Reflections on a Consecrated Life

D. Todd Christofferson October 2010 Saturday Morning Session

Scripture citations

  1. Doctrine and Covenants 42:32

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    These statements express the reality that our life on earth is a stewardship of time and choices granted by our Creator.

    Alludes to High confidence
  2. Doctrine and Covenants 42:53

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    These statements express the reality that our life on earth is a stewardship of time and choices granted by our Creator.

    Alludes to High confidence
  3. Doctrine and Covenants 105:5

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    These statements express the reality that our life on earth is a stewardship of time and choices granted by our Creator.

    Alludes to High confidence
  4. John 17:1

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    These statements express the reality that our life on earth is a stewardship of time and choices granted by our Creator.

    Alludes to High confidence
  5. John 17:4

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    These statements express the reality that our life on earth is a stewardship of time and choices granted by our Creator.

    Alludes to High confidence
  6. Doctrine and Covenants 19:19

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    These statements express the reality that our life on earth is a stewardship of time and choices granted by our Creator.

    Alludes to High confidence
  7. 3 Nephi 27:20

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    “Repent, all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me and be baptized in my name, that ye may be sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost, that ye may stand spotless before me at the last day”
    Quote High confidence
  8. Mosiah 3:19

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    Consecration therefore means repentance.

    Alludes to High confidence
  9. Doctrine and Covenants 20:77

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    Consecration therefore means repentance.

    Alludes to High confidence
  10. Doctrine and Covenants 20:79

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    Consecration therefore means repentance.

    Alludes to High confidence
  11. Luke 2:48

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    A consecrated life is a life of labor.

    Alludes to High confidence
  12. Moses 1:39

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    A consecrated life is a life of labor.

    Alludes to High confidence
  13. Moroni 7:14

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    Having spoken in praise of labor, I must also add a kind word for leisure.

    Alludes to High confidence
  14. 1 Corinthians 6:19

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    “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:19–20).

    Alludes to High confidence
  15. Romans 12:1

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    “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
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  16. John 13:14

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    “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him” (John 13:14–16).

    Alludes to High confidence
  17. 3 Nephi 27:14

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    to God. The Savior declared, “My Father sent me that I might be lifted up upon the cross; that as I have been lifted up by men even so should men be lifted up by the Father, to stand before me, to be judged of their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil”
    Quote High confidence
  18. Matthew 5:39

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    Integrity is not naiveté.

    Alludes to High confidence
  19. Doctrine and Covenants 97:9

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    A consecrated life is a beautiful thing.

    Alludes to High confidence
  20. Moroni 7:48

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    A consecrated life is a beautiful thing.

    Alludes to High confidence
  21. 1 John 3:2

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    A consecrated life is a beautiful thing.

    Alludes to High confidence

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    Chapter 12: Early Incidents in Our Lord’s Public Ministry

    1 shared verse

    • 1 Corinthians 6:19

      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (r)

      “He spake of the temple of His body,” the real tabernacle of the Most High.r This reference to the destruction of the temple of His body, and the renewal thereof after three days, is His first recorded prediction relating to His appointed death and resurrection.

  2. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 27: Continuation of the Perean and Judean Ministry

    1 shared verse

    • Moses 1:39

      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (q)

      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.

  3. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 3: The Need of a Redeemer

    1 shared verse

  4. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 33: The Last Supper and the Betrayal

    1 shared verse

  5. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 42: Jesus the Christ to Return

    1 shared verse

    • 1 John 3:2

      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (k)

      The apostles had been so impressed with the Master’s assurance that He would return to earth in power and glory, that they eagerly questioned as to the time and signs of His coming.i He stated explicitly, though at the time they failed to comprehend Him, that many great events would intervene between His departure and return, including the long era of darkness associated with the apostasy.j But as to the certainty of His advent in glory, as Judge, and Lord, and King, Jesus left no excuse for ...

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