Does the church need to address Christian nationalism?

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

Well, hi, I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez.

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question at Questions at Core Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to Dwight, calling in

from Nashville, Tennessee. Dwight, what's your question for, Pastor Adriel? Good afternoon,

now, Pastor Adriel, and God bless you. God bless this program. My question for today is,

does the Holy Spirit always dwell, no matter what within a believer, one who has accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

I have been told that the Holy Spirit does not always dwell with us.

So I'll stop and listen to you, what you have to say, sir.

Dwight, thank you for that question.

Yes, I do believe that when a child of God is filled with the Holy Spirit, when we're baptized in the Holy Spirit, Paul says to the Corinthians, by one spirit, we've all been baptized into one body, that the Spirit of God never leaves us. Now, we can grieve the spirit of God in our lives as Christians

and sinning in certain ways where we don't have that same sense of God's presence, but the spirit

never abandons us. And I think this is part of the reality of the promise that God gives us under the new covenant,

that the entire Christian community, covenant community, is going to be filled with the spirit of

God as Joel prophesied in Joel chapter 2. And when does that happen for us as believers?

Paul says in Ephesians chapter 1, verse 13, in Him, in Jesus, you also,

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