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On this Easter Sunday, I want to reflect on and pray according to a verse that specifically speaks to what we celebrate

in churches around the world today.

Romans chapter 10 verse 9

because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord

and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

That is a promise that we bank our eternity on.

That we celebrate today, especially.

In a sense, we celebrate this every

Lord's day every Sunday and all throughout the week for that matter where we

gather together with God's people and then particularly on

Easter Sunday.

The reality that sinners who are separated from God and

headed to an eternity separated from God,

if we confess with our mouth headed to an eternity separated from God.

If we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord

and believe in our heart that God has raised him

from the dead, that God sent Jesus to pay the price for our sin, to die on the

cross, to take the just payment we deserve for our sin upon himself. God sent him to die for us and then God raised him from the dead.

Jesus is not dead. Sin has been defeated. The grave has been conquered. Jesus is alive. Right now he is alive and he's alive forever and he offers eternal life, salvation from sin,

eternal restoration to reconciliation with God for all who confess Jesus Lord and believe in their heart got raised him from the dead.

So, so we pray, God, thank you.

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