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“I don’t think about what I have done.

I only think of the things I want to do, and I haven’t done.”

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“Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.”  Ps. 127: 5

The seed of Abraham are People who, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel of Jesus Christ, receive the promises and covenants made by God to Abraham. Men and women may receive these blessings if they are literally of Abraham’s lineage or if they are adopted into his family by embracing the gospel and being baptized.

Just as Abraham with the Ark of the Covenant was sealed so that his wife and posterity would be with him for all eternity, we also marry for all eternity with the same Priesthood powers and covenants at the altars in
The House of The Lord, our Temples.

Becoming Eternal Families Forever

Alan Osmond
For The Family

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Amos 5: 14

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By Alan on Mar 11 in Blog tagged Abraham, Adam, baptism, Celestial Kingdom, children of Israel, covenant people, covenants, decendants, Enoch, everlasting covenant, Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, LDS, Lehi, marriage, members of the church, Mormons, Noah, Old Testament, promises, sacrament, temple ordinances, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 3 Comments

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I share with you this article as a follow up to several questions about my article that I posted yesterday.

Mormon is a nickname for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Sometimes called, LDS.

Alan Osmond
A Mormon

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The Nature Of Covenants. (Or Promises)

• What is a covenant?  Why are Latter-day Saints called a covenant people?

From the beginning, the Lord has made covenants with His children on earth. When His people make covenants (or promises) with Him, they know what He expects of them and what blessings they may expect from Him. They can better carry out His work on earth. The people who covenant with the Lord and with whom the Lord makes covenants are known as the Lord’s covenant people. Members of the Church are part of the Lord’s covenant people.

Within the gospel, a covenant means a sacred agreement or mutual promise between God and a person or a group of people. In making a covenant, God promises a blessing for obedience to particular commandments. He sets the terms of His covenants, and He reveals these terms to His prophets. If we choose to obey the terms of the covenant, we receive promised blessings. If we choose not to obey, He withholds the blessings, and in some instances a penalty also is given.

For example, when we join the Church we make several covenants with God. We covenant with the Savior at baptism to take upon ourselves His name. He promises that “as many as repent and are baptized in my name, which is Jesus Christ, and endure to the end, the same shall be saved” (D&C 18:22).

We covenant with the Lord as we partake of the sacrament . We promise to take His name upon ourselves, to remember Him, and to obey His commandments. We are promised that the Holy Spirit will be with us. (See D&C 20:77–79.)

When we receive temple ordinances, we make other sacred covenants and are promised exaltation for faithful obedience (see D&C 132; .

God has also made special covenants with particular persons or groups. He made special covenants with Adam, Enoch, Noah, the children of Israel, and Lehi (see Moses 6:31–36, 52; Genesis 9:9–17; Exodus 19:5–6; 2 Nephi 1).

He made a special covenant with Abraham and his descendants that blesses members of the Church and all nations of the earth today.

• Think about the covenants you have made with God and the blessings He has promised you for keeping these covenants.

God’s Covenant with Abraham and His Descendants

• What is the Abrahamic covenant?

Abraham, an Old Testament prophet, was a very righteous man. He refused to worship his father’s idols. He kept all of the Lord’s commandments. Because of Abraham’s righteousness, the Lord made a covenant with him and his descendants.

The Lord promised Abraham that he would have numberless descendants. He promised that all of them would be entitled to receive the gospel, the blessings of the priesthood, and all of the ordinances of exaltation. These descendants, through the power of the priesthood, would carry the gospel to all nations. Through them, all the families of the earth would be blessed (see Abraham 2:11). God further promised that if they were righteous He would establish His covenant with all generations of Abraham’s children (see Genesis 17:4–8).

• How do the commandments and promises in the Abrahamic covenant apply to us?

Members of the Church Are a Covenant People

• What blessings and responsibilities come to God’s covenant people today?

The blood descendants of Abraham are not the only people whom God calls His covenant people. In speaking to Abraham, God said, “As many as receive this Gospel shall be called after thy name, and shall be accounted thy seed [lineage], and shall rise up and bless thee, as their father” (Abraham 2:10). Thus, two groups of people are included in the covenant made with Abraham: (1) Abraham’s righteous blood descendants and (2) those adopted into his lineage by accepting and living the gospel of Jesus Christ (see 2 Nephi 30:2).

When we are baptized into the Church, we enter into the covenant the Lord made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (see Galatians 3:26–29). If we are obedient, we inherit the blessings of that covenant. We have the right to receive help and guidance from the Holy Ghost. Worthy males have the right to hold the priesthood. Families can receive the blessings of the priesthood. We can gain eternal life in the celestial kingdom. There are no greater blessings than these.

Along with the blessings we receive as the Lord’s covenant people, we have great responsibilities. The Lord promised Abraham that through his descendants the gospel would be taken to all the earth. We are fulfilling this responsibility through the full-time missionary program of the Church and the missionary work done by the members. This opportunity to preach the gospel to all the world belongs only to the Lord’s Church and His covenant people.

As the Lord’s covenant people, we should keep His commandments. The Lord said, “I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise” (D&C 82:10). If we reject our covenant after accepting the gospel, the covenant becomes void and we will stand condemned before God (see D&C 132:4). He has said: “Refrain from sin, lest sore judgments fall upon your heads. For of him unto whom much is given much is required; and he who sins against the greater light shall receive the greater condemnation” (D&C 82:2–3).

The New and Everlasting Covenant

• What do we promise to do when we accept the gospel? What blessings does Heavenly Father give us as we keep these promises?

The fulness of the gospel is called the new and everlasting covenant. It includes the covenants made at baptism, during the sacrament, in the temple, and at any other time. The Lord calls it everlasting because it is ordained by an everlasting God and because the covenant will never be changed. He gave this same covenant to Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and other prophets. In this sense it is not new. But the Lord calls it new because each time the gospel is restored after being taken from the earth, it is new to the people who receive it (see Jeremiah 31:31–34; Ezekiel 37:26).

When we accept the new and everlasting covenant, we agree to repent, be baptized, receive the Holy Ghost, receive our endowments, receive the covenant of marriage in the temple, and follow and obey Christ to the end of our lives. As we keep our covenants, our Heavenly Father promises us that we will receive exaltation in the celestial kingdom (see D&C 132:20–24;

The greatness of that promise is hard for mortals to understand. The commandments He gives are for our benefit, and as we are faithful we may forever share the blessings and beauties of heaven and earth. We may live in His presence and partake of His love, compassion, power, greatness, knowledge, wisdom, glory, and dominions.

• What does being the Lord’s covenant people have to do with how we dress, act, and keep the commandments of God?

Additional Scriptures and Other Sources

• 1 Peter 2:9–10 (peculiar people)

• D&C 54:4–6 (effects of covenants kept and broken)

• D&C 132:7 (covenants made by proper authority)

• D&C 133:57–60 (purpose of covenants)

• D&C 35:24 (promises for obedience to covenants)

• Hebrews 8:6 (Jesus Christ is the mediator of a better covenant)

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“We Have Got A Bible, And There Cannot Be Any More Bible!”

What does 2 Nephi Chapter 29 teach us?

• Many Gentiles will reject the Book of Mormon—
• They will say, We need no more Bible—
• The Lord speaks to many nations—
• He will judge the world out of the books which will be written. (Written about 559–545 B.C.)

1But behold, there shall be many—at that day when I shall proceed to do a marvelous work among them, that I may remember my covenants which I have made unto the children of men, that I may set my hand again the second time to recover my people, which are of the house of Israel;

2And also, that I may remember the promises which I have made unto thee, Nephi, and also unto thy father, that I would remember your seed; and that the words of your seed should proceed forth out of my mouth unto your seed; and my words shall hiss forth unto the ends of the earth, for a standard unto my people, which are of the house of Israel;

3And because my words shall hiss forth—many of the Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible.

4But thus saith the Lord God: O fools, they shall have a Bible; and it shall proceed forth from the Jews, mine ancient covenant people. And what thank they the Jews for the Bible which they receive from them? Yea, what do the Gentiles mean? Do they remember the travails, and the labors, and the pains of the Jews, and their diligence unto me, in bringing forth salvation unto the Gentiles?

5O ye Gentiles, have ye remembered the Jews, mine ancient covenant people? Nay; but ye have cursed them, and have hated them, and have not sought to recover them. But behold, I will return all these things upon your own heads; for I the Lord have not forgotten my people.

6Thou fool, that shall say: A Bible, we have got a Bible, and we need no more Bible. Have ye obtained a Bible save it were by the Jews?

7Know ye not that there are more nations than one? Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and that I remember those who are upon the isles of the sea; and that I rule in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; and I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth?

8Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation like unto another. And when the two nations shall run together the testimony of the two nations shall run together also.

9And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my words according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my work is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever.

10Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not suppose that it contains all my words; neither need ye suppose that I have not caused more to be written.

11For I command all men, both in the east and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the sea, that they shall write the words which I speak unto them; for out of the books which shall be written I will judge the world, every man according to their works, according to that which is written.

12For behold, I shall speak unto the Jews and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the Nephites and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the other tribes of the house of Israel, which I have led away, and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto all nations of the earth and they shall write it.

13And it shall come to pass that the Jews shall have the words of the Nephites, and the Nephites shall have the words of the Jews; and the Nephites and the Jews shall have the words of the lost tribes of Israel; and the lost tribes of Israel shall have the words of the Nephites and the Jews.

14And it shall come to pass that my people, which are of the house of Israel, shall be gathered home unto the lands of their possessions; and my word also shall be gathered in one. And I will show unto them that fight against my word and against my people, who are of the house of Israel, that I am God, and that I covenanted with Abraham that I would remember his seed forever.

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We are living in a “Great and Dreadful Day”!  A day when “… the Gentiles do stumble exceedingly, because of the most plain and precious parts of the gospel of the Lamb which have been kept back by that abominable church, which is the mother of harlots, saith the Lamb—I will be merciful unto the Gentiles in that day, insomuch that I will bring forth unto them, in mine own power, much of my gospel, which shall be plain and precious, saith the Lamb.”  1 Ne. 13: 34

1. “I speak to the Jews” …The Bible.
2. “I shall also speak unto the Nephites” …The Book of Mormon.
3. I shall also speak unto the other tribes of the house of Israel…which I have led away.  …  Yet to come!
4. I shall also speak unto all nations of the earth and they shall write it.  …Yet to come!

So why do I publish this information to all of you?  To create hate among other religions?  To say that we have the truth and you don’t?   NO!

I say keep the truth that you now have with whatever religion you belong and seek to find further “TRUTH  and LIGHT ” to add to what you already have!

I publish this to share TRUTH and to bring you “PEACE” in knowing that our Lord Jesus Christ, the God of this World,  is “The Way” and that His works will NOT be frustrated by the wicked.  He remembers each and every one of us and will be returning to us once again to set this world in order and to once again bring about  ZION , and will reign for a thousand years with us in peace and love.

Here is a promise from the Lord:

“Search these commandments, for they are true and faithful, and the prophecies and promises which are in them shall all be fulfilled.”  D&C 1:37

As the scriptures remind us:

“And blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my Zion at that day, for they shall have the gift and the power of the Holy Ghost; and if they endure unto the end they shall be lifted up at the last day, and shall be saved in the everlasting kingdom of the Lamb; and whoso shall publish peace, yea, tidings of great joy, how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be. 1 Ne. 13: 24

“I give thanks to my Lord Jesus Christ for restoring His Church once again on this earth and to make known the truth of all things to His latter-day Prophet, Joseph Smith, and for our living prophet today, Thomas S. Monson, with his councilors, The Twelve Apostles, and all others who lead and direct us having received the authority of The Holy Melchezidek Priesthood from Jesus Christ to guide us in these latter days!

I especially love all of those missionaries who have given and continue to give of themselves at their own cost to serve as ambassadors of Jesus Christ in taking this PEACE and GOOD NEWS to all Nations, Kindreds, Tongues and People like you and me!

As it says in our Articles of Faith, “We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.”  Articles of Faith 1:9

Please take the time to listen, to ask questions, to read The Book of Mormon which came forth in our day to help us know of all things that we must do to return to our Heavenly Father in His highest Mansion in Heaven once again!

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Your Friend and Brother,

Alan Osmond
For The Family

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Scripture References:

D&C 68:4 …they shall speak when moved upon by the Holy Ghost shall be scripture

2 Nephi 29:11 …I command all men, both in the east and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands..

Articles of Faith 1:8 …We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

D&C 20:9 …contains a record of a fallen people, and the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles and to the Jews also;

D&C 42:12 …principles of my gospel, which are in the Bible and the Book of Mormon, in the which is the fulness of the gospel.

D&C 135:3 …Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world,

D&C 1:11–12 …the voice of the Lord is unto the ends of the earth, that all that will hear may hear:  Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which is to come, for the Lord is nigh;

D&C 1:37 …Search these commandments, for they are true and faithful, and the prophecies andpromises which are in them shall all be fulfilled.

Articles of Faith 1:9 …We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

Additional Scriptures

• 1 Nephi 14:20–26 (prophets commanded to write)

• 1 Nephi 19:1–3, 6–7; Alma 37:1–8 (great worth of scriptures)

• 2 Nephi 33:10 (scriptures testify of Christ)

• Alma 29:8 (Lord speaks to all nations through scriptures)

• Alma 31:5; Helaman 3:29–30 (the word of God is powerful)

• Helaman 15:7–8 (scriptures lead us to be firm and steadfast in the faith)

• 2 Timothy 3:16–17; 1 Nephi 19:21–24 (why and how scriptures are given)

• 2 Peter 1:20; Alma 13:20; D&C 10:62 (scriptures bring to light true points of doctrine)

• D&C 128:18; Articles of Faith 1:9; 1 Nephi 14:25–26 (scriptures yet to come)

• 2 Nephi 29:3–10 (scriptures to Jews and to Gentiles)