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What are ordinances?
These are sacred, formal acts performed under priesthood authority.
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What are covenants?
These are sacred agreements between God and man where God sets specific conditions, and He promises to bless us as we obey those conditions.
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What is the sacrament? (Luke 22:19-20)
The ordinance that represents the body and blood of the Savior.
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What is baptism? (Mosiah 18:8-10) (D&C 20:77,79)
With this ordinance you make a covenant to always remember the Savior, be His witness, be willing to take His name upon you, and to always keep His commandments.
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What is baptism (by immersion)? (Romans 6:3-6)
The ordinance that symbolizes the death and resurrection of Christ and our own spiritual rebirth.
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What is ordination to the Melchizedek Priesthood? (Alma 13:8) (D&C 84:33-39)
With this ordinance, (men) make a covenant to which is often referred to as "the oath and covenant."
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What is confirmation? (D&C 20:41)
The ordinance through which we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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What are the endowment and sealing ordinances? (D&C 95:8) (D&C 43:16) (D&C 131:1-2)
With these two ordinances performed in the temple, additional covenants are made with the Lord, of which is learned and discussed only within the temple.
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What are baptism, confirmation, ordination to the Melchizedek Priesthood (men), the temple endowment, and the marriage sealing? (Articles of Faith 1:3)
Those ordinances that are essential to our exaltation, also known as "saving ordinances."
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Who is Abraham? (Abraham 2: 9-11) (3 Ne. 20:25-26)
As members of the church, we become "children of the covenant." More specifically, children of the covenant that God made with this man thousands of years ago.
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