If I'm forgiven, why do I still feel guilty about my sin?

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

Well, hi there. I'm 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 at 8333-the-core. That's 1-833-843-243-2673. Of course, you can also post your question on our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter accounts.

You can watch Adriel live in the studio right now on our YouTube channel and message us that way.

And you can always email us your question at questions at core Christianity.com.

And by the way, Adriel, our first question today is actually an email from a young man named Riley.

He says, hi, I'm almost 18. I don't want to be just another adult who acts like a child. I want to be a true godly man. So my question is,

what advice would you give to a young man who's almost 18, who wants to be a mature man, but

whose friend group still seems content with being children.

Wow. Well, Riley, thank you for that question. And my mind immediately goes to the

pastoral epistles, you know, Paul's letters to Timothy, Titus. You think about those

passages of scripture. It's just encouragement

from the Apostle Paul to a young man as he matures in particular in his faith and the grace

and the knowledge of Christ. And central is the word of God. And so I would say it's so important

for you as you continue to grow and mature as a man, as a Christian,

that you are grounded in the scriptures.

And that's actually something that the Apostle Paul commends Timothy for having done.

It really was something that his mother and grandmother helped with in second Timothy chapter one.

It talks about that. But he says in chapter 3,

verse 15, how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make

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