How should Christians talk about marital relations? 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. You can call us right now with your question. Here's our phone number. It's 8333-the-core.

That's 1-833-843-243-2673. You can also post your question on one of our social media sites,

and of course you can always email us your question at Questions at CoreChristianity.com. Well, it's a fun week for me because I get to be in the

studio with Pastor Adriel. Yes, we're so delighted to have you here with us, Bill. It's always a lot

more fun when we get to do this in the same room together. And I'm looking forward to having you over for dinner on Friday with your family. And all five of your kids. Yes, yeah, they're going to be there too. It's an adventure. We tried to send them off somewhere, but they are going to be there as well with us. And so it is an adventure. I'm glad that you feel that way. Well, the last time I came over to your house, I think it was Ambrose. One of your kids had a sword. Yeah. And he was doing a sword fight with me. Definitely. There are going to be ninja stars and swords and all sorts of, you know, things flying around. So you just have to be careful. Okay. We'll give you a helmet on your way in.

Thank you. Appreciate that. All right. Well, let's get to a few questions from our listeners.

And starting off with an email, this is from Jared. And Jared says,

Scripture teaches that all believers are indwelling with the Holy Spirit. How does one know if they

truly have the Holy Spirit?

Yeah, a really good question. I think an important one today because there are a lot of

people who think that, well, if I'm filled with the Holy Spirit, it needs to look like this.

And in some Christian traditions, you know, the this is, well, I should be able to prophesy and speak in tongues and those kinds of miraculous things.

Those are the signs of the filling of the Holy Spirit.

But really, when we look at the New Testament, we see all sorts of different things.

Acts chapter 4, for example,

when the disciples pray for God's protection and for boldness to preach the gospel, we're told

that they were filled with the spirit and began to proclaim the word of God with boldness. So there

it looks like having the spirit being filled with the spirit, it looks like boldly proclaiming

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