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Re: The Fastest Way to Make Your Calling and Election Sure [message #3462 is a reply to message #3458] Thu, 25 June 2015 11:22 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Amonhi is currently offline  Amonhi
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One more final point to add to the discussion before I feel satisfied...

Someone asked, "Is receiving your calling and election made sure a requirement going to the Celestial Kingdom?"

This is an excellent and VERY important question to ask.

D&C 76:50-53 tells us what we must to do qualify to be resurrected with the Just in the first resurrection. The Final qualification we must meet is that we are "Sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise". This means that we are sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise to our exaltation.

Once we have met the criteria listed, particularly being sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise, the very next verse says,
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53 And who overcome by faith, and are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, which the Father sheds forth upon all those who are just and true.
54 They are they who are the church of the Firstborn. - D&C 76

In verses 54-70 we see a list of all the blessings promised those who are sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise. Some of those blessings are:
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54 They are they who are the church of the Firstborn.
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62 These shall dwell in the presence of God and his Christ forever and ever.
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68 These are they whose names are written in heaven, where God and Christ are the judge of all.
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70 These are they whose bodies are celestial, whose glory is that of the sun, even the glory of God, the highest of all, whose glory the sun of the firmament is written of as being typical.

Now, Baptism is the "gate" by which we join the physical Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This is a physical church. It is the mediator between the World/Babylon and the Spiritual Church known as the Church of the Firstborn. The Church of the Firstborn also has a "Gate" by which we enter.

Calling & Election is the end of the path that started with baptism, but it is also the "gate" by which we join the spiritual Church of the Firstborn. It is like baptism for the Physical Church in that receiving your Calling and Election made sure is the Joining Ordinance for the Spiritual Church.

The name, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", reflect who's church it is. The church is Jesus Christ's and the Latter-day Saint's. not all members of this church will make it to the Celestial Kingdom.
So too the name of the Church of the Firstborn reflects who the church members are. It is called "The Church of the Firstborn" because all members are firstborn sons and daughters of God who all have an equal inheritance and standing with the Firstborn (Christ). They are all considered Firstborn sons and daughters of God.

In other words, all members of the Church of the Firstborn are guaranteed, via God's promise through the testifying power of the Holy Spirit of Promise, that they will receive the firstborn's inheritance equally with Christ who was the Firstborn. This is so much the case that there is no longer a distinction in the name/title that separates Jesus from the other members of the church. Jesus is included with all the other members of the church under the title/name "Firstborn".

Just as baptism places your name on the records of the physical church, so too receiving your Calling and Election made sure places your names on the records of heaven in the "Book of Life".

Just as we can receive the comforter after we are baptized into the physical church, we can receive the Second Comforter when we are sealed into the spiritual church.

Being a member of the Church of the Firstborn is required to have the blessings listed in D&C 76:54-70 including Celestial glory and dwelling with God and Christ forever. And because being a member of the Church of the Firstborn happens by receiving your Calling and Election made sure, we can say that this ordinance is required for Celestial Glory.

Immediately following the vision of who qualifies for the first resurrection with the just and the Celestial Glory, Joseph Smith begins to talk about those who qualify for the Terrestrial Kingdom. Notice the very first thing he tells us about who goes to the Terrestrial world:
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71 And again, we saw the terrestrial world, and behold and lo, these are they who are of the terrestrial, whose glory differs from that of the church of the Firstborn who have received the fulness of the Father, even as that of the moon differs from the sun in the firmament.

If you have not become a member of the Church of the Firstborn through receiving your calling and election made sure, the highest kingdom you can obtain is the Terrestrial Kingdom.

It is my fervent prayer that you will be touched in your heart and that the spirit will work in you to bring about the change of heart and that you will follow the Holy Ghost as the voice of God back into His presence. I know that if you do, you will receive the Holy Spirit of Promise while will seal upon you the promise of eternal life.

In the name of my Lord, Savior and Dear Friend Jesus Christ, Amen.

[Updated on: Thu, 25 June 2015 12:51]

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