Book of Mormon Feast
A Musical Tour of Jacob
Jacob 2:17-
Nephi’s brother Jacob was concerned because the people began to care about their possessions more than they cared about each other. He taught them a Zion attitude: “Think of your brethren like unto yourselves, and be familiar with all, and free with your substance, that they may be rich like unto you.”
Because I have Been Given Much
John Canaan
text by Grace Noll Crowell; music by Phillip Landgrave
Jacob 4:3
Jacob expressed how difficult it was to write on plates, and then explained why he did it: “Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow, neither with contempt, concerning their first parents.”
“Receive These Words with Grateful Hearts,” by Marilyn Arnold and Maurine Ozment, in Sacred Hymns of the Book of Mormon, 2
Receive these words with grateful hearts, these words from plates of gold,
Engraven here at God’s command by prophets, seers of old.
We write for you in later times as witness of our faith
That Christ, our Lord, Begotten Son, would come to conquer death.
Jacob 4:3
In the Book of Mormon, Jacob explained that they kept a record so that their children would know of their fathers, and particularly of their faith. He wrote to bring people to Christ.
Alessandra Sorace
Composer Steve Green
We’re pilgrims on the journey
Of the narrow road
And those who’ve gone before us line the way
Cheering on the faithful, encouraging the weary
Their lives a stirring testament to God’s sustaining grace.
Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses
Let us run the race not only for the prize
But as those who’ve gone before us
Let us leave to those behind us
The heritage of faithfulness
Passed on through godly lives.
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion light their way
May the footprints that we leave
Lead them to believe
And the lives we live inspire them to obey
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful.
After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone
And our children sift through all we’ve left behind
May the clues that they discover
And the memories they uncover
Become the light that leads them
To the road we each must find
Jacob 5:72
Jacob said, “The servants did go and labor with their mights; and the Lord of the vineyard labored also with them; and they did obeyt he commandments of the Lord of the vineyard in all things.”
AfterGlow
I look around
And see what I’ve been given.
And I think about the ones before
Who gave their lives and died for the cause.
I think about
This blessed Restoration,
And the truth that’s come from heaven
With the power to change the lives of this world.
Here we are
In a time of revelation
With the answers we can give the world
To the questions of just why they are here.
Who are we
To dismiss this charge to others?
It’s a sacred obligation
And a privilege to be helping the Lord.
Find the power that you
Have in your heart.
There’s a stone rolling forward,
It’s the nation of God.
For the battle is raging
And the armor is strong.
The enemy is losing:
Whose side are you on?
Take a stand
With the Author of Salvation
And choose your destination
By remembering where it is you belong.
Move ahead
With a strong determination,
Giving heed to the direction
And obeying the commands of the Lord.
Jacob 7:25
The Book of Mormon tells how the children of Laman and Lemuel, called Lamanites, became enemies of the Nephites: “Wherefore, the people of Nephi did fortify against them with their arms, and with all their might, trusting in the God and Rock of their salvation; wherefore, they became as yet, conquerors of their enemies.”
Chris Rice
text by Augustus M. Toplady; music by Thomas Hastings
Jacob 7:26
Jacob described his feelings as an immigrant to the Promised Land: “The time passed away with us, and also our lives passed away like as it were unto us a dream, we being a lonesome and a solemn people, wanderers, cast out from Jerusalem, born in tribulation, in a wilderness, and hated of our brethren, which caused wars and contentions; wherefore, we did mourn out our days.”
Libera
An American Folksong
