The Three Pillars of Eternity | Bruce R. McConkie | February 1981

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The Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement are the foundations of salvation. As we understand them better, we can live to gain eternal life. Click here to see the speech page.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Classic Speaches Podcasts presented by BYU Speaches, bringing you treasured talks from 70 years of BYU Devotionals.
0:09.5	Be sure to check out our other podcasts by searching BYU Speaches wherever you get your podcasts, or by visitingspeches.BYU.edu slash podcasts.
0:36.6	This devotional address entitled The Three Pillars of Eternity was given on February 17th of 1981 by Bruce R. McConkey, then a member of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:48.1	I know, as do we all, that the things of God can only be understood by the power of the Holy Spirit.
0:49.6	And I pray that we may receive a mighty outpouring of that spirit as we consider the three
0:58.8	pillars of eternity, the three great eternal verities upon which salvation rests.
1:10.1	My purpose is to take the three greatest events that have ever occurred in all eternity
1:18.1	and show how they are interwoven to form one grand plan of salvation. If we can gain an understanding of them, then the whole eternal
1:32.4	scheme of things will fall into place, and we will be in a position to work out our salvation.
1:42.0	If we do not build our house of salvation on a true foundation, we will never
1:48.7	make the spiritual progress that will prepare us to enter the eternal presence.
1:57.0	The three pillars of eternity, the three events preeminent and transcendent above all others are
2:05.2	the creation, the fall, and the atonement.
2:11.0	These three are the foundations upon which all things rest.
2:17.1	Without any one of them, all things would lose their purpose and meaning,
2:22.3	and the plans and designs of deity would come to naught.
2:27.3	If there were no creation, we would not be, neither the earth nor any life, any form of life upon its face.
2:39.0	All things, all the primal elements would be without form and void.
2:45.2	God would have no spirit children, there would be no mortal probation, and none of us would be on the way to
2:54.3	immortality and eternal life.
2:58.9	If there had been no fall of man, there would not be a mortal probation.
3:05.3	Mortal man would not be, nor would there be animals or fowls or fishes or life
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