Covenant (Latter Day Saints)




In the Latter Day Saint movement, a covenant is a promise made between God and a person or a group of people.[1] God sets the conditions of the covenant, and as the conditions are met, he blesses the person who entered into and kept the covenant.[1] If the covenant is violated, blessings are withheld and in some cases a penalty or punishment is inflicted.[1]


Latter Day Saint leaders teach that just as the God of Israel asked the children of Israel to be a covenant people, "a peculiar treasure unto me ... a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation,"[2] today God has asked for a latter-day people who will make and keep covenants with him. All covenants are considered part of the overarching "new and everlasting covenant" of the gospel.[3]


The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) teaches that one enters a covenant through a ritual or a visible sign.[4] Some leaders have taught that a covenant is always associated with an ordinance.[5] Other leaders have suggested that commandments that include promised blessings for compliance—such as the law of tithing and Word of Wisdom—also constitute covenants.[6]


In the LDS Church, ordinances which are accompanied by covenants include baptism and confirmation;[7] Doctrine and Covenants 20:75–79]</ref> reception of the Melchizedek priesthood;[8] the temple endowment;[9] and celestial marriage.[10] These are known as "saving ordinances" and are a requirement for exaltation. [11]


Officially, partaking of the sacrament is considered by the LDS Church to be a renewal of the covenants made at baptism;[4][12] however, some Latter-day Saint leaders have taught that doing so constitutes a renewal of all covenants a person has made.[13]




Contents






  • 1 Table of covenants associated with saving ordinances


  • 2 Notes


  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





Table of covenants associated with saving ordinances




























Saving ordinance
 Action required
 Promised blessings

Baptism and
Confirmation
 Sincere repentance; take upon the name of Christ; serve Him and keep his commandments; be willing to bear others' burdens, mourn with those who mourn, and comfort those who stand in need of comfort; stand as a witness of Jesus in all times and in all places; always remember Him
 Sins are forgiven; presence of the Holy Ghost; come forth in first resurrection; receive eternal life
Receiving the Melchizedek priesthood (required for men only)
 Be faithful to receive the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods; magnify assigned calling
 Sanctified by the Spirit unto the renewing of the body; become the son of Moses and Aaron and the seed of Abraham; receives all that God has; exaltation

Endowment
 Obedience; sacrifice everything for Christ and the church; chastity; consecrate time, talents, and possessions to the building up of the church and the establishment of Zion; keep key words, signs, and tokens learned in the temple confidential
 Admission into the presence of God; exaltation

Celestial marriage
 Love spouse with heart, might, mind and strength; keep other commandments
 Come forth in first resurrection; inherit thrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths; name written in Lamb's Book of Life; exaltation; continuation of the seeds forever and ever; godhood; all power


Notes





  1. ^ abc "Covenant", lds.org.


  2. ^ Exodus 19:5–6


  3. ^ Doctrine and Covenants 132:6–14


  4. ^ ab Wouter Van Beek, "Covenants", in Encyclopedia of Mormonism (New York: Macmillan, 1992).


  5. ^ Dennis B. Neuenschwander, "Ordinances and Covenants", Ensign, August 2001.


  6. ^ Marion G. Romney, "Gospel Covenants", Ensign, May 1981, p. 43.


  7. ^ Mosiah 18:8–10, 13; Doctrine and Covenants 20:37; Doctrine and Covenants 39:23


  8. ^ Doctrine and Covenants 84:33–39


  9. ^ Doctrine and Covenants 124:39


  10. ^ Doctrine and Covenants 132:15–20


  11. ^ https://www.lds.org/topics/ordinances?lang=eng


  12. ^ Guide to the Scriptures: Sacrament, lds.org.


  13. ^ "I Have a Question", Ensign, March 1995.




References



  • Bonnie D. Parkin, "Celebrating Covenants", Ensign, May 1995, p. 78.


  • Joseph Fielding Smith (1954). Doctrines of Salvation, 1:152–66.



External links



  • Covenants



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