Welcome to Part 2 of this week's podcast.

These official declarations are powerful, the fact that they were made part of Scripture

and inserted in the canon just shows it really confirms and validates the revelatory

nature of these revelations.

You know, I was talking to my brother, who's a member of a stake presidency in the Chesterfield,

Virginia stake, Jamil Corbett, and he was saying that he loves to respond to questions

about the gospel with the articles of faith.

And it's such a natural response.

Oh, it even starts with we believe.

So these are powerful tools and guides for us to not only live our lives as a Savior would

have us do, but to be able to share, as Peter said, to have a reason of the hope that is

in us.

In law school, we studied a case called Reynolds versus United States, and it was about

polygamy and related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the practice

of plural marriage.

And it's a religious liberty case, one of the sort of the first, the seminal case on

religious liberty of the Supreme Court.

And of course, just 11 years later, the Lord makes this revelation known to the prophet

Wilford Woodruff, the fourth president of the Church, and here it is, and we get to

read it.

It was moved by President Lorenzo Snow, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the president of the Church

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only man on the earth at the present time

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