Gospel Principles
Unit 7: Perfecting Our Lives
Chapter 26: Sacrifice
Concept 3: We Still Must Sacrifice

"Even though blood sacrifice was ended, the Lord'still asks us to sacrifice.  But now he requires a different kind of offering.  He said: "Yea shall offer up unto me no more the shedding of blood ,...  and your burnt offerings shall be done away....  and ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit" (3 Nephi 9:19-20).  A "broken heart and a contrite spirit" means that we offer deep sorrow for our sins as we humble ourselves and repent of them.


Discussion

How do we observe the law of sacrifice today?"
3 Nephi 9:19-20
  "19 And ye shall offer up unto me no more the shedding of blood; yea, your sacrifices and your burnt offerings shall be done away, for I will accept none of your sacrifices and your burnt offerings.
  20 And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit.  And whoso cometh unto me with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, him will I baptize with fire and with the Holy Ghost, even as the Lamanites, because of their faith in me at the time of their conversion, were baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost, and they knew it not."



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Moroni 10:4-5
  "4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
  5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."

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