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Now
since Jesus truly believed
  that it would be so,
He has been
  raised from the dead,
and He ascended unto
  the highest place
  in the heavenly realm.
For Jesus was so
  devoted to God,
that God took Him
  into heaven itself.

For if Christ will not
  remain forever dead,
then He will live
  forever instead.
And if He will not
  rot in the ground,
then He will ascend
  above the clouds.

So the rest of us
  must confess
that in some way
  we have sinned.                                     See Romans 3:9-18
For we know that our lives
  when compared to His
are not so completely virtuous.

Yet His life inspires us
  to repent.
For now we know
  what will come to pass:
If doing good deeds
  can bring you back
  from the dead,
then doing evil things
  can give you a fate
  even worse than death.

Yet God has glorified
  Jesus Christ
to serve as an example
  of how to gain eternal life.

Thus it’s clear
  that He believes
that the sins of men
  can be reprieved.                                   See Luke 24:45-48, 7:48-50
For if Christ did not believe
  that we can be forgiven
  and be saved,
then He would have
  done nothing for our benefit,
and we would still be living
  in our ignorance and our
  shame.

There would have been
  no miracles of healing,
  no teaching what’s right.
And we would have
  never known the Truth
  of eternal life.

So the resurrection of
  Christ Jesus
is proof that God
  really cares for us.
For if God really did not
  care for us,
then God would not have
  considered it righteous
for Christ to waste
  His efforts on us.
And if Christ did not do
  what is perfectly just,
then God would not have
  raised Him up.

But God raised
  Jesus Christ from the dead
because His deeds
  were completely
  righteous.
And His deeds were done
  to benefit us.
So God must really
  care for us.

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