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This comes at the end of a chapter affirming the resurrection of Christ. His way of thinking, believing, doing and relating to everything and everybody was more enduring than death. That is a fact that bears advantageously upon all other human life. There is a way of being, referred to here as 'the work of the Lord,’ which is saturated with eternal consequence. There are causes and values which I can commit to and spend myself on, which cannot fail.