Luke 19:10; “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
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The Messiah would bring salvation … Oh how I wish Mormons would believe this! As the Christmas season approaches share what the conditions were like for our Lord as He rode on the colt and the many other times He walked the Jericho road.
The road from Jericho to Jerusalem (also known as Ascent of Adumim) is about 15 miles long. It’ll take a healthy person about 8 hours to climb its ascent up to Jerusalem as Jericho is the lowest point on earth at 846 ft. below sea level and Jerusalem sits at 2,550 ft. above sea level. Jericho is where Jesus told Zacchaeus that he would see salvation. A nondescript shorter than average man whom the town hated climbed a tree just to capture the Lord’s attention – and guess what? It worked!
Indeed, the Son of man came to seek and save those who are lost, and as we see here with Zacchaeus He certainly did that. Ask your Mormon friends/loved ones if they believe the event we’ve mentioned here today. As you continue to share one example after another, you’re providing non-confrontational information that will prompt them to think about the Bible as a trustworthy resource they can depend upon. Their main diet of biblical info has always been negative, so examples like this prove otherwise!
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The Essential Brigham Young, p 90; “I think these preliminaries will satisfy me, and I feel prepared to take my text; it is the words of Jesus Christ, but where they are in the Bible I cannot tell you now, for I have not taken pains to look at them. I have had so much to do, that I have not read the Bible for many years. I used to be a Bible student; I used to read and study it, but did not understand the spirit and meaning of it; I knew well enough how it read.” – Brigham Young