The newest member of the First Presidency issued an invitation Tuesday to Brigham Young University students to follow Jesus Christ by confidently sacrificing “the lesser for the greater.”

The lesser is the fallen mortal world and the greater is the salvation Christ prepared during his condescension from heaven, said President D. Todd Christofferson, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“Condescension means to descend voluntarily from a higher rank or dignity to a lower level or status,” he said at the Marriott Center to 11,189 BYU students, faculty and staff. “The great Jehovah of the Old Testament, the premortal Jesus Christ, voluntarily condescended to leave his divine throne above to live in a mortal state on the very earth that,

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