D&C 111–114

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Monday

• Commentary: Section 111 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 111:1–11
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 111:1–5.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 111:6–11.

Tuesday

• Commentary: Section 112 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 112:1–9
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 112:1–10.
• Quote: President Harold B. Lee told me once of a conversation he had with Elder Charles A. Callis of the Quorum of the Twelve. Brother Callis had remarked that the gift of discernment was an awesome burden to carry. To see clearly what is ahead and yet find members slow to respond or resistant to counsel or even rejecting the witness of the apostles and prophets brings deep sorrow.
  Nevertheless, “the responsibility of leading this church” must rest upon us until “you shall appoint others to succeed you.”
  The Lord warned us of those few in the Church “who have professed to know my name and have not known me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house” (D&C 112:26).
  “Thy voice,” the Lord commanded the Twelve, “shall be a rebuke unto the transgressor; and at thy rebuke let the tongue of the slanderer cease its perverseness” (D&C 112:9).
  Boyd K. Packer, “The Twelve Apostles,” October 1996 General Conference.

Wednesday

• Scripture: D&C 112:10–15
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 112:11–15.
• Quote: One song that was new to the 1985 hymnal is “Be Thou Humble.”5 [“Be Thou Humble,” Hymns, no. 130.] This tranquil hymn was written by Grietje Terburg Rowley, who passed away last year. She joined the Church in 1950 in Hawaii, where she was teaching school. Sister Rowley served on the General Music Committee and helped to adapt the hymns into multiple languages. She based her text for “Be Thou Humble” on two verses of scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 112:10 and Ether 12:27. The verse in Ether reads: “And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; … for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.”
  Like all of the Church’s hymns, “Be Thou Humble” teaches pure and simple truths. It teaches us that if we humble ourselves, our prayers are answered; we enjoy peace of mind; we serve more effectively in our callings; and, if we continue to be faithful, we will ultimately return to the presence of our Heavenly Father.
  Steven E. Snow, “Be Thou Humble,” April 2016 General Conference.
• Quote: I believe the principles expressed in these verses apply to all of us. The temptations and tribulations we experience, plus any testing that the Lord sees fit to impose, can lead to our full conversion and healing. But this happens if, and only if, we do not harden our hearts or stiffen our necks against Him. If we remain firm and steadfast, come what may, we achieve the conversion the Savior intended when He said to Peter, “When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren,” (Luke 22:32) a conversion so complete that it cannot be undone. The promised healing is the cleansing and sanctification of our sin-wounded souls, making us holy.
  D. Todd Christofferson, “Firm and Steadfast in the Faith of Christ,” October 2018 General Conference.
• Quote: When [the Anti-Nephi-Lehies] laid down their weapons of rebellion, they qualified themselves for the Lord’s healing and peace, and so can we. The Savior assures, “If they harden not their hearts, and stiffen not their necks against me, they shall be converted, and I will heal them” (D&C 112:13). You and I can accept His invitation to “return and repent, and come unto me with full purpose of heart, and I shall heal [you]” (3 Nephi 18:32).
  Contrast this miraculous healing with what happens “when we undertake to cover our sins, or to gratify our pride [or] our vain ambition. … The heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved;” and we are left alone “to kick against the pricks … and to fight against God” (D&C 121:37–38).
  Brethren, we find healing and relief only when we bring ourselves to the feet of the Great Physician, our Savior, Jesus Christ. We must lay down our weapons of rebellion (and we each know what they are). We must lay down our sin, vanity, and pride. We must give up our desires to follow the world and to be respected and lauded by the world. We must cease fighting against God and instead give our whole hearts to Him, holding nothing back. Then He can heal us. Then He can cleanse us from the venomous sting of sin.
  Patrick Kearon, “Come unto Me with Full Purpose of Heart, and I Shall Heal You,” October 2010 General Conference.

Thursday

• Scripture: D&C 112:16–24
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 112:16–20.
• Quote: When the gospel was first preached in England in July 1837, the Lord revealed, “Whosoever ye shall send in my name, by the voice of your brethren, the Twelve, duly recommended and authorized by you, shall have power to open the door of my kingdom unto any nation whithersoever ye shall send them” (D&C 112:21).
  Wherever you are sent, to whichever mission you are assigned, know that a member of the Twelve duly recommended that assignment and you are called by the Lord’s prophet. You are called “by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands”(Articles of Faith 1:5).
  The Lord then gave the conditions for this promise to be fulfilled. He said, “Inasmuch as [which means the promise will be fulfilled if] they [meaning the missionaries who are sent] shall [1] humble themselves before me, and [2] abide in my word, and [3] hearken to the voice of my Spirit” (D&C 112:22).
  The Lord’s promises are clear. In order to have the spiritual power necessary to open the door of the kingdom of God in the nation to which you are sent, you must be humble and obedient and have the ability to hear and follow the Spirit.
  Randy D. Funk, “Called of Him to Declare His Word,” October 2013 General Conference.
• Quote: Think what we experience going through life and what it means to us. It has been said that we have the right to exercise our own free agency. I trust that this experience will enable us to select the things that will be constructive and that will bring us nearer to the Lord. It is said in the scriptures that the earth was covered with darkness, and gross darkness covered the minds of the people (Isaiah 60:2; D&C 112:23), I am grateful for that day when the light from heaven came again and the gospel was restored. Think of the advantages that men have now in this great laboratory to seek out the truth and get together those ingredients that will help us gain a testimony of the divinity of this great work.
  Carl W. Buehner, “Life's Laboratory,” October 1956 General Conference.

Friday

• Scripture: D&C 112:25–34
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 112:21–29.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 112:30–34.
• Quote: At another time [the Lord] warned those of his church:
  “Behold,” he said, “vengeance cometh speedily upon the inhabitants of the earth. … And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord; First among those among you, saith the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house, saith the Lord” (D&C 112:24–26).
  In this time of impressive Church growth, it is well for us to look within our own souls to assess our individual spiritual vital signs. Too frequently Latter-day Saints of all ages yield to the temptation to explore and sample forbidden things of the world. Often this is not done with the intent to embrace these things permanently, but with the knowing decision to indulge in them momentarily, as though they hold a value of some kind too important or too exciting to pass by. While some recover from these excursions, an increasingly large number of tragedies occur that bring a blight and a despair into many lives.
  The cumulative effect of this is devastating. The reverberations will affect the lives of those who indulge, as well as the lives of those who have loved and trusted them, in unfortunate and unforeseen ways for indefinite periods of time. As a consequence of these things, humanity slips inexorably to a lower level, the real power and influence in the Church and kingdom of God are diminished, and all mankind will inevitably feel the loss. Furthermore, as a collective church, we jeopardize our capacity to merit and claim the preserving and protecting blessings from the Lord.
  Dean L. Larsen, “The Strength of the Kingdom is Within,” October 1981 General Conference.
• Quote: By way of climax, all of the keys of the kingdom are given to the Twelve in the winter of 1844. They then receive what the revelations call the fulness of the priesthood, together with the power to confer that eternal fulness upon others.
  After they are thus endowed and empowered, the Prophet says to the Twelve: “I have sealed upon your heads all the keys of the kingdom of God. I have sealed upon you every key, power, [and] principle that the God of heaven has revealed to me. Now, no matter where I may go or what I may do, the kingdom rests upon you. But, ye apostles of the Lamb of God, my brethren, upon your shoulders this kingdom rests; now you have got to round up your shoulders and bear off the kingdom. If you do not do it you will be damned.”
  And thus is fulfilled the divine word in which the Lord had said aforetime to the Twelve: “For unto you, the Twelve, and those, the First Presidency, who are appointed with you to be your counselors and your leaders, is the power of this priesthood given, for the last days and for the last time, in the which is the dispensation of the fulness of times. Which power you hold, in connection with all those who have received a dispensation at any time from the beginning of the creation; For verily I say unto you, the keys of the dispensation, which ye have received, have come down from the fathers, and last of all, being sent down from heaven unto you” (D&C 112:30–32).
  And thus also is established the Lord’s system for succession in the Presidency. The keys of the kingdom of God—the right and power of eternal presidency by which the earthly kingdom is governed—these keys, having first been revealed from heaven, are given by the spirit of revelation to each man who is both ordained an Apostle and set apart as a member of the Council of the Twelve.
  But since keys are the right of presidency, they can only be exercised in their fulness by one man on earth at a time. He is always the senior Apostle, the presiding Apostle, the presiding high priest, the presiding elder. He alone can give direction to all others, direction from which none is exempt.
  Thus, the keys, though vested in all of the Twelve, are used by any one of them to a limited degree only, unless and until one of them attains that seniority which makes him the Lord’s anointed on earth.
  Bruce R. McConkie, “The Keys of the Kingdom,” April 1983 General Conference.

Saturday

• Commentary: Section 113 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 113:1–10
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 113:1–2.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 113:3–6.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 113:7–10.

Sunday

• Commentary: Section 114 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 114:1–2
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 114:1–2.
• Bio: David W. Patten, Susan Easton Black.