Is there anything wrong with commuting to church?

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, 833-the-core.

That's 1-833-843-243-2673. And of course, you can always email us at Questions at CoreChristianity.com.

First up today, here's a voicemail from one of our listeners named Sanders.

I was wondering about once saved, always save.

Can you unsave yourself by going back to your old ways?

Or it doesn't matter what you do once you become saved.

Sanders, my brother, God bless you, and thank you for that question.

Two things.

One, a person who is truly saved, born of the Holy Spirit. I don't think you can unsave yourself.

But that also doesn't mean that what you do doesn't matter in the Christian life. What you do does

matter in the Christian life. And we are called as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ to make

our calling an election sure. This is what Peter says in the 2nd Peter chapter one. So I want to read some of that passage, but again, I just want to reiterate for you. And sometimes when people talk about once saved, always saved, it gets confused with this idea of easy believism, or that's what they mean. You know, I just, I said a prayer and so I'm saved and I can live however I want, and I'm still going to go to heaven. I've got my fire insurance. I've got my ticket to

heaven. That's a real confusion of the teaching of the Bible. I mean, that's not biblical

Christianity. And so somebody who thinks that way, there are some serious problems. But for those who have

trusted in Jesus Christ truly turned from their sins and trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ,

they're born again. They're filled with the Holy Spirit. They're not going to unsave themselves.

And yet the spirit is going to work in them, causing them to persevere. God is going to preserve you in the

faith. And so I mentioned 2 Peter chapter 1. This is listen to what Peter says here, how he begins

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