Lessons 5&6. "I will tell you in your mind and in your heart...This is the spirit of revelation."

For 10 February in De Montfort Ward.

Read Doctrine & Covenants sections 6, 8, 9, & 11. We will also talk about Section 7, as we don't have a chance to elsewhere.

“…the fundamental fact of the Restoration [is] the spirit of revelation.”

-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, BYU Devotional, “Cast Not Away Therefore Your Confidence,” March 1999. Read, listen, or watch it here.

[Joseph Smith’s] life asked and answered the question “Do you believe God speaks to man?” In all else that he accomplishedin his brief 38 and a half years, Joseph left us above all else the resolutelegacy of divine revelation—not a single, isolated revelation without evidenceor consequence, and not “a mild sort of inspiration seeping into the minds of all good people” everywhere, but specific,documented, ongoing directions from God. As a good friend and faithful LDS scholar has succinctly put it, “At a time when the origins of Christianity were under assault by theforces of Enlightenment rationality, Joseph Smith [unequivocally andsinglehandedly] returned modern Christianity to its origins in revelation.”

Jeffrey R. Holland, “Prophets, Seers, and Revelators,” Ensign, Nov. 2004, 6; See Richard L. Bushman’s essay “A Joseph Smith for the Twenty-First Century” in Believing History (2004). Read, listen, or watch it here.

We will talk about Oliver, you can read a biographical sketch here. (I've updated this with the article on history.lds.org jlj 7/2/13)

Here is the manuscript of section 8 from the Joseph Smith Papers. We will specifically talk about the changes in verse 6. (We might also talk about it in regards to the translation of the Book of Mormon.)