Day 22

  • Principle: Jesus Christ is “the Firstborn of the Father, the Only Begotten Son in the flesh, the Redeemer of the world” (The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles)

  • Read: 1 Nephi 16:1 - 16:16

    • The Liahona led Nephi and his family to the more fertile parts of the land.  In verse 8 Nephi speaks of his great blessings.  Why do you think the Lord so willing to help Nephi and his family?
  • Jesus Christ came with a unique mission to fulfill that mission He had a mortal mother and an immortal Father.  Just as you have inherited unique traits from your mother and other traits from your father so did Jesus Christ.  Read the following statement from Jesus the Christ while considering what characteristics he gained from his mother and what he gained from his Father.
    • “That Child to be born of Mary was begotten of Elohim, the Eternal Father, not in violation of natural law but in accordance with a higher manifestation thereof; … In His nature would be combined the powers of Godhood with the capacity and possibilities of mortality; and this through the ordinary operation of the fundamental law of heredity, declared of God, demonstrated by science, and admitted by philosophy, that living beings shall propagate—after their kind. The Child Jesus was to inherit the physical, mental, and spiritual traits, tendencies, and powers that characterized His parents—one immortal and glorified—God, the other human—woman” (Jesus the Christ, 3rd ed. [1916], 81).
    • Study Matthew 1:18–24 and Luke 1:26–35 in what ways do these verses testify of who were Jesus Christ's parents?
    • Make a list of important traits Jesus Christ inherited from his mother and his Father.
  • Finish today by watching "The Nativity"
  • Additional Study