In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, Grace and our Past failures.

A failure is not someone who fails, but someone who fails and gives up.

In all of our lives, there are past sins, things for which we are ashamed of,

feel so unworthy to come to God and ask Him to forgive us, and yet he tells us very

clearly in His word what his response to our past failures, our shame, our sins, our guilt.

There are many people who want to be delivered, many people who want to get out of the

bondage that they feel so desperately about.

But somehow they don't know how to get out.

They're not quite sure how God will respond if they come to him again and say, Father,

here's my past.

Will you forgive me?

Will you give me a new beginning?

They're not quite sure.

The title of this message is grace and our past failures.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to Luke chapter 15.

And on this occasion, we're not going to read all of this because it's verses 11 through

32.

There are too many of them to read.

But you know the story of the prodigal son.

Here is the most beautiful description of God's work of grace in the life of a young man,

which is typical, really, of the life of all of us.

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