very strong part
of us and is of great benefit to us. Among other
reasons, it was given to us to help us overcome
our addictions, bad habits, and evil desires. The
body is very obedient generally speaking, it
will do exactly what the spirit tells it to do.
So it is not the physical body that we are
struggling with it is the spirit we must bring
into subjection. Hartman, Rector, Jr.,
Conference Report, October 1970, 73.
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Resurrection Guiding Principles 1

• Not all are resurrected at same time
• Alma 404-7
• DC 4318
• stay and sleep?
• Resurrected after Millennium
• DC 7615-17
• Are you part of the just or unjust?
• DC 7650, 64-65
• DC 7685

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Resurrection Guiding Principles 1

• Terms Morning of the First Resurrection
• Why morning of the First Resurrection? Why not
  afternoon?
• He will come as though the rising sun from the
  east
• Angel Moroni on temples face toward the east for
  this reason

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Resurrection Guiding Principles 2

• Not all are resurrected at same time
• Resurrection of different body types
• DC 8815-20, 25-29 ? celestial
• DC 8821-22, 30 ? terrestrial
• DC 8823-24, 31 ? telestial
• Who judges you at the Final Judgment?
• written in the Book of Life
• What does that phrase mean?
• Who writes in the Book of Life
• You do each day, through your actions

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DC 8832-33 You Get What You Want

• Return again to their own place
• Where they are most comfortable
• enjoy that which they are willing to receive
• They will enjoy the benefits of their efforts,
  because thats as much as they were willing to
  receive.
• because they were not willing to enjoy that
  which they might have received
• Oooo, burned!!!!!---but they couldve gotten more
  but knowingly gave up those blessings

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Book of Life
In a real though figurative sense, the book of
life is the record of the acts of men as such
record is written in their own bodies. It is the
record engraven on the very bones, sinews, and
flesh of the mortal body. That is, every thought,
word, and deed has an affect on the human body
all these leave their marks, marks which can be
read by Him who is Eternal as easily as the words
in a book can be read.
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Book of Life
By obedience to telestial law men obtain
telestial bodies terrestrial law leads to
terrestrial bodies and conformity to celestial
law -- because this law includes the sanctifying
power of the Holy Ghost -- results in the
creation of a body which is clean, pure, and
spotless, a celestial body. When the book of life
is opened in the day of judgment, men's bodies
will show what law they have lived.
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Book of Life
The Great Judge will then read the record of the
book of their lives the account of their
obedience or disobedience will be written in
their bodies. Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon
Doctrine 97
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Resurrection Guiding Principles 3

• Not all are resurrected at same time
• Resurrection of different body types
• Resurrection is essential for fulness of joy
• DC 9333-34
• DC 4517
• DC 13850
• Moses 757

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Joseph Smith

• We came to this earth that we might have a body
  and present it pure before God in the celestial
  kingdom. The great principle of happiness
  consists in having a body. The devil has no body,
  and herein is his punishment.
• (TPJS 181)

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Resurrection Guiding Principles 4

• Not all are resurrected at same time
• Resurrection of different body types
• Resurrection is essential for fulness of joy
• All forms of life will be resurrected
• DC 2923-25
• DC 773

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Resurrection Guiding Principles 5

1. Not all are resurrected at same time
2. Resurrection of different body types
3. Resurrection is essential for fulness of joy
4. All forms of life will be resurrected
5. Resurrection is an ordinance

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Resurrection An Ordinance
We are in possession of all the ordinances that
can be administered in the flesh but there are
other ordinances and administrations that must be
administered beyond this world. I know you would
ask what they are. I will mention one. We have
not, neither can we receive here, the ordinance
and the keys of the resurrection.
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Resurrection An Ordinance
They will be given to those who have passed off
this stage of action and have received their
bodies again, as many have already done and many
more will. They will be ordained, by those who
hold the keys of the resurrection, to go forth
and resurrect the Saints just as we receive the
ordinance of baptism, then the keys of authority
to baptize others for the remission of their
sins. This is one of the ordinances we cannot
receive here, and there are many more.
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Resurrection An Ordinance
We will take Joseph for instance he is faithful
to his calling--has filled his mission to this
earth, and sealed his testimony with his blood
he has done the work his Father gave him to do,
and will soon come to the resurrection. His
spirit is waiting for the resurrection of the
body, which will soon be. But has he the power to
resurrect that body? He has not. Who has this
power?
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Resurrection An Ordinance
Those that have already passed through the
resurrection--who have been resurrected in their
time and season by some person else, and have
been appointed to that authority just as you
Elders have with regard to your authority to
baptize. You have not the power to baptize
yourselves, neither have you power to resurrect
yourselves
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Resurrection An Ordinance
and when the work is finished, and it is offered
to the Father, then they will be crowned and
receive keys and powers by which they will be
capable of organizing worlds. Journal of
Discourses 15 137-139 6275
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Resurrection Guiding Principles 6

• Not all are resurrected at same time
• Resurrection of different body types
• Resurrection is essential for fulness of joy
• All forms of life will be resurrected
• Resurrection is an ordinance
• Resurrection is a restoration
• DC 13018-19
• Alma 1142-44 Alma 518 413

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Resurrection Guiding Principles 7

1. Not all are resurrected at same time
2. Resurrection of different body types
3. Resurrection is essential for fulness of joy
4. All forms of life will be resurrected
5. Resurrection is an ordinance
6. Resurrection is a restoration
7. People resurrected to same stature as the time of
   their death

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Joseph Smith
As concerning the resurrection, I will merely say
that all men will come from the grave as they lie
down, whether old or young there will not be
"added unto their stature one cubit," neither
taken from it all will be raised by the power of
God, having spirit in their bodies, and not
blood.
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Joseph Smith
Children will be enthroned in the presence of God
and the Lamb with bodies of the same stature 
that they had on earth, having been redeemed by
the blood of the Lamb they will there enjoy the
fullness of that light, glory and intelligence,
which is prepared in the celestial kingdom.
TPJS 199-200
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Joseph F. Smith
The body will come forth as it is laid to rest,
for there is no growth or development in the
grave.  As it is laid down, so will it arise, and
changes to perfection will come by the law of
restitution.  But the spirit will continue to
expand and develop, and the body, after the
resurrection will develop to the full stature of
man. Improvement Era, June, 1904
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Resurrection Guiding Principles 8

1. Not all are resurrected at same time
2. Resurrection of different body types
3. Resurrection is essential for fulness of joy
4. All forms of life will be resurrected
5. Resurrection is an ordinance
6. Resurrection is a restoration of
7. People resurrected to same stature at death
8. Christs body not yet perfect? (DC 45)

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Is Christ Perfect?

• Jesus was sinless but not perfect
• Sinless (didnt sin) but not perfect (exalted)
• To be perfect, what happens to the body?
• Resurrected to its perfect form
• 3 Nephi 1115
• if he was resurrected, why were there still scars
  and wounds on Christ?

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Elder Jeffery R. Holland
The wounds in His hands, feet, and side are signs
that in mortality painful things happen even to
the pure and the perfect, signs that tribulation
is not evidence that God does not love us. It is
a significant and hopeful fact that it is the
wounded Christ who comes to our rescue. He who
bears the scars of sacrifice, the lesions of
love, the emblems of humility and forgiveness is
the Captain of our Soul.
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Elder Jeffery R. Holland
That evidence of pain in mortality is undoubtedly
intended to give courage to others who are also
hurt and wounded by life, perhaps even in the
house of their friends. Christ and the New
Covenant, 259
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Resurrection

1. Not all are resurrected at same time
2. Resurrection of different body types
3. Resurrection is essential for fulness of joy
4. All forms of life will be resurrected
5. Resurrection is an ordinance
6. Resurrection is a restoration of
7. People resurrected to same stature at death
8. Christs body not yet perfect? (DC 45)

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Learn of Me then Teach of Me

• What were your 3 goals from beginning of class?
• Think and write of 3 things that answers this
  phrase What makes me happy. Do this daily as
  you write in your journal.
• Blessings will surprise you
• You will be happier
• More positive
• More compassionate and forgiving
• Likely to be more receptive to the Spirit

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Thank you!

• Thank you for participating in the
• 13-week Teach of Me course taught through LDS
  Extension Services.
• We encourage you to continue to not only learn,
  but teach of Christ!
• Remember.
• LIVE truth to get more truth!!!

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