1. I Will Remember my Covenant 3 Nephi 16, 20-22

2. Update on “Church Program Bloopers” Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands. The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict. Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help. For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs. Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get. Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered. The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility. Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow. Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door. The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy. Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.

3. 3 Nephi 16: 7,10 …because of the unbelief … I have caused my people who are of the house of Israel to be smitten, and to be afflicted, and to be slain, and to be cast out from among [the Gentiles], and to become hated by them, and to become a hiss and a byword among them—

4. 3 Nephi 16 10 At that day when the Gentiles shall sin against my gospel, … and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my gospel from among them. 11 And then will I remember my covenant which I have made unto my people, O house of Israel, and I will bring my gospel unto them.

5. Covenants with Abraham Genesis 17 JST And thou shalt observe to keep all my covenants wherein I covenanted with thy fathers; and thou shalt keep the commandments which I have given thee with mine own mouth, and I will be a God unto thee and thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee and thy seed after thee, a land wherein thou art a stranger; all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

7. The Abrahamic Covenant with Israel Bro. Rhodes, BYU 1. They will be ministers of the Gospel to the world (the nations of the earth blessed) 2. They will have Eternal increase 3. They will Inherit a promised land- Canaan 4. They have the right to hold the Holy Priesthood 5. They will become like God

8. Is the Covenant unfair? "Israel is a group of souls tested, tried, and proven before they were born into the world.... Through this lineage were to come the true and tried souls that had demonstrated their righteousness in the spirit world before they came here. (Melvin J. Ballard)

9. President Harold B. Lee President Harold B. Lee "Those born to the lineage of Jacob, who was later to be called Israel, and his posterity, who were known as the children of Israel, were born into the most illustrious lineage of any of those who came upon the earth as mortal beings. All these rewards were seemingly promised, or foreordained before the world was.

10. John A. Widstoe "All who accept God's plan for his children on earth and who live it are the children of Abraham. Those who reject the gospel, whether children in the flesh, or others, forfeit the promises made to Abraham and are not children of Abraham."

11. The Covenants of God are “Unilateral” The Lord Makes Covenants with us- Then calls to us through prophets Our Response? GATHERED IN Follow SCATTERED Reject REPENT!

12. Having mentioned my intention of going to Downham and Chatburn, to several of the brethren, they endeavoured to dissuade me from going, informing me there could be no prospect of success whatever, However, this did not discourage me, believing that the Gospel of Jesus Christ could reach the heart, when the gospels of men proved abortive; I consequently told those brethren that these were the places I wanted to go to, for that it was my business not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. At Chatburn I was cordially received by the inhabitants, who turned out in great numbers to hear me preach. They procured a large tithing barn, placing a barrel in the center, upon which I stood. I preached to them the first principles of the Gospel, spoke in simplicity upon the principles revealed by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, … My testimony was accompanied by the Spirit of the Lord, and was received with joy, and these people who had been represented as being hard and obdurate, were melted into tenderness and love.

13. I told them that, being a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, I stood ready at all times to administer the ordinances of the Gospel, and explained what was necessary to prepare them for baptism;.. When I concluded I felt someone pulling at my coat.... I turned round and asked what was wanted. Mrs. Elizabeth Partington said, "Please sir, will you baptize me?" "And me?" "And me?" exclaimed more than a dozen voices. Accordingly I went down into the water and baptized twenty-five. I was engaged in this duty, and confirming them and conversing with the people until after midnight. The next morning I returned to Downham, and baptized between twenty-five and thirty in the course of the day. The next evening I returned to Chatburn. The congregation was so numerous that I had to preach in the open air, and took my stand on a stone wall, and afterwards baptized several. We were absent from Preston five days, during which time Brother Fielding and I baptized and confirmed about 110 persons; organized branches in Downham, Chatburn, Waddington and Clithero

14. The Promise 5 Therefore, when these works and the works which shall be wrought among you hereafter (The Book of Mormon) shall come forth from the Gentiles, unto your seed which shall dwindle in unbelief because of iniquity (The Lamanites); 7 And when these things come to pass that thy seed shall begin to know these things—it shall be a sign unto them (The Lamanites), that they may know that the work of the Father hath already commenced unto the fulfilling of the covenant (of Abraham) which he hath made unto the people who are of the house of Israel. 22 But if [the Gentiles] will repent and hearken unto my words, and harden not their hearts, I will establish my church among them, and they shall come in unto the covenant and be numbered among this the remnant of Jacob, unto whom I have given this land for their inheritance; 23 And they [the Gentiles] shall assist my people, the remnant of Jacob [The Lamanites], and also as many of the house of Israel as shall come, that they may build a city, which shall be called the New Jerusalem. 24 And then shall they assist my people that they may be gathered in, who are scattered upon all the face of the land, in unto the New Jerusalem.

15. Why haven’t we built Zion yet? "Behold, I say unto you, were it not for the transgressions of my people, speaking concerning the church and not individuals, they might have been redeemed even now. "But behold, they have not learned to be obedient to the things which I required at their hands, but are full of all manner of evil, and do not impart of their substance, as becometh saints, to the poor and afflicted among them; "But behold, they have not learned to be obedient to the things which I required at their hands, but are full of all manner of evil, and do not impart of their substance, as becometh saints, to the poor and afflicted among them; "And are not united according to the union required by the law of the celestial kingdom; "And Zion cannot be built up unless it is by the principles of the law of the celestial kingdom; otherwise I cannot receive her unto myself. "And Zion cannot be built up unless it is by the principles of the law of the celestial kingdom; otherwise I cannot receive her unto myself. "Therefore it is expedient in me that mine elders should wait for a little season, for the redemption of Zion." (D&C 105:2-5, 13)

16. How does the Temple prepare us to build Zion?

17. Wilford Woodruff I saw a short distance from the Missouri River, where I stood, twelve[men…[whose] hands were uplifted while they were consecrating the ground; and later they laid the corner-stones of the house of God. I saw myriads of angels hovering over them, and above their heads there was a pillar-like cloud. I heard the most beautiful singing in the words: "Now is established the Kingdom of our God and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and forever, and the Kingdom shall never be thrown down, for the Saints have overcome." I saw people coming from the river and from distant places to help build the Temple. It seemed as though there were hosts of angels helping to bring material for the construction of that building.