Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 12 July 1942
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12 July 1942
Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 12 July 1942
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 Leona Jeffs.
My brothers and sisters, it does my heart good to hear the brethren talk as they have this afternoon. I know the United Order is true, and we have got to live it as well as all the other laws. Will the people who are not in the Celestial Kingdom have to be baptized? No. That is the entering into the Kingdom of God. From then on all the laws are Celestial laws. There have been a great many things said here today to cause us to think. Many have been handled. But there is one thing we want you to understand?that the Kingdom of God is inseparably connected with the power of heaven and cannot be handled unless it is done in righteousness. When the heavens withdraw, the Priesthood goes with it. Amen to the Priesthood of a man who exercises it in unrighteousness. Many of the Prophets of God said there would be a time come when there would be a certain people brought out of the Latter-day Saints who would live all the laws of God. We have been preaching this for a number of years. We have been cast out. Don?t get mad, but keep sweet. Your business is to live the laws of God and keep them, and keep the Spirit of God with you. Don?t worry over the other man. I am greatly impressed in this late movement that is going ahead now. If we go ahead in that, we will have some more. Some have been trying to do this for years. Some have divided up. Yes, we have had some trouble and lots of setbacks. Right today our grain is all burned up. The winds have done it. But what of it? That does not make much difference to the laws of God. We must keep going on. We may find that some will have to go to our pockets and pay for some of these things. What of it? When we get into our heads ?The Kingdom of God or Nothing,? then we will begin to get somewhere. I do not feel as good as I might do. A doctor here put me on juices, and there I am. Maybe it will do me some good. There is a much better spirit than there has been in times past. Get the Spirit of God and keep it! The Lord told me to tell you this some time ago. We can see the results of it in some of you. It does not make any difference what some men say. We are going to be judged according to the living of the law. JD 1:349-352 Brigham Young July 10, 1853 SLC To choose life is to choose an eternal existence in an organized capacity: to refuse life and choose death is to refuse an eternal existence in an organized capacity, and be contented to become decomposed, and return again to native element.*** Death, in reality, is to decompose or decrease, and life is to increase.*** Now understand, to choose life is to choose principles that will lead you to an eternal increase, and nothing short of them will produce life in the resurrection for the faithful. Those that choose death, make choice of the path which leads to the end of their organization. The one leads to endless increase and progression, the other to the destruction of the organized being, ending in its entire decomposition into the particles that compose the native elements. In the Celestial Kingdom there are three degrees. In order to obtain the highest, you must live the law of Celestial Marriage. There are just two roads?one to eternal increase, and the other to dissolutio