Easter and General Conference

The Lesson for this week focuses on Easter and General Conference

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You Can Listen to Our Verse of "I Know That My Redeemer Lives Here- Music is by Lewis D. Edwards, 1859-1921; Words by Kira Stanford, Vocals by Matthew Stanford

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Lesson For D&C 29

Use the outline, found on page 56 in the Come Follow Me For Individuals and Family Manual or Click Here to download and print one, to teach your family about the Plan of Salvation. For younger children, you may want to read the scriptures, listed on the outline, and summarize the key points of each set of scriptures (I’ve included my summary down below). Discuss how knowing the plan of Salvation can help us in our everyday lives.

Premortal

• the devil was before Adam,

•  third part of the hosts of heaven turned he away from me because of their agency;

• thus came the devil and his angels;

Creation and Fall

• by the power of my Spirit created I them; yea, all things both spiritual and temporal—

• my works have no end, neither beginning; 

• the devil tempted Adam, and he partook of the forbidden fruit and transgressed the commandment, wherein he became subject to the will of the devil, because he yielded unto temptation.

• cast out from the Garden of Eden, from my presence, because of his transgression, wherein he became spiritually dead, 

Mortal Life

• devil should tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents unto themselves; for if they never should have bitter they could not know the sweet—

• I, the Lord God, gave unto Adam and unto his seed, that they should not die as to the temporal death, until I, the Lord God, should send forth angels to declare unto them repentance and redemption, through faith on the name of mine Only Begotten Son.

•  I, the Lord God, appoint unto man the days of his probation—that by his natural death he might be raised in immortality unto eternal life, even as many as would believe;

• they cannot be redeemed from their spiritual fall, because they repent not;

• For they love darkness rather than light, and their deeds are evil, and they receive their wages of whom they list to obey.

Spirit World

• Lord went not in person among the wicked and the disobedient who had rejected the truth, to teach them;

• But behold, from among the righteous, he organized his forces and appointed messengers, clothed with power and authority, and commissioned them to go forth and carry the light of the gospel to them that were in darkness, even to all the spirits of men; and thus was the gospel preached to the dead.

• messengers went forth to declare the acceptable day of the Lord and proclaim liberty to the captives who were bound, even unto all who would repent of their sins and receive the gospel.

• died in their sins, without a knowledge of the truth, or in transgression, having rejected the prophets.

• These were taught faith in God, repentance from sin, vicarious baptism for the remission of sins, the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands,

• And all other principles of the gospel that were necessary for them to know in order to qualify themselves that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

• Thus was it made known that our Redeemer spent his time during his sojourn in the world of spirits, instructing and preparing the faithful spirits of the prophets who had testified of him in the flesh;

• That they might carry the message of redemption unto all the dead, unto whom he could not go personally, because of their rebellion and transgression, that they through the ministration of his servants might also hear his words.

Resurrection and Judgement

• mine apostles shall stand at my right hand at the day of my coming in a pillar of fire, being clothed with robes of righteousness, with crowns upon their heads, in glory even as I am, to judge the whole house of Israel

• trump shall sound both long and loud, even as upon Mount Sinai, and all the earth shall quake, and they shall come forth—yea, even the dead which died in me, to receive a crown of righteousness, and to be clothed upon, even as I am, to be with me, that we may be one.

• Michael, mine archangel, shall sound his trump, and then shall all the dead awake, for their graves shall be opened, and they shall come forth—yea, even all.

• And the righteous shall be gathered on my right hand unto eternal life; and the wicked on my left hand will I be ashamed to own before the Father;

• Wherefore I will say unto them—Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

Kingdoms of Glory 

Celestial Glory

• received the testimony of Jesus

•  believed on his name a

•  baptized after the manner of his burial,

• keeping the commandments

•  receive the Holy Spirit by the laying on of the hands 

• overcome by faith, and are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise

• They are they who are the church of the Firstborn.

• have received of his fulness, and of his glory;

• all things are theirs, whether life or death, or things present, or things to come, all are theirs and they are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

• they shall overcome all things.

• dwell in the presence of God and his Christ forever and ever.

• shall have part in the first resurrection.

• shall come forth in the resurrection of the just.

• come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly place, the holiest of all.

• innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of Enoch, and of the Firstborn.

• names are written in heaven, where God and Christ are the judge of all.

• 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.

• These are they whose bodies are celestial, whose glory is that of the sun, even the glory of God, the highest of all, whose glory the sun of the firmament is written of as being typical.

Terrestrial

• who died without law;

• the spirits of men kept in prison, whom the Son visited, and preached the gospel unto them, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh;

• received not the testimony of Jesus in the flesh, but afterwards received it.

• are honorable men of the earth, who were blinded by the craftiness of men.

• receive of his glory, but not of his fulness.

• receive of the presence of the Son, but not of the fulness of the Father.

• who are not valiant in the testimony of Jesus; 

Telestial

• who received not the gospel of Christ, neither the testimony of Jesus.

• deny not the Holy Spirit. (D&C 76:35  Having denied the Holy Spirit after having received it, and having denied the Only Begotten Son of the Father, having crucified him unto themselves and put him to an open shame.)

• thrust down to hell.

• who shall not be redeemed from the devil until the last resurrection, until the Lord, even Christ the Lamb, shall have finished his work.

• receive not of his fulness in the eternal world, but of the Holy Spirit through the ministration of the terrestrial

Lesson for D&C 27-28

This lesson is one of my favorites, because it focuses on the Armor of God. With 5 boys, this is one of their favorites too!

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Lesson for D&C 23-26.

 Here is the lesson that corresponds with the Come Follow Me lesson for D&C 23-26. This lesson includes our version of the "Marshmallow Experiment." It discusses the topic of patience in afflictions.

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Lesson for D&C 20-23

 Here is the lesson that corresponds with the Come Follow Me lesson for D&C 20-22. 

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