Imagine being judged for all your thoughts, words, and actions.
Gospel Principles Chapter 46
The prophet Alma testified, “Our words will condemn us, yea, all our works will condemn us; … and our thoughts will also condemn us” (Alma 12:14)
Is it true that our words, actions, and thoughts will be used to judge us?
The scriptures teach that all of us will be judged according to our works: “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works” (Revelation 20:12; see also D&C 76:111; 1 Nephi 15:32; Abraham 3:25–28). We will also be judged “according to the desire of [our] hearts” (D&C 137:9; see also Alma 41:3).
Alma taught that when we die our spirits are assigned to a state of happiness or of misery (see Alma 40:11–15). This is a judgment.
Chapter 46: The Final Judgment
According to Doctrine and Covenants 76:50–53, 62–70, what are the characteristics of a person who overcomes the world by faith and is valiant in the testimony of Jesus?
Chapter 46: The Final Judgment
In reality, every day is a day of judgment. We speak, think, and act according to celestial, terrestrial, or telestial law. Our faith in Jesus Christ, as shown by our daily actions, determines which kingdom we will inherit.
We have the restored gospel of Jesus Christ in its fulness. The gospel is the law of the celestial kingdom. All the priesthood ordinances necessary for our progression have been revealed. We have entered the waters of baptism and have made a covenant to live Christlike lives. If we are faithful and keep the covenants we have made, the Lord has told us what our judgment will be. He will say unto us, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Matthew 25:34).
Chapter 46: The Final Judgment
Additional Scriptures
Romans 2:6–9; Revelation 20:12–13 (the Judgment)
Alma 11:41, 45; Mormon 7:6; 9:13–14 (we are judged in a resurrected state)
2 Nephi 29:11; 3 Nephi 27:23–26 (books used in the Judgment)
Alma 41:2–7 (our judgment is determined by our works, the desires of our hearts, repentance, enduring to the end)
Mormon 3:22 (repent and prepare to stand before the judgment seat)
Luke 12:47–48; D&C 82:3 (of whom much is given, much is required)
D&C 88:16–33 (we each receive that for which we are worthy)
Chapter 46: The Final Judgment
All May Know the Truth: Alma’s Experiment and Moroni’s Promise | Alma 32; Mormon 8–9; Moroni 1, 10
27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.
Alma 32:27
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
Moroni 10:4-5
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.
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