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Description: Have you ever found something new when reading a familiar passage of scripture? *We will
discuss how repetition in scripture study is so beneficial – and no passage of scripture is more repeated than the
Sacrament prayers.
I love the scriptures, and I love to learn new things – I love that I can learn new things from both new
as well as familiar passages.
Purpose of Scripture: Joseph Smith “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct
of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding
by its precepts, than by any other book.”
How often would you like to get nearer to God? How often do you study your scriptures?
The same things every day!? What is the purpose of such repetition?
Do you think some scriptures more important than others? – why would you say that?
REPETITION
- John Bytheway – if the Lord had a favorite scripture, it would be somewhere we would see it
all the time – (The Best Three Hours)
Sacrament prayers locations? (Moroni 4, D&C 20, 3 Nephi 18, on a card by the sacrament table)
- The sacrament brings us together (only meeting including all family), brings us to Him in
humility (kneel with the congregation), prepared to make and keep covenants
I would be better if the Lord was present at my meeting (and so would the speakers!)
-Robert D. Hales - When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and
reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper4 and become like Him.
(Coming to Ourselves: The Sacrament, the Temple, and Sacrifice in Service – Ensign, 5/12)
2- (“Positioning”) 3 Nephi 18:25 "come unto Christ to feel & see" => do unto "the world" –
examples:
o Isaiah 6 – purification and preparation to serve (in this example, like the Savior)
o Ether 2-3 – the preparation & purification of the Brother of Jared
Ether 6 – MM takes the light to the ships, and to all men, women, and children
Elder Bruce R. McConkie “The sacrament of the Lord's supper is an ordinance of salvation in which
all the faithful must participate if they are to live and reign with him.” (Promised Messiah, pg. 384)
- Personal Story – foreign exchange in Brazil – nearly 6 months away from church, because
attendance was "inconvenient" – when I returned home, I felt the true “homecoming” on Sunday
o Trevor’s Sacrament – be quick and excited to get back to church & partake often
o And then guide others back to the font of bread and water
Clip - Elder Holland – CR 10/95 - With a crust of bread, what the scriptures call the “original guilt” of Adam’s
always broken, blessed, and offered first, we remember his transgression (Moses 6:54). Furthermore, Christ suffered for
bruised body and broken heart, his physical suffering on the the sins and sorrows and pains of all the rest of the human
cross where he cried, “I thirst,” and finally, “My God, my family, providing remission for all of our sins as well, upon
God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (John 19:28; Matt. 27:46.) conditions of obedience to the principles and ordinances of the
gospel he taught (see 2 Ne. 9:21–23). As the Apostle Paul
The Savior’s physical suffering guarantees that through his wrote, we were “bought with a price” (1 Cor. 6:20). What an
mercy and grace (see 2 Ne. 2:8) every member of the human expensive price and what a merciful purchase!
family shall be freed from the bonds of death and be
resurrected triumphantly from the grave. Of course the time of That is why every ordinance of the gospel focuses in one way
that resurrection and the degree of exaltation it leads to are or another on the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
based upon our faithfulness. surely that is why this particular ordinance with all its
symbolism and imagery comes to us more readily and more
With a small cup of water we remember the shedding of repeatedly than any other in our life. It comes in what has been
Christ’s blood and the depth of his spiritual suffering, anguish called “the mostsacred, the most holy, of all the meetings of
which began in the Garden of Gethsemane. There he said, the Church” (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation,
“My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death” (Matt. comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols., Salt Lake City: Bookcraft,
26:38). He was in agony and “prayed more earnestly: and his 1954–56, 2:340).
sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the
ground” (Luke 22:44).