Continue listening for Part 2 with Dr. Ken Alford, Doctrine Covenant's sections 41 through 44.

If you look in verse 30, we enter in where this is the first time the Lord is letting the saints understand what the law of consecration is.

He says, thou wilt remember the poor, and consecrate of thy properties.

I think it's important to recognize what the English word consecrate means.

We use it a lot in the church, but we don't always step back and define it.

To consecrate something means to dedicate it for a specific sacred purpose.

And so if we're consecrating our time, we're donating our time for a sacred purpose,

serving in the temple or doing our church calling or whatever it might be.

President Monson said that the storehouse, which is where you put consecrated things,

he said the storehouse also includes our time, our talents, our resources, and basically everything we have.

And here the Lord, starting in verse 30, lays out these principles on what the law of consecration is and how the law of consecration will work.

There's going to be a lot more explanation coming up in the Doctrine and Covenants to help

poor Bishop Partridge who's trying to practice this law in Missouri as a hatter.

We saw the Lord do this similarly when he said, oh, I'm going to endow you with power.

He just throws a new word out.

And then we're going to build on that.

This is, I think, the first mention of this word.

It becomes a big deal.

Yeah.

And even for us today, we hear this same idea of consecration later.

So, Ken, thank you for pointing that out.

I'd never seen. John, we've talked about this where the Lord says, hey, what about Zion?

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