Can Christians agree to disagree about LGBTQ questions? Well, that's just one of the issues we're

going to be talking about today on core Christianity. 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. We'd love to hear from you. If you have a question,

you can leave a voicemail anytime. Here's the number. It's 833 The Core. That's 1, 833-843-243-2673.

You can also post your question on one of our social media sites, and of course, you can always

email us at Questions at Core Christianity.com. We'd love to hear from you. Well, we got a voicemail

from one of our listeners in the United Kingdom. This is from Jasmine. I just want to say thank you

for your show.

It's really encouraging to listen to.

My question is, is it ever okay to not give somebody money? I know the Bible talks about giving freely, but is it ever okay to refuse somebody money?

Basically, I've got a situation.

There's this girl that I know, and she's gotten lots of lots of money out of me,

and she's never paid any of it back.

And she just keeps on asking me for money.

I don't really want to give her money anymore because I know she's not going to pay it back because obviously I want to do the right thing. But yeah, I just guess that's my question. Is it

ever okay to say to someone I'm not giving you money anymore? Thank you. Jasmine, thank you for

reaching out to us and thank you for your encouragement as well.

Let me just begin by saying, yes, I do think that it is okay to say no.

And this is where wisdom comes in for us as believers.

But having said that, I want to look at just briefly a passage

that we find in the New Testament, Matthew chapter, Matthew chapter 5. This is the sermon on the

...