Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, December 15th. We’re all born into a world broken by sin, helpless, unable to free ourselves from its grip. But there’s good news. Salvation is a gift freely offered to anyone who believes. Join us as we explore the God who cares enough to rescue us and discover the hope, love, and grace that can set you free.

What is the loftiest, highest, the most pinnacle of all truth in the scripture? And here’s what that truth is. That holy God so loved mankind that he sent Jesus Christ, his son, to die a substitutionary death on the cross, thereby paying the sin debt of all mankind in full and making it possible for us to be like him.

So I want to say it again. There is no higher thought in existence than that. That holy God so loved man that he sent Jesus Christ, his son, to die a substitutionary death on the cross, paying our sin debt in full and making it possible for us to become like him. Now the key word in understanding everything in this Bible that has to do with redemption is the word substitution.

So I want you to say it with me. Substitution. So Jesus Christ’s death was a substitutionary death. So why do we say substitutionary death? And this is why it’s so important because there has never been a person. There never will be a person. No one has ever lived ever will live who is without sin. It was man in his absolute total helpless condition that brought about the love of God, the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and the sacrificial substitutionary atoning death of Jesus Christ to pay our sin debt in full. There is the core and the

heart of this Bible wrapped up in one statement from beginning to end. God, holy God, so loved sinful man that he sent Jesus Christ, his son, to die a substitutionary death at Calvary in order that our sin debt may be paid in full and that you and I could be made like God. Now, my friend, if that doesn’t motivate you to love the Lord Jesus Christ, to want to serve him, to give to him, to be what he wants you to be, maybe you have never been saved.