Chapter 4: Jesus Christ, the Son of God, C: As the Son of God, Jesus Fills Many Roles Essential to Our Salvation

The following points each describe an aspect of the Savior. Knowing the Savior is vitally important to us spiritually. Learning about all his aspects will help us in many ways.

Whether descriptibely designated as Creator, Only Begotten Son, Prince of Peace, Advocate, Mediator, Son of God, Savior, Messiah, Author and Finisher of Slavation, King of Kings--Iwitness that Jesus Christ is the only name under heaven whereby one can be saved! (see D&C 18:23.) I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished, and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He call us His friends. (See John 15:15). We can trust, worship, and even ador Him without any reservation! As the only Perfect Person to sojourn on this planet, there in none like Him! (See Isiah 46:9). In intelligence and performance, He far surpasses the individual and the composite capacities and achievements of all who have lived, live now, and will yet live! (See Abraham 3:19). He rejoices in our genuine goodness and ahcievement, but any assessment of where we stand in relation to HIm tells us that we do not stand at all! We kneel!
Neal A. Maxwell, in Conference Report, Oct. 1981, 9; or Ensign, Nov. 1981, 9

The Savior created the Earth from direction from the Father.

Behold, I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I created the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are. I was with the Father from the beginning. I am in the Father, and the Father in me; and in me hath the Father glorified his name.
3 Nephi 9:15

Jesus Christ is Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament

Behold, Gos is my slavation; I will trust, and not be afriad: for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Isaiah 12:2

Christ came to the Earth as an example for us, so that we could see what we should do.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, this is my gospel; and ye the things that ye must do in my church; for the works which ye have seen me do that shal ye also do; for that which ye have seen me do even that shall ye do.
3 Nephi 27:21

We are saved only through Jesus Christ. There is no other name through which we can gain salvation.

And under this head ye are made free, and there is no other head whereby ye can be made free. Ther is no other name given whereby slavation cometh; therefore, I would that ye should take upon you the name of Christ, all you that have entered into the covenant with God that ye should be obedient unto the end of your lives.
Mosiah 5:8

Through the Atonement, the Savior gave us the way to be saved from physical and spiritual death.

For as death hath passed upon all men, to fulfil the merciful plan of the great Creator, there must needs be a power of resurrection, and the resurrection must needs come unto man by reason of the fall; and the fall came by reason of transgression; and because man became fallen they were cut off from the presence of the Lord. Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement--save it should be an infinite atonement this corrutpion could not put on incorruption. Wherefore, the first judgment which came upon man must needs have remained to an endless duration. And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to rise no more. O the widsom of God, his mercy and grace! for behold, if the flesh should rise no more our spirits must become subject to that angel who fell from before the presence of the Eternal God, and became the devil, to rise no more. And our spirits must have become like unto him, and we become devils, angels to a devil, to be shut out from the presence of our God, and to remain with the father of lies, in misery, like unto himself; yea, to that being who beguiled our first parents, who transforemth himself night unto an angel of light, and stirreth up the children of men unto secret combinations of murder and all manner of secret works of darkness. O how great the goodness of our God, who prepareth a way for our escape from the grasp of this awful monster; yea, that monster, death and hell, which I call the death of the body, and also the death of the spirit. And because of the way of deliverance of our God, the Holy One of Israel, this death, of which I have spoken, which is the temporal, shall deliver up its dead; which death is the grave. And this death of which I have spoken, which is the spiritual death, shall devliver up its dead; which spiritual death is hell; wherefore, death and hell must deliver up thier dead, and hell must deliver up its captive spirits, and the grave must deliver up its captive bodies, and the bodies and the spirits of men will be restored one to the other; and it is by the power of the resurection of the Holy One of Isreal. O how great the plan of our God! For one the other hand, the paradise of God must deliver up the spirits of the righteous, and the grave deliver up the body of the righteous; and the spirit and the body is restored to itself again, and all men become incorruptible, and immortal, and they are living souls, having a pefect knowledge like unto us in the flesh, save it be that our knowledge shall be perfect.
2 Nephi 9:6-13

The Savior is our advocate with the Father.

Listen to him who is the advocate with the Father, who is pleading your cause before him--Saying: Father, behold the sufferings and death of him who did no sin, in whom thou was well please; behold the blood of they Son which was shed, the blood of him who thou gavest that thyself might be glorified; Wherefore, Father, spare these my brethren that believe on my name, that they may come unto me and have everlasting life.
D&C 45:3-5

The Savior is our perfect judge.

For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son.
John 5:22

The Father's will is carried out with perfection by the Son

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
John 4:34

Jesus is sometimes called the Father. This is a figurative title and works as Jesus acts for the Father many times.

And now that Abinadi said unto them: I would that ye should understand that God himself shall come down among the children of men and shall redeem his people. And because he dwelleth in flesh he shall be called the Son of God, and having subjected the flesh to the will of the Father, being the Father and the Son--The Father because he was conceived by the power of God; and the Son, because of the flesh; thus becoming the Father and Son--And they are one God, yea the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth. And thus the flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father, being one God, suffereth temptation, and yieldeth not to the temptation but suffereth himself to be mocked, and scourged, and cast out, and disowned by his people. And after all this, after working many mighty miracles among the children of men, he shall be led, yea even as Isaiah said, as a sheep before the shearer is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. Yea, even so he shall be led, crucified, and slain, the flesh becoming subject even unto death, the will of the Son being swallowed up in the will of the Father. And thus God breaketh the bands of death, having gained the victory over death; giving the Son power to make intercession for the children of men.
Mosiah 15:1-8

Christ is the Father in the sense that he is the Creator, the Make, the Organizer of the heavens and of the earth, and all things that in them are. . . . He is the Father of all those who are born again. . . . He is the Father by what has aptly been termed divine investiture of authority. That is, since he is one with the Father in all of the attributes of perfection, and since e exercises the power and authority of the Father, it follows that everything he say or does is and would be exactly and precisely what the Father would say and do under the same cirucmstances. Accordingly, the Father put his own name on the Son and authorizes him to speak in the first person as though he were the Father.
McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 130

Jesus Christ is the rock of our foundation to overcome Satan.

And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Chris, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that wehn the devil shall send forth is mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm hsall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, becuase of the rock upon which ye are build, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fail.
Helaman 5:12