Welcome to this weekend's in touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

If you wonder how to live in consistent godliness,

you'll benefit from this study of Galatians.

Let's learn about the foundational truth that for believers Christ is our life.

The average person if you ask them when does eternal life begin,

begins the moment you die.

But that's not true because the truth is that Jesus Christ is

eternal life. There is no such thing is eternal life apart from the very

presence of Christ. He's not just the source of it, he is it.

That which is within us that's going to live forever is that which is

indwellable the person of Jesus Christ which is our spirit so that every single believer begins

living eternal life here and now somebody says oh but I thought it was going to be

better than this well listen I didn't say you're going to get everything you're going to

have for eternity here and now because there are many things that God has

provided for us in the gift of his life some of which we can experience now, some of which we're going to

experience later. For example, there are things about our body that we're going to

be able to experience in the future we can't experience now. For example, we're

limited to the law of gravitation now,

not after we have glorified bodies. There are many things about us that are going to change,

many things that God has provided on the other side of this life which we can only get a little

taste of here or we can understand the promise of it but we won't experience

until we get on the other side. But you see eternal life doesn't begin at death, that's man's thinking.

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