Mt. View
Ward, Spanish Fork, UT July
15, 2012
Topic: The Importance of the Book of Mormon
(the following represents highlights from Greg
Waite’s talk given July 15, 2012)
Joseph
Smith said, “The Book of Mormon is the most correct of any book on earth, and
is the keystone of our religion.”
Pres
Ezra Taft Benson in his Conference address in 1986 helped me understand the
concept of the book of Mormon being the keystone of our religion. He said: “There
are three ways in which the Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion. It
is a keystone in our witness of Christ. It is the keystone of our doctrine, and
it is the keystone of testimony.”
*With
this Keystone of our religion in our lives, we should also make it the keystone
of importance in our lives.
Pres.
Benson also explains that an actual keystone is the central stone in an arch.
It holds all the other stones in place, and if removed, the arch crumbles.
Without
out the book of Mormon the church crumbles, and more importantly, without the
book of Mormon our own lives crumble. The book of Mormon was written,
protected, and saved for our day. It was written for us.
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parts of the Book of Mormon that have meaning to me:
Stripling Warriors
Now they never had fought, yet they did not
fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they
did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they
did not doubt, God would deliver them.
Abinadi stood up to a king!
Capt. Moroni
Captain
Moroni was the chief commander of the Nephite armies. He was a strong and
mighty man who loved the Lord and loved his people. He had sworn with an oath
to protect his people from Amalickiah and his Lamanite army.
Yea,
verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had been, and were, and ever would
be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken
forever; yea, the devil would never have power over the hearts of the children
of men.
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