Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. J.B. Haas, Doctrine in Covenant Section 1.

J.B., as we continue on 20 through 24, we get the, okay, here's why.

Here's our why. This is what the Lord wants to do.

Yes, I think that's right. 20, that every man might speak in the name of

God, the Lord, even the Savior of the world. I hear echoes of what Moses wanted to do, a kingdom of

priests, where this power and authority is distributed as broadly as possible, where everyone has

access to God's power, where everyone can speak in his name, where the spirit can be poured out,

this fits with that really beautiful universalizing impulse of the restoration, this vision

that everyone can be involved in this, that faith also might increase in the earth,

that my everlasting covenant might be established, that the fullness of my gospel might be proclaimed

by the weak and the simple under the ends of the world and before kings and rulers,

this confidence that they're going to be able to do this, and that this is going to extend broadly to all of them.

J.B., wouldn't we say maybe for our listeners, confidence that they're going to be able to do this and that this is going to extend broadly to all of them.

J.B., wouldn't we say maybe for our listeners at home that feel weak and small, that this could be a little bit of a message to you. The Lord can use you. Oh, definitely. That should be a take-home message

of this section is that, as President Monson put it so well,

whom the Lord calls, he qualifies. This small band of 10 elders meeting this conference hearing

these words, that these words should resonate and echo with us, because every one of us is

going to be called to do something that we just feel too weak to do.

I'm moved by an image that a general authority reported this,

that he came by President Spencer W. Kimball's office soon after he was the prophet,

and he was weeping.

The general authority asked President Kimball, you know, president, are you all right?

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