Day 166
- Principle: Jesus is the promised Messiah.
- Book of Mormon Reading: Alma 17:18 - 17:31
- Ammon was in no hurry to leave Lamonhi and his people stating he was willing to stay until the day he died. How does the attitude of patience and humility open doors to teach of Jesus? How have patience and humility worked out in your life?
- How did Jesus testify of his premortal existence? What do you learn from others about Christ's pre-earth life?
- In Jesus the Christ Talmage taught about Jesus being the Word of God:
- “. . . the Father operated in the work of creation through the Son, who thus became the executive through whom the will, commandment, or word of the Father was put into effect. It is with incisive appropriateness therefore, that the Son, Jesus Christ, is designated by the apostle John as the Word; or as declared by the Father ‘the word of my power.’ (Moses 1:32.)” (Talmage, Jesus the Christ, p. 33.)
- From the First Presidency in 1909
- "The Father of Jesus is our Father also. Jesus Himself taught this truth when He instructed His disciples how to pray: “Our Father which art in heaven,” etc. Jesus, however, is the firstborn among all the sons of God—the first begotten in the spirit, and the only begotten in the flesh. He is our elder brother, and we, like Him, are in the image of God. All men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity." (https://www.lds.org/ensign/2002/02/the-origin-of-man?lang=eng)
- Additional Study