“We Are Willing to Enter into a Covenant with Our God”

Bryan Richards

By virtue of the righteous covenant made, the people are called the children of Christ, they promise to be obedient unto the end, and they receive his name. This was the desire of Benjamin even before he began his sermon, I will give this people a name, that thereby they may be distinguished above all the people which the Lord God hath brought out of the land of Jerusalem (Mosiah 1:11). At the most fundamental level, it is clear that every newly baptized member of the Church effectively does the same thing by taking upon them the name of Christ. However, the relationship between covenant making and receiving a new name has a deeper meaning to endowed members of the Church. This is the pattern being established by Benjamin.

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