Jesus is Risen Indeed!

By Ronnie Bray

Throughout the world as dawn breaks on this Easter Sunday Latter-day saints around the world raise their
voices in praise of the Living God and Jesus Christ who he sent to redeem and save a troubled world.
While the language of their praises for, and their rejoicing in, the Risen Christ varies from community to
community, their assurance of his rising in immortality and incorruptibility is an undeviating. The
Resurrection of the crucified Jesus Christ is not in doubt. In this they are in lockstep with their fellow
Christians in all other Christian denominations.

Latter-day Saints – some call them Mormons – are superlatively Christian in their belief that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God, the Only Begotten of the Father, the Promised Messiah of the Old Testament, the Way,
Truth, and Life of the New Testament, whose name is a name above all other names and the only one
through whom human salvation comes. By his death on the cross and the shedding of his innocent blood
he paid the price for human imperfection and enables us to draw near to God as innocent as the day we
were born.

Latter-day Saints recognise the part played by the pre-mortal Jesus in the Creation when he stood with his
Father and brought into being all things that are. As Jehovah of the Old Testament he guided ancient Israel
in the ways of truth. As the Messiah Jesus of the New Testament he led the way from a ritual code into a
religion of the heart and mind. By his willing death he bought us and redeemed us from the consequences
of our sins. By his resurrection he slew death and robbed the grave of its victory, and opened the way for
all mortals to overcome death as his infinite atonement enables them to overcome spiritual death. By the
Father’s act of exalting the Resurrected Christ to share his throne he led the way by which mortals become
partakers of divine nature as joint heirs with Christ of all the Father has, including his glory.

Without the historical acts of Creation, Incarnation, Atonement, Resurrection, and Exaltation of Jesus
Christ, our path to God would have been barred forever. Easier Morning reminds us by the recreation of a
sacred event in recreated sacred time that our Saviour Jesus Christ remains at the side of our Heavenly
father in the heavens and does not cease to labour to bring us to God whereby we share in his exaltation.

We extend our Easter joy to all the world’s people and pray they recognise the unique events that have
established the pathway to God and salvation as partakers of the divine nature. The invitation to ‘Come
unto Christ’ is available to all who will heed it and ‘Come unto Christ and be perfected in him.’

We invite all to heed his call.

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