Eternal Life—to Know Our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ

Robert D. Hales October 2014 Sunday Morning Session

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  1. Doctrine and Covenants 14:7

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    As I have read these testimonies—and many others like them over the years—it has always touched my heart to sense how deeply Heavenly Father loves His eldest Son and how Jesus shows His love by His obedience to His Father’s will.

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  2. John 17:3

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    “this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
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  3. Doctrine and Covenants 46:13

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    “To some it is given by the Holy Ghost to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and to others it is
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  4. 2 Nephi 32:3

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    In this process, seeking for personal revelation is a key.

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  5. 1 John 4:19

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    Before my eighth birthday, I sought to know more about baptism.

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  6. Moses 4:2

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    Teaching about our premortal life, Heavenly Father referred to Jesus Christ as “my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning.” When the Father created the earth, He did so “by [His] Only Begotten” Son.

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  7. Moses 2:1

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    Teaching about our premortal life, Heavenly Father referred to Jesus Christ as “my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning.” When the Father created the earth, He did so “by [His] Only Begotten” Son.

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  8. Luke 1:32

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    Jesus’s mother, Mary, was told she would bring forth “the Son of the Highest.” And when Jesus was a young man, He told His mother that He “must be about [His] Father’s business.” Years later, when the Savior was baptized, Heavenly Father spoke from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

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  9. Luke 2:49

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    Jesus’s mother, Mary, was told she would bring forth “the Son of the Highest.” And when Jesus was a young man, He told His mother that He “must be about [His] Father’s business.” Years later, when the Savior was baptized, Heavenly Father spoke from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

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  10. Matthew 3:17

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    Jesus’s mother, Mary, was told she would bring forth “the Son of the Highest.” And when Jesus was a young man, He told His mother that He “must be about [His] Father’s business.” Years later, when the Savior was baptized, Heavenly Father spoke from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

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  11. Matthew 6:9

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    “Thy kingdom come.

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  12. John 3:16

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    He taught Nicodemus, “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son.” And He explained His miracles by saying, “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever [the Father] doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.”

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  13. John 5:19

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    He taught Nicodemus, “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son.” And He explained His miracles by saying, “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever [the Father] doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.”

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  14. John 17:1

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    As the hour of the Atonement drew near, Jesus prayed, saying: “Father, the hour is come.

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  15. John 17:4

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    glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.”
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  16. Matthew 26:39

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    As the hour of the Atonement drew near, Jesus prayed, saying: “Father, the hour is come.

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  17. Luke 23:34

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    As the hour of the Atonement drew near, Jesus prayed, saying: “Father, the hour is come.

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  18. Luke 23:46

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    As the hour of the Atonement drew near, Jesus prayed, saying: “Father, the hour is come.

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  19. Doctrine and Covenants 138:51

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    He then visited the spirits of those who had died, in the spirit world, to give “them power to come forth, after his resurrection from the dead, to enter into his Father’s kingdom.” After the Savior’s Resurrection, He appeared to Mary Magdalene, saying, “I ascend unto my Father, and [to] your Father.”

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  20. John 20:17

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    He then visited the spirits of those who had died, in the spirit world, to give “them power to come forth, after his resurrection from the dead, to enter into his Father’s kingdom.” After the Savior’s Resurrection, He appeared to Mary Magdalene, saying, “I ascend unto my Father, and [to] your Father.”

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  21. 3 Nephi 11:7

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    Him, saying, “Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified
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  22. 3 Nephi 11:10

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    When He came to the people on the American continent, His Father introduced Him, saying, “Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified my name.” When Jesus descended among the people at the temple, He introduced Himself, saying: “Behold, I am Jesus Christ.

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  23. 3 Nephi 11:32

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    “It is the doctrine which the Father hath given unto me; and I bear record of the Father, and the Father beareth record of me.”

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  24. 3 Nephi 11:27

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    “Verily … the Father and I are one.”

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  25. Moses 1:39

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    Can we see a pattern in these scriptures that testifies of the Father and the Son as distinct individuals and beings?

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  26. 3 Nephi 19:29

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    “Father, I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me out of the world, that I may be in them as thou, Father, art in me, that we may be one, that I may be glorified in them.”
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  27. Ether 12:41

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    You too can seek our Heavenly Father and “this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have [testified]” in the scriptures and in this general conference.

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  28. Moroni 10:4

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    “And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know [with a surety] the truth of all things.”

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  29. Helaman 5:12

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    Brothers and sisters, I testify that our Heavenly Father wants us to seek this knowledge now.

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  30. Moses 7:53

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    That sure foundation is Jesus Christ.

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  31. 3 Nephi 14:24

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    That sure foundation is Jesus Christ.

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  32. Doctrine and Covenants 88:119

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    I testify that such a home is “a house of glory.” There we gather together to pray to our Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ, His Beloved Son.

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  33. Doctrine and Covenants 109:8

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    I testify that such a home is “a house of glory.” There we gather together to pray to our Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ, His Beloved Son.

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  34. Doctrine and Covenants 109:16

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    I testify that such a home is “a house of glory.” There we gather together to pray to our Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ, His Beloved Son.

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  35. Doctrine and Covenants 88:4

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    I testify that such a home is “a house of glory.” There we gather together to pray to our Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ, His Beloved Son.

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  1. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 4: The Antemortal Godship of Christ

    3 shared verses

    • 3 Nephi 11:7

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (1)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (g)

      A general consideration of scriptural evidence leads to the conclusion that God the Eternal Father has manifested Himself to earthly prophets or revelators on very few occasions, and then principally to attest the divine authority of His Son, Jesus Christ.

    • Matthew 3:17

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (3)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (d)

      A general consideration of scriptural evidence leads to the conclusion that God the Eternal Father has manifested Himself to earthly prophets or revelators on very few occasions, and then principally to attest the divine authority of His Son, Jesus Christ.

    • Matthew 6:9

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (1)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (Matt. 6:9)

      The following is an instructive excerpt: “Name in the scriptures not only = that by which a person is designated, but frequently = all that is known to belong to the person having this designation, and the person himself.

  2. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 39: Ministry of the Resurrected Christ on the Western Hemisphere

    2 shared verses

    • 3 Nephi 11:7

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (1)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (n)

      About six weeks or more after the events last considered,l a great multitude of the Nephites had assembled at the temple in the land called Bountiful,m and were earnestly discoursing with one another over the great changes that had been wrought in the land, and particularly concerning Jesus Christ, of whose atoning death the predicted signs had been witnessed in all their tragic details.

    • Matthew 3:17

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (3)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (n)

      About six weeks or more after the events last considered,l a great multitude of the Nephites had assembled at the temple in the land called Bountiful,m and were earnestly discoursing with one another over the great changes that had been wrought in the land, and particularly concerning Jesus Christ, of whose atoning death the predicted signs had been witnessed in all their tragic details.

  3. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 5: Earthly Advent of the Christ Predicted

    2 shared verses

    • Luke 1:32

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (1)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (Luke 1:32, 33)

      Prof.

    • Luke 23:34

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      In Jesus the Christ:
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      Job in the day of dire affliction rejoiced in his testimony of the coming Messiah, and declared with prophetic conviction: “I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.”l The songs of David the psalmist abound in oft-recurring allusion to the earthly life of Christ, many circumstances of which are described in detail, and, as to these, corroboration of the utterances is found in New Testament scriptures.m

  4. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 10: In the Wilderness of Judea

    1 shared verse

  5. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 18: As One Having Authority

    1 shared verse

    • Luke 2:49

      In this talk:
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      In Jesus the Christ:
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      The incident reminds one of the answer He made to His mother, when she and Joseph had found Him in the temple after their long and anxious search: “How is it that ye sought me?

  6. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 2: Preexistence and Foreordination of the Christ

    1 shared verse

    • John 17:3

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (2)
      In Jesus the Christ:
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      When the hour of His betrayal was near, in the last interview with the apostles prior to His agonizing experience in Gethsemane, Jesus comforted them saying: “For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

  7. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 24: From Sunshine to Shadow

    1 shared verse

    • John 20:17

      In this talk:
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      In Jesus the Christ:
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      The money was to be paid, not because it could be rightfully demanded of Jesus, but lest non-payment give offense and furnish to His opponents further excuse for complaint.

  8. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 27: Continuation of the Perean and Judean Ministry

    1 shared verse

    • Moses 1:39

      In this talk:
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      The three parables, which appear in the scriptural record as parts of a continuous discourse, are as one in portraying the joy that abounds in heaven over the recovery of a soul once numbered among the lost, whether that soul be best symbolized by a sheep that had wandered afar, a coin that had dropped out of sight through the custodian’s neglect, or a son who would deliberately sever himself from home and heaven.

  9. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 3: The Need of a Redeemer

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    • Moses 1:39

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      So, for the advancement of man from his present fallen and relatively degenerate state to the higher condition of spiritual life, a power above his own must cooperate.

  10. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 33: The Last Supper and the Betrayal

    1 shared verse

    • Matthew 26:39

      In this talk:
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      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (Matthew 26:39, 42)

      The Cup as a Symbol.—Our Lord’s frequent mention of His foreseen sufferings as the cup of which the Father would have Him drink (Matthew 26:39, 42; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42; John 18:11; compare Matthew 20:22; Mark 10:38; 1 Corinthians 10:21) is in line with Old Testament usage of the term “cup” as a symbolic expression for a bitter or poisonous potion typifying experiences of suffering.

  11. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 35: Death and Burial

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  12. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 37: The Resurrection and the Ascension

    1 shared verse

    • John 20:17

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      When Cleopas and his companion reached Jerusalem that night, they found the apostles and other devoted believers assembled in solemn and worshipful discourse within closed doors.

  13. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 7: Gabriel’s Annunciation of John and of Jesus

    1 shared verse

    • Luke 1:32

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (1)
      In Jesus the Christ:
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      Two genealogical records purporting to give the lineage of Jesus are found in the New Testament, one in the first chapter of Matthew, the other in the third chapter of Luke.

  14. The Articles of Faith

    Article 3

    1 shared verse

  15. The Articles of Faith

    Article 8

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