Book 4:
The Third Pillar of Zion—The Law of Consecration

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.

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Section 15—What is the Law of Consecration?

• Introduction
• Consecration—the principle of exaltation
• The condition of Babylon
• The greatest desire
• Definition of consecration
• Modern-day application of consecration
• Consecrating the good and the bad
• Premise of Consecration
• Consecration is non-negotiable
• Restoration of the Law of Consecration
• Consecrating tithes and offerings
• Modern applications of tithes and offerings
• Learning to better live the Law of Consecration
• Sanctified by consecration: the law of the Celestial Kingdom
• Familiarity
• Ultimate consecration—to sacrifice a prepared and purified heart
• Live consecration or lose eternal life
• Laying everything on the altar
• Consecration and the Atonement
• Consecration—A temporal law with spiritual implications
• Consecration—A law that makes us independent from the world
• Consecration—An order that orders our lives
• What consecration is not
• Temporal and spiritual salvation
• Summary and Conclusion

Section 16 — The Law of Consecration: Consecration Results in Equality and Unity

• Equality—“in mine own way”
• Equality and the law of prosperity
• New math
• Esteeming all flesh in one
• Eight points of equality
  • Equal in the sight of God
  • Equal opportunity for Eternal Life
  • Joint Heirs
  • Equality in love
  • All things common
  • Equal opportunities to receive and contribute
  • Equality in labor, power and consent
  • Equal as receiving needs and wants
• Taking equal responsibility for the cause of Zion
• Unity
• The unifying power of the At-one-ment
• Oneness and synergy
• Antagonism—the opposite of synergy
• Unity and prayer
• How we achieve unity
• The end-result of unity
• All thing common among them
• Consecration and the Law of Offense
• Law of Common Consent
• Connecting consecration with the Law of the Gospel and the Law of Sacrifice
• Love leads us to eternal life
• Is baptism sufficient for exaltation?
• Two purposes of the Law of the Gospel
• No other way
• The Lord’s guarantee
• The interwoven covenants
• The Law of Sacrifice
• Sacrifice and love
• Sacrifice—our contribution to our salvation
• Summary and Conclusion

Section 17— The Law of Consecration: The Guiding Principles of Consecration

• Agency
  • Agency and truth
  • Agency—a gift assured and protected by the Savior
  • The body—the vehicle for moral agency
  • Our eternal destiny lies within our body
  • Agency and agents
  • Agency and self-reliance
  • Agency fueled by opposites
• Stewardship
  • The riches of the earth are the Lord’s
  • God becomes our Paymaster
  • Never turn back
  • The law of stewardship and the Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood
  • Stewardship and equality
  • Stewardships in the scriptures
  • Understanding the order of the law of stewardship
  • Spiritual gifts are stewardships to bless others
  • Profitable and unprofitable servants
  • Stewardships prepare us for eternal life
• Accountability
  • Accounting in time and eternity
  • Accountability and agency
• Labor
  • Idleness condemned
  • The idle poor
  • The idle rich
  • The virtue of labor
  • Labor for what?
  • Augmenting the effect of labor
  • Labor and judgment
• Summary and Conclusion

Section 18— The Ultimate Test: God or Mammon

• The test of riches
• Only the pure in heart can pass this test
• The 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—the last law
• The higher and lower laws of prosperity
• The more weighty matters
• Trying to mix mammon and Zion
• Warnings against compromise
• Making mammon holy
• Mormon’s view of the Last Days
• The first commandments of this dispensation
• No security in mammon
• Slippery treasures
• Lazarus and the rich man
• Nothings compares to the danger
• Lessons in the scriptures concerning wealth
• Scriptural description of the last days
• Scriptures about idolatry and wealth
• Scriptures about seeking wealth and forgetting God
• Scriptures about mammon, inequality and divisiveness
• Scriptural evidence that the Lord despises the selfish rich
• Persecuting the poor
• Wo unto the rich who despise the poor
• They rob the poor
• Building sanctuaries
• Wealth-seeking—The sin that hinders and destroys the Church
• The ugliness of inequality contrasted with the work of angels
• Withholding from and judging the poor harshly
• The evil of the age: life for money
• A curse on the daughters of Zion
• Blessings for those who rescue the poor
• The 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
  • Loss of the Spirit
  • Loss of revelation
  • Loss of happy family life and spiritual commitment
  • Loss of the Lord’s help
  • Loss of true worship
  • Failure in our mission
  • Loss of peace
  • Loss of national security
• Who shall enter?
• What doth it profit?
• The 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
• Summary and Conclusion

Section 19 — The Law of Consecration: The Royal Law

• The Royal Law explains the principles of consecration
• D&C 42—The Cornerstones of the Law of Consecration
• Mutual assistance
• Faith and the proper use of the priesthood
• Announcing the Kingdom of Heaven through administrations
• Consecrating a sickness and a life to the Lord
• Administration and forgiveness of sins
• Consecration requires faith
• Reciprocal love
• Charity—the pure love of Christ
• Charity emerges from faith and hope
• Charity transforms the heart
• Charity defines discipleship
• Keeping and feeding—the two tests of charity
• Charity—the life blood of Zion
• Charity is defined by service
  • Abundant life
  • To become like Christ, give yourselves away
  • Perfect service by practicing service
  • The divine paradox of service
  • Glorious rewards from small charitable acts
  • Most essential quality
  • Service is the next step in spiritual growth
  • Difficulties are opportunities for service
  • Service is a testimony
  • Service puts problems in perspective
  • Antidote for loneliness
• Charitable service saves and exalts
• Moroni’s prayer for latter-day charity
• Charitable service protects the giver
• Charitable service prospers the giver
• Patience and charity
• Charity and virtue—essential elements of priesthood power
• Charity draws the Lord near
• Charity is an absolute
• Charity is a gift—the greatest gift
• Summary and conclusion
• Postlude