Scripture reflections/memorization

(D&C 126 – 138)

• Perils small; I’ll triumph over my enemies; Paul suffered greatly. (D&C 127:2) (Search: *Adversity, *Suffering)
• Lord says to continue on the temple; let works be re-doubled. (D&C 127:4) (Search: *Do, *Faster)
• Record your baptisms so they may be recorded in heaven; records put in archives of the temple. (D&C 124:7, 9)
• Joseph’s great desire to address the subject of baptism for dead. (D&C 127:10) (Search: *Baptism)
• Joseph troubled on all sides by the enemy, Satan, the prince of this world; My prayer to God is that you all may be saved. (D&C 127:11-12) (Search: *Adversity)
• We are to perform vicarious baptisms for the dead. (D&C 128:1, 5)
• John the Revelator was contemplating work for the dead when he wrote Rev 10:12; Judged out of books (records) kept on the earth and the book of life which is a record kept in heaven. (D&C 128:6-8) (Search: *DP2, *Judge, *Temple)
• Bold doctrine to talk of a power that binds on earth and in heaven; An action becomes a law if it is done by authority, truly & faithfully and recorded. (D&C 128:9) (Search: *Law)
• Keys of the Holy Priesthood bring a knowledge of saving the living & the dead; Salvation of living & dead come thru revelation. (D&C 128:11) (Search: *Dead, *Keys)
• Baptism is to be immersed in water, it’s like the resurrection of the dead, coming forth out of their graves; Font similar to a grave. (D&C 128:12-13) (Search: *Baptism)
• Work for dead essential; Cannot be lightly passed over; Their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation; Cannot be made perfect without them. (D&C 128:15) (Search: *Dead, *DP2, *Exaltation, *WorkDead)
• Earth smitten with a curse unless welding link of fathers & children completed; Work for the dead kept hidden from the wise but revealed to the babes. (D&C 128:18) (Search: *WorkDead)
• Gospel voice of gladness is a voice of mercy to the living and the dead. (D&C 128:19) (Search: *Gospel)
• Angelic voices (Michael/Adam, Gabriel, Raphael, other angels) declaring their dispensations. (D&C 128:21) (Search: *Angels)
• The dead speak forth praise; Go on, redeem the dead; Ancient prophets teaching us what is to come, confirming our hope; go on to victory and redeem the dead from their prison, let the prisoners go free; Present in our temples, a book containing the records of our dead. (D&C 128:22) (Search: *WorkDead)
• Present a book, in the temple, of the records of their dead. (D&C 128:24)
• Two types of beings in heaven, resurrected angels & spirit bodies. (D&C 129:1-3) (Search: *Angels)
• How to detect angels/spirits; offer to shake hands; righteous will shake hands and deliver their message; the wicked will attempt to shake hands but a spirit cannot do such. (D&C 129:4-8) (Search: *Angels, *Spirit)
• There is an order (laws) in heaven. (D&C 129:7) (Search: *Law)
• The Savior like man; Same sociality [in the celestial kingdom] as among each other now; When the Savior appears, we shall see that he is a man like ourselves. (D&C 130:1-2) (Search: *Christ, *SeeGod)
• God is not in man’s heart; The idea that the Father & Son dwell in man’s heart is false. (D&C 130:3) (Search: *False, *Godhead, *Heart)
• Exalted earth similar to the planet where God dwells; The earth in its sanctified state will be like a Urim & Thummin where inhabitants will know things relating to lower kingdoms. (D&C 130:7-9)
• Each celestial individual receives a white stone and will have knowledge of higher kingdoms; A new name to each who enters the celestial kingdom, The new name is a key word. (D&C 130:10-11)
• Prophesy that much bloodshed will begin in South Carolina (1832). (D&C 130:12-1)
• Prayed to know when the Son of man would come; The Lord said trouble me no more; if you reach the age of 85 you will see the Son of Man. (D&C 130:14-15) (Search: *Prayer)
• Principle of intelligence will rise in the resurrection; Advantage in the world to come; Intelligence is gained thru obedience. (D&C 130:18-19) (Search: *Intelligence)
• All blessings are based on a Law decreed before the world was created; Every blessing is by obedience to the law upon which it is predicated. (D&C 130:20-21)
• Father and Son bodies of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; Holy Ghost a personage of spirit; A man may receive the Holy Ghost temporarily but it won’t necessarily tarry with him. (D&C 130:22-23) (Search: *Sem)
• A new & everlasting covenant (priesthood), three heavens in the celestial glory; If not the top glory, that is the end to his kingdom, he cannot have increase (spirit offspring). (D&C 131:1-4) (Search: *Sem)
• More sure word of prophecy means a man is sealed up unto eternal life; An ordinance to have one’s calling and election is made sure. (D&C 131:5)
• It is impossible for a man to be saved in ignorance. (D&C 131:6)
• All spirit is matter, more fine and pure, can only be discerned by purer eyes; When our bodies are purified, we shall see that all spirit is matter. (D&C 131:7-8)
• Revelation to the prophet because he inquired to know and understand; I am the Lord thy God, and will answer thee as touching this matter. (D&C 132:1-2)
• Prepare heart to receive and obey instructions from the Lord, if receive new and everlasting covenant, you must obey it, if no, then ye are damned; These laws instituted from before the foundations of the world. (D&C 132:3-4)
• All contacts not entered into and sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise are dead and are of no affect after the resurrection and have an end after death. (D&C 132:7)
• No man comes to the Father but by Christ and his word; All things not of God shall be thrown down after men are dead. (D&C 132:12-14)
• Angels who did not abide the sealing ordinance will be ministering angels; They cannot be enlarged but remain separately and singly throughout eternity, without exaltation. (D&C 132:16-17)
• Angels guarding the way to eternal life; Need temple knowledge to pass by the angels, Continuation of seeds. (D&C 132:18-19) (Note: Seven ” if’s” – endowment & celestial sealing & sealed by Holy Spirit of Promise & abide in covenant & commit no murder & in Lambs book of Life & covenants in full force upon death)
• Men and women together can become Gods; Celestial sealing abides the law; Angels subject to them; No end, above all. (D&C 132:20-21)
• Few receive and know Christ; Strait & narrow to exaltation; Exaltation is a continuation of lives. (D&C 132:22) (Search: *Few)
• Broad is the gate to (spiritual) death, many go in because they will not abide God’s law. (D&C 132:25) (Search: *Death, *Do)
• Eternal lives is to know the only true God & Jesus Christ and to receive Christ’s law. (D&C 132:24)
• I will be with thee even unto the end of the world; I seal upon you your exaltation & prepare a throne for you. (D&C 132:49)
• Promise to the president of the church, seal on earth is sealed in heaven; Whosesoever sins you remit on earth shall be remitted in heaven; Whomsoever you bless, I will bless; and you curse, I will curse. (D&C 132:46-47)
• The Lord will suddenly come to his temple; He will come down upon the wicked with a judgement and curse. (D&C 133:3)
• Go ye out from Babylon. Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. (D&C 133:5)
• Send forth missionaries unto all nations, first to the gentiles then the Jews; Message for them is to go forth to Zion and strengthen her stakes; Prepare to meet the Savior. (D&C 133:8-10)
• Let not your flight be in haste, but prepare all things; Do not look back lest destruction come upon you. (D&C 133:15)
• The great deep shall be driven back into the north countries, and the islands become one land; the earth will be as it was before it was divided. (D&C 133:23-24)
• Those in the north countries (lost 10 tribes) will come with their prophets; Ice shall flow at their presence; a highway cast up in the midst of the great deep. (D&C 133:26-28)
• The lost 10 tribes will bring their riches unto the children of Ephraim (richer blessing); They will fall down and be crowned with glory. (D&C 133:30-34)
• The Lord will come down in red apparel and the nations shall tremble at his presence; Sun and moon to hide their light; he will come in a day of vengeance but bestow blessings of love on his faithful. (D&C 133:42-52)
• The weak shall confound the wise and put thousands to flight; He that repents shall have eternal life; the wicked shall burn as an oven. (D&C 133:58-64)
• The wicked will be delivered to outer darkness. (D&C 133:71-74)
• Governments were instituted by God and he will hold them accountable to him; Individuals sustain the govt where they reside; Not mingle religion and civil government; Men justified in defending themselves; Individuals should not be held in servitude. (D&C 134:1-12)
• Joseph Smith, has done more, save Jesus, than any other prophet on earth; Book of Mormon, gospel to earth, D&C, founded city; Sealed his mission with his own blood. (D&C 135:3)
• Joseph said, I am going like a lamb to the slaughter, but I am as calm as a summer’s morning; He was murdered in cold blood. (D&C 135:4)
• Do not take the name of the Lord in vain; His arm is stretched out in the last days to save my people. (D&C 136:21-22)
• Do not contend.  Cease drunkenness. Restore to your neighbor what you have borrowed. Be a wise steward of the Lord. (D&C 136:23-27)
• Praise the Lord with singing, music and dance; If sorrowful, call on the Lord that your soul may be joyful. (D&C 136:28-29) (Search: *Sorrow)
• My people must be tried in all things; He that will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom; Let the ignorant learn wisdom by humbling himself & call upon the Lord; My Spirit is sent forth into the world to enlighten the humble and contrite. (D&C 136:31-33)
• Be diligent in keeping all my commandments. (D&C 136:42) (Search: *Do)
• Thus came the voice of the Lord unto me, saying: All who have died without a knowledge of this gospel, who would have received it if they had been permitted to tarry, shall be heirs of the celestial kingdom of God; men judged all men according to their works, according to the desire of their hearts. all children who die before they arrive at the years of accountability are saved in the celestial kingdom of heaven. (D&C 137:7-10) (Search: *Celestial, *SpiritWorld)
• Men judged according to their works and the desire of their hearts. (D&C 137:9)
• All children who died before they arrive at the age of accountability (D&C 68:27 – age 8) are saved in the Celestial Kingdom of God. (D&C 137:10)
• As I pondered over these things which are written, the eyes of my understanding were opened, and the Spirit of the Lord rested upon me, and I saw the hosts of the dead, both small and great. (D&C 138:11) (Note: Pres Joseph F Smith pondered Christ’s visit to the spirit world between his death and his resurrection) (Search: *Dead, *Ponder, *Revelation)
• Filled with hope, joy, gladness, waiting in the spirit world for the arrival of the Son of God. (D&C 138:14-16) (Search: *Joy, *SpiritWorld)
• Spirit and the body need to be united (resurrected) to receive a fulness of joy; Spirit and body never again to be separated. (D&C 138:17) (Search: *Body, *Resurrection)
• The Son of God appeared, declaring liberty to the captives who had been faithful; and preached the gospel and the redemption from individual sins on condition of repentance, unto the wicked he did not go but sent messengers. (D&C 138:18-20) (Search: *Preach, *SpiritWorld)
• The wicked in spirit prison were where darkness reigned, but among the righteous there was peace. (D&C 138:22) (Search: *Darkness, *Peace, *SpiritWorld)
• Notwithstanding Christ’s mighty works, and miracles, and proclamation of the truth, in great power and authority, there were but few who hearkened to his voice, and rejoiced in his presence, and received salvation at his hands. (D&C 138:26) (Search: *Christ, *Few, *Miracles)
• First principles taught in the spirit world – faith, repentance, vicarious baptism, gift of the Holy Ghost and all other principles necessary for salvation. (D&C 138:33-34) (Search: *DP1, *SpiritWorld)
• There was a great congregation that the Savior visited in spirit world; Present were Adam, Eve, Seth, Abraham, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Elias, Malachi. (D&C 138:38-49, 53-56) (Search: *DP1, *SpiritWorld)
• Spirit world visit of the Savior foreshadows work for dead; Great work in temple in last days, the sealing of children to parents. (D&C 138:48) (Search: *Dead, *SpiritWorld, *Temple)
• Absence of the body is bondage in spirit world. (D&C 138:50) (Search: *Body, *DP1, *SpiritWorld)
• Spirits (Prophet Joseph Smith, and my father, Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and other choice spirits)reserved for latter-day work of temples and ordinances. (D&C 138:53-54)
• Lessons learned in the pre-mortal world to prepare souls to come to earth. (D&C 138:56) (Search: *Foreordain, *PreExist)
• Continual preaching in the spirit world; Gospel was preached in spirit world and dead redeemed in the temples; The repentant can repent and be forgiven in the spirit world; The unrepentant dead pay for their own sins. (D&C 138:57-60) (Search: *Agency, *DP2, *Preach, *Sins, *SpiritWorld)