Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, December 29th.

Did you know that sometimes sharing your struggles can help you overcome temptation?

If that sounds a bit uncomfortable, stay with us.

Scripture shows that accountability is essential for spiritual growth.

The scripture says, we are accountable to God for our actions in this life.

We are accountable to God for the resources we have.

We're accountable to God for the privileges and the awesome, wonderful opportunity to live in this country as God has provided for us. Now, what I want to talk

about in this message is this whole idea of accountability. And when it comes to freedom, I think

about what Paul said in Galatians chapter 5 for a moment. And he put it this way. He said in the first

verse of this fifth chapter, it was for freedom that God set us free. Therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Then he goes right to the 13th verse and he says, watch. He says, for you were called to freedom, that is, to live a life for freedom in Christ.

Do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve, one of the,

which was what he was saying, is this, while we are forgiven children of God, a name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life,

we are heavenbound one of these days. We have a

responsibility. He says, don't turn that freedom into the flesh, but he says, you're responsible.

I had a friend of mine who was a fellow pastor, and he believed just like I believe. And somewhere

along the way, somebody convinced him that because he was free in Christ Jesus, that there's certain

things that he could do. And I watched my friend who was theologically as correct as a guy

could be, who was an excellent pastor, but somewhere along the way, somebody convinced him that

freedom in Christ meant that you could just do most anything you wanted to

do. And I warned him and warned him and warned him. I said, look, I'm telling you, this is going

to come back to haunt you because if you slip over on this side just a little bit, you're going

to keep going out of the ministry, wonderful servant of God out of the ministry, he did exactly what the apostle Paul warned us

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