Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, September 11th.

People are flawed and inconsistent, but God is different.

Today we are reminded that he always keeps his word.

I want to begin at the beginning of the word of God and I want to take you through a series of incidences in which

God says I will. What I want you to conclude at the end of this message is

simply this. When God says I will, God will. He will do what he says he will do, which is what most people

do not believe, that they are an exception to the will and purpose and plan of God. There are no exceptions.

So let's begin in the beginning of the word of God and that is in Genesis chapter 2.

Listen to what he says in this passage. You know it by heart, certainly by now, if you're a believer.

And you recall in this second chapter having created First Man, First Woman, listen to what he says.

Verse 16 of chapter 2. The Lord God commanded the man. what he says. V. V.

The Lord God commanded the man saying, from any tree of the garden you may eat freely.

Now watch this.

But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat

for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die. Now think about this for a moment. God gave them a very

clear warning that if you disobey me you're going to die. So think about what

happened. When God came looking for, so to speak, as if he

didn't know where they were, God came looking for Adam and he asked the question, where

are you? Well, Adam, he knew exactly where Adam was. Well, Adam, he knew exactly where Adam was.

What happened as a result of his specific disobedience to the very simple plan of God?

Here's what happened.

First of all, there was separation. Now he's hiding from God. There is shame he knows that he's naked. Something's wrong. he's he's sent against God. Thirdly he has

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