President Eyring speaks to the priesthood brethren of the church. He speaks about honoring our priesthood covenants and becoming more than we are today in our priesthood service.
He speaks of specific blessings that come to each of us as we honor our priesthood covenants and service others. The blessings that he speaks of are listed below:
These blessings come to us as we serve in the priesthood and keep the covenants that we have made when we received the priesthood. We can be partners with Christ to bring out our Fathers purposes as we follow the Saviors example and reach out to others in need.
President Eyring concludes with one last bit of advice on what we can do to honor our priesthood and prepare ourselves to be partners with Christ in serving others.
President Eyring speaks of the concerns that we sometimes have of being able to live up to such a high expectation. Although the consequences of receiving the priesthood and not honoring it are large, the blessings that can come to us as we figure out the role we should be doing is equally as great. We have been promised eternal life if we can learn to serve and partner with the Savior in helping others. President Eyring has given us some great guidance that if we follow, we will be able to be on the path to eternal life and support others along the way.
- Rising to the possibilities of the oath and covenant brings the greatest of all the gifts of God: eternal life. That is a purpose of the Melchizedek Priesthood. Through keeping the covenants as we receive the priesthood and renewing them in the temple ceremonies, we are promised by an oath made by our Heavenly Father, Elohim, that we will gain the fulness of His glory and live as He lives. We will have the blessing of being sealed in a family forever with the promise of eternal increase.
He speaks of specific blessings that come to each of us as we honor our priesthood covenants and service others. The blessings that he speaks of are listed below:
- Let me describe some of the blessings you will receive as you go forward in faith.
- First, the very fact that you have been offered the oath and covenant is evidence that God has chosen you, knowing your power and capacity. He has known you since you were with Him in the spirit world. With His foreknowledge of your strength, He has allowed you to find the true Church of Jesus Christ and to be offered the priesthood. You can feel confidence because you have evidence of His confidence in you.
- Second, as you will try to keep your covenants, the Savior has promised His personal help. He has said that as you go forward in honoring the priesthood: “There I will be also, for I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.”
- You are also promised that you will be given the power to bear testimony and that in the process you will be cleansed and made fit for the eternal life.
- There is another wonderful blessing that will encourage you as you keep your priesthood covenants. Priesthood service will prepare you for living in eternal families. It will change your feelings about what it means to be a husband or a father or a son or a brother. That change in your heart will come as you feel your faith grow and the promise of eternal life through the Melchizedek Priesthood becomes real to you.
- Faith in the oath and covenant will lead us to develop the feelings of charity essential to an eternal family. One of the promises we make as we accept the priesthood is to care for others.
- First, the very fact that you have been offered the oath and covenant is evidence that God has chosen you, knowing your power and capacity. He has known you since you were with Him in the spirit world. With His foreknowledge of your strength, He has allowed you to find the true Church of Jesus Christ and to be offered the priesthood. You can feel confidence because you have evidence of His confidence in you.
These blessings come to us as we serve in the priesthood and keep the covenants that we have made when we received the priesthood. We can be partners with Christ to bring out our Fathers purposes as we follow the Saviors example and reach out to others in need.
- My prayer is that you will decide tonight, and then every day, to go forward in faith in keeping your covenants with God and so claim the promise He has made to you with an oath. You can do it in simple things. When you meet with your quorum, you can decide to see them as brothers in the family of God. There will be someone in your quorum or priesthood group who is in need. He may not show it. You may not be able to see it with your eyes. But God knows and invites you to be His servant in helping him.
President Eyring concludes with one last bit of advice on what we can do to honor our priesthood and prepare ourselves to be partners with Christ in serving others.
- There is another thing you can do. You can study the word of God, not for yourself alone but to be an emissary of the Lord Jesus Christ to all the world. When you increase your power to teach the gospel, you are qualifying to help Heavenly Father in gathering His children. As you do that, another blessing will come. Should the need ever come in family life in this world, or in the world to come, to draw back lost sheep, you will have received more power than you may now recognize.
President Eyring speaks of the concerns that we sometimes have of being able to live up to such a high expectation. Although the consequences of receiving the priesthood and not honoring it are large, the blessings that can come to us as we figure out the role we should be doing is equally as great. We have been promised eternal life if we can learn to serve and partner with the Savior in helping others. President Eyring has given us some great guidance that if we follow, we will be able to be on the path to eternal life and support others along the way.
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