The Joy of the Saints
D. Todd Christofferson October 2019 Saturday Morning Session
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related, “The words which I had often heard my father speak concerning eternal life, and the joy of the saints, sunk deep into my heart.” In the
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“And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.”
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Keeping the Lord’s commandments enables us more fully and more easily to feel His love.
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Keeping the Lord’s commandments enables us more fully and more easily to feel His love.
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Keeping the Lord’s commandments enables us more fully and more easily to feel His love.
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“These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.”
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Even when we are found faithfully keeping the commandments, there are trials and tragedies that could interrupt our joy.
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In 1989, Jack Rushton was serving as president of the Irvine California Stake in the United States.
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Family, friends, and stake members rallied around Brother Rushton and his wife, Jo Anne, and, among other things, remodeled a section of their home to accommodate Jack’s wheelchair.
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“If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.”
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This is a day of sometimes merciless attacks in social media and in person against those who seek to uphold the Lord’s standard in dress, entertainment, and sexual purity.
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This is a day of sometimes merciless attacks in social media and in person against those who seek to uphold the Lord’s standard in dress, entertainment, and sexual purity.
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In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were “in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery.” Now, as accountable beings, we find joy in overcoming misery in whatever form, whether it be sin, trial, weakness, or any other obstacle to happiness.
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In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were “in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery.” Now, as accountable beings, we find joy in overcoming misery in whatever form, whether it be sin, trial, weakness, or any other obstacle to happiness.
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In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were “in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery.” Now, as accountable beings, we find joy in overcoming misery in whatever form, whether it be sin, trial, weakness, or any other obstacle to happiness.
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In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were “in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery.” Now, as accountable beings, we find joy in overcoming misery in whatever form, whether it be sin, trial, weakness, or any other obstacle to happiness.
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In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were “in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery.” Now, as accountable beings, we find joy in overcoming misery in whatever form, whether it be sin, trial, weakness, or any other obstacle to happiness.
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Similarly, the joy “set before us” is the joy of assisting the Savior in His work of redemption.
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Similarly, the joy “set before us” is the joy of assisting the Savior in His work of redemption.
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Similarly, the joy “set before us” is the joy of assisting the Savior in His work of redemption.
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Similarly, the joy “set before us” is the joy of assisting the Savior in His work of redemption.
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Similarly, the joy “set before us” is the joy of assisting the Savior in His work of redemption.
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Similarly, the joy “set before us” is the joy of assisting the Savior in His work of redemption.
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Similarly, the joy “set before us” is the joy of assisting the Savior in His work of redemption.
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Similarly, the joy “set before us” is the joy of assisting the Savior in His work of redemption.
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Similarly, the joy “set before us” is the joy of assisting the Savior in His work of redemption.
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Similarly, the joy “set before us” is the joy of assisting the Savior in His work of redemption.
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“Now, when I think of the success of these my brethren my soul is carried away, even to the separation of it from the body, as it were, so great is my joy.”
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“Now, when I think of the success of these my brethren my soul is carried away, even to the separation of it from the body, as it were, so great is my joy.”
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“Now, when I think of the success of these my brethren my soul is carried away, even to the separation of it from the body, as it were, so great is my joy.”
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I believe that the ultimate “joy of the saints” comes in knowing that the Savior pleads their cause, “and no one can conceive of the joy which [will fill] our souls [as] we [hear Jesus] pray for us unto the Father.” With President Russell M.
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I believe that the ultimate “joy of the saints” comes in knowing that the Savior pleads their cause, “and no one can conceive of the joy which [will fill] our souls [as] we [hear Jesus] pray for us unto the Father.” With President Russell M.
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“As in all things, Jesus Christ is our ultimate exemplar, ‘who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross’ [Hebrews 12:2].
Alludes to High confidence
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 5: Earthly Advent of the Christ Predicted
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The Lord’s revelation to Adam making known the ordained plan whereby the Son of God was to take upon Himself flesh in the meridian of time, and become the Redeemer of the world, was attested by Enoch, son of Jared and father of Methuselah.
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The Lord’s revelation to Adam making known the ordained plan whereby the Son of God was to take upon Himself flesh in the meridian of time, and become the Redeemer of the world, was attested by Enoch, son of Jared and father of Methuselah.
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- In this talk:
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The Lord’s revelation to Adam making known the ordained plan whereby the Son of God was to take upon Himself flesh in the meridian of time, and become the Redeemer of the world, was attested by Enoch, son of Jared and father of Methuselah.
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- In this talk:
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- Open paragraph (f)
The Lord’s revelation to Adam making known the ordained plan whereby the Son of God was to take upon Himself flesh in the meridian of time, and become the Redeemer of the world, was attested by Enoch, son of Jared and father of Methuselah.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 7: Gabriel’s Annunciation of John and of Jesus
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The national hope of a Messiah based on promise and prophecy had become confused in the Jewish mind, through the influence of rabbinism with its many vagaries, and its “private interpretation”y made to appear authoritative by the artificially sustained prestige of the expositors; yet certain conditions had been emphasized as essential, even by the rabbis, and by these essentials would be judged the claim of any Jew who might declare himself to be the long expected One.
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The national hope of a Messiah based on promise and prophecy had become confused in the Jewish mind, through the influence of rabbinism with its many vagaries, and its “private interpretation”y made to appear authoritative by the artificially sustained prestige of the expositors; yet certain conditions had been emphasized as essential, even by the rabbis, and by these essentials would be judged the claim of any Jew who might declare himself to be the long expected One.
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The national hope of a Messiah based on promise and prophecy had become confused in the Jewish mind, through the influence of rabbinism with its many vagaries, and its “private interpretation”y made to appear authoritative by the artificially sustained prestige of the expositors; yet certain conditions had been emphasized as essential, even by the rabbis, and by these essentials would be judged the claim of any Jew who might declare himself to be the long expected One.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 22: A Period of Darkening Opposition
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Many have queried as to why Jesus delayed the blessing.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 27: Continuation of the Perean and Judean Ministry
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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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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 3: The Need of a Redeemer
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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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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 33: The Last Supper and the Betrayal
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In conclusion of this last and most solemn of the discourses delivered by Christ in the flesh, the Lord said: “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 34: The Trial and Condemnation
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Christ’s Forbearance When Smitten.—That Jesus maintained His equanimity and submissiveness even under the provocation of a blow dealt by a brutish underling in the presence of the high priest, is confirmatory of our Lord’s affirmation that He had “overcome the world” (John 16:33).
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The Articles of Faith
Article 2
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“Because of their transgression, Adam and Eve, having chosen to leave their state of innocence (see 2 Nephi 2:23–25), were banished from the presence of God.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 11: From Judea to Galilee
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Chapter 37: The Resurrection and the Ascension
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Chapter 38: The Apostolic Ministry
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Chapter 42: Jesus the Christ to Return
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