Can Christians celebrate the resurrection and still hunt for Easter eggs?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Hi, I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day, even the Easter Bunny.

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First up today, let's go to Scott calling in from Fremont, Indiana.

Scott, what's your question for Pastor Adriel?

And good afternoon. Appreciate you guys.

The question actually came up during yesterday's program when you were

dealing with some of the questions. And mine is, how does God respond when a believer

repents and is baptized? What does God do when somebody's baptized? Yeah, that's a great question, Scott.

What I like to say is that in baptism,

this is first and foremost the action of God, right?

So we're coming, presumably, you know, thinking of an adult who repents, turns to the Lord,

believes in Jesus Christ, and then comes to be baptized. We obviously,

well, that's all about, you know, declaring that you're a believer and, you know, you want to

follow Jesus. You're obeying his command to be baptized. But I would say fundamentally,

actually it's something else, primarily. I mean, for the believer who's baptized after coming

to faith later in life, those things are happening.

But first and foremost, it's God's action. God is the one who is speaking. And what is he speaking in the sacraments, these ordinances that Jesus instituted baptism in the Lord's Supper? He's speaking the promises of the gospel over his people.

They're these signs and seals of God's redemptive work in His Son, Jesus Christ.

And we can't miss that because I think that when we focus on ourselves and what we're doing

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