Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, May 20th.

The choice to receive or refuse God's offer to forgive you may seem simple, but the ramifications are eternal.

The series continues to help you see how forgiveness is really a matter of life and death.

My friend, how would you describe your relationship to Jesus Christ?

Could it be described in one of these two fashions?

First of all, your daily walk is one of walking in the assurance and the joy of God's continuing uninterrupted forgiveness for your sins.

Or would your relationship to him be described maybe in this fashion?

And that is, walking under the dark cloud of God's displeasure about your life. Somewhere along the way, you may not have done

quite the right thing, or you didn't do enough, or you didn't quite do it in the right fashion,

but somehow you just can't seem to quite get to the point of being able to enjoy

Almighty God in your relationship to him.

Could it be that your sense of guilt is a false sense of guilt, or is it true guilt?

Because you're living in sin against him.

The Bible says in Romans chapter 6, verse 23, the wages of sin is death. But the the gift of God that is the eternal gift of God

the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord now think about this if the wages

of sin is death and the gift of God the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ,

and the free gift of God, which is eternal life through Jesus Christ, comes through the forgiveness

of our sins. That makes forgiveness a matter of life and death. And that is the title of this message, forgiveness, a matter of life and death. And that is the title of this message, forgiveness,

a matter of life and death. Now, let's think about this matter of forgiveness in the light of

what is naturally involved in forgiveness, and that is the question of guilt. You see, forgiveness

presupposes the idea of guilt. Guilt presupposes the idea of knowledge of my guilt.

Knowledge presupposes the idea of moral consciousness, of right and wrong. I've done wrong.

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