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Those who enter into the covenant of baptism receive a special endowment of faith in Jesus Christ, and with the gift of the Holy Ghost comes the witness that the testimonies we have received concerning Christ are true. Many are further blessed to hear the testimonies of parents, grandparents, and faithful friends. We have the special witnesses of our own time who live among us and from whom, with our own eyes and ears, we receive a confirming testimony. We have another testament, the Book of Mormon, the central purpose of which is “the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations.” 1 We have the Prophet Joseph Smith’s testimony that he saw and heard the Father point to Jesus and declare, “This is My Beloved Son” ( Joseph Smith-History 1:17), and the Prophet’s later attestation that “after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives! For we saw him, even on the right hand of God and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father” ( D&C 76:22–23).
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We have the Old and New Testaments of His foreordination, ministry, and Atonement. We have the recorded testimony of the Apostles that “this Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are all witnesses” ( Acts 2:32). Our witness of Christ typically begins with the testimony of others-people we know or know about and trust. Jesus made it plain to Thomas that one could have the same belief or witness Thomas had received without touching and seeing Him: “Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed” ( John 20:29). When Peter testified to Jesus, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God,” the Lord responded that this knowledge came not as a consequence of Peter’s physical proximity or experiences with Jesus but because His Father in Heaven had revealed it to him (see Matthew 16:15–17). Nevertheless, a witness of Christ does not need to have seen Him or entered into His presence. The ancient Apostles knew that Jesus was the promised Messiah and spoke from personal experience of His literal Resurrection. We are witnesses of Christ when we receive a sure, personal testimony that He lives.īeing a witness of Jesus Christ in the most fundamental sense is to possess a sure, personal testimony that He is the divine Son of God, the Savior and Redeemer of the world.
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Indeed, the Lord relies on “the weak and the simple” to declare His gospel (see D&C 1:19, 23), and it is His desire “that every man might speak in the name of God the Lord, even the Savior of the world” ( D&C 1:20).Ĭonsider some ways a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can be a witness of Christ. It is within the capacity of each of us to become His witness. All of us who are baptized and confirmed have taken upon us the name of Jesus Christ with a commitment “to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places” ( Mosiah 18:9). Yet the Apostles must not and do not stand alone. Their testimony is vital in the Lord’s work of salvation.
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Apostles, by virtue of their priesthood office, are commissioned as special witnesses of Christ in all the world (see D&C 107:23).