Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, December 16.

How much desired you have to share God's truth with others?

Today's podcast wraps up our current series by encouraging your passion to proclaim Christ.

The Apostle Paul was a man who had a passion for the Lord Jesus Christ,

and a part of that passion was to know him.

A part of it was to obey him.

A part of it was to serve him in any fashion, but surely a major part of that passion was to proclaim Christ.

That is, his desire was to get the message out.

And you recall we said that a passion is a strong, intense, overwhelming desire for something or someone,

and the Apostle Paul certainly had that.

And if you notice what he says in this passage, he says, and we proclaim him, then he tells us how.

He says by admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom.

Then he says that we made this as his goal, that we may present every man complete in Christ,

and then he says, for this purpose, I labor, wear some labor.

I strive, he says, tirelessly, according to his power which Modular works within me.

The Apostle Paul knew who Jesus Christ was.

Listen, he understood him in such a fashion.

He was so able to grasp the reality of the crucifixion and what it really meant,

and the resurrection and its real message, and the ascension, the promise, and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He so absolutely took whole of him.

His passion was to share the truth of that to everyone.

That's why he is a man who says shipwreck, Etsy, beaten with rods, stone, left for dead,

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