Lesson 23



LESSON 2 by Dennis Roberts

Abraham 3; Moses 4:1–4

Thou Wast Chosen Before Thou Wast Born

(Objective: to help members understand foreordination)

Welcome

Foreordination is _ _ _’s premortal ordination of His

_ _ _ _ _ _ children to fulfill certain_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ during their _ _ _ _ _ _ life.

1- Abraham learns that premortal spirits were foreordained

a. Abrhm 3:11-12 What did the Lord call Abraham?

b. Abrhm 3:22-23 What is happening? Where? Who is there? c. Abrhm 3:23 What does it mean “chosen before born”?

d. D&C 138:38-49 Whom did President Smith see?

e. D&C 138:53-56 What were they foreordained to do?

f. What is relationship between foreordination & free agency?

g. Supplement #1 President Ezra Taft Benson

h. Video 1 Latter day church growth

I. How can we fulfill our foreordained callings?

2- Jesus was chosen in the Great Council to be our Savior

a. Video 2 Moses 4:1-4

b. What choices were offered to all of us?

c. Abrhm 3:24-26 What do first estate & second estate mean?

d. What blessing did we receive by keeping our first estate?

e. What blessings await if we keep our second estate?

f. Moses 4:3-4 What happened to Lucifer & his followers?

g. What is Lucifer’s mission?

H. What is your mission?

i. Supplement #2 Elder Neal A. Maxwell

j. Video 3 Foreordination Pearls

Application

If we can just i _ _ _ _ _ e our homecoming, maybe it will be e _ _ _ _ r to “return with

h _ _ _ r” from our earthly m _ _ _ _ _ _ s.

.Next Lesson

Lesson 3 / Moses 1:27-42; 2-3 / The Creation

LESSON 2 by Dennis Roberts

Abraham 3; Moses 4:1–4

Thou Wast Chosen Before Thou Wast Born

(Objective: to help members understand foreordination)

Welcome

Foreordination is _ _ _’s premortal ordination of His

_ _ _ _ _ _ children to fulfill certain _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ during their _ _ _ _ _ _ life.

1- Abraham learns that premortal spirits were foreordained

a. Abrhm 3:11-12 What did the Lord call Abraham?

b. Abrhm 3:22-23 What is happening? Where? Who is there?

c. Abrhm 3:23 What does it mean “chosen before born”?

d. D&C 138:38-49 Whom did President Smith see?

e. D&C 138:53-56 What were they foreordained to do?

f. What is relationship between foreordination & free agency?

g. Supplement #1 President Ezra Taft Benson

h. Video 1 Latter day church growth

I. How can we fulfill our foreordained callings?

2- Jesus was chosen in the Great Council to be our Savior

a. Video 2 Moses 4:1-4

b. What choices were offered to all of us?

c. Abrhm 3:24-26 What do first estate & second estate mean?

d. What blessing did we receive by keeping our first estate?

e. What blessings await if we keep our second estate?

f. Moses 4:3-4 What happened to Lucifer & his followers?

g. What is Lucifer’s mission?

H. What is your mission?

i. Supplement #2 Elder Neal A. Maxwell

j. Video 3 Foreordinations Pearls

Application

If we can just i _ _ _ _ _ e our homecoming, maybe it will be e _ _ _ _ r to “return with

h _ _ _ r” from our earthly m _ _ _ _ _ _ s.

.Next Lesson

Lesson 3 / Moses 1:27-42; 2-3 / The Creation

LESSON 2 SUPPLEMENTS by Dennis Roberts

SUPPLEMENT #1 President Ezra Taft Benson

“God has held you in reserve to make your appearance in the final days before the second coming of the Lord. Some individuals will fall away; but the kingdom of God will remain intact to welcome the return of its head—even Jesus Christ. While our generation will be comparable in wickedness to the days of Noah, when the Lord cleansed the earth by flood, there is a major difference this time. It is that God has saved for the final inning some of His strongest children, who will help bear off the kingdom triumphantly. …

“… Make no mistake about it—you are a marked generation. There has never been more expected of the faithful in such a short period of time than there is of us” (The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson [1988], 104–5).

SUPPLEMENT #2 Neal A. Maxwell

“One must be especially careful about judging the limitations some have in this second estate, since these may reflect divine purposes we cannot understand. But as to callings, foreordination operates. More important than my words are the words of President Harold B. Lee. In his last general conference address in October 1973, he made this observation: "All these rewards were seemingly promised, or foreordained, before the world was. Surely these matters must have been determined by the kind of lives we had lived in that premortal spirit world. Some may question these assumptions, but at the same time they will accept without any question the belief that each one of us will be judged when we leave this earth according to his or her deeds during our lives here in mortality. Isn't it just as reasonable to believe that what we have received here in this earth life was given to each of us according to merits of our conduct before we came here?"

(Deposition of a Disciple, p.44)

SUPPLEMENT #3 Renée Hall

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar:

Not in entire forgetfulness,

and not in utter nakedness,

But trailing clouds of glory do we come

From God, who is our home:

Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

LESSON 2 SUPPLEMENTS by Dennis Roberts

SUPPLEMENT #1 President Ezra Taft Benson

“God has held you in reserve to make your appearance in the final days before the second coming of the Lord. Some individuals will fall away; but the kingdom of God will remain intact to welcome the return of its head—even Jesus Christ. While our generation will be comparable in wickedness to the days of Noah, when the Lord cleansed the earth by flood, there is a major difference this time. It is that God has saved for the final inning some of His strongest children, who will help bear off the kingdom triumphantly. …

“… Make no mistake about it—you are a marked generation. There has never been more expected of the faithful in such a short period of time than there is of us” (The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson [1988], 104–5).

SUPPLEMENT #2 Neal A. Maxwell

“One must be especially careful about judging the limitations some have in this second estate, since these may reflect divine purposes we cannot understand. But as to callings, foreordination operates. More important than my words are the words of President Harold B. Lee. In his last general conference address in October 1973, he made this observation: "All these rewards were seemingly promised, or foreordained, before the world was. Surely these matters must have been determined by the kind of lives we had lived in that premortal spirit world. Some may question these assumptions, but at the same time they will accept without any question the belief that each one of us will be judged when we leave this earth according to his or her deeds during our lives here in mortality. Isn't it just as reasonable to believe that what we have received here in this earth life was given to each of us according to merits of our conduct before we came here?"

(Deposition of a Disciple, p.44)

SUPPLEMENT #3 Renée Hall

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar:

Not in entire forgetfulness,

and not in utter nakedness,

But trailing clouds of glory do we come

From God, who is our home:

Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

LESSON 2 by Dennis Roberts

Abraham 3; Moses 4:1–4

Thou Wast Chosen Before Thou Wast Born

(Objective: to help members understand foreordination)

Welcome

Foreordination is God ’s premortal ordination of His spirit children to fulfill certain

missions during their mortal life.

1- Abraham learns that premortal spirits were foreordained

a. Abrhm 3:11-12 What did the Lord call Abraham? Who is “the Lord”? (from last week’s discussion)

b. Abrhm 3:22-23 What is happening? Where? Who is there? Who were the “noble and great ones”?

c. Abrhm 3:23 What does it mean “chosen before born”? foreordained to be a prophet

d. D&C 138:38-49 Whom did President Smith see? Don’t read all words, just names of who he saw

e. D&C 138:53-56 What were they foreordained to do? Labor in vineyard for salvation of souls

f. What is relationship between foreordination & free agency? Does Foreordination guarantee success?

g. Supplement #1 President Ezra Taft Benson How does it make you feel to know you were held in reserve?

h. Video 1 Latter day church growth This was shown at Stake Conference, isn’t it cool?

i. How can we fulfill our foreordained callings? Fulfill all our callings to our best (family, church, neighbors, etc.)

2- Jesus was chosen in the Great Council to be our Savior

a. Video 2 Moses 4:1-4 Who can explain what is happening here?

b. What choices were offered to all of us? Whom did we choose to follow and how do we know?

c. Abrhm 3:24-26 What do first estate & second estate mean? Where are we?

d. What blessing did we receive by keeping our first estate? “added upon” What does this mean?

e. What blessings await if we keep our second estate? “glory added upon heads for ever”

f. Moses 4:3-4 What happened to Lucifer & his followers? What is Satan and followers doing now?

g. What is Lucifer’s mission? Destroy our agency / How do they do it?

H. What is your mission? Let class respond and then go to video

i. Supplement #2 Elder Neal A. Maxwell Life may be hard, but you are of a chosen generation

j. Video 3 Foreordination Pearls end class with this video

Application

If we can just imagine our homecoming, maybe it will be easier to “return with

honor” from our earthly missions.

.Next Lesson

Lesson 3 / Moses 1:27-42; 2-3 / The Creation

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