Jesus Christ - Our Saviour and Redeemer

Today's lesson was taken from Chapter 6 of The Teachings of President Ezra Taft Benson: Jesus Christ, Our Saviour and Redeemer.

A most priceless blessing available to every member of the Church is a testimony of the divinity of Jesus Christ and His Church.  A testimony is one of the few possessions we may take with us when we leave this life.

To have a testimony of Jesus is to possess knowledge through the Holy Ghost of the divine mission of Jesus Christ.

A testimony of Jesus is to know the divine nature of our Lord's birth - that He is indeed the Only Begotten Son in the flesh.

A testimony of Jesus is to know that He was the promised Messiah and that while he sojourned among men that He accomplished many mighty miracles.

A testimony of Jesus is to know that the laws which He prescribed as His doctrine are true and then to abide by these laws and ordinances.

To possess a testimony of Jesus is to know that He voluntarily took upon Himself the sins of all mankind in the Garden of Gethsemane, which cause Him to suffer in both body and spirit and to bleed from every pore.  All this he did so that we would not have to suffer if we would repent.

To possess a testimony of Jesus is to know that He came forth triumphantly from the grave with a physical, resurrected body.  And because He lives, so shall all mankind.

To possess a testimony of Jesus is to know that God the Father and Jesus Christ did indeed appear to the Prophet Joseph Smith to establish a new dispensation of His gospel so that salvation may be preached to all nations before He comes.

To possess a testimony of Jesus is to know that God the Father and Jesus Christ did indeed appear to the Prophet Joseph Smith to establish a new dispensation of
His gospel so that salvation may be preached to all nations before He comes.

To possess a testimony of Jesus is to know that the Church, which He established in the meridian of time and restored in modern times is, as the Lord has declared, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth.

Having such a testimony is vital, but of even greater importance is being valiant to that testimony.

A testimony of Jesus means we that we accept the divine mission of Jesus Christ, embrace His gospel, and do His work. 

 

" We need more men and women of Christ who will always remember Him, who will keep His commandments which He has given them.  The greatest yardstick of success is to see how closely we can walk each moment in His steps."