Preparing to Enter the Holy Temple

"Preparing to Enter the Holy Temple"

by Boyd K. Packer

Come to the Temple

• "When we organize families according to the order that the Lord has revealed, we organize them in the temples."
• "Temple marriage, that sealing ordinance, is a crowning blessing that you may claim in the holy temple."
• "'Come to the temple'"
• "The temple transforms the individual and makes abundantly worthwhile any efforts made to get there."
• "Keep your faith and your hope and determine that you will come--that you will be worthy and that you will come to the temple."

These Things Are Sacred

• "We do not discuss the temple ordinances outside the temples."
• "With great effort we urge every soul to qualify and prepare for the temple experience."
• "Someday every living soul and every soul who has ever lived shall have the opportunity to hear the gospel and to accept or reject what the temple offers (If this opportunity is rejected, the rejection must be on the part of the individual)."
• "The ordinances and ceremonies of the temple...are beautiful..are sacred...are kept confidential lest they be given to those who are unprepared."
• "Preparation for the ordinances includes preliminary steps: faith, repentance, baptism, confirmation, worthiness, a maturity and dignity worthy of one who comes invited as a guest into the house of the Lord."
• "We must be prepared before we go to the temple."
• "We must be worthy before we go to the temple."
• "The restrictions and conditions set are established by the Lord and not by man."

To be continued....