Monthly Archives: November 2011

“And now, my beloved brothers and sisters, what must we do this
Christmas season – and always? Why, we must do the same as the
Wise Men of old. They sought out the Christ and found Him. And so
must we. Those who are wise still seek Him today. . . . What a gift it
would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the
Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others. To
that end may I encourage you not only to read the biblical account
of Christ’s birth, but to read and share with a nonmember
acquaintance the Book of Mormon account of Christmas Eve in
America and Christ’s personal manifestation following His
resurrection. . . . In Book of Mormon language, we need “to believe
in Christ and deny him not.” (2 Ne. 25:28.) We need to trust in Christ
and not in the arm of flesh. (See 2 Ne. 4:34.) We need to “come
unto Christ, and be perfected in him.” (Moro. 10:32.) We need to
come “with a broken heart and a contrite spirit” (3 Ne. 12:19),
hungering and thirsting after righteousness (see 3 Ne. 12:6). We
need to come “feasting upon the word of Christ” (2 Ne. 31:20), as
we receive it through His scriptures, His anointed, and His Holy
Spirit. . . . Not many years hence, Christ will come again. He will
come in power and might as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And
ultimately every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that
Jesus is the Christ. But I testify now that Jesus is the Christ, that
Joseph Smith is His prophet, that the Book of Mormon is the word of
God, and that His church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, is true, and that Christ is at its helm. I do so in the name of
Him whose birth we honor this Christmas season.”
President Ezra Taft Benson
1985