Temple Covenants

Readings

 * 1) "The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave."
 * 2) "...be anxiously engaged in a good cause... and bring to pass much righteousness"
 * 3) "It was [the knowledge that their course in life conformed to the will of God] that enabled the ancient saints to endure all their afflictions and persecutions, and to take... not only the spoiling of their goods, and the wasting of their substance"

Session 8

 * 1) When you start to live, you start to die. Entropy. This just is. God is not the author of these.
 * 2) God imposes his ordered will, light, and law in pre-existing disorder, darkness, and chaos.
 * 3) "...as pertaining to the new and everlasting covenant, it was instituted for the fulness of my glory; and he that receiveth a fulness thereof must and shall abide the law, or he shall be damned, saith the Lord God."

Podcast 2

 * 1) Three Keys- God provides covenants, the "new and everlasting covenant of marriage," and marriage is a divine channel for the powers of godliness.
 * 2) "While salvation is an individual matter, exaltation is a family matter."
 * 3) Two ultimate priorities- secure our relationship with God, secure the relationship we have with our families.

Session 9

 * 1) Legomena = things recited; Deiknymena = things shown; Dromena = things performed
 * 2) "...we are anointed that we may become such."
 * 3) "I have learned from them both the necessity and wonder of ritual. For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love."

Deep Dive 2

 * 1) Unreasonable devotion to an ideal, without considering the practical application of it, ruins the ideal itself.
 * 2) "The gospel is received through ordinances administered by the authority of the priesthood… the covenant activates, or gives life to, the ordinance."
 * 3) Beginning with baptism, we make covenants as we follow this path to eternal life, and we stay on the path by keeping them.

Podcast 3

 * 1) "The Lord's standard regarding sexual purity is clear and unchanging. Do not have any sexual relations before marriage, and be faithful completely to your spouse after marriage."
 * 2) "...the spirit and the body are the soul of man... [men and women] cannot receive a fulness of joy [without]"
 * 3) We declare the means by which mortal life is created to be divinely appointed. We affirm the sanctity of life and of its central importance in God's eternal plan.