The Keys of the Kingdom

Bruce R. McConkie April 1983 Saturday Afternoon Session

Scripture citations

  1. Matthew 3:15

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    It is that John to whom the Judean hosts came at Bethabara, seeking the cleansing power of his baptism.

    Alludes to High confidence

  2. Matthew 3:17

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    It is that John for whom the heavens opened and who saw the Holy Ghost descend in bodily form, in quiet serenity like a dove, and rest upon the One of whom the Divine Voice then said: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matt.

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  3. Doctrine and Covenants 13

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    Now in resurrected glory, speaking in the name of that Messiah for whom he had died a martyr’s death, he confers upon his mortal friends the Priesthood of Aaron and the keys of the ministering of angels and of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins.

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  4. Doctrine and Covenants 27:12

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    They also receive the keys of the dispensation of the fulness of times, that glorious age of restoration and refreshment in which God designs to gather all things in one in Christ; that age of revelation and gifts and miracles in which he will bring to pass the restitution of all things spoken by the mouths of all the holy prophets since the world began.

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  5. Matthew 17:1

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    But even this is not all.

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  6. Doctrine and Covenants 110:11

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    Elijah brings back the keys of the sealing power, the power that enables men now living, as it was with Peter of old, to bind on the earth below and have their acts sealed everlastingly in the heavens above.

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  7. Doctrine and Covenants 128:18

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    And so, in process of time, there is “a whole and complete and perfect union, and welding together of dispensations, and keys, and powers, and glories … from the days of Adam even to the present time.” (D&C 128:18.)

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  8. Matthew 18:18

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    In the meridian of time Jesus ordained the Twelve in the coasts of Capernaum; he gave the keys of the kingdom to Peter, James, and John on the holy mount; and later he gave these same keys to all of the Twelve.

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  9. Amos 3

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    In our dispensation the Melchizedek Priesthood came in 1829; men were ordained to the holy apostleship in February of 1835; various keys were given at divers times, chiefly on April 3, 1836; and this continued until all the rivers of the past had flown into the ocean of the present, and mortal men possessed all of the keys and powers ever vested in men in any age from Adam to the present.

    Alludes to High confidence

  10. Psalms 72

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    After they are thus endowed and empowered, the Prophet says to the Twelve: “I have sealed upon your heads all the keys of the kingdom of God.

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  11. Doctrine and Covenants 112:30

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    “For verily I say unto you, the keys of the dispensation, which ye have received, have come down from the fathers, and last of all, being sent down from heaven unto you.” (D&C 112:30–32.)

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    Chapter 16: The Chosen Twelve

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  2. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 41: Personal Manifestations of God the Eternal Father and of His Son Jesus Christ in Modern Times

    2 shared verses

  3. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 10: In the Wilderness of Judea

    1 shared verse

  4. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 23: The Transfiguration

    1 shared verse

  5. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 24: From Sunshine to Shadow

    1 shared verse

    • Matthew 18:18

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (Matt. 18:18)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (f)

      The authority of the Twelve to administer the affairs of Church government was attested by the Lord’s confirming to them as a body the promise before addressed to Peter: “Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”f Through unity of purpose and unreserved sincerity they would have power with God, as witness the Master’s further assurance: “Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall ag...

  6. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 39: Ministry of the Resurrected Christ on the Western Hemisphere

    1 shared verse

    • Matthew 3:17

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (Matt. 3:17)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (n)

      About six weeks or more after the events last considered,l a great multitude of the Nephites had assembled at the temple in the land called Bountiful,m and were earnestly discoursing with one another over the great changes that had been wrought in the land, and particularly concerning Jesus Christ, of whose atoning death the predicted signs had been witnessed in all their tragic details.

  7. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 4: The Antemortal Godship of Christ

    1 shared verse

    • Matthew 3:17

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (Matt. 3:17)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (d)

      A general consideration of scriptural evidence leads to the conclusion that God the Eternal Father has manifested Himself to earthly prophets or revelators on very few occasions, and then principally to attest the divine authority of His Son, Jesus Christ.

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    Chapter 11: From Judea to Galilee

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