Today's Favorite Verse: Psalms 110:4

Today's Favorite Verse: Psalms 110:4

"The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."

Sworn = oath

I read several quotes regarding this scriptures. This is the one I felt was the most insightful.

Oath of priesthood

"Now may I say a few words about the oath which accompanies the reception of the Melchizedek Priesthood.

To swear with an oath is the most solemn and binding form of speech known to the human tongue; and it was this type of language which the Father chose to have used in the great Messianic prophecy about Christ and the priesthood. Of him it says: "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek"  

In explaining this Messianic prophecy, Paul says that Jesus had "an unchangeable priesthood," and that through it came "the power of an endless life" Joseph Smith said that "all those who are ordained unto this priesthood are made like unto the Son of God, abiding a priest continually," that is, if they are faithful and true.

And so Christ is the great prototype where priesthood is concerned, as he is with reference to baptism and all other things. And so, even as the Father swears with an oath that his Son shall inherit all things through the priesthood, so he swears with an oath that all of us who magnify our callings in that same priesthood shall receive all that the Father hath."

(Joseph Fielding Smith, "The Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood", Oct 1970, General Conference)

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