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It is not enough, however, merely to believe in Him and His mission.
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Without His atoning sacrifice, all would be lost. “Essential to the plan is our Savior, Jesus Christ. ‘All that is unfair about life can be made right.’ Our present circumstances may not change, but through God’s compassion, kindness, and love, we will all receive more than we deserve, more than we can ever earn, and more than we can ever hope for.”
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“I can emphatically state that because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, ultimately, in the eternal scheme of things, there will be no unfairness. What it fixes is fixed and what it heals stays healed.” “The Savior’s Atonement leaves no tracks, no traces. “There would have been no Atonement except for the character of Christ.” “Know that God will accept your offering and that, through great miracles of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, He will give your heart back to you healed and whole.” We have been bought with a price beyond computation – not with gold or silver or precious stones, ‘but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish, and without spot’ (1 Peter 1:19).” “Do you think it will ever be possible for any one of us, no matter how hard we labor, or even if we should suffer martyrdom, to pay our Father and Jesus Christ for the blessings we have received from them? The great love, with its accompying blessings, extended to us through the crucifixion, suffering, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is beyond our mortal comprehension. When we truly love Him, we want to serve Him and do His will. “The power of Christ’s love for us – and the reciprocal love we come to have for Him – is the real power of the Atonement in our daily lives. “No one will pay any eternal price for things over which they have no control.” His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to be better, to do better, and especially to become better.” The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. If we have sinned or made mistakes-if we have made choices that we now regret-there is the precious gift of Christ’s Atonement, through which we can be forgiven. In order to become holy, I need God to both wash me and purge me.“It is my testimony that many of the deepest regrets of tomorrow can be prevented by following the Savior today. I will remember that I can’t accomplish either of these objectives on my own. Today, I will be grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which can both cleanse and sanctify me. The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us (“ Clean Hands and a Pure Heart, “General Conference, October 2007). It is the Atonement of Jesus Christ that provides both a cleansing and redeeming power that helps us to overcome sin and a sanctifying and strengthening power that helps us to become better than we ever could by relying only upon our own strength. All of our worthy desires and good works, as necessary as they are, can never produce clean hands and a pure heart. Hearts are purified as we receive His strengthening power to do good and become better. Hands are made clean through the process of putting off the natural man and by overcoming sin and the evil influences in our lives through the Savior’s Atonement. Bednar taught that the Savior helps us accomplish both of these objectives: Psalm 24:3-4 teaches us that we can only stand in God’s “holy place” if we have “clean hands and a pure heart.” So we must be both washed and purged. The Lord will both wash the people (removing the filth which has accumulated on them) and purge them (eliminating the impurities which have contaminated them). To be holy is to be perfect, free from stains and from impurities. In this passage, Isaiah prophesies of a time when everyone who remains will be holy. 3 And it shall come to pass, they that are left in Zion and remain in Jerusalem shall be called holy, every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem–Ĥ When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.