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This devotional address, entitled, Stand Forever, was given on January 22nd of 2019 by Lawrence E. Corbridge, then a general authority 70 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

As part of an assignment I had as a general authority. I needed to read through a great

deal of material antagonistic to the church, the prophet Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon,

and the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There may not be anything

out there that I haven't read.

Since that assignment changed, I have not returned to Wallow and that mire again.

Reading that material always left me with a feeling of gloom.

And one day that sense of darkness inspired me

to write a partial response to all such antagonistic claims.

I would like to share with you some of what I recorded that day,

and although I wrote it for my own benefit, I hope it may help you as well. I wanted to give a different

talk today. I wrote other talks, more entertaining with more stories, more engaging,

than this one. But every time I wrote a new one, I came back and I was directed back to this

one. The prophet Daniel said that in the last day, shall the God of heaven

set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, and that kingdom shall not be left to other people,

but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

The kingdom of God is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

It will stand forever.

The question is, will you and I stand?

Will you stand forever or will you go away?

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