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The life, death and resurrection of the Lord were foretold by every prophet of Israel along the centuries. Christ was not firstly a teacher of this world's wisdom, who came to deliver the philosophy with which man would be freed of ignorance.

Jesus was rather, first and foremost, the Son of God, and a teacher of love not only in word but in deed, not only the love of men but that of God.

In these times man has lost the memory of God's covenant, as each of us has turned from the Father, we cry out seeing how far we are from Him, how lonely and worthless we have made ourselves. Man today, as Zion in the book of Isaiah, cries saying:

“The Lord has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.”

But God, in love, replies:

¨Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.
See, upon the palms of my hands I have engraved you;¨

Jesus of Nazareth, true man and true God, engraved by his cross our names upon his palms. He, being the Son, and full of every perfection and blamelessness, gave all in trust and service to the Father so that man might not perish. And as the Father gave Him the victory over death and sin, so shall all who follow Him be led to salvation.

You ask 'Why do you believe in Jesus, why do you follow him?', and you ask well.

I answer you with the words of the apostle Saint Paul:
¨God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ¨.

God's love be with you.

http://www.about-jesus.org/complete-chart-prophecies-jesus.htm