God to Have Eternal Increase I wonder if we remember the sayings of the Savior. I remember, when you look back and see what He went through, and see how He traveled, and see the plan of life and salvation He taught; and how, for many centuries that plan had been changed, a complete apostasy had been done; as John said, ?They worshipped the dragon.? Now, that condition went on until this boy that we just sang of here, went out into the grove and knelt down before his Heavenly Father. What light did he bring to us as a people? The first light he brought to us was that God is a Man. ?I know He is a Man, for I have seen Him and talked to Him.? The Father and the Son appeared to Joseph and told him to listen to Them. The Father said, ?This is My Beloved Son, hear Him.? Now, going back a little further, what kind of doctrine was taught us by the Savior? He said, ?Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.? What does it mean? It means you have got to have a newness of life, a change. Paul says you go down into the waters to come up with a newness of life. On that day of Pentecost, just before that time, after the Savior had set His Apostles apart and told them to tarry in Jerusalem for awhile, did these men have any work to do? Yes, they worked among the people. Instead of being Twelve Apostles when this great time came, there was a hundred twenty saints. They had been working and teaching them, getting prepared for that great work that was to come. The Spirit of God came upon them like a mighty gust of wind. Some spoke in tongues, etc. The people accused the brethren of being drunk, but Peter stood up among them and showed them that they could not be drunk. He went to work and said: Acts 2 37. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 38. Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 40. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. That was the kind of doctrine Jesus taught. After this great apostasy came and the saints were killed off, what do we get? We have another picture seeing a mighty angel flying through the midst of heaven carrying the Everlasting Gospel. This same angel brought this message to Joseph Smith. What kind of doctrine did he teach us? He gave the same as the Savior taught us?repent, and be baptized, and be prepared for the coming of the last days. This has come on down to our day. Finally, God saw that the people were turning from the truth, and that they were going to turn, and He set certain men apart to see that they did not turn from the truth. These men have been working till some of them became old and gray and passed away. But before they passed away, they set others to carry on that work until another great pentecostal will come upon us, and we will receive the blessings that we are expecting and wanting. The spirit of the adversary is trying to break this up. It can be done if we are blessed enough. If we keep the commandments of God near enough, there may be some of those who will see this great time when it will come; for just as sure as you are sitting here, the One Mighty and Strong is coming to get it back in order. Still we go on. One will say, ?Those brethren have not got the Priesthood.? Joseph in his day said he could have gotten along very well if it had not been for some ?great big Elders?. You people that are here, these men sitting with me here have got that authority, and have had it sealed it upon their heads, and the time will come when we will know it. I can see it coming nearer, every day of my life; see the times coming when we will quit being easy. We will tell, brothers and sisters, just what is what. How thankful we ought to be, how thankful. What have we got? After this angel came and restored the Gospel, all the holy angels from Adam down have come here and left the keys. Noah came and left his keys, and then we come down and Moses came and gave us the keys of the gathering. Elijah came and gave us the keys of the sealing. Elijah was the last Prophet that held the keys of the Priesthood. And the Lord said: Joseph Smith 2 38. ...Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.*** 39. ...And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers. If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming. This Elijah held the highest that was ever known upon the earth, and he gave unto us laws. We hear the brethren say, ?Oh, you have got the keys of Elijah. You can seal. We know you can do that. But you cannot go any further.? How inconsistent it is to say that we can perform the highest ordinances there are on earth, and cannot do anything else. It would be just like a man trying to build a house without first laying a foundation. He would put the top on first and there would be no foundation, so the house would topple over and there is nothing to stand upon?every ordinance, and everything. How many of us ever remember what the Prophet Joseph said? He said, ?To have the power of Elijah, there is not an ordinance or principle in any of the Priesthood but what they cannot perform.? Now, those are the words of the Prophets; yet we hear this coming up nearly every day. I do not feel like complaining. I know what we have got to do. I know there are servants of the Most High. I would rather take the counsel of this man here, Brother Joseph Musser, than any man on earth. I have tried him, and I know what he is. I know his worth. And before long, if he slips away, we will know his worth, all of us; but we never miss the water till the well goes dry. God cannot build up the Kingdom unless He has the consent of the creature. Eternal laws will not let Him. It is the same with the brethren. They cannot bring these things together unless the people accept them. Why? Because God gave us our agency. There is just one other thing. I had an argument just lately. I told a man when the Edmunds Law came out, from then on every Latter-day Saint, it did not matter who he was or where he came from, if he was a Latter-day Saint, he was a breaker of the law. He either had to break the laws of God or the laws of the land, because they are in opposition to each other. Lots of them prefer to break the laws of God, and some prefer to break the laws of the land. Some prefer to take the punishment that the government gives them. Others think that probably they would rather take what the Lord gives them. But for my part, I would rather take what the world gives me. In the Celestial Kingdom there are three heavens or degrees. D. C. 131 1. In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees; 2. And in order to obtain the highest, a man must enter into this order of the priesthood [meaning the new and everlasting covenant of marriage]; 3. And if he does not, he cannot obtain it. 4. He may enter into the other, but that is the end of his kingdom; he cannot have an increase. You are stopped, you are cut off, you cannot go on, you cannot become Gods. On the other hand, you may be whipped or persecuted, but you still can go on to your exaltation. We might look back a little and say, ?What do we have?? We have Moroni coming, then John the Baptist, then Peter, James, and John, Elias, Moses, and Elijah. All the Prophets that have held keys all the way down have come here and conferred keys and taught them why we are here; and taught us that we are to pray to God; that God was once a man as we are, and was exalted to Godhood through His obedience to eternal and divine laws. That is what we are working for, is it not? May it be our happy lot that we get into the Celestial Kingdom and live the laws of God so that we can do this thing, is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Letter from President John Y. Barlow to Rulon T. Jeffs, Short Creek, Arizona, July 8, 1947, Two Cleansing Processes; Let Howlers Howl and Growlers Growl Dear Brother Rulon, Received your note and was glad to hear Marion?s decision. Of course we refuse to deed land to people, but this was another thing, and I feel as though we done that which was right. I realize I have lots of opposition down here, or in other words, the organization has. We have the Fors? the Bistlines, the Hunters, the Widows, the Dockstaders, and ever so many women. I understand that Fors got on a rampage Sunday. Said this never was from the Lord. I?ve always said that if you gave a calf enough rope it would hang itself. So I see no necessity of trying to answer them as the Spirit of God does not act like that. In giving Brother Stubbs back his land we just put him on his own mettle. Both Leonard Black and Weidow has come to me and wanted to know if we were turning the shop over to them and let the company have nothing to do with it. I told them I didn?t know what it was as I hadn?t talked with you about it, but I supposed that you were looking over the tax end of it. I will talk to you about it when I see you Sunday. I have felt quite concerned over something of late, but if we are prayerful and humble we will be able to go on. You know and I know before Marion and Del and them got to quarreling we had a large portion of the Holy Spirit with us. Oh, how timely was the warning that God gave us to get the Spirit of God and keep it. Now they can hardly hold a Priesthood meeting without jangling, and you know my hands are tied, and we have some that are rejoicing over it, too. The Lord, in speaking to the people through the Holy Ghost has said that some will come out of this group and be leaders, just as some have come out of the Church. Oh, how the words of Brother Budge are being fulfilled. He said: Millennial Star 32:584 Before the great day of the Lord shall come, and the day of righteousness and peace dawn upon this fair creation, two potent cleansing processes shall be in active operation. The first of these is the preparation of a choice people, purified by an application to their lives, as individuals and a community, of the principles of the Gospel of peace. Such a body will evolve from those called Latter-day Saints, who, as a Church, possess the fullness and power of the pure plan of salvation. Out of this community, at present in the merely incipient stages of development, and from the remnant of the whole House of Israel, will emanate the nucleus or foundation from which will spring the righteous millennial population of our globe. The other branch of preparation will be the partial depopulation of the earth, by cutting off from this life those who are not in harmony with the laws of God, and consequently not fit to perform His will. This destructive work, made necessary because of corruption and wickedness, will be somewhat gradual, but, as time increases, will extend the area of its operations. It operates at the House of God first, plucking out whatsoever is offensive and detrimental to the purification of the Saints, going forth with sweeping devastation over the corrupt and abominable nations of the earth. And when we look upon the Church of Christ as recorded in the Truth, spoken by H.C. Kimball, of course the Church of the Firstborn holds all of the keys, or, in other words the keys are in that Church. He wasn?t speaking of the church that was organized to hold property, but was speaking of the Church of the Firstborn. And if you will read Section 88 of the Doctrine and Covenants you will see how to become a member of the Church of the Firstborn. Well, dear Brother, we have a big work before us, and it will take all of our strength to fulfill the same; and we have to let howlers howl and growlers growl. But we know by the Spirit of God where we?re at. God bless you all up there. Your Brother in the cause of Truth, John Y. Barlow Widtsoe, Utah, July 12, 1947, (From the Sermons of President Leroy S. Johnson Vol.1 Page 3), Two Cleansing Processes; The Priesthood Council Called of God; ?Constructive Criticism? Not of God; Speak Gently of the Erring One; We Are Not of This World; Must Live All the Laws to Obtain an Exaltation; Learn the Gospel Step by Step My brothers and sisters, I am glad to be here today. I am glad for the words that our brothers have given us. What sort of people should we be? One of the servants of God said that there was a certain people going to come out of the Church, and they would be the nucleus of the great Millennium. That people would live all the laws of God. There would be two processes going on. One would draw those people out. The other would be the destroying of all those who rejected the Gospel. It was already started in a very small way at that time, but it would keep on and keep on until it affected the whole world. Now, we as a people have been, as you would say, cast out. Yes, in a way we have been cast out. It is our own faults. We cast ourselves out. They wouldn?t let us live the fullness of the Gospel, and we want to live it. I want to say a few words to you, brothers and sisters, about the men here that have been called. I know that these men have been called under the inspiration of God. I know that every one of them has been called as was Aaron. That being the case, have we got anything to say to them? Let me read just a little in the 132nd Section of the Doctrine and Covenants, verses 59 and 60: D. C. 132 59. Verily, if a man be called of my Father, as was Aaron, by mine own voice, and by the voice of him that sent me, and I have endowed him with the keys of the power of this priesthood, if he do anything in my name, and according to my law and by my word, he will not commit sin, and I will justify him. 60. Let no one, therefore, set on my servant Joseph; for I will justify him; for he shall do the sacrifice which I require at his hands for his transgressions, saith the Lord your God. The Lord took him out of the hands of the people, and he has got to do the sacrifice of God Himself. That is what the Lord says about this. But what do we hear today? We hear a man get up here and say he is giving constructive criticism. Why, I have got so tired hearing them talk about constructive criticism. Do you realize that Lucifer used constructive criticism on God? What was the result? It was not for lying, stealing, immorality, etc., but for that very thing that Lucifer was cast out of heaven. Brothers and sisters, we have a lot of that. We have it over there (Short Creek) practically every morning. In our Priesthood Meetings men get up and tell us we ought to do things this way and that way instead of the way we are doing. As President Taylor said, ?I would gladly take your advice if you had the right to give the advice, but if you haven?t the right, why should I take it? If it is counsel and it is good, I would take it from a child.? A short time ago, one of my little boys asked my wife, ?Who sent the brethren to prison?? She said, ?The judge did.? He said, ?Mama, isn?t God greater than the judge?? There was a lesson to me?isn?t God greater than the judge? He sure is greater than any judge, but why is He doing this? He is doing it either to try us or because we deserve it. The Prophet Joseph sometimes would put up a blackleg to try the people, to see if they knew the difference between a servant of God and a blackleg. Brothers and sisters, if we have the Spirit of God and can keep it, we know in a minute whether a man is speaking under the inspiration of the Spirit of God or under the inspiration of enthusiasm. We have lots of men here, and yet at the same time we have got to be careful. We mustn?t condemn a man. I will tell you a little story that came to me about Abraham. There was an old man came to Abraham?s home to stay all night. When the time came for prayers, that old man refused to kneel down. Abraham told him to get out if he wouldn?t pray with him. After the old man had gone, the Lord came to Abraham and said, ?Where is that man?? Abraham said, ?I told him to go because he wouldn?t pray with me.? God said, ?I have put up with that man for seventy-five years now. Couldn?t you put up with him for one night?? We have got to be careful. I often think of the song, ?Speak Gently of the Erring One?. There are so many things coming up today. The Church is against us. The State is against us. The government is against us. We can?t expect anything else. It is a great deal like in the mission field. I was in a debate with a minister. He proved that this nation wouldn?t accept us at all. They cast B. H. Roberts out of the Senate, but they would accept heathens and all the other churches. When I got up, I said I wanted to thank the gentleman that he had proven very conclusively that we weren?t of the world. Of course, they wouldn?t accept us. They would accept the heathens and all the other churches?everybody except us. Today they allow ministers of different organizations to come into the Church and lecture to the people. And God has told Joseph Smith that they worship idols. We are told in the very first communication of God to Joseph Smith that they were an abomination in His sight, and they preach for doctrine the commandments of men. Today the Church takes them in their arms. At the same time, they will cast men out that are living the fullness of the Gospel. The adversary is very cunning. He knows very well if we don?t live the fullness of the Gospel, we cannot go on to our exaltation; for the Lord has said, ?If you live all these laws and reject one of them, you have failed.? The Prophets have told us that the United Order and plural marriage are the fullness of the Gospel. Do we believe them? No, we do not. That is what is the matter with a good many of these people. They say they believe, but they do not. That makes them liars, and the truth isn?t in them. If the cap fits you, I want you to wear it. If not, it is all right. The Lord has said in very plain words that you must have a testimony. The main thing here is that they don?t believe in the Priesthood. Some men say, ?We believe you are all right to seal us, but that is as far as you go. You have no right to administer in temporal things.? It is like a man building a house and starting at the roof first. He will have hard work to keep it off the ground; it is liable to come down on him. I want to tell you that these men who have been called have got that authority, and they are called of God. And any man you hear talking and saying anything against those men, walk up to him and say, ?Brother, do you know you are talking about the Lord?s anointed? You better be careful, for the Lord surely will take such men in hand.? I want to tell you one thing. We have got what the rest haven?t got. God has given us the true plan, and He has given us the right to go on and have eternal increase. It is up to us whether we do or whether we don?t. If we believe it and live up to it, we will get the blessing of it. But if we don?t, we will get the cursings of it. We are having quite a hard time getting along at present. But that will clear up; we can?t expect to live the United Order all at once. ?We know in part; we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.? As President Taylor said, ?Let us do the best we can with the ways the people have been trained and taught, and in time we will be able to live the fullness of the United Order. We are not prepared to live it now, but let us go on and on till we are.? That is the way we learn the Gospel?step by step. We never will be able to jump right into the fullness of God?s laws until we get prepared for them. I ask God to bless you all and give you of His Spirit, that you might know of these things, and I do it in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Widtsoe, Utah, Sunday School at the Ranch of Elder Newel Steed, August 31, 1947, (From the Sermons of President Leroy S. Johnson Vol.1 Page 7), Church of the Firstborn; Magnify Your Calling; Dissolution; Keys of Elijah; Gain Salvation Through Keeping Covenants; The Resurrection; Be Ye Perfect; God Helps Those Who Help Themselves Church History, what is it? What church are we talking about? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? You want to know for sure what church we belong to. Do you folks here belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? There was a church organized in New York?the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Later on, a Church of the Firstborn was organized in Kirtland, Ohio. President Young, President Kimball, and a great many of them belonged to that Church; and it has worked here on earth. It was organized after the pattern that was organized in the heavens before we came here. It wasn?t a church to hold a corporation, to hold things of that kind, to hold property and things; but it was a Church of the Firstborn. How many of us here today belong to the Church of the Firstborn? Do you ever stop to think of that? When we talk of history of the Church, we want to get down to the real essence of it and find out what it is. Every man that fulfills his calling, if he doesn?t belong to that Church, will belong to it someday if he magnifies his calling as he should; the Priesthood will give him the honor of being a member of the Church of the Firstborn. It is just as necessary for a man that is an Elder to magnify his calling, or a deacon to magnify his calling, as it is for an Apostle. Paul likens the organization unto the body of a man to show what a perfect organization it should be. Any member that is not there leaves a schism in the body. If we take the Seventies out, we cut off an arm. We cannot take the lesser ones out, because the legs and feet are just as necessary as the head, because the head can?t move without the feet. All things belonging to the Kingdom or the Church must be there. I don?t know how many of you had the TRUTH last month. How many of you carefully read it and saw the difference between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Church of the Firstborn? There is going to be a wide difference. That is why Joseph Fielding Smith said that there had been many people that belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that didn?t belong to the Church of the Firstborn. Brothers and sisters, keep on and work until we get where we belong?to the Church of the Firstborn. I hope that we will, someday, all of us, belong to that Church. (Uncle John asked Brother Newel Steed:) Are you having the Sacrament here? I can?t see any reason why a bunch of people like you who are trying to live the laws of God cannot have the Sacrament every Sunday. I say, have the Sacrament, and I am sure it will help you. Keep on as you are doing now. We are having a time down there in Short Creek right now. I don?t know hardly how it will come out. Yes, I do know. Some will leave, some have already left, some will stay and go on; others will leave. We have got some right good men down there. We have all of the Brother Jessops that are solid, all of the Brother Johnsons that are solid. We have got the young men, and you can depend on nearly every one of them. There is hardly any of the young men but what you can depend on. Some of the older ones got on the rampage again yesterday. My brothers and sisters, my hands are tied; they are tied right now. But if I could get out like I used to, I don?t think we would have any trouble. If we can?t raise crops, let us raise houses. If we can do that, we can build some good houses down there. President Young said, ?I have built a number of houses and I never had five dollars in my life to start with; I have built houses worth five thousand dollars.? I saw his houses in Kirtland, in Nauvoo, etc. He was driven out of them. We, as a people, cannot expect the blessings of God without going through the trials. We have got to go through the trials. Sacrifices bring forth the blessings. If we can?t do these things, we can?t get the blessings either. We all understand and know that when the Edmunds Law came out, it was in opposition to the laws of God; so it made every man, woman, and child in the Church a defier of the law. Some defied the laws of the land and others defied the laws of God. If you defy the laws of the land, you will go to jail. But if you defy the laws of God? D. C. 131 1. In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees; 2. And in order to obtain the highest, a man must enter into this order of the priesthood [meaning the new and everlasting covenant of marriage]; 3. And if he does not, he cannot obtain it. 4. He may enter into the other, but that is the end of his kingdom; he cannot have an increase. When we get as high as we can get, ceasing to go up, we have got to go down. We can?t stand still. Those who deny the laws of God start to go back. If that is an end of their kingdom, they are through advancing. Where do they go? We are told by President Young that they go into oblivion, to dissolution. We go back to our native element from whence we were taken. You can?t destroy anything. You can change it, but you can?t destroy it. It all goes back into native element. You take your forests here. The trees will grow on to a certain time when they quit growing, and you will find them starting to go back. Pretty quick they decay; then you see nothing. It has all gone back into native element. That is the way we will be. We may come forth again in trillions of years. It may be that long before that dust is awakened again. The intelligence we had is still there, but that part which was created and made, such as our spiritual bodies and temporal bodies, must go back into native element. The intelligences will go back where they started from. Whether we lose what we have learned or not is just a question. What light and knowledge we learn in this life, we will always have. Then that makes us wonder if this is the first time we have tried it, if some spirits are more intelligent than others. Abraham was shown the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these, there were many of the noble and great ones, he said. Where did they get it? You take all through life, there are some intelligences greater than others. Why? It is very evident. If we went right now and there were a bunch of Indians out here, we might just as well shut up. The intelligence isn?t there. When they are taught and brought around, they may understand us. Whenever the Lord speaks to a people, He has to come down to their level to get them to understand anything. If we talk to Indians, we have to go down to their level. Now, we heard today about Elijah. I believe that is in Church History. When the Kirtland Temple was dedicated, who came? Elias came and gave his dispensation. Who is Elias? I will tell you. Elias is Noah. Noah came down and gave his dispensation. Then Moses came and gave them the dispensation of the gathering. This people here can thank the Lord that Moses came, because it is through Moses that we have the power and authority to go forth and preach the Gospel to the nations of the earth and bring them here. Then, a little further on, a great and glorious vision burst upon him?Elijah came and gave them the sealing blessing; gave them the power to seal men on earth. Now for Elijah. What do we understand by Elijah? If you have the power and authority of Elijah, there isn?t a thing in the Melchizedek Priesthood that can?t be done. All the keys are included in the power and authority of Elijah. Read on page 338 in the sayings of Joseph Smith and see. Now what did he say? Joseph, in speaking, said: TPJS Page 338 Let us suppose a case. Suppose the great God who dwells in heaven should reveal himself to Father Cutler here, by the opening heavens, and tell him, I offer up a decree that whatsoever you seal on earth with your decree, I will seal it in heaven; you have the power then; can it be taken off? No. Then what you seal on earth, by the keys of Elijah, is sealed in heaven; That is the way we are carried on to our exaltation. Every one of us that gains our exaltation gains it through covenants. And if we break those covenants, we go down. If we live those covenants, we are exalted. We spoke of Elijah. He came and gave Joseph Smith that authority of the sealing power. After Elijah had come and given that authority?he was the last Prophet that lived that held all the keys?and after he had come here and delivered those keys to us, then we were able to go ahead and perform these things. I just thought, sitting here today, I am quite proud?maybe I hadn?t ought to say this?but I am proud of the way you people have been carrying on. I can?t see one better reason why a people would come out from the heart?s core of the Church than to live all the laws of God. You came out, every one of you. It was hard work. I know how churchbound I was. I didn?t understand or know then, but after seeing these things, He says it very plain in the first Section of the Doctrine and Covenants that the time would come when they would change the ordinances and break the everlasting covenants. He said we would come from among them. How are we going to stay out? How many of you today know where the Priesthood is? Some people get down upon their knees and find out, and they know where the Priesthood is, and you can?t fool them. Others will say, ?I don?t know about this and that,? and almost invariably, you will see them go backwards. We want to get a thorough understanding of these things. Someday you will read about some that have come out from among the people. You will read of such things again before you get through, and we are keeping a history of it. I hope we are keeping minutes here of everything that goes on. Sooner or later, they will be called in. What is going to become of us? Do you mean to tell me that my parents are all wrong? No, I don?t mean to tell you anything about it. A Methodist said, ?Do you mean to say that my father is wrong? Why, he is a good man; my parents are good people.? Yes, they sure are, and so were Cain?s. His Father was, at least. Here is the thing. There is a law on which every blessing is predicated, and when we get the blessing, it is by obedience to that law. How can God give us that blessing without obedience to the law? If we didn?t have to obey, God wouldn?t be God. We will admit there are hundreds of good men, thousands of them in the Church. Our parents and grandparents and relations, we feel for them. They think we have all apostatized and gone. When my folks joined the Church in England, people just thought they had gone to the bad. They came out here. I have met hundreds of people in the world that have said, ?I don?t know what we will do, some of our children believe in Mormonism.? President Young said, ?I invite you to take excursions. I will take excursions, but I am not going to take all my wives. I remember one fellow came and told me that I had twenty wives. I said, ?That is fine, but I don?t know them. I wish you would name them.?? President Young said when the brethren talked about him in Texas, ?You go back and tell the Texas people that when I get on the other side, I expect to have thousands of wives.? Maybe he will if he has kingdoms enough. But today I don?t know about taking these thousands of wives. Probably your hair would go grayer than mine is now; you can?t tell. Thank the Lord I am what President Young said, anyway. He said that if you have your hair left on your head, you can consider that you have some blessed good wives. I haven?t lost my hair. I think some of the brethren are getting quite a ways back, though. Well, let me tell you brethren, this thing is true. It isn?t to be monkeyed with either. When the adversary saw that we started to live the two laws, then he started to work. He didn?t care if we just lived one law. Why? Though you keep all the laws and offend in one, then you are guilty of the whole. If you have something you have got to be punished for, you can?t get into the Celestial Kingdom. I have heard women say, ?When I get on the other side, I don?t want to have to live with that man,? etc. If ever you have a man that is worthy of the Celestial Kingdom of God, you will be mighty glad to have him, for when we get on the other side, we are told, if you will read Parley P. Pratt and others, they won?t be old and crabby and crippled up, but they will be in their full bloom of life. They will be young and fresh. That is what the resurrection is going to do. We are going to have this body renewed. We want to thank the Lord that we have got a good, healthy body; and thank the Lord that we have good honorable parents, that the disease that is in the world today isn?t in our bodies. This is all church history. We can go ahead and study the Church History and see what happens here and there, but what we want to know is what is going to happen to us. Like I told Brother Darter when he was telling me about the white Indian prophet, I said, ?How close does that get you to the Celestial Kingdom of God?? If we are living a law that will put us in the Celestial Kingdom of God, that is what we are after. Be perfect in our sphere. We can be as perfect in our sphere as God is in His sphere. He says, ?Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.? Brothers and sisters, I love to see people united. I love the people that are united, and would to God that I could get out and talk to you more than I do. But everything I say down there is taken right up to the probation officer. There isn?t anything that they don?t hear about. Last time I went up there, he said, ?I understand that Esther had a baby.? I said, ?What of that?? He said, ?You broke your parole.? I said, ?How did I break my parole? Didn?t you hear the Board of Pardons say, ?Go down and take care of your wives and children.?? Would you call it taking care of them by just giving them something to eat? Then how have I broke my parole?? I never denied it or confirmed it. I know this law is true and these other laws are true. If we live them, we will get the blessing; and if we don?t, we won?t get the blessing. God will bless us when we bless ourselves. God helps those who help themselves. If we want help from God, we do it ourselves. We grow in knowledge, faith, and understanding only as we apply for it. Very few there will be that will be virtuous, honest, and straightforward in all things; but those few will hold the Priesthood and will be the few that will be saved. Godliness must be acquired; it won?t be forced on us. You must get it yourselves. I hope you just keep on the way you are going. I will say again that you can start in anytime, and I would like you to do it all the time. As long as the people are doing right like they are doing here,