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Unshaken Saints

D&C 76 - Is Your Heaven Too Small?

Unshaken Saints

Jared Halverson

Religion & Spirituality, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

What if everything you thought you knew about heaven, salvation, and Christ's power was just the beginning? Get ready to have your understanding expanded. Summary: In this deep dive into Doctrine & Covenants 76, "The Vision," we explore an expansive understanding of Jesus Christ and His infinite reach. Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon experienced visions that revealed Christ's ability to do "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think," showing His wisdom, marvelous ways, and the unimaginable extent of His work of salvation. We begin by examining how we often underestimate the Savior, discovering that "beside him there is no Savior," yet His mercy and grace extend to bring everyone home except the sons of perdition. The video then unpacks the concept of "The Cosmic Christ," where Joseph and Sidney beheld the glory of the Son, witnessing that by Him, "the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God." Next, we confront the sobering reality of "Perdition and His Sons," understanding the profound loss associated with Lucifer and the specific conditions that lead to becoming a son of perdition. This segment surprisingly reveals God's near-universal plan of salvation, emphasizing that "all the rest shall be brought forth by the resurrection of the dead." Finally, we journey through the three degrees of glory—Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial—receiving a breathtaking glimpse into what "heaven" truly looks like, even surpassing all understanding for the Telestial Kingdom. We'll also touch on the profound spiritual experiences that cannot be written but must be "seen and understood by the power of the Holy Spirit." Prepare to enlarge your vision of God's love, justice, and the boundless power of Christ to redeem. 0:00 Introduction and Overview 6:10 Never Underestimate Christ 16:50 The Cosmic Christ 36:28 Perdition and His Sons 52:19 Celestial Glory 1:05:23 Terrestrial Glory 1:13:13 Telestial Glory 1:29:34 What We Can and Cannot Write 1:42:34 One-Liners

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to Unshaken. You have made it to another week.

0:04.1

And in fact, a week of weeks. This week is incredible. We only have one revelation to cover.

0:09.2

But what a revelation it is. Section 76, here we come. Section 76 is one of the

0:15.0

masterpieces of this final dispensation. We are learning things that had never crossed

0:20.1

people's minds. We see the tiniest

0:23.3

little hint that there may be a broader heaven than we thought when you see 1st Corinthians 15

0:28.9

and Paul's great testimony of the resurrection. But nothing quite like the expansive view that we're

0:34.8

going to get this week with the help of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon.

0:38.5

We only have one revelation, I said, but we actually have six visions to study.

0:43.0

And that's what section 76 consists of.

0:45.5

Vision after vision after vision.

0:47.4

Joseph and Sydney are hard at work in the Joseph Smith translation.

0:50.4

We saw last week the stop and start, the pause and resume, but Joseph and Sydney have been at work on the JST for quite some time.

0:58.2

And some powerful revelations have come as a result, but nothing quite like this one.

1:03.1

As they're wrestling with a particular passage in John chapter 5, all of a sudden the heavens open, the veil parts, so to speak, and those two men see, well, everything,

1:16.5

basically.

1:17.5

The six visions that they describe and that we're going to study today, first a vision of the father

1:22.2

and the sun, second, a vision of Lucifer and his fall from heaven.

1:26.1

Third, a vision of the sons of perdition, followed by visions of each of the three degrees of glory.

1:31.1

Celestial, terrestrial, telestial.

1:33.5

This is epic.

1:34.9

I was looking at the video I did, the episode I filmed four years ago on this.

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