Covenant KEEPERS: The Commandments

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The next scripture study we will do with our WOMEN WHO KNOW study group, will focus on gaining a greater depth of understanding of the commandments. When we enter the waters of baptism, we covenant that we will keep the commandments. We make the same solemn covenant in the temple. We are taught that we must keep the commandments to gain eternal life, and that in the keeping of our covenants the power of godliness is made manifest. So, as covenant members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do we have a full understanding of what it means to keep the commandments, what they all are, and the way that God has provided for us to be obedient in all these things? These are the questions that we will seek to explore in our next study.

Here is how the study will work:

I did this specific study in 2023 and prepared material from this study to share at my Facebook group Daily Manna at that time. This study will draw from my own written material. As such, it will be a guided study similar to the one we did last year that followed my “Six Principles of Atonement Power” which I prepared for the Suitland Maryland Stake Relief Society Conference. This study will take more months to explore it fully because the material is greater, but there will be specific study guides to help the group drink more deeply from the topics.

The commandments portion of the study is organized by using the two greatest commandments and the ten commandments as categories of commandments, or principles, upon which we build our firm foundations. Before we begin a study of those categories there are some important foundations we need to study as a prelude to the overall study of the commandments.

We will begin by answering the questions. “Why commandments matter” and “What is sin?” We will attempt to better understand what the scriptures teach us about how God expects us to respond to sin in ourselves and others, to distinguish between weakness and sin, and to understand that God has provided a way for us to overcome both.

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