I think it is such an important distinction to make sure that people know that when it says, after all we can do that that doesn’t mean that we can do anything to reconcile ourselves to God besides repenting. It’s not works based and there’s nothing that we can do to achieve more of God’s mercy and grace. However, when we live more righteous lives, we can enjoy the blessings that he gives us.

Of course our Lord expects work from LDS folk 'cuz he knows he can trust us to go where he wants us to go, do what he wants us to do, be what he wants us to be.😊 He's even anxious to let us join in his work and glory. I wouldn't have it any other way. It just adds more depth to our relationship.❤

Notice that it does not say because of all you can do. Grace is there before all you can do, grace is there while you’re doing all you can do and yes grace is there after all you can do as well.

"After all that we could do! simply means despite or in spite of what we do, we are still saved by grace.

Great job guys! By the way, I am an old lady and it’s a comfort to see you young guys being so firm in your faith! Thanks for sharing! I lost my daughter to the dark side, but I have faith that she’ll be back… grandkids too 🤞🏻🙏🏻. This particular topic has given me a lot of comfort regarding her. Grace!

New Sub here... Awesome channel!! I'm always told faith is not required in religion we just have to know of Christ. The lady with the issue of blood had to touch Christ robe to be healed thus having to DO something. Then the staff of Moses and all people had to DO was Look and be healed. Every aspect of our lives require we DO something even if that something is nothing thus we are still choosing Not to do something. Looking forward to more videos🔥💥

Amazing! It's a relationship God wants with us, and that is only accomplished when it's a two way situation. A few doctrines that are made clear by looking through both the lenses of the Bible and BofM is -Infant baptism, -priesthood -authority regarding baptism, -faith in regards to a progression (you hint at here but could be discussed on its own). Keep it up my brothers!

You guys rock. Keep up the good work. I'm so thankful for the clarity of the Book of Mormon. The Bible and the Book of Mormon are best friends

I really love this video and channel .

Loved the video! I am really excited about this channel and it's direction.

I loved this video! One way I like think of this concept is that the Grace of Christ (His Atonement) is what gives me the power to do the works which is required of me in this life (repentance and staying on the covenant path). Because of grace, I can have the faith to do what the Lord requires of me for salvation - Without His grace our works would be dead. I hope that makes sense.

“After all we can do…” always felt like my portion of gratitude that will never be enough for all that was done for me. That understanding came from receiving so many good gifts and so much support from my parents and I could never adequately pay them back and my thanks seems so minuscule. After all I can do - it never comes close to being enough. My works are not for “earning” my way, they are my expression of gratitude, or my acceptance of grace. It’s amazing how much commentary exists for one single word.

There is a really good book I ran across recently that digs into the meaning of the Greek word translated as faith in English. The author, Matthew Bates, makes the case that the closest modern English equivalent to the full range of the Greek is 'allegence' or 'loyalty'. Book- Salvation by Allegence Alone

Great video! ☀️💕

Great work, guys!

Excellent video guys. Great job !

Awesome video! Noticed from the wedding photo the Marine uniform, thank you for your service!

Thank you for making this!

Love the clarification along with the scriptures to back it up!

Just because a gift is freely given, that does not mean it can be effortlessly or instantaneously received. God loves effort, and He will not burden anyone with a gift they don’t actually want.

I love the way you present. Graphics are amazing as well.

Great explanation!

I just love your explanation of " after all ye can do' i thought the same

Hi , I like the way you guys use the Bible and the book of Morman , when I was active, at that time it was'nt being done as much in the meetings . thank you .

Well done brotheren

If we desire to live with God, then we must learn to live like God. We must make an honest effort to obey the command of Jesus to "Be ye therefore perfect". When we ultimately fall short of perfection, He will make up the difference and we are eternally indebted to Him. Faith motivates us to do good and doing good increases our faith.

Great video

We believe that all mankind can be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

Well done.

So so so good!! Also, don’t forget baptism! That’s something we CAN do and must do. Jesus said we must be baptized and be born again to enter into His kingdom. In other words, faith, repentance, baptism and born again just means becoming a new person through and with Christ, putting off the natural man. Those are all the things we CAN do, but wouldn’t even be possible without Christ and His atonement.

Yep. That verse is all about exercising faith in Christ unto repentance. That leads to baptism. Baptism leads to the reception of the Holy Ghost. The reception of the Holy Ghost helps us endure to the end. Partaking of the sacrament weekly is a huge help along the way.

I like that idea you threw out there, that the works we do in Christ, are actually our repentance in action! Because when we do things differently, we are acting differently and therefore we are acting more christ-like, and our works become quite different than our old works of our human ways. So, the concept of works and doing the work of Christ in the will of God upon the world, is really us living in the act of constant repentance of old ways! Or living in repentance of the ways of the world!

Lately I’ve been thinking that “works” = “ordinances”

That was so good....We should not followed the apostle Paul we should followed Jesus Christ because he is the end of our faith and the Saviour said in Matt 16:27 he will reward us according to our works...he didn't said by faith he said by works very clear. The Saviour knew that faith without works is dead and in the book of Revelation it says that God will judge us according to our works. People stop quoting the bible the bible but you are not following the bible. We are saved by grace after all we can do. Great episode Paul's brothers keep on the good work 👍🙏♥️

Awesome video! Faith is definitely an action word. Do blood atonement next!

Great Channel guys, I've already referred it to all of our extended family members and many friends. Love this doctrine that it's by grace all of our stains can/will be removed from our lives "with" redemption (repentance) Through Christ. By the way, for my wife's sake, could you perhaps invest in a little carpet stain remover to do a little touchup to remove those other stains? It's driving her nuts and that's all we can see now. LOL I realize you're working with a low budget but that would be great! :)

I propose that Faith and Works are the SAME THING. They're not two separate things. Look at it like this: Ask a married person this question--> "How do you know that your spouse loves you?" They'll give you an answer like, "They do this for me. They spend time with me. They hug me. They give me gifts. They tell me I'm attractive, etc." Those are WORKS. Your love for your spouse IS works! What you DO for them and how you treat them IS your love for them. They're not separate. Your love for them is not some nebulous thing separate from what you do. Think about it. If you did NOTHING to/for your spouse, how would they know that you love them? They wouldn't. If you didn't talk to them, interact with them in any way, they would not know that you love them. Now, just replace "Love" with "Faith". Our faith IS our works. They're the same. Faith is not some separate, nebulous thing apart from what we do. How we live our lives, the decisions we make, the way we treat others--> that IS our faith! That IS our love for God. That is how we "tell" God that we believe in Him.

Wickedness is never happiness isnt quit true. After wickedness is never happiness is more correct. I once visited a brothel and was with the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, she was also a model. At the time I was being wicked I was extremely happy but now I have much regret for my actions. With age comes wisdom.

Brothers, I’d love if you taught/showed us how to study the scriptures your own way. How you go deep into the scriptures. I’d love to watch a 20-minute videos learning from you. Thank you so much

Funny and spiritual. 10 stars

Saved from death and hell through grace, advanced through works. Knowing that there’s multiple judgments, resurrections and degrees of glory explains why works are required. A person can be freed from Satan’s grasp through grace, but this only gets them out of the pit. Works take a person higher.

The problem is that LDS scripture clearly states works based salvation ( hence 3 degrees of glory , and sub levels with the degrees) “ We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.“ This is a hybrid grace + works system. ( legalism) This clearly contradicts Paul’s teaching on salvation being exclusively on grace . SW Kimball called salvation by grace alone “ the greatest heresy in Christendom “ If Mormons believed in grace , they wouldn’t baptize dead people .

When in doubt listen to Elder Holland. I love his football team metaphor. Christ has already won the game. And here we all are still trying to figure out which team we want to join and which jersey to put on. Nothing we can do with change the outcome of the game. He already paid the price to win the game. We just need to join ourselves to Him to his team or not.

Romans 6:1-2 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? This reminds me of a bumper sticker of a car that rudely cut in front of me. "I'm not Perfect, just forgiven"

Because of faith I never question the unusual fact in the Book that the Lord brought forth

Brad Wilcox gives a great talk called "His Grace is Sufficient" you might want to check out.

this is a better explanation then saints unscripted, not that I dont like them i think there great, good job! As I thought about this issue, I think the examples of people showing faith unto repentance is a good way to explain what nephi was talking about, for example, when alma cried out to Christ after seeing the angel and he was in a state of torment for 3 days, he did not do anyhting but to humble himself and call out to Christ, at the end of the day, Christ wants the broken hearted and contrite spirited, i think that once we have a broken heart and contrite spirit, and then act in faith or repent, thats when this aspect of Grace kicks in, kind of like the king of the Lmanites, he called out to God with godly sorrow, and then was struck by the spirit and had his conversation experience.

There are other examples from the time period where “after all” is used instead of or interchangeably with “despite all”

James Chapter 2

I grew up in this church in the sixties and seventies. Grace was never mentioned or taught. I would like to know what grace has anything to do with declaring yourself worthy so you can enter a temple and progress to become a god. This is a works church. You have to pay money so you can get a pass to enter a temple. What good is grace if you don't do the works of the temple? Our Lord will declare he never knew these guys and they will enjoy eternity at the lake...

Revelation 20:12🙏

First time watching this channel. Nice content; I subscribed. Just the little camera movements look silly and kinda awkward. So I’d say that’s not necessary (just my opinion).

It is by the Grace of God we have the doctrine and the works to do. Good works are from God, it is ungodly to be against any good work, anywhere anytime.

Brent Schmidt remains uncontested in demonstrating thoroughly that the ancient concept of grace was always reciprocal; that the gift was always given in expectation of some form of reciprocation. Check out his work! 🕊️

I believe that faith is not A spiritual or metaphysical concept only. I believe that it is also physical. Because you can have faith and a belief, but to have faithfulness, you actually have to have physical follow-through, in order to do something faithfully. Kind of like going to church religiously. We physically go to church regularly. However, if you are faithfully following his commandments, you are actually doing something with full follow through, by fulfilling his commandments! So In that case, faith becomes a physical act!

To me it is quite simple, "grace" is all that God can give and does give, and "works" is all we can and should give, though works can mean a lot of things to a lot of people, to some its the fruits of faith, to others the prove of faith, and in my view its a mixture of both.. To me it seems fair that since God gives all he can give (which is all and way much more than we can imagine and ever give back).. that we give all we can give... In my view that doesnt take away that without grace, all would be in vain...

The "works" I got to do is... Keep his commandments! "If you love me, keep my commandments" That's one thing I don't understand about the grace that most Christians believe in is they say no matter what they're saved. But why would you want to be saved if you didn't keep the commandments of God? I have talked to some born again Christians that say once saved always saved which is mind-blowing and my opinion. 🤯

Ok I haven’t joined the church BUT I feel the trouble with this is the way the LDS explains it. Non LDS and LDS use the word work’s differently. In LDS works is used to explain the things you should do to strengthen your relationship with your savior. So non LDS hear works and it’s paired with a step on the covenant path or the daily things you should do pray, read your scriptures, do service etc. So the rest of the world hears works and lds hears works (strengthening your relationship with Christ). It was one thing I struggled with because I knew you didn’t mean it that way but it’s also all I could hear. It bothered me until I could figure it out and put it to words.

Why don’t you guys have more subs, people are stacking on hitting the subs

Don’t lie to the viewers. It’s not “only repentance”. Your apostle Dallin H. Oaks said, “And what is ‘all we can do’? It surely includes repentance (see Alma 24:11) AND baptism, keeping the commandments, and enduring to the end. Moroni pleaded, ‘Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ’ (Moroni 10:32). Edit: I welcome you to chat together about this whether with just me or on my friend’s podcast.

Those verses in 2 Nephi are explaining how the Nephites observed the Law of Moses yet understood the role of the Savior. The Jews believed in works-based salvation. The Nephites, however, understood it was by grace they were saved. Nevertheless. They were still expected to observe the Law of Moses in anticipation of Christ fulfilling the law. I haven’t come across a single person offer this simple explanation right there in the scriptures. To me, it clears everything up when evangelicals accuse us of being works-based.

What if I told you almost all Christians do not understand Paul? Peter wasn't kidding when he said Paul is hard to understand. They think he is teaching that no type of works can save, deliver, you from sin, when he is really teaching that none of the works of the law of Moses can save us. He shortens works of the law of Moses to works, but if you add of the law of Moses every time he says works, you will begin to understand Paul. Grace is help in time of need, according to the Bible, not unmerited favor. Nowhere in the Bible is grace defined as unmerited favor, but ,as I just cited it does define grace as help in time of need. That we may have grace to help in time of need. So when reading Paul's letters add of the law of Moses every time he says works, and help and mercy from God in time of need every time he says grace. Paul spent all of his mortal Christian ministry very angerily correcting the teachings of some Jews who had become Christians that parts or all of the law of Moses had to be kept to be saved, the most prominent teaching being circumcision. Paul understood that none of the law of Moses could save, deliver a person from sin, because none of the law of Moses required a person to change from their spirit to obey it. Paul said he kept the law blameless twice I. H8s letters, but he was still full of all kinds of inward sins, envey, lust, hate, fear, malace. When, as Jesus taught in His sermon on the mount, we love all people, even our enemies, we will never kill. When we don't even lust to fornicate or comment adultery, we will never commit adultery, we are built upon a rock, and we cannot fall. Paul calls Christ's teachings the law of the inward man, the law of the spirit. The fact that the Book of Mormon records Christ saying the law of Moses has an end in Him, and that every jot and tittle is fulfilled, does not appear in the Bibke in that clear and strong a language, and shows it was not made up by Joseph Smith, but the writer who engraved it understood it. As I said, most Christians don't even understand it. 2 Corinthians 3:7-11 7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. 11 For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. Brothers and sisters, we must do works to be saved, we must be baptized by someone holding the proper authority, we must work, through grace, to change our carnal nature, we must help those God puts in our path to help if we are able, and He absolutely will put people in our path to help. If you are standing in a grocery store line, and a young father carrying his new born has food for his child, and diapers, but does not have enough money to pay, are you saved if you do not help him?

Have you considered that repentance may be an element of sanctification? See 1John 3:2-3 & 9.

Good job on the balance of grace and works. You did not, however include the specific works that are required by LDS doctrine for forgiveness of sin. The evangelical cousins of LDS are often claiming that LDS believe in salvation by works because of baptism and other ordinances of the LDS “ exaltation”. Not only that, LDS tend to think of exaltation when they are using the word salvation, and their Christian cousins usually do not even believe in exaltation. Since we have definitions that are so different, using descriptive word phrases instead of terms with very different meanings to one another may help avoid perceived disagreements, We are not even arguing about the same things. I would like to see a neutral conversation with an educated evangelical or baptist or whatever who will simply define words.

God the Father goes by the rules. Jesus kept all the rules and extended his perfection IF we repent and follow Jesus to the end. Grace is conditional on the grounds of repentance. No repentance, no extension of grace. Repentance means turn away from sin. We are saved from our sins if we relent, not IN oir sins without repentance.

In my mission at TempleSquare, I was aked this very question and I read that very Scripture. The couple shook their heads and left. Hopefully they gave it more thought and the Spirit helped them sort it out.

Nephi was preaching Christianity 600 years before the birth of Christ. Nephi and his family were living and observing the laws of Moses (over 600 rules and regulations.) And that is the meaning of "after all we can do." (It's a natural statement coming from an Old Testament Hebrew.) In spite of this, Nephi was fully aware of the limitations of those rules and knew the true source of salvation. Do you suppose 22 year old Joseph Smith was thinking of all of these complexities, when he "concocted" the Book of Mormon and it's literary characters?

The Book of Mormon says that you have to “ be perfected in Christ , and deny yourselves of all ungodliness, love God with all your might mind and strength THEN is his grace sufficient for you “ Mor 10:32 In other words you have to QUALIFY for Christ’s grace . That’s not grace based salvation. In Mormonism, being “saved “ basically just means being resurrected. Basically everyone ( except people who leave the LdS church ) will live in a kingdom of glory in the next life . Grace is “ undeserved merit or favor “ The LDS also teach you can’t return back to the presence of the Father without a LDS baptism and covenant obedience ( they call it “the covenant path “) and you can’t have a full salvation ( they call it exaltation) with a marriage to a spouse in a Mormon temple and strict obedience to LDS laws and ordinances Including paying their church 10 percent of your income for life .

The work described in 1 John 3:23 is Love. There is freedom and liberty in Christ to follow the Holy Spirit in how we love others. That work does not include religious obligations as under the Old Covenant. For example: tithing is not required in the New Covenant. We are to give freely as the Spirit directs. Yet! Religion "restores" and misappropriates that practice in order to fleece the flock. Then builds a financial empire worth hundreds of billions. I'm sure God is disgusted with self-proclaimed apostles and prophets who in His name impose works-based commandments in order for followers to qualify for exaltation.

In your discussion, the key point, This discussion is needed to just not be unwitting secularistst, and that even now we don't take God seriously, and this is my point Even your KZfaq "short " mocking of marriage by some sort of joke, was not appropriate. The question about the Book Mormon scriptures I would like to clarify, and reflect more about is ..... that the natural man is an enemy to GOD. My take is that by doing the unnatural in our minds, like being not mad when we get cut off by a Mac truck or a racing motorcycle we can either laugh or have feelings or better yet modes of the mind that can do the "unnatural" as the BOM states in this verse.

satan has nothing so knowing God and not doing is statan like

We can all be saved, but that doesn't mean we have given up our sin, in order to repent and choose new ways of living! The point here. Being that even if we are saved, we can still be chained by old sin and not be living in a state of Christ's freedom. Based on what we choose by our works of free will! And if we are bound by our sin, then we are bound by the devil In some way, because we have not turned everything over to God, to be made new again! We're still choosing old ways! Those ways of our living are our works! It is how we choose to live everyday and follow after him. People always forget that Jesus Christ told his followers to actively give up their old ways and follow after him, and he told others that the world will know you to be different, because we follow after his ways. Therefore, we change the way of our works. And even if we are saved, we are still judged by our works in the end! So our works are of importance, because that is how much we have loved God and Jesus Christ and chosen to follow after him! If we do not do works as Jesus Christ told us to live in the way he taught, then we have not followed after him. We have done like Judas Iscarrot, who was part of Jesus's circle, but did not follow Jesus's ways.

one question if you don't pay tithing can you make it to the highest degree in the celestial kingdom? no you cannot. So if you don't pay you can make it to the highest level and become a god. It's not by grace its by your works. biblical christianity is 100% by grace not your works

Concerning 2 Nephi 25:22, (edit: your still image shows verse 22 not verse 23) it's actually verse 23 you quoted NOT verse 22. Also, it's a shame you guys don't just read the verse in context vs having to scour the Book of Mormon for some other explanation as to how they are "saved by grace, after all THEY could do." All one has to do is read this verse IN CONTEXT to find the answer. The context of verse 23 "For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do." is found in the next two verses, 24 and 25. "And, notwithstanding we believe in Christ, we keep the law of Moses, and look forward with steadfastness unto Christ, until the law shall be fulfilled. For, for this end was the law given; wherefore the law hath become dead unto us, and we are made alive in Christ because of our faith; yet we keep the law because of the commandments." All THEY could do was keep the law of Moses (according to the narrative). Why? Because, according to the story, THEY were still under the law of Moses. So, all THEY could do was do what God had instructed Moses to teach the people of Israel. That's ALL they could do. But, it would appear the author of 2 Nephi understood that despite ALL they could do, they were still saved by the grace of God. It really is just that simple. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nL1ldZZ335jMnas.htmlsi=DJSUy9osohEXDp22&t=316

The LDS don't have all the ordinances to "earn" their salvation. They have them because the Lord told them to have them. If it was to "earn" then how did the dead "earn" their salvation, when we (the royal we) are the ones doing their work? No, the ordinnces and work for the dead isn't to "earn". (Romans 4 is a good explaination to what i am talking about.) James 2:17, Even so faith, if it have not works is dead, it being alone. And of course, vice versa, works without faith mean nothhing (as shown by Cain and his sacrifice, Genesis 5).

Jesus christ clearly taught the "after all we can dos" christ taught works so clearly and beautifully. His message and his doctrine time and time again to receive eternal life was 1. You must have faith. 2. You must repent 3. You must be baptized 4. You must receive the Holy Ghost 5. You must endure to the end (keep the commandments) All of this plus his teachings in the sermon on the mount were qualifications ( the after all you can dos) for eternal life. We must do our part!! Why? Because Jesus Christ said so!! David bednar taught that anytime you hear the word grace, you should interpret it, as meaning the enabling power of Jesus Christ . That's what grace is, the enabling power of Jesus christ to overcome sin and to have the enabling power to become like christ. So, yes, absolutely we are saved by grace, AFTER ALL WE CAN DO. JUST AS CHRIST DID HIS PART, WE MUST DO OUR PART. Unless you are BECOM8NG LIKE CHRIST BY YOUR AFTER ALL YOU CAN DOS, you will not be comfortable living in gods holy presence. The scriptures make it perfectly clear that no uncleanthing will enter the kingdom of god. The after all you can dos are the very things that will make us like christ, therefore more comfortable and clean to live with him someday. If we neglect the after all you can dos we are deceiving ourselves and threatening our entrance into the kingdom of god. They are the very things that will make us HOLY. What was it that made Mother teresa one of the most christ like woman to ever walk upon the earth? It was her works, her after all she could dos that made her so special and so christlike and so holy. She didn't sit around meditating and talking about loving and serving the poor. She put her faith into action. She did the AFTER ALL YOU CAN DO'S. To make a huge difference into the lives of others.

Too bad Spencer W. Kimball disagrees with you.

No, you err. Yes, we will sin, but that does not mean that we can continue to sin without impunity. We must repent and draw closer to Christ, we must forsake sin and strive to not sin, it is everywhere in the Bible, and I’m sorry you do not understand that

When Smith dictated The Book of Mormon, the phrase, "...after all we can do" meant the same as "despite all you can do". Furthermore, the Nephi statement is directed to people before the atonement happened, while still under the law of sacrifice (Mosaic Law), therefore works were still required, at that time, in substitution of the atonement that was yet to happen. Having been LDS, you definitely must do works for exaltation. As LDS, "saved" is different from "exaltation", thus the confusion. But most definitely, you must complete the ordinances, to gain exaltation (getting to the Celestial kingdom), in the LDS paradigm. The Bible is remarkably clear, however, in Christianity, grace is absolutely free. You don't qualify for grace. I think you should clarify the difference between justification (by grace ALONE), and sanctification (works with Holy Spirit). Not to bad for your resident Atheist, eh?

Reasoning with quoting other scriptures is problematic because, you are making assumptions on the meanings of the words grace and faith and the phrase after all we can do. Many scholars have already talked about this and continue to talk about this. Other commenters have alluded to them. Dan McClellan has done a wonderful job with after all, stating it meant despite in the 1800s. Google his article. Grace and faith, I'd encourage everyone to look at the scholarship on the New Perspective on Paul. We understand so much more about what grace and faith meant at his time. Greek words typically used in business transactions and the like.

You did a masterful job of implying that grace is sufficient while dancing around all the things Mormons are required to do in order to be worthy of “exaltation”. How many Mormons cannot enter temples because their “works” are insufficient? Grace will not allow them in Mormon temples, and they certainly won’t be allowed in Mormon heaven. You sound good but the doctrine is what it is, and it is based on “works”.

I like how you state that our works are not what overcomes the s in, because Jesus already did that! However, it is the work s which allow us to follow a different path of our choosing, by our free will, in order to choose him, And the way he told us to live, so that we become new in him and made different in him! Because there should be a difference between the way we choose our lifestyle, for example, and the way that the world chooses. If we look the same as the world, and we are a friend of the world, then we are no friend to him! And that's what the New testament says! God does not befriend those who are a friend of the world!

So what are works? Are they ordinances? Does God want us staying busy on a hamster wheel of ordinances which we call works? The Lord gave a grave warning to us. D&C 124:46 But if they will not hearken to my voice, nor unto the voice of these men whom I have appointed, they shall not be blest, because they pollute mine holy grounds, and mine holy ordinances, and charters, and my holy words which I give unto them. 47 And it shall come to pass that if you build a house unto my name, and do not do the things that I say, I will not perform the oath which I make unto you, neither fulfil the promises which ye expect at my hands, saith the Lord. 48 For instead of blessings, ye, by your own works, bring cursings, wrath, indignation, and judgments upon your own heads, by your follies, and by all your abominations, which you practice before me, saith the Lord. Was the house built yet God's commandments not fulfilled? Well, let's ask about the promise that was expected...was it fulfilled? 45 And if my people will hearken unto my voice, and unto the voice of my servants whom I have appointed to lead my people, behold, verily I say unto you, they shall not be moved out of their place. Were they moved out of their place? That is a resounding YES, no refuting to be had here. In truth the house was never fully fully finished yet works continued, the spot was not consecrated, but it was defiled in an attempt to sell it off and get out of town.God never revealed that what the church did was what he had in mind. Isn't it odd that all of the temple work we do for ourselves now was originally done in Utah in a house that wasn't a temple at all, and so it was for nearly 30 years. Works tied to the temple, or religious works called ordinances seem to be foretold to become polluted and done to bring cursings upon our heads. What makes us think that showing good works of the temple are a testimony of our faith and belief? Could this be a circumstance of the blind leading the blind, or the great and spacious building has been made into a temple filled with religious ordinances. Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Who all over the world is changing ordinances? Who can trangress the law unless they have the fullness thereof? Who can break a covenant unless it was already established in clarity? That points to one very specific group of people among the gentiles. D&C 22:2 Wherefore, although a man should be baptized an hundred times it availeth him nothing, for you cannot enter in at the strait gate by the law of Moses, neither by your dead works. This is where the Book of Mormon pinpoints with clarity what the doctrine of Christ is to rid ourselves of dead works, outward ordinances and carnal commandments that look and feel like they are godly works, but they deny the power or the grace thereof. 2 Nephi 31:13 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, I know that if ye shall follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent, repenting of your sins, witnessing unto the Father that ye are willing to take upon you the name of Christ, by baptism-yea, by following your Lord and your Savior down into the water, according to his word, behold, then shall ye receive the Holy Ghost; yea, then cometh the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost; and then can ye speak with the tongue of angels, and shout praises unto the Holy One of Israel. What if we go down into the waters of baptism a hundred times but the Holy Ghost is never received by fire and baptism of the Holy Ghost yet we continue onward in religious works of the flesh thinking we are getting greater salvation and more grace from God? How can this bring cursings? It boils down to pride. It is the invading force to which we are ever ignorant. It polluted even the best of intentions and kindest of actions. This is why Christ himself portrayed in a beautiful chiasmus punctuated by a warning and curse. 3 Nephi 11:32 And this is my doctrine, and it is the doctrine which the Father hath given unto me; and I bear record of the Father, and the Father beareth record of me, and the Holy Ghost beareth record of the Father and me; and I bear record that the Father commandeth all men, everywhere, to repent and believe in me. 33 And whoso believeth in me, and is baptized, the same shall be saved; and they are they who shall inherit the kingdom of God. 34 And whoso believeth not in me, and is not baptized, shall be damned. 35 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that this is my doctrine, and I bear record of it from the Father; and whoso believeth in me believeth in the Father also; and unto him will the Father bear record of me, for he will visit him with fire and with the Holy Ghost. 36 And thus will the Father bear record of me, and the Holy Ghost will bear record unto him of the Father and me; for the Father, and I, and the Holy Ghost are one. 37 And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and become as a little child, and be baptized in my name, or ye can in nowise receive these things. 38 And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and be baptized in my name, and become as a little child, or ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God. 39 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that this is my doctrine, and whoso buildeth upon this buildeth upon my rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against them. 40 And whoso shall declare more or less than this, and establish it for my doctrine, the same cometh of evil, and is not built upon my rock; but he buildeth upon a sandy foundation, and the gates of hell stand open to receive such when the floods come and the winds beat upon them.

Except for black people before the 1970s right

This video is just CYA ing The Still Mormon teachings that you must do the temple ordinances to enter the Celestial kingdom. That's not the teaching of Paul who says that Christ already seated us in his Heavenly places in Heaven. Ephesians 2:5,6. "Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh." / works or ( temple ordinances) ? Galatians 3:3. The Book of Mormon distorts the Bible !

It fascinates me how difficult this doctrine is to understand. Thank God for the restoration and living prophets and apostles!