Divine Justice and Mercy Part 2   The Book of Mormon Lecture 06B by Hyrum Andrus
Channel: Light and Truth
Date: 2016-06-03

Hyrum L Andrus
All rights reserved August 10-12, 1989
Lecture – 6 DIVINE JUSTICE AND MERCY
In Moroni, chapter 10, we have a thousand years of Nephite history and Nephite gospel and doctrine compacted into a final great testimony--one of the great chapters of the Book of Mormon, Moroni 10. He starts out--and we all know what this means--he starts out by giving us the formula for a testimony of the Book of Mormon. That's Moroni 10:4. If anyone doesn't know Moroni 10:4, that's how to get a testimony.
Then what is Moroni 10:5 all about? He says, Hey, don't stop with Moroni 10:4, that's only how to get a testimony. Moroni 10:5, "By the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things." If you hear something here today and you don't know whether it's true, don't get riled. What do you do? Go ask the Lord just like you did when someone presented the Book of Mormon to you. Right? It's the role of the teacher to stretch minds, it's the role of the teacher to break down barriers. It's the role of the teacher to expand and sometimes, literally, to bowl you over! That's the role. Some teachers use that and then end up teaching something contrary to the truth. But a true teacher will teach you something maybe you didn't hear before or know before.
Then what is your challenge? Go to Moroni 10:5. Go home and pray about it, study about it. I've had some things where it was first presented to me and even where the Spirit of the Lord presented it to me. Honest. I said, "Hey, Lord, I just don't know about that." Now, I've had that experience, where I've just said, "Wow, Lord, I just don't know about that. I'm going to have to hang onto that a little while." And then I go study it and pray about it, and I say, "Thanks, Lord, for your extreme mercy. Wow! I'm glad I got over that one and I'm glad I got expanded a little bit."
So Moroni 10:5. And then after Moroni 10:5, he delineates the spiritual gifts which should belong to the church. After he talks about the spiritual gifts, and we call these the gifts of the Holy Ghost, don't we? Isn't that what 1 Cor. 12 does, calls them gifts of the Holy Ghost? And also D&C 46 where you have another list of them. He uses these gifts, and they are called gifts of the Holy Ghost. But how does the Book of Mormon call them? Read verse 17. "And all these gifts come by the Spirit of Christ; and they come unto every man severally, according as he will." Now, is that a contradiction by calling them the gifts of the Holy Ghost? No, it isn't. Why? Because the Holy Ghost gets his truth and power, his gifts, from Christ.
In the Book of Mormon you have a special focus on Christ. The "Title Page" that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations--not just the Son of God, the Eternal God. And in the sense of the Father's appointments, in the sense that the Father has given all things to center in Christ, in that this Person is Alpha and Omega, the first and the last letters of the Greek alphabet. He is the Beginning and the End. Now, what is outside of the beginning and the end? Nothing. Everything centers in Christ.
How many Gods are there, then, for us in this fallen state, unredeemed and in the process of redemption? How many Gods are there? The answer is one. And who is he? Christ, the Father and the Son. That's the Book of Mormon doctrine. And what relation does the Holy Ghost have to it? He is subordinate to Christ. He takes of Christ and manifests it to us. Now, can you get that picture from the Book of Mormon. Study it over, because that testimony is taught over and over and over again.
Christ, then, is the great Creator, and since all things have been centered by the Father in him, he is the Father of heaven and earth and of all things which in them are. Over in Job 32:8, we have Job saying, "There is a spirit in man. And the inspiration of God giveth him understanding." As I dissect that statement, it says to me that there are three principles there. There is the organized human spirit with its central primal intelligence--we call that one. And then there's man, with a reference to the physical organism, and that's the second. Then it says, "And the inspiration of God giveth him understanding." That's a third principle.
As I read the first chapter of the book of John 1:9, John testifies that Christ is the "true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world." So within me, for example, there are three principles of life. There is an organized spirit. There is this old, broken-down frame that I've got that can't run as fast as it used to. That's the second principle. And then there's this indwelling, quickening principle of life. I get my spirit body from the Man of Holiness. He is my Father in that sense. I get my physical body from my physical father, right? And
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