'Wages & Gifts'
- Further development of Faith, Works & Grace
- The Tree of Knowledge as 'The Law'
- Abraham as the linchpin for the Jews & Gentiles
- Paul adds a crucial component of the Spiritual Economy- 'Purpose'
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this episode we're going to cover wages
and gifts here we go alright in this
episode we're going to delve into Romans
chapters 1 through 6 so we're going to
cover all six chapters here to try and
get everything in that I feel I need to
so I'm gonna do a little bit of cramming
here possibly but I'm gonna try and
cover everything that I want to first of
all remember that this is an epistle
that was written later on in Paul's
ministry so he's developed a lot of what
he needs to write about at this point
and many people believe that this is his
most theologically rich epistle it's as
if he has kind of developed his spiel
right he has been preaching about these
things for a long time to a lot of
different people and always first to the
Jews and then to the Gentiles everywhere
he goes so he has to keep both of those
audiences in mind constantly but here in
Romans he starts off by saying the
following and I love the way that he
addresses this he says first Paul a
servant of Jesus Christ called to be an
apostle separated unto the gospel of God
so in other words set apart so hey this
is me I am an apostle of Jesus Christ
so he's declaring his authority and then
he says what we hear often times
throughout all the New Testament a very
key point here which he had promised
afore by his prophets in the holy
scriptures talking about Jesus Christ so
again the prophets have all declared
that Jesus is the Christ or that the
Christ is coming in Jesus is the Christ
and then number three here in verse
three he states something very important
something that we've gone over quite a
bit here and that is
temple imagery and drama this is what he
says concerning his son Jesus Christ our
Lord which was made of a seed of David
according to the flesh this is something
very interesting so he's using the title
the son here is what he starts off with
and if you have your scriptures with you
look at verse 3 concerning it starts off
concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord
in the original Greek texts Jesus Christ
our Lord does not exist it's not there
was put in later on so none of the early
Greek texts that we have Jesus
Christ our Lord so it's simply read
concerning his son which was made of the
seed of David according to the flesh
this goes right to our point about Jesus
being Jehovah who was the Incarnation
the fruition of the character that was
played by the king of Jerusalem that
entered into the temple into the Holy of
Holies and was born out of the Holy of
Holies through the veil as the Son of
God so here Paul is tying Jesus as not
just the Messiah but as the Son of God
that was foretold by all the prophets
and that we had this temple drama about
in ancient Israel in ancient Judah as a
ritual telling us the story about how
Jehovah would be born of a woman into
mortality and then be the suffering
servant as we hear about in Isaiah and
then we get something really interesting
in verse 5 from Joseph Smith and this is
crucial to all of the epistles of Paul
as we work through faith works and grace
verse 5 says by whom we have received
Grace and Apostleship for obedience to
the faith among all nations for his name
very difficult to understand this first
so let's go to the
JST here and see what he has to say very
important he says it this way by whom we
have received Grace and Apostleship
through obedience so they've received
grace through obedience and faith in his
name to preach the gospel among all
nations among whom he also are called of
Jesus Christ right much clearer there I
think it's really important to
understand something and I've seen this
I don't usually do this but I've gone on
to Facebook and a few other places and
seen some blog posts and things about
this week's lesson so I wanted to see
what everyone's talking about because
there's always this hoopla over works
verses grace and all these things it's
not just between the Protestants and the
Mormons it's within the Mormon Church as
well you have people that seem to be a
little bit more open and liberal that
really want to push the grace narrative
and you have those a little bit more
closed off and conservative that seem to
really want a more push more the work
side of things and the judgment side of
things well they're both right and
that's what Joseph Smith is saying here
so as we hear faith and works and grace
well let's listen to what Joseph Smith
says through obedience and faith in his
name now faith in his name means trust
that's my definition trust in the
atoning sacrifice and resurrection of
Jesus Christ so that's where we get the
grace it's both sides and Joseph Smith I
believe definitely wants us to
understand that you could just see
Joseph Smith's mind turning and the
inspiration and the spirit hitting him
as he goes through these epistles that
are so difficult to understand you've
got all these components of the
spiritual economy floating around here
and yet this young guy an educated guy
goes through this and right away he
spots this in Romans 1
and he tells us is through obedience and
faith and those are the two areas here
at the beginning of Romans that we have
Paul focusing on obedience with works
those are the lower law and faith in the
grace and mercy and atonement of Jesus
Christ those are the two things he
focuses on here that's the lower and the
higher laws you have to have both and
again another thing I need to make clear
here from our last episode is that even
though the law here typically refers to
the law of Moses and it definitely does
it is a reference to what is known to
the Jews at this time so of course they
understand every their whole world about
the law of God is the law of Moses but
it's not to us and it's not to the
Gentiles there is a law of God that is
based on truth and that has consequences
and that's how we sin whether you are
Jew or Gentile that's how we've sinned
and he's going to go over that a little
bit more here then I want to move down
to verse 16 and 17 this is the crux of
the Epistle of Romans this is what it
says for I am not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ now when we hear gospel here
for us what we understand is the
entirety of the teachings and the truth
about the plan of salvation about the
commandments about purpose about
principles and that is all true but to
Paul at this time just like to him the
law he really is gonna focus on the law
of Moses even though there's a broader
meaning to law and works than that when
he says gospel even though there's a
broader meaning he's talking about
originally what that means which is
Godspell or a good spell or good news
it's an Old English word as that ends up
being gospel and the good news is that
Jesus
suffered in Gethsemane for you and then
rose again from the dead from the
sepulcher with the resurrection that's
the gospel so when he says I'm not
ashamed of the gospel his focus really
is on the atonement and on the
resurrection of Jesus Christ which is
really the higher law that he's talking
about that's important to keep in mind
as we go through this and he continues
for it is the power of God unto
salvation so the higher law the good
news is the power of God unto salvation
you have to have that to every one that
believeth to the Jew first and also to
the Greek so again he's making sure he's
encompassing both audiences here for
therein is the righteousness of God
revealed from faith to faith so
righteousness here is equated with faith
follow me on this we're gonna
continue with that as it is written the
just shall live by faith so to be
justified as we talked about in the last
episode to be reconciled with God you
must live by faith works is not enough
that's what they're saying that's what
he's leading into you have to have faith
in the good news in the gospel in the
atonement and the resurrection here in
Chapter two we're gonna skip down to
verse six and we're going to get more
about works says here who will this is
God who will render to every man
according to his deeds so there are
consequences
let's just keep grace to the side here
for a minute there are consequences to
decisions and there are consequences to
our actions both on earth and in heaven
the biggest consequence of course is
what are we becoming because of our
thoughts and our deeds our works
different from the other Christian sects
out there this is a core doctrine in a
core part of what we believe as
the spiritual economy so as we've got
these three major components here of
faith works and grace one thing that is
left out in the majority of Christianity
is what are we becoming and for us we
know that that is crucial that that is
the primary focus of the plan and it's
our primary purpose and so the only way
that we're going to grow through
experience is through our agency and
through what we think and what we do so
God is going to render to us according
to our deeds
so here again Paul is actually going in
and talking about how important works
are for our ultimate destination and he
says here in verse 7 following up with
that he says to them who by patient
continuance in well doing seek for glory
and honor and immortality eternal life
that's the end result but unto them that
are contentious and do not obey the
truth but obey unrighteousness
indignation and wrath so you have
eternal life on one hand you have
indignation and wrath on the other our
choices and our works matter just as
Joseph Smith pointed out in the last
chapter you have to have both you have
to have your works and your obedience on
one hand and you have to have your faith
and the grace of God on the other the
lower law and the higher law brought
together and then Paul is always mindful
to include both audiences in all of this
he's saying look it doesn't matter if
you're a Jew it doesn't matter if you're
a Gentile he's going to give a great
example of this here in a minute but if
you're doing evil
you're going to have indignation and
wrath if you're doing good then you're
going to have eternal life and then he
brings up the law here so again he's
primarily talking about the law of Moses
so this is kind of like if I'm going to
another culture as a missionary
I'm going to talk in terms of what they
understand Paul naturally is going to do
that because he's part of this doctrine
in this culture at least with the Jews
II speaking with the law of Moses
but overall underlying this law of Moses
here there is always a law of God that
has always existed so obedience and
works even though a lot of the works
that he talks about here are speaking
about the works that go along with the
law of Moses it doesn't matter
I've seen that a lot put out there that
the works are just the law of Moses and
the rituals and the law is just the law
of Moses and the grace is just this
relationship that God has as a favor
or as the god father as we spoke about
but that isn't rule and you know how I
know that because of what Joseph Smith
has said and what he's going to be going
through in these letters you'll see
where he specifically has a pattern of
what is meant and number two on that is
the Book of Mormon the Book of Mormon
gives us a very clear understanding of
faith works and grace he says in verse
11 for there is no respect of persons
with God so again Jew or Gentile
it doesn't matter he's going to push
this push this push this especially for
the Jews they've got to understand this
it'll be pretty hard for them I mean
really it would be really hard for them
to accept this for as many as have seen
without law shall also perish without
law so in other words they're gonna die
without the law or the consequences of
the law right and as many as have sinned
in the law shall be judged by the law
okay this goes right back to what I have
said before the best example of this is
the tree of knowledge of good and evil
how do you gain a knowledge of good and
evil because the law is given to you now
that's not all the tree represents but
it's one of the few major meanings of
what the tree of knowledge of good and
evil represents
and it's not just the law of Moses at
least in the story there Adam and Eve
don't have the law of Moses they have
other laws they have part of the law of
God and then much more of the law of God
later on but they do have the
consequences once they are given each of
these parts of the law
and of course they need to partake of
the fruit because they need the law
because they need the good works even
though there's the huge risk of failing
even though there's the huge risk of
sinning they at least need the
opportunity for good works now they're
not going to make it we know they're not
going to make it but of course a savior
is provided for them so that they can
and so speaking of the Jew and the
Gentile down in verse 25 he says for
circumcision verily profiteth if thou
keep the law but if thou be a breaker of
the law thy circumcision is made
uncircumcision so in other words
speaking to the Jews in their language
and their understanding being
circumcised or being committed in
covenant to God means nothing if you're
not living by faith in Jesus Christ and
it means nothing if you don't keep the
law which nobody can do so he falls up
in the last person verse 29 he says but
he is a Jew which is one inwardly so in
other words the one who is a Jew or a
person who is in the Covenant is someone
who has a circumcision of heart alright
then over in chapter 3 we get more about
the Jew and the Gentile and the
circumcised and the uncircumcised and
again just Paul trying to go over this
over and over again that it doesn't
matter if you're circumcised it doesn't
matter if you are a Jew it doesn't
matter if you are a Gentile you have to
live by faith you have to have not only
your works but you have to have faith
and live
the commandments and have faith in Jesus
Christ he comes down here in verse 20
and bolsters that up a little bit he's
been talking about deeds and works and
how we have to have that for eternal
life and now he moves on from there here
and in verse 20 he says therefore by the
deeds of the law which he has been
speaking of there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight so again
justified is that reconciliation with
God in other words you can't have
salvation just by your own deeds it's
impossible you can't earn your way there
that doesn't mean your deeds aren't
important they're crucial especially in
who you are becoming and to keep your
covenants that you've made how do you
reconcile yourself with God if you're
not keeping the covenants so he follows
up with us and says for by the law is
the knowledge of sin think of the tree
right for by the law is the knowledge of
sin and then he follows up and this gets
a little bit tricky here so if you have
your scriptures follow along with me all
right
21 but now the righteousness of God
without the law is manifested that
doesn't mean that the law doesn't matter
anymore and that your works don't matter
anymore it means that the righteousness
of God and that word righteousness it
doesn't show you in here but
righteousness is akin to mercy and grace
it's very very close and in fact a lot
of the words in Greek and Hebrew that
are used are interchangeable with those
words so the righteousness of God or the
mercy of God or the grace of God it's
not exactly the same but it's close
without the law is manifested so above
and beyond the law is manifested being
witnessed by the law and the prophets so
again Jews above and beyond the law that
you're following the law of Moses here
and the works and rituals the
righteousness of God the grace of God
being justified
completely is only doable beyond the law
beyond obedience beyond your works and
all of the prophets have prophesied of
this and taught this and you can see in
many teachings the idea of mercy in the
Old Testament and in some of the
writings of the Jews in around this time
he says even the righteousness of God
which is by faith of Jesus Christ and do
all and upon all them that believe for
all have sinned and come short of the
glory of God so the law and your works
because those are in place you're going
to sin and you're going to fall short of
the glory of God now we get this idea
sometimes of well God is going to make
up the difference so we have to keep
going as far as we can and God will make
up the difference that doesn't really
apply properly it kind of works I know
there's a little in a lot of people that
have talked against that I don't think
it matters honestly in a practical sense
we should all try our best regardless I
think the point here is that we can't
get there by obedience we can't get
there by the law alone in other words
think of the law as a manual of life a
manual of returning to our Heavenly
Father and becoming like him but you
can't follow it you're not good enough
to follow it because you have this
variable in place that's crucial to who
you are which is called free agency and
you're going to fall short so because of
that you are covered right that's Yom
Kippur that's the day of atonement
because of that your sins where you fall
short are covered if you're exercising
your faith and repentance and baptism
and the gift of the Holy Ghost and the
ordinances of the priesthood in the
temple and 24 says something interesting
here it says being justified freely by
His grace through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus that doesn't mean we
don't have to have
works and that's where Protestants
especially evangelicals are focused on
and that's the problem that we have with
it that is not what the Book of Mormon
teaches that is not what Joseph Smith
taught and that makes no sense to us
that you don't have to have a an
obedient righteous life to grow and
progress and to become like Heavenly
Father and end up where you want to end
up but it is free in the sense that we
don't earn it
we never earned receiving His grace or
his sacrifice that is an absolute gift
but it's not a gift of salvation it's a
gift of opportunity and there's a big
difference and in twenty eighty says
therefore we conclude that a man is
justified so that reconciliation is by
faith so not works but by faith without
the deeds of the law in other words it's
above and beyond our works that
justification actually can happen but we
need both our choices matter and he
basically says that in the last verse of
the chapter in 31 he says do we then
make void the law through faith in other
words why do we need Commandments then
because we can just have faith in the
atonement but he says god forbid I think
that Thomas Wayment’s translation he uses
heck no I guess that would be a good
translation for latter-day saints I
think that's the name of his book
but it's I think he says certainly not
certainly not yay we established the law
so in other words faith in Jesus Christ
and in the sacrifice and
resurrection does not void out our deeds
but helps establish them what are they
for why do we have them what is the
purpose think of Moses 139 what is the
purpose of God well we can't get there
without our agency and we certainly
can't
there without the Savior alright then
in Chapter four he brings it home here
basically and he goes through the
example of Abraham and so here with the
Jews especially with Abraham as one of
their icons basically Abraham and Moses
but Abraham is the father of their
nation
he's going to open this up a little bit
and say well he's not just the father of
your nation he's the father of all
nations and so what he does in in just a
magical way here he brings together the
works of the law and the faith of grace
and the atonement along with the Jew and
the Gentile he brings all of that
together here through the example of
Abraham it's fabulous
he says here in chapter 4 and he's
focusing on Paul is focusing on Genesis
15 here if you ever want to go back and
read that but in chapter 4 here he
starts off with this and verse 1 what
shall we say then that Abraham our
Father as pertaining to the flesh hath
found for if Abraham were justified by
works he hath we're for to glory but not
before God
in other words Abraham accomplished an
immense amount but even but before God
it's not enough it's not going to do the
trick he could be boasting all day long
around you and I it's not gonna do him
any good for what saith the scripture
Abraham believed God and it was counted
unto him for righteousness so there's
the word righteousness again which has
to do with the higher law not with the
law of Moses not with works and deeds so
his belief in God or really what we're
talking about here is his faith and he
clarifies this more later on is his
faith in Jesus Christ and this is a
direct tie to Jehovah being Jesus Christ
here because this is the example he's
giving he's talking about faith in Jesus
Christ
and here he's bringing up God or Jehovah
and the faith in him that is what saves
Abraham it's the same person it's the
same being that he's talking about here
Jesus Christ is Jehovah and then he asks
the question here in his letter he says
cometh this blessedness of God then upon
the circumcision only or upon the
uncircumcision also or those that are
uncircumcised for we say that faith was
reckoned to Abraham for righteousness so
again where we had said belief there he
brings up and clarifies it here that
faith is reckoned to Abraham for
righteousness faith in God faith in
Jesus Christ well anybody can have faith
in Jesus Christ and then he says well
when was this reckoned to Abraham when
he was in circumcision or after he'd
been circumcised or in uncircumcision
before he was circumcised and he says
not in circumcision but in
uncircumcision so in other words before
he was in that covenant or what defines
Israel in a sense is when the
righteousness was counted toward him in
other words before he is so to speak an
Israelite in that sense or before he's
part of the covenant people so that's
why it applies to all of the Gentiles is
what he is saying and there's a lot
backing this up in our doctrine we talk
all the time about being adopted into
the house of Israel well Paul's argument
here is that the higher law that faith
in the atonement applies to all nations
regardless of descent regardless of the
Covenant originally that was made with
Israel it applies to everybody and he's
showing us why and then he says this and
this goes right along with the higher
law with the new covenant with the new
and everlasting covenant which we also
call the Abrahamic covenant this is a
great verse right here in 13 it says
for the promise and that's the oath of
the oath and covenant of the priesthood
by the way for the promise that he
should be the heir of the world was not
to Abraham or to his seed through the
law but through the righteousness of
faith well of course it is because that
is part of the Melchizedek Priesthood
because that is part of the higher law
the new and everlasting covenant and
that applies to everybody including the
Gentiles amazing how all that fits in
together here for Joseph Smith isn't it
and then he follows that up by saying
for if they which are of the law be
heirs faith is made void and the promise
made of none effect which is true which
is the way they have been living with
just a lower law and he says therefore
it is of faith that it might be by grace
or the higher law to the end the promise
might be sure to all the seed not to
that only which is of the law or the
Jews but to that also which is of the
faith of Abraham who is the father of us
all what a bold massive statement he
just made and what a what a brilliant
argument he's laid out here and it's
tied directly to truth of course it's
the gospel and we know that this is true
in the church because we know about the
new and everlasting covenant the
Abrahamic covenant which is what Paul
here as he brings in the New Covenant
and the restoration of the fullness of
the gospel and the priesthood is
revealing to everybody and then of
course what he says here is this
confirming scripture in 17 as it is
written I have made thee a father of
many nations and of course we're told
that in Genesis and many other
scriptures he's not just the father of
Israel he's the father of the nations
that's what Gentiles means is the
nations now again what's interesting
here is in verse 16
Joseph Smith comes through again and he
wants to clarify something
he's reinforcing it so we're sixteen has
in speaking of justification it says
therefore it is of faith that it might
be by grace it is but what is Joseph
Smith tell us therefore ye are justified
of faith and works through grace so it
is Grace that ultimately justifies you
or gives you the righteousness gives you
the gift reconciles you with God it's
his end of what he did of the Covenant
that was free as an opportunity to all
of us and that ultimately gets us
reconciled with him but it is both faith
and works faith in Jesus Christ and
works through grace that gets us to a
point of justification or salvation so
there's a pattern building here with
Joseph Smith he believes in the lower
and the higher laws of course and then
he falls through with this incredible
example of Abraham through patience and
through faith waiting for the birth of
Isaac he says here in verse 19 and being
not weak in faith he considered not his
own body now dead when he was about an
hundred years old neither yet the
deadness of Sarah's womb they're ancient
at this point but they don't lose their
faith their trust in God and it's that
trust in God that ultimately gives him
his children all of us it's fascinating
to me Isaac and Jacob and the twelve
tribes and all of us that are either
mixed in blood to Israel or adopted in
to Israel this all comes about through
the faith of Abraham and Sarah in the
promise that God made
that they would have a child even
against all the odds and it's the faith
they have that creates that it's not the
works or the obedience or anything else
even though that's all important
ultimately it's their faith in God and
their trust that was counted to him for
righteousness and that ultimately gave
them Isaac and then he talks about
becoming here in verse in chapter 5
again this is another crucial part about
our understanding of the spiritual
economy in the plan of salvation the
major component of us understanding what
our purpose is and who we really are and
he says therefore being justified by
faith we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ by whom also we have
access by faith into this grace wherein
we stand and rejoice in hope of the
glory of God again it's our faith that
accesses the grace of God and not only
so but we glory in tribulations not
always but we glory in tribulations also
knowing that tribulation worked worketh
patience and patience experience or
character and experience hope and hope
maketh not ashamed because the love of
God is shed abroad in our hearts by the
Holy Ghost which is given unto us so
it's not just about what we spoke about
in the last episode of that the
Godfather relationship it's not just
about receiving favor and being in the
good graces of God because we're
pledging allegiance to him that's
important that's a good nuance that's a
good context in understanding
faith on our end and Grace on his end
but it's not enough it leaves all of
this out of the equation our growth
through patience and tribulation and our
character and our purpose and the
purpose of God and that is why I said in
the last episode that ultimately we've
got again my opinion here but
ultimately I believe we have got to look
at faith as trust that's where the
growth happens and that's the
relationship I believe that the Lord
wants with us it's not just a matter of
being having allegiance to him which is
crucial and obedience is crucial but
it's not it's not really enough we need
to have faith that's what we're what
Paul is telling us here the works and
the deeds the obedience all those things
of the lower law have to be there and
they're very very important but you must
ultimately have faith and learn to have
trust as Abraham and Sarah did and then
down at the bottom of chapter 5 and
verse 18 I like what is brought up here
I'm really big on the individual and
individualism I don't mean that in a
prideful sense of looking at one's self
I mean that in a sense of agency and an
understanding that we are not first and
foremost part of a collective of a group
we first are an individual chapter our
verse 18 says therefore as by the
offence of one judgment came upon all
men to condemnation that would be Adam
even so by the righteous of
righteousness of one that's Christ the
free gift
came upon all men unto justification of
life so there's the two sides
there's the sins what we're talking
about agency obedience falling short sin
the law that's Adam that's us we are
Adam and Eve and in many cases I won't
go into this now but in many cases
literally we are Adam and Eve and then
on the other side here we have the free
gift from Jesus Christ and our Heavenly
Father those two together bring us
eventually justification as Joseph Smith
has said a couple times here already in
these chapter 4 as by one man's
disobedience many were made sinners so
by the obedience of one shall many be
made
righteous so the decisions the agency of
the individuals can have a large effect
on many many people so each of us is
Adam trying to be more like Christ
understanding that we have a potential
to grow and to learn and though we're
not perfect we can strive to become more
like the one who was obedient and who
made a how do you how do you say this
without understating it but made a
massive difference for all of us we each
have that ability not to the same scale
but we the principle applies to all of
us we can all as individuals make
decisions that can bring others down or
we can decide to make decisions that
lift people up and have a positive
influence on people's lives and then
lastly here in Chapter six
we talk about baptism and basically what
Paul goes through here is that we not
only live in Christ through a baptism
and that representation of what baptism
is but we die with Christ and that's
part of the understanding of getting
baptized and I would say of repentance
at any time in our life so as we go down
into the water that would represent the
crucifixion and death of Christ going
into the Sepulcher and then as were
lifted up out of the water it would
represent his resurrection and so what
Paul is stating here is that we are
leaving the old man or woman behind our
old self behind and we're being born
again as a new creature that is more
like the Savior and that what we do is
we die with our sins right we die into
sin and then we live unto Jesus Christ
and lastly in the last verse here verse
23 for the wages of sin is death
so decisions matter but the gift of God
it's not his wages it's not what's being
earned here the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord and
that is the message of Paul here at the
beginning of Romans that works are
simply wages we receive wages for those
and ultimately with the law that we're
not going to follow perfectly that is a
wage unto sin and a death but there is a
gift which is Grace but that it's free
and it's purely out of love and
interestingly enough that love is
demonstrated through suffering and
through bearing our burdens and also
victory over everything and so Paul here
again is working those components of the
spiritual economy trying to get these
points across to the Jews and to the
Gentiles that the gospel is for everyone
that having faith in now a resurrected
Jesus Christ that anybody can do that
and that faith that belief as it
develops and grows creates character and
helps you become something more a new
creature something more like the Savior
and that baptism is an example of that
and that faith is not just committing an
allegiance to someone it's a good way to
look at it so that we get more context
into each of these components of the
spiritual economy but faith is trust
faith is growth for each of us and it
works as Joseph Smith points out and
Paul points out are crucial our
decisions matter but we don't live by
that alone and ultimately it's the gift
of God the grace of God the mercy of God
the love of God that reconciles us to
him and gives us the opportunity to grow
and to become like him
and to return to him faith works and
grace the lower and the higher law the
Jews and the Gentiles Paul is teaching
about the gospel of Jesus Christ and the
principles and doctrines that were given
to us through Joseph Smith the new and
everlasting covenant or the Abrahamic
covenant isn't it interesting that
Joseph Smith provided us with two
additional books one was Moses we can
look at the law of Moses with him
and one was Abraham who is already
righteous but was searching for more
righteousness we can't always make all
of the puzzle pieces fit together but we
can make a lot of them fit together
because there is a whole truth and Paul
knows I'll talk to you next time
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