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

Next on In Touch, Grace, God's new lifestyle.

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 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. And I

wonder if oftentimes you entertain very accusing feelings of, I'm not sure I'm saved,

and I'm not sure I have done exactly right, and those feelings that cause you to feel insecure,

inadequate, and not certain of your salvation.

Well, if that's true, more than likely, if these

things happen to be the lifestyle that you're living, you're living in an old lifestyle that

God never intended. Because you see, Jesus talked about a new lifestyle. He called it a new covenant.

And that's what I want to talk about in this message, grace, God's new lifestyle.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to Luke chapter 22. And if you recall this 22nd

chapter of Luke, this portion of it relates the account of Jesus with his apostles in the

upper room. And they're observing the Lord's Supper, the last

supper.

And I want us to begin, if you will, at verse 19, read it 19 and 20.

And Jesus here, breaking bread, said, and when he had taken some bread and given thanks,

he broke it and gave it to them, saying, this is my body which is given

for you.

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