"Now I've struggled with that statement, and I have found a definition that seems to indicate to me what I'm sure the Lord intended to convey.
The definition that I think is significant says:
'Justify means to pronounce free from guilt or blame, or to absolve.'
"Now if the Spirit, the Holy Ghost, is to pronounce one free from guilt or blame, or to absolve, then we begin to see something of the office of the Holy Ghost that relates to the subject about which we are talking: what is means to be born of the Spirit."
(Relief Society Personal Study Guide 4-1992-page 39)
How do I know?
Romans 15:13
D&C 88:3-4
Alma 7:15-16
Moroni 10:5
WHY DO I WANT TO BE CLEAN & FORGIVEN AND NUMBERED AMONG THE RIGHTEOUS?
A. The righteous are invited into PARADISE. (Alma 40:12, 25-26)
B. The righteous are lited up when the Savior comes. (1 Thess 4:14-17; D&C 88:96-101; D&C 45:44-48)
C. "These are they whom the Savior will bring with him, when He shall come in the clouds of heaven to reign on the earth over His people." (D&C 76:63)
D. While the wicked will have a perfect knowledge of all their guilt, & their uncleanness, the righteous shall have a perfect knowledge of their enjoyment, and their righteousness, being clothed with purity, yea, even with the robe of righteousness. (2 Nephi 9:14)
Dont I have to be perfect before I can be assured of exaltation?
"all the faithful Saints, all of those who have endured to the end, depart this life with the absolute guarantee of eternal life.
There is no equivocation, no doubt, no uncertainty in our minds. Those who have been true and faithful in this life will not fall by the wayside in the life to come. If they keep their covenants here and now and depart this life firm and true in the testimony of our blessed Lord, they shall come forth with an inheritance of eternal life.
We do not mean to say that those who die in the Lord, and who are true and faithful in this life, must be perfect in all things when they go into the next sphere of existence. There was only one perfect man—the Lord Jesus whose Father was God.
...But what we are saying is that when the saints of God chart a course of righteousness, when they gain sure testimonies of the truth and divinity of the Lord’s work, when they keep the commandments, when they overcome the world, when they put first in their lives the things of God’s kingdom: when they do all these things, and then depart this life—though they have not yet become perfect—they shall nonetheless gain eternal life in our Father’s kingdom; and eventually they shall be perfect as God their Father and Christ His Son are perfect."
There is no equivocation, no doubt, no uncertainty in our minds. Those who have been true and faithful in this life will not fall by the wayside in the life to come. If they keep their covenants here and now and depart this life firm and true in the testimony of our blessed Lord, they shall come forth with an inheritance of eternal life.
We do not mean to say that those who die in the Lord, and who are true and faithful in this life, must be perfect in all things when they go into the next sphere of existence. There was only one perfect man—the Lord Jesus whose Father was God.
...But what we are saying is that when the saints of God chart a course of righteousness, when they gain sure testimonies of the truth and divinity of the Lord’s work, when they keep the commandments, when they overcome the world, when they put first in their lives the things of God’s kingdom: when they do all these things, and then depart this life—though they have not yet become perfect—they shall nonetheless gain eternal life in our Father’s kingdom; and eventually they shall be perfect as God their Father and Christ His Son are perfect."
Bruce R. McConkie (Ensign, Nov. 1976, p. 107)
HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO QUALIFY FOR A CELESTIAL BODY?
(Alma 34:32-36)
HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO QUALIFY FOR ETERNAL LIFE OR EXALTATION if I am walking in the strait & narrow path each day?
I have this life plus spirit world time plus 1000 years during the millennium
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