These words conclude Amulek’s sermon. There is no chapter break at this point, and the next chapter moves to the events that followed these sermons. These people who have come to Alma were among the few converts that Alma and his brethren make in the land of Antionum.
The conclusion to the sermon is that the people remember the important aspects of Nephite religion, primarily, that they “should no more deny the coming of Christ.” This is a humbled people who do not appear to have had a desire to continue to do as the Zoramites did, so this is an exhortation not to return to old ways and beliefs, but to continue their process of developing faith.
When Amulek exhorts them “to have patience, and that ye bear with all manner of afflictions,” that is simply language parallel to the better-known admonition to “endure to the end.” As Nephi put it: “And if they will not repent and believe in his name, and be baptized in his name, and endure to the end, they must be damned; for the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has spoken it” (2 Nephi 9:24).