What do I do when I feel like sin has a hold on me?

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.

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First up today, let's go to Doug, calling in from St. Louis. Doug, what's your question for

Adriel? Yeah, hi. My question is, we're taught that Jesus died for our sins, and we're forgiven if we repent and we turn our life to God and we're Christians.

But I hear our pastors say, you need to be careful for what you say because you're going to answer to everything you say or everything you do.

We're never going to become perfect.

We're human beings.

We're always going to sin in some way or another.

So are we forgiven for our sins or are we not? I'm not perfect and I've tried to do the right thing,

but I'm not always going to. I'm not always going to think the right thing, just as we were just

talking about if somebody cuts you off in traffic, I may think something negative

in my mind that I shouldn't. Am I paying for that? Or have I been forgiven for that? I'm trying

to do the right thing. I'm trying to be perfect, but I'm never going to be perfect.

Doug, thank you for that question. And you're aware of the fact that even as a regenerated, you know,

believer in Jesus Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit, you know, you strive after holiness, you want to honor the Lord.

And yet there is this war that is waging inside of you. It's the battle between the flesh and the

spirit that the Apostle Paul talked about in the book of Galatians, where we have these disordered desires and thoughts and feelings and temptations.

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