Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, July 18th.

Today you'll get an opportunity to check on your spiritual heartbeat.

Your answers to four important questions will help determine the health of your relationship with Christ.

What is this unfinished task that we have as a church?

Not just our church, but as the whole church, the whole body of Christ.

And what do we call it an unfinished task and why is it unfinished?

Now let's clarify what the task is.

The task is sharing the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

That is the task.

So I want us to look at it and do it properly for a few moments and think about it in the way our Heavenly Father thinks about it.

Because this task falls in the category of several things.

First of all, it is a divine task.

Notice what he says. He says, as the Father sent me, so send I you.

And if you'll think for a moment why Jesus came.

The Scripture says that He came, first of all, to reveal the Father.

Secondly, He came to die a sacrificial, atoning death at Calvary to pay for our sins.

Thirdly, He came to seek and to save that which is lost.

And fourthly, He came, the Scripture says, to give us an abundant light.

So He came for very specific reasons.

The ultimate, most important one of cause was to die on the cross.

So this task that we have is a task that Jesus certainly has done his part.

In fact, He did what we could not do.

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