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

Today's lesson launches an in-depth study on the Book of Colossians.

Let's immerse in the foundational truths the early church embraced in the first century after Christ's

resurrection.

The you realize that where you are today is the result of decisions you made yesterday

and years ago and I wonder how many of those decisions if you could

go back and remake them how many of them would you make differently? Well you can't go back

and change the past. Now you can do something about it, but you can't change it.

But I want you to remember this. The decisions you're making today are decisions that are going to determine where you're going to be tomorrow, five years

from now, ten years from now. So that the decisions we make are very important. They may

appear to only affect us at the moment, but the truth is

they affect us tomorrow and next week and next month and next year and somewhere out

yonder in the years to come.

There are those decisions that we make.

We wish we had made them differently.

Well, what I want to talk about in this first message here in this series

is finding the will of God. How do I know in making

this decision that I'm doing the right thing? And so I want you to turn, if you will, to Colossians chapter one.

And I want to simply read one verse.

And Paul said something similar to this in a number of the epistles that he wrote, and he said it very clearly, very simply,

very authoritatively, very assuredly, and very certainly.

He said in Colosians chapter 1, verse 1,

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