The Pillars of Zion Series - No Poor Among Them (Book 6) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781937399160)

This is book 6 of the Pillars of Zion Series. This book questions our attitude toward wealth-seeking and accumulating and our treatment of those who live in poverty. In the end, how we answer these questions determines whether or not we are Zion people. The principles outlined in this book describe how to achieve unequalled abundance the Lord's way while not devolving into Babylon. This volume includes the following: -Introduction: Dream of a Better World -Giving Opens the Doors to Blessings -Laying the Foundation -Lessons from the Good Samaritan -Chapter 1: Ultimate Test-God or Mammon -Test of Riches -Only the Pure in Heart Can Pass This Test -Lord's Willingness to Be Tested -Consecration Is All about Love -A Coming Change of Orders -Conclusion -Chapter 2: Thou Shalt Not Covet-Last Law -Covetousness-Last Law -Higher and Lower Laws of Prosperity -More Weighty Matters -Trying to Mix Mammon and Zion -Warnings Against Compromise -Making Mammon Holy -Mormon's View of the Last Days -Chapter 3: First Commandments of This Dispensation -No Security in Mammon -Slippery Treasures -Lazarus and the Rich Man -Take Heed and Beware of Covetousness -Chapter 4: 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 -Chapter 5: Persecuting the Poor -Wo unto the Rich Who Despise the Poor -They Rob the Poor -Building Personal Sanctuaries -Wealth-Seeking-Sin That Hinders and Destroys the Church -Ugliness of Inequality Contrasted with the Beautiful Work of Angels -Withholding from and Judging the Poor Harshly -Evil of the Age: Life for Money -A Curse on the Daughters of Zion -Blessings for Those Who Rescue the Poor -Poor of the Lord's People Shall Trust in Zion -Chapter 6: 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 the Lord's Help -Loss of True Worship -Failure in Our Mission -Loss of Peace -Loss of National Security -Chapter 7: Who Shall Enter? -What Doth It Profit? -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 -Conclusion -Chapter 8: Becoming the Pure in Heart -Burning Out Impurities -Persecution of the poor -Charitable Service Propels Zion -Grace to Grace by Grace for Grace -Lacking for Nothing -If Any of You Lack -Chapter 9: Charity-Lifeblood of Zion -Charity Defines Discipleship -Keeping and Feeding-Two Tests of Charity -Charity-Lifeblood of Zion -Charity Is Defined by Service -Charitable Service Saves and Exalts -Charitable Service Protects the Giver -Charity Is an Absolute -Charity Is a Gift-Greatest Gift -Chapter 10: Without Charity We Are Nothing -Charity-Pure Love of Christ -Charity Emerges from Faith and Hope -Charity Transforms the Heart -Charity Promotes Equality, Unity and an Abundant Life -Charitable Service Saves and Exalts -Moroni's Prayer for Latter-day Charity -Patience and Charity -Charity and Virtue-Essential Elements of Priesthood Power -Charity Draws the Lord Near -Charity Empowers All Gospel Laws -Chapter 11: Hundredfold Law -Law of Restoration -Struggling with Zion and Babylon Principles -New Math -What Doth It Profit to Cling to Our Property? -Safety and Perfection in Consecration -Hundredfold Law -Freely Ye Have Received, Freely Give -Chapter 12: Ultimate Abundance, Safety, and Security -True Safety and Security -Obtaining an Abundance in All Things -Telestial and Celestial Wealth -Wealth-seeking is Strictly Forbidden -God or Mammon-Ultimate Test -Abundance and Personal Righteousness -Exceedingly Prosperous And Much More

Author: Lds Book Club, Larry Barkdull
ISBN-10: 1937399168
ISBN-13: 9781937399160
Publisher: Pillars of Zion Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2013
Pages: 162
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.35d