LDS Sunday School Lesson 13: “I Will Give unto Thee the Keys of the Kingdom” covering:
a. Matthew 15:21–39. Jesus heals the daughter of a Gentile woman and miraculously feeds more than 4,000 people, many of them Gentiles.
b. Matthew 16:13–19. Peter testifies that Jesus is the Christ. Jesus teaches that his Church is built upon the rock of revelation and promises to give Peter the keys of the kingdom.
c. Matthew 17:1–9. Jesus is transfigured before Peter, James, and John.
13. “The Lord’s invitation to follow him is extended to more persons than those who are ordained as special witnesses. The call is individual and personal, and it is compelling. We cannot stand forever between two opinions…” Howard W. Hunter What think ye of Christ?
14. Thou art Peter Matthew 16:18 And I also say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; … Matthew 21:42 …Did you never read the scriptures, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: …
18. Joseph Fielding Smith “[I]t was not God who sealed the heavens following a dispensation of the gospel. It was man. Hence, we are to believe that there would have been but one dispensation beginning with Adam and reaching down to now, except had it been for the wickedness of men.”
23. I will give unto thee The Keys of the Kingdom Matthew 16:19
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28. “taking a different view of the translation, whatsoever you record on earth shall be recorded in heaven, and whatsoever you do not record on earth shall not be recorded in heaven. . . .
29. “taking a different view of the translation, whatsoever you record on earth shall be recorded in heaven, and whatsoever you do not record on earth shall not be recorded in heaven. . . . For him to whom these keys are given there is no difficulty in obtaining a knowledge of facts in relation to the salvation of the children of men, both as well for the dead as for the living…” Matthew 16:19
30. ‘a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief’ Isa 53:3