3 Nephi 27 - 30 Diane Adair - January 10, 2012

 Quotes from Diane Adair's lesson

DVD used in class "How Rare a Possession - The Book of Mormon.

"The cumulative weight of all mortal sins-past, present, and future pressed upon that perfect, sinless and sensitive soul!  All of our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement….While bearing our sins, infirmities, sicknesses, and bringing to pass the Atonement, Jesus became the perfect Shepherd…Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?...Indeed we are in His hands, and what hallowed hands.  The wondrous and glorious Atonement is the central act in all human history. 
       Neal A. Maxwell

"Through the simple, yet profound influence of the Atonement all healing can take place." 
      President Howard W. Hunter


"God be thanked for the matchless gift of His divine Son."
      The Living Christ, The Testimony of the Apostles


"True doctrine understood changes attitude and behavior."
      Elder Boyd K. Packer

"For many years I thought of the Saviors experience in the garden and the cross where a large mass of sin was heaped upon Him.  Through the "Book of Mormon Prophets" my view has changed.  The Atonement was an intimate, personal experience in which Jesus came to know how to help each of us.  He learned about our weaknesses, pains, sufferings…He knows how to help us if we come to Him in faith."   
     Merrill G. Bateman

                     "None Were With Him"

                         Jeffrey R. Holland

"Most significantly, through the Prophet Joseph came translations which confirmed and described as never before, the reality of the glorious Atonement…Very few words have come directly from Jesus about His specific and personal suffering during that agonizing and emancipating Atonement.  Almost all of these precious few words come to us through the Prophet Joseph.  Jesus truly did bleed at every pore.  He trembled because of pain.  He suffered both body and spirit.  He pled that He might not shrink or pull back from performing the Atonement.  Jesus let His will be swallowed up in the will of the Father.  Even in the midst of His astonishing personal triumph Jesus still gave all the glory to the Father."
    Neal A. Maxwell

"I am a lover of the cause of Christ."
    Joseph Smith


"Teach the Saints to rely upon God alone for their salvation."
   Joseph Smith


Scriptures about the Atonement:

3 Nephi 11:10-11
3 Nephi 11:14-17
2 Nephi 2:25-28
2 Nephi 9:10-13
Alma 7:11-13
Alma 42:15
Alma 34:14-16
Alma 33:11,13,16

3 Nephi 27-30 -Diane Adair - January 10, 2012(Audio)