How do we forgive others and still hold them accountable?

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

Christianity.

This is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez.

Welcome to the program.

We answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day here on Core Christianity, and you can call us for the next 25 minutes with your question. Here's the phone number. It's 833-3-the-core. That's 1, 833-843-2673. So jump on your phone right now. 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. First up today,

here's a voicemail from one of our listeners named Dave. My question is, in Ezekiel, the 33rd

chapter, the 13th verse, it reads,

When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, but he trust in his own righteousness

and commits iniquity, none of his righteous works shall be remembered, but because of the

iniquity that he's committed, he shall die.

And I've talked to a pastor who uses this as a verse to prove that a person could lose their salvation.

Now, I don't believe that. I believe in eternal security.

I'm just wondering how Pastor Sanchez would approach this verse and how he would respond to someone that uses that

to show that we can lose our salvation. Thank you so much and have a great day.

Dave, thank you for that question. What an interesting way to use Ezekiel 33. I disagree with that approach that this person that you're speaking

with has in terms of going to this text and saying, I think this is proof that you can lose

your salvation. The point of what we're being told there in Ezekiel 33 is meant to give us

hope, specifically hope that repentance yields life, beginning in

verse 10, and you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, thus have you said, surely our

transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we rot away because of them. How then can we live? In other words,

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