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Did they really say
that?
A Certificate From Joseph Smith is
Required

Much has been said about
the power of the Latter-day Saints. Is it the people called Latter-day
Saints that have this power, or is it the Priesthood? It is the
Priesthood; and if they live according to that Priesthood, they can
commence their work here and gain many victories, and be prepared to
receive glory, immortality, and eternal life, that when they go into the
spirit-world, their work will far surpass that of any other man or being
that has not been blessed with the keys of the Priesthood here.
Joseph Smith holds the keys of this last
dispensation, and is now engaged behind the vail in the great work of
the last days. I can tell our beloved brother Christians who have slain
the Prophets and butchered and otherwise caused the death of thousands
of Latter-day Saints, the priests who have thanked God in their prayers
and thanksgiving from the pulpit that we have been plundered, driven,
and slain, and the deacons under the pulpit, and their brethren and
sisters in their closets, who have thanked God, thinking that the
Latter-day Saints were wasted away, something that no doubt will mortify
them—something that, to say the least, is a matter of deep regret to
them—namely, that no man or woman in this dispensation will ever
enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph
Smith. From the day that the Priesthood was taken from the earth to
the winding-up scene of all things, every man and woman must have the
certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance
into the mansion where God and Christ are—I with you and you with me.
I cannot go there without his consent. He holds the keys of that kingdom
for the last dispensation—the keys to rule in the spirit-world; and he
rules there triumphantly, for he gained full power and a glorious
victory over the power of Satan while he was yet in the flesh, and was a
martyr to his religion and to the name of Christ, which gives him a most
perfect victory in the spirit-world. He reigns there as supreme a being
in his sphere, capacity, and calling, as God does in heaven. Many will
exclaim—"Oh, that is very disagreeable! It is preposterous! We cannot
bear the thought!" But it is true. Journal of Discourses,
Vol. 7, p.288-89
http://jod.mrm.org/7/282#289
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was the ultimate payment. He made us worthy permanently. When Jesus died on the
cross the veil covering the Holy of Holies tore in half. The mercy seat lay exposed to mankind. There is no veil, anymore, between God and man.
Jesus ripped it down. But Mormonism has hung up a new one." -Kathleen Baldwin
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"It
wasn’t until one day that when I was flat on my back for days, and crying
out to Him, that I realized how all along He had been trying to get my
attention, and the only way to get it was to make me stop dead in my tracks,
flat on my back, and focus on Him and what it was that He was trying to tell
me all along. In
James 4:8 (a) we read: 'Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.' In
James 4:10 we read: 'Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will
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