When the Elder asks why do we come to church on Sabbath day on 12 June, 2011, I was prompted to stand and reply his reasonable request. For we are covenant people of the Lord. I realize people come to church for various reasons, most are subways, and byways or own opinions, which are not necessarily real reasons. According to scriptures, by virtue of our premortal existence, we are all children of our Heavenly Father. However, we become sons and daughters of God when we are baptized in water,and receive Jesus Christ as our Saviour, and believe in the Gospel, as scriptures testisfy to confirm it.
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In other words, we are made covenant people of the Lord. Being children of God, we become sons and daughters of God only upon baptism into the water (God's language), unlike being children of human parents we are sons and daughters of parents upon birth (English language).
Therefore, to be accepted into the Royal Family of God, we must enter into an ordinance of water baptism on earth or by proxy ( for spirits in the spirit world).
