Lesson---Sunday, April 13th--Tanleigh Wilks--AMAZING!!

Chapter 7

Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Witnesses for Jesus Christ

 

If you have never been to one of Tanleigh's lessons you are really missing out.  I feel bad for those who can't attend Relief Society.  We have the best teachers ever.  I am so grateful for their dedication and willingness to serve us and the Lord in our ward.  Tanleigh is now our official 3rd week teacher.  We are so excited about that!!!
I cannot express in words the feelings we had in this lesson.  The spirit was so strong bearing testimony to us of it's truthfulness...
Points to highlight:
1.  Joseph Smith is the revealer of the knowledge of Christ and of salvation to the world for this day and generation. 
2.  President Joseph Fielding Smith makes this statement:  "There is no doubt in my mind that the Lord raised the Prophet Joseph Smith up and gave him revelation, commandment, opened the heavens to him, and called upon him to stand at the head of this glorious dispensation.  I am perfectly satisfied in my mind that in his youth, when he went out to pray, he beheld and stood in the actual presence of God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ; in my mind there is not doubt---I know this to be true."
3.  The Lord did not select one who was versed in the learning and traditions of the world.  His ways are not the ways of man, neither are his thoughts like the thoughts of men--One taught in the learning of the world would have had too much to unlearn of the traditions and philosophy of men.  In His great wisdom the Lord chose an unsophisticated child--a boy fourteen years of age. 
4.  To him the Lord said:  "This generation shall have my word through you!!!"
5.  LOVE THIS STATEMENT:  "Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it!!"  D&C 135:3

JOSEPH LOVED HIS BROTHER HYRUM

Hyrum was a man of wonderful tenderness of heart.  He possessed deep humility and loved his brother better than he loved his own life. 
No honor came to Joseph Smith that was not shared by Hyrum who rejoiced with his brother in all the blessings the Lord bestowed upon him. 
Joseph could not hae stood alone, else his work would have failed, hust as the work of the Savior required the confirmation of another witness,, and who could teswtify for Christ other than his Father?  And so the Lord called another man to stand with Joseph Smith and to hold the keys of salvation in this dispensation as a witness with him....
Joseph and Hyrum Smith sealed their testimonies with their blood.

 "In life they were not divided, and in death they were not separated!!  D&C 135:3

To those who were blessed enough to be in attendance on Sunday---we were taught well!!