If I Struggle with Sin, Will I Inherit the Kingdom of God?

If I struggle with will I inherit the kingdom of God. That's just one of the questions will be answering on today's addition of core Christianity will hi Bill Meyer along with Pastor Israel Sanchez. This is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. Here's our phone number is 833 the core that's 1-833-843-2673 you can always leave a voicemail that number and you can post your question on our Facebook, Instagram or twitter accounts course you can always email us at questions at core, Christianity.com first up today let's go to Mary calling in from Arkansas. Mary what your question for pastor atrial now why why His Chester Drawer Text I Got Yesterday. I Just Follow up with the Really Quick so Your Husband Has Died.

You Send Your Husband Was a Christian. He's with the Lord Now Okay with Me. With Regard to the Text Message Met There Could Be Several Explanations for That Sister.

I Am so Sorry to Hear about the Death of Your Husband and I Do Know How Recent This Was. But I Pray That the Lord Brings You Comfort and Peace, and in Here's the Thing in the Bible Is Very Clear in Various Places That We Don't Pursue, or Even Have Real Communication with the Dead with the Departed on. This Was Actually the It One of the Things God Commanded Specifically throughout the Old Testament.

You See See Examples of This in the New Testament.

I Think It's Reiterated Nina Not Not Pursuing That. But for Us As Believers for You As a Believer, You Have the Hope That Your Husband Is in the Presence of Jesus and When Were in the Presence of Jesus.

Our Time Is Occupied with with Worship with Adoration with All. I Think in the Presence of the Angels in the Presence of the Saints in Heaven, so I I Would Note This Is Me Speaking Personally and with Regard to Text like That. I Will, I Would Attribute That to.

I Do Know Some Some Sort of Issue with with the Phones Because If Your Husband Was in Christ.

Right Now He Is around the Throne of God in Heaven Worshiping the Holy Trinity, the Perfected in Holiness Is We the Souls of Believers Are at Their Deaths Made Perfect in Holiness and Immediately Pass into Glory. They Don't Need Other No Longer in Their Body or the Body Goes down into the Ground Waiting for the Resurrection of the Dead. The Hope That We Have As Christians.

But Our Souls Are Dark There in the Presence of of the Lord and so I Would Say That That Scripture Teaches. That's What You Can Cling to.

That's What You Can Know That's the Hope That We Can Have Even in the Midst of of Morning.

Paul Told the Thessalonians, You Know, We Do Mourn and We Do Have Sorrow When Our Loved Ones Die, but We Don't Mourn As Those Who Have No Hope Because Jesus Christ Rose from the Dead, and so I Would Say You to Be Comforted.

Above All Else, Be Comforted by the Word of God. What God's Word Status about Your Husband, Me with the Big Guard of Self and I Don't Know What You Know What's What's Going on There, but I Would Maybe Attribute That to Something Else and and Bank on What What the Scriptures Say about Your Husband Where He Is Right Now.

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That Number Is 833. The Core Let's Go to Linda Who Is Calling in from Iowa. Linda What's Your Question for Pastor Atrial High for Putting up with Me. I Have Listened to Someone Who Did Not Understand the Whole Concept of the Trinity and It's Very Hard to Explain, and I Know That and Am Very Rudimentary Elementary Explanation. I Heard Years Ago China Helps Some People and I Don't Know What You Think of It, but It's like a Place Setting You Have a Knife and Fork in a Spoon and the Night Is the Night before to Support This, but Is Been but Together They Are All a Place Setting Them except Does Make Sense.

I Am There Are A Lot Of You Know Different Analogies That People Have Used To Try to Make Sense of the Trinity.

Now the Problem Is Analogies Certainly Always Fall Short and You Have Heard Ever. Do You Know the. The Trendiest Is Sort of like Water Ice and Vapor. The Trinity Is like an Apple. The Trinity Is like in a Guinean What Were Trying to Find Ways to Create Truly Ways to Talk about and Define What God Is, If You Will Eat Wheat We Just Have To Be Careful There Because Again We Are Talking about the Uncreated Lord of Heaven and Earth God, Who in His Essences Is Incomprehensible and While We Grasp for Words and for Things in Creation to Try to Save This Is What God Is.

It All Falls Short. So What We Want to Do More Than Anything Else Is Focus on Not Know What God Is in His Essence. And As We Try to Define What We Did.

We Were Not to Be Able to Do That We Want to Focus on Is How God Has Revealed Himself in His Word. And Yes, and in Creation As Well Because It Creation Does Tell Us Something about God, about His Power about His Sovereignty Pulses Us in Romans Chapter 1, but Ultimately Who Want to Know God, Who He Is.

We Go to What He Said about Himself and in His Word and and We Begin to Look at His Word and Prayerfully Seek to Understand It. By the Grace of the Holy Spirit Becomes Clear As As I've Mentioned so Many Times on the Broadcast That God Is a Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, One God, Three Distinct Persons Another Different You Know Things That We Can Point to Say What Sort like a Searcher like That but I Judge That We Have To We Have To Concede the Fact It Will Look Were Not Going to Be Able to Sum up What God the Holy Trinity Is a Date with Any Creaturely Analogy, We Can We Can Use These Things and Sometimes That the Danger Thereto Is You Know Some of These Analogies Can Can Sort of Lean into Untrue Things about God and so That's What That's Why I Think the Best Thing to Do and That Is to Just Stick with What God's Word Says I Stick with That the Ancient Creeds and Confessions of the Church like the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed That's That's Don't Think That the Safe Places to Go in Just Another. I Think Piece of of Wisdom Which I've Heard and Was Something That the Early Church Fathers and the Other That That the Trinity Is Not so Much. Something for Us or Someone for Us to Speculate about.

We Adore the Trinity Is He's Revealed Himself to Us in His Word God and As We Adore. As We Worship God. I Think Were Brought into a Deeper Understanding of Who God Is and Certainly through the Scriptures and so Thank You for for Calling in an Effort to Utilize One of Things I Love about the Core Christianity Community If I Can Call It That, Is II Know That You All Listen and Are Encouraged by the Questions but Also Want to Provide Insights and Help in and Encourage Each Other and so I Appreciate You Linda Wanting to Do That.

It May the Lord Bless You and I Thank You for Your Call and I Love That Advice and Drill That We Are to Worship the Trinity. That's Our Focus. Not Trying to Figure out the Trinity Are Human Limited Mess Our Finiteness, but Actually to to Worship the Trinity. Yeah, Absolutely Because at the End of the Day You Were Creatures and God Is the Creator Is One of the One of the Most Important Distinctions That You Find in Scripture, Given by Theologians, the Creator Creature Distinction Because Part of Our Problem Has Sinful Human Beings Is We Want to Make God in Our Image As One Theologians Are, Our Hearts Are Sort of like Factory Idol Factories in a Week. We Just Invent God's As We Think of Him and That's a Temptation for Each and Every One of Us Is We Have To Continually Go Back to the Scripture and Receive What God Is Said and Respond with Worship and Adoration. I Meant This Is Core Christianity with Pastor Israel Sanchez. We Want to Say Thank You to a Very Special Group of People We Call Them Our Inner Core and Would Love to Invite You to Join That Group of People. Yes, I One. Thank You to All of Our Inner Core Members Shout out to You and to the Support That You Give to Us to Make This Show a Possibility to Continue to Produce the Content We Produce Every Single Day, Whether That's in It to the Live Broadcast or through You Know Written Articles and Resources, Bible Studies, It Really Is Your Support. That Keeps Us Going, Your Prayers and Your Donations Your Gifts and That the Inner Core Is a Group of People Who Has Committed to Giving a Monthly Donation.

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This One Came from Kimberly She Says in Galatians 519 through 21. The Bible Says We Will Not Inherit the Kingdom of Heaven If We Have Any of the Faults Mentioned There.

I Am the First to Say That I Absolutely Have Bitterness, Selfish Ambition, Fits of Rage and Malice at Times, Yes I Do Repent of Them, but I Fall Short of These Things Daily. In Fact, Multiple Times A Day. Yes, I Pray and Beg for Jesus to Come and Help Me Not to Have These Feelings, but It Seems Minutes to Hours Later, They Return, so Could You Please Share Some Insight into Galatians 519 through 21.

Kimberly, You Are Not Alone in the Struggle That You Feel Now the Book of Galatians Was Written by the Apostle Paul to a Church That Was Struggling Severely and They Were Struggling with Their Understanding of the Gospel. There Was a Group of People. Paul Refers to Them As Agitators Would Snuck into the Church and Began Teaching Things That Were Contrary to the Gospel and His Concern Is That These Christians There in Galatia Were Beginning to Embrace the Teaching of These Agitators and What They Were Saying Was Essentially If You Want to Be a Christian If You Really Want to Be Saved and Be a Part of the People of God Is Not Just about Accepting Christ and Believing in Him and Receiving Him for the Forgiveness of Sins. That's Good That You've Done That, but You Also Need to Adhere to the Law of Moses for the Men You Know You Need It to Submit to What God Told Abraham and in Genesis Chapter 17 and Get Circumcised in and Start Participating for All of You to Start Participating Some of These Dietary Food Laws That Were Going Back Essentially to the Types and Shadows of the Old Covenant Which Would Have Been a Denial of the Gospel and That's Why Paul Has Some of the Strongest Words That He Uses in All of the New Testament Here in This Book As He Is.

He Pleads with the Galatians Not to Compromise on This Issue and He Says in in Chapter 5 of the Book of Galatians for Freedom Christ to Set Us Free. Stand Firm Therefore and Do Not Submit Again to the Yoke of Slavery. Don't Go Don't Go Back to This, Paul Says, Was It by You Know He He Says Elsewhere in the Book Was It by the Hearing and Believing That You Receive the Holy Spirit.

Or Was It by the Works of the Law You Receive the Holy Spirit Freely As a Gift. And As Those Who Have Received the Holy Spirit Freely As a Gift Were Called to Walk in the Spirit and That Brings Me to the That the Section of Scripture That You Bring up in Galatians Chapter 5 Verses 16 and Following. First You Encourage Encourages Walking in the Spirit Being Led by the Spirit, and He Highlights What What the Opposite of That Is. He Says You Know Now the Works of the Flesh Are Evident, Sexual Immorality, Impurity, Sensuality, Idolatry, Sorcery, Enmity, Strife, Jealousy, Fits of Anger, Rivalry Divisions, Dissensions NV Drunkenness, Orgies, and Things like These. I Warn You, As I Warned You before Those Who Do Such Things Will Not Inherit the Kingdom of God. But the Fruit of the Spirit Is Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-Control. Against Such There Is No Law, and Those Who Belong to Christ Jesus Have Crucified the Flesh with Its Passions and Desires. If You Are in Christ You Believe in Jesus Christ Your Flesh If You Will Has Been Crucified with Jesus through Faith in Holy Baptism You Kimberly Have a New Identity in Jesus Christ and Your Call to Walk in the Spirit. Now That Doesn't Mean That You're Not Going to Struggle.

We All Do Every Single Day.

Every Single One of Us As Believers Can Confess God, I've Sinned against You Today and Thought in Word and Indeed Guide Your Loss so Perfect, so Pure, and What It Calls Me to Perfect Love of God, Perfect Love of Neighbor in Each of Us Has To Say God I Fall Short.

Help Me, by the Grace of the Holy Spirit. It Is a Struggle and the Fact That It's a Struggle for You Demonstrates to Me That You Know There Are the Signs of Life That the Holy Spirit Is at Work in You Convicting You of Sin That You Long, Long, to Honor God with Your Life and Here's the Thing, God Loves You and He's Going to Continue to Work in You by the Grace of His Spirit Sanctifying You Were Not When I Can Be Perfect This Side of Heaven. But the Bible Does Say That the Spirit Is at Work in Us Putting to Death the Sinful Deeds of the Body. Romans Chapters 6 through Eight in Romans Chapter 70 Highlights the Struggle That We Experience That We Feel As Christian You Sometimes like That the Things I Don't Want to Do. I Find Myself Doing. I Have To Say, Wretched Man That I Am Who Will Deliver Me from This Body of Death Thanks Be to God through Jesus Christ. There Is Therefore Now No Condemnation for Those Who Are in Jesus Christ and so I Would Say Yes We Struggle and When We Struggle Call to Repent, to Confess Our Sins, but That Struggle Doesn't Mean That You Want to Christian That You Don't Belong to Jesus That You Haven't Been Saved Affect You Know Who Else Struggled Speaking and in Giving a List Very Similar to the One We Find There in Galatians Chapter 5, Paul Writes to the Corinthians Wet All Sorts of Issues and He Says to Them Very Similar Language. Chapter 6 Restraint in Chapter 6 Verse Nine Do You Not Know That the Unrighteous Will Not Inherit the Kingdom of God. Don't Be Deceived. Neither the Sexually Immoral nor Idolaters, nor Adulterers, nor Men Who Practice Homosexuality, nor Thieves nor the Greedy nor Drunkards nor Profilers nor Swindlers Will Inherit the Canoe of God and Such Were Some of You in Other Words, You're No Longer Identified with Those Things You Are in Christ. You've Been Baptized.

You Believe in Jesus.

Such Were Some of You but You Were Washed, You Were Sanctified, You Were Justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of Our God.

Kimberly, If You've Trusted in Jesus Christ for the Forgiveness of Sins You Belong to Jesus. You've Been Washed. You've Been Cleansed You've Been Justified and Now God Calls You Is That He Calls Me and in and Everyone Else Listening in Christ When He Calls Us to Walk in the Spirit to Engage in That Daily Fight and Taking up Our Cross and Following Jesus That Struggle and That Struggled Again Doesn't Mean You're Not a Christian, It's One Working at Work and Experience throughout the Christian Life, but the Spirit of God Is with You in Christ Is for You. So Take Comfort in That. Thank You for Your Question. In Our Not Art Drill. I'm Convinced That Sometimes Maybe We Need to Take Romans 81 and Put It on Sticky Notes All over Our House or Bathroom Mirror or or Tattooed on Her Forehead Is Not a Critical. That's Why You Got That Tattoo Bill. I Was Wondering about Your Romans 81 Tattoo but Now I Know.

I Guess You Yeah Honestly We Do Need. We Just Need the Gospel to Be Continually Placarded before Us over and over Again Every Single Day. Every Single Time We Go to Church That You Know We We Need Those Continual Reminders and the Call to Walk As the Children of Light As Those Who Have Received the Grace of God in the Gospel of the Implications of That Wonderful Forgiveness That We've Received What We Need. We Need Both of Those and so Appreciate You Saying That and in and It Is the Scriptures That We Go to Do to Get Those Gospel Promises I Meant This Is Core Christianity with Pastor Israel Sanchez. We Have Lots of Emails That Come in on a Daily Basis.

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There's a Voicemail from One of Our Listeners in Gary, Indiana, Where Large All Her a Little Time to Learn about Data. We As Believers Understand the Nature of This Bylaw Highlights That Highly Interactive Cabbage with Fat Great Labyrinth, Much like a Bad Global Even Believers. They Say That the Old Testament God Will Christ I'll Follow I'll Let You Know What I Really Know God Are Jack Again at a Very Long Also. How Do We Share the Truth God's Wrath. Also the Truth of God's Greater Level Immersed a Laugh Volcano True to God's Care Word Being Thank You for Boys.

There Are a Handful of Really Important Questions There and I Love That Your Desire Is to Talk with Non-Christians about These Things and This Is One of the Objectives People Bring up a Look at the Wars in the Old Testament, and Not Just the Wars in the Old Testament to Look at the History of Wars in the Name of God and the Bitter Fruit so Often That Is Come from Them. Do the Old Testament Washing of the Cleansing of Canaan Does Does That Justify the Other Wars That Have Been Fought in the Name of God throughout History. Well, No, Not at All, We Have To Understand Where We Are in the Bible Where We Are in Redemptive History and in the Old Testament There Was a Theocracy. God Called His People.

He Was Their King. He Was Leading Them to the Promised Land.

The Land of Canaan, Which Was Full by the Way of Idolaters and Idolaters of the Worst Kinds. I Mean, These People Were Sacrificing Their Children. In One Sense God Was Bringing Judgment on the Canaanites through Israel, and He Was Driving Them out Because the Land of Canaan Was This Was a Sort of Type of Eating That Type of God's New Creation, a Type of the Ultimate Rest That God Wants to Give to His People in the New Creation in and through Christ Where There Is No Evil Where There Is No Wickedness Where There Is No Idolatry so so What You Had There in the Old Testament Was in One Sense a Picture of the Final Judgment We Jesus Is Going to Come Back. At One Point and Judge the Whole World and and and I Think That If We Missed and That's That's the, the, the, the Peace of God's Wrath. If You We Write That We Talk about the Wrath of God and the Grace and the Mercy of God Is Assess What You Have There with the Wars in the Old Testament Is God Exercising His Judgment and Intrusion of His Wrath, but That Doesn't Justify You Know the Christians. Later in History. Say What You Do.

We Think We Need to Do This Know Know Me Either You Had Specific Commands to Israel As a Theocracy, under God, and They Were Not in the Same Period of Redemptive History, the Church Today Is the Fulfillment of What Israel Was, Is a Type in the Old Testament.

We Are a Manifestation of the Kingdom of God on Earth and the Gospel Advances Today, Not by the Physical Sword by the Sword of the Spirit in Today Right Now Is the Day of Salvation and God Is Showing Mercy to the Nations to the Pagan Nations to the Idolatrous Nations Calling Them All to Repentance and Faith and to Receive His Mercy and Grace Because There Is a Day Coming Where God Is Going to Judge the Whole World through Jesus Christ and Every Single Person Is Going to Have To Give an Account about God Right Now Is Being Patient with Us Being Patient with Humanity, Not Willing That Any Should Perish but That All Should Come to Repentance.

Peter Says, and so How Do We Talk about This. Well We Can Talk about the Judgment about the Reality That God Takes Sin and Idolatry Seriously and so We Should Repent We Talk about the Mercy of God That God Is Right Now Calling All People to Repentance through Jesus Christ. We Don't Need to Be Ashamed of the Things That We See in Scripture, We Don't Need to Be Ashamed of Those Things That Happened in the Old Testament. This Is the Part of How God Was Administering His Rule in Israel and and Again It Wasn't like the Israelites Were Fighting a Bunch of Innocent People, the Canaanites, They Were Idolaters, That the Concern Was That There Idolatry and That Their Wicked Practices Would Spread and so God Actually Was Very Patient with the with the Canaanites for Hundreds of Years As They Continue to Do These Terrible Things and Then Finally Know When They Fulfilled up If You Will. The Full Measure of of God's Judgment.

Then He Brought Judgment upon Them through the Hand of Israel, but We Quickly Recognized Again That That Was a Different Stage in Redemptive History and Today Right Now Is the Day of Salvation.

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