The natural man is an enemy to God; the sanctified man is not. Through the atonement of Christ all mankind may, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel, sanctify themselves, cease to be God’s enemies, and become one with him. Such must yield to the enticings of the Holy Spirit.
The Book of Mormon seeks to invite all men to pursue such a course. “Come unto Christ,” Moroni pleaded as he completed his record, “and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.
And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye Sanctied in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ.” (Moroni 10:32-33; italics added.)