Now let me show you a miracle. You see that hand? That is made of dirt! You want to see a miracle in engineering and Godly power? It's in that hand. That is made of dirt. Our Heavenly Father can speak to all of those little intelligences and he can turn them back into dirt that fast, (snap of fingers). Or He can say to them, like He said to the hand of Moses, "My children, half-way, not all the way, just half-way." Like leprosy maybe? "Moses, put your hand into your bosom." So he puts it in and the Lord says, "Now, my children!" "Moses, take your hand out." Leprosy, dripping, incurable, on the way back to dirt. "Moses, put your hand back in your bosom." And the Lord says, "Now, my children, as you were, everybody in your places." "'Take your hand out, Moses." Ahh, beautiful, clean, strong, pink flesh.

That's the miracle of God. Your children are a miracle. Everything around you is a miracle and for the first time we're beginning to understand: GOD SPEAKS AND THEY OBEY!

Things are made of that which acts and that which is acted upon and they've been identified for us by name. President Kimball said in the next world, that's when we'll have access to these intelligences to organize our own great systems.

Now Heavenly Father says, "Do you want to know what makes me God?" The source of God's power is D&C 29:36, Moses 4:1,4, where he talks about he source of His power, what makes Him God.

What do you think i t turns out to be? What makes a Being, suddenly, or over a process of time, a God?

"MY HONOR IS MY POWER!"

So that when I speak and I say water, organize into wine, a very high grade of wine, please, there's no problem, they reorganize.

We call it a miracle. It was nothing in the world but obedient intelligences, that's the doctrine.

Now, keeping that in mind, (that is, D&C 29:36), what would happen if the Father violated the confidence of these intelligences? What do you think would happen? No church on the face of the Earth has dared to announce the doctrine contained in the Book of Mormon, Alma 42. No church has dared to suggest that God could fall.

Our Heavenly Father says, "I want you to know I walk the razors edge of Celestial law continually in order to maintain the confidence and the honor of all those who trust me because that's the source of my power." Now that gives us a whole new understanding of our Heavenly Father.

In Alma 42:13, 22, 25, He repeats it over and over again and in Mormon 9:19, he repeats it: If He were unjust, if He were arbitrary, if He were false in any sense, He would what? CEASE TO BE GOD!

Our Heavenly Father says, "I want you to understand me. I work within very strict rules. I have to function so that I enjoy their confidence and do not violate it."

Now in Alma 34:9, the Father says, "Once I have put you down into the second estate, I have lost all capacity to bring you back. If I did, it would be arbitrary, capricious and unjust and violate the rules by which the whole kingdom has been established. I lost complete control over the possibility of bringing you back myself. "

Alma 34:9: GOD, THE FATHER, CANNOT SAVE US!

These are doctrines of the Church we seldom put in these dimensions. This is the Easter story. This is really the Easter story.

In fact it says there, that if there had not been some way to get us back to the presence of the Father, and it had been left to the Father, and he had been helpless to get us back, we would have ended back in outer darkness with Satan and his hosts. We would have gone the same route they went. And everything that had been organized by the Father in connection with us: our Earth, the other Earths (on which part of this family is located) and all the creations connected with it would have disintegrated and gone back to outer darkness, disorganized.

That's the scripture. Now this takes all the magic out of the creation. All of a sudden we can understand it in our finite way. Suddenly our Heavenly Father becomes so much more rational, comprehensible and our appreciation begins to accelerate as we begin to realize what a remarkable, beautiful, powerful personality He is.

2 Nephi 9:9; Here is where it says that we would end up with Satan and His angels were there no atonement. It is absolutely beyond the capacity of our Heavenly Father to lift His children who have stumbled, while learning the difference between good and evil, back into His presence because He has to operate according to the law. And all the other intelligences would say, "Father, now they have sinned and come short of thy glory; they cannot come back. Remember all the Laws you told us back then? We didn't get to be those top people, we were graded down. You remember? You know—laws you said, you kept talking about laws." These are they who demand justice and will not let us return. And should God try it, as it says in Alma, they would cease to honor Him and he would CEASE TO BE GOD!! That's the doctrine.

Then how do we do it? How do we do it? Alma 34:11:

"Now there is not any man that can sacrifice his own blood which will atone for the sins of another. Now, if a man murdereth, behold will our law, which is just, take the life of his brother? I say unto you, Nay."