Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, November 17th.

Today's lesson begins a series that focuses on every believer's responsibility to be an agent of God's love and a messenger of his good news.

Here's part one, explaining the alternative to facing death unprepared.

If you only had a few hours to live and you knew you were facing death, you are not a Christian,

didn't know how to be saved, what would you do?

Would you find the Bible somewhere and begin to read?

What would you read? Well, there are multitudes of people

every day all over this world who face death unprepared. Will God save someone in the last hours

of their life when their life has been absolutely totally wasted and they have nothing to offer God. Well, that's what I want to talk about

in this message entitled, Facing Death Unprepared. And you know what? It just may be that

you may be closer to meeting God than you realize. Not a single one of us has any assurance

of another second in our life? And so I want you to

listen very carefully of this message because it could be the difference between where you spend

eternity, either with God forever or separated from him in torment forever and ever. So I want you to

turn, if you will, to Luke chapter 23.

Verse 39 begins, and one of the criminals who were hanged there was hurling abuse at him, saying,

are you not the Christ, save yourself in us? But the other answer, and rebuking him said,

do you not even fear God since

you're under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving what we

deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong. And he was saying, Jesus,

remember me when you come into your kingdom. And he said to him, truly I say to you, today you shall be with me in paradise. Now, crucifixion was Rome's favorite type of execution for the worst kind of criminals. They would never execute someone who

was not either a slave or some degraded kind of criminal, someone who was in opposition to Rome,

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