Does the Great Commission imply a need for Christian nationalism?

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

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First up today, here's a voicemail from one of our listeners.

Hey, Pastor Adrian, thank you for the show.

My question regards federal headship.

One, how is it that mankind is sinful now? And then two, is it unfair for God to

make commands of humanity given the effects of sin? So yeah, just kind of curious to hear a deeper explanation on federal

headship. Thank you. Okay, so I think I'm going to have to define that phrase that you used

federal headship. So you're talking about the fact that Adam, as the first created man, is the representative or was the representative

of humanity, the federal covenant head, we might say, of humanity. And that when he sinned,

we sinned in him. This is where we get the doctrine of original sin. And this is something that

we see in the Old Testament, obviously, you know, in the fall. You

also see Paul, I think, talking about this in Romans chapter 5, where Adam's one sin affected

all of us. Romans chapter 5, verse 12. Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man

and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.

And then he's going to go on and continue talking about that sort of relationship that

humanity has with Adam and then the relationship that humanity has with Jesus Christ,

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