Kindle Notes & Highlights
Those whose overriding desire is to actually know God in mortality and who diligently and consistently act on this desire will find Him and will be given a place at His right hand. Those who put other priorities ahead of this preeminent one will find themselves at His left. If we truly desire to know Him, we will be unrelenting in our quest to both seek and find Him. The process of coming unto Christ cannot be described in simpler terms.
To more easily understand the ordinance and doctrine of baptism, it would be more accurate to describe baptism as “baptisms,” in its plural form, since by definition we must be completely “immersed and overwhelmed” in both elements, water and Spirit. Otherwise the ordinance is incomplete. A man with proper authority performs the prior and God performs the latter, subject to the fulfillment of the requirements associated with the promised blessing. Or in other words, the actual gift comes through obedience to that law upon which the promised blessing (in this case, the reception and
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This inner yearning, and the impulse to go into a bookstore, was God's light, leading and guiding with that inner spiritual nudge to act. But we must become more aware of these nudges. And then we must act, or else we are not valuing the gift of revelation that has come. And if we don't value these gifts, the gifts will eventually cease coming with the same frequency, or cease coming at all.
The Church is the scaffolding needed to work on the temple of “us.” We are the temple of God. We need to receive his gospel in order to be saved. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides the necessary ordinances with the required priesthood authority, without which we could not receive the fullness of the "exceeding great and precious promises" available that were referenced by the apostle Peter (see 2 Peter 1:4). "Therefore, in the ordinances thereof, the power of godliness is manifest” (D&C 84:20-21).
