Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, March 2nd. When life gets busy, it’s easy to lose your spiritual direction. Listen in to today’s podcast to get help organizing your priorities so you can stay on track. >> Why is it that so many people begin their Christian life very sincerely? They trust the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal savior.
They intend to live a Christian life, but somewhere very soon along the way, something happens. Either they get discouraged by something or they have some personal problems or maybe something somebody says, maybe old habits that they used to have begin to harass them. Or maybe it’s just that they didn’t quite understand to begin with.
I want you to think about something. You may fall into this category. or you may not. But if you don’t, you know somebody who does. Think about this for a moment. When you trust the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior, you’re coming into a whole different world. Because the world in which you and I live and the world of sin and disobedience and all the things that go on is a totally different world and a different way of thinking than when you trust Christ as your savior.
So somebody presents you with the gospel and says to you, you must be willing to ask God to forgive you of your sins based on the fact that Jesus went to the cross, laid down his life voluntarily, willingly paid the debt that God demanded that had to be done. And so Jesus was crucified, shed his blood, and that vindicated God’s justice that sin must be paid for.
And now all of us who are willing to ask him to forgive us of our sins based on the shedding of his blood, that’s the way we become a Christian. Not by doing better, not by works. So has nothing to do with works. It has to do with faith. Placing your trust in Jesus Christ as your personal savior. Now when that happens, the Holy Spirit comes into your life to seal you as a child of God.
Your name is written in the lamb’s book of life. Forever and ever and ever. You’re a child of God. doesn’t mean you’ll be perfect. You’ll falter at times. You’ll sin against him. You have to ask him to forgive you. And so the Christian life begins a whole different lifestyle than you’re used to. So think for just a moment.
