Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, April 24th.

The greatest wealth God offers his followers is spiritual, not material.

Tap into his boundless resources to nourish and strengthen your soul.

Don't miss the conclusion of our series, Grace for Today, and learn how to walk daily in his

abundant favor. Do you make up rules for yourself in order to discipline yourself and find

yourself breaking them? And do you sort of harshly criticize yourself when you don't live up to

your own standards and your own expectations? Do you feel distant from God when you're not serving him or doing something that you would consider sort of spiritual?

And do you feel close to God when you're doing something that you think is religious or spiritual?

And I wonder if oftentimes you feel driven by such phrases as these in your thinking,

I must, I should, I ought to. Well, there are many, many people today who are living under that same attitude.

Never quite sure whether they have pleased God or not.

That is Old Testament living.

That's all covenant living.

And Jesus said, I have come to set you free. I'm

establishing a new covenant. Things are about to change and the next day God establish that covenant.

Now, I say all that as a background to say the most important thing, and that's this. The Bible

says that you and I have been saved by the grace of God, for by grace, God's unmerited

undeserved favor, his kindness and goodness and graciousness toward us, not regarding our

worth or our merit, but in spite of what we deserve, God has acted toward us in grace.

That through the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he's made it possible for God to remain

just in holy and at the same time, work among us as sinners in such a way that God looks

upon us as absolutely and totally redeemed from all sin, past, present, and future.

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