Foundations of the Restoration Lesson 5 - The Restoration of the Priesthood & Lesson 6 The Organization of the Church

Why Keep A Scripture Journal?

Writing down what we learn and think and feel as we study the scriptures is another form of pondering and a powerful invitation to the Holy Ghost for continuing instruction. 

- Elder David A. Bednar

Lessons 5 & 6

Doctrine & Covenants 89:19

"And this greater priesthood administereth the gospel and holdeth the key of the mysteries of the kingdom, even the key of the knowledge of God."

Through the priesthood we come to know God and become like Him

President James E. Faust (1920–2007) of the First Presidency:

“What is the key of the knowledge of God, and can anyone obtain it? Without the priesthood there can be no fulness of the knowledge of God. The Prophet Joseph Smith said that the ‘Melchizedek Priesthood … is the channel through which all knowledge, doctrine, the plan of salvation, and every important matter is revealed from heaven’ [Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (2007), 108]” (“The Key of the Knowledge of God,” Ensign, Nov. 2004, 52).

What has helped you grow in your testimony that this is the Only True and Living Church on the Earth?

For me it is believing the Lord, He testifies of this in Doctrine & Covenants 1:30 "And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased, speaking unto the church collectively and not individually."

The Lord himself testifies of the truthfulness of the gospel. He through the prophet Joseph Smith, restored in its completeness the gospel of Jesus Christ. As I have followed the Lord, Jesus, Christ's teachings, I have come to know and feel truth. I have changed and felt the blessings of peace the Lord promises that comes from living the gospel. By partaking in the ordinances of the priesthood, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and know that there is only one true church lead by a prophet today, President Thomas S. Monson. A true and living church lead by revelation through a prophet chosen by God. The Holy Ghost testifies to me this is true.