Psalm 95.1-7a and Romans 5.1-11: Today the Lectionary places before us, a glorious text from Paul’s letter to the Christians in Rome.  Paul here gives us great confidence and assurance that, having reconciled us with God through his life and death on behalf, Christ now lives to bring our salvation to completion.  That is, Christ’s life of perfect obedience to God on our behalf, and his death in our place is not the full scope of our salvation.  He arose form death and now lives and prays for us!  “Since we have now been justified by his blood,” says Paul, “how much more shall we be be saved from God’s wrath through him!”  We need not fear he final day, when the wrath of God is poured out. “For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!”  Jesus will see to it, that we are eternally saved.  As the writer of Hebrews puts it, “But because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.  Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.”  Or as Paul puts is later in the book of Romans, “Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.”  This is the confidence of the believer!  Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ; nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!