Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 14 January 1945: ?Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters?; Tithing Is the Lesser Law; Judgments Will Start at the House of God; Every Man Carries the Burdens in the United Order; Must Live the Law…
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14 January 1945
Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 14 January 1945: ?Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters?; Tithing Is the Lesser Law; Judgments Will Start at the House of God; Every Man Carries the Burdens in the United Order; Must Live the Law…
A dated talk by John Y. Barlow from the compiled volume Sermons of John Y. Barlow. The wording has not been changed. Reported by Myrtle L. Allred.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Lincoln Street
My brethren and sisters, I have been greatly edified and built up today in the remarks of my brethren. I have been thinking of the Kingdom of God. How many of us think right? It isn?t, ?What good can we get out of it?? but, ?How much can we put into the House of God?? to roll this work along. The Lord has said, ?Cast your bread on the water, and after so many days it shall be returned.? If we don?t cast it on, we can?t expect to have it return. We talk about paying tithing. People are paying tithing, very fine. But the first law that was given to the Latter-day Saints?not the Former, but the Latter-day Saints?after they had accepted repentance and baptism, was the law of United Order. They refused it and wouldn?t take it, and the result was that the Lord allowed them a lesser law of ten percent. And now, if they really were living the full law, there would be no ten percent about it. That is the way it was given us. How many of us care? How many think, ?Well, I can?t afford to do this today. I am going to pay my debts today and pay the Lord later, for the Lord won?t sue me?? He is badly mistaken. He will be sued. That was just one law. Now the other laws. If we don?t live them, we can?t get the blessing. The law of gathering has been abandoned, and as a result, thousands of our people have been killed. Instead of coming out of their countries and coming to Zion, they haven?t come. Let me tell you something. You are just a little ways off from some great trials, and persecutions, and judgments of God, especially upon this people; for God has said that His judgments should start at the House of God, among those who claimed to be Latter-day Saints and were not keeping the laws of God; and it is right onto us. We are going to get this. Those who are living right, He said He would spare; but we won?t all be spared, not by any matter of means. We will not all be spared. The righteous will be spared to the wicked to some extent. I love this people. I know pretty well each man?s heart, and could pretty well tell you how he felt. I went to a man in Short Creek awhile ago and said, ?I will tell you just how you feel, what?s the matter with you.? It was only a short time until he was in tears. He said, ?Brother Barlow, I couldn?t have told you better than you have told me just what is the matter with me.? We have got to learn, my brothers and sisters, to keep the commandments of God. As Brother Marion said, we have got to be educated to it. We can?t jump into the work without being educated for it and trained for it. God?s laws won?t change. No matter what they do, whether they send us to jail, murder, or mob us, God isn?t going to change His laws. They will stay there just the same. We may have to suffer, but in the end what does Christ say? ?He who lays down his life for the Gospel?s sake will find it again.? That is life eternal. That is what we are working for. What difference does it make if we are mobbed or whatever we have done? Nevertheless, in the road of salvation we are pushing forward; we are going on. I have been greatly edified in what Marion said. I asked Marion when I was down there to get the brethren together and take some of the responsibility off himself, and you heard what he said was the result of it. Now each one of the men have had that burden pretty well put on their own shoulders and off Marion?s, and that is United Order. I don?t know how it could have been done any different, but the time has now come for them to take the burden off the one man or set of men, and take it on their own shoulders, and they will get just what they put into the Kingdom of God. I know the Gospel is true, every principle of it. And I know if we ever get salvation?I won?t say salvation, but exaltation in the Kingdom of God?we will live the laws that give it to us, or we will never get it. I don?t wish to take up anymore of the time. I ask God to bless and help you to think of these things yourself, and help all of you carry on in this great struggle you are in. Joseph said we have spent seventeen thousand dollars already, and don?t know how much more we will have to spend, and don?t know where. But whatever it takes, we must go up now and test this nation. God bless you, amen.