July 2004 Ensign - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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52 BOOK OF MORMON PRINCIPLES Submitting OurWill to the Father’s Abinadi helps us understand how bringing our desires into harmony with God’s will can bring us spiritual power. BY ELDER BENJAMIN DE HOYOS Area Authority Seventy Mexico South Area Without a doubt, one of the great sermons in the Book of Mormon is found in the powerful words of the prophet Abinadi. With great clarity, he gives expression to the doctrine of the Atonement of Christ and its effects upon all humankind. One aspect of the Atonement made clear by Abinadi has to do with the power we receive as we follow the Savior’s example and submit the desires of the flesh to the will of God. The prophet Abinadi describes this characteristic: “I would that ye should understand that God himself shall come down among the children of men, and shall redeem his people. “And because he dwelleth in flesh he shall be called the Son of God, and having subjected the flesh to the will of the Father, being the Father and the Son. . . . “And thus the flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father, being one God, suffereth temptation, and yieldeth not to the temptation, but suffereth himself to be mocked, and scourged, and cast out, and disowned by his people. . . . “Yea, even so he shall be led, crucified, and ABINADI APPEARING BEFORE KING NOAH, BY ARNOLD FRIBERG slain, the flesh becoming subject even unto death, the will of the Son being swallowed up in the will of the Father” (Mosiah 15:1–2, 5, 7). Seeking a Mighty Change As we read the scriptures daily, searching the inspired words that lead many to know of their surety and to live accordingly, the
Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent can work a mighty change in our hearts. At the conclusion of King Benjamin’s powerful address, his people declared “that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually” (Mosiah 5:2). They had obtained the ability, surely after persistent effort, not only to renounce all that is evil, but to incorporate all that is good into their words, their works, and their thoughts (see 2 Nephi 9:39; Mosiah 4:30; Alma 12:14). Is there any desire of the heart greater than this? As we ponder the words of Abinadi and seek to obtain that great desire of the heart, which is to put off the natural man and become “a saint through the atonement of ENSIGN JULY 2004 53
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