Why would the Lord give up so much to subject Himself to trials and persecution?

Thomas R. Valletta

Elder Alexander B. Morrison stated: “Why did Jesus, the Lord God Omnipotent who sits at the right hand of the Father, creator of worlds without number … condescend to come to earth to be born in a manger, live out most of His mortal existence in obscurity … proclaiming a message which was violently opposed by many, and finally, betrayed by one of His closest associates, die between two malefactors on Golgotha’s somber hill? Nephi … understood Christ’s motivation. … It was love for all of God’s children that led Jesus … to offer Himself as ransom for the sins of others” (“‘For This Cause Came I into the World,’” 25–26).

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