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When coupled with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the principle of repentance becomes the second ordinance of the gospel. As a ministering angel, John the Baptist conferred “the keys . . . of the gospel of repentance” upon Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, on May 15, 1829, 14 which gave them and those whom they commissioned authority to call men to repentance and to have their message binding upon the world. To repent is to turn, often with sorrow, contrition, regret, or remorse, from a past course of action to one that is based upon rectitude and truth. A revelation to Joseph Smith said of repentance: “By this ye may know if a man repenteth of his sins—behold, he will confess them and forsake them.”Share
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