Welcome to the In-Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, January 12th.

Trying to do enough to make God like you leads to an endless pattern of frustration and defeat.

You can leave that cycle behind and embrace the transforming power of God's grace.

Here's Part 2 of Grace on Display.

Now what I want us to do in this message is this, I want us to look at life before grace.

And I want us to look at life by grace and I want us to look at life in grace.

I want you to see what life is like before grace in a particular person.

And that is in Saul of Tarsus.

We call him Paul the Apostle.

But I want us to look what, see what life was like before grace in his life.

Now look at this man.

He has one goal, eradicate the Christian faith.

Bless the name of Jesus.

Destroy the church.

Remove it from the face of the earth so that there's not only no influence but no evidence of it.

Now usually when you think about the Apostle Paul you think of this very Godly man.

This is Paul the Apostle before grace.

The Scripture says he assisted in the death of Stephen.

He consented to it.

He destroyed people.

He intruded into their homes, dragging them out.

Husbands and wives and probably children.

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