On today's Prophecy Prose episode, we're going to talk about something that we've had a question from several people, and it is this, if I'm caught in sin or if I'm struggling with temptation, am I going to go in the rapture.

Well, Jeff, today we're talking about sin, discipleship, and the rapture.

You and I both have questions from several people about, you know, their walk with the Lord and the struggles they have and wondering if you have to be,

basically, do you have to be a super Christian to go in the rapture when that occurs?

It's a great question. I mean, people are wondering, is the rapture only for those believers that

at that moment are walking with Christ or is there some other test that God gives believers that determines whether

or not, you know, who goes in the rapture? I think it's important, Todd, to back up and just

begin by acknowledging the fact that we as Christians struggle in our lives. I mean,

the struggle is real. It's normal. It's expected. In fact, I think about Paul's struggle in Romans chapter 7,

where here's the Apostle Paul, right? And he didn't have to share this with the Romans,

but he did. But when you read in Romans 7, beginning in verse 15, and Paul begins by saying,

I don't understand what I'm doing. I mean, how many Christians

can say that? I don't understand what I'm doing. You know what he was doing? Like the Paul.

And for I'm not practicing the things that I want to do, but I'm doing the very thing that I hate.

Now, that sounds like, you know, Peter denying the Lord right there. I'm doing the very thing that I hate. I don't,

I've never met a Christian who is, who is not identified with this. In fact, right. When I was a

youth pastor, I would have students coming to me all the time just say, you know, a tear streaming

down their cheeks saying, Jeff, I don't think I'm a Christian. Why not? Because I'm struggling with sin. It's like, well, the fact that you're struggling with sin is evidence that you are a believer. And we have this sort of misinformation,

this idea that once I become a Christian, all my struggle is going to be over with. But in reality,

that's when the spiritual battle begins. I mean, you wrote a whole book, The Nonprofits God to Spiritual

Warfare, talking about that struggle. I wrote a book years ago called The Christian

Zombie Killers Handbook, Slaying the Living Dead Within. Amazing book. Well, I mean, you know,

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