“Be Ye Prepared”
LeGrand Richards October 1981 Saturday Afternoon Session
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“This is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”
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“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of me.”
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“And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (Matt.
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When John the Revelator was banished to the Isle of Patmos, a voice from heaven said, “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.” (Rev.
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When John the Revelator was banished to the Isle of Patmos, a voice from heaven said, “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.” (Rev.
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When John the Revelator was banished to the Isle of Patmos, a voice from heaven said, “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.” (Rev.
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When John the Revelator was banished to the Isle of Patmos, a voice from heaven said, “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.” (Rev.
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When John saw all of that, he wanted to kneel down and worship the angel who showed it to him.
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Earlier, the angel had showed him the dead, small and great, standing before God, and the books were opened and every man was judged according to the things written in the books, according to their works.
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“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and shall reign with him a thousand years.”
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“But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.” (Rev. 20:5.) Is
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The Prophet Alma in the Book of Mormon said that this life is the time to prepare to meet the Lord.
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“And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.” (Matt.
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“And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matt.
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Now I give you another of the Savior’s parables about preparing for his coming, and that is the parable of the ten virgins.
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But Abraham said, “Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot.” (Luke 16:24–26.)
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“And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.” (Luke 16:27–31.)
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“Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” (Matt.
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“… And the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.” (Matt.
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Jeremiah said, “Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.” (Jer.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 3: The Need of a Redeemer
2 shared verses
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Moses 1:39)
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- Open paragraph (l)
So, for the advancement of man from his present fallen and relatively degenerate state to the higher condition of spiritual life, a power above his own must cooperate.
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Rev. 20:12)
- In Jesus the Christ:
- Open paragraph (z)
Those who thus early came forth are spoken of as “the saints”; and other scriptures confirm the fact that only the righteous shall be brought forth in the earlier stages of the resurrection yet to be consummated; but that all the dead shall in turn resume bodies of flesh and bones is placed beyond doubt by the revealed word.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 32: Further Instruction to the Apostles
2 shared verses
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Matt. 25:1)
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- Open paragraph (m)
To more indelibly impress upon the apostles, and, through their subsequent ministry, upon the world, the absolute need of unceasing watchfulness and unwavering diligence in preparation for the coming of the Lord in judgment, Jesus depicted in parables the prospective condition of mankind in the last times.
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Rev. 21:1, 4, 23)
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- Open paragraph (i)
The next declaration in the order of the evangelical record reads: “Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” This may be understood as applying to the generation in which the portentous happenings before described would be realized.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 42: Jesus the Christ to Return
2 shared verses
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Rev. 21:1, 4, 23)
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- Open paragraph (Revelation 21:1, 3, 4)
Regeneration of the Earth.—In speaking of the graded and progressive glories provided for His creations, and of the laws of regeneration and sanctification, the Lord has thus spoken through revelation in the present dispensation: “And again, verily I say unto you, the earth abideth the law of a celestial kingdom, for it filleth the measure of its creation, and transgresseth not the law.
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Rev. 21:1, 4, 23)
- In Jesus the Christ:
- Open paragraph (Revelation 21:1, 3, 4)
Regeneration of the Earth.—In speaking of the graded and progressive glories provided for His creations, and of the laws of regeneration and sanctification, the Lord has thus spoken through revelation in the present dispensation: “And again, verily I say unto you, the earth abideth the law of a celestial kingdom, for it filleth the measure of its creation, and transgresseth not the law.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 11: From Judea to Galilee
1 shared verse
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Matt. 7:22)
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- Open paragraph (d)
The act of transmutation whereby water became wine was plainly a miracle, a phenomenon not susceptible of explanation, far less of demonstration, by what we consider the ordinary operation of natural law.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 18: As One Having Authority
1 shared verse
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Jer. 3:14)
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- Open paragraph (Jeremiah 3:14; 31:32)
An Adulterous Generation Seeking after Signs.—Our Lord’s reply to those who clamored for a sign, that “An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign” (Matthew 12:39; see also 16:4; Mark 8:38) could only be interpreted by the Jews as a supreme reproof.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 19: “He Spake Many Things unto Them in Parables”
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Matt. 7:24)
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- Open paragraph (o)
That the lesson of the parables was comprehensible through study, prayer and search was intimated in the Teacher’s admonishment: “Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”m To the more studious inquirers, the Master added: “Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 22: A Period of Darkening Opposition
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- Open paragraph (Matt. 7:24)
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- Open paragraph (f)
Through direct revelation from God Peter knew that Jesus was the Christ; and upon revelation, as a rock of secure foundation, the Church of Christ was to be built.e Though torrents should fall, floods roll, winds rage, and all beat together upon that structure, it would not, could not, fall, for it was founded upon a rock;f and even the powers of hell would be impotent to prevail against it.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 26: Our Lord’s Ministry in Perea and Judea
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Rev. 20:12)
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- Open paragraph (x)
Considerable time may have elapsed, weeks or possibly months, between the departure of the Seventy and their return.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 27: Continuation of the Perean and Judean Ministry
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Moses 1:39)
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The three parables, which appear in the scriptural record as parts of a continuous discourse, are as one in portraying the joy that abounds in heaven over the recovery of a soul once numbered among the lost, whether that soul be best symbolized by a sheep that had wandered afar, a coin that had dropped out of sight through the custodian’s neglect, or a son who would deliberately sever himself from home and heaven.
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