Elder Worthlin gave an amazing talk a few years ago all about his testimony of the gospel. I loved when he started to testify of Christ and the power Jesus Christ had within him to choose to lay down his life for us.
I never really though of it that way before. I know that Jesus Christ was chosen in the beginning to come down and save the souls of man, but I never really thought about how he chose all the way up to the end when he died for us that it was his choice. Because he is God's only begotten son, he was given the ability to choose life over death. He literally could choose when to give up his life.
He chose to live perfectly so that we have an example today on how to live our lives. He showed us through his choices how making right choices lead to eternal happiness. Even though at the end of his ministry he was beaten and wrongly accused, he chose to remember what was in store for him after this life. He knew how it would end because he lived the life he was supposed to live. He knew when it would be the appropriate time to give up his earthly life and die like the rest of us will in order to complete the final step: the resurrection.
He physically died, but because he was the only begotten son, he was able to arise 3 days later in his fully-restored body and give us that last and final gift of eternal life. By his choice we have the opportunity to live again just like him.
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