Jesus Mission

Millions of pages have been written about Jesus‘ mission. In this section we will use the words of many Apostles and Prophets who testified of him and His mission.

Two Great Missions (by J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Behold the Lamb of God, p.3).

“Now, the Savior, as I think of him, was both a Creator and a Redeemer, so far as we are concerned. The work of redemption has not been given to us in detail any more than the Fall has been given unto us in detail. I seriously question whether we could understand either the Fall or the Atonement if our Heavenly Father saw fit to try to explain it to us in detail, as he has not. We know the great facts.

Now so far as that redemption, the redemptive work of the Savior, is concerned, he alone was responsible in that. He did the whole work of redemption himself. We seemingly, so far as we know, had no part at all therein.

But the work of redemption went somewhat beyond just what we know as the Atonement. I often have marveled at the work which the Savior had to do when he came here, and it seems to me that I can sketch it out this way:

First and foremost was his duty to make the atoning sacrifice. None except himself could do this, that is so far as we know.

But he had other things to do, most of which might have been done by someone else duly authorized and empowered thereto by our Heavenly Father. I call your attention to one or two of them.

You will recall that Adam was offering sacrifice to the Lord, and the angel came and asked why he did it, and he said he did not know except the Lord had commanded it. Then the angel told him that the sacrifice which Adam was making was symbolical of the great sacrifice that was to be made by the Only Begotten in due time. From then until the Savior came, the religious service practiced among the people of our Heavenly Father was in good part ritualistic, and the foundation of it was animal sacrifice, although the fruits of the field
The coming of the Savior did away with sacrifice. He has so stated. His coming was really the end of the ritualistic worship which the people of God had followed up until that time.
Sacrifice of a Broken Heart