2.100 I Will Cause the Heavens to Shake for Your Good
Show Notes
Allen Roberds explores Doctrine and Covenants 35:24, where the Lord promises Sidney Rigdon, and us, that keeping commandments and covenants will cause the heavens to shake for our good. This episode emphasizes the profound blessings and spiritual protection that come from faithfully abiding by our sacred commitments, helping listeners stay steadfast on the path to the Lord.
Key Points
- The Lord's promise in Doctrine and Covenants 35:24 to Sidney Rigdon declares that keeping commandments and covenants will cause the heavens to shake for one's good, making Satan tremble and Zion rejoice.
- This episode reflects on the experiences of individuals who, despite receiving divine revelation, later struggled with their faith, highlighting the importance of continually adhering to sacred agreements.
- Allen Roberds stresses that the path to receiving such powerful blessings is not complex but hinges on the simple, yet profound, act of keeping all commandments and covenants.
- Listeners are encouraged to get back to the basics of their faith, especially during challenges and temptations, by focusing on their baptismal, temple, or marriage covenants.
- The message offers an achievable and amazing promise: through faithfulness, individuals can personally experience the heavens shaking for their benefit, Satan trembling, and Zion flourishing.
The path to heaven, the path to cause the heavens to shake for our good is not a tricky path. Keep the commandments of the Lord and keep the covenants by which you are bound.
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In Matthew 5:13, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth, a bold reminder that our lives are meant to carry his flavor, his truth, and his love to the world. Join me each day to explore one verse of scripture and one thought, striving to stay full of savor and truly live as savory salt. Hello, my friends.
Great to have you with me. Today, let's be anxiously engaged in a good cause and bring to pass much righteousness. Welcome to our 100th day in season two.
Reminder that we are reading intensely this week as we take a look inside of Doctrine and Covenants sections 30 through 36, as well as Jacob 5 through 7 and Enos. I want to go back to the beginning of the week where I mentioned something that I want to kind of repeat. And that is our reading is going to be coming from Doctrine and Covenants section 35.
You hopefully are kind of creating your own pacing for you as you go forward here. But at the beginning of the week, I talked about how many of these revelations are to people that received a revelation through Joseph Smith, right, from the Lord. And then at different times, they fell away from the Church and had their own faith struggles.
The idea behind that this week was what information can we get from the Lord that perhaps they forgot or they didn't implement in their own lives to stay on the path and not leave the Lord. And that's what we're going to look at in our verse for today. It's in Doctrine and Covenants, section 35, verse 24.
This is where Sidney Rigdon receives the direction from the Lord that he's going to become Joseph Smith's scribe. Oliver Cowdery has been called to serve with the Lamanites. That came earlier this week in our reading.
And now Sidney Rigdon is going to take on the role of scribe and going to be an assistant to Joseph. And these are the words in verse 24 that the Lord said to Sidney in terms of staying in line a little bit. He says, Keep all the commandments and covenants by which ye are bound, and I will cause the heavens to shake for your good, and Satan shall tremble, and Zion shall rejoice upon the hills and flourish.
Now, again, this one's not a complete sentence, so you're going to want to keep reading inside of there, but doesn't that sound absolutely amazing? I want the heavens to shake for my good. I want Satan to tremble and Zion to rejoice.
Now, how does that happen? And it's so interesting how sometimes it just seems like such a primary, simple-style answer. At the beginning of that verse he says, "Keep all the commandments and covenants by which ye are bound." My friends, you and I, wherever we are in our path, we're either starting to keep some of the commandments of the Lord and test what that's like in our lives.
You're on the front end of that, and you're starting to learn some of the commandments of the Lord. For others of us that are inside of this podcast, we've made covenants. Some of us have made baptismal covenants.
Maybe some of us have made temple covenants. Maybe we've made marriage covenants. And the Lord says, "Keep the commandments and the covenants." Covenants.
And by doing so, I will cause the heavens to shake for your good. It's amazing to me how many people choose a different path after the gospel and they seemingly do so after they've decided that the commandments aren't worth keeping or that their covenants aren't worth abiding. It really comes down to that.
My friends, on those difficult days for you and for me, when we're challenged, when we're tempted, when we're struggling, let's get back to the basics. We had a stake president before our current stake president in our stake, and he—thank you, President Sof, for that reminder constantly—this is not rocket science. The path to heaven, the path to cause the heavens to shake for our good is not a tricky path.
Keep the commandments of the Lord and keep the covenants by which you are bound. That is such an amazing promise for me. It is achievable for me.
It's achievable for you. We can do this. May the heavens shake for your good.
May Satan tremble and Zion rejoice upon the hills and flourish for you and for me is my wish for us today. That's all for today, my friends. Lift up your hearts and rejoice, cleave unto the covenants you have made, and together we will be savory salt.
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