Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Evidences someone is following Christ

Mosiah 4 talks about how to keep a retain a remission of sins after it's once been granted. It's an important topic for our day considering much emphasis in the Christian world seems to be placed on having a conversion experience but not necessarily as much on enduring to the end. This topic is also a main focus in Alma 5.

A few verses stood out to me in Mosiah 4. Verses 13, 14-15, and 16 talk about 3 different things that will happen (naturally happen I believe) after someone has come to Christ in humility. The 3 main things are:
1) live peaceably with everyone
2) teach children to love one another and not fight
3) take care of the poor/beggar

Doing these 3 things can be a litmus test of sorts to see if we're in the right place, doing the right things. They appear to happen after we've humbly come to Christ. In other words, they're things that matter to Him and therefore, he'll help us and push us to do once we've come to Him. Here's the verses:


 13 And ye will not have a amind to injure one another, but to livebpeaceably, and to render to every man according to that which is his due.
 14 And ye will not suffer your achildren that they go hungry, or naked; neither will ye bsuffer that they transgress the laws of God, and fight and cquarrel one with another, and serve the devil, who is the master of sin, or who is the devil spirit which hath been spoken of by our fathers, he being an enemy to all righteousness.
 15 But ye will ateach them to bwalk in the ways of truth andcsoberness; ye will teach them to dlove one another, and to serve one another.
 16 And also, ye yourselves will asuccor those that stand in need of your succor; ye will administer of your substance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not suffer that the bbeggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish.

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