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

Next on In Touch, Grace, Our Only Hope.

According to the scripture, there are three lifestyles.

One is a lifestyle of living under

sin, the bondage of sin. A second is living under the law and a third is living in grace.

And all of us fall into one of those three categories. We either under sin, under the law, or in grace.

Which one best suits you and which one would you believe that best describes you?

Two of those are lifestyles of bondage, but only one of them is a lifestyle of freedom.

And this is our third message in the series, grace, God's second chance, and the title

of this message, grace, our only hope. I want you to turn, if you will, to John Chapter 1, and let's begin reading in the 14th

verse of this gospel.

John chapter 1.

John says beginning in verse 14, speaking of Jesus, and the Word became flesh, which refers to the incarnation,

and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father,

full of grace and truth. John, that is John the Baptist, bull, witnessed of him and carried out a crowd

out saying, this was he whom I said, he who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for he existed

before me. For of his fullness we have all received and grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses,

but grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. What I want to do in this message is make

a comparison of how two different groups of people live. One is that group of people who attempt to live by the law. And secondly,

I want to talk about that group of people who live by grace. Now, all of us who have been saved

by grace, but what happens is that oftentimes the person is saved by grace and then without

knowing or having been taught properly,

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