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This is Book 4 in The Pillars of Zion Series. This book explores the Law of Consecration, the third pillar of Zion. This book casts this law as a template, and answers questions about the law's origin, past attempts, and future glory. This book demonstrates this law's validity today and its power to create a Zion person, marriage, family or priesthood society. This volume includes the following: -Section 1: What Is the Law of Consecration? -Consecration-the Principle of Exaltation -Condition of Babylon -Definition of Consecration -Law We Must Live to Achieve the Celestial Kingdom -Consecrating the Good and the Bad -Consecration Is Nonnegotiable -Sanctified by Consecration: Law of the Celestial Kingdom -Ultimate Consecration-To Sacrifice a Prepared and Purified Heart -Live Consecration or Lose Eternal Life -Laying Everything on the Altar -Consecration and the Atonement -Temporal and Spiritual Salvation -Section 2: Consecration Results in Equality and Unity -Equality- In Mine Own Way -Equality and the Law of Prosperity -Esteeming All Flesh in One -Seven Points of Equality -Taking Equal Responsibility for the Cause of Zion -Unifying Power of the At-one-ment -Antagonism-Opposite of Synergy -Unity and Prayer -How We Achieve Unity -End Result of Unity -All Things Common among Them -Law of Common Consent -Love Leads Us to Eternal Life -Is Baptism Sufficient for Exaltation? -Two Purposes of the Law of the Gospel -Interwoven Covenants -Law of Sacrifice -Sacrifice and love -Section 3: Guiding Principles of Consecration -Guiding Principles of Consecration -Agency and Truth -Riches of the Earth Are the Lord's -God Becomes Our Paymaster -Stewardship and Equality -Profitable and Unprofitable Servants -Accountability -Idle Poor -Idle Rich -Virtue of Labor -Section 4: Ultimate Test-God or Mammon -Test of Riches -Only the Pure in Heart Can Pass This Test -Lord's Willingness to Be Tested -Consecration Is All about Love -A Change of Orders -Love of Money Is the Root of All Evil -Covetousness-Last Law -Higher and Lower Laws of Prosperity -More Weighty Matters -Trying to Mix Mammon and Zion -Warnings against Compromise -Making Mammon Holy -Mormon's View of the Last Days -First Commandments of This Dispensation -No Security in Mammon -Slippery Treasures -Lazarus and the Rich Man -Nothing Compares to the Danger -Lessons in the Scriptures Concerning Wealth -Persecuting the Poor -Wo unto the Rich Who Despise the Poor -They Rob the Poor -Building Sanctuaries -Wealth-Seeking-Sin That Hinders and Destroys the Church -Ugliness of Inequality Contrasted with the Beautiful Work of Angels -Withholding from and Judging the Poor Harshly -Evil of the Age: Life for Money -A Curse on the Daughters of Zion -Blessings for Those Who Rescue the Poor -Poor of the Lord's People Shall Trust in Zion -Consequences of Seeking Wealth and Persecuting the Poor -Loss of the Providences of Heaven -Loss of Priesthood Power and Exaltation -Failure in Our Mission -Loss of Peace -Loss of National Security -Who Shall Enter? -What Doth It Profit? -Voice of Seven Thunders -Choosing God over Mammon -Obtaining a Hope in Christ -Freely Ye Have Received, Freely Give -Feeding the Lord's Lambs -Choosing God's Marvelous Work over Babylon's Charms -Invoking the Law of Asking to Receive -Section 5: Royal Law -Royal Law Explains the Principles of Consecration -Cornerstones of the Law of Consecration -Mutual Assistance -Faith and the Proper Use of the Priesthood -Consecrating a Sickness and a Life to the Lord -Administration and Forgiveness of Sins -Consecration Requires Faith -Reciprocal Love -Charity-Pure Love of Christ -Charity Strengthened by Faith and Hope And Much More!

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Larry Barkdull is a longtime publisher and writer of books, music, art, and magazines. For nine years, he owned Sonos Music Resources and published the Tabernacle Choir Performance Library. He was also the owner and publisher of Keepsake Books. Over the past thirty years, he's published some six hundred products for numerous authors, composers, and artists. He's founded two nonprofit organizations: The Latter-day Foundation for the Arts, Education and Humanity (to promote LDS arts), and Gospel Ideals International (to promote the gospel of Jesus Christ on the Internet). His books have sold in excess of 300,000 copies, and they have been translated into Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Hebrew. He is the recipient of the American Family Literary Award; the Benjamin Franklin Book Award; and Foreword Magazine's GOLD Book of the Year Award for best fiction. His most recent books are Priesthood Power-Blessing the Sick and the Afflicted, Rescuing Wayward Children, and The Shepherd Song. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have ten children and a growing number of grandchildren. They live in Orem, Utah. Read more of his writings at Meridian Magazine.com.

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