D&C 89–92

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Monday

• Video: What's With the Word of Wisdom? - Casey Griffiths (D&C 89-92)
• Commentary: Section 89 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 89:1–9
• Quote: While the revelation came first as a “greeting; not by commandment or constraint” (D&C 89:2) when members of the Church had had time to be taught the import of the revelation, succeeding Presidents of the Church declared it to be a commandment. And it was accepted by the Church as such.
  The Word of Wisdom was “given for a principle with promise” (D&C 89:3). That word principle in the revelation is a very important one. A principle is an enduring truth, a law, a rule you can adopt to guide you in making decisions. Generally principles are not spelled out in detail. That leaves you free to find your way with an enduring truth, a principle, as your anchor.
  Members write in asking if this thing or that is against the Word of Wisdom. It’s well known that tea, coffee, liquor, and tobacco are against it. It has not been spelled out in more detail. Rather, we teach the principle together with the promised blessings. There are many habit-forming, addictive things that one can drink or chew or inhale or inject which injure both body and spirit which are not mentioned in the revelation.
  Boyd K. Packer, “The Word of Wisdom: The Principle and the Promises,” April 1996 General Conference.
• Quote: Good physical and spiritual health can help us to stay on the straight and narrow way. The Lord gave his code of health in the Word of Wisdom, a “principle with promise” that modern medical science continues to substantiate (D&C 89:3). All of God’s commandments, including the Word of Wisdom, are spiritual (See D&C 29:34–35). We need to nourish ourselves spiritually even more than physically. Are we giving adequate emphasis to our spiritual health?
  Joseph B. Wirthlin, “The Straight and Narrow Way”, October 1990 General Conference.

Tuesday

• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 89:9.
• Scripture: D&C 89:10–21
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 89:10-13.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 89:14-21.
• Quote: We preach and discuss the revelation known as the Word of Wisdom, and usually think of the temporal blessings that will come to us in increased health if we live in harmony with its teaching, that we might run and not be weary and walk and not faint, and the destroying angel should pass us by (D&C 89:20-21) but there is also a spiritual aspect which is more far-reaching and should stimulate us to high purpose. The promise I am thinking of is this:
  “And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments . . . shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures” (D&C 89:18-19).What could be so priceless as wisdom and knowledge, even hidden treasures? Surely the treasures here referred to are not those of scientific accomplishments. Such will come revealed as light from heaven discovered through the research of men, but these hidden treasures of knowledge in the revelation are those which can be had only by use of the keys given which are: “Walking in obedience” (D&C 89:18). And while the discoveries in the physical world are very important to us here in mortality, the spiritual discovery of a knowledge of God and his program reach into and through eternity.
  “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3).
  Spencer W. Kimball, “Ye May Know the Truth”, October 1944 General Conference.

Wednesday

• Commentary: Section 90 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 90:1–9
• Video: Symbolism of a Key - Taylor Halverson (D&C 90)
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 90:1–5.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 91:6–7.

Thursday

• Scripture: D&C 90:10–18
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 91:8–11.
• Quote: President Russell M. Nelson calls the Book of Mormon “a miraculous miracle.” Its witnesses testify, “Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people.” Today, general conference is available in 100 languages. President Nelson has testified of Jesus Christ and His restored gospel in 138 nations and counting.
  Beginning with 5,000 printed copies of the 1830 first edition of the Book of Mormon, some 192 million copies of all or part of the Book of Mormon have been published in 112 languages. Book of Mormon translations are also widely available digitally. Current Book of Mormon translations include most of the 23 world languages spoken by 50 million people or more, collectively the native tongues of some 4.1 billion people (D&C 90:11).
  By small and simple means —in which we are each invited to participate —great things are brought to pass.
  Gerrit W. Gong, “All Nations, Kindreds, and Tongues,” October 2020 General Conference.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 91:12–18.
• Quote: We are further admonished: “. . . study and learn, and become acquainted with all good books, and with languages, tongues, and people” (D&C 90:15).
  The Prophet Joseph Smith employed a noted Hebrew scholar from New York City to come and teach classes in Hebrew. While he also kept Greek and Latin in mind, he first wanted to be able to read Hebrew that he might read the Holy Bible in the original language in which it was written. From the journal of the Prophet, we find him studying daily and attending the classes with many of his brethren who were reading and studying with him. We read: “After a hard day’s work, went to my Hebrew class, and studied far into the night. Up in the morning and out at nine o’clock, attended the school and translated with the morning class . . . Attended my studies as usual and made some advancement.”
  “Every man who learns,” says Ralph Waldo Emerson, “must do so by laborious reading.” Such a man looks forward to an expanding knowledge. He becomes a lover of books, and great books tell us of God and truth. The attitude of the Prophet Joseph Smith alone in reference to study and the gaining of knowledge from books is one of the sublime truths of his life. He had the spirit of learning, a thing we need in our schools today.
  Levi Edgar Young, “May the Age of Peace Come to the Earth,” October 1955 General Conference.

Friday

• Scripture: D&C 90:19–37
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 91:19–37.
• Quote: “Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another” (D&C 90:24).
  This quotation was from one of the revelations given when the Church was less than three years old, given in March 1833, which means that at that time there were no members who had been members of the Church more than three years. Their enemies from without were bringing persecution upon all who professed to be members of the Church of Jesus Christ. Under withering and merciless persecution, they were seeing in our day an interpretation of the Master’s interpretation of the parable of the sowers. Some of the new members “brought forth only thirtyfold; some brought forth sixtyfold; and a small percentage only, an hundredfold” (Matthew 13:8).
  With little or no experience in Church administration among the Church leaders at that time, there was occasionally confusion and disunity, and the immaturity of the Church members was evidenced in quarrellings and bickerings and factional disputes, and there was a spirit of apostasy in various places, which threatened at times to destroy the very structure of the Church.
  It was important, then, that the Lord should send this important warning and instruction that they should search diligently, pray always, and be believing, so that all things would work to their good. Diligence means to be industrious, the opposite of being lazy or careless or indifferent. In other words, they must search to know the doctrines of the Church, and they must search to know the instructions that had been given concerning Church procedures. They were to pray always.
  Harold B. Lee, “Search…Pray…Believe”, April 1962 General Conference.
• Quote: To be an example of faith means that we trust in the Lord and in His word. It means that we possess and that we nourish the beliefs that will guide our thoughts and our actions. Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in our Heavenly Father will influence all that we do. Amidst the confusion of our age, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. I reiterate what we have been told repeatedly—that in order to gain and to keep the faith we need, it is essential that we read and study and ponder the scriptures. Communication with our Heavenly Father through prayer is vital. We cannot afford to neglect these things, for the adversary and his hosts are relentlessly seeking for a chink in our armor, a lapse in our faithfulness. Said the Lord, “Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good” (D&C 90:24).
  Thomas S. Monson, “Be an Example and a Light,” October 2015 General Conference.

Saturday

• Commentary: Section 91 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 91:1–6
• Video: The Apocrypha – John Hilton III (D&C 91)
• KnoWhy 613: Why Study Ancient Apocryphal Literature?

Sunday

• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 91:1–3.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 91:4-6.
• Commentary: Section 92 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 92:1–2
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 92:1-2.