Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 6 August 1944: Spirits Are Held in Reserve to Come, Through the Patriarchal Order of Marriage; The Celestial Law Was Restored for the Last Time; There Will Be a People Come Out From This…
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6 August 1944
Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 6 August 1944: Spirits Are Held in Reserve to Come, Through the Patriarchal Order of Marriage; The Celestial Law Was Restored for the Last Time; There Will Be a People Come Out From This…
A dated talk by John Y. Barlow from the compiled volume Sermons of John Y. Barlow. The wording has not been changed. Reported by Leona Jeffs.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Fast Meeting at Lincoln Street
My brothers and sisters, we are all sitting here wanting the word of God. How many of us take these things that we are told to heart? We claim that God set apart certain men to see that His laws and His ordinances should remain. Brother Lyman said this morning they were set apart to see that there never was a time, until the coming of the Savior, when children are not born in the Celestial Order. We, but a few of us, have fulfilled some of the instructions given there, and the results are that the adversary got stirred up and wanted to stop it. Do we realize that God?s great work is to bring to pass the eternal life and immortality of man, and it can?t be done without spirits being born upon the earth? Many have merited being able to come through the Patriarchal order and are being held back. How many of us are fulfilling that law? How many Latter-day Saints have lived that law? How many have turned and apostatized? We have been told, certain ones of us, to go ahead and see that this principle is kept alive, and if it takes our lives to do this, very well and good. We can?t help it. We want to remember the song, ?Do what is right, let the consequence follow?. There are some of the brethren who are living this law, and some of them are going still further and living the United Order; and some of them are trying to live it in their families more than they did before. Let me tell you, this Priesthood shall not be taken from the earth and be given again. The Priesthood will remain on the earth. It is the ?Fullness of Times? when all things should be gathered in one. One man said, ?In the days of the Nephites they were told they could have but one wife.? I say that isn?t in our day. It was in the days of the Nephites; for today it was delivered for the last time, never to be taken away or to be given to another people. Every one of the Presidents, every one of the brethren who have looked down through the signs of the times have told us that a people would come out of the Church who would live the laws of God, and they should be the nucleus of the Millennium. Are we that people? I wonder how many of us think of these things and believe that we are that people. I want to tell you that we are. And I want to tell you another thing?that a people will come out of this group and still go on, and some will remain. Some will go on until they reach the place that Heavenly Father wants them to. I know this work is true. I don?t believe it, but know it; and that these brethren here behind me have been called by God by a Prophet, as was Aaron, and it will be well for us to take heed to what they say and what they do. I ask God to bless you. I say to rise up and bear your testimony. Every time you bear your testimony regarding the Prophet Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor, or any of the Prophets, your testimony will be that much stronger. God bless you, amen.