Feast on the Book of Mormon


D&C 132:22 For strait is the gate, and narrow the way that leadeth unto the exaltation and continuation of the lives, and few there be that find it, because ye receive me not in the world neither do ye know me. 
23 But if ye receive me in the world, then shall ye know me, and shall receive your exaltation; that where I am ye shall be also. 
24 This is eternal lives—to know the only wise and true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent. I am he. Receive ye, therefore, my law. 
25 Broad is the gate, and wide the way that leadeth to the deaths; and many there are that go in thereat, because they receive me not, neither do they abide in my law.

Only wise God 
Satan is no wise.

Path to lives Path to deaths

Why is the path strait & narrow? The path is designed by God. a path to perfection covenant path

Lamp to your feet A light to your path

Integrity knows their standards. Life is uncertain without integrity, Integrity always has lives their standards.

Cultivating does not yield fruit in a day. Cultivating the gift of the Holy Ghost require consistent effort.

The spirit of prophesy was given to Oliver Cowdery & Joseph Smith, when they were baptized, speaking in prophesy.

Pray before physical & spiritual meals.

Practice, record principles learned

shape the style of study to fit you.

Where would I be without the Book of Mormon?
No worldly wealth is worth more than knowledge of Christ obtained by sincerely studying the Book of Mormon.

The world would be rotten without the Book of Mormon. I would be rotten without the Book of Mormon.

What would you not know without the Book of Mormon? No one would know the true nature of God without the Book of Mormon. The true nature of God was revealed by the restoration, and many Christian religions are taking it for granted. The Plan of Salvation is lost without the Book of Mormon. The atonement of Jesus Christ is expounded more than any book.

Alma 22:14 And since man had fallen he could not merit anything of himself; but the sufferings and death of Christ atone for their sins, through faith and repentance, and so forth; and that he breaketh the bands of death, that the grave shall have no victory, and that the sting of death should be swallowed up in the hopes of glory;

1 Nephi 19:9 And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men.

When I think of the Book of Mormon, I think of the word power. The truths of the Book of Mormon have the power to heal, comfort, restore, succor, strengthen, console, and cheer our souls.


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