Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, April 3rd.

Hebrews chapter 12 clearly explains that the Lord disciplines those he loves.

Join us today as we learn more about how Christ uses correction to help us lead orderly, godly lives.

God, our heavenly father, is exactly what he claims to be our heavenly father.

And who are we exactly who he identifies us to be his children.

All of our life long, our heavenly father is in the process of training us,

working in our life, sifting and sanding and sculpturing and chipping away,

pulling out, bringing us to the realization of those things that are foreign to his character

and to his likeness in our life. So all of our life, we are being trained by God for

holy living. The greatest expression of the meaning of the holiness of God is this. That is the

crucifixion of his only begotten son. The reason Jesus Christ was crucified is that God is so holy,

he absolutely cannot excuse sin, he cannot overlook sin, he will not turn away from it to simply ignore it. He had to deal with it.

And God's method of dealing with sin was the only method he could deal with it and still remain true to

himself. And that is, he crucified his only begotten son, who was the holy son of God, the land

without spot and without blemish. And when he died, he placed all of the

guilt of all of mankind upon him. And in those moments, Jesus was separated from the father. He endured

that separation. He paid the penalty for your sin and mine and the sin of the whole world.

And therefore, only in that way, and only for that reason, God can now forgive you and me of our sin.

And so I say all of that to say this.

When we talk about how to avoid divine judgment, we're not saying there is an escape hatch,

there's a way to sneak out from under the judgment of God even after you've sinned.

No, even for the believer, there's no way to sneak out from under it. In the life of the believer, when God disciplines us in some

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