In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on in touch, behaviors that bind us.

Why are so many people so unhappy, anxious, disturbed, unsettled, and full of discontentment. No matter what they have, who they have, what their position, what their prominence, what their status is in life they're still discontent.

Now a lot of people are able to cover that up rather well and so they move along in life

and smile on the outside but deep down inside they're still full of discontent. On the

other hand there are those people who don't even try to cover it up anymore. They just

act out, live out, it shows on their countenance, they're very discontent in life.

What is it even though they have been saved by the grace of God, they're still discontent.

Somehow deep down inside, something seems to bind them, something seems to bind them something seems to have a hold on them that seems to dictate

their actions and their attitudes. It's not what they like it's not what they want it's not what they ask for. They just can't seem to identify what is it on the inside of them that drives them.

That seemingly at times forces them to act in a way they don't want to act. They find themselves responding and

turning around and looking and asking themselves the question, why do I act this way? Why do I

respond the way I respond?

Well, that's what I want to talk about in this message entitled,

those behaviors that bind us in our life.

Those actions and attitudes that you and I can't understand, somewhere along the way we have to trace them back to some cause

and some particular source. We're talking about behavior patterns that bind us in our life

and keep us what discontent unsettled oftentimes

anxious and for the most part very unhappy so I want you to turn if you will to

the first Corinthians 13th chapter, this first epistle to Corinthians.

And you know this is the chapter and all the scripture about love,

the chapter, the supreme chapter about love. And Paul has been describing what love is all about, and then he comes

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