Pearl Of Great Price Sacrifice Essay

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Part of the reason that the Pearl of Great Price is so great at preparing people for making

further covenants in the temple is because it talks so much about sacrifice. In this paper, I will

show was sacrifice means in the Lord’s eyes and how Adam and Eve’s sacrificial behaviors can

be applied to other righteous people in the Pearl of Great Price, as well as present day. I will also

show the qualifications and blessings of true sacrifice, as well as Satan’s counterfeits for

sacrifice, because rest assured, every gospel truth has a deceptive opposite.

First off, we need to establish the ultimate purpose of sacrifice in our lives and what it

actually means. All of God’s actions are motivated by a desire to “bring to pass the immortality
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Therefore, true sacrifice cannot to be done self-centeredly, because love of others

must be present.

From the fifth chapter of Moses in verse sixteen, we learn that obeying God and knowing

Him are equivalent statements. In verse sixteen, when Eve conceives and bears Cain, she says, “I

have gotten a man from the Lord; wherefore he may not reject his words.” This implies that Eve

expects Cain to obey the lord--accepting the Lord’s words is equivalent to not rejecting them--

because Cain was given to her by the Lord. But Cain refutes this belief when he asks. “who is the

Lord that I should know him?” We know he is refuting his mother’s statement by how Cain’s

question is introduced; “But behold, Cain hearkened not [unto the Lord], saying…” When we put

the statements of Eve and her son Cain together, we see that knowing the Lord and obeying Him

are considered synonymous in their minds. And besides scriptural wording, it just makes sense;

if you know God, and therefore you know that He is infinitely wise and interested in your

welfare, it makes sense to obey Him. If Cain had truly known the Lord, he would have obeyed

the Lord because it would make sense for the ultimate quality of his

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