Doctrine and Covenants 27–28

Doctrine and Covenants 27–28

Overview

Through a heavenly messenger, the Savior revealed truths about the sacrament. The Lord also taught about putting on His armor and revealed the order and organization He uses to reveal His will in His Church.

Help learners come unto Jesus Christ: As you help learners recognize the Lord’s “tender mercies” (1 Nephi 1:20), both in the scriptures and in their own experiences, they will feel and know that the Lord is with them and will lovingly stand by them (see Doctrine and Covenants 68:6). For more on how the Savior did this, see the section “Help Learners Recognize the Lord’s Love, Power, and Mercy in Their Lives” in Teaching in the Savior’s Way. You can also see an example of how to do this in the lesson titled “Doctrine and Covenants 27:1–14.”

Prepare to teach

The following information provides you with ideas of what you may need to prepare in advance for each lesson.

Doctrine and Covenants 27:1–14

Lesson purpose: To help students better prepare to take the sacrament with an eye single to the glory of God.

• Student preparation: Invite students to ponder and come prepared to share ways they could focus on the Savior during the sacrament.

• Video: “That I Might Draw All Men unto Me”(13:33; watch from time code 7:15 to 9:13)

Doctrine and Covenants 27:15–18

Lesson purpose: To help students understand how the Savior can protect us from the ways Satan tries to tempt and discourage us.

• Student preparation: Invite students to come prepared to share ways that Satan attacks or tempts youth their age and what resources the Savior has provided to defend against those attacks or temptations.

• Materials: Small sheets of paper for each student

• Handout: “‘Take upon you my whole armor’— Doctrine and Covenants 27:15”

Doctrine and Covenants 28

Lesson purpose: To help students understand the order and organization the Savior uses to reveal His will in His Church.

• Student preparation: Consider providing students with the situations from the “Examples” section in this lesson and inviting them to ponder how they can tell true revelation from Satan’s imitations.

• Items to prepare: A selection of real or imitation items (for example, a real or toy phone; real or play money; real or plastic fruit; and a real email from a bank or an imitation email from someone posing as a bank)

• Video: “A Framework for Personal Revelation,” (12:29; watch from time code 4:14 to 5:07)