Sacrament Meeting Feb 2009 Teaching for our Times

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+ guest0f7fe7 8 months ago
Lori,
You never cease to amaze me!
This is fabulous.
Diane
+ Mormon Mom 8 months ago
You can view the full text for the slides, including discussion questions, on my blog: http://mormonmom.wordpress.com/

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My memory is less about my earliest memory and more about how sweet the bread tasted the first time I took Sacrament after my baptism.

Before partaking of the sacrament, we are to prepare ourselves spiritually. Arriving early allows us time to compose ourselves. I would not know about this, although after having done the preparation for this lesson, it is certainly something I will strive for. During the sacrament service we should dismiss from our minds all worldly thoughts. We should feel prayerful and reverent. We should think of the atonement of our Savior and be grateful for it. We should examine our lives and look for ways to improve.We should also renew our determination to keep the commandments.

The Lord emphasizes that no one should partake of the sacrament unworthily. Unworthily. Worthily. What does that mean to you? Does it mean we must repent of our sins before taking the sacrament. The scriptures say, “If any have trespassed, let him not partake until he makes reconciliation” (D&C 46:4). The scriptures also say, “Ye shall not suffer any one knowingly to partake of my flesh and blood unworthily, when ye shall minister it; For whoso eateth and drinketh my flesh and blood unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to his soul” (3 Nephi 18:28–29).Let me clarify. We do not need to be perfect before partaking of the sacrament, but we must have the spirit of repentance in our hearts. The attitude with which we partake of the sacrament influences our experience with it. If we partake of the sacrament with a pure heart, we receive the promised blessings of the Lord.

Elder Oaks counsels us about what are the ‘do’s’ and ‘don’t’s’ of the Sacrament meeting.

Discus the meaning of this prayer.On the day of the feast of the Passover, Jesus sent two of his Apostles into Jerusalem to arrange for the feast. They prepared a room where they could be together.This was the last time Jesus would meet with his beloved Apostles before his death. During the evening, he told his Apostles that one of them would betray him. When Judas had left the gathering, as if on an errand for the Savior, Jesus tried to strengthen the others by giving them what he called \"a new commandment.\" He commanded, \"Love one another; as I have loved you\" (John 13:34). He explained, \"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another\" (John 13:35). He comforted them by saying that he would send the Holy Ghost to be with them, to strengthen and guide them.Jesus tried to tell them that he would soon leave them, but they did not understand. Desiring that they remember him and keep his commandments, he introduced the sacrament. He broke bread and blessed it and passed it among his disciples saying, \"Take, eat; this is my body\" (Matthew 26:26).The bread is in remembrance of his body, which broke the bands of death so that each of us might also be resurrected.

Discuss the meaning of this prayer. Significance of the order that bread comes before water? The water is in remembrance of his blood with which he bought for us redemption from our sins if we repent.Next he took a cup of wine, blessed it, and gave it to his Apostles to drink. He said:\"Drink ye all of it;\"For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.\" (Matthew 26:2728; see also the Joseph Smith Translation in the footnotes of the Latter-day Saint edition of the King James Version of the Bible.)# How do you think the Apostles felt about the last evening they spent with the Savior after his death and resurrection?# What difference do you think it made to the Apostles in the way they viewed their promise to remember him after they had watched his arrest, his trial, his crucifixion, his death, and finally his resurrection?

As members of the Church, we should delight in the privilege of partaking of the sacrament. The Lord has promised us that if we will keep our covenants, we will always have his Spirit to be with us. President David O. McKay has reminded us to partake of the sacrament weekly:“My brethren and sisters, do we always stop to think, on that sacred Sabbath day when we meet together to partake of the sacrament, that we witness, promise, obligate ourselves, in the presence of one another, and in the presence of God, that we will do certain things? Note them.“The first: We are willing to take upon ourselves the name of the Son. In so doing we choose him as our leader and our ideal; and he is the one perfect character in all the world.“Second: That we will always remember him. Not just on Sunday, but on Monday [and the other days of the week], in our daily acts, in our self-control. …“The third: We promise to ‘… keep his commandments which he has given …’—tithing, fast offerings, the Word of Wisdom, kindness, forgiveness, love. The obligation of a member of the Church of Jesus Christ is great, but it is as glorious as it is great, because obedience to these principles gives life, eternal life. …“Order, reverence, attention to divine promises—the promise to enter into the fold of Christ, to cherish virtues mentioned in the gospel of Christ, to keep them ever in mind, to love the Lord wholeheartedly, and to labor, even at the sacrifice of self, for the brotherhood of man—these and all kindred virtues are associated with the partaking of the sacrament. It is good to meet together and especially to renew our covenants with God in that holy sacrament” (Gospel Ideals [1954], 146–47).I leave this lesson with you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

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Sacrament Meeting Feb 2009 Teaching for our Times - Presentation Transcript

The ordinance of the sacrament makes it the most sacred and important meeting in the Church
What is your earliest memory of sacrament meeting?
Preparing for the Sacrament  Bring a broken heart + contrite spirit  Arrive early. Prepare spiritually  Prayerful meditation  Remember our covenants to serve Him, obey Him and always remember Him
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 1 Corinthians 11:27–29
The Sacrament Meeting ✔ ✖  Dress appropriately  Dress casually  Refrain from all other  Read books or magazines activities  Use your cell phone  Actively participate with the  Amusement, laughter, light- music, esp singing hymns mindedness  Spirit of prayer & devotion
What can we think about during the sacrament to help us be more reverent?
Bread O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the souls of all those who partake of it, that they may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him and keep his commandments which he has given them; that they may always have his Spirit to be with them. Amen. D&C 20:77
Water O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this water to the souls of all those who drink of it, that they may do it in remembrance of the blood of thy Son, which was shed for them; that they may witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they do always remember him, that they may have his Spirit to be with them. Amen. D&C 20:79

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