Can God have a purpose for chronic pain?

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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Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to John calling in from Missouri. John, what's your

question for Pastor Adriel? Yeah, how you doing there? I like that to pastor there. In season,

the last time that there'll be false heresies and false teachers that were, they said they were

among us, and then they became false

preachers and introduced heresies in the church. I was wondering, is that former Christians,

or is that people that were atheists, and they never believed in God, and they somehow, you know,

found their way in the church and introduced these false heresies? And also, how does that

reflect the coming of the antichrist? Is that when people are going to be turning away from Christ and the church

more and more? Or is that just leading up to another, or is that part of the delusion of God

sent cities of people? And I want to stay on the air and hear your comment.

Well, John, really good question. So are these teachers who are deceiving outside of the church or are they inside the church?

And I think when you look at some of these warnings that we get in places like 2nd Peter and Jude,

and even the warning that the Apostleul gave to the ephesian elders

in acts chapter 20 it seems like in each of those passages the false teachers are creeping within the church

and that's what's so terrifying about them. So for example, Jude, verse three,

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary

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