Son and daughters of Christ Flashcards
Jesus explained how He is both the Father and the Son to the brother of Jared as follows: “Behold, I am he who was prepared from the foundation of the world to redeem my people. Behold, I am Jesus Christ. I am the Father and the Son. In me shall all mankind have life, and that eternally, even they who shall believe on my name; and they shall become my sons and my daughters” (Ether 3:14).
By virtue of His Atonement the Savior has the power and the authority to redeem mankind, and those who are redeemed are referred to as His sons and daughters.
… We must become like [God]; peradventure to sit upon thrones, to have dominion, power, and eternal increase. God designed this in the beginning. …
This is the object of our existence in the world; and we can only attain to these things through obedience to certain principles, through walking in certain channels, through obtaining certain information, certain intelligence from God, without which no man can accomplish his work or fulfill the mission he has come upon the earth to fulfill.
These principles are the principles of the gospel of eternal truth, the principles of faith, repentance, and baptism for the remission of sins, the principle of obedience to God the eternal Father; for obedience is one of the first principles or laws of heaven.
chapter 37
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teachings-joseph-f-smith/chapter-37?lang=eng
Man is the child of God, formed in the divine image and endowed with divine attributes, and even as the infant son of an earthly father and mother is capable in due time of becoming a man, so the undeveloped offspring of celestial parentage is capable, by experience through ages and aeons, of evolving into a God.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teachings-joseph-f-smith/chapter-37?lang=eng
John 1:12: “But to as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe on his name.”
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the bSpirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Romans 8:16-17: “The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.”
Spiritual rebirth is attended by the Holy Ghost and awakens a power within us to discover our divine nature, identity, and purpose. The Book of Mormon provides a road map for this remarkable spiritual regeneration in the book of Mosiah.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2017/04/becoming-children-of-christ?lang=eng
He emphasized that we can be saved “only in and through the name of Christ” and that we must “become as little children, and believe that salvation was, and is, and is to come, in and throughthe atoning blood of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent” (Mosiah 3:17, 18).
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2017/04/becoming-children-of-christ?lang=eng
King Benjamin then declared:
“Because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2017/04/becoming-children-of-christ?lang=eng
Covenants are sacred promises. “In these divine agreements, God binds himself to sustain, sanctify, and exalt us in return for our commitment to serve Him and keep His commandments,” said Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.1
becoming the children of Christ
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2017/04/becoming-childr
Like Marcos and King Benjamin’s people, we need the enabling power of gospel covenants. We need to become and remain children of Christ. I invite all to be “steadfast and immovable, always abounding in good works, that Christ, the Lord God Omnipotent, may seal [us] his, that [we] may be brought to heaven, that [we] may have everlasting salvation and eternal life, through the wisdom, and power, and justice, and mercy of him who created all things, in heaven and in earth, who is God above all” (Mosiah 5:15).
becoming the children of Christ
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2017/04/becoming-children-of-christ?lang=eng
Allow repentance to empower you to partake of the sacrament worthily each week so that you may renew your commitment to take the Savior’s name upon you, always remember Him, and keep His commandments
becoming the children of Christ
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2017/04/becoming-childr
Covenants transform us. In sacred covenants, we hear the Lord’s voice and feel His love. They enable us to more fully understand who we are, why we are here, and how to follow the Savior in our lives, continually growing “in the knowledge of the glory of him that created you” (Mosiah 4:12).
becoming the children of Christ
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2017/04/becoming-childr
“The goodness of God, and his matchless power, and his wisdom, and his patience, and his long-suffering towards the children of men” (Mosiah 4:6). Everyone of those virtues of God I have counted on, I count on now, I will count on again—whether it is his long-suffering, his matchless power, or his goodness. And so do you!
Those are thevery virtues that must come in a measure to be ours, my brothers and sisters.This constitutes the journey of discipleship. We must, like the prodigal son, arise and go to our father and be prepared for that resplendent reunion. We can hasten the journey only insofar as we hasten the process of becoming like him, as the children of Christ going home.
Neal maxwell
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/neal-a-maxwell/children-christ/
Rather than existing without the gospel in a mortal maze, instead I stand all amazed at the wonders of that gospel that we should be privileged to be his children.
Neal maxwell
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/neal-a-maxwell/children-christ/
The children of Christ know now whose they are, whence they came, why they are here, and what manner of men and women they are to become (see 2 Peter 3:11, 3 Nephi 27:27). Still, the children of Christ, like Alma, will “long to be there” in the royal courts on high (Alma 36:22). It is the only destination that really matters. Resplendent reunion awaits us! What is more natural and more wonderful than children going home? Especially to a home where the past, the present, and the future form an everlasting and eternal now! (See D&C 130:7; 38:2; Teachings, p. 220.)
Neal maxwell
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/neal-a-maxwell/children-christ/Neal maxwell
