If it's true that we're tempted by the devil, how can we still be responsible for our sin?

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

Well, hi, this is 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.

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email us at questions at core Christianity.com. First step today, let's go to Genesis who's calling

in from Massachusetts. Hi, Genesis. How are you? Good. My question is, if you can pray to God, since God and the Holy Spirit is one person, if you can pray

to the Holy Spirit also.

Genesis, thank you so much for giving us a call. And what a great question. And you're right.

We are called to pray to God and we believe in one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity.

Now, these three persons are distinct, the Father of the Son and the Holy Spirit, but we're talking about one God.

Now, ordinarily, in the Bible, prayer is offered to the Father in the Son and through the power of the Holy Spirit.

So Jesus is our mediator, the one who has given us access to approach the throne of God to pray to God.

And we're praying in the spirit under the influence and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

So oftentimes you get that language from the Apostle Paul in places like First Corinthians and

elsewhere of praying in the spirit.

But is there anything wrong with addressing our prayers directly to Jesus or directly to the Holy Spirit?

I don't think that there's anything wrong.

Again, we're talking about one God here.

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