Welcome to the In-Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, June 2.

The attractions of the world often pull Christians away from the commitment to live a righteous life.

Today, you'll hear how to keep from being conformed to the world and part two of a call to godly living.

The Apostle Paul lived in a day when Sensuality and Sin and Rebellion and Ignatius and Blindness and Darkness were so prevalent.

And so right into the Romans, he wrote to them what he would write to it, how stated today are all across America.

And I want you to look if you will in the twelfth chapter and beginning with this first verse.

He says, therefore, I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God to present you about his a living and holy sacrifice,

acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. It's the right thing to do.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what the will of God is,

that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Now, those two verses are loaded with truth and are an awesome challenge.

Because what he is saying here is it's a call to God's people to live a godly life.

And if you'll notice what he says, he says, stop being conformed to this world.

And so I want us to think about this for a moment.

Stop, and that's what he uses. He uses a present imperative verb.

What he's saying is stop being conformed. They were living the same kind of life that we have in our nation today.

Listen carefully. One of the greatest dangers in America today.

One of the greatest dangers in the church today is the danger of compromise.

Allowing ourselves to be shaped and conformed or patterned after the world.

And you see, the world system, if you'll think about it for a moment, who do you hear about in the news primarily?

It's always those who are out there seemingly wealthy and rich and in politics and so forth and this,

now they're famous and so forth. What about the millions of Christians who live a godly life every day?

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