We Look To Christ
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“We believe in Christ. We teach of Christ. We look to Christ. He is our Redeemer, our Lord, and our Savior.”
President Hinckley spoke of an experience he had at the open house of the Mesa Arizona Temple, where clergymen from various religious groups were invited to attend. Once such clergyman asked President Hinckley why there were no representations of the cross which is a predominate symbol in most Christian faiths. President Hinckley replied that the cross to members of our faith represents "the symbol of the dying Christ, while our message is a declaration of the living Christ."
When asked what was the symbol of our religion, President Hinckley replied, "the lives of our people must become the only meaningful expression of our faith and, in fact, therefore, the symbol of our worship… No sign, no work of art, no representation of form is adequate to express the glory and the wonder of the Living Christ. He told us what that symbol should be when he said, ‘If ye love me, keep my commandments.’ (John 14:15.)
“As his followers, we cannot do a mean or shoddy or ungracious thing without tarnishing his image. Nor can we do a good and gracious and generous act without burnishing more brightly the symbol of him whose name we have taken upon ourselves.“
And so our lives must become a meaningful expression, the symbol of our declaration of our testimony of the Living Christ, the Eternal Son of the Living God.
Absolutely basic to our faith is our testimony of Jesus Christ as the Son of God. … He is the chief cornerstone of the church which bears His name.2 We believe in Christ. We teach of Christ. We look to Christ. He is our Redeemer, our Lord, and our Savior.3
We believe in Christ's earthly ministry, in his arrest and crucifixion and death, and in his resurrection.
To all who may have doubts, I repeat the words given Thomas as he felt the wounded hands of the Lord: “Be not faithless, but believing” [John 20:27]. Believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the greatest figure of time and eternity. Believe that his matchless life reached back before the world was formed. Believe that he was the Creator of the earth on which we live. Believe that he was Jehovah of the Old Testament, that he was the Messiah of the New Testament, that he died and was resurrected, that he visited the western continents and taught the people here, that he ushered in this final gospel dispensation, and that he lives, the living Son of the living God, our Savior and our Redeemer.7
“We believe in Christ. We teach of Christ. We look to Christ. He is our Redeemer, our Lord, and our Savior.”
President Hinckley spoke of an experience he had at the open house of the Mesa Arizona Temple, where clergymen from various religious groups were invited to attend. Once such clergyman asked President Hinckley why there were no representations of the cross which is a predominate symbol in most Christian faiths. President Hinckley replied that the cross to members of our faith represents "the symbol of the dying Christ, while our message is a declaration of the living Christ."
When asked what was the symbol of our religion, President Hinckley replied, "the lives of our people must become the only meaningful expression of our faith and, in fact, therefore, the symbol of our worship… No sign, no work of art, no representation of form is adequate to express the glory and the wonder of the Living Christ. He told us what that symbol should be when he said, ‘If ye love me, keep my commandments.’ (John 14:15.)
“As his followers, we cannot do a mean or shoddy or ungracious thing without tarnishing his image. Nor can we do a good and gracious and generous act without burnishing more brightly the symbol of him whose name we have taken upon ourselves.“
And so our lives must become a meaningful expression, the symbol of our declaration of our testimony of the Living Christ, the Eternal Son of the Living God.
Absolutely basic to our faith is our testimony of Jesus Christ as the Son of God. … He is the chief cornerstone of the church which bears His name.2 We believe in Christ. We teach of Christ. We look to Christ. He is our Redeemer, our Lord, and our Savior.3
We believe in Christ's earthly ministry, in his arrest and crucifixion and death, and in his resurrection.
To all who may have doubts, I repeat the words given Thomas as he felt the wounded hands of the Lord: “Be not faithless, but believing” [John 20:27]. Believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the greatest figure of time and eternity. Believe that his matchless life reached back before the world was formed. Believe that he was the Creator of the earth on which we live. Believe that he was Jehovah of the Old Testament, that he was the Messiah of the New Testament, that he died and was resurrected, that he visited the western continents and taught the people here, that he ushered in this final gospel dispensation, and that he lives, the living Son of the living God, our Savior and our Redeemer.7
Each of us can know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Redeemer of the world, resurrected from the grave.
In order to obtain knowledge and gain a testimony of Christ's resurrection and of the truth that He is our redeemer we can:
1. Read the Word of the Lord
2. Serve in the Work of the Lord
3. Pray- Speak with your Eternal Father in the name of his Beloved Son. “Behold,” he says, “I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” (Rev. 3:20.)
This is his invitation, and the promise is sure. It is unlikely that you will hear voices from heaven, but there will come a heaven-sent assurance, peaceful and certain.
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