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Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 21 April 1940: Must Live All the Laws Revealed Through Joseph Smith;

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21 April 1940

Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 21 April 1940: Must Live All the Laws Revealed Through Joseph Smith;

A dated talk by John Y. Barlow from the compiled volume Sermons of John Y. Barlow. This date is not already published as a Salt Lake minute-book meeting or as a separate 1943 or 1949 document. The wording has not been changed. Reported by Marjorie Holm.

God Never Changes This is the way that we learn salvation. Salvation doesn?t come to you in a minute. God requires us to work and gain our salvation, and we work it out with fear and trembling. I was well pleased with the quietness of the children. Looking over this small congregation here, it makes me have deep thoughts. It makes me think that all the work that the Prophet Joseph did, and the laws that he laid down, and there is only just a small portion of us trying to live those laws. Go everywhere, all over the country. They tell us that some of the laws are not essential. They changed it. They changed what the Lord said. All these things were given to the Prophet Joseph, and the Lord told us in revelation that we should teach those things that were given to the Prophet. But today we find men that say it isn?t necessary. I was quite taken up, while on my trip up north?all over the place, wherever we would go we didn?t see many children. I never saw so many children as we have down here. The Lord, in speaking in the days of David, He told them that the people would come here in the desert, and He would make those people?s families like flocks. This was done in the early days. But since, we have drifted away; we have changed. D. C. 3 1. The works, and the designs, and the purposes of God cannot be frustrated, neither can they come to naught. 2. For God doth not walk in crooked paths, neither doth he turn to the right hand nor to the left, neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round. 3. Remember, remember that it is not the work of God that is frustrated, but the work of men; When they talk of changing anything, you will find that God never changes. It is man that changes, and not God. God bless you,