Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, September 26th.

scriptures clearly tell us that in order to be saved, we must believe.

Let's get clarification of what that really means as the

ways of God series continues. Would you like to get to know God better? Well if you

are a believer more than likely you'd say yes but I'm not quite sure I know how to do that.

I read the Bible, I pray, I go to church, I give, but I don't know that I'm really and truly learning to know him better.

Well, one thing is true.

If you will listen to this whole series of messages that we're doing now,

you will learn to know God better because we're talking

about the ways of God and you see until you begin to understand the ways of

God, how does he think? What motivates him? Why does he do what he does? Why does he respond the way he responds?

Why does he act the way he acts? You see, once you begin to understand the way God thinks a little bit and the way he operates

And oftentimes he doesn't operate same way we do but when you begin to learn the way he thinks and what motivates him all of a sudden you begin to learn the way he thinks and what motivates him, all of a sudden you begin to

understand better. You begin to know him better. And that's what we're up to in this whole series

entitled The Ways of God. And what I want to talk about in this, the ways of God.

And what I want to talk about in this message is this.

One of the ways of God is this.

He forgives our sin.

Now you'd say, well, everybody knows how to be forgiven of sin. No, they don't.

So I want you to turn, if you will, to Ephesians chapter one, and I want us to read beginning

in verse three, and let's read through verse 8 and this is an

awesome passage that we could be on a long time but I just want to introduce

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