Would we still be considered sinners in heaven?

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

Well, hi there, this is Bill Meyer with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program

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First up today, let's go to Kathy, who's calling in from Missouri. Kathy, what's your question for

Adriel? Yeah, excuse me, yes. Hi, Adriel. I was hoping to get an answer on the Act 1631 about

you will be saved, you and your household, and how that applies

to people that would be in a household that haven't accepted Christ.

Hey, thank you for that question. Well, in the book of Acts, you do have the language of household

oftentimes used in the context of baptisms. This is really interesting. That language comes

from the Old Testament in particular, this sort of household formula, Genesis chapter 17, where

Abraham was commanded to circumcise those members of his household as applying the sign of the

covenant to them. Now, here specifically

we're looking at the situation with the conversion of the Philippian jailer. The jailer, verse 29,

called for lights and rushed in and trembling with fear, fell down before Paul and Silas,

and he brought them out and said, sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.

And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.

And he took them that same hour of the night and washed their wounds.

And he was baptized at once he and all his

family um so that that household principle that we see in the old is is still applicable um and

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