Is Our Nature Still Sinful After Being Born Again?

We still have a sinful nature. After becoming a born-again Christian. That's just one of the questions will be answering on today's addition of core Christianity hi this is Bill Meyer along with Pastor Israel Sanchez and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. You can call us right now with your question. At 833 the core that's 1-833-843-2673 Pastor Israel is standing by and looking forward to talking to you.

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Yeah. While there are a number of passages that talk about spiritual warfare in the New Testament. He obviously throughout Jesus's earthly ministry he was coming against the evil and he was binding Satan, we might say through the miracles that he was accomplishing and ultimately through his death on the cross. East disarmed the principalities and powers his knees conquered them. That's what Paul said to the to the Colossians, and so I think the first thing that I would say is Jesus has the victory as of this is in a battle where where there is any question about who's on top. God is absently sovereign in control in an Satan, the evil one is under the control this. The sovereign control of the Lord and Christ is victorious over Cesar that we have to go into this discussion. Recognizing that too often I think that that we don't realize that, and that in terms of the real spiritual battle that's taking place.

The first thing I would say is prayer. Prayer is is so important now. The apostle Paul in Ephesians chapter 6 he talks about the armor of God. Ephesians chapter 6 beginning in verse 10 he said finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil right there.

He's telling us how to how to be prepared. If you will. I said we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm stand, therefore, not just note right there in that passage. How many times the apostle Paul uses that word stand. There's this idea of readiness of vigilance which we don't we don't engage in the battle laying down asleep you know not not watchful, not vigilant were standing in stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace in all circumstances take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God, praying at all times in the spirit with all prayer and supplication enters the one thing that I want you to take away from all of that will two things actually one note the armor there. The armor of God that the apostle Paul describes these are all gifts that the Lord gives to us truth the helmet of salvation, the shield of faith, the breastplate of righteousness, not yet standing in your own righteousness understanding of the righteousness that God gives you the righteousness of Jesus Christ that that is really really important for you to understand this is you standing in your own strength in your own righteousness, even in your own fate. These are all gifts that the Lord gives to us and number two praying, praying at all times.

That's a part of how we engage in this spiritual warfare is by praying to the Lord, seeking his face and drawing near to him and so that that's that's out it works or not you know doing these incantations are trying to karate chop the devil that kind of thing know we stand in the truth studying the scriptures being grounded in the gospel and praying to the Lord for his strength for continued vigilance. It's it's something that we were called to do that we must do as believers, and so thank you for that question and may the Lord help us all to stand.

That was an interesting image you just gave me about karate chopping the devil and has tried that yet. Many times I tried this doesn't work Bill so yeah good for you go. Don't don't do it. So do it.

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Call us in the next 20 minutes. Here's the phone number to call. It's 833 the core, you might want to jot that down for future reference 833. The core or 833-843-2673 let's go to speak to Karen from calling in from Springfield, Missouri Karen, welcome to core Christianity, thank you for calling Karen what what your question sister here and think L prior to Renee Hanbury 1024 inflation well financially free seen the nominations entrance and remain a similar sacrifice for sin and great talent care finance arena because after following a few verses and planning 1913, Where King Damon Praying and Keep Back Thy Servant from Presumptuous Sins so That He Didn't Commit Think Right Transgression Time There Was to Gather Care by Me Because I Felt That Creating an Canon and a Presumptuous Stand on Pretty Well.

Work through That That I Really Would like to Know Your Your Thoughts on That Piece Well I Think When Were Approaching What We Call the Warning Passages of the Book of Hebrews Sees These Passages in Hebrews That Give These Very Strong Stern Warnings in Particular That the Two That That Are I Think Most Often Brought up Our Hebrews 6 and Hebrews Chapter 10 and This Idea of Sinning Willfully or Sitting Deliberately and Many People Many Christians When They Read Those Verses. This Is True of Me When I First Read through the Book of Hebrews Are Terrified Because They Think I Sinned Deliberately As a Clear Times As a Believer I Knew I Was Doing the Wrong Thing. I Still Did It.

And of Course You Know You Have the Conviction of the Holy Spirit. But What Does That Mean That I'm Lost That I'm Eternally Condemned That There's No More Opportunity for Repentance or for Restoration from You, so A Lot Of People. Karen Read These Passages and Their Gripped by Fear and That's What's Important for Us When Were Thinking about These Warning Passages to Understand the Context of the Book of Hebrews, I Preached through the Book of Hebrews a Couple Years Ago and This Was so Keep the Author to the Hebrews Is Writing to a Group of Believers Who Had Heard the Gospel Very Clearly. They Had Seen the Power of the Holy Spirit at Work. Hebrews Chapter 6 Really Describes a Scene of They Tasted of the Heavenly Gift. You Know They Were Made Partakers If You Will, in One Sense of the Holy Spirit. The Powers of the Age to Come, Were Breaking in on Them. They Had Heard It, They Had Seen the Signs and the Wonders, and yet Some of Them There Were Not Mixing the Word the Gospel That They Had Heard with Faith. In Other Words, the Problem That That the Author, the Hebrews Is Trying to Combat Is Unbelief. It's People Who Have Heard the Truth over and over and over Again and yet Instead of Embracing Instead of Their Hearts Being Softened. Their Hearts Are Growing Harder and Harder and so the Author Hebrews Is Very Concerned in This This Willful Sin.

This Deliberate Sin It's Being Spoken of Is Not Stumbling into Sin or Are Struggling with with a Particular Habit That That That They Sent Can't Seem to Kick That the Willful Sin That's Been Described Is Turning from Christ Is Rejecting the Truth of the Gospel and Is the Author of the Hebrews Goes on. Yet He Really Describes This in Aces.

How Much Worse Punishment. Verse 29. Do You Think Will Be Deserved by the One Who Is Trampled Underfoot the Son of God, and Has Profaned the Blood of the Covenant by Which He Was Sanctified, and Is Outraged the Spirit of Grace. These People Are Tempted to Trample Jesus and His Gospel Underfoot by Turning Away from the Gospel and Relying upon Their Own Works. They Were Going Back to the Sacrificial System of the Old Covenant in Order to Justify Themselves and the Other the Hebrews Says If You Do That If You're Trusting in Something besides Jesus for Your Salvation.

If That's What You Choose, You Will Be Lost. Outraged the Spirit of Grace and so That the Reminder for All of Us Here throughout the Book of Hebrews Is over and over Again Cling to the Gospel.

Don't Cling to Your Own Works. Don't Cling to, to, You Know That the Sacrifices That You Offer to God. That's Not What Justifies You the Only Sacrifice That Can Save You Is the Once for All Sacrifice of Jesus and That's with the People in the Book of Hebrews Were Being Tempted to Reject.

That's the Sin That's Been Referred to and so We Have To Understand That A Lot Of Believers and of the Just. They Struggle with Sin Is, As All Christians, Will and Do and They Think Will. Maybe That Means That I Fall into This Know That's Not What the Author the Hebrews Is Talking about.

And so That's the Idea of This Sort of Willful Disobedience and and That's with What We We Gather from the Book of Hebrews Does That Does That Help You Karen L.

King Damon Praying That in Order to Keep Him from the Same Thought As Yeah I Don't Know.

I Think I Think I Would Necessarily Tied Those Two Texts Together All of That. They're Both Talking about Sin David in the Psalmists over and over Again throughout the Book of Psalms. You See This, They Say Lord Keep Me Keep You from Sinning against You.

Psalm 119.

With All My Heart I Have Sought You. Let Me Not Wander from Your Commandments, Jesus Himself. Karen Taught Us to Pray in Matthew Chapter 6. Leave Me Not into Temptation, God Keep Me. I Know That I'm Prone to Wander. I Know That I'm I'm Prone Even to Present Truths and so Keep Me from Those Things. I Think That's All. David Is Praying There. I Don't Think He Has an Interview This This Sort of Hebrews Chapter 10 Kind of the Sin of Apostasy and Rejecting the Gospel Altogether.

He Sing Lord in Your Mercy Guard Me, Protect Me from Sinning against You, and That's a Prayer I Think That We All Should Be Praying That You Can Pray That I Pray Certainly Lord Protect Me, Keep Me and so That's How I Would Understand What David Singer and Solomon 19 Thank You so Much for Your Questions That You Currently Appreciate You Being One of Our Regular Listeners. This Is Core Christianity with Pastor Israel Sanchez by the Way, You Can Watch Us Live on YouTube. We Have a YouTube Channel and If You Missed the Program. You Can Always Watch at a Later Date, or Any of Our Earlier Episodes. So Check Us out on YouTube. Let's Go to Jim Calling in from Lincoln Nebraska. Jim What Your Question for Pastor Israel. I'm Going to an Independent Church and Decided to Join Another Church Actually Old Later Group and I'm Just Wondering If I Don't I Don't Believe 100% in the Doctrine That They Teach What I Be Considered by Still, It Was Going to That Church. I Don't Think so.

Not Not Necessarily. I Know That There Are A Lot Of Believers, Faithful Believers Who Are Plugged into and Serving Even in Churches, You Know, on a Sunday Morning Help in the Set up and Do That Kind of Thing Where They Don't Necessarily Agree with Every Single Doctrine That May Be, As Is Held to Her Preached in the Church, but They Feel like Well but the Core Things Are the Things That We Agree on. And so We Have Fellowship Here and Were Able to Were Able to Do That. I Would Say If You Can Do That If You Can Be There and Your Beer Being Edified.

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I Will Say Sometimes People Join Churches with the Hope of Changing Those Churches and Think Okay I Don't Agree with the Theology Here. I Don't Agree with This Practice. In Particular, but I'm to Join and I'm Going to Help Bring This Church into the Light That That Kind of the Thing and They Go Knowing That They Disagree but but Thinking That They're Going to Be Able to Bring about This Great Change and A Lot Of Times That That Can Lead to Divisions and That Can Be Unhelpful and Unhealthy, but I Think If You Can Charitably Have Discussions If You Can. If You Can That Be There and Be Edified by the Preaching Because for the Most Part It's No Preaching Sound Doctrine of the Apostles Doctrine That's That's What the Church Should Be Proclaiming in Your You're Able to Sit under That Preaching in and Fellowship with Other Believers. It's It's Important Thing to Get Plugged in. I Know That There Are Some Christians Who Are in Current Areas Where There Just Aren't A Lot Of Churches to Choose from, and so They End up Going to One Particular Church with a Don't Necessarily Agree with Everything but They're Still Blessed by the Fellowship and by the Preaching. I Think That That's That's Totally Okay, Jim, and so That's I Would Think That I Would Encourage You to Do and Appreciate Your Question Brother. Thank You, Jim. We Appreciate You Listening to Core Christianity Will Pastor Israel.

We You Have a Question That Came in Via Voicemail Yesterday. Let's Listen to Assessment to Program Called in about Cry Moving through the People Are Your Answer Was Really Good, but I Think You Would Also Getting at Is How Physically Move through the Midst of the People That You Went beyond Captured Her, Caught and You Can Answer It in That Way I Did, and Also As Well. Thank You Very Much.

Yeah, I Remember Exactly, You Know That Call Addison a Younger Caller Was Really Sweet, like They Called about Seen in Luke Chapter 4 Where Jesus Was Based Basically Taken to below the Edge of a Cliff and and the Religious Leaders, One to Put Him to Death.

And in Verse 29 of Luke Chapter 4 Says They Rose up and Drove Him Out Of the Town and Brought Him to the Brow of the Hill on Which Their Town Was Built so That They Might Throw Him down the Cliff, but Passing through Their Midst, He Went Away He Went down to Capernaum City of Galilee and Then the Note Continues. And so the Question Is How Did Jesus Do That You Noses or Bobbing and Weaving through the through the Crowd That He Just Sort of Levitate over Them. That Kind of Thing Were Not Told. I Happen to Think Much of This Was Just, You Know, Somehow God's Providence That He Was Able to Get through the Crowd. Nobody Did Anything We Know Ultimately That the Lord Is an Absolute Control and What I'd Mentioned Addison Was the You Know Jesus Was Destined to Die, but This Was Not Going to Be the Manner of His Death. This Is Not How the Prophets Described His Death but He Was Headed to the Cross to Bear Our Curse. And so It Wasn't His Time to Die yet. I Don't Know That I Would Say It Was the Sort of Supernatural. You Know He He Flew over Them, or That Kind of Thing, Typically in the Gospels When Jesus Does Miracles the Gospel Writers Have No Problem Saying That They're Not Trying to Hide Anything and so I Think Just Providentially He Was Able to Walk through the Crowd and No One Laid a Finger on Him and so That That's That's I Think That the Best Answer I Could Give Really There.

There Isn't Anything More Specific Than That in the Text and It Is, It Does Seem Remarkable That You Are the They Wanted to Kill Them but but Nobody Did Anything and yet I Think We Just Know We Can Chalk It up to God's Providence and the Fact It Was Not Jesus's Time to Die. Certainly Not There in That Way. So Thank You for That Question.

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To Learn More or You Can Call Us for That Offering What Any One of Our Offers. Here's the Number It's 833-843-2673 Let's Go to Voicemail That Came in with a Question about Our Sin Nature. I Write down a Kansas City Missouri Heard This Weekend on a Different Christian Radio Program in a out Pastor Fairly Well Known and Well Listened to Say That We Don't Really Have an Old Sinful Nature Anymore.

We Just Have That Which Is Left of It That Really Bothered Me Is That I Know for Sure That You Know I Still Stand so I Just Wondered If You Could Help Clarify You Know What the Truth of God's Word Has To Say about Build the Nature Thank You so Much Hey, Abigail. Thank You.

Let Me Encourage You, and You Say I Think Everybody Listening Right Now Can Say I Were with You, Abigail. We Still Sin.

There Is There Is Not One Believer on the Face of the Planet Who Does Not in in Certain Ways Fail to Obey God.

So We All Sin and Thought, Word, and Indeed Now That It's Important for Us to Understand We Start Talking about Sin in Human Nature or the Idea of a Sin Nature. Sin Is Not of the Essence of What It Means to Be a Human.

It's Not like Me Know Sin Is Just a Part of Humanity, and That Sensor Member Adam and Eve Were Created Good by God without Sin, We Might Set You That Bit True Humanity Humanity and It's in Its Truest Sense Is Is without Sin Is How God Created Us to Be Perfect in Holiness and Goodness in Righteousness. Sin Entered into the World and Corrupted in One since Humanity Every Part of Us Is Been Affected by Sin Because of the Fall of Adam, but It's Not of the Essence of What It Means to Be Human.

Since Sin Entered the World. We Are According to the Apostle Paul by Nature Children of Wrath. This Is Something That He Talks about in the Book of Ephesians in Ephesians Chapter 2 It Beginning. And in Verse Two. Actually, the Apostle Paul Said Hello Start Verse One He Says and You Were Dead in Trespasses and Sins in Which in Which You Once Walked, Following the Course of This World, Following the Prince of the Power of the Air. This Spirit That Is Now at Work in the Sons of Disobedience, among Whom We All Once Lived in the Passions of Our Flesh Tearing out the Desires of the Body and of the Mind, and Were by Nature Children of Wrath, like the Rest of Mankind. That's That's Estate Were Born and Sam Were Born in Adam We Inherited This the Guilt, the Corruption Associated with Adam Sin, but in Christ Our Humanity.

If You Will, Is Being Renewed in Knowledge, Righteousness and Holiness. You See This in Places like the Book of Colossians Colossians Chapter 3 Verse 10 or a Little Bit Later in the Book of Ephesians in Ephesians Chapter 4 Verses 22 through 24. Listen to What the Apostle Paul.

I Said I Think Is Were All Called to Put off Your Old Self, Which Belongs to Your Former Manner of Life and Is Corrupt through Deceitful Desires That Will Self You Still Have a Better to Put It off and Be Renewed in the Spirit of Your Minds and Put on the New Self, Created after the Likeness of God in True Righteousness and Holiness so That Old Self That We Still Struggle with It Is Still a Part of Us Were Called to Put It off to Laid Aside That Is a Battle and He Paul Talks about That in in Galatians Chapter 5 and of the Battle between the Flesh and the Spirit Were Called to Put It off the Laid Aside into Put on the New Self, Given to Us by God to Jesus Christ and so That's the Encouragement for Each and Everyone Was Thank You for That Question. Your Listing to Core Christianity with Pastor Israel Sanchez.

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Do I Believe in the Case of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and Speaking in Tongues Will Certainly No Impulses by One Spirit We Were All Baptized into One Body They're Talking about Faith Regeneration That the Gift of Salvation It's Given to Us.

In Fact, Paul Also Said That, Apart from the Holy Spirit. No One Can Even Say That Jesus Is Lord. So I Would Say Every Single Christian Is Filled with the Holy Spirit. In That Sense We All Have the Spirit We Been Sealed by the Holy Spirit.

You Can't Be a Christian and Not Have the Spirit and so That's That's Made Very, Very Clear Now Are Called to Be Filled with the Spirit Also and That Happens As We Grow in Our Understanding of What the Word of God Says Is the Word of Christ Dwells in Us Richly That That's It.

That's the Ultimate Sign of Having Been Filled with the Holy Spirit Oats Is Not Speaking in Tongues or Miracles. It's the Fruit of the Spirit Is Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Goodness, Gentleness, Faithless Self-Control. These Are the Signs That We've Been Filled with the Holy Spirit Now in the Early Church in the Apostolic Time There Was This This Miracle the Gift of Speaking in Tongues and There Was This Extraordinary Thing That Was Ultimately, There to Help Advance the Gospel in the Early Stages of the Life of the Life of the Church. The Focus Is Always Tony on the Preaching of the Gospel for the Forgiveness of Our Sin. Thanks for Listening to Core Christianity Request Your Copy of Today's Special Offer. Visit Us at Core, Christianity.com and Click on Offers in the Menu Bar or Call Us at 1-833-843-2673. That's 833 When You Contact Us. Please Let Us Know How You Been Encouraged by This Program and Be Sure to Join Us Next Time. As We Explore the Truth of God's Word Together