At our previous church, we often read verses from the book of Romans when speaking with non-believers about salvation through Jesus. Recently, reading verse 23 of Romans 3 and verse 23 of Romans 6 brought back memories of “the Romans Road” as that evangelistic method was called. Verse 9 of Romans 10 ( If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ”) was another verse on the Romans Road. I can’t say that I fully realized the meaning and importance of claiming that “ Jesus is Lord .” Oh, I understood that I was testifying that Jesus is fully God; that he died on the cross and was resurrected; that his shed blood covered my sins and the sins of all who accept his gift of salvation. However, it took many years and many life lessons before I understood that Jesus is (my) Lord… Lord over my life . I’ve had to change some things in my life that didn’t reflect that truth and am still working on ...
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