(Mosiah 18: 8-10)

And now when the people had heard these words, they clapped their hands for joy, and exclaimed: This is the desire of our hearts. (v 11)
 
Let's look at the things he taught them about being a believer and member of the household of God:
  • Love one another
  • Share one another's burdens
  • Share sorrows and give comfort
  • Stand as a witness of God in all times, all things, and all places.
He also set apart 50 righteous men to be priests and teacher.  He admonished them to teach:
  • Nothing save it were the things which he had taught, and which had been spoken by the mouth of the holy prophets. (v 19)
  • Nothing save it were repentance and faith on the Lord, who had redeemed his people. (v 20)
  • That there should be no contention one with another, but that they should look forward with one eye, having one faith and one baptism, having their hearts knit together in unity and in love one towards another. (v 21)
He commanded them that they should:
  • Observe the Sabbath day, and keep it holy, and also every day they should give thanks to the Lord their God. (v 23)
  • Labor with their own hands for their support. (v 24) - No paid clergy as had been the case with the priests of Noah
  • Set apart [one day a week] that they should gather themselves together to teach the people, and to worship the Lord their God, and also, as often as it was in their power, to assemble themselves together. (v 25)
For their faithfulness and labor, the priest were promised that they would receive the grace of God, that they might wax strong in the Spirit, having the knowledge of God, that they might teach with power and authority from God. (v 26)

He commanded the people of the new church to:
  • Impart of their substance, every one according to that which he had; if he have more abundantly he should impart more abundantly; and of him that had but little, but little should be required; and to him that had not should be given . . . [according to]their own free will and good desires towards God, and . . . to every needy, naked soul. (v 27, 28)
And the people all did walk uprightly before God, imparting to one another both temporally and spiritually according to their needs and their wants. (v. 29)



It wasn't long after this marvelous baptismal service that King Noah found where they were hiding and they were forced to flee.  If it were not for their choosing to be true disciples and their making solemn covenants with God in the waters of baptism; they would not have been able to withstand the flight into the wilderness and the challenges that were yet to come.