Mormon 9:13 And because of the redemption of man, which came by Jesus Christ, they are brought back into the presence of the Lord: yea, this is wherein all men are redeemed, because the death of Christ bringeth to pass the resurrection, which bringeth to pass a redemption from an endless sleep, from which sleep all men shall be awakened by the power of God when the trump shall sound; and they shall come forth, both small and great, and all shall stand before his bar, being redeemed and loosed from this eternal band of death, which death is a temporal death.
These verses are all about the death of Jesus Christ, but the real point is that that death was necessary for our salvation. What gratitude we should feel for this!
Moroni 9:25 My son, be faithful in Christ; and may not the things which I have written grieve thee, to weigh thee down unto death; but may Christ lift thee up, and may his sufferings and death, and the showing his body unto our fathers, and his mercy and long-suffering, and the hope of his glory and of eternal life, rest in your mind forever.
In the Living Christ the verse is quoted that "...I am He who liveth, I am He who was slain..." The order of this is important. Jesus lives now but was slain before. He came back from the dead, and was the first to do so.
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