Visiting
Teaching February 2015
Prayerfully
study this material and seek to know what to share. How will understanding the
life and roles of the Savior increase your faith in Him and bless those you
watch over through visiting teaching? For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org.
Our
Savior, Jesus Christ, was the only one capable of
making an atonement for mankind. “Jesus Christ, the Lamb without blemish,
willingly laid Himself on the altar of sacrifice and paid the price for our
sins,” said President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor
in the First Presidency.1 Understanding that Jesus Christ was
without sin can help us increase our faith in Him and strive to keep His
commandments, repent, and become pure.
“Jesus was … a being of flesh and spirit, but He yielded
not to temptation (see Mosiah 15:5),” said Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum
of the Twelve Apostles. “We can turn to Him … because He understands. He
understands the struggle, and He also understands how to win the struggle. …
“… The power of His Atonement can erase the effects of
sin in us. When we repent, His atoning grace justifies and cleanses us (see 3 Nephi 27:16–20). It is as if we had
not succumbed, as if we had not yielded to temptation.
“As we endeavor day by day and week by week to follow the
path of Christ, our spirit asserts its preeminence, the battle within subsides,
and temptations cease to trouble.” 2
Additional
Scriptures
From the Scriptures
The Savior paid the price of our sins through His divine
Sonship, His sinless life, His suffering and the shedding of His blood in the
Garden of Gethsemane, His death on the cross and His Resurrection
from the grave. Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can become clean
again as we repent of our sins.
King Benjamin taught his people of the Atonement of Jesus
Christ and then asked if they believed his words. “They all cried with one
voice, saying: … the Spirit … has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our
hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good
continually. …
“And we are willing to enter into a covenant with our God
to do his will, and to be obedient to his commandments in all things” (Mosiah 5:1–2, 5).
We too can have a “mighty change” like the people of King
Benjamin, who “had no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually”
(Mosiah 5:2).
Consider This
How does being pure differ from being perfect?
“Be Pure”
cji
2/1/15
When converted be
pure
putting away the
worldly
clean and clear
speech
chaste thoughts
actions
modest appearance
always
be pure in
understanding
acquire correct
knowledge
validate being a
child of God
putting away the
worldly
being pure within
always!
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