The Great Plan of Happiness

Earl C. Tingey April 2006 Sunday Morning Session

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  1. Jacob 4:12

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    The prophet Jacob asked, “Why not speak of the atonement of Christ, and attain to a perfect knowledge of him?”

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  2. Alma 42:8

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    Alma refers to the Atonement as “the great plan of happiness.” I shall use that phrase to describe the beautiful doctrine we know as the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

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  3. 2 Nephi 9:13

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    Alma refers to the Atonement as “the great plan of happiness.” I shall use that phrase to describe the beautiful doctrine we know as the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

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  4. Moses 6:62

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    Alma refers to the Atonement as “the great plan of happiness.” I shall use that phrase to describe the beautiful doctrine we know as the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

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  5. 2 Nephi 9:8

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    A Book of Mormon prophet answers this question for us with joyful expressions of thanksgiving for the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which ransoms us from death: “O the wisdom of God, his mercy and grace!

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  6. 2 Nephi 9:17

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    A Book of Mormon prophet answers this question for us with joyful expressions of thanksgiving for the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which ransoms us from death: “O the wisdom of God, his mercy and grace!

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  7. Alma 42:23

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    Alma taught that “mercy claimeth the penitent” and that “the plan of redemption could not be brought about, only on conditions of repentance.”

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  8. Alma 42:13

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    Alma taught that “mercy claimeth the penitent” and that “the plan of redemption could not be brought about, only on conditions of repentance.”

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  9. Alma 34:16

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    thus mercy can satisfy the demands of justice, and encircles them in the arms of safety, while he that exercises no faith unto repentance is exposed to the whole law of the demands of justice; therefore only unto him that has faith unto repentance is brought about the great and eternal plan of redemption.”
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  10. Alma 12:32

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    Adam and Eve, our first parents, transgressed law and were cast out of the beautiful Garden of Eden.

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  11. Moses 5:10

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    Adam said, “For because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God.”

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  12. Moses 5:11

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    Eve uttered a similar acclamation of happiness: “Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption.”

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  13. Alma 34:32

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    “This life is the time for men to prepare to meet God.”

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  14. Alma 34:33

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    “Do not procrastinate the day of your repentance.”

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  15. Alma 34:34

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    “That same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.”

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  16. Doctrine and Covenants 19:18

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    Describing His suffering, the Lord said in modern revelation, “Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit.”

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  1. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 3: The Need of a Redeemer

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    • 2 Nephi 9:13

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      Open paragraph (1)
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      Those who thus early came forth are spoken of as “the saints”; and other scriptures confirm the fact that only the righteous shall be brought forth in the earlier stages of the resurrection yet to be consummated; but that all the dead shall in turn resume bodies of flesh and bones is placed beyond doubt by the revealed word.

  2. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 36: In the Realm of Disembodied Spirits

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    • 2 Nephi 9:13

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      Open paragraph (1)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (2 Nephi 9:13)

      Paradise.—The scriptures prove that at the time of the final judgment every man will stand before the bar of God, clothed in his resurrected body, and this, irrespective of his condition of righteousness or guilt.

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