D&C 41-45 | Law of Consecration | April 28- May 4 | Come Follow Church History with Lynne Wilson

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

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In this episode of Come, Follow Church History from Scripture Central, Lynne Hilton Wilson and guest Steve Harper talk about "the law" of God's kingdom, the law of Consecration. Find out how the early saints tried to live this challenging law and what led them to success and failure. Discover who was valiant in keeping the commandment and who went back on their promises. Most of all, find out about our stewardship as Latter-day Saints and how we can live the law of Consecration right now in preparation to entering God's kingdom. Don't miss this episode.

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0:00.0	We fight over this world's scarce resources and it brings out the worst in us.
0:07.0	It destroys marriages, it destroys governments, it destroys communities,
0:13.0	Yeah, civilization.
0:14.0	Relationships of all kinds are devastated because we want to say mine.
0:20.0	Well, if you love God and you remember that every soul is of
0:24.5	infinite worth, then you remember that there are poor souls. It's not about money and it's not just
0:30.5	about the poor. It's about what it does to me. You don't get to the celestial kingdom and then decide
0:35.9	I'll live the law. You demonstrate your
0:38.5	faithfulness to the law before you go. Hello, welcome back to Scripture Central. I'm
0:46.3	really excited to have you here. As we talk about church history, we hope to build enduring
0:53.0	faith in Jesus Christ by illuminating the Restoration Scriptures. We hope to build enduring faith in Jesus Christ by illuminating the restoration
0:56.4	scriptures. We want to make them more accessible and defensible. And to do that today, I've got
1:03.4	one of the best of the best historians. Steve Harper, welcome. Thanks, Lynn. We're here to talk
1:08.7	about sections 41 to 44. We'll basically talk about
1:12.4	the historical background, but sometimes we'll just get our little toes inside some of the
1:16.6	text because they're so beautiful and they're so applicable to us. I usually start with some hard
1:21.6	questions. And the one of the ones that I bring up almost every week is the argument isn't
1:26.7	Joseph Smith just a product of his
1:28.2	environment. And so some of you may be even saying, isn't the market economy, isn't capitalism
1:33.7	more effective as we look throughout the history of the world at different economies? If I earned it,
1:40.1	isn't it mine? Is the law of consecration basically to take care of the poor? When was the law of
1:45.9	consecration rescinded? And is tithing just a lower law of the law of consecration? Joseph Smith in this
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