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section 27 through 28. So let's begin with the setting. Emma Smith, Joseph's wife, she had been baptized back on the 28th of June, 1830, and she hadn't

been confirmed yet.

So her and Sally Knight were needing this confirmation ordinance. It's now August of 1830. So Joseph and Emma

have come up to Colesville and he leads to go and procure some wine for the sacrament

because it was their practice to administer the sacrament before

giving the gift of the Holy Ghost. So on his way to get this wine, he runs into a heavenly

messenger who gives him the beginning part that we have here of Doctrine and Covenant

section 27. The original book of commandments contains section 27 verse 1 through 4, and then half of verse 5 has all of verse 14, half of

verse 15, and then a small part of 18. So all of the rest of this section is going to get

added sometime between 1833 and 1835 printing is when it gets fleshed out

to this fuller version that we have today.

So the critical element for Joseph in his setting there was to understand the significance surrounding the sacrament. Let's pick it up in

verse one. Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ, your Lord, your God, and your Redeemer, whose word

is quick and powerful. Some have wondered about the use of the word God when we're teaching,

or when we're reading the scriptures, or when we're talking about the gospel, when we say,

just God, who are the scriptures referring to? It's interesting to note

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