“After Ye Had Received the Holy Ghost”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

We are not being told simply that those who are properly baptized and have received the Holy Ghost can receive revelation; what we are being told is that it cannot be denied them. As the day follows the night so the light of heaven will shine upon them. By it, Moroni said, they can “know the truth of all things” (Moroni 10:5); Nephi here taught that such will be shown “all things” that they should do; and Joseph Smith was told that by it we might know all things that are “expedient” for us (see D&C 88:63-65). Such “is the doctrine of Christ.” By the light of the Spirit that path leading to the presence of God is clearly marked, and all that we must do to traverse that path is plainly manifest.

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 1

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