Lesson Summary Chapter 6: The Sacrament -Sister Mains (4/13/2014)

Mormon Messages - Lifting Burdens: The Atonement of Jesus Christ:

https://www.lds.org/pages/mormon-messages?lang=eng#lifting-burdens-the-atonement-of-jesus-christ

We should be excited to take the sacrament and participate in this sacred and holy meeting.

D&C 20:75 "It is expedient that the church meet together often to partake of bread and wine in the remembrance of the Lord Jesus"

Reasons for the Sacrament:
-remember our Savior
-renew covenants
-feel the spirit
-witness
-show love and commitment
-strengthen in unity
-be clean and pure
-qualify for the spirit

2 Nephi 20:4 "...For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."

What are we thinking about during the Sacrament? President Joseph Fielding Smith said, "There isn’t one of us I take it that hasn’t done something wrong and then been sorry and wished we hadn’t. Then our consciences strike us and we have been very, very miserable. Have you gone through that experience? I have. … But here we have the Son of God carrying the burden of my transgressions and your transgressions. … His greatest torment was not the nails in his hands or in his feet, as bad as they were, but the torment of mind in some way that is not clear to me. But he carried the burden—our burden. I added something to it; so did you. So did everybody else. He took it upon himself to pay the price that I might escape—that you might escape—the punishment on the conditions that we will receive his gospel and be true and faithful in it."

D&C 19:16 "For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent"