Moses 6

Moses 6:8 Book of Remembrance

 “Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of remembrance are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in their daily lives. Journals are a way of counting our blessings and of leaving an inventory of these blessings for our posterity.”

 President Spencer W. Kimball, Listen to the Prophets, Ensign (CR), May 1978, p.76

Moses 6:59. Water, Blood, and Spirit

 Elder Bruce R. McConkie explained: “Two births are essential to salvation. Man cannot be saved without birth into mortality, nor can he return to his heavenly home without a birth into the realm of the Spirit. . . . The elements present in a mortal birth and in a spiritual birth are the same. They are water, blood, and spirit. Thus every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth. 

“In every mortal birth the child is immersed in water in the mother’s womb. At the appointed time the spirit enters the body, and blood always flows in the veins of the new person. Otherwise, without each of these, there is no life, no birth, no mortality.   

“In every birth into the kingdom of heaven, the newborn babe in Christ is immersed in water, he receives the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, and the blood of Christ cleanses him from all sin. Otherwise, without each of these, there is no Spirit-birth, no newness of life, no hope of eternal life. . . .

(A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, 288 89).

Moses 6:60. Justification

To be justified is to be made just, or free from guilt and sin. 

The Holy Ghost is the member of the Godhead whose power

 acts as a cleansing agent that removes guilt and sin from 

our lives (see 2 Nephi 31:17). President Joseph Fielding 

Smith said: “Through the shedding of the blood of Christ, we 

are cleansed and sanctified; and we are justified, through 

the Spirit of God” (Doctrines of Salvation, 2:324–25).

Moses 6:60. Sanctification 

To be sanctified is to be holy and worthy of eternal life and immortal glory (see Moroni 10:32–33). Through His perfect Atonement, Jesus Christ shed His blood and made it possible for all who have faith and repent to be sanctified (see Mosiah 3:11, 18; Alma 34:10–16). Thus, we are ransomed and made holy by the blood of Christ.