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Jesus The Christ


Jesus The Christ.

Hello everyone, our  topic is about the second member of the Godhead, The Savior and Redeemer of the world, Jesus Christ.  Again this topic will be broken into two separate post, and like Heavenly Father, we will be discussing the sacred nature of Jesus, and his work.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, we believe that God the Father, his son: Jesus Christ, and The Holy Ghost, are separate individuals.1 Many religions believe that they are one person in three separate embodiments, but we believe the Godhead, are three separate beings who are one in purpose. They share the same purpose; which is to bring about immortality and eternal life, which was discussed last time. Jesus Christ is the way to this, he is our medium and our advocate. It is through him that we obtain immortality and eternal life.
So who is Jesus Christ? The life, ministry and atonement of Jesus Christ was prophesied by many prophets before he came to Earth. Whilst many are very ambiguous and hard to decipher, (for example: The Shiloh Prophecy where Jacob[Israel], is giving his son, Judah a blessing. In that blessing he claims the analogy that the, “Scepter[the really cool staff that kings and queens hold whilst they sit on the throne], should not depart from Judah... until Shiloh come.”)2 There are various one’s we can go on, and on, and on, but then this would really turn into an Old Testament Prophecies of Jesus Christ which would be interesting, but distract our main message. I invite you to read the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, where the prophet receives revelation about the coming Messiah, his suffering, and his atonement for redeeming mankind.
Along with those various prophecies of Jesus Christ, we can testify he did come in the meridian of time. The world has adjusted its chronological order to accordance with the birth of the babe (B.C. to A.D). Along with that we can see that the people of the Book of Mormon were also chronologically impacted with the coming of the Savior.3  We saw how Jesus coming to the Earth was such a big event in Bible times, as well as Book of Mormon times; just by the changing of chronological years.
The first separation, I would like to go to, of God and Jesus Christ being different, is within the Testimony of Saint John. In the very first chapter John talks about The Word, and how The Word was with God, and that The Word was God. All thing were made by The Word, and if The Word didn’t do anything, we would be kinda like... stuck, waiting to come to somewhere.4
Anyways.
Later in the the chapter, John testifies that The Word was made into flesh and came to earth to be with us, and was filled with Glory of The Only Begotten of the Father5. We can interpret here that Jesus is the word, that John had been speaking of, and that through him all things were created. His divine identity was spoken of by Peter, AKA Simon, when Jesus sat and talked with his disciples. Here in the sixteenth chapter of Matthew Jesus asked for a report from his apostles, asking who does everyone think that Jesus is? His disciples throw in the answers, “They think you are John, Elias, Jeremiah, other prophets!”6
Jesus then asks his disciples, “Well then, who do you think I am?” This then triggers the response from Peter who claims that Jesus is The Son of Living God, which causes Jesus to praise Matthew by claiming that there was no man here on the earth to tell him that, but that Jesus’s Father, who is in Heaven has revealed it to Peter.7
So we can see through many accounts within The Old and New Testament within The Holy Bible that Jesus Christ was going to/ and did come. Sent from his Heavenly Father to dwell among the children of men. But our belief comes with the third witness, coming from the Book of Mormon. Mormon, he who abridged the ancient record, stated that The Book of Mormon was for, “...convincing the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ.”8
To conclude I invite all of you to search inside the scriptures about who Jesus Christ is, and to find for yourselves, the evidence that he is the Only Begotten Son of the Father.  



Sources.
  1. Article of Faith. 1.
  2. Genesis. 49:10 (KJV)
  3. 3 Nephi. 2: 8
  4. St. John. Chapter 1. See verses 1-3. (KJV)
  5. St. John. 1: 14. (KJV)
  6. St. Matthew 16: 13-14. (KJV)
  7. St. Matthew 16: 15-17. (KJV)
  8. This phrase is found in The Very First Page of the Book of Mormon titled: An Account Written By the Hand of Mormon, in the second paragraph.

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