The Savior’s Final Discourses: John 13-17 “Teach of Me” – March 29, 2009 – LDS Extension Services The Mission of the Holy Ghost

The Savior’s Final Discourses: John 13-17

“Teach of Me” – March 29, 2009 – LDS Extension Services

The Mission of the Holy Ghost

QuizQuiz1. What is the main event from John 13?

2. “In my Father’s house there are many ___________”

3. What Chapter is referred to as the Great Intercessory Prayer?

4. Jesus is the Vine; we are the ___?

5. During what time period did the Holy Ghost not act in fullness, and why?

6. What class assignments are soon due?

7. EC: What is “S” in Thomas S. Monson?

Mission of the Holy Ghost

Everything you need to know to survive until and past the Second

Coming“Teach of Me” – March 29, 2009 – LDS Extension Services

Several years ago, I had an experience with President Hinckley and have asked him for permission to lift this statement from the minutes of The Twelve and The First Presidencies' minutes for use in meetings such as this one. It was just prior to the sesquicentennial. I was in a meeting. It was the first Thursday of the month meeting in the temple, we gather all of the general authorities in the temple. On that occasion some were called to testify. Then President Hinckley spoke...

The Holy Ghost and the Atonement

Elder M. Russell Ballard, from minutes of the First Presidency and the Twelve.

Northern Virginia, Regional Conference, Annandale VA Stake Center, 4/01.

…The words that fell from his lips, fell like they were scripture. At least that is how it seemed to me. He said, "I grieve over the loss of so many. I wonder, why does this happen? I believe that it is because they learn but do not experience. They don't experience the power of the Holy Ghost. They have a mental conversion, but not a spiritual conversion. The gospel appeals to many people. The most important part must be felt not in the mind, but in the heart. . .




. . . They must be touched by the Holy Ghost. They must have spiritual experiences. They have mental assent, but not spiritual conviction. Members must get into their hearts to conform to what they agree to. If it is in their hearts it will carry them through every storm of adversity.




In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to know something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something.


Ensign, Nov. 2000


Ensign, Nov. 2000

[Conversion] signifies not just a convincing but a profound change of nature…The gospel challenges us to be ‘converted,’ which requires us to do and to become….I hope the importance of conversion and becoming will cause our local leaders to reduce their concentration on statistical measures of actions and to focus more on what our brothers and sisters are and what they are striving to become….what is essential is that our labors in the workplace of the Lord have caused us to become something.

FATHER

SAVIOR

HOLY GHOST

US

Where does the atonement fit into the

plan of salvation?

How do we know when the atonement is

working?

Where does the atonement fit into the

plan of salvation?

How do we know when the atonement is

working?

“Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which affects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul!”

By the Power of the Holy Ghost

FATHER

SAVIOR

HOLY GHOST

President Marion G. Romney, The Holy Ghost, Ensign, May 1974, p. 92

“Reception of the Holy Ghost is the cleansing agent as the atonement purifies you….That is a fact you can act on with confidence. You can invite the Holy Ghost’s companionship into your life. And you can know when he is there, and when he withdraws. And when he is your companion, you can have confidence that the Atonement is working in your life.”

By the Power of the Holy Ghost

FATHER

SAVIOR

HOLY GHOST

Elder Henry B. Eyring, BYU Fireside, 29

October 1989 How does that prove the atonement is working?Holy Ghost only comes when we are righteous

“The actual cleansing of the soul comes when the Holy Ghost is received. The Holy Ghost is a sanctifier whose divine commission is to burn dross and evil out of a human soul as though by fire.”

Sanctification and Justification

FATHER

SAVIOR

HOLY GHOST

Elder Bruce R. McConkie, New Witness for the

Articles of Faith, p. 239

Sanctification comes when you begin to love the things you hated, and hate the things the things you once loved.

Sanctification and Justification

FATHER

SAVIOR

HOLY GHOST

When making a candle, you must constantly wax strong – meaning dip and re-dip your candle into the wax… line upon line, precept upon precept.Create your candle,

and let your light so shine!

Vocabulary Terms:Vocabulary Terms: The Comforter (John 14:26; 16:7) Another Comforter (John 14:16) Second Comforter (John 14:23) Holy Spirit of Promise (John 17:3) Promise of Eternal Life (John 17:3) Spirit of Truth (John 14:17; 15:26) Light of Truth Light of Christ

That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day.

D&C 50:22-24D&C 50:22-24

LIVE truth to get more truth!!!

Growing in the Light

D&C 50:24


D&C 50:24

The Perfe

ct Day

What is a perfect

day?


D&C 50:24

Light of

Christ

• Conscience

• Good/evil

The Perfe

ct Day

It is the Spirit of…Christ…that enlightens every man that comes into the world, and that strives with the children of men, and will continue to strive with them, until it brings them to a knowledge of the truth and the possession of the greater light and testimony of the Holy Ghost.

Joseph F. Smith Gospel Doctrine 67-68

The Light of ChristThe Light of Christ


D&C 50:24

• Conscience

• Good/evil

The Perfe

ct Day

Light of

Christ


D&C 50:24

Light of

Christ

• Conscience

• Good/evil

The Perfe

ct Day

Powerof

H.G.


D&C 50:24

Light of

Christ

• Conscience

• Good/evil

The Perfe

ct Day

Powerof

H.G.

Gift of

H.G.


D&C 50:24

Light of

Christ

• Conscience

• Good/evil

The Perfe

ct Day

Powerof

H.G.

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

Gift of

H.G.


D&C 50:24

Light of

Christ

• Conscience

• Good/evil

The Perfe

ct Day

Powerof

H.G.

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

Gift of

H.G.

• Constant

• Ordinance

• Comfort

• Peace

• Guidance


D&C 50:24

Light of

Christ

• Conscience

• Good/evil

The Perfe

ct Day

Powerof

H.G.

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

Gift of

H.G.

• Constant

• Ordinance

• Comfort

• Peace

• Guidance

The Baptism by Fire


D&C 50:24

Light of

Christ

• Conscience

• Good/evil

The Perfe

ct Day

Powerof

H.G.

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

Gift of

H.G.

• Constant

• Ordinance

• Comfort

• Peace

• Guidance

The Baptism by Fire

• Sanctification

• Become pure

• Born again

• Change in our disposition

• Mighty change


D&C 50:24

Light of

Christ

• Conscience

• Good/evil

The Perfe

ct Day

Powerof

H.G.

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

Gift of

H.G.

• Constant

• Ordinance

• Comfort

• Peace

• Guidance

The Baptism by Fire

• Sanctification

• Become pure

• Born again


• Mighty change

Endure

to th

e

End


D&C 50:24

Light of

Christ

• Conscience

• Good/evil

The Perfe

ct Day

Powerof

H.G.

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

Gift of

H.G.

• Constant

• Ordinance

• Comfort

• Peace

• Guidance

The Baptism by Fire

• Sanctification

• Become pure

• Born again


• Mighty change

Endure

to th

e

End


D&C 50:24

Light of

Christ

Powerof

H.G.

Gift of

H.G.

The Baptism by Fire

Endure

to th

e

End

The Perfe

ct Day

1. Calling and Election

• Conscience

• Good/evil

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

• Constant

• Ordinance

• Comfort

• Peace

• Guidance

• Sanctification

• Become pure

• Born again


• Mighty change


D&C 50:24

Light of

Christ

Powerof

H.G.

Gift of

H.G.

The Baptism by Fire

Endure

to th

e

End

The Perfe

ct Day


• Conscience

• Good/evil

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

• Constant

• Ordinance

• Comfort

• Peace

• Guidance

• Sanctification

• Become pure

• Born again


• Mighty change

D&C 131:5

To have one's calling and election made sure is to be sealed up unto eternal life; it is to have the unconditional guarantee of exaltation in the highest heaven of the celestial world; it is to receive the assurance of godhood; it is, in effect, to have the day of judgment advanced, so that an inheritance of all the glory and honor of the Father's kingdom is assured prior to the day when the faithful actually enter into the divine presence. DNTC 3:330-31

Calling and ElectionCalling and Election

Joseph SmithJoseph SmithAfter a person hath faith in Christ, repents of his sins, and is baptized for the remission of his sins and receives the Holy Ghost, by the laying on of hands, which is the first Comforter, then let him continue to humble himself before God, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, and living by every word of God, and the Lord will soon say unto him, Son, thou shalt be exalted.

Joseph SmithJoseph SmithWhen the Lord has thoroughly proved him, and finds that the man is determined to serve him at all hazards, then the man will find his calling and his election made sure, then it will be his privilege to receive the other Comforter.

Now, what is this other Comforter?


D&C 50:24

Light of Chri

st

Powerof

H.G.

Gift of

H.G.

The Baptism by Fire

Endure

to th

e

End

The Perfe

ct Day


• Conscience

• Good/evil

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

• Constant

• Ordinance

• Comfort

• Peace

• Guidance

• Sanctification

• Become pure

• Born again


• Mighty change

• by H.G. & power of the priesthood

• Endowment: listen to beginning




D&C 50:24

Light of Chri

st

Powerof

H.G.

Gift of

H.G.

The Baptism by Fire

Endure

to th

e

End

The Perfe

ct Day

• Conscience

• Good/evil

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

• Constant

• Ordinance

• Comfort

• Peace

• Guidance

• Sanctification

• Become pure

• Born again


• Mighty change


2. Second Comforter





Critics of the Church have made a lot of fuss about the fact that we have so few contemporary accounts of the First Vision. But that rather makes the point. Joseph was talking more about what we could do than what he had done. We have a dozen revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants that invite us to see God. Joseph invited us to check him by having our own Sacred Grove experience.

The First Vision The First Vision

The validity of an experiment is if it can be repeated. A good seed not only bears good fruits but it always bears the same fruits – regardless of who plants it. Thus Joseph Smith taught that the seed of faith will always bring its train of attendants, including revelations, visions, dreams etc., and that all who plant and nurture the seed are entitled to the harvest.

J.F. McConkie, RSLDSH: Illinois, p.207

The First VisionThe First Vision

The Second ComforterThe Second ComforterCritics of the Church have made a lot of fuss about the fact that we have so few contemporary accounts of the First Vision. But that rather makes the point. Joseph was talking more about than what he had done. We have a dozen revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants that invite us to . Joseph invited us to check him by having our own Sacred Grove experience.

Read again, but think ofRead again, but think of

John 14:23John 14:23

what we could do

see Godsee God

D&C 130:3D&C 130:3

The Second ComforterThe Second ComforterIt is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with him as one man converses with another. Joseph Smith TPJS 345When do we see Him? D&C 88:68When do we see Him? D&C 88:68

How do we see God? D&C 67:10-11How do we see God? D&C 67:10-11What is my part in this? 2 Nephi 32:6What is my part in this? 2 Nephi 32:6

The Second ComforterThe Second ComforterGod hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what He will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them. Joseph Smith TPJS 149 What are the prerequisites? D&C 93:1

What are the prerequisites? D&C 93:1

Joseph SmithJoseph SmithIt is no more or less than the Lord Jesus Christ himself; and this is the sum and substance of the whole matter; that when any man obtains this last Comforter, he will have the personage of Jesus Christ to attend him, or appear unto him from time to time, and even he will manifest the Father unto him, and the visions of the heavens will be opened unto him; and the Lord will teach him face to face. Joseph Smith TPJS 150-151

2 Nephi 32:3-7 Nephi & Calling and Election2 Nephi 32:3-7 Nephi & Calling and Election

Light of

Christ

Powerof

H.G.

Gift of

H.G.

The Baptism by Fire

Endure

to th

e

End

The Perfe

ct Day

• Conscience

• Good/evil

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

• Constant

• Ordinance

• Comfort

• Peace

• Guidance

• Sanctification

• Become pure

• Born again


• Mighty change


2. Second Comforter




• Endowment: listen to beginning• Jesus will attend you

• Heavenly Father and Christ appear

• See God and LEARN more

• Jesus will attend you



Too much work?

Growing in the Light D&C 50:24, 2

Nephi 31

Joseph SmithJoseph SmithWhen you climb up a ladder, you must begin at the bottom, and ascend step by step, until you arrive at the top; and so it is with the principles of the gospel—you must begin with the first, and go on until you learn all the principles of exaltation. But it will be a great while after you have passed through the veil before you will have learned them. It is not all to be comprehended in this world; it will be a great work to learn our salvation and exaltation even beyond the grave. Joseph Smith, HC 6:306–7

2% brain used in earth life2% brain used in earth life EDUCATIONEDUCATION

Mission of the Holy Ghost:Another Plan of Salvation

Everything you need to know to survive until and past the Second

ComingHow did this lesson fulfill this statement?Look once more . . .

Growing in Light

D&C 50:24, 2 Nephi 31

Light of

Christ

Powerof

H.G.

Gift of

H.G.

The Baptism by Fire

Endure

to th

e

End

Perfect/

Exalted

• Conscience

• Good/evil

• Temporary

• Testimony

• Investigator

• Constant

• Ordinance

• Comfort

• Peace

• Guidance

• Sanctification

• Become pure

• Born again


• Mighty change


2. Second Comforter





Through faith and the Holy Ghost, you may know God and the truth of

all things!







“That they may be One, even as We are One”“That they may be One, even as We are One”

Christ pleads for the righteous Notice His and our Calling and Election He is praying, even as we must Notice verses 6, 7, and 21 verse 23 FATHER

SAVIOR

HOLY GHOST

US

I in them I in them

Thou in Me Thou in Me That they

made be made perfect in One, and the world

may know thou hast sent

me

That they made be made perfect in One, and the world

may know thou hast sent

me

John 17John 17Think what you learned tonight while reading John 17Think what you learned tonight while reading John 17

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The Savior’s Final Discourses: John 13-17 “Teach of Me” – March 29, 2009 – LDS Extension Services The Mission of the Holy Ghost