That Christ, in the sight of His disciples, was taken up from the earth into heaven, and continues there in our behalf until He shall come again to judge the living and dead.

First, by His resurrection He has overcome death, that He might make us partakers of the righteousness which He has obtained for us by His death. Second, by His power we are also now raised up to a new life. Third, the resurrection of Christ is to us a sure pledge of our blessed resurrection. 

That with His power our old man is with Him crucified, slain, and buried; so that the evil lust of the flesh may no more reign in us, but that we may offer ourselves to Him a sacrifice of thanksgiving.

Our death is not a satisfaction for our sin, but only a dying to sin and an entering into eternal life.

To show that he was really dead.

Because the justice and truth of God required that satisfaction for our sins could be made in no other way than by the death of the Son of God.

Yes, for thereby I am assured that He took upon Himself the curse which lay upon me, because death of the cross was accursed of God.

That He, being innocent, might be condemned by the temporal judge, and thereby deliver us from the severe judgment of God, to which we were exposed.

From personal experience, I have discovered that by memorizing creeds and confessions, the Scriptures reveal the hidden depths of God's revelation of himself and humanity.

That all the time He lived on earth, but especially at the end of His life, He bore, in body and soul, the wrath of God against the sin of the whole human race; in order that by His suffering, as the only atoning sacrifice, He might redeem our body and soul from everlasting damnation, and obtain for us the grace of God, righteousness, and eternal life.

That He is our Mediator, with His innocence and perfect holiness, covers, in the sight of God, my sin, wherein I was conceived (Jn 1:1-4, 10:30-36; Rom 1:3-4, 9:5; Col 1:15-17; 1 Jn 5:20; Mt 1:18-20; Jn 1:14; Gal 4:4; Heb 2:14).

Are you living for yourself? Are you living for others? Or, are you living for God? How can you tell? It is only one way of telling, and that is by trusting in Christ as Lord.

That the eternal Son of God, who is and continues true and eternal God, took upon Himself the very nature of man, of the flesh and blood of the virgin Mary, by the operation of the Holy Spirit; so that he might also be the true seed of David, like unto his brethren in all things, except sin.