If I backslide, am I still saved?

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, let's go to a voicemail.

This is Craig in Kansas City.

I've been a Christian 80-something and I don't feel like I've been doing my best.

I ain't been living my life right because I've been doing sexual things and I don't feel like I've been doing my best. I ain't been living my life right

because I've been doing sexual things and I just kind of mixed up in my life about being a

Christian and thanks for taking my call. I listen to your program all time. Craig, thanks for giving us a call.

Brother, if you know you're doing something that's displeasing to the Lord and you can see areas of your life that are disordered, it's time for you to take that step, the step that you need to take one, first and foremost, confessing your sins to God.

Whatever, you mentioned sexual sin whatever that is taking that to the lord confessing it to him

and then um doing whatever it is that you need to do to put yourself in a position where you're

going to be encouraged where you're not going to be tempted by whatever it is that's tempting you you know jesus said in the sermon on a position where you're going to be encouraged, where you're not going to be

tempted by whatever it is that's tempting you. You know, Jesus said in the sermon on the Mount,

if your right hand caused you to sin, cut it off. And he's being hyperbolic there, but he's highlighting

the importance of taking sin in our lives seriously. Not playing with it, not giving it any space or quarter, not providing any opportunity

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