Marvelous work has come forth
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A marvelous work has come forth among the children of men, said Max H. Molgard speaking at a Jan. 20 Church Educational System seminar on the Doctrine and Covenants.
"Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day," said Brother Molgard, quoting Doctrine and Covenants 4:2.
Brother Molgard, a member of the Taylorsville Institute of Religion faculty, said the most important thing people can have who want to help with God's work — bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of men — is desire.
He added that no member of the Church is qualified to teach in the Church or carry the message of salvation to the world until he has absorbed, at least in part, the seven verses of instruction in Doctrine and Covenants section 4.
"This revelation is very short, only seven verses, but it contains sufficient counsel and instruction for a lifetime of study. No one has yet mastered it. It was not intended as a personal revelation to Joseph Smith but to be a benefit to all who desire to embark in the service of God. . . . Perhaps there is no other revelation in all of our scriptures that embodies greater instruction pertaining to the matter of qualification of members of the Church for the service of God. . . . It is as broad and as high and as deep as eternity," he said, quoting President Joseph Fielding Smith.
Brother Molgard continued that the purpose of the Church is to invite all to come unto Christ. "How do we do it?" he said. "We do it one by one; isn't that the way the Savior did it?"
He explained that Church members today are the favored people that God has chosen to bring about the latter-day glory.
"This is a great Church," he said. "The reason is because it is the Lord's Church."
