This Work Will Not Stop; Godliness Must Be Acquired, Not Conferred; Joseph Smith Is the One Mighty and Strong; Keys of Elijah My dear brothers and sisters, it gives me pleasure to be here again and look into your faces. There is a wonderful intelligence that shines in the eyes of those that are living the laws of God. And it always gives me pleasure to see those that are wanting the word of God. I will say this morning, I would like for us to hear from Grandpa Jessop. I would like to have him talk to us. We ought to have him talk every time we get a chance. He, like others, is getting old, and we should hear him every time we can hear him. I can remember him way back when he was in the Sunday School. I know he has been a man of God for years and years. Those kind of men I like to hear talk. I rather should have said, ?Patriarch Jessop?. ********** The remarks of Brother Jessop remind me of the remarks of the Savior. He prayed to the Lord most earnestly, for He could see what the adversary was trying to do with Him. He prayed that they might have God?s Spirit to be with them. The Prophet Joseph did the same thing. He saw the workings of the adversary. It is getting worse and worse all the time. We have more start out and come along, and they are doing fine for awhile. Pretty quick something bothers them, and they kick themselves right out of the Kingdom. Let me tell you, I want you all to put it down in your memory, that this work is going to continue. It won?t stop. We will kick ourselves out, some of us, but the work will go right on just the same. The Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ was revealed in these last days, and the days of the fullness of times. This is the last dispensation. It is like a big river. All the little rivers were running into it. All the other dispensations run into this dispensation, and we get the full stream of different Prophets. You can take it right back and what do we find? First, John the Baptist coming here, conferring the Priesthood. We might go still further. We find the Angel Moroni coming and delivering his message. Then John the Baptist came and conferred the Aaronic Priesthood. Then Peter, James, and John came and gave the Melchizedek Priesthood. After that, while in the Kirtland Temple, what did we get there? We get Elias coming and giving his dispensation. We get Moses coming and giving the gathering of Israel. We have Elijah coming, who was the last Prophet living who held the fullness of the Gospel. It could have been in the days of the Savior, but the people at that time were too bitter, too prejudiced, that He never gave it at that time. He waited until the dispensation of the fullness of times, and He sent Elijah here and restored the gifts of sealing, and the gifts that will seal them both in this life and in the life to come. And it will also seal them to destruction. You notice in the days of the Apostle Peter, when he held that key, there were certain ones come to him, and he said, ?Repent and be converted.? He did not say, ?Repent and be baptized, for when the Lord comes He will again talk to you.? He had sealed them up to come forth in a latter time, in the time when the restitution of all things will be filled, when they have paid the penalty of what they have done. Then they will come forth and take their rewards for what they have done. Every one of us are going to be judged according to the deeds done in the body. Let me tell you again, that Godliness cannot be conferred on people. It must be acquired. A man can be set apart and have the Priesthood, and if he magnifies his calling God will sanction it and go on. But if a man slides off here, or there, or some other place, he simply withers and drops off. But the work goes on just the same. We are in quite a peculiar place today as a group of people. Back in Washington they never gave any decision yet on the conspiracy case, but just as Justice Jackson said, he didn?t believe the law was constitutional, and he gave him two weeks to study up the constitutionality of that law. He said if that law was constitutional he would be afraid to go to Utah. If it isn?t constitutional and gets thrown out, all the brethren will be freed from that charge. We have been out of jail for two years. Whether they will release us yet, we do not know. If they do, we will be free from that score. But what is back of it? There is a law that has been made by the legislature of this State that makes it a felony, from one to five years in the penitentiary; and if we teach the commandments of God as is laid down, why, we are subject to that law. When the Edmunds Law was made, we either had to go for the laws of God or the laws of the land, one of the two things. Every member of the Church either had to go to the laws of God or the laws of the land. Some preferred the laws of God, and some the laws of the land. Some will say, if we live the laws of the land, we are free, so far as the law of the land is concerned. If we follow the laws of God, then we can have eternal increase. But if we follow the laws of the land, that is the end of your kingdom, you cannot have an increase. That is what the good book says. I didn?t expect to get on that strain today. If I was so that I could, I would like to have taken up the One Mighty and Strong and explain to you from the Doctrine and Covenants who he is. The boys down south are running up against men that claim to be the One Mighty and Strong. One said he was a permanent member now of the Council of the Gods. You can see how far they are getting off. Another says he holds the keys of the Kingdom because his grandfather was the last that was set apart by Joseph Smith with the keys of the Kingdom, and his father conferred that upon him. I have met both of those men, and when I met the one man, he was so crazy he was going to kill his mother. We had to handcuff him and send him to Kingman. Maybe he has changed now, but I don?t know of it. Brothers and sisters, it is very easy for a man to think he is this, that, and the other; but if we do these things, we must be called of God as was Aaron. We cannot go ahead and say, ?The Savior spoke to me and now I can go on.? A man said to me, ?Brother Barlow, are you the One Mighty and Strong?? I said, ?I should say not.? Joseph Smith is the head of this dispensation and Joseph Smith is the One Mighty and Strong. John Woolley asked me if I knew who the One Mighty and Strong was. I said, ?It is Joseph Smith.? He said, ?I know it, my boy, I know it. I am sure of it.? Just a short time before that, he told us he expected the visit of some of the brethren. I said, ?Uncle John, did they come and see you?? He said, ?They sure did.? The Doctrine and Covenants speaks of Joseph Smith. It speaks his name right out. The only thing we claim is this: God set us apart to see that all these laws and ordinances are kept alive. One man said, ?The only thing you brethren have got is that you can perform plural marriages.? I said, ?You will admit, will you, that we have got that?? He said, ?Yes.? ?All right, does that include the power of Elijah?? ?Yes, of course that does. The keys of Elijah are the sealing power.? Then I turned to what Joseph Smith said, and he said: TPJS Page 337 Now for Elijah. The spirit, power, and calling of Elijah is, that ye have power to hold the key of the revelations, ordinances, oracles, powers and endowments of the fulness of the Melchizedek Priesthood and of the kingdom of God on the earth; and to receive, obtain, and perform all the ordinances belonging to the kingdom of God, even unto the turning of the hearts of the fathers unto the children, and the hearts of the children unto the fathers, even those who are in heaven. Elias started the work, Elijah comes along and builds it up to the capstone, and Jesus comes and puts the capstone on. Now, my brethren and sisters, that is exactly the way it works individually, too. A man first is given the Aaronic Priesthood, then the Melchizedek Priesthood. Afterwards, he works along and is ordained here and there, and goes on up step by step until he gets on up until he is living all the laws of God. The Savior will say, ?This man has kept the laws of God,? and then He puts His hand on his head and confirms it. Now there isn?t any reason why every one of you young men here can?t receive that blessing. There is no reason in the world if you will live for it, every one of you. And there is no reason here why every daughter that is here can?t become an Eve and her husband an Adam, and keep going on. In time they can get enough spirits on the other side to create an earth, and they will become an Adam to an earth, the same as our Father is to this earth. That is the kind of a doctrine the Latter-day Saints used to preach?Brigham Young, John Taylor, Heber C. Kimball, Wilford Woodruff, any one of them. My father and grandfather and others taught that same kind of doctrine. But today the Lord says: 2 Nephi 13 (Isaiah 3) 12. ...O my people, they who lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths. We are living in that day when they that lead pervert the ways of the Lord. ....They kicked him out of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but they never kicked him out of the Church of the Firstborn. They can?t, because they have nothing to do with it. They can?t comprehend it; it is beyond them. When they get to talking on the Godhead, it is beyond them. Yes, we all need to pray for our children. You know this. And it is along about the eleventh hour, and the adversary is fighting just as long and hard as he knows how, because he knows his time is short. He will be cast out, and those that live right will be picked up by the Savior when He comes. There will be two in the field, one will be taken and the other left; two by the mill, one will be taken and the other left. There were five wise and five foolish virgins, we are told, and they were looking for the Bridegroom to come. Five of them had oil in their lamps and five of them didn?t. When He came, He took those who were ready, and the others went to prepare. When they got back they were left. Some said, ?Lord, haven?t we done many mighty miracles?healed the sick in thy name?? But they fell away and apostatized, and He said, ?Depart from Me, I never knew you,? while the others went on. Now we have got a lot of work to do, and I believe the young men in this group are going to be the salvation of the group. The Lord said, ?I will take the young men, the middle-aged, and go back and redeem Zion.? If that is the case, the work is going to drop onto these young men. I say God bless you, every one of you,