Written by the Father
After describing His gospel, the Savior said this to His Nephite disciples: “For behold, out of the books which have been written, and which shall be written, shall this people be judged, for by them shall their works be known unto men. And behold, all things are written by the Father; therefore out of the books which shall be written shall the world be judged. And know ye that ye shall be judges of this people, according to the judgment which I shall give unto you, which shall be just. Therefore, what manner of men ought ye to be? Verily I say unto you, even as I am” (3 Nephi 27:25-27). We are to be judged after those things which are written, and one way to understand this is that an account of our actions will be recorded and used as a part of our judgment; that is the sense of the words to the hymn Do What Is Right : “Angels above us are silent notes taking Of ev’ry action; then do what is right!” John also recorded this from his vision, “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand ...