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You Never Know When You Might Need To Help Someone.

Watch this moving video “Sanctify Yourselves.” When a little league football player is struck by lightning, his 18-year-old assistant coach, Bryce Reynolds, was prepared to use his newly-conferred Melchizedek Priesthood authority to call upon the healing powers of heaven.

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Where did Bryce get the power and the authority
to do this wonder?

It was from Jesus Christ Himself.

The Lord Jesus Christ Ordained His Twelve Apostles
with this wonder.

Then,

Jesus was Crucified and All of The Apostles were Killed.

Jesus was Resurrected and visited “His Sheep” or children in several other nations and it was recorded before He
ascended to heaven.

In 1820, Joseph Smith was 14 years old and with Faith, though lacking wisdom, he asked of God which Church he should join and he saw a vision.

God the Father and His Son Jesus Appeared To Joseph Smith.

15 May 1829, John the Baptist also Returned and gave Joseph Smith the Aaronic Priesthood.

Elijah the Prophet held the sealing power of the Melchizedek Priesthood and was the last prophet to do so before the time of Jesus Christ. He appeared on the Mount of Transfiguration with Moses and conferred the keys of the priesthood on Peter, James, and John (Matt. 17: 3).

On April 3, 1836, in the Kirtland (Ohio) Temple, Elijah the Prophet appeared again, with Moses and  Apostles Peter, James,and John, who came from heaven and conferred the Melchizedek Priesthood and the keys thereof upon Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery
(D&C 27: 12-13; 128: 20).

As demonstrated by his miraculous deeds, the power of Elijah is the sealing power of the priesthood by which things bound or loosed on earth are bound or loosed in heaven.

Thus the keys of this power are once again operative on the earth and are used in performing all the ordinances of the gospel for the living and the dead.

This is done in The House of the Lord, His Temples.

Joseph Smith ordained others to both Priesthoods and it has been handed down over time to several other Prophets.

Our Living Prophet today is President Thomas S. Monson with Counsilors President Henry B. Eyring, and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf who hold all of the Priesthood Keys.

They hold the Authority to Ordained, Baptize, Bless and Administer the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

New Members and Converts can become Members of The Church of  Jesus Christ.

First, starting at the age of eight, which is the age of accountability, with Faith and Repentance
they are Baptized by emersion.

They then Receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands by one who has the Authority.

At the age of Twelve, Worthy Young Men are Ordained into the Aaronic Priesthood.

The can then begin their leadership as young
Aaronic Priesthood leaders.

At 18 years of age, a young man who is worthy is Ordained into the Melchizedek Priesthood and given leadership callings.

If they continue to be worthy, they can be called to serve as full time Missionaries and go wherever they are called to serve somewhere around the world to teach the
Gospel of Jesus Christ.

This is where that young man, Bryce Reynolds in the Video, got the authority to exercise his priesthood that helped save another’s life.

He knew he had the Priesthood authority.

… and so he used it!

His Authority Line goes back to Jesus Christ.

He holds the KEYS to the
Priesthood of God.

No one can just assume this Authority.

Based upon one’s worthiness, it MUST be given to him by one who has the Authority and the keys given to him that can be traced back to Jesus Christ.  This ordination is done the same way that Jesus did by the laying on of hands.

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All of this has been in preparation for the second coming of the Lord, as spoken of in Malachi 4: 5-6.

President Monson and the First Presidency of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
hold these keys today.

The Genealogy of the Keys of Authority.

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“For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” 1 Cor. 14: 33

Alan Osmond
For The Family