The Grave Shall Have No Victory
When Aaron (and his companions) visited the Lamanite king who was Lamoni’s father, he taught this about the Savior: “And since man had fallen he could not merit anything of himself; but the sufferings and death of Christ atone for their sins, through faith and repentance, and so forth; and that he breaketh the bands of death, that the grave shall have no victory, and that the sting of death should be swallowed up in the hopes of glory; and Aaron did expound all these things unto the king” (Alma 22:14). As I thought about this message regarding Christ’s victory over death, I realized that this is really a follow up from Ammon’s interaction with the king which revolved around death. The king met Ammon and Lamoni on the road when they were traveling to free Aaron in Middoni. When the king discovered what had happened to Lamoni, he was angry: “Now the father of Lamoni commanded him that he should slay Ammon with the sword.” When Lamoni refused, his father tried to slay him, “but Ammon stoo...