Day 243

• Principle: Peace, through the Holy Ghost, is promised to Christ’s followers
• Book of Mormon Reading: Alma 60:1 - 60:13
• Jesus Christ promised the Comforter to come after he left.  As you study part of the fifth day of his last week look for teachings about the Holy Ghost and the blessings that come.
  • Read
    • John 14: 1-31
    • Matthew 26: 30; Mark 14: 26; Luke 22: 39
    • John 15: 1-27; 16: 1-33
• Bruce R. McConkie taught about the two comforters
  • “These statements about the two Comforters climax and crown the teachings of the Son of God. We have no record of anything he ever said which can so completely withdraw the curtain of eternity and open to the faithful a vision of the glories of God. Based on love, born of obedience, Jesus promises the saints that they can have, here and now in this life, the following:
    “(1) The gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost; the comfort and peace which it is the function of that Holy Spirit to bestow; the revelation and the sanctifying power which alone will prepare men for the companionship of gods and angels hereafter;
    “(2) Personal visitations from the Second Comforter, the Lord Jesus Christ himself, the resurrected and perfected being who dwells with his Father in the mansions on high; and
    “(3) God the Father—mark it well Philip!—shall visit man in person, take up his abode with him, as it were, and reveal to him all the hidden mysteries of his kingdom.” (McConkie, DNTC, 1:735.)
• Joseph Smith also taught about the second comforter
  • “Now what is this other Comforter. It is no more nor less than the Lord Jesus Christ himself; and this is the sum and substance of the whole matter; that when any man obtains this last Comforter, he will have the personage of Jesus Christ to attend him, or appear unto him from time to time, and even he will manifest the Father unto him, and they will take up their abode with him, and the visions of the heavens will be opened unto him, and the Lord will teach him face to face, and he may have a perfect knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God; and this is the state and place the ancient saints arrived at when they had such glorious visions—Isaiah, Ezekiel, John upon the Isle of Patmos, St. Paul in the three heavens, and all the saints who held communion with the general assembly and Church of the First Born.” (Teachings, pp. 150–51.)
• Additional Study:
  • Patricia P. Pinegar, "Peace, Hope, and Direction”, October 1999
  • An Angel Came to Joseph Smith, Children’s Songbook No. 86a
  • As the Shadows Fall, Hymns No. 168