Will I receive at your hands that which I have not appointed?

     "We need to know that all things are governed by law.  'Mine house is a house of order saith the Lord God.  Not a house of confusion.'  The Lord has given priesthood laws that govern everything.  ...The Prophet Joseph Smith said, 'The great thing for us to know is to comprehend what God did institute before the foundation of the world.'  Now the prophet says that's the great thing to begin to understand.  Joseph Smith also said "that ordinances instituted in the heavens before the foundation of the world in the priesthood for the salvation of man are not to be altered or changed.  All must be saved on the same principles."  Furthermore the Lord has said, that he will not accept on this earth any offerings or ordinances that were not appointed of the Father and the Son before the world was made."  D&C 132:10-11

-Robert J. Mathews

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