We have sung the carol “Joy to the world, the Lord is come,” as well we should (Hymns, 1985, no. 201). In our premortal state we shouted for joy as the plan of salvation was unfolded to our view (see Job 38:7). It was there our elder brother Jesus, the firstborn in the spirit of our Father’s children, volunteered to redeem us from our sins. He became our foreordained Savior, the Lamb “slain from the foundation of the world” (Moses 7:47). – Ezra Taft Benson, “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson,” p. 23