Day 52 Christ: Our Personal Ransom and Redeemer

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus tells his followers that they are the salt of the earth, and in the same sentence offers a warning that savorless salt is good for nothing. Join me in an attempt to be savory salt as I share each day one verse of scripture and one small thought. Perhaps this small daily emphasis can lead to greater savor in your life and ultimately you and I can be savory salt.

Hello, my friends and family, wherever you're listening from. Thank you for joining me and know that I am cheering for your every success. Well done getting to day 52.

We are moving along now and we're going to get into another great doctrinal chapter here. In fact, we're going to spend — this is, this is probably one of the longest runs we've had inside of one chapter — over the next. On your 365 journey of reading the Book of Mormon with me a little bit each day, today the reading is going to come from 2 Nephi 8:14-25.

So finish off chapter 8 there, a little bit of Isaiah finishing, but you can do this. And then we're going to also read 2 Nephi 9:1-6. Now we're going to dive directly into 2 Nephi 9 for our verse today, and we're going to spend some serious time here.

I think the next four or five days of reading the Book of Mormon is going to be inside of 2 Nephi 9. Oddly enough, this is from the second book of Nephi, but it's going to be Jacob. And we're going to have an interesting kind of shift here as Jacob, the one that's sharing some of these Isaiah chapters.

Jacob is going to take a second in chapter 9 and say, 'Hey, folks, I'm going to do a little preaching.' And I got to tell you, with Jacob, I'm like, preach, brother, preach, because he's got some awesome stuff. In fact, this chapter 9 here, when we talk about doctrinally, when you go on a mission and you're teaching people about the plan of salvation, and you're teaching them about eternal life and the process of that, and what does that look like? And what is physical death?

And what is spiritual death? And what does that even mean? And how does the...?

Now I picked this one; there's a lot of words inside of there, a lot of going on. I picked this one because this is Jacob's understanding of why Christ is coming to the people of Jerusalem. And also, it's going to start tapping into His role as our Savior and Redeemer.

Now there's more around it, I got to make sure you understand. You want to read the verses around this as well. But the reason I picked this today is because it shows for us that Christ is coming to the people of Jerusalem.

Christ comes for us. He comes in the flesh. He dies for us.

And it is to help all of us. He's going to become the Lord and Savior that ransoms man. And then I want to kind of tie that together a little bit.

We're not going to read verse 1, but remember, this is all inside of the context of the Lord's covenants with His people. And that's really important to understand because the rest of the chapter here is he's talking about things to do. I love this verse because it helps me remember that Christ came for me.

It's personal. It's about me understanding that even if I was the one that Christ came for, He would have done it anyway. Now He came so that all men might be subject unto Him.

And Jacob's going to explain what that means further. But for today, I want you to understand that Christ came and He knew He was going to suffer. He knew that ultimately He would die and He did it for each one of us, that He could ransom us in our time of need and in the pain and sufferings we experience in this life.

I am grateful to Christ for doing that for me, for you, and for all men that they may become subject unto Him. It's all for today, my friends. Remember that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.

Keep it small, keep it simple, and always seek to be savory salt. I'll be here tomorrow. I hope you are too.