“Your Destruction is Made Sure”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

After a person refuses to have faith in Christ and reject Christ’s offer to make him free from sin; after he spurns the ordinances of salvation and thus forsakes the only channel by which the powers of godliness might be enjoyed in his life; after he lives in such a way as to offend and grieve the Holy Spirit, the only true source of light and comfort in a troubled and sin-tangled world; after a person fails to humble himself before God, fails to partake of the bread of life and the living waters, fails to receive and abide by the word of the Almighty -after making these negative responses and remaining unrepentant, that person will find his calling and destruction made sure (compare Teachings, p. 150).

His is the plight of the hopeless, the destiny of the doomed, the abode of the damned. Having chosen darkness, deceit, and degradation in this life, he will be rewarded with or have restored to him hereafter circumstances consistent with that choice. Where God and Christ and the faithful dwell such souls cannot come, worlds without end (see D&C 76:112).

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 3

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