Sunday, April 9, 2023
He Is Risen
Friday, April 7, 2023
Good Friday
"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
- "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
- To the man on the cross next to him he said, "Verily I say unto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in paradise."
- Looking down from the cross he said to his mother, "Woman, behold thy son!' Then he said to John, "Behold thy mother."
- In the ninth hour Jesus cried, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
- Then he said, "I thirst." President Russel M. Nelson said, "To a doctor of medicine, this is a very meaningful expression. Doctors know that when a patient goes into shock because of blood loss, invariably that patient – if still conscious – with parched and shriveled lips – cries for water.”
- After receiving vinegar for his thirst he said, "It is finished."
- Darkness was over all the earth and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. He then cried with a loud voice, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit."
For myself I also say, take heart.
There will be Sunday.
And he will yet live again.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Easter Week- The Longest, Hardest Day
"During the first of the days of unleavened bread, which was on Thursday, some of the Twelve inquired of Jesus where they should make preparations for the paschal meal."
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Easter Week- A Day To Withdraw
"But now it is Wednesday and tomorrow is the day for the slaying of the thousands of Paschal lambs. Today is a day devoted to his intimate friends."
- At the first Passover, three years before. "Destroy this temple and after three days I will raise it up. (John 2)
- To Nicodemus he said, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. (John 3)
- To the disciples of John he said, "The days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them ." (Matt. 9)
- To the sign seeking scribes and Pharisees he said, "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." (Matt. 12)
- To the Twelve he said, "And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me." (Matt 10)
- In the Sermon on the bread of life he said, "And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I give for the life of the world." (John 6)
- After Peter's stirring testimony it is written, "From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day." (Matt. 16)
- On the Mount of Transfiguration he discussed his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. (Luke 9)
- Coming down from the mount he said, "The Son of Man shall be betrayed unto the hands of men; And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again." (Matt, 17)
- En route to Jerusalem he said, "They shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him; and the third day he shall rise again." (Matt. 20)
- In the teachings of the Good Shepard he said, "I am the good shepherd; and the good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.." (John 10)
- In the parable of the wicked husbandmen he said. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize his inheritance." (Matt. 21)
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Easter Week- His Last Public Discourse At The Temple
Matthew 21:32
For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Matthew 21:38
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Matthew 22:7-9
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
Monday, April 3, 2023
Easter Week- Cleansing The Temple
Matthew 21:12
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Who brought the blind to the temple to be healed?
Who carried the lame?
Who can we bring to Jesus?
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Easter Week- Palm Sunday
In the New World another reason for praising. The Nephites rejoiced because they triumphed, with the help of God, over the robbers who threatened to overtake all their land. In a few short years this God would come and save them yet again from natural disasters that rocked the world entire world at his death.
3 Nephi 4:30 ”And they did rejoice and cry again with one voice, saying: May the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, protect this people in righteousness, so long as they shall call on the name of their God for protection. And it came to pass that they did break forth, all as one, in singing, and praising their God for the great thing which he had done for them, in preserving them from falling into the hands of their enemies.
Yea, they did cry: Hosanna to the Most High God. And they did cry: Blessed be the name of the Lord God Almighty, the Most High God.”
Other Days In The Last Week in the of Jesus
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