Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, May 13th.

Reading the Bible and listening to sermons isn't enough. You must live the truth to see change.

Today, we'll conclude our series on Helps to Holiness with a lesson on how to build truth into your life.

How many sermons have you heard in your lifetime?

How many spiritual principles have been declared to you?

How many times have you walked out of a church service and said, boy, did I need that?

Thank you, preacher, thank you, pastor. I really needed to hear that.

How many times have you taken a pencil and you've scribbled out some notes of something you heard in the

sermon and you said to yourself, I surely don't want to forget that? Or you sat there listening to the

message and you said, well, I surely needed that because yesterday the very same thing happened

to me, or you've walked out and said to your husband or your wife, I'm really going to need that

next week because I already know what's coming. But let me ask you this. How many of those truths

that you heard, you jotted some note down about them, and you intended to remember them,

and you intended to apply that in your life, that you never got around to applying in your own

spiritual life. I want you to think about this, Daddy. You think about how many sermons you've

heard and how much truth has gone through your mind. And I want to ask you, how much of that

truth have you taken time to share with your children and to work it into their life so that it

becomes a part of their thinking? You see, one of the greatest crimes that happens in America happens between 11 and 12 o'clock

on Sunday morning when thousands and millions of Americans go to church, listen to the truth

expounded, and go away and give it little or no genuine application to their life.

If you are not allowing Almighty God through His Holy Spirit to build into your lifestyle, to build into your thinking, to build into the pattern of your life, to build into your vocabulary

and your language, the truth, then why, listen to the gospel? This is why you can go to church 20 years, 30 years,

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