THE GLORIES OF HIS KINGDOM

Summary

Don't Miss This Study — “THE GLORIES OF HIS KINGDOM”

Hosts: Emily Freeman & David Butler
Date: September 22, 2025

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Main Theme & Purpose

In this episode, Emily Freeman and David Butler take listeners on a “field trip” to the Kirtland Temple, focusing on Doctrine & Covenants sections 109 and 110. They explore the story of the temple's construction, the meaning and blessings of temple worship, and the spiritual promises described in the dedicatory prayer and subsequent visions. With vivid retelling, personal experiences, and scriptural analysis, the hosts invite listeners to reflect on how the “glories of His kingdom” can be present both in sacred spaces and in everyday life.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Scene: The Kirtland Temple’s History

• Sacrifice and Poverty:

  • Building the temple required immense sacrifice from impoverished saints, yielding a vivid portrait of devotion (04:08–06:57).

  • Neighborhood skepticism, labor in scarcity, and people giving everything—even their china to sparkle in the plaster—are highlighted as testimonies of faith.

    “This building is just a testament and a witness of people who just love God so dearly that they were willing to give everything, literally everything.” — David Butler (06:35)

• Parallel Extremes:

  • Kirtland’s era was one of “rich blessings and extreme poverty,” with faith and hardship interwoven (06:57).

2. Doctrine & Covenants 109: The Dedicatory Prayer

• A Prayer Received by Revelation:

  • Joseph Smith’s prayer was penned by revelation, establishing a template for future temple dedications (08:22–09:05).

• Out of Poverty & Sacrifice:

  • The prayer expresses gratitude for the people’s faith and sacrifice:

    “Out of our poverty we have given of our substance to build a house to thy name, that the Son of Man might have a place to manifest himself to his people.” (10:25, quoting D&C 109:5)

  • The hosts reflect that God often manifests Himself most clearly amid our lack and sacrifice (10:43–11:39).

• The House of God’s Attributes:

  • Verses 8–9 enumerate what a “house of God” embodies: prayer, fasting, faith, learning, glory, order—a foundation for personal and communal holiness (12:35–14:00).

• Application to Personal Life and Home:

  • The symbolism of an “unfinished temple” represents ongoing personal spiritual construction (15:30).
  • Listeners are encouraged to replace the word “house” with “life” or “home,” making the scriptural principles intimate and actionable (16:39).

• Traditions & Symbols:

  • The mezuzah tradition—scripture on the doorpost—serves as a physical and spiritual reminder to “lean into God,” fostering everyday holiness (17:51–19:53).

3. Promises & Blessings of the Temple (D&C 109:13–78)

• Experiencing Holiness:
  • Anyone who enters the temple feels God’s power—everyone is welcome to “cross the threshold,” even if not authorized for further participation (22:20–23:20).
• Growth and Learning:
  • The temple as a “school” where we grow in the glory of God and prepare for more (24:33–25:25).
• Transformation and Covenant:
  • Through worship, our behavior and outlook are marked with holiness; even mistakes are anticipated and provided for, with repentance and restoration as part of the blessing (25:58–26:52).
• Armed with Power:
  • Temple goers are “armed with power, His name, and angels,” especially as they serve and bear the “great and glorious tidings” (27:10–27:28).
• Protection and Deliverance:
  • No adversary can ultimately harm those aligned with temple covenants—God will “fight for us,” offering “full and complete deliverance” (28:03–29:29).
• Family and Connectedness:
  • Blessings extend not just to individuals, but to families and immediate connections (31:25).
• Ultimate Aspiration:

  • The petition for “an infinity of fullness”—a promise that exceeds human understanding (32:51–32:56).

    “Please bless us to be enthroned where you are with glory, honor, power, majesty, might, dominion, truth, justice, judgment, mercy, and an infinity of fullness. I don't even know what that means, but I want it.” — David Butler (32:51–32:56)

4. Doctrine & Covenants 110: Manifestations in the Temple

• Fulfillment of the Dedicatory Prayer:
  • A week after the dedication, the Lord appears, affirming heartfelt thanks and acceptance of the saints’ sacrifice (34:08 onward).
• Spiritual Outpourings – “Kirtland Endowment”:
  • New revealed truths (e.g. salvation of the dead), ordinances (washing/anointing), Pentecostal spiritual experiences, and bestowal of priesthood keys for gathering, sealing, and eternal marriage (35:42–37:41).
• Great Visitors and Blessings:

  • Moses, Elias, and Elijah confer essential priesthood keys; but first, Jesus appears, declaring:

    “Your sins are forgiven you. I am your advocate with the Father… Let the hearts of all my people rejoice who have with their might built this house to my name. For behold, I have accepted this house and my name will be upon it.” (38:45–39:38 paraphrased)

  • The promise: “I will manifest myself to my people in mercy in this house” (“mercy” as “especially active compassion”) (39:38–40:00).

• Ongoing Promise:
  • The Lord assures: “This is the beginning of the blessings that are about to be poured out.” (40:06)

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Memorable Quotes & Key Timestamps

• On Sacrifice:
  • “People literally gave everything… we would work on the temple, sometimes with shoes and sometimes with no shoes, just because they would wear out and they wouldn’t have money to get new.” — David Butler (06:35)
• On Personal Reflections:
  • “I need to remember to be the woman in the green dress… take those moments of pause in the middle of my errand, in the middle of the work that is my everyday life, and look at what I'm building…” — Emily Freeman (14:41)
• On Temple Blessings:
  • “Once you start reading temple dedications and their promises, you are going down a rabbit hole… turned it into a temple dedication addiction.” — David Butler (09:22)
• Prayer for Infinity:
  • “Please bless us to be enthroned where you are with… an infinity of fullness. I don't even know what that means, but I want it.” — David Butler (32:51)
• Christ’s Manifestation:
  • “For behold, I have accepted this house and my name will be upon it… thank you for building this house to my name. And I accept it.” — David Butler (39:07–39:38)
• Mercy Defined:
  • “I will manifest myself to my people in especially active compassion in this house.” — Emily Freeman (39:38)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [04:08–06:57] — The enormous sacrifice required to build the Kirtland Temple
• [08:22–09:05] — The dedicatory prayer received by revelation
• [10:25] — “Out of our poverty we have given of our substance…”
• [12:35–14:00] — What it means to build a “house” of God
• [15:30] — The symbolism of the unfinished temple painting
• [16:39] — Applying temple principles to home and life
• [22:20–23:20] — The power and sanctity of crossing the temple threshold
• [27:10–29:29] — Promises of protection and deliverance
• [31:25 & 32:51] — Blessings for families and the “infinity of fullness”
• [34:08–37:41] — Section 110: The Lord’s acceptance and the outpouring of keys
• [39:38–40:00] — “Especially active compassion” and the enduring promise of mercy
• [40:06] — “The beginning of the blessings…”

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Tone & Spirit

• The conversation carries warmth, enthusiasm, and wonder, blending scriptural insight with playful camaraderie and heartfelt testimony. The hosts use vivid imagery, stories, and gentle humor to draw listeners into both historical events and personal spiritual application.

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Concluding Invitation

The hosts end by encouraging listeners to reflect on their own sacrifices, revisit the promises associated with temple worship, and to see themselves as unfinished temples in whom God is continually at work. The message: the glories of His kingdom are not only past miracles, but also unfolding in our lives, homes, and hearts today.

Transcript

[A]

Hi, there. Welcome to Don't Miss this, a scripture study podcast with Dave Butler and Grace Freeman.

[B]

Each week, we point out things in the scriptures that we love and think you don't want to miss.

[A]

Thanks for listening. Hi, I'm Dave Butler.

[B]

I'm Grace Freeman.

[A]

Welcome to Don't Miss this, our weekly scripture study class. You guys, this. We're having another field trip today. I remembered, like, actually filming two of the field trips, and this is one. Like, it was. Well, I remember two things about it. One, my phone got so hot standing in the sun in Kirtland.

[C]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

Stopped working.

[B]

That's making me. Don't stop talking. I'm feeling sweaty.

[C]

I'm feeling sweaty.

[A]

I couldn't see it, but I genuinely had such, like, a meaningful experience studying section 109 right outside of the Kirtland temple. So this is one I've actually been really looking forward to, to sending y' all on. So two things before we go in. The tip ends actually match my most favorite part of what we did. So Grace is going to just say those.

[B]

Yes. And it's also one of my favorite parts. I went to the Kirill and temple twice this summer, and both times, everyone I was with, I made them do exactly what is on the tippins on the way in. And section 109, the beginning specifically, versus like, 1 through, like, 50. Is that truly true?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

1 through 49 are all these promises that are even more beautiful than any promises you could ever imagine, Promises that are promised for within the temple doors. And I think it's one of the most powerful studies ever. You're going to see the Kirtland Temple and you're going to love it. It's the cutest little temple ever. But there's something really remarkable about pausing and realizing that the real beauty is the gifts and the blessings and the miracles that are promised from people.

[A]

This is why he wanted them to build one, right? Yes.

[B]

This is why it was worth all the pain, all the hurt, all the money, all the dedication. That is why it's worth it.

[A]

Yeah. And then the Word of the Week poster that you can hang up this week is temple. And the quote on here is just so awesome because I think you can gather on a. On Sunday with friends, with family, and just do this activity. Read through, like, what blessings do we see of the temple? Why do we. What are they? And then this quote where he just says, the main object, to build unto the Lord a house where he could reveal to his people the ordinances of his house. And Also the glories of his kingdom and teach the people the way of salvation. And that's kind of what you're doing. Just like, what the glories of his kingdom that some of his greatest gifts that are revealed and given and promised in that holy house. And so this will be a such an awesome reminder throughout the week, such a great discussion to just talk about it. You may even go, if you live near a temple, to study and talk about this on the lawn of a temple. That would be actually really, really cool. So.

[B]

And such a cool lesson to, like, pause and be like, those promises are not so only for Kirtland. Like, what you're reading and what you're finding. We still have temples accessible in our neighborhoods, in our areas, in our states. Like, go to the temple. Realize those blessings that you're finding that you're loving, that you, like, want to hold on to are accessible still.

[A]

Yeah. So, so good. And temple reminds us. Old Testament is coming, everybody. I'm just thinking about the tabernacle in the wilderness, and we're getting it. If you're intimidated at all by the Old Testament, we're already jumping in, preparing for it, getting excited for it. So you have two things to love this week. Okay. Enjoy Kirtland. See you next week. Hi, everyone. I'm David Butler.

[C]

I'm Emily Freeman.

[A]

And this is. Don't miss this. And there's no words to talk about how thrilled we are to be in this place right now here with you, if you don't know. Behind us is the Kirtland Temple, which is the first temple that was built in our dispensation. And, I mean, it's just like, this is my first time here, and it's really, like, thrilling to me to even just be in the shadows of such a magnificent building and place. And, oh, we're so excited to be able to teach section 109 and 110 here. You know, we've been talking about. I mean, that initial command to build the temple when they got here and.

[C]

Hiram going out over and over that you. It's almost as if the Lord was like, you keep forgetting the most important assignment that I gave you here.

[A]

Yeah. And he was so patient with them because of what life was like here. They had no money, Remember, they had all sold everything to move out to Kirtland initially. And the converts that were coming in were of the poorer class, and they just had, like, pennies to their name, some of them. And some of them not even that.

[C]

That took everything they had just to get Themselves here.

[A]

Yeah. And then all of a sudden, this commandment to build this building, which most of the neighbors around this part said, you will never be able to finish a building like that. When they saw the plans for that time and that day, to build something like this was absolutely unheard of.

[C]

I do just want to think about, like, all the buildings that we've seen so far on this trip. I mean, even remember, the Hell's Home was, like, the nicest home. And then.

[A]

Yeah. Lucy calls it a mansion. She's like, this is a mansion of a house.

[C]

Yes. And then you look at this is almost, like, inconceivable.

[A]

Yeah. With the size of it, the amount of wood that they needed, the amount of stone that they needed. In fact, they bought that Peter French farm that we've talked about in order to, you know, because of the brick quarry that was on it, but that was going to be too expensive, so they had to go to the actual stone quarry that's not too far from here and just use that. And I love the stories of everyone saying, and Joseph would just go up there right with us and carry the rocks out of the quarry. And then, I mean, it just was this building. To put this together is absolutely phenomenal. This is hard to verify, but most church historians think that, to date, this is the most expensive building that the saints ever built. If you consider what their poverty level was and what they had to give in order to build it. And there's. You remember those apocryphal stories, too, that these are hard to verify, but most people pass them down, that the women even took their dishes and their fine china, and they crushed it up, so they said, so that it would sparkle in the sunlight. People literally gave everything. Sometimes we were just reading this one journal of a man who said, we would work on the temple, sometimes with shoes and sometimes with no shoes, just because they would wear out and they wouldn't have money to get new. And at some time, the mobs and the neighbors were, like, trying to stop it from being built. And Brigham Young said we would build that temple with a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other as we got it done. And it just. This building is just a testament and a witness of people who just love God so dearly that they were willing to give everything, literally everything.

[C]

It's so interesting, because Kirtland was such a time of two different things going on. It was this period of building temples and at the same time, fighting the apostasy that was happening within the church. And you just see it's going to be a time of also rich blessings and extreme poverty at the same time. That you're watching both extremes in Kirtland is what is happening.

[A]

Because you remember Zion's camp. We've just had to fund that whole Zion's camp and trying to build up Zion. So all the spare dollars that we've had, you know, we. Like I was there, but I feel happy to, like, associate myself with the saints of the past, you know, in this one. But, you know, no bride has ever decided she wants her bridals taken in front of this temple. But it is one of the most beautiful places on earth because of the sacrifice that came out of that great. The extreme condition, you know, that they were in. And no wonder that God will pour out buckets of his spirit and holiness and glory on this place. I think in answer to them, I mean, it was like an all for all here. They gave all, and so did God.

[C]

Oh, that is so good. You love that. That's kind of described in verse five of section 109.

[A]

And let's just say what 109 is.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah. So this is the dedicatory prayer of the Kirtland temple. And this one you read in the heading that Joseph actually went and received the prayer by revelation and wrote it out. Sometimes we don't write out our pray. You might, but usually people don't. But on this occasion, I'm sure he was asking the question, what might one pray for at a, you know, at a circumstance or a day like this? And we love the Receipt.

[C]

Yeah. In 109.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the heading by revelation. And that pattern, by the way, has continued ever since this first temple dedication that whoever's offering that dedicatory prayer will receive that prayer by revelation ahead of time. And then it is read at the dedication.

[C]

And it might be fun to look up the dedications for the temple that is nearest you and just see what were the promises of that temple. And I just think every time you walk in one of those temple, just knowing the promises that come because you chose to walk through the doors.

[A]

And we'll warn you, once you start reading temple dedications and their promises, you are going down a rabbit hole and you're gonna keep reading them. So sorry we just ruined your Netflix addiction and turned it into a temple dedication addiction.

[C]

Okay, that's so fun. I love how this starts out. So maybe we'll just start right there. 109. And in verse one, it just says, thanks be to thy name. Do you Wonder if he could even get those words out of his mouth when he started. Because so many years went into that culminating moment. And think about everything that had to take place in order for that to happen. Thanks be to thy name, O Lord God of Israel, who keepeth covenant and shows mercy unto thy servants who walk uprightly before thee with all their hearts. I mean, if you can't sum up what it took to build the temple he's just described, that is who we are. And then I love when it says, and this is who you are. You're the one who commanded us to build a house. And then in five, and he wanted.

[A]

To stop the prayer and just be like, we did it. Yes, we did it.

[C]

And I love when he says, you commanded us to build this house in verse five, even knowing that we would do this work through great tribulation. And then this sentence, that is so good. Just think about this for a minute. And out of our poverty we have given of our substance to build a house to thy name, that the Son of man might have a place to manifest himself to his people. Now just think about that for a minute. There is such a great lesson there. Because in essence, what he's saying is out of our poverty and out of our sacrifice became a situation where the Lord could manifest himself into our story. And isn't that true for every one of us? To that Most often for me in my life, it has been in my poverty and in my moments of greatest sacrifice that I have been able to see the manifestations of the Lord the most clearly. And I just think this is a beautiful reminder of that truth, that out of poverty and out of sacrifice comes that endearing relationship with Jesus Christ.

[A]

Yeah. So on the study guide, you'll see we have that spot where it says out of poverty. And we want you to think about where has been your place of lack. And then also gave that they gave. And what is it that you've given or are thinking you're so inclined or inspired to give right now in that place so that the Son of Man may be manifest in that place with you. Like the poverty doesn't end and the trouble doesn't end for the saints here. It's just this middle moment where Jesus will appear and pour out his glory upon them just in the middle of all those hard things.

[C]

And then you love what happens because they get to a scripture that is so common in our language and what we're doing, it says, it's a verse we repeat all the time.

[A]

And we heard it before in A previous section, and now it's in here, too.

[C]

Again, when he says this in verse 8, organize yourselves, prepare every needful thing, and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God. That your incomings may be in the name of the Lord. That your outgoings may be in the name of the Lord. That all your salutations may be in the name of the Lord. And I just love that thought of this. We think about it with that house behind us, that they were going to organize themselves and prepare every needful thing and establish this house that's built on prayer and fasting and learning and all of these things, so that every time they left it and every time they came into it, they would be reminded of their taking the name of the Lord. I am reminded of a story that happened many years ago every time I see this temple. You might remember the picture that Walter Rain painted of this temple many, many years ago. And it hangs in the high council room of the stake center where I go to church. And my stake president told of a time when, just when he was called to be the stake president. And he was sitting in the high council room and he looked at the temple, and that wall terrain painting is a painting of this temple, temple unfinished, like a work in progress. And his first thought was, why did they hang an unfinished temple in here? There's so many finished temples. We have so many pictures in our church of finished temples. Why did someone choose to hang an unfinished temple here? And the spirit whispered to him, it's because you are that unfinished temple and I am doing my work in you. And when you look at this Walter Rain picture, it's so, so interesting. Maybe you'll have a chance to look it up after you're done listening to this. But it is so messy. The. The work of that painting is so messy. You still see those red bricks on that bottom layer right there. And then the white. There's someone up on a ladder plastering the white. And there's scaffolding all over the table. And there's a wagon that's just been haphazardly placed over there on the lawn. And you see a big fire burning in the middle of just smoke, you know, that dirty smoke where everything you're not using has gone into that garbage pile. And there's smoke coming up. There's guys making cement, there's women carrying water. There's all this stuff going on. It is so Busy. And in the bottom left hand corner of that painting is a woman wearing a green dress. And her daughter's there in a little pink dress, carrying a little basket. What I love about this woman is that every other person in the painting is just focused on the work at hand, whatever is happening in their area. No one's even really looking at the temple, except for this one woman in the green dress has just stopped from the errand of her day and the work of her life. And she's just paused right there and she's looking up at the temple and watching this process that is happening. And when I looked at that painting several months ago, I thought to myself, I need to remember to be the woman in the green dress. I need to remember to take those moments of pause in the middle of my errand, in the middle of the work that is my everyday life, and look at what I'm building and take time to ponder it and to reflect on it and to consider. Consider it and to think, how can I better organize this place? How can I make this a house of prayer and a house of fasting and a house of learning and a house of glory and all of those things. Just sometimes remembering to take that little pause in that building process that we're all in and experience that revelation from God in that moment of how can we make not just the temples in our life, but the homes in our life, a place like that?

[A]

Yeah, it's fun sometimes, I think, to replace that word house with life or with home, because it takes it away maybe from the temple and brings it a little bit closer. And I just think it's so important that we left a little box in there for you to kind of like just think for the next week or so about how is this home or my life going to be a place of faith in a place of prayer and just to be a little bit more deliberate about that and let it happen. We love the verse right after it where it says that your incomings may be in the name of the Lord and your outgoings may be in the name of the Lord also. So that as you come in and out of your own home, or in and out of your own day, that you can think this is all happening with God watching over and his name and. And his purposes in mind. We have on our house and Emily has on hers this little tradition we've borrowed from the Old Testament and from our Jewish friends of having a mezuzah there of the scripture from Deuteronomy 6. Yeah, Deuteronomy 6 of just like to love the Lord your God with all your heart.

[C]

Yeah. And the one that you love that talks about that you're going to read your scriptures, you're gonna let the word of God protect your home by reading. It's the first thing you're gonna look at in the morning and the last thing that you look at at night. It's what you're gonna talk about every time you sit down. And even when you're walking on the way, you'll teach it to your children and it will be in your hearts and it will just fill your home. And you're supposed to hang it. I love when I hung mine, I went out and did it. I read all the instructions. And you're supposed to tip it in towards your house so that it says, the protection of God's word is in your home. And when Greg got home from work and saw mine, he was like, did you need help hanging that up?

[A]

Because it's crooked.

[C]

It was like, so crooked. It wasn't like a mistake. I had tipped it. Did you tip yours?

[A]

Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just that it's tipped for just the idea of it's neat because people of the Jewish faith and us have it on their houses as a reminder. And some will kiss it as they walk in this verse to love God and to. With all of your heart, my mind and strength, as you go in and as you go out. And it's tipped is this idea of, like, God leans into this house and we lean toward him in this house also. And that's such a neat verse. And what this temple stood for was we lean into him and we rejoice when he has. When he has and he continues to, like, lean into us. And I think it's cool that, like, that scene of it being a mess is exactly what we look like right now in our own homes and in our own lives. Right. And in the development of the restoration. It looks pretty on a postcard, but it really is a mess, all of it. And it's neat. Just like in the middle of that, to think of, I'm going to lean into God and he's going to lean into me. And just to remember that as we're making those.

[C]

You just learned the lesson in that lady in the green dress of just stop for just a moment and see.

[A]

Like, what's going on. What are we really doing here?

[C]

It reminds me of our friend who. We have a friend who has set apart a consecrated day. Sorry. If we can hear noise in the background. Where we are.

[A]

I thought the dedication was going on inside.

[C]

Someone was singing who has set apart a consecrated day in her life. And it's the day that she says no to everything and just yes to God and to receiving inspiration and to taking a little bit of time to just create a holy situation where she can hear what should I be doing in my life and my family? And you just love the thought of that in this building up process.

[A]

Yeah. Okay. One of the most thrilling parts of this prayer is throughout the whole thing and we are going to share with you some of our favorites. But I cannot wait for you to sit down with section 109 and just with a red pen or your thumb, because you're going to highlight on your phone just the promises that Joseph petitions for from the Lord and that he has promised associated, you know, with this temple dedication. I mean, these are just beautiful. Just the blessings of temple worship. The blessings of having a covenant relationship with God at the center of your life. That's what this section kind of stands for. And all throughout it, there's a thousand of them. We gave you a place for 28, hopefully. But who knows how many you're. Or whatever we have whatever he can.

[C]

Fit on that journal page. That's what you're going to get.

[A]

But you're going to use your other one just to find those phrases of the promises of temple blessings, which are really just God's promises and just go through. So let's go through like just some of our favorite ones and then set you free to just look up some of your own. I'll say one that I love and should we go like through an order or something?

[C]

Yeah, let's kind of go in order and try to capture as many as we can because they're so good and it's so fun to hear them in front of.

[A]

Oh yeah, this really. This place right here.

[C]

Are you gonna start in 13?

[A]

Yes. Yes. Okay, good. Even though 11 and 12, like, we can't do every verse, but why should you not? Like, do you love the thought of 12? Will you please let your glory rest upon this people? I just think of sunlight, I think of dew. And I was like, I just want your glory to like settle on me.

[C]

And in 11, when he says, we want to secure a fulfillment of the promises which you made to us, I just love that. Securing his promises. So good.

[A]

13 is one of my favorite verses of all time. And he says this blessing that all people who enter upon the threshold of the Lord's house may feel thy power and Feel constrained to acknowledge that thou has sanctified it, that it's thy house, a place of thy holiness. And I think about that verse every time I walk onto temple grounds, that I've crossed the threshold into a holy place. I thought it right when we got out of the car here. That verse is the first verse that popped into my mind that when people cross into this place, they'll feel constrained to say, this is a place of holiness. I know you've been to places like that. I know you've been to homes like that. I know you've been to, like, periods of your life like that when you can say, I crossed into a place of holiness. And that is a promised blessing for temples and temple people.

[C]

And I love when you use that word threshold right there, and that as soon as you pass that threshold, you will feel his power. And this is one thing that I think is so important to remember, that everyone is welcome to cross over that threshold. And there have been times in the lives of my kids and in the lives of my good friends where maybe they couldn't pass the recommend desk, but they could walk over the threshold and go into the waiting room and sit with scriptures and. And feel the power of the Lord working in their life. And I just love the thought someone told our son Garrett, as he was going through that great repentance process. Just start going to the temple every week and go to the waiting room every week and read your scriptures every week until the day when you can pass the recommend desk. And the temple, because of that invitation, because of that kind of welcome, has become a place of such strength and power for him in his life. So I love that word threshold right there in 14. We love that you'll be taught wisdom that will come to you as you seek learning by study and also by faith. And I love that.

[A]

I love. 15. We are going through the whole thing right now, but we're not sad.

[C]

We can't.

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15. That they may grow up in the. Until eventually they receive a fullness of the Holy Ghost. You remember we talked about that in section 76. But I love this idea of the temple being a place that we get to grow up in the glory. It's a school, it's a university, where we just continue to increase in glory and closeness and power. And, oh, it's so awesome in that same verse.

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I love when it tells us that we can be organized and become prepared every time that we go in there. And if you're someone like me who has a really creative. You just love that there is a place that is just going to calm you for a minute and let you become more organized according to the commandments of God, whatever He speaks into your life and also prepared. I love that.

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I love 19 when it. It just almost seems to make an impact on somebody's life that once they've been into one of these places and our more modern temples, our full Melchizedek priesthood temples where we make covenants, that all of a sudden, like, all my salutations are in the name of the Lord with holy hands uplifted to the most High God. Just the thought of, like, it's now made a mark on all the things that I do in my life. I can now see holiness in just the ordinary because of that place.

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Oh, that's so good. I Love in 21 that it says, I love that it's an when, not an if. Because here they've worked for this. They prepared for this. This is this holy place. And then it right in the blessing, it's going to say, and when thy people transgress any of them. Don't you love that? It's almost as if he's saying, I know you're going to make mistakes. I already know that's part of mortality. But I love this promise. They may speedily repent and return unto thee and find favor in Thy sight and be restored to the blessings. I love that whole thought that he's like, when this happens, you're just gonna speedily turn again to Christ. You're just gonna return to him and find favor in his sight, and you're gonna be restored to the blessings. And he says this about the blessing that are gonna be poured out to anyone who reverences him in his house. I love that part.

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22. It's so neat to see that those who go forth from this house as servants are armed with power and with his name upon them. You can't help but think about missionaries, you know, receiving their endowment before they go out on their missions, and that promise that angels will have a charge over.

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You got the best verse. That is such a good verse. Who doesn't love that verse? That every time you go to the temple, you're armed with power and his name and angels. What a sweet promise of the temple.

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To do what work? 23. Like, 23 is so awesome.

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Yeah, Go ahead.

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And from this point, go and bear the exceedingly great and glorious tidings.

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Yeah.

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The great beautiful news that get those.

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Two together for some reason.

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Let's make it so good news is, okay, but like great and glorious tidings is an entirely different experience.

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So good. I love when it says that in 24 he's going to establish us. I love that, that we're going to be established and no weapon formed against us will prosper. It tells us in 25 or. So much comfort.

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Yeah, yeah. I was going to say just in addition with that. But just let me say this and then say what you want to say, that the 26. No combination of wickedness will have power to rise up and prevail over you. Like, it doesn't even matter.

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This section so much that both of us are like, oh, and don't forget this, everybody. Don't worry that we keep talking on top of each other. It's just because we love this section so much. Yeah. No combination of wickedness. It's so good. And then in 28, I love that this hints backward so well to the Old Testament, to Old Testament times and to some of those stories that we love, particularly Jehoshaphat. It goes right back to that story in 2 Chronicles 20, I think is where it is that it says that you will fight for your people, that they may be delivered from the hands of all their enemies. And I just love knowing that God is gonna fight for us. That he's almost as if he says, this is my battle, the battle is mine, and I'm gonna fight for you. That's part of the blessing you get every time you walk in those doors.

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And you know, and to what end? I don't know if you have one in between here, but 32. I like that. He says, we plead before thee for a full and complete deliverance. I love that, like the promise of God's deliverance is not just deliverance, but it is a full and complete one in every area of your life, in your past, your present, and your future.

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That's so good. I'm going to skip to 38. And I love when it says, put upon thy servants the testimony of the covenant. Prepare the hearts that thy people may not faint in the day of trouble. Just what a sweet promise that he's gonna be right there in the days of trouble. And then. Can I go to 44? I love it so much. He says this, Help thy servants to say with thy grace, assisting them, thy will be done, O Lord, and not ours. And I just love even there that reminder of just you help us accept thy will, whatever it is. What's gonna happen between now and Utah is so many things and even more poverty and even more sacrifice, even more Blessing at the same time. But that thought of that just as they're going to enter into what's going to come, help thy servants to say with thy grace assisting them, Thy will be done, O Lord, and not ours.

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And kind of in connection with that, in verse 50, you find that have mercy, O Lord, you know, upon. It's interesting. It's upon the wicked mob. Like God has mercy. But even that a blessing in the temple is that your heart gets to a place where you seek for mercy upon like even your enemies, you know.

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So good and so hard. But the fact that the temple can change even that in us.

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And you just see that all through. Like that whole section is just filled with lines like that. Oh, I mean, do we have anything else that we want to for sure point out?

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I saw that one that I love in 61. That is so cute that he talks about. Thou knowest that thou hast a great love for the children of Jacob who have been scattered upon the mountains for a long time in a cloudy and dark day. And just the thought again of just the protection, the refuge, the gathering in that this house represents from the storms of their time and of our time.

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Yeah. And sorry I have to do two more. One was my most favorite one, you know, but I like first in 72 when he says, will you please remember all thy church with all their families and all their immediate connections. Do you love that the blessings of the temple are upon not only you, but upon your family and your immediate connections. Jenny is a faithful temple going girl and is able to worship in the temple a little bit more than I can right now in life just because of our, the age of our kids and everything. And ever since she has been going so consistently. That is something that I have seen in our relationship in our house, that her temple worship has blessed our family and I think all of our immediate connections. It is a blessing I believe in so strongly. And then 77, this is like, oh, and please bless us with, you know, and some of you have been able to hear promises spoken in temples today. He says, please bless us to be enthroned where you are with glory, honor, power, majesty, might, dominion, truth, justice, judgment, mercy, and an infinity of fullness. I don't even know what that means.

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Who wants that?

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But I want it.

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An infinity of fullness. Oh, that is so good.

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I want it.

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Whatever that is, please, can I have it? Yes.

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So this, this prayer is just powerful and beautiful. It ends with him just saying 78. Do you love our. He's like, oh, hear oh, hear. Oh, hear us, Lord. Like, that is the end of it. He's like, please listen to these petitions. And it's so good. So please look down upon this moment.

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And before we hit 110, I just want to go back to verse five because it's such a great lead in to 110, which is where we're going. You remember where we started that one line that is so good, where it says, for thou knowest that we have done this work through great tribulation, and out of our poverty we have given of our substance to build a house to thy name, that the Son of man might have a place to manifest himself to his people.

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Yeah, open up your scriptures again. Because the. The sun made my phone not work. So we're gonna have to share the Scriptures together.

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And then it's so fun because we're gonna go into 1:10. So the very last thing it says right there is that you would be able to manifest yourself to this people because of their poverty and their sacrifice. And in 1 10, yeah, it happens.

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So this is about a week later, 1:10 is. And we wanna start with verse 9 and 110 because it's such a neat verse where he says, yea, the hearts of thousands and tens of thousands shall greatly rejoice in consequence of which shall be poured out. And the endowment which my servants have been endowed with in this house. Now, if you're a member of our faith and know much about it, you. Our thought of endowment is kind of like that temple ceremony, but the Kirtland endowment is a little bit different. And what would happen here was going to bless thousands and tens of thousands with blessings that were going to be poured out. So we have this spot on the paper about what exactly is that what they call the Kirtland endowment. And we'll just go through them and focus on one of them real quick. One is new truths that were revealed here. Section 137, when we get there, is one that was revealed in an upper room there of what happens to children who die or what happens to people who die before they have a chance to hear it. That comes at the end of the year. But man, glorious new soothing truths. Number two. New ordinances are revealed in this house. The washing and anointing ordinances are revealed here that continue on three. And we're gonna have to send you to, like, another source for this. My friend Scott has this website that just has cataloged all of these of just the Pentecostal experience that happens at the dedication.

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Oh, that's gonna be awesome.

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I mean, we can brush by it, but it's like, on that day, God really did show up and pour out blessings and the angels that people saw and the things that they heard and felt. And I mean, it would be so.

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Fun to connect that if you're someone who has a lot of time to study to Acts 2 and the day of Pentecost and just see what is so similar about that New Testament church that was also similar on this day. That was something that happened and was recorded once. And it was so important for the saints of the New Testament and to see the similarities that happened at this temple. And the words that I love in Acts 2 that talks about that is just what you said. A pouring out, a pouring out, a pouring out. And for some reason, because of the poverty and the sacrifice and where things were, these saints had a really similar experience.

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Yeah, you can't wait to read them. One of my favorites is, like, some of the people who couldn't fit in because they crammed this place for the dedication, but who couldn't get in, saw angels, like, riding on the. On the tops of the. Of the roof, walking around the top and like little kids. Mom, Mom. There's people on the temple and they're like, it's in all their journals. It is so beautiful. And the fourth is these priesthood keys. Remember, we've been talking about the priesthood as not a singular event, but as an unfolding of the restoration of the priesthood. And this is a very moment in the unfolding of that priesthood restoration. Joseph Fielding Smith said the very reason they built this temple was for the priesthood keys to be restored. That was. And that is what will bless thousands and ten thousands of, you know, of people everywhere. So you'll look through this chapter, and if you want to just write, here are the visitors. And then you can write. What were those keys and powers and authority that were revealed? Moses comes with the keys of the gathering of Israel.

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Elias.

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Elias comes who. We don't know who he is, but he comes with what's called the dispensation of Abraham. That is the marriage authority, the authority for eternal marriage. And then Elisha, and then Elijah comes with the sealing power, which will now enable work for the dead and the ability to seal people up into eternal life and make all ordinances efficacious on both sides of the veil for living and dead. So this is like, such a huge moment. Oh, that's where I was going to end. Yeah. Because it was like we had to, like, save the best for last because the visitor of visitors, you know, first before any of these people came was the Lord Jesus Christ who appears. And I love that he answers that, oh, hear us. Oh hear us. Oh hear us. And in the very beginning here, he just says, where? Where is it? Where? He just comes. And the description is just beautiful. Who he says he is your. Your sins are forgiven you.

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And don't forget this part right here.

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Yeah. I am your advocate with the Father. Let and but start in verse six. He says, let the hearts of your brethren rejoice. And let the hearts of all my people rejoice who have with their might built this house to my name. For behold, I have accepted this house and my name will be upon it. And I love this moment of after all of these years of great sacrifice that he says, almost thank you for building this house to my name. And I accept it. And I think that about, like, these lives that we're gonna build, these homes that we're going to build at great sacrifice and through a great mess, I can just hear him saying to us, thank you for raising children that way, for serving that way, for offering your life that way. It just is. It's just a beautiful.

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And that one line that we maybe want to end on that says, I will manifest myself to my people in mercy in this house. And we love that Greek translation for the word mercy is especially active compassion. And when you think about that, I will manifest myself to my people in especially active compassion in this house.

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Oh, this was such a good.

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Yeah, you just want to go. Should we go to the temple right now, everyone? That's what we want to do.

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And 10. Oh, we got to end with these two lines. Oh, yeah, 16. We love that it just says this at the very end that the Lord is near. And then verse 10 where it says, this is the beginning of the blessings that are about to be poured out. I don't know how this is the beginning when it said the infinity of the fullness of the fullness or whatever that line was. But he says it is so awesome for the Lord to just say, like, oh, we are just getting started on the things that you have to rejoice about. If you want to follow along in everything we're doing, you can find us on Instagram. Instagram at don't miss this study, at this week's Grace and at Mr. Dave Butler.

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