Day 128- Atonement Insights

The Purifying Power of the Gethsemame by Elder Bruce Mckonkie is one of the most powerful talks on the atonement.

Day 127- Atonement Insights

Elder Scott stated, "Your character will grow; your faith will increase. There is a relationship between those two: the greater your faith, the stronger your character; and increased character enhances your ability to exercise even greater faith."

Day 126-Atonement Insights

Stephen Robinson stated, "Of course we fail at the celestial level. That's why we need a savior, and we are commanded to approach God and to call upon him so we may receive according to our desires. In the New Testament the Savior says, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6). We misinterpret that frequently. We think that means blessed are the righteous. It does not. When are you hungry? When are you thirsty? When you don't have the object of your desire. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after the righteousness that God has, after the righteousness of the celestial kingdom, because as that is the desire of their heart, they can achieve it--they will be filled. We may receive "according to our desires."

Day 125-Atonement Insights

Day 124-Atonement Insights

Truman Madsen stated, "Likewise, we are promised that in the temple the Lord's name will be put upon us. It means at root that we become his. The answer to "Who am I?" can never be complete unless it answers "Whose am I?" You are the son or daughter of a king. The Father himself. Through the ordinances you are begotten spiritually through his Son. You become heir to his throne. That is a worldly way of saying it. But it is true. An old Jewish proverb says that the worst thing the evil inclination can ever do to you is to make you forget that you are the son or daughter of a king."

In the temple and at church, we participate in ordinances of the new and everlasting covenant. These ordinances also serves as a reminder that we can become joint heirs with Christ.

~The Temple and the Atonement

Day 123-Atonement Insights

Moroni 7:41And what is it that ye shall ^ahope for? Behold I say unto you that ye shall have ^bhope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life ^ceternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise.

Faith, hope, and charity are intertwined throughout the scriptures. As we hope for eternal life, the hope can bring about works through our faith and charity. As we pray and develop charity, the pure love of Christ, we will have a greater desire and be more fit to be heirs of the kingdom.

Day 122-Atonement Insights

D&C 76: 69These are they who are just men made perfect through Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, who wrought out this perfect atonement through the shedding of his own blood.

We can perfect ourselves in the atonement of Jesus Christ through the ordinances of the gospel such as baptism and temple marriage. Ordinances can mean laws and statues and acts with spiritual meaning.