Can we persuade skeptics of the truth of the gospel?

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. Our phone lines are open right now. We'll be taking calls for the next 25 minutes or so. So now is the time to call. Here's the number. It's 833-the-core. That's 1.833-843-243-2673. You might want to make a note of that, put it on your refrigerator, write it in the dust on your dashboard, so it's always right there in front of you. 833-843-843-24-26-76-73. You might want to clean your car if you have that much dust on your dashboard. You might want to. There's no doubt about that. Hey, we've also got an email address if you want to email us your question.

It's Questions at CoreChristianity.com. And Adri, first up today, here's a voicemail from one of our listeners. This is Grant. I've been listening to Whitehorseon for over 10 years and more

recently to Core Christianity and yeah, I yeah been really blessed by both of them.

My question is in 1st Corinthians 12, Paul writes that no one can say Jesus is Lord except in the

spirit. How do we make sense of this text when there are false teachers and also just people who have not

actually put their faith in Christ who might say that Jesus is Lord or Jesus is King, but don't

actually believe in him. Is that what Paul is talking about or is he talking about something else entirely?

Thank you. Yeah. Well, one, thanks for the encouragement. I'm glad that you're being blessed by both

of those different programs, why we're saying and core Christianity. Now, let me just say,

the context here in 1st Corinthians 12 is spiritual gifts. Obviously Obviously there are many people who make a false profession and will use that phrase, Jesus is Lord, but not truly mean it.

So one example is the example that Jesus himself gives in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 7 in verse 21, really sobering passage of

scripture where he says not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven,

but the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven. In other words, here you have a

group of people who are addressing Jesus' Lord, saying,

Lord, Lord, on that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name

and cast out demons in your name and do many mighty works in your name?

And I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.

In other words, they said, Lord, Lord. They confessed that Jesus was Lord, but it wasn't true.

This was something that wasn't from the heart. Clearly, they talked about Jesus' Lord, but they

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