Mosiah 3
Reading Assignment for Class on Monday, Nov. 27: Mosiah 3
Learning Activity:
1. As you study Mosiah 3, look for the source of “glad tidings of great joy” (Mosiah 3:3).
2. As you read Mosiah 3:5–10, mark words or phrases about the Savior and His ministry that help you better appreciate the Savior’s mortal ministry.
3. Read this quote and consider copying it into your electronic scriptures with Mosiah 3:7
Elder James E. Talmage of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles about the Savior’s suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane:“Christ’s agony in the garden is unfathomable by the finite mind, both as to intensity and cause. … He struggled and groaned under a burden such as no other being who has lived on earth might even conceive as possible. It was not physical pain, nor mental anguish alone, that caused him to suffer such torture as to produce an extrusion of blood from every pore; but a spiritual agony of soul such as only God was capable of experiencing. … In that hour of anguish Christ met and overcame all the horrors that Satan, ‘the prince of this world’ [John 14:30] could inflict. …
“In some manner, actual and terribly real though to man incomprehensible, the Savior took upon Himself the burden of the sins of mankind from Adam to the end of the world” (Jesus the Christ, 3rd ed. [1916], 613).
Then write your thoughts and feelings for the Savior in your journal.
4. Read Mosiah 3:19 and then this quote from Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles about putting off the natural man: “Personal righteousness, worship, prayer, and scripture study are so crucial in order to ‘[put] off the natural man’ (Mosiah 3:19)” (“The Tugs and Pulls of the World,” Ensign, Nov. 2000, 36).
Want More?
Mosiah 3:19
KnoWhy #311
May 10, 2017