An Apostle Testifies of Jesus Christ at General Conference - Elder Jeffrey R Holland

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A general conference of the Church is a declaration to all the world that Jesus is the Christ, that He and His Father, the God and Father of us all, appeared to the boy prophet Joseph Smith in fulfillment of that ancient promise that the resurrected Jesus of Nazareth would again restore His Church on earth and again "come in like manner as [those Judean Saints had] seen him [ascend] into heaven." This conference and every other conference like it is a declaration that He condescended to come to earth in poverty and humility, to face sorrow and rejection, disappointment and death in order that we might be saved from those very fates as our eternity unfolds, that "with his stripes we are healed." This conference proclaims to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people the loving Messianic promise that "his mercy endureth for ever."

To all of you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, this conference calls out Jehovah's unrelenting refrain, "[My] hand is stretched out still." "I shall lengthen out mine arm unto them," He said, "[and even if they] deny me; nevertheless, I will be merciful unto them, . . . if they will repent and come unto me; for mine arm is lengthened out all the day long, saith the Lord God of Hosts." His mercy endureth forever, and His hand is stretched out still. His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears.

I testify of this reaching, rescuing, merciful Jesus, that this is His redeeming Church based on His redeeming love, and that, as those in the Book of Mormon declared, "there came prophets among the people, who were sent from the Lord [to speak it]. . . . [Yea] there came prophets in the land again." For such a blessing—and all these blessings and so many more—I give personal thanks at general conference time, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. ("Prophets in the Land Again," General Conference, October 2006)

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