Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, April 7th.

The strength of your faith depends on the foundation it's built upon, which is why sound teaching is crucial.

Deepen your trust in God by learning how to recognize and deal with false teachers.

Do you feel adequate to identify false teaching when you hear it? What about

your children? Do you think they are able to distinguish between what is true and what is erroneous?

There are lots of people around who are propagating ideas that are absolutely untrue. It's deception.

And the rise of this kind of group is increasing all around us.

And I think oftentimes things sort of creep up on us.

But erroneous doctrine is increasing everywhere. If you don't believe that it is, you might just look

around at the construction that's going on and recognize that people are building places of worship

that you know they absolutely do not believe what we believe as followers of Jesus Christ.

And so naturally they're going to propagate their ideas.

As erroneous and as unbiblical as they are, that's what they're going to do.

Are you equipped to defend yourself?

Do you know what you believe and can you look in the Word of God and say,

here's what God says, and this is what I believe?

Or do you find yourself at the mercy of somebody who wants to argue with you?

God's people need to know what we believe, while we believe it, and to be able to defend it.

And oftentimes we take it for granted until all of a

sudden we're confronted with it. Now, when Paul wrote to the Galoshian Church, he wrote to combat a heresy

that was going on. And while it had many tenets in the heresy, one of the things that they were having to deal with is the fact

that they were being told that Jesus Christ was not deity, he was not God, that he was not the

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