Point One

Point One

Who is the object of our worship?

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FDREL 250Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

A Cornerstone Course

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

COURSE SUMMARY

A study of the roles, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, and Heavenly Father’s everlasting plan for His children. (LDS.org)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

COURSE SUMMARY

A study of the roles, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, and Heavenly Father’s everlasting plan for His children. (LDS.org)

A study of Heavenly Father, His eternal plan for His children, and the roles of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, the Abrahamic Covenant and the House of Israel in fulfilling Heavenly Father’s eternal work. (The summary for the Fall 2015 course)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

COURSE SUMMARY

A study of the roles, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, and Heavenly Father’s everlasting plan for His children. (LDS.org)

A study of Heavenly Father, His eternal plan for His children, and the roles of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, the Abrahamic Covenant and the House of Israel in fulfilling Heavenly Father’s eternal work. (The summary for the Fall 2015 course)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

COURSE SUMMARY

A study of the roles, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, and Heavenly Father’s everlasting plan for His children. (LDS.org)

A study of Heavenly Father, His eternal plan for His children, and the roles of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, the Abrahamic Covenant and the House of Israel in fulfilling Heavenly Father’s eternal work. (The summary for the Fall 2015 course)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

COURSE SUMMARY

A study of the roles, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, and Heavenly Father’s everlasting plan for His children. (LDS.org)

A study of Heavenly Father, His eternal plan for His children, and the roles of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, the everlasting gospel, the Abrahamic Covenant and the House of Israel in fulfilling Heavenly Father’s eternal work. (The summary for the Fall 2015 course)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

COURSE SUMMARY

A study of the roles, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, and Heavenly Father’s everlasting plan for His children. (LDS.org)

A study of Heavenly Father, His eternal plan for His children, and the roles of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, the everlasting gospel, the Abrahamic Covenant and the House of Israel in fulfilling Heavenly Father’s eternal work. (The summary for the Fall 2015 course)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

COURSE SUMMARY

A study of the roles, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, and Heavenly Father’s everlasting plan for His children. (LDS.org)

A study of Heavenly Father, His eternal plan for His children, and the roles of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, the everlasting gospel, the Abrahamic Covenant and the House of Israel in fulfilling Heavenly Father’s eternal work. (The summary for the Fall 2015 course)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

COURSE SUMMARY

A study of the roles, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, and Heavenly Father’s everlasting plan for His children. (LDS.org)

A study of Heavenly Father, His eternal plan for His children, and the roles of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, the everlasting gospel, the Abrahamic Covenant and the House of Israel in fulfilling Heavenly Father’s eternal work. (The summary for the Fall 2015 course)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

COURSE SUMMARY

A study of the roles, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, and Heavenly Father’s everlasting plan for His children. (LDS.org)

A study of Heavenly Father, His eternal plan for His children, and the roles of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, the everlasting gospel, the Abrahamic Covenant and the House of Israel in fulfilling Heavenly Father’s eternal work. (The summary for the Fall 2015 course)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

COURSE SUMMARY

A study of the roles, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, and Heavenly Father’s everlasting plan for His children. (LDS.org)

A study of Heavenly Father, His eternal plan for His children, and the roles of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of His Atonement, the everlasting gospel, the Abrahamic Covenant and the House of Israel in fulfilling Heavenly Father’s eternal work. (The summary for the Fall 2015 course)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

The reason for the changes?

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

We need to ask an important question that is essential to this course:

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

Whom do we worship?

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

Let’s look at the following verses of scripture:

John 14:6

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

D&C 18: 40

And you shall fall down and worship the Father in my name.

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

D&C 20:17-19, 29 17 By these things we know that there is a God in heaven . . . 18 And that he created man, male and female, after his own . . . 19 And gave unto them commandments that they should love and serve him, the only living and true God, and that he should be the only being whom they should worship. . . 29 And we know that all men must repent and believe on the name of Jesus Christ, and worship the Father in his name, and endure in faith on his name to the end, or they cannot be saved in the kingdom of God.

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

The following scriptural references repeat the truth that we are to worship the Father in the name of Christ: 2 Ne. 25:16; Jac. 4:5; Moses 1:17; Matt. 4:10 John 4:23.

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

The following scriptural references repeat the truth that we are to worship the Father in the name of Christ: 2 Ne. 25:16; Jac. 4:5; Moses 1:17; Matt. 4:10 John 4:23

Boyd K. Packer (1924-2015) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles confirmed this truth: “Across the world, those who now come by the tens of thousands will inevitably come as a flood to where the family is safe. Here they will worship the Father in the name of Christ, by the gift of the Holy Ghost, and know that the gospel is the great plan of happiness, of redemption.” (Ensign, May 1994, p. 21)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

A more important confirmation was given by the First Presidency (Joseph F. Smith Pres., 1912) in a statement entitled, “Only One God to Worship,” with this conclusion: “It should be remembered that it was Christ before he was in the flesh who gave the law and the commandments to Moses, and who spoke for the Father, as He explained to the Nephites when he appeared to them after his resurrection. (3 Nephi 15:5.) He "was in the beginning with God and was God," according to John 1:1. The Father was represented by Him and He acted and spoke for the Father, in the creation and from that time forward in all the divine dispensations. . . But the sole object of worship, God the Eternal Father, stands supreme and alone, and it is in the name of the Only Begotten that we thus approach Him, as Christ taught always.” (Messages of the First Presidency, 6 Vols.,4:269-271)

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

It is clear from the previous teachings that the object of our worship is Heavenly Father. Further, the means by which we may approach him, that we can become as He is, is in “the name” of Jesus Christ.

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